I didn't get to look at all the photographs but I will do so. I'm tired from work and need to sleep. I've just recently begun to take photos. I had a cheapo digital camera and was having fun with that and then my son gave me a new Cannon power shot 530 and it produces a lot better quality photo.

Not a pro but I enjoy it. I take mainly nature or still life photographs.

You can see some of them in my blog space. The blog is a work in progress, and some of the stuff in it will be removed and replaced. I am trying to combine poetry and photographs, or some kind of comments with the photographs. It keeps me out of trouble. If you go to the blog you will see I am fascinated with the barn on the corner across from my house. lol

http://truckingmybluesaway.blogspot.com/

Very nice pictures Hermenutic! They are very serene. The pics of the barn are my favorite. Keep it up.

Thanks:

Theres something about that barn that has been speaking to me for the last year or two. I've lived here for 33 years, over half of my life and all at once it has become more to me than ever before. One day I came home and there were four turkey vultures perched on the peak. If you are not familiar with turkey vultures they are very big birds and can have a wing span of up to 6 feet. They soar for hours on thermals in the summer in a spiral vortex way, way up in the sky so that they appear to be mere specks. Then one by one they will zip off to cruise the hedgerows for carrion, or highways for road kill to eat. They are one of only a couple of birds that find their dinner with a sense of smell.

Very interesting...We have turkey Vultures and Red-Tail hawks here all the time...Where do you live? I live in SE Michigan.

Here are some pics I took...

Winter Evening at the Pond


Mid-Winter in Michigan!


Yesterday, a brilliant lunar halo could be seen from my place. The halo was about 45 degrees in diameter. I couldn't pass up the chance so I steeped out in the freezing cold to take pictures...


Atmospheric Halos

Note*: sorry that the moon is overexposed, but I needed to take longer exposures with my digital camera.

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I've been trolling through this topic for awhile, I love all the photos! One of my favorite sites shows the work of Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, who took many early color photographs in Russia from about 1907-1915. It's amazing seeing people from that era in color! I thought you guys would appreciate it, here is some more info and a linky:


The Empire That Was Russia

Wow, his pictures were pretty amazing. It really cool how he got the pictures to be in color.

Near Old Forge

The turkey vultures are all over the eastern sea board from what I understand. I don't know a lot about them, but I remember reading if you see one on the ground do not approach them. they have the habit of throwing up on people that do. And they can expell this smelly stuff for nearly 20'. I believe that is the distance I read.

What is incredible is that his technique is still used by NASA today.

Very nice frogfish. I have found it interesting that since I began to take photographs that my eye has been attuned to light and shadow and angles and contrast. I see pictures everywhere and take my camera along with me most places I go. Just in case.

sunset from my front porch

Now that you mention it, it's the same technique that Astrophotographers use. My CCD camera has 3 different colored filters to make a color pic.

Thanks Herm!

Nice pictures Nyx!

Very pretty Nyx.

Grapefruit sky,

Late November at Grandmothers house

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Some pictures I took from my house...

The Clouds:









The Sunset:

Sunset Continued:







Sunrise the Next Morn:

Here are a few of my favorites:

your lucky you can keep your banana trees outside. Ours are inside in pots.

This is a bit off-topic, but I'm sure some of you will be interested. I have bad news for all analogue photographers... Forte, a manufacturer of decent Black and White films and the maker of the best and cheapest photographic papers is officially dead. The factory has already stopped the production, the main store here in Budapest will close forever sometime next week and all unsold stuff will be transferred back to the factory and destroyed. I have no idea what I'm going to do when my small storage (around 600 papers) will be depleted, its a great blow for us analogue-users.

i lve nature photography and just got my new camera so i don't have much on my CPU...yet.

Some winter photography...

my cousin in michagan has the same kinda weather as the pics above right now. you should see some of the pics i took when i went out west to oregon and northern california in the redwoods and beaches. i was even at fern canyon. no until later did i realize that thats the backdrop for the stegasaur seen in walking with dinosaurs. i wil have to upload my pictures.

