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The vignetting on my 28mm f3.5 drives me a little crazy, so I'd like to pick up either a Nikkor-N 24mm f2.8 or Nikkor-S 35mm f2.8 lens. Ai'd or Non-Ai is fine. Single-coated, please. Thanks!

Some Lycopodium digitatum (Diphasiastrum digitatum?) from the Raccoon Creek Wildflower Reserve on Sunday.

Cucumber Falls at Ohiopyle State Park in Southwestern PA. It's been a crazy winter - all of the snow was gone by the next day...

Going to the home page isn't logging me out anymore - thank you!

It would also be nice if the site didn't kick me back into the photographs section every time I edit a folder.

Let's try that again so it is readable: When I go into Portfolios to access my folders and edit them, only the eleven or twelve newest ones show up - I have to try to remember the names of the other ones and search for them to be able to work with them. Can we have all of them populate on the screen? When re-ordering folders, it only lets me switch two portfolios - I can't drop one folder in between two other folders. If I'm moving something five or ten folders down from the top, I end up putting another folder at the top (that I don't want there). I've been resorting to dragging folders down one space at a time, which is pretty tedious. When I click on a photograph in profile view, the site is pushing that photo to the bottom of the portfolio, thus re-ordering the pictures. Can we make that stop happening? PLEASE give us the option to download / access the url of / right click on our own photographs. What is currently in my online portfolio (and thus in one place) is in reality scattered over hundreds of dvds, cds, hard drives, and folders, lost among hundreds-of-thousands of pictures. The whole point of paying for photo.net was (at least in part) to have everything in one easy-to-locate and access place, both for myself and for others who I allow to access and use my images.

1. When I go into Portfolios to access my folders and edit them, only the eleven or twelve newest ones show up - I have to try to remember the names of the other ones and search for them to be able to work with them. Can we have all of them populate on the screen? 2. When re-ordering folders, it only lets me switch two portfolios - I can't drop one folder in between two other folders. If I'm moving something five or ten folders down from the top, I end up putting another folder at the top (that I don't want there). I've been resorting to dragging folders down one space at a time, which is pretty tedious. 3. When I click on a photograph in profile view, the site is pushing that photo to the bottom of the portfolio, thus re-ordering the pictures. Can we make that stop happening? 4. PLEASE give us the option to download / access the url of / right click on our own photographs. What is currently in my online portfolio (and thus in one place) is in reality scattered over hundreds of dvds, cds, hard drives, and folders, lost among hundreds-of-thousands of pictures. The whole point of paying for photo.net was (at least in part) to have everything in one easy-to-locate and access place, both for myself and for others who I allow to access and use my images.

It would be really nice to have the CHOICE whether or not to allow right-clicking/access to urls - all of my pics are now stuck in photo.net with no way to get them out. I've always allowed conservation groups to use them in presentations and now I can't do that (or pull them out to put them somewhere else where that is possible...)

+1 - I regularly pull my photos out for other uses and allow others to do the same. It would be nice to be able to choose whether to turn right-clicking on or not.

<p>I'm heading out to the Southwest U.S. for a wildflower/Joshua Tree trip in mid-March - I'll be flying in and out of Las Vegas with three full days in the field. My original thought was to drive through Mojave National Preserve (stopping for whatever is blooming along the way) and then spending the rest of the time poking around Joshua Tree NP. </p> <p>The other option that I keep coming back to is to head the first day to Ash Meadows and the eastern side of Death Valley NP and then heading to Joshua Tree for the last two days. </p> <p>Would the latter plan be worth the extra drive? Any experiences heading that direction (is it just too much for one day)? Other suggestions? <br> </p>

<p>100 years ago or so, Spruce Flats Bog was a mature mountain-top Hemlock forest. Loggers cleared it and set succession back a few centuries... </p><div></div>

<p>Some vertical driftwood at Presque Isle State Park - I'm not sure how much of the sand at this particular beach is man-laid and how much is natural - nonetheless, I'm kind of fascinated to know just how much tree is buried under there.</p><div></div>

<p>At close distances VR doesn't help all that much - you're lucky to get a stop or so at macro distances. 65mm of extension tubes will render it almost completely useless. </p> <p>By the way - I ended up not liking the Nikon 105mm - I could never quite put my finger on why. I sold it and bought the VC Tamron and have been very happy with it (the first version can be found pretty cheaply - the Canon mount is only $450 right now at B&H - I bet they'll drop the Nikon close to that as Christmas approaches - I paid $500 over the summer from Amazon). I guess I just couldn't get comfortable with the extra 15mm over my old non-vc Tamron - just enough less DOF or something... </p>

<p>Laura - <strong><a href="/photo/10210340">HERE</a></strong> is a close-up of the same bunch - I don't know if it helps ID them or not.</p>

<p>I usually walk right past most fungi in my search for wildflowers, but this collection of <em>Laetiporus</em> (right?) was too good to pass up. </p><div></div>

<p>Just a follow-up: I picked up some old manual focus Vivitar AI tubes and all of the lenses fit fine. The whole set (12mm, 20mm, 36mm) cost $12.</p>

<p>A scenic overlook toward Laurel Hill State Park in Southwestern PA - the Western PA Conservancy protected the land (an old farm) a few years ago.</p><div></div>

<p>I can't get my earliest Nikkor lenses (a 5.8cm f1.4 and 2.8cm f3.5) lenses to mount on my modern Kenko tubes. They are both John White ai'd and both mount to my D610 and PK-13 without a problem. Other lenses from the mid to late 1960's - a 105mm f2.5, 135 f2.8, and 200mm f4 (the first two are chopped while the last one is a full Nikon ai conversion) mount just fine on everything. </p> <p>I'm guessing that the protruding baffle on the back of the two offending lenses is hitting against something in the tubes, but I can't figure out what. </p> <p>Anyone have any experience with a similar issue or a possible way to fix it (other than buying some different tubes)? Thanks!</p>

<p>An unusual light-colored specimen of Allegheny Glade Gentian, a (since disputed) variation of <em>Gentiana saponaria (var. allegheniensis</em>) that grows in a couple of places in far southern Pennsylvania. Otto Jennings identified it back in the 1940's. There are only a couple of places where it was found in his time, and I can only find it one of locations now. </p><div></div>

<p>A Greater Fringed Gentian growing along some wet areas on the coast of Lake Erie. Unfortunately, the hillside faces north and doesn't get a lot of sunshine, leaving most of the gentians closed up tight, even at mid-day. There are some areas that do get more sun, but erosion is starting to take its toll on the vegetation.</p><div></div>

<p>Great Plains Lady's Tresses at Cuyahoga Valley National Park in Ohio from around this time last year.</p><div></div>

<p>A fuzzy-wuzzy caterpillar </p><div></div>

<p>Here's a crab spider waiting for his next meal. The flower is a stiff aster, which is wide-spread in eastern PA but pretty rare by me in the western part of the state.</p><div></div>

<p>Tinier on tiny - Bartonia paniculata (I'm pretty sure - there is an off chance it is B. virginica) with a little bug friend. The plant wasn't any more than a couple of inches tall, so you can imagine how small the bug was.</p><div></div>

<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>