Spotted this lonly bird while on my hollies...
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Spotted this lonly bird while on my hollies...
We were but 3 feet from this beast.
Here's what happens when you let a 3 year old hold your camera. Unfortunately I left the motor-drive on, so I ended up with 6 of these!
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JRS said:
Here's what happens when you let a 3 year old hold your camera. Unfortunately I left the motor-drive on, so I ended up with 6 of these!
If it were more in focus it would've been a great shot. Just remind next time "arm's length"! :D
Bailey is a Leader Dog in training from East Tennessee. He is being trained by Optiboarder
Roy Ferguson. On a recent trip to Cape Cod I attempted to round out his education by fixing him up with a couple loose women. That picture will follow. His introduction to salt water was photographed by the father of the floozie's. It was great to see the lad having fun!
hj
My wife has taken a liking to dressing ours for seasonal/holiday shots (don't tell PETA). :D
As promised!
Great pics, Harry! The flower pic reminds me of the many "antler" pics we have of my nephew's dog. We had to hold her for the pic or she would tear the antlers to smithereens!
after playing with the tennis ball for an hour or so before their swim and go fetch antics. Bailey was 100% puppy during the entire time. Roy gave us all a remarkable demonstration. He put the "leader jersey" on Bailey and told him he was now working. Roy proceeded to walk back and forth in front of the other 2 dogs. Bailey never left his side or broke stride, even when the other 2 dogs tried to play with Bailey. The tennis ball in the picture was thrown in front of Bailey while he was walking with Roy. Bear in mind this was the same ball he had been chasing all morning. Bailey never deviated from his path with Roy or paid any attention to the ball. He is really something special.
Last week I told my wife she would bond with Bailey even though she would be seeing him for less than 4 waking hours during the weekend.(She is a nurse and working 2 12 hour shifts over the weekend)We had to leave early in the morning to get to a meeting in Providence and Bailey thought it would be a good idea to say goodbye to Sue by going in and waking her up for that purpose. She actually got up laughing. She was sad to see him go as was I. The sadness, however, is tempered by the knowledge that Bailey will be someones bridge to independence.
hj
This is fun, everyone takes such great photos.
I like to do a little Macrophotography sometimes.
This is a Dragonfly that likes cruisin' his territory around the backyard clothesline.
Very Cool!
THOMAS, ABSOLUTELY REMARKABLE ! !
B
Thomas,
That Dragonfly pic is too fabulous! I think it is my new fav!:D
:drop:
Thank you all for the great comments.
It encourages me to post one more.
I took this shot this past Wednesday, this guy being too big for the lizards to eat was able to just relax on the Hibiscus and enjoy the Florida sunshine. :cool:
Thomas, what do you use to take those shots? They're great!
Amazing pictures Thomas!
Keep them coming.
Suzy
I hope this works (still learning how to insert picture)
Thank you Steve!Quote:
Steve Machol said:
Thomas, what do you use to take those shots? They're great!
I used a Nikon F3HP with a 55mm Nikkor Micro Lens.
My wife and I take pictures together all the time and have a "few shots" we can be proud of. We get alot of enjoyment out of it and like the reactions we get from people viewing our photos.
Thank you all for your compliments.
:cheers:
Sorry, but as a proud papa, I couldn't help myself. :D
Congratulations Keith! :)
Here are two pictures of the Cape May, NJ, Delaware Bay . These were taken at the same spot on the bay and about the same time of night, 2 weeks apart.
One more of Cape May, NJ sunset.
One more and I am done.(this is fun) This is my hometown, Bethlehem,PA. Although there is a picture of the steel home office, the steel no longer exists. They went from a high of 30,000 employees in Bethlehem to ZERO!
Thomas, another great pic!
Keith, lovely baby boy! Looks like he was smiling, too! Congrats!
Jofelk, my mom used to work for Bethlehem Steel in Baltimore way before I was born.
Sunset on Honeymoon Island,FL.
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Thomas said:
Sunset on Honeymoon Island,FL.
Now that's a sunset I could curl up in!
