The new photography thread -any subject - don't be shy!

I'd guess that Arcadian would be vagrant/migrant in your area, Willow and Least look to have a greater breeding range in the NW. I have colour vision deficiency and very limited experience with this species group, I'd want to see and hear it before even thinking about giving a tentative ID

 

Some history shots for me. I put ac's on this school in 1999. And now I'm back with the same company replacing with new again. I won't be there for the next I'm sure!

 

Been working on a church's extension/ building project. Some really peaceful areas on the grounds.

 

If objects could talk -





These are at an AMVets place in Florida

http://www.amvetspost35fl.com/

 

Sunset a couple of weeks ago over Lake Michigan on date night.

 

"Eat out"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_fiscal

 

Good for you!
I have a new phone with a 5MP camera (and a flash!) - a big improvement from just 2MP.
The plants and trees are slooowly starting to flower.

 

Congrats! and go get 'em! Drop us a few still when you have time!

 

Something wrong with your link in Internet Explorer & Mozilla Firefox.

 

Now it shows.
You could just click on HTML (on the right) and the code will be automatically copied. Then you paste and...

Edit:
I see you did that.

 

I just found this mobile phone lens system and thought that some MGs may be interested in improving the image quality of their mobile phones. Please note I have no connection with the product I just saw the link on a news feed.
The system comes with a macro lens, a wide angle lens and a fisheye lens.
At checkout they were on special and only AU$39
https://www.luxhd450.com/int/au/ss1/index.php?AFID=1985&SID=DA2
This was the checkout page I saw the pricing
https://www.luxhd450.com/int/au/ss1/order.php?AFID=1985&SID=DA2

I don't know how good they are but for only AU$39 IMHO it is not a really big risk

Enjoy

 

Better to shoot though some of your empty bottles, Joffa

http://www.blog.jimdoty.com/?p=11617

 

Thanks satrow my bad.... BTW I just found an empty Jim Beam bottle so a new lens for me lol
I didn't do any due diligence as I will never use it (I am legally blind).
I have a fully automatic DSLR that for me I just point and shoot or mostly have it sitting on a tripod on my desk connected to my computer so I can read documents, books or magazines on my 42" PC screen.

 

Beautiful pics Kes, as usual! Thanks for sharing!

 

wow, lots and lots of very nice pictures. thanks!
i've never looked at this thread before since it's about photography and taking pictures, and i have never been able to use a camera due to circumstances surrounding my birth. it's a long story, but my fine motor coordination took a hit, and holding a camera still, with ever so slightly twitchy and jittery hands, just doesn't work very well. anyway, arizona has been mentioned a couple of times, and both my mom and dad were from the same small mining town of bisbee arizona. http://www.bisbeeaz.gov/
i have not been back there in a very long time, but it is very beautiful country.
thanks again for all the pictures.

 

thanks for the info. i have enough brothers and sisters who like taking pictures that i've never had to figure out work arounds. and they have always been gracious to do things like that for me. my biggest challenge was learning handwriting in grade school. lol
anyway, to keep on topic, i don't know what type of bird it is, but it visited our bird bath earlier this year.

 

Looks like a Flicker of some sort, don't know which ones are likely near you though. You're lucky to have one visit your birdbath and get a photo of it

 

If your garden is anything to go by (it looks like you're in an arid, maybe semi-desert region), a Gilded Flicker would be the most likely.

 

thanks everyone, the bird bath is located deep in suburbia in sacramento, ca, usa. my mom loves plants that remind her of arizona. we bought a trail cam to take pictures of the bird bath. actually. it's set to take 10 second videos, and that is just a screen shot about 6 seconds into it. trail cams are pretty cool. first it was the bird bath, then a bird feeder ( that skinny black pole ) then a trail camera. no sasquatch pics yet. our big accomplishment over the year and half of this setup ... was to attract all of the feral cats in our area. my mom is averse to any kind of trap and release of the cats, and due to several recent bird kills in our backyard, she decided to take down the feeder and bath so that the cats will go elsewhere. we did try the ultrasonic cat deterrents, which helped, but we would have needed close to 15 of them to cover our entire backyard. oh well...

 

Okay, in and around Sacramento the Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) would be the most likely.

 

This is the tree... a Japonica.


And these are the guys who refused to pose for a photo... top right.




This guy was lazy... or came late to the party.

 

Thanks Kestrel13!
I had to take a video of the busy bees to get those shots.
I opened the video in Media Player Classic - Black Edition, and used the Frame Step & Save Image functions.

 

Ahhh, road trips...

 

(Love the way they spared the tree.)

Vanishing point ?

I like it, several other possibilities spring to mind; later, higher (get on the bench?), further back/wider angle lens. Certainly worth another visit, lots of angles there to be used

 

Yes, the short zoom feels a better fit there. If the location is relatively local, try an early morning 'golden hour' shoot (check the weather forecast first!).

Maybe some offset shots, left bridge taking up the left side of the frame, relatively straight, right side swooping in to almost meet it.

Maybe some zoomed exposures to try to add some movement, perhaps a light on the tree to pick out a foreground focus - or take along some human or pet interest to add in there?

Lucky to be able to get 'into' a structure like that, very interesting subject, lots of potential. Well spotted