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Thanks Chris!

Thanks David, Sorry for my delayed reply, but I was road tripping to Yellowstone, Tetons etc.. and lost track of my emails. I googled dvds of Red Dust with Harlow and  Gable. Did not see any poses like this, but enjoyed the photos of the two of them. Looked to be a pretty steamy movie!

Heron silhouette.

Thanks for taking a look!

Thanks Janine,

Yes, they are very skittish. A lot of the shots end up being blurred, because they will run into the woods if something spooks them. Most times I sit there motionless as they play. It is usually at dawn or dusk, so the mosquitos love me, since I normally do not wear repellant:)

So lucky to get photos of these young foxes.

Thanks for taking a look!

Thank you Cornel, Sorry for late reply. I don't remember getting an alert, but I could of overlooked it.

Beach Dreamer at Perdido Key.

Thanks for looking. Comments are welcome.

Memories of Dad

Hard to part with my dad's old fishing gear. I hope that you can see the

corrosion, rusty hook, wooden lure and the detail on the old Penn reels.

Comments and ratings welcome.

Thanks Janine. He was adorable.

Thanks Chris.

I loved the expression on the boy's face as Santa read his Christmas

list. The sunset glow on the boy's skin added to the magical moment.

Comments welcome.

A vintage Catalina PBY flying boat being used in the filming of the

Nicolas Cage movie "USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage" beached at

Perdido Key, FL. While I was taking photos of the plane, a group

arrived for a family portrait session. There was a whole lot of beach,

but they decided to do their session between the plane and me, so I

took a few snaps of the plane and the people. Fortunately, the plane

was there the next day, so I came back and shot again, including some

night images that were lit up by the full moon:)

Herons often show up when I shoot, so i decided to include this one in

a couple of the photos. Thoughts welcome!

Thanks Chris!

Tony, Craig and Sergio... thanks stopping by and taking time to comment.
Sergio, it was actually a combination of moonlight and artificial lights that created the lines and shadows. Looking at the sky, you can see a couple of stars mixed in with the clouds.

Another attempt to post image before crop.

Hello everyone. First, I need to apologize for not replying sooner. I had to take an unexpected break for a couple of months. Thank you for all that took the time to comment on my photo and hope that some of you are still getting alerts on the discussion. A special thanks to Michael Linder for sending me a message in late September that I had won POTW. I don't remember receiving an email from P.Net about winning POTW, but I may of received it and deleted by mistake.

Thank you photo.net Elves for selecting this as POTW and a BIG thank you to guest judge Keri Friedman of Lensbaby for choosing the photo for the Grand Prize of the August's Water Photography Contest! Another thank you to Photo.net Editor Alison Duncan for surprising me with the news. I had been in a terrible slump, photography-wise and the grand prize really made my day. Due to my circumstances, I have not had a chance to try out the lens yet, but hope to be feeling well enough any day now.

As for the photo, I took about 2 dozen pics, using different exposures, mostly horizon, but a couple of verticals. I think this pose captured the father and son moment better then my other shots. I was trying to not intrude on them, so I was pointing camera in different directions, pretending to take pics of other things, while keeping an eye on them and setting my exposure. Every now and then they would have one of those special candid poses and I think this one worked pretty good. I can provide the gallery link if anyone wants to see the other pics and let me know if another image worked better, although this is the only image I have edited. After reading your comments, I agree about getting rid of the t-shape handle and the tiny head sticking out of the man's back. Being the eagle eye that I am, I did not even notice those two distractions until you folks pointed them out:) The fisherman in the background does not bother me. Alan, in your cropped/leveled version, it looks to me that the image is tilted slightly down to the left, but that is probably caused by looking at the clouds. As for the glowing sand in bottom of the image, I love the sun reflecting in the wet sand. For me it adds warmth to the overall mood.

Trying to insert original version before I cropped, but it is showing up as a link. Too tired to figure out why it is not posting image. If anyone is still around, feel free to weigh on the crop. It seemed to me that there was some wasted space, so the crop was needed, to zoom in more on the dad and son.