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Morning, spring rain in Endo Valley, RMNP

I believe the fox is look in the direction its nose is pointing. These foxes have eye pupils like a cat's; they are vertical slits in bright light. Now that you have mentioned it, I am having a hard time not interpreting the eye looking sideways ...

Shortly after she had liberated the meal from her mate, and not very

gently either.

Morning hunt in April

Happy accident while testing an older, manual focus Nikkor 600mm. I

spotted the robin sitting on a fence, swung the camera around on the

tripod and now have what may be my favorite photo.

Scott, wonderful image, but I have a question; it looks like the head feathers (closest to the viewer I think) are sharp and the wing feathers on the right (which appear to be furthest) are sharp, but the wing feathers on the left appear to be a little soft on the edges - seems impossible - can you explain? Regardless, I think the image is a really awesome piece of art.

Antelope running, near Raton, New Mexico. I have desaturated the

grass about half way, in order to more clearly present the movement of

the animals.

There were about 20+ antelope in this herd and most were young like

this group, but there was one adult that seemed to have gone crazy.

He was running back and forth, stopping, starting, turning one way and

then the other - all the young were attempting to follow the leader

but it was impossible. Strange to watch.

The fence and its cattle guard keep the AWR for the wild life and made

an interesting subject. There are 3 compositions of the same subject

show here and I am interested in finding which is preferred by you.

This is one.

I thought the fence line along the horizon formed an interesting

silhouette in front of the mountains but when the photo is reduced to

this site required 72 dpi, a lot of the wire disappeared and thus

weakens to image.

April horfrost in late afternoon on the Front Range of Colorado. No

wind, not too cold yet, just a beautiful walk up this back road on

Centralia mountain.

April horfrost in early evening, on the Front Range of Colorado. It is

getting really cold but the fog persists.

April horfrost covering a Ponderosa pine on the Front Range.

Shot on the ground, through the grass, to get the feel of what it must

have been like, hunting one of these huge bulls one hundred and fifty

years ago. Mostly, I was thinking, "don't look this way ..."

Four or five steps, a lot of wing flapping and he is airborne.

Very late in the afternoon, these two started pushing each other in

slow motion, about 80 cow elk just went on munching grass nearby.

Their slow motion allowed this capture at about 1/60s.

One of a flock of these waxwings darting around a small feeder pond

near Sprague Lake in Rocky.

Comments ..

Thanks for the comments.

 

Tyler, I did not use an ND filter although the effect of using a "Color control point" in Nikon Capture NX amounts to the same thing and I did that. I bought an ND filter some time ago but never use it because the gradient, though blended, occurs in a straight line and I always have a tree or a mountain sticking up in the sky. The software eliminates that concern and allows the effect. I tried lightening up the forground even further but even just a little more, makes the image look like nearly full daylight instead of the early sunrise that it was.

Please view "larger". My objective was to capture the feel of moving

water in a landscape, as so many others do.

Please view "larger"

Thanks for the comment. I just bumped the levels up in the panorama of the same area - your right, I believe it is better. I would like to preserve the comment/ratings on this image and don't see a way to substitute a modified image.

 

The D2x is a great but difficult camera for me; it requires full attention and care to get decent results - but that's exactly what I wanted. I always shoot raw and manual, so Capture NX saves me on sudden photo opportunities when I rarely have the setup correct.

Do you find this pan more interesting than the single or vice versa?

By far, best of the three images. The rear flower gives the image perfect depth by comparison to the front flower. The color is right on. Should make an outstanding large print. Very well done, I think.

I really like the composition,the color, and the incredible distance captured. I think that maybe the sky is darkened just a bit too much in relation to the amount of light falling on the distant snowy peaks.

The owl was a rescued bird and due the injury on one wing, could never

fly again and was long since tame. It sat and posed without concern.