Monday in Nature Weekly Photo Nov. 10, 2014

[Laura Weishaupt]

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<p>Good Morning,<br>

It's the beginning of the week. Do you ever just want to get to the other side? Skip the middle and get to the end. Nature is like that. There's always another side to be on or get to. The end of the river, the next ridge over, across the channel, over the rainbow, wherever it is the grass may not be greener, but it might be where you and your camera want to be. Getting there, well, that's when a normal day can turn into an unexpected adventure. Sometimes we find that right where we are is the best place to be.</p>

<p>The end of the week will be here soon enough. Right now, Monday in Nature is the place to be, no matter what side of the river you're on.</p><div></div>

[Rick Bortnick]

<p>Spending so much time looking at mushrooms, mosses, & flowers -one sometimes forgets to look up.</p><div></div>

[User_2019667]

<p>Cormorants and gulls hunker down on a chilly and damp Maine morning.</p><div></div>

[cegeiss]

<p>From Saturday's walk through a nearby nature preserve. Fall colors are almost gone, but a few small maples are still holding on. Soon it will be only the oaks who keep their brownish leaves until February.</p><div></div>

[Bill J Boyd]

<p><em><strong>American White Pelica</strong><strong>n</strong></em> landing at White Rock Lake, Dallas, Texas. </p><div></div>

[ShunCheung]

<p>Great egret at the Don Edwards wildlife refuge, Fremont, California.</p><div></div>

[biomed]

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[DawsonPointers]

<p>Ice lenses forming at the base of the waterfall, -14C yesterday morning</p><div></div>

[jordan2240]

<p>Amazing how much nature you can find close to home when you look. Didn't get anything new this week, but this is from a few weeks ago. I'm pretty sure I haven't posted it before, but then, I'm lucky to remember my name. Taken with Pentax K-5ii and Sigma 150-500. (Sorry to copy Shun's egret shot, but this is what I'd already had planned for this week).</p><div></div>

[kts]

<p>love that shot with the tree reflections behind the maples Laura, nicely done......"cool" shot of the ice John.....that cold is heading our way mid week</p>

<p>there are still a few pockets of color around....and no Junco's yet.....might be a good sign</p><div></div>

[anthony_r.1]

<p>Early morning on the river.</p>

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Canon EOS 60D, EF-S 17-55, 1/40 f/10 ISO 320</p>

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[dcstep]

<p><strong>Ring-bill Gull</strong></p>

<p><a title="Ring-billed Gull by David Stephens, on Flickr" href=" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3949/15556490587_c4a3f5926a_c.jpg" alt="Ring-billed Gull" width="800" height="320" /></a></p>

<p>I was working on settings for my new Canon 7D MkII and honing my skills with birds flying straight at me. I had a bunch of misses, but this one worked.</p>

[Mary Doo]

<p>I was [peasantly?] surprised to see frost as I walked my dog this morning. So I hurried back to photograph it before it was gone. </p><div></div>

[johnfarrar]

<p>Ash, birch, bracken: Borrowdale</p><div></div>

[stemked]

<p>I went down this weekend to visit my mother in Houston (Texas) and had to do a bit of cleanup in her yard. I was a little sad to see that the native American Anoles (aka American Chameleons) are being replaced by non-native Brown Anoles.<br>

There are still a few herpes around her home including lots of beautifully patterned Gulf Coast toads. I really love their golden-flecked eyes, and they were patient enough with me to get in some close images of just their eyes. However I will share with you a side view as some are likewise really beautifully patterned for a toad.<br>

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Gulf Coast Toad, Houston TX. Pentax K5ii 100mm f2.8 DAW macro, diffused flash.</p>

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[RickDB]

<p>White-headed buffalo weaver, native to east Africa. 5D2 / Tamron 150-600 at 600mm; 1/250s at f/8 ISO 400, handheld.</p><div></div>

[birdied]

<p>Fantastic shot Laura , love the faded reflections in the background. Well done.<br>

Bill Boyd, love the pelican. Can't wait until the white ones return here .</p>

<p>Bill Jordan, lovely colors to compliment the egret.<br>

Rick DuBoissson, love this shot. Lovely detail and the foreground perch and background really compliment the colors of the bird and make that orangish color really pop.</p>

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[Doug Obert]

<p>My son and I went looking for deer in the hills above where we live.</p><div></div>

[birdied]

<p>My shot is of a vey busy bumble bee gathering pollen.</p>

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[robert100]

......this one's for David Stephens. Friday Nov7, distance of about 10 meters, spot metered dead centered on the

fur at +1/3ev....and....at.....iso3200.

 

Thanks. Between you and Rick Du Boisson, the two of you have confirmed that my existing 7D won't need

replacing just yet, what it will get, is a 150-600 hanging off the end.<div></div>

[dcstep]

<p>Good choice Robert.</p>

<p>Your squirrel would have been even better at +1EV, or maybe more. That bright, washed out BG greatly underexposed its fur, particularly on the thigh and lower part of the face. The washed out area wouldn't be any more washed out and you'd have way more fur detail and less noise.</p>

[robert100]

Thanks. The areas which appear washed-out are actually in different lighting. The light is coming from the right

at a low angle and there are numerous small branches casting a lattice-work of small shadows across the

squirrel. That part of the thigh which appears washed out for example, is in hot sun, not in the shadow of a

branch. (I just processed this into a peg quickly this morning to load here, I actually could go into elements and

even those light/shadow areas out....but I won't bother)

 

I also have a correction to make on the data. I said the distance was about 10 meters. I was thinking of a

different photo. This one was actually at a distance of more like 38 to 40 meters. I was on a ladder, looking over

my side fence, on the other side of the fence is a 15 foot deep gully and the squirrel is on a branch about 16 or

18 feet above ground on the other side of the gully, somewhere around 38 to 40 meters away. Crop from a

Tamron 70-300 at 300.

[robert100]

David...... ah.......and I just realized what you were saying wasn't about the light/shadow areas on the fur, that

what you had said was that once the background was blown off the map and whited-out, whiting it out "even

more" wouldn't matter, and by going to a full ev up I get more separation from the floor noise affecting the fur.

Gotcha.

 

Thanks. It's been raining almost steadily here for over a month but this week looks like we're going to be clear

(and friggin cold), and although I have some yard/studio maintenance to do and some business to handle on the

"artist" side of my living, I don't have any business-photography for clients on the agenda for a month, so I'll

have time get to really play with your advice and work your tips into becoming "second nature" habits (pun

intended).

[dcstep]

<p>You "got it" Robert.</p>

[Ken Katz]

Don't really do wildlife, but came across this image while shooting fall landscapes. Rockefeller State Park Reserve, Pleasantville, NY<div></div>