Canon Thursday Photo 2011: #34

[MarcelRomviel]

<p>My contribution for this week;</p><div></div>

[lawrence_li]

<p>Up on Burnaby Mountain here in sunny BC. First shots with my new toy, 17-55 f2.8 IS USM. F/8, 1/50, iso100, Rebel XTi.</p><div></div>

[larry h.]

<p>Nathan, personally, I think the red-headed wp is prettier, and at least around here harder to see/photograph, than the pileated wp. Great shot!</p>

[philrichardson]

<p>Didn't get out to shoot this week, but here's a shot from the San Diego Zoo a couple of weeks ago. I thought you might want to see the largest rodent in the world! Its a capybara. Think very large dog. Its found mainly in South America and eats grasses.</p><div></div>

[wegner]

<p>This from my friend's garden.</p><div></div>

[jaydesi]

<p><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6087/6077471419_764cd54436.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="333" /><br>

Orangutan mother and baby at the Philadelphia zoo.</p>

[nathangardner]

Larry,

 

 

I would say (if you know where to look) the pileateds are also easier to find here, but as far as getting within photo

reach, that's another story. The red headers aren't necessarily easy to photograph either, but having one land in front

of me (while looking for owls) with the 800mm attached didn't hurt my chances.

[juan_hernandez1]

<p>Hello Everyone,<br>

This week I decided to practice a bit with the new Tilt Shift lens. This is a walking/biking bridge located over a dam, named The Big Dam Bridge.</p><div></div>

[martin-s]

<p>Not as original as Brad’s robots, but here’s one from a recent series on <a href="http://wildphotographyholidays.com/galleries/english-graveyards">English graveyards</a> – amazing colours in the lichen.</p><div></div>

[woodbyte]

<p>..What am I ?.....@ <a href="../photodb/user?user_id=3873232">robert colameco</a></p>

<p>Exactly right. It's a negative shot of a fire we had Friday night in the garden.<br /> rgds,<br /> james</p>

[mbkissel]

<p>Comments added to last week's photos if anyone is interested.</p>

<p>Was in Roanoke, VA over this past weekend. Stopped at the Taubman Museum of Art and shot a few abstracts of the unusual architecture. </p>

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[greenjeans]

<p>Another pond Hibiscus from a different angle. Not much time for pictures this week.</p><div></div>

[rjtully]

<p>After a little research I found that this is extremely rare and there is not another one exactly like this one. So, I must have been very lucky to get a shot of it. Or I had nothing exciting to write here so I just invented a rare pigeon.</p><div></div>

[Mike_D1664879747]

<p>Not much time to shoot this week, so I'm posting something from the Iowa trip back in July.<br>

5d mark II, 24-105 f4@28mm, ISO 200; 1/200@f8</p><div></div>

[belinda_johnson1]

<p>In reverse order:<br />Martin - I really love that pic, which church yeard was it taken in?<br />Vladamir - I so love photographing flora up close.<br />Marcel - what a lovely rose - do you now the species?<br />Mark - Could you send me private message on how to go about doing a similar one.<br />Dan and Ervin - I adore macro shots of insects (hey I'm a strange type of lady). I plan to take some spider pics soon.<br>

All the pics were amazing (esp. the early proto-type cylons a.k.a. petrol pumps).</p>

<p>Hugs<br>

Belinda</p>

[rogernoel]

<p>Just returned from 5 weeks in Bavaria, and Upper Austria. One of my favorite cities was Passau on the Danube. It is on the Austrian border and not very far from the Czech Republic. It was a village in the 2nd Century BC and later became an important Roman settlement. Now a thriving German port on the Danube</p>

<p>Canon 7 D, 1/1500 at f 3,2, Why this setting? There was wind and I had been shooting through blowing tree branches and didn't change my setting on the AV mode.</p><div></div>

[soutjes]

<p>Chicago Air and Water Show 2011<br>

<img src="http://imf41.fileave.com/20110821-IMG_4025.jpg" alt="" /></p>

[Mark Keefer]

<p>Happy Thursday. We are bracing for Hurricane Irene in the Northeast. August 2011 certainly seems to have been apocalypse month with the Sun hitting the Earth with two X class flares, Earthquakes, meteor showers, floods, fires and hurricanes not to mention the stock market....and my camera died from wounds received last week at a Revolutionary War Reenactment, though it is already being repaired at Canon's repair facility. Here is one of the shots I pulled of the card from that shoot.</p><div></div>

[eshabot]

<p><a title="untitled-1.jpg by EshaBot, on Flickr" href=" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6084/6082096272_929956e0eb.jpg" alt="untitled-1.jpg" width="500" height="433" /></a><br>

A penny for those thoughts?</p>

[martin-s]

<blockquote>

<p>"… which church yeard was it taken in?"</p>

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<p>Blean Churchyard, close to Canterbury, UK.<br>

There are many more of these wonderful and overgrown graveyards in the area.</p>

[Laura Weishaupt]

<p>Hi All,<br>

We too are preparing for Hurricane Irene. I hope all who are doing so fare well and stay safe. I agonized over my contribution this week. We left the woods, sort of, and headed to the Philadelphia Folk Festival. This is the first time we took cameras.<br>

I am a preschooler when it comes to photographing people. I'm not comfortable doing it, don't know much about it, and get pretty nervous at the prospect. It is a galaxy from my comfort zone.Yet there we were surrounded by tens of thousands of PEOPLE and well, why not try. I took many of performers that are better than this, but this was harder for me, and maybe a bit more gratifying in the end.<br>

I've submitted this one because I think I can learn a lot from it. I hid behind the opening in the curtain, but it also seemed to offer a more interesting position than out front. This is my favorite of the series because the crowd seems more engaged. I'm heading back to the woods and fungi. </p><div></div>

[tony_leinster]

<p>Another from the archives today, Taken on a Canon Pellix so I hope it still qualifies! Footwashing stools at the Blue Mosque Istanbul.</p><div></div>

[MarcelRomviel]

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<p>what a lovely rose - do you now the species?</p>

<p>Belinda, I'm sorry but I don't remember.</p>

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[Robin Smith]

<p>Doric</p><div></div>

[fmueller]

<p><img src="http://www.fmueller.com/images/Pyracantha.JPG" alt="" width="700" height="467" /></p>

<p>T1i with 17-85 IS, morning light</p>