Show Your Snaps...July 13, 2015

[Digirame]

Thanks. Maybe more eagles will migrate to your area some day. I don't find a lot of them.

 

[Digirame]

Thanks. I'm aware of the green herons. Where I find them, they are more afraid of people. So, it's a challenge to get close.

 

[Digirame]

Thanks. It was a good day. The green heron in the second picture flew and landed fairly close to me across a body of water. I only got a chance for three photos of it, before I was spotted. Then it flew away.

 

[Digirame]

Thanks. Yes, it's great to have the Tammy back.

 

[Digirame]

Thanks. I'm glad you like the heron in flight. I'll have to try and capture it again.

 

[Digirame]

I like your photo of the great blue heron. Even though the background is busy, it's nice in that the heron stands out and can be easily seen. The bird is sharp and you got close.

 

[Digirame]

You continue to show us nice scenes of where you live and travel. Your lady friend is lovely; that's the icing on the cake.

 

[Digirame]

I asked him about that before (or something similar). They have alligators and a few paranha fish in Trinidad (from what I read). But I suppose the locals must know where they inhabit, so that they stay away. For example, we have rattlesnakes on the east side of the Cascade mountains, but they are not normally found on the west side (unless they escaped from captivity). So, I know where to avoid them.

 

[Digirame]

You show us a very pretty typical UK summer. You have a good way of showing us them, where sometimes the depth of field is shallow or deep...either way...you create excellent images. Our climate on the west side of Cascade mountains is similar to a lot of places in the UK. At least one person from the UK told me that a long time ago and I see that in your pictures with all of the greenery.

 

[adventurer69]

We have no Alligators in Trinidad , we have Caimans which are not very aggressive until they are nesting .In the southern part of the Island we have the Giant Anaconda , other than that most of our rivers are safe . Actually hanging out and swimming in rivers is a favorite pastime over here . As for snakes we have three poisonous species , two of them are closely related to the rattlesnake and the other is very small , it is the Coral snake .

 

[Digirame]

That's good to hear that most of your rivers are safe. The water looks so cool and inviting.

 

[Dougbm_2]

After switching from Pseudo Nikon (Fuji S2 Pro) to Sigma SD14 and then to Canon 5D (last 5 years, and also 60D, 50D, 7D, G11) I am trying out Nikon (D7000 and 18-55). These are a couple of the first shots. I really like the tonality of the files. The camera is quite quirky but also pleasurable to use. I thought I would sell my 7D but it's not much of a contest for sports at least with the 70-200 f4 lens.


A pier as taken from a wet windscreen. I liked the tones.




Colourful sunset through a tree makes a nice mosaic.

 

[Dougbm_2]

Oops didn't notice it was a Canon rebel forum. Just clicked on the home page link.

 

[mocha123]

Hi Digirame, Thanks.

We complain about the weather a lot in the UK. but like your climate if we didn't have the rain we wouldn't have the lush scenery.

 

[Digirame]

That's an interesting one taken through a wet windscreen. I've done that before when after we've had so much rain in Oregon and I couldn't make it outside without getting soaking wet, that I had to take a picture of something. It might as well be rain on a window. When taking photos of sunrises or sunsets, it's nice to include silhouettes of other things. I like your arrangement with the tree.

We normally view photos from Canon Rebels, but if someone shows images from another non-Canon camera, nobody seems to mind. At least so far in over three years, no-one has made an issue out of it.

 

[SnappyChappie]

-> The rainless thunderstorm just passed by quickly and i rushed out to see if i could catch an image with no time to set-up the camera properly so i choose any ol' settings and got this one on my 3rd attempt:


Camera hand-held standing, exp.time = 3.9sec (shutter set to bulb), f/9, ISO-100, WB = 'cloudy', evaluative metering, focus randomly placed around the infinity mark at 18mm.

 

[rainrunner]

It is going to be a very noisy weekend around here. They were practicing today and will fly fri, sat and sun. Here is a shot from our front yard today.

 

[Steve-P]

K-Country is a local nickname for Kananaskis Country in southwestern Alberta. I did post some photos from this area a couple of weeks ago, but was playing around with some of them again today. This is the result of my playing, it's a seven image panorama that if printed at 300dpi it would be 5' x 3'.




Highwood Pass, Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada

Steve



--
"Photography is like sex. You know the ending. So how can you make it interesting?"
(Fer Juaristi)

Galleries by Steve P

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[Digirame]

That's a pretty good photo by using whatever setting that was in the camera. You got the lightning strike. I've never done that. We don't get many lightning storms where I live...sometimes...but it's not that common.

 

[Digirame]

That's great...nice to see that. Yes, I'll probably be getting some photos of the air show this weekend also.