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In this image the Snow Geese are circling back to land on the water

after something has startled them into flight. The imperturbable

Sandhill Cranes standing in the water only watch.

It's been snowing every day but just a small amount each day. I will get out again when the skies are right for the next installment of Panoramas by Fred. Watch this channel.

The only thing I might try is to neutralize the blue in the shadows to lend it a bit more warmth but, other than that, it's wonderful!

There was no snow on these peaks before last night. They were absolutely bare. The peak on the left is Guyot Mountain, the right one is Baldy Mountain which looks almost directly down on the city of Breckenridge from the east. It's snowing hard tonight so I may get some more images tomorrow.

I had only a few seconds for this shot.

 

The coyote did cut and run after about 8 frames.

This image was in my portfolio as Lee probably knows. I thought perhaps I could move it over here for a while and see if the group was still around. Thanks for the gracious comments, Lee.

It did it to me again!!!!!! No image came through and two more undeletable comments!!!! I am beginning to hate this site!

 

I am trying to download the example image again. Please forgive me if I fill your comments with more garbage.

What I think I meant is that the strong cyan colorcast introduces a bit of abstraction to the image and if I were to keep that as a positive attribute I would have to at least make it look intentional if this were my image (which it is not). I would simply play with the filters in PS to make it very obvious that I never intended the image to be completely naturalistic but more of a impressionistic effort. I am taking the liberty of making some simple changes to illustrate my meaning. Please forgive me, John, for altering your image to make my point.

My Kirk focusing rail came and I've tried it all the way down to 16mm with results worsening as the focal length goes down. However, I may be expecting too much of it with close-in trees and such. I will be trying it on large scenics over the next couple of days. Even when there are defects, it seems easier to repair them than before. I'll let you know what happens. I will try to attach another 22 frame panorama from atop Loveland Pass. In it you can see what our snow situation is. . . very poor! This image was also originally over 19,000 pixels. shot with the 100mm end of the zoom as well.

I thought the cyan sort of interesting too in an interpretive way but it would actually have to be posterized a bit as well before it would really work for me. The bird shapes are so wonderful that almost anything could be done successfully as long as those were held.

Here's the corrected image, I hope!

This site is slowly sliding into ultimate wackoville. I tried to download an image with the previous comments which were downloaded in twice even though I only loaded them once. This has happened to me previously and I've never been able to delete the duplicate comments in over two weeks. I will try the download one more time and if this message is repeated just ignore the extras.

This is a fantastic image of two lovely birds.

 

I worked with this image for a few minutes in PS. I adjusted curves, lowered saturation in cyan and also lessened the cyan in selective color then dinked around with the contrast and brightness. It's not what I would call perfect but the effect is, I think, somewhat better. Let me know if it's too bad and I'll remove it.

Eight days in the Sierras. There are no nits to be picked, Kenneth. You are master of your medium. The fact that you consistenty shoot these masterpieces with a consumer grade SLR only adds to the impact for me. Your images induce the most wonderful feelings of peace and solitude in me and I'm grateful. I'm unaware of what you do for a living but it must be reassuring to have this creative outlet available to you should you ever wish to pursue it further.

It's 2,000 pixels wide, down from over 19,000 pixels (stitched from 22 frames) so I may post it. I hope it shows. Take a look and let me know if you see any stitching as I cannot find any. This is not intended to be artistic, just informative.

After hearing that doing stitching was useless without finding the nodal point of the lens you're using I set up the only lens I have with any fore and aft adjustment, the 100-400. I found the nodal point at 100mm and made a set of 11 images off my back deck today. The Canon PhotoStitch software didn't improve any but the PhotoVista software made a nearly perfect job of it. I'm excited but now I need a focusing rack for the other lenses. I'm going to try and do a nice panorama over the next few days and see how it goes. I'll let you know.

I know what you mean. I don't really feel this one needs them particularly. The overall feeling is wonderful without clouds. I thought for a moment this was a stitched panoramic but I see you just cropped out the cloudless sky mostly.

I might just let the right hand branch go with the background and concentrate on the near branch with the fruit on it. The best way to do this is to make a path around the foreground parts that you want so as to be able to try different things with the BG. It takes a bit of time but the path can be used for all sorts of things including making new masks.

 

The colors are neat and the fact that all the leaves are gone is also cool.

what else you go to do? Nice bit of Americana, Peter. If this were put up for critiique they'd all want you to show the entire tree.

Photo.net has been and remains wacko today and I will fix all the duplicates as soon as possible.

 

I'm trying the images again.

Found a page listing and showing all the bats of NM here:

 

See what you think. I'm attaching the images they used to illustrate it.

Michael: It's very organic. Almost like looking through a scope into gastric passages only better color. Truly wonderful.

In Photoshop I still have detail in the white fur around the chin. It was, as you can see, direct sunlight. The D60 tends to underexpose which is good so I may have tweaked it a bit too much in ImageReady before posting it.

 

Thanks for the comments, all. I was thrilled to get the shot. I have one other nearly identical and, of course, another yet of dog butt disappearing into the tamarisk trees.

There are mostly Mallard Ducks in this crowd but there are also Northern Pintails and Gadwalls as well as a few other

different types, I'm sure.

Yes, we've all photographed peacocks at the zoo but this is one of the better images I've seen of one.