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[morrobay]

Ducks in Central Park . And I miss New York.

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[morrobay]

Chelsea @ 20th&8th Avenue

 

[Oldman too]

Not quite; the blue and grey are slightly different.

Thanks for that perspective, I should have known better than going off only similar characteristics. I wonder how much genetic difference has evolved between the European vs. North American herons?

 

[Jonathan Scott]

Sometimes I meet very strange animals in my back garden:

As you can see, it's obviously an alien rabbit. Or is it?

After some research, I found that it's an Oak Eggar moth.

 

[berkeman]

Sometimes I meet very strange animals in my back garden:

Looks like you and morro have the same autofocus camera...

 

[morrobay]

Looks like you and morro have the same autofocus camera...

The images in posts #701,2 are photos taken with a phone of film camera photos. And getting the frame of the original photo to correspond with the frame in the phone photo was a tradeoff with focus.

 

[Oldman too]

I call this one, Smoke on the water.

This one, the opposite side of the hill in the first image is taken from my daughters yard. I call it, A fire in the sky.

 

[morrobay]

Meanwhile back at the ranch.

 

[Rive]

Lady

Mudlarking

Ps.: lesson: never leave your gear at home - otherwise all you will have for a good theme is just your phone

 

[Astranut]

That does look like a heron. Where is @Astranut when you need him? (He is a twitcher)
The colours in the Butterfly images are stunning @DennisN

Sorry late to the party. I concur Grey Heron. Grey Herons are a resident species with in Europe. Where as Blue Herons are a rare visitor for America.

 

[morrobay]

Gulf of Thailand

 

[morrobay]

Yaowarat Rd. the main street in Bangkok Chinatown. Quite a polarized population here: The wealthy educated Chinese Thais centered in Bangkok: doctors ... And then the upcountry Lao Thais in the farming populations.

 

[yecko]

The view outside my office in Hong Kong : )

 

[morrobay]

Looks like it would be quite a chore getting down to the water

 

[pinball1970]

View attachment 305485The view outside my office in Hong Kong : )

Beautiful.

 

[DennisN]

I revisited the heron, and this time I brought my zoom lens.

I kept a watch on it/followed it for about 30 minutes or so, and I found it fascinating to study the behavior a little more closely. I can imagine they are excellent hunters; it seemed to be absolutely hyperfocused during hunting, and it moved VERY slowly, methodically and gracefully even though it's a quite big bird. It feeds on "Fish, amphibians, small mammals, and insects [] taken in shallow water" according to Wikipedia.

Taking a stroll in the pond (and showing one of its cool-looking "dinosaur" feet):

Spreading the wings:

Walking upright:

Eventually I got quite close to it (ca 3 meters), and it didn't seem to mind me being there (though I was very calm in my approach).

Hyperfocused and hypercalm during hunting:

 

[Arjan82]

Stranded...

So, this is intentional, it is on a Dutch part of the sea called 'Waddenzee' which, on low tides falls dry entirely. On high tide we just sailed away

 

[berkeman]

I can imagine they are excellent hunters; it seemed to be absolutely hyperfocused during hunting, and it moved VERY slowly, methodically and gracefully

Much like you with your camera stalking the bird...

 

[morrobay]

Hong Kong. Oppo A12 phone photo of film camera print

 

[morrobay]

Kaohsiung, Taiwan

 

[Rive]

Ps.: lesson: never leave your gear at home - otherwise all you will have for a good theme is just your phone

And just did it again

Yesterday was the mating 'season' (~ a single night) for river mayfly.

 

[DennisN]

Some test shots of nature's own weird little lenses, raindrops.

(by the way, notice how tiny the depth of field is here, since just one drop in each photo is in focus. I estimate the depth of field to be less than a cm .)

(taken with Canon nFD 50mm Macro)

 

[morrobay]

 

[morrobay]

Removing lint from her dress with the masking tape around the hand trick. From my dress blues days US Coast Guard.

 

[pinball1970]

Some test shots of nature's own weird little lenses, raindrops.

(by the way, notice how tiny the depth of field is here, since just one drop in each photo is in focus. I estimate the depth of field to be less than a cm .)

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(taken with Canon nFD 50mm Macro)

Beautiful Dennis, lensing is important, short distance and longer!

 

[morrobay]

1600 afternoon sun on this nice ornamental balcony

 

[Swamp Thing]

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Yaowarat Rd. the main street in Bangkok Chinatown. Quite a polarized population here: The wealthy educated Chinese Thais centered in Bangkok: doctors ... And then the upcountry Lao Thais in the farming populations.

Is 1989 CE equal to 2532 in the Thai (Chinese?) calendar?

 

[DennisN]

Spider, spider in the web, tell me what will keep you fed...

 

[Andy Resnick]

Just got back from vacation, I took along my 55mm micro nikkor to see what it could do. A lot, as it happens- this lens is something special- this guy gets it. Here's 1:1 reproduction ratio (100% crops)images of sand and a robber fly, and a 200% crop of beach grass (also 1:1 reproduction ratio).

And it's great as a regular ol' normal lens:

Took some great astrophotography images as well, but those are for a different thread...

 

[DennisN]

Just got back from vacation, I took along my 55mm micro nikkor to see what it could do.

All cool photos, but the eye of the fly is remarkably cool, I think!

 

[DennisN]

Here are three recent close-ups of a Eurasian jackdaw. There's a man I've met in the park before who has been feeding them for a long time, so they are very used to him. Because of this, they are very calm and I can get quite close to them.

(though I think the photos are not as sharp as they could be; when I got home and examined them, I think I got a little bit too close with my Sony 55-210mm which has a minimum focus distance of ca 1 m. I probably got too excited and forgot about that when I was shooting . Well, a lesson learned.)

And here's a night scene from a nice location in the city.

(a stitched panorama of photos taken with a Canon nFD 50mm f/1.4)

 

[Jonathan Scott]

And here's a night scene from a nice location in the city.

Hovrättstorget. I wish we had scenes like that around here!

 

[DennisN]

Hovrättstorget.

Correct!

 

[morrobay]

Sideshow

 

[Ibix]

Four weeks ago the council laid new tarmac on a path near our house.