Yep, we had a major ice storm. I live in SE Michigan.

From my vacation to Germany:




and Austria:

my cousin lives 90 miles west of detroit i think.and grandpa in marquette, he's a yooper:P got some good pics from up there to.

i got some pictures i took of our own ice storm last year. theres more, but i just got those edited right now. i took these witha disposable:P

Nice pictures guys. Sweetpumper, how did that cabin get into the water? Your pics of the farmland remind me of the Indian countryside.

I live between Detroit and Ann Arbor Speshall.

wasn't askin where you lived o well. i will never use that info anyway. yeah i like those german pictures, they are really cool. almost like a postcard or sumtin.

Finally I can post some pics I took when I was last at sea.

I found a pair of WedgeTail Eagels on Melville Island. (it is north of Darwin)

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The sunsets where spectacular.

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Darwin wasn't bad either.

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Nice pics Harks...Have you gone fishing lately?

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really nice, i wish i could find my vacation pics. isn't darwin in australia?

Thanks Froggy mate, but saddly I have not had a chance to do any fishing too busy with work.



Yes Darwin is in Australia, the Northern Territory in fact.

i'll see if i can get a picture that i took of the sun setting right by this big hill we have,its kinda like in the distance,thes skys like pink and the rest is real dark by the hill.i'll see if i can get it on here

Those are awesome sunset pix, Harks ...

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A few of my favorite places:

nice pics harks

they are beautiful places Native

yeah they are. mine are too! no seriosly, i find them good. o well, if you don't care then ignore me.

Thnx jess ...

Thankyou nativechick, you are too kind.
Road trip eh . Did you have fun.

This is my Eden, my home.
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They are great mate.

thanks, but if you don't actually like em, then don't lie (not sayin you did) i need to know if i should improve (always room) and where.

Nice pics guys! The only beauty I could glean out of the Michigan winter is the ice...I bet it would be nicer if we didn;t live in suburban Detroit, but oh well.

When I get the chance, I'll take some more pics...

Road trip?.....Nah .....Thats just a few miles from my familys ranch, just an evening out, driving around. Was so gorgeous, just had to take some snapshots.

I hope you guy's and gal's like sunset, because I have a lot of them. When you are in the middle of the ocean there is not much else to see or take photo's of.

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Lovely Harks!!! Those sunsets are awesome!!

Here are some from my Cape Town trip in January this year:

WIndy day in Bantry Bay



My son on the beach



The famous Lion's Head part of Table Mountain



The crystal clear Ice cold sea



and lastly a funny pic I took of two of my dogs lying on top of each other, both too stubborn to move and make way

Hey .. Those are awesome pix Harks and Saint, lovely shots of the sea.

God, while I'm sitting through a bleak Michigan winter, you guys are enjoying the sun & fun in your summer climes...

Oh well, just 2-3 more months before it climbs above 40!

Hey Saint, go back to Bantry Bay on another winter day and take some long exposures about 1-2 seconds and then some short exposures (about 1/500 to 1/1000 sec) of the surf without the guard rail. Use a tripod! You'l lget some even more AMAZING Pics!

oh, you live on a ranch, awsome! you wouldn't happen to be native american would you?

you think you got it bad frgfosh? wisconsin is MUCH worse. i like goin to the madelinne islands in the summer, the ferry ride is fun and next year we are goin to the sea caves, this year we just went to the main island, but the bay was nice and we saw 6 deer, there like park duck, sept people get mad when you chase after 'em or throw rocks at them and the beaches at Marquette michigan are nice. but lake michigan is SO much warmer than superior my GOD!!! i have been taking pictures of the bluffs around here, there really pretty in winter, especially with the rock outcroppings and the lone pine tree wiht the rock its on seperated from the main bluff. its really pretty thats the type of photography i am into.

these are my vacation pics, for discription go to the fishing thread, i accidentaly put them there to. i will also have more pictures there, so please go.

Hey frogfish thanks for that advice, but the thing is I only have an ordinary point and shoot digicam and not a 35mm where one can control expsoure speeds and so on...