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Madame Sherri's Forest contains the ruins of an old castle. I have

photographed it complete with fair maiden. Applied the Oil Paint filter in

Photoshop CS6. Thanks for having a look and please let me know what you

think. Thanks

Her name was Caroline. While photographing a car and plane show, I

discovered a woman nearby sitting in her garden. She possessed

inescapable natural beauty. With her permission I photographed her. I felt I

was looking at a woman in a painting, so I added in Photoshop CS6 an oil

painting filter to part of the photo.

Hi Pierre,

thanks for the comments! Yes protecting my camera and lens was a major concern. I waited for a period of high wind but no rain as I wanted the waves to be big. (Irene came in bands of wind and rain.) I scouted the beach and found if I hunkered down right next to a 10 foot high wall built around someone's beach mansion that I could shoot protected from the wind as it was blowing over top of me. The sand was still blowing like crazy on the beach 100 feet to the left of me though! When the next band of rain came by I had already got my picture.

OPPORTUNITY - Off the coast of Cohasset, Massachusetts stands

Minot's Ledge Lighthouse, built 151 years ago. It is built upon a submerged

rock ledge visible only at low tide, so most of the time it actually rises up

right out of the water. It was quite an adventure to photograph this during

Irene! But nothing compared to the adventure faced by the lightkeeper. To

get in or out of the lighthouse, the lightkeeper had to climb the ladder on the

outside of the lighthouse to a doorway halfway up (visible on the left). It is

easy to understand why the lighthouse door was placed so far up when one

views this photo! Moral of the story of this photo - where most associate

fear and destruction with a dangerous storm, a photographer sees

Opportunity!

hi the water droplets are natural from the diver. thanks

Just a capture of a girl doing a backflip off a dock into the water. The girl never

ran out of energy and kept diving and diving until I got the perfect shot I

wanted! What do you think?

Yellow Bellied Sapsucker about to feed its young. Although that didn't happen!

The sapsucker emerged from the hole about twenty seconds later with the

dragonfly still in its mouth. Apparently it was not up to par with the babies!

Hi, I am giving bird photography a go. I am looking for input to find out if nature

photos like this are better as closeups, or as full body crops. I am also posting

the same picture as a full body crop. Thanks for your comments

I was scouting for a bald eagles nest, which is on the other side of the Eric

Canal from this tug. This appears to be a medium sized working tugboat,

reminiscent of days gone by. Tugboats were used to pull or push barges up

and down the Eric Canal, and it appears they still are used to this day. On this

day, the tug caught my attention and won out over the two young eaglets on

the nest.

I was excited to photograph this scene of a cowboy on his horse when he

came into my scene as it adds some scale to the picture. Better without the

horse and rider or with?

Hi Please have a look at Max, a random Dalmatian I had the pleasure of

meeting on a walk up a hill.

This one has just been fighting off another Baltimore Oriole. ALMOST got a

shot of the two of them in combat but ended up with just this one staring me

down, my first shot of a Baltimore Oriole.

Hi David,

Masterful, wish I had shot it! The blue and gold colors contrast so beautifully in this image and the action is so real! A painter couldn't have done it better.

Hi please comment on the baby owl in a nest spotted in Cambridge MA.

Thanks!

Thank you for the comments.

Peter

Hi. Please comment on my version of Ernest Hemingway's Old Man and the

Sea. Thanks!

Please provide a critique of this photo I shot while inside Anemone Cave off

the coast of Acadia National Park. Thanks

Is this a crappy photo or what? I call it my Arts and Craps project! I was

attending a conference in Boston when I looked up and saw a skylight with

three seagulls perched on it. An angle you don't often see! All comments

welcomed, thanks.

I wanted to take a different view of Pemaquid Light. I approached the

lighthouse directly instead of from the usual angle taken on the rocks with

the obligatory puddle and reflection. Meanwhile I had run out of daylight. All

comments welcomed. Thanks