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No worries, it was just a suggestion. We all have our personal preferences. I've scanned quite a few of my parents old negatives and a lot of the older ones have a similar blue or orange color to them. It wasn't till a few years after digitizing them I learned how to "fix" the color, so I figure there still might be some people out there who like me didn't know that you could change it relatively easy.

Nice landscape image. I would suggest adjusting the colors to get rid of the blue color cast though. Here's an example of what I mean, I hope you don't mind me taking the liberty.

I agree, good idea. But I think it would have been a bit better without the condensation above the waterline.

Wow, great image. I have no idea how you got the timing so perfect, but that's something I've never seen before.

Great image for all the reasons mentioned above, but the nearly pure black sky is kind of strange to me. I think masking off the rest and darkening the sky down  to achieve the contrast might have given a more natural looking image.

I agree, great image. You struck a good balance between using a lens long enough to show the moon well, but still short enough to get a nice landscape as well. Overall, just a very pleasing composition.

The difference in the light upon the mountain top and the lowlands is interesting and overall a nice composition.

The contrast between the two architectural styles makes for an interesting image.

You probably have seen them in the nymph stage without knowing it. If you see a grasshopper with only little stubs for wings, it's still a nymph. They only get the full size functional wings in the final molt.

But this one was still very small, the head maybe a couple millimeters wide. When they're that small the skin is still pretty translucent. So when you use a flash they seem to be glowing.

Thanks for taking a look and commenting.

I found this little guy creeping over a leaf and it became clear he

was heading for the edge. I got lucky in that he reached out into the

air looking for somewhere to continue his path. The flash did a good

job of making the background disappear.

Interesting idea. It works well for this image. I'm going to have to try this on one of my images. Seems like it would lend itself well to images with a busy or cluttered background. Thanks for the inspiration.

Great fall image. The blurring of the background worked out nicely.

For me the color of the spider is too manipulated. It looks like you masked off the rest of the image and adjusted the colors of the spider independently, always a tricky thing to make it look natural. The colors on the flower itself are nicely enhanced, but I think the spider could be toned down a bit. Just my 2¢.

Nice capture. This is one of those shots I wish I could get. Till now it's eluded me. And just on a side note, I think it's a type of fly that just looks like a bee. It only has a single set of wings and the two stubby antennas on the head give it away.

Radu, thanks for commenting. I go back and forth on this image. I like the green, but I think it might be too green. I was thinking about trying to mask off the grasshopper and dull the leaf a bit.

Tony, the deeply textured leaf makes this image as far as I'm concerned. So I'm glad you like it too. I never payed much attention to the leaf in the background. But now that you've made me take a second look, I agree that it would be better were it a little darker. If I get around to doing a second edit on it, I'll give it a try.

These tracks were left by a sea turtle that had made it's way on to

the beach to lay it's eggs during the night. I took several images,

but this one with the aperture wide open was my favorite.

Hanan, Clayton,

thanks for taking the time to comment. In retrospect I wish I would have taken the time to put a shorter lens on my camera. I just grabbed the camera with the 100mm lens on it and had to take the pictures with the hand holding the bird stretched out as far as I could. If I had put my 50 or 35mm lens on first, I would have had more "keepers", as most of the pictures I snapped were a bit blurry from the awkward position while shooting one handed.

Here's a tighter close-up.

Thanks for taking the time to leave a comment. The nest was right in front of my house, which you can see in the background. They were pretty accustomed to me walking by, so getting relatively close wasn't a problem. It's interesting how the eyes will go from brown to orange at maturity.

This guy flew into a window and knocked himself out. He took a few minutes before he got to flying again.

I like the muted tones and dark foreground. The only thing I would change is to clone out the con-trail on the left side.

A picture perfect sunset, well captured.

Taken at dusk, handheld at 500mm focal length with high ISO. The image turned out pretty soft after getting rid of the ISO noise.

Nice capture. It looks like he wasn't too afraid of you. It's a Variegated Squirrel. The coloring is pretty variable but they are usually brown on the belly, dark on the back and gray in between. These are pretty common here in Costa Rica, though usually they are pretty skittish, maintaining a good safe distance from people.

Nice image. You can almost imagine taking a seat next to him.