Monday in Nature August 29, 2016

[Laura Weishaupt]

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<p><strong>Basic Guidelines</strong>: Nature based subject matter. Please, declare captive subjects. Keep your image at/under 700 pixels on the long axis for in-line viewing and try to keep file size under 300kb. Note that this includes photos hosted off-site at Flicker, Photobucket, your own site, etc. Feel free to link your image to a larger version. <strong><em>In the strictest sense, nature photography should not include hand of man elements. Please refrain from images with obvious buildings or large man made structures like roads, fences, walls. Minimize man made features and keep the focus on nature. </em></strong><br>

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<p>Monday Morning Greetings,<br>

Let's get started with a misty moisty morning, a perfect start to any day. It's still. The soft sounds are only broken by the call of a hungry young kingfisher to its unobliging parent. They fly off as light breaks through the mists. Light slowly replaces shadows, and a new day begins. That new day is Monday in Nature. Have a great one.</p><div></div>

[cegeiss]

<p>After an unexpected trip to Europe this week: here's a shot from the plane on the way home.</p><div></div>

[tholte]

<p>Early morning storm at Siskiwit Bay (Cornucopia, Wi.)</p><div></div>

[johnfarrar]

<p><em>Clavaria cristata </em>(I think!)</p><div></div>

[Bill J Boyd]

<p><strong>Roadrunners</strong> are quite common in my part of Texas, This one ran across my backyard while I was on patio with camera. They are very fast and I was lucky to get this shot.</p><div></div>

[Charles_Sumner]

<p>This seemed to be saying, "shoot me for MIN".</p><div></div>

[Laura Weishaupt]

<p>John, yes, that looks right.</p>

<p>Charles, what else would they say? ;-))</p>

[Rick Bortnick]

<p>Tim - Excellent image, made me want to break my lenses & take up stamp collecting :)<br>

The rim lighting on velcro-like hairs really attracted me to this one</p><div></div>

[Jon Eckman]

<p>Came upon this little one in my backyard last night</p><div></div>

[ronald_duren]

<p>I guess it was mating season for these Wasps last week. Are they Ammophila? </p><div></div>

[nilantha]

<p>Great Egret, San Dieguito Lagoon, Del Mar CA</p><div></div>

[dcstep]

<p><strong>Twins In A Thicket</strong></p>

<p><a title="Twins In Thicket" href=" data-flickr-embed="true"><img src="https://c7.staticflickr.com/9/8199/29127714982_5ce9566472_c.jpg" alt="Twins In Thicket" width="800" height="640" /></a></p>

[biomed]

<p>The look of Autumn in the summer.</p>

<center><img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/18279590-md.jpg" alt="_E6A4461" width="680" height="453" border="0" /></center>

[fgorga]

<p>Maturing male Autumn Meadowhawk</p>

<p><br /> All meadowhawks start out yellow. The males turn bright red as they mature.</p>

<p>For a short while (a day or two?) one can observe the intermediates stages; individuals with orange and/or partially red coloration.</p>

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[stemked]

<p>Well, I was orginally going to put up a nice butterfly image but in keeping with the theme chose this one instead from this weekend.<br>

<img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/18279602-lg.jpg" alt="" width="900" height="695" /><br>

Pentax K5iis, Pentax 50mm F 2.8 (on camera flash). Cox Gardens, Carmel, IN</p>

[ShunCheung]

<p>I saw this rare leucistic Anna's hummingbird at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) Arboretum. A true albino bird would have red eyes and bill. A leucistic one has dark eyes and bill just like other Anna's hummingbirds, but it is deficient in pigment.</p>

<p>There is an article on UCSC's web site for more information: http://arboretum.ucsc.edu/news-events/news/leucistic-hummingbird.html</p><div></div>

[Miha]

<p>Hi,<br>

I'm still walking at the border of documentary nature photography...<br>

This time it's Stachys sylvatica L. (Lamiaceae, Labiatae), I think, i'm no botanist ;-)<br>

English name should be: hedge woundwort, whitespot, or sometimes hedge nettle (according to Wikipedia).<br>

Hope you like it and exuse me for my botanical (un)knowledge.</p>

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[sallymack]

<p>Unrelated to all other life forms shown, here's <i>Archaea</i> (again).  I'd never seen salt looking so much like grass.  The Archaea forms are very small, 1/4" or so.</p><div></div>

[RickDB]

<p>Taking a landscape photo to meet the MiN criteria is becoming more and more difficult these days; buildings, fences, power lines and, more recently, wind turbines always seem to get in the way. Here is a view, in IR to cut through the haze, untainted by the hand of man. The viewpoint is from a lovely 3.5 mile walk around the hill topped by Carreg Cennen castle in Wales.</p><div></div>

[User_6667263]

<p>Oleander.</p><div></div>

[katsone]

<p>Evening Bucks on Fire Island NY</p><div></div>

[thomasly]

<p>thank you all for such lovely photos, very inspiring </p>

<p>T.L.</p>

[Mary Doo]

<p>Bumble Bee karate kick.</p><div></div>

[MarcelRomviel]

Macro<div></div>

[paul_de_ley]

<p>Great catch of the "backyardrunner" Bill! And that's a lovely IR shot Rick :)</p>

<p>My preferred way of staying out of "hand of man" trouble is to get as close as possible. Provided the feral subject doesn't bite/sting/trample the hand of the photographer man, of course.</p><div></div>