Monday in Nature Weekly Photo Oct. 19, 2015

[sallymack]

<p>Thanks, Gordon. --Sally</p>

[tombest]

<p>Two weeks ago in South Carolina, the leaves were just barely showing some color change but mostly things were just green. This is Yellow Branch falls near Walhalla SC. Since I live in Florida, it's a treat to see and experience a waterfall. There are sights and sounds and smells and misty goodness in the air. All good.</p>

<p>Taken with a Nikon D7200 and my trusty Tokina 12-24 f4.0.</p>

<p>-Christoph... very enchanting photo. Love it.</p>

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

[paul_de_ley]

<p>Inland Southern California still went up to 90F/32C this past week, but if the thermometer fails to acknowledge the approach of winter then you can always tell from the grayscale plumage and squabble-free behavior of the avocets. And they actually serve as thermometers too: those ruffled backs apparently aren't signs of excess adrenalin but seem to act like cooling vents instead.</p><div></div>

[anthea50]

<p>I have been kept delightfully busy photographing my over grown yard mainly featuring Dandelions in all their various states.</p><div></div>

[thadley]

<p><img src="/photo/18110828" alt="" />Taken in <a href="http://www.sepaq.com/pq/mot/index.dot?language_id=1">parc Tremblant Quebec</a>. I was next to a picnic table close to the edge of Lake Munro where I was waiting for the light to change - it was heavily overcast. All of a sudden, two deer slowly approached. I froze so as to not scare them off. I slowly raised the camera to my face and without changing any settings, I ran off a couple of shots. They seemed somewhat perplexed by the sound of the shutter going off and paused very briefly at those times of 'capture'. I think it came within about 12 feet before it decided to avoid me. </p><div></div>

[roman_p]

<p>Sunrise over Lake George. Shot from French Mt, NY.</p><div></div>

[thadley]

<p>Roman - one of my favorite slide film. I am thinking you might have used a GND filter on this to control the dynamics.</p>

[ShunCheung]

<p>I used to like Velvia also. Roman's image seems to have some fill flash to brighten up the foreground. The vegetation immediately in front of the camera seems to be a bit brighter than what is farther away towards the left side of the image.</p>

[Andrew Gosden]

<p>My best shot of a deer so far. Usually they are so far in the woods you can hardly see them or they run away before I get a shot. This buck waited patiently while I got the camera out of the bag and adjusted all the settings.<br>

<img src="https://akgosdenphotos.smugmug.com/Nature/2015/i-TtCZFsw/0/700x700/20151018-IMG_7819-700x700.jpg" alt="" /><br>

<strong>Canon XSi, Tamron 70-300 VC, ISO 1600</strong></p>

[dcstep]

<p><strong>Prairie Dog</strong><br>

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<p><a title="This guy let me get really close." href=" data-flickr-embed="true"><img src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5798/22048403929_77d9f70ae1_c.jpg" alt="This guy let me get really close." width="800" height="640" /></a></p>

[Mark Keefer]

<p><img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/18111844-md.jpg" alt="" width="680" height="453" /></p>

[roman_p]

<blockquote>

<p>I am thinking you might have used a GND filter on this to control the dynamics.</p>

</blockquote>

<p>Tony, you're absolutely right. In this shot I've used 0.6 (2 stop) Lee GND Hard Edge filter.</p>

[roman_p]

<p>Shun,<br>

Thanks for your observation.<br>

No, I haven’t used any additional source of the light. It was 2 nights trip at the Tongue Mountain Range and I couldn’t afford any extra weight in my backpack.</p>

 

<blockquote>

<p>The vegetation immediately in front of the camera seems to be a bit brighter than what is farther away towards the left side of the image.</p>

</blockquote>

<p> I assume it happened because I might have pushed GND filter a bit too deep since I wanted to be sure it covers the bright area around the sun. The edge of the filter might not be placed straight. Also the top of the mountain (it’s Black Mt) at the left to the sun came out a bit darker than I wanted to be. I dodged it a little bit to open it up. It was quite cloudy morning at the range and I didn’t have much hope to get a good sunrise shot but had my gear ready. Then I spotted a tiny opening above the mountains at the east. I realized that I have a minute or so to create something while the sun appeared in this slot. I fired 4 shots, bracketing at 0.5 stops. One of them appears to be nailed right. </p>

[geoffm]

<p>No image from me this time around, but I just have to applaud Shun's magnificent Egret image, one of the best I have ever seen. Superb.</p>

[Tim_Lookingbill]

<p>A deer I shot recently in my local park. They've gotten used to me and aren't as skittish as the squirrels.</p><div></div>

[minh_cao]

<p><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-d7IFgCcfekk/UjLD_kGE_AI/AAAAAAAAGFE/qEgvRR0UfiI/s640/hinh-nen-thien-nhien-0.jpg" alt="" width="640" height="360" /></p>

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[MTC Photography]

<p><img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/18136394-md.jpg" alt="" width="680" height="439" /><br>

Colombian Icefield, Alberta<br>

Leica R5, Vario -Elmar 28-70<br>

Ektachrome</p>