Got this on a recent trip to Colorado.
Shutterbug
Oooops - that didn't work. Here it is again
shutterbug
Great pic, Shutterbug! But, what is it? A fungi??
Yes, some kind of fungi. Too cool to walk by :0)Quote:
Cindy Hamlin said:
Great pic, Shutterbug! But, what is it? A fungi??
shutterbug
A picture of the mothballed Bethlehem Steel blast furnaces. The steel produced here built about 2/3 of the New York city skyline, the Golden Gate Bridge, numerous world war battle ship guns and the artillery used in the guns.
Sorry this was not to be posted!
How do you post a pic. Explain it to me like my I.Q. is 70! It's really 75?
the test forum and try it. Use any digital photo or scan that you have and play around.If you still are having problems post it in the help forum and maybe./....just maybe.....a friendly moderator will help you along.....if and ONLY if the moderator knows how to do it!
hj
Mikef,
1. You start a new thread.
2. Than you click on the browse button at the Attach File section at the bottom of the posting thread box.
**Files must be saved as gif, jpg, png, txt, zip, jpeg, doc, xls, pdf, ppt, wav, rtf and not more than 110,000 bites. You can check this by right clicking on the picture when it is opened and clicking on the properties tab and checking it there.
3. Once the file name is in the browse box than click on "submit reply" and give it some time to upload the file and it should post it on the board.
I took this at the Franklin Park Zoo Sept. 20th!
I believe this is Little Joe. The Gorrilla that got out and attacked a little girl!
Hey I did it! Thank you Cindy! The biggest problem I had was getting my picture small enough to fit!
This was out my kitchen window this past winter!
Now I am homesick; that winter wonderland shot looks like the wooded lots of homes back in Akron Ohio!
Jim
Jim this is the front yard!
I'm 25 minutes from downtown Boston!
But it feel like I live in the woods!
Glad I could help, Mikef! Great pics by the way and I share your pain of resizing. I got a photo editing program really cheap and it is easier now.Quote:
Mikef said:
Hey I did it! Thank you Cindy! The biggest problem I had was getting my picture small enough to fit!
One more Zoo Pic!
This was taken through glass!
About 20 Feet away!
See how easy it is? Maybe you should give up your day job and become a photographer! You have talent in that area as well!
hj
Calling All OptiBoard Photographers! has become so popular that it began to take awhile for the thread to load. We have decided to split the original thread into new threads for each season.
You can find all of the great OptiBoard member photographs at these links:
- Calling All OptiBoard Photographers! (Fall 2002) - the start of it all
- Calling All OptiBoard Photographers! (Summer 2003)
- Calling All OptiBoard Photographers! (Fall 2003)
You will only be able to post new pictures to the current thread; however, the others will all be available for viewing. This is the current thread and it will remain open for you to post your photographs under until December 2003.
Great photos everyone!!! :D
Shot was taken on the salt marsh behind the lighthouse in St. Marks.
I really liked the warm tone of the late afternoon light with the contrast of the stained water in the background.
Thomas,
Wow! :)
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Jo said:
Thomas,
Wow! :)
Mount Washington last friday
For those of you who haven't seen it, Mt Washington is the highest mountain this side of the continental divide north of the Mason Dixon line,at 6288 feet.(Mt Mitchell NC is higher by 300 ft or so. The first time I climbed it the temperature at the AMC base lodge was 87 degrees with 85% humidity. When we got to the weather station at the top, the temperature was 52 degrees. Up to a couple of years ago the weather station boasted recording the highest wind velocity ever recorded at 231 mph in the 1934. My recollection is that that record was broken during a tropical storm a couple of years ago.
We spent the night at the AMC hut at Lake of the Clouds where the temperature dropped to 33 degrees! (this was the last weekend in June and there was still enough snow to ski on in Tuckermans Ravine.The weather on top of this mountain is about the worst in the US. On a clear day you can see NY VT NH MA ME and some say CT.You rarely get a clear day. A most impressive place.
To learn a bit more go here.
http://www.mountwashington.com/weather/index.html