Canon Thursday Photo 2013: #11

[mbkissel]

<blockquote><strong><em>Important</em></strong><em>:</em> please keep <a id="_GPLITA_3" title="Click to Continue > by Coupon Companion Plugin" href="/canon-eos-digital-camera-forum/00bOkm" rel="nofollow">your</a> image under 700 pixels wide/high for in-line viewing, and <em><strong>please try to keep the FILE SIZE UNDER 300kb</strong></em>. Note that <strong>this includes <a id="_GPLITA_2" title="Click to Continue > by Coupon Companion Plugin" href="/canon-eos-digital-camera-forum/00bKAV" rel="nofollow">photos</a> hosted off-site </strong>(at Flickr, Photobucket, your own site, etc). Are you <strong>new to this thread</strong>? <a id="_GPLITA_1" title="Click to Continue > by Coupon Companion Plugin" href="/canon-eos-digital-camera-forum/00bKAV" rel="nofollow">The general</a> guidelines for these Thursday threads are <a href="/canon-eos-digital-camera-forum/00X9hq" rel="nofollow"><strong>right here</strong></a>. Remember: only 3 images each week!</blockquote>

<p>Okay, somebody wake up Nathan.</p>

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

[bob-c]

<p>Perhaps the noise from this group will get him up.</p><div></div>

[RickDB]

<p>Thanks for getting us going Mark - nice shot of a white-cheeked pintail(?). Amazing display Robert, but still no Nathan; lets try a thunder clap!<br />As a late afternoon thunderstorm moved off to the east our village was lit by a warm sunset glow. There was a spectacular rainbow against the dark receding clouds. Magical lighting and so I rushed to get my camera and drove out of the village to a good view point - unfortunately I missed the best shots. Lesson : always have your gear ready for the unexpected.</p><div></div>

[RickDB]

<p>#2:</p><div></div>

[RickDB]

<p>#3</p><div></div>

[Laura Weishaupt]

<p>Robert, I see you made it to Middle Creek. Isn't that an amazing sound? This is from a small manmade pond where groups of snow geese come to take a bath, eat ice, and hang out. A fence prevents access to water level, but we can still get close enough to exchange glances.</p><div></div>

[mike dixon]

5D2, Contax Zeiss 50/1.4, about f1.7 at 1/50, ISO 3200<div></div>

[Member69643]

<p>Thanks for getting us started Mark, awesome colors on that duck.<br>

Very nice lightning pic Rick!</p>

<p>Mine is a drive by shooting of sorts. Picture day at school, so I posed my daughter for a quick snap.</p><div></div>

[pjmeade]

<p>I've just sold this shot to a magazine who want it for a two page spread. It was taken on the Long Walk in Windsor Great Park last year. The building in the background is Windsor Castle. <br /> I put the shot on the ratings queue last year, but it wasn't to the PN public taste.<br>

7D+100-400 at 400 mm, 1/640, f8, iso-400<br>

<a title="Royal Windsor Horse Show 2012 by Peter Meade, on Flickr" href=" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7081/7183826002_8ac6ff6fd6_z.jpg" alt="Royal Windsor Horse Show 2012" width="640" height="426" /></a></p>

[horse]

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

[horse]

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

[William Kahn]

<p>From a few weeks back...</p><div></div>

[ervinbacik]

<p>Tina</p><div></div>

[don_pugh]

<p>Great Blue Heron.</p><div></div>

[don_pugh]

<p>Great Egret.</p><div></div>

[don_pugh]

<p>Tybee Island (GA) Lighthouse.</p><div></div>

[dcstep]

<p><strong>Dedicated Great Horned Owl keeps her eggs warm in snow storm:</strong><br>

<strong> </strong></p>

<p><a title="Dedicated Great Horned Owl sits on eggs during snow storm by dcstep, on Flickr" href=" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8085/8543217458_8b43b4ecbe_c.jpg" alt="Dedicated Great Horned Owl sits on eggs during snow storm" width="800" height="534" /></a></p>

<p>Canon 5D MkIII, EF 500mm f/4L IS, Av Mode, ISO 1600, +2/3EV, f/6.3 resulting in 1/800-sec, hand held, Raw conversion with DxO Optics Pro 8.0.</p>

[JamesFarabaugh]

<p>Shooting STARRS</p><div></div>

[Spearhead]

<p><img src="http://spirer.com/images/vela1.jpg" alt="" width="700" height="525" /></p>

[danferrin]

<p>Beautiful Duck, Mark. Thanks for getting the thread started. David, I'm really jealous of that Great Horned Owl shot. I was looking at one through a spotting scope a couple of days ago, but there is no way to get close enough for a photo of any kind. Great shots here this morning, as usual. I haven't been participating much recently, but I have been watching the contributions each week, and its always a humbling and inspiring set of photos. My first shot this week is this male Northern Cardinal, shot a couple of weeks ago. <br>

Canon EOS 7D, EF 70-300L IS f4-f.6, ISO 400, f 5.6, 1/50 second hand held.</p><div></div>

[philrichardson]

<p>Love the bird shots. Here's a Black Phoebe take-off.</p><div></div>

[phule]

<center><img src="http://cetan.org/images/20130303165951_img_9630-lightroom-flickr-sm.jpg" alt="" /></center><center>Barge full of sand waiting to be unloaded by crane at a concrete mixing plant along the Chicago River.</center><center>350D, 50mm f/1.8 @ f/2.5.</center>

 

[danferrin]

<p>This is a Harris's Sparrow, which somehow found its way sever hundred miles East of its normal Winter grounds. Typically nor seen East of Nebraska, this bird has been at the local wetlands in Central Ohio for a few months now. It takes some patience to get to see him, much less to get a photo, but I have been fortunate to get photos on three different occasions. This is the most recent, and except for the blurry branch in the foreground, the best. Shot this past Sunday.<br>

Canon EOS 7D, EF 70-300 f/4-5.6L IS USM, at 300mm, ISO 400, f5.6, 1/1600, Hand held</p><div></div>

[kts]

<p>was hoping to get a comet and moon shot like what James captured but it wasn't to be as the clouds just wouldn't get out of the way here in Cleveburg....settled for a couple shots of pennies on a table waiting to be rolled</p><div></div>

[kts]

<p>#2</p><div></div>