thistleandthat

i don't like her fake nails. it takes away from the natural look.

i'm sure you will find your own one day. i see how your eyes work. you don't miss much!

MKN

added to my faves...

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this reminds me of something Maynard James Keenan would like

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wow....this is quite a scary shot.

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i toooold you!

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thanks again, Mike. These babies were outside my livingroom window in the hedge. You could hear them squawking every time the mother came in with food, which was about every 5 minutes!

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thanks, Mike! its not every day you see mating ladybugs....

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wow, thanks for the high praise! i can't wait for mushroom season again!

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you definitely make it okay to shoot wildflowers in broad daylight during high noon with no deflector....

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"to infinity and beyond...."

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it would be so wonderful to have this scenery near where i live. nothing even close.....

MKN

nice and surreal like. i love it.

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i know EXACTLY how you feel. especially trying to capture birds without a 300mm. i only have a 28-135mm and a macro lens, so needless to say, its hard to get any good bird shots. i'm sure it was easier to get this one, because its a baby, but you still have to lay out on the grass and be steady.

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i think he did not crop off the tail on purpose but that there's no way to get such a close up with inclusion of the tail. you would have to zoom out to include the tail....

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as this moment, something about this photo took me back about 10 years. nostalgia is wonderful....

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wonderful bokeh and makes you feel the warmth of the day....

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i particularly love this shot too, because it reminds me of the bird bath in my own yard which i have yet to get a good shot of!!!!!

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i love all these colours together!!!! they sort of camoflauge and accent the bird at the same time. i have never seen a honeyeater before....are they native only to Australia?

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Thanks Valentyn! Its probably my best photo so far....

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maybe she sent the original to him for touchups? for the high res? sharper image?

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Thanks Mike! its a filter. i could have done just the sepia itself, but the filter made the picture stand out a little better. black and white and sepia do make shadowy pictures more attractive, which is good for me. but this is something i just happened upon while tinkering.

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Actually it was a bit spooky. lol. I had left home to go pick my son up from school and noticed the mushroom in my flower bed, but it was standing up at the time. I thought "oh nice, i will definitely photograph that when i get back home." well, when i got back home, i didn't immediately go out to see it, so a couple of hours went by and when i finally got out to it, it was all withered. i was disappointed, but took this shot nevertheless.

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Thanks Mike! No, I didn't consider it. But I kinda didn't want to crop the arm out because I wanted it to be obvious that someone was holding him, since that was part of the reason I got so close to him! And plus it was taken at my son's trip to the zoo, so the woman holding it is part of the experience.

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very nice Mike! i really gotta take a training class on Photoshop....