Show Your Snaps...October 31, 2022

This is the weekly Show Your Snaps thread where we invite you to show your own snapshots or even choice pictures. I'll be sure to comment about your photos, if you choose to share.

When you are posting your own images please submit them as a reply to this post. Otherwise your pictures may be overlooked. You might also consider describing your pictures in the subject title. See my own photos for this week as a reply.

Remember it's all about the enjoyment of taking pictures regardless of what we have. We can learn from each other and it's fun to share too. Thanks everyone for your participation.

This is open to all camera systems and skill levels.

Happy Halloween everyone. I will start this thread off with a few Halloween pictures. Later, I'll show more photos. I'm still working through my backlog of summer images.

Photo No. 1 - Here we are at Papas Pumpkin Patch, south of the Portland, Oregon metropolitan area.

Photo No. 2 - I just love seeing these brightly colored pumpkins.

Photo No. 3 - Taking pictures of the gourds is neat too.

Photo No. 4 - More little decorative pumpkins....

Photo No. 5 - And finally we see Papas on the box. Someone had already picked some pumpkins for people to take. They were all ready to load into the wheelbarrow.

Here's some photos of the Beaverton Parade that I took in early September of this year. I have dozens of these pictures. I didn't know which to choose, but thought maybe I'd show these sequences of the flags and the band that followed.  It was cloudy that day.

Photo No 1 - We will start here.

Photo No 2 - Swirling around....

Photo No 3 - Again....

Photo No 4 - More again....

Photo No 5 - Again at the lower level....

Photo No 6 - Up high....

Photo No 7 - Again....

Photo No 8 - Flags were rolled up.

Photo No 9 - They continued that way....

Photo No 10 - We start to see the marching band.

Photo No 11 - Here we are.

Photo No 12 - With horn instruments....

Photo No 13 - Almost done....

Photo No 14 - And my last one....  I hope you liked the series.

Thanks.  I did buy four of these little pumpkins.  I did like them a lot also.  They are in my kitchen for decoration.

Thanks.  This was one of four pumpkin patch farms that I had visited in October.

She did like venturing out towards the parade participants.

Here's two more.

I just love the first photo with the bright yellow leaves and the gray-blue water and the somewhat dark background. That's a beautiful yellow flower. The male Gadwall is sharp. I see you used the Tamron 150-600mm lens for that one. That's great that you got the fungus without blemishes. This autumn I hope to find some too. When the leaves fall it seems to make it a better environment for the fungi.

In September I went to a chalk art festival. In addition to lots of photo ops with that, I also got the opportunity to take pictures of these girls dancing.  I decided to show 20 of them here, but it shouldn't take up too much space for Dpreview since these are all resized.  It's my understanding that we are no longer limited to 10 pictures.  If you find these are too many at one time, please let me know.  I appreciate your feedback.  I hope you like them.

Photo No. 1 - I first saw the girls exit this building where the chalk art was being done on this sidewalk.

Photo No. 2 - They walked over to the nearby university.  I followed them to see what was going on.  There was a crowd of people.  I squeezed in among them to be able to take these pictures.  The lighting was mixed since we were in an area of trees, but the camera gave me the correct exposure most of the time without too much post processing adjustment.

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Oh yeah...the Grackle.  I like taking closeups of them too near where I take pictures of the wood ducks. That's neat to see the shore bird.  If a person is patient and sits along the shore sometimes they will come close. The third photo must be a heron, I suppose...I like it. The Bananaquit is a bird I hadn't heard of before.  I like those birds that have the color yellow in them.

Here's some cool cars I saw at our El Grito festival in September. I hope you like them.

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Photo No. 5 - You can see the operator of the small remotely controlled car on the far right side.

Photo No. 6 - And now a close up of the same remotely controlled car....

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Photo No. 8 - Neat silver bike....

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Photo No. 10 - Back to this one again....

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Photo No. 12 - And now one on one of our streets....

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Photo No. 14 - How do you like that they can move them up and down like that? I think it's pretty cool.

Thanks.  I'm glad you liked them.