@BlueGreenGrey Love the colors in that one. I use an iPhone for some, including that one. A simple but effective in the zoom department Nikon for ones like the last one and the moon.
@Blondily The nice thing about it i live less than twenty miles south of Ithaca and Cornell Bird Sanctuary so i was able to take it there shortly after i rescued it .... My favorite too we feed them in the summer months.. .
@masterofyou That was so kind of you to take the little hummer there. One time a hummer was laying sideways on my deck. I was going to put it in a box to rescue it because it was laying on snow and I didn't want it to freeze to death. As I approached it, it woke up and flew away! I was so glad about that!👍🏻
This picture dates back from December 2023 and was taken without any tripod. It was taken using a 3000mm focal length. A little shaky but interesting nevertheless
@HumanEarth Lol, when you talk about the other farm, it reminds me of our Politics and how our MP's refer to the House of Lords as "The Other Place"... 🤣🤣🤣
@Blondily These are a mash up of pics if got on my phone from odd days out or trips up country. There’s St Michael’s Mount and the tidal causeway, a balloon festival, a hotel we stayed in at Xmas, embarrassingly I’ve forgotten the name - Dan will know when he gets in, Seaton beach, the mushroom rock in Yorkshire, some shellfish at my local beach Swanpool and a wall painting from Gloucester cathedral.
@Blondily those are my two girls. I have lots of those. Spoiled rotten to say the least . Yeah, that was at a rental cabin in the Georgia side blue ridge mountains during Christmas one year Was incredible
Thank you@Lilymoon! What an amazing shot of the gorgeous falls. I've never been there. Would love to go there some day. Is this shot on the American or Canadian side?
@TexChik east of the Cascades, WA is a just a huge desert with a spiderweb of mosty underground springs formed by the development of the Columbia river. The springs span the central and eastern portion of the state. Late 1800s, farmers began damning up the springs for irrigation, and as a by product, it created thousands of small lakes like these in the photos. The water is clean and rich with aquatic insects, crustaceans, leeches, etc. Perfect conditions for trout to thrive.
@BizSuitStacy Stunning pic! I live on the western side of Wa and we go to eastern Wa all of the time mostly the Leavenworth/Wenatchee area. My parents lived in Moses Lake until they both died.
A long exposure of blurred car tail lights just before sunrise I took using a tripod and Kodachrome 64 film years ago, when a connector roadway was still under construction here. This is a low-res scan of the slide done years ago, I don't have any way of getting a higher-res scan.
Around this time I had also taken a lot of abstract photos in predawn or sunrise hours using my tripod and various slide films, but they were all in one slide tray that was attached to my slide projector when it was stolen (along with my manual SLR camera, lenses, polarizer filter, and other gear). They were my favorite photos I've ever taken, and I gradually lost interest in photograpy after the theft. There was one predawn photo of neon lights reflecting on the pavement of an empty parking lot still wet from rain in particular that I really miss, as well as a pic of the sunrise texture of our seawall here, that I had to climb over the rail and wag my tripod down to the bit of sand only exposed at low tide to photograph, while the metal feet of my tripod rested in salt water, which I'm sure was amazing for them.
I used an Ektacrhome tungsten film once to, among other things, just do a hand-held long exposure abstract ... I don't recall if was zooming the lens while the shutter was open or not, not sure how I would've and kept one hand on the steering wheel as a drove over a bridge (which no longer exists) at night.
I did experiment with one roll of Kodak black and white infrared film, which was a pain to load and unload from the camera, since it was so sensitive to light. I had to put a rolled up towel at the base of a bathroom door and remove it from the camera and put it into a small developing tank and develop the roll myself (but I didn't have the equipment to make prints from the negatives myself).
This was a more conventional photo I liked (film-based, but I don't recall what type of film)
These are some of the few photos I have liked from the crappy little digital snapshooter camera I got several years after my fully-manual, film-based SLR was stolen ... it helped to be in a naturally beautiful location where the photos could basically take themselves
@Blondily Thanks! Several years ago when I visited the lighthouse for the first time, I happened to turn around when I was walking away from it, and the sun was behind it like that. I didn't get a very good photo, but I went back more recently on one of the rare cloudless days we have here and took a more carefully composed one.
@Blondily I am afraid that the country did not apparently, learn Fr m the most stakes. The anti-science, anti- public health sentiments will.not be easy to overcome. I am.retired, so.no longer directly involved, but from m what I hear, there is no.ongoing effort to plan for the next pandemic. I do not want to be "chicken little," but there are several infectious diseases around the world f steering which could break out and no one knows what emerging infectious disease could strike. Br ng unprepared already proved to be the death of over a million US citizens.
@Blondily yes, but I am speaking more about a systemic approach to planning. We developed very careful.plans before 2010 to deal with the threat then of a flu pandemic, that never hit. Both in NJ in 2011 and then nationally in 2017, those plans were scrapped. To my knowledge, no one has started redoing any planning.
@V00doo love that deck in the middle of the image, it juts out like the cantilevered decks of Fallingwater, and the underside reminds of the ceiling inside the triangular John Lautner-designed home in Los Angeles:
