Nice Photos.
Posted by: u5227470736789439 on 27 February 2008
Most of us have taken one or two nice photos.
Here is my candidate as being almost quite good. In fact it is two painstakingly joined.
Taken up in the mountain at Skurdalsvatn in 2000.
Though this one takien in Warsaw in November 2006 is not bad:
I know there are several good photgraphers here, and it would be nice to see some of you best efforts if you feel inclined to share!
George
Here is my candidate as being almost quite good. In fact it is two painstakingly joined.
Taken up in the mountain at Skurdalsvatn in 2000.
Though this one takien in Warsaw in November 2006 is not bad:
I know there are several good photgraphers here, and it would be nice to see some of you best efforts if you feel inclined to share!
George
one of the waterfalls at the start of the watkins path. Not easy in 75 degrees!
half way up the final scramble of the watkins path.
quote:Originally posted by Blueknowz:
You are right Big H, a mate of mine confirms your answer. Poplar Hawkmoth poplar trees three fields away!
Sorry guys, been away from the Forum as busy. Yes it's a Poplar Hawk. I used to catch them as a kid when in their pupal stage by digging round the bottom of Poplar tree trunks and keeping them in moist soil in a shoe box until they hatched in May/June time. They are a big moth, quite a bit bigger than the Lime Hawk which looks quite similar but with a little green and pink.
If you find a moth like this inside the house, please leave it ther until dark, as if you disturb into flight during the day they will very likely end up as a bird's dinner as they find them very tasty!
By contrast Cinnabars and Burnet moths are day flyers as they are very unpleasant eating for birds, making them sick if they eat one - Hence the bright warning colours. Their caterpillars are often seen on ragwort in mid summer and it is their foodplant where they get the poison from. They are immune to this poison but anything trying to eat them is not! Once eaten and then vomited up, the bird will remember not to eat this bright coloured moth again (that's the theory anyway.... it may take a few rather than one
) but in the end the species benefits.KR
Peter
Nice Snowdon pictures Keanoking and I was there last May Bank holiday - However, this is what I was upto last weekend.
Everdon Stubs Bluebell wood near Daventry Northants. This is definitely my favorite time of year.
- However, this is what I was upto last weekend.Everdon Stubs Bluebell wood near Daventry Northants. This is definitely my favorite time of year.
quote:Originally posted by Cymbiosis:
Nice Snowdon pictures Keanoking and I was there last May Bank holiday
Everdon Stubs Bluebell wood near Daventry Northants. This is definitely my favorite time of year.
very nice Peter. The blue bells were just turning over on snowden so their colour was fading. needed to be there 2 weeks ago i think.
ATB
KK
Interesting as they were just at their peak here as you can see. I'd been watching the ones in my garden over the last couple of weeks to ensure I got my timing right - Such a brief show, but well worth a visit..... and the perfume in the air... Fantastic!
Hazel coppice with Oak standards, very much the way many of the forests and woods in my area used to be managed:
Hazel coppice with Oak standards, very much the way many of the forests and woods in my area used to be managed:
You can just see them in the foreground of this photo. In a very open site as apposed to your shade lovers. Maybe the reason...
[QUOTE]Originally posted by KeanoKing:
You can just see them in the foreground of this photo. In a very open site as apposed to your shade lovers. Maybe the reason...
Yes, they certainly would have a tougher time here without the woodland cover that's for sure and maybe being further to the west (likely to have been a bit milder than the Midlands over the winter and early spring) too................
One more picture...... there were just millions of them
You can just see them in the foreground of this photo. In a very open site as apposed to your shade lovers. Maybe the reason...
Yes, they certainly would have a tougher time here without the woodland cover that's for sure and maybe being further to the west (likely to have been a bit milder than the Midlands over the winter and early spring) too................
One more picture...... there were just millions of them
quote:Originally posted by Julian H:quote:although I believe Julian H is a R8 fan & user, so he may be along to tell us to shut up..!
Oh, I'm watching........
Steve, Julian, I do have an R8 and an M5. I hate the M5 with a passion, wish I'd never bought it. The R8 is a nice camera, just wish that I could afford/justify DMR.
From the dig perspective, I use a Nikon D2H and a Fuji S5. The wife uses a Nikon D300.
I can't take the credit for this superb shot, but I love it. It's the cover art-work for Bill Evans' and Jim Hall's 1988 album 'Undercurrent'.
John.
John.
Keeping to the undercurrent/water theme......... It's not the quality of this picture or the size of the fish of course - rather just the number of fish in this picture which made me change from my current laptop wallpaper today. I reckon over a hundred! Taken at the Botanical Gardens in Cambridge:
What fish ? 
I think this was my best shot from the World Sportscar Masters yesterday at Brands:
Tony
Tony
Beautiful shot Tony. Great composition, sharp, saturated and impeccable timing
Regards...
Regards...
Flat 12 Ferrari anyone? A truly glorious sound. How lucky would you feel driving this?
Tony
Tony
Iberian Ibex, taken by Frank F on the hilly ground behind his garden in Spain:
ATB from George
ATB from George
quote:Originally posted by GFFJ:
Iberian Ibex, taken by Frank F on the hilly ground behind his garden in Spain:
View the other way, taken about 1 year ago.
Sunset over the River Aire in Leeds
An oil rig I encountered on my diving trip last week.
quote:Originally posted by Haim Ronen:quote:Originally posted by Flame:
An oil rig I encountered on my diving trip last week.
A striking image, Maher. Looks like a whole sea of oil. Is it off the coast of Sinai again?
No Haim. This is taken off the coast of Jubail in Saudi Arabia. I was on a speed boat traveling at 40 mph across choppy seas under the blinding sun. Somebody suggested that I take a silhouette of the rig. I grabbed my camera and it was too bright to see any of the settings in the viewfinder and the ride was so shaky that I could not adjust any settings except my shutter speed. Took a couple of snaps at 55mm and the image came up black and white!
The image you see was processed very lightly as follows:
1- level the horizon
2- crop
3- sharpen
If this is a good and striking picture as you say, then I guess luck was on my side
. I might be selling my D40x tonight in favor of buying a D90. Looking forward to that. Will be posting a couple more pictures from my trip to Jubail. Take care.Regards...