Monday in Nature August 22, 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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<strong><em>Are you new to this thread? We post one image per week. For more details on guidelines<a href="/nature-photography-forum/00cgtY"> please read this </a>helpful information. </em></strong></p>

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<p>Monday Morning Greetings,<br>

It's time to wake up.....and get up. It's time to sip your favorite morning elixir......you set the coffee pot last night, right? Of course you did, because today is a big day for many. It's time to make some lunch and check the traffic. Check the brief case and make sure everything is in there. Was the syllabus printed? Did the texts arrive in time? Did maintenance fix the projector? Do you have the new slide presentation or is that the one from last year? It will look great with all the wonderful nature photography. Bring the camera, absolutely bring the camera.</p>

<p>It's time to return to school. Many of the contributors here are educators and some may be students. Educators, good ones, never stop learning and never stop teaching. Those of you who participate in this forum share your expertise and enrich us all in the process. You might have 80 students in a class, but you make time to help us here. Oh, yes, you help out with gear too. </p>

<p>Let's cheer on the educators in our midst as they head back to the classroom. Not going back till after Labor Day? Well, then relax, your first day of school will come. Till then enjoy another Monday in Nature.</p><div></div>

[Rick Bortnick]

<p>It appears that I was not the only one interested in the ferns spores...</p><div></div>

[johnfarrar]

<p>Being an educator is (was!) good; being a retired educator with time for photography is, I'm ashamed to say, better. Harebell with fly.</p><div></div>

[Bill J Boyd]

<p>Deer seen in my backyard....</p><div></div>

[Jon Eckman]

<p>Impatient mushroom</p><div></div>

[stemked]

<p>Yes, getting my syllabus together for Cell Biology, Immunology, Capstone, Honors Course, and Senior Research. But that didn't keep me for enjoying the last days before the grind starts again.<br>

<img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/18276946-md.jpg" alt="" width="680" height="450" /><br>

Two Lined Salamander, Brown County State Park, Indiana. Pentax K5iis, 100 DAW macro.</p>

 

[biomed]

<p>White moth. Most probably a Forage Looper Moth.</p>

<center><img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/18277033-md.jpg" alt="_MG_0047" width="680" height="453" border="0" /></center><center>Canon 6D + Sigma 105mm macro OS</center>

[Laura Weishaupt]

<p>My caption should read <em>Spatularia velutipes</em>, not <em>Spatulina</em>.........oops. AKA <em>Spatulariopsis velutipes</em> for those who are keeping up with the latest nomenclature.</p>

[ronald_duren]

<p>Common Garter Snake</p><div></div>

[dcstep]

<p><strong>Beautiful Coyote</strong></p>

<p><a title="Beautiful coyote shows its amber eyes..." href=" data-flickr-embed="true"><img src="https://c5.staticflickr.com/9/8421/28488674444_0ca524aabb_c.jpg" alt="Beautiful coyote shows its amber eyes..." width="800" height="640" /></a></p>

[sallymack]

<p>Out at the wetlands.</p><div></div>

[ShunCheung]

<p>White pelican (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos) in flight</p><div></div>

[fgorga]

<p>Stream Bluet Mating Wheel</p>

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[funkag]

<p>We got up to North-Central Pennsylvania over the weekend to see the PA-Endangered Spiranthes casei. Many of the plants were growing out of old discarded railroad ties, while the more common Spiranthes cernua was just starting to bloom in the wetter areas along the tracks.</p><div></div>

[Doug Obert]

<p>Experimenting with the close up capabilities of a new lens on some wildflowers in our yard.</p><div></div>

[Miha]

<p>Hi,<br>

I am wondering if a photo in the Nature forum must depict the nature exactly as it is or some grade of personal impression is allowed. Therefore, I will risk and post an ‘impressionistic’ photo of a sunflower. I must admit the photo was not manipulated at all, it was made with an old modified lens – the old lens was dismantled and then rebuilt with some elements built in in the ‘incorrect orientation’.<br>

Tell me your opinions, please.<br>

Regards, Miha.</p><div></div>

[bing_huey1]

<p>Display of color on a blackberry leaf</p><div></div>

[RickDB]

<p>Red Kites were so valued as street cleaning scavengers in middle age Britain that they were protected by Royal decree; kill one of these and you risked the death penalty! By the 16th century they were viewed as vermin and a bounty was placed on its head which resulted in its extinction in England by 1871. Protection and reintroduction since 1903 has been remarkably successful and there are now over 2,000 breeding pairs of these beautiful birds.</p><div></div>

[johnfarrar]

<p>Miha - speaking (writing?) personally, I really enjoy and am fascinated by images like yours. There's a place, maybe a need, and certainly an opportunity, to be less documentary, more interpretative, in pictures of the natural world. This forum has been very accepting of such images and I hope it will stay that way. (I've never had the nerve to strip a lens down and re-assemble it but it clearly is an interesting way to go).</p>

[User_6667263]

<p>Ferruginous hawk.</p><div></div>

[MarcelRomviel]

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[Laura Weishaupt]

<p>Miha,<br>

Lovely image, and it's certainly welcome. I don't know that personal interpretation of nature is out of the guidelines that we have. I think many have been doing this all along. Some folks have some very interesting "lenses" and make good use of them. It looks like you have one also.</p>

[stemked]

<p>Miha,</p>

<p>The nature salons that I have been to simply say "no obvious hand-of-man". I think that's a good to rule to go by. Abstracts are completely reasonable.</p>

[User_6502147]

<p>Patiently waiting.</p><div></div>

[Mary Doo]

<p>Yuge leopard yawn.</p><div></div>