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Title: Nature vs Man
Post by: mechanic on November 26, 2009, 07:34:46 AM
Went out early this morning and took about 200 pictures of landscape and wildlife.

This one struck me as being especially cool. Nature vs Man-Made, all ready and waiting for me to find.

(http://www.freeroleentertainment.com/IMG_0922.JPG)

what do you think?
Title: Re: Nature vs Man
Post by: Getback on November 26, 2009, 08:30:23 AM
Mechanic, just simply brilliant!
Title: Re: Nature vs Man
Post by: mechanic on November 26, 2009, 04:43:38 PM
Thank you sir!

I geuss you are the only one here with any philosophical taste  :noid

S!
Title: Re: Nature vs Man
Post by: Shifty on November 26, 2009, 04:47:26 PM
Very cool pic.  :aok
Title: Re: Nature vs Man
Post by: BiPoLaR on November 26, 2009, 04:49:19 PM
That make a lot of sense to me  :aok
Title: Re: Nature vs Man
Post by: mechanic on November 26, 2009, 07:55:42 PM
Woohoo, my shallow new found photographic ego has been boosted. Thanks guys.  :)
Title: Re: Nature vs Man
Post by: APDrone on November 26, 2009, 08:24:13 PM
Very nice shot!
 :aok

Isn't it neat just wandering around looking for something to shoot.  How much is there you've never noticed before?
Title: Re: Nature vs Man
Post by: morfiend on November 26, 2009, 08:28:00 PM
pretty cool Batty...

   :salute
Title: Re: Nature vs Man
Post by: phatzo on November 26, 2009, 09:42:36 PM
Hmmmm...Very interesting design for a tattoo, excellent pic too.
Title: Re: Nature vs Man
Post by: mechanic on November 26, 2009, 10:26:27 PM
would be a good tattoo, no doubt
Title: Re: Nature vs Man
Post by: dentin on November 27, 2009, 12:45:51 PM
Went out early this morning and took about 200 pictures of landscape and wildlife.

This one struck me as being especially cool. Nature vs Man-Made, all ready and waiting for me to find.

(http://www.freeroleentertainment.com/IMG_0922.JPG)

what do you think?

Indeed, Roses are very fragrant... you've obviously stopped on occasion.    :cool:
Title: Re: Nature vs Man
Post by: mechanic on November 27, 2009, 04:44:40 PM
Not roses Den, but brambles, where black berrys come from :)
Title: Re: Nature vs Man
Post by: dentin on November 28, 2009, 01:55:52 PM
Not roses Den, but brambles, where black berrys come from :)

Yes I know...have a bunch of them out back.  What I meant was "there are many things to discover"  when we "stop to smell the Roses".    :cool:
Title: Re: Nature vs Man
Post by: noTch on November 28, 2009, 02:37:04 PM
My wife calls that "Arkansas Barb-wire"  LOL
Title: Re: Nature vs Man
Post by: pipz on November 28, 2009, 03:01:30 PM
 :aok
Title: Re: Nature vs Man
Post by: mechanic on November 29, 2009, 01:39:56 AM
Yes I know...have a bunch of them out back.  What I meant was "there are many things to discover"  when we "stop to smell the Roses".    :cool:

ahhh!

i am blind sometimes too, obviously  :lol
Title: Re: Nature vs Man
Post by: Kazaa on November 29, 2009, 01:42:50 AM
I will buy your photo for 500 dollah!
Title: Re: Nature vs Man
Post by: JunkyII on November 29, 2009, 01:52:04 AM
Thats a cool picture, Im sure you could find some rich punk to put it in their house for a couple hundred...I would if I made maybe 5X my pay :aok :salute
Title: Re: Nature vs Man
Post by: mechanic on November 29, 2009, 03:58:28 AM
lol kaz, you got a deal.

Junky, i dont know any rich punks :(


Here are a couple of shots of a beautifull animal, one of my favorite creatures.

(http://www.freeroleentertainment.com/wingspan2.jpg)

(http://www.freeroleentertainment.com/kite2_looking.jpg)


But these crows were not best pleased to be disturbed so early in the morning. A couple of kites were buzzing through their nesting site and causing havoc.

(http://www.freeroleentertainment.com/crow_storm.jpg)
Title: Re: Nature vs Man
Post by: JunkyII on November 29, 2009, 05:49:24 AM

Junky, i dont know any rich punks :(

Move to Montgomery County, Maryland you can find some there  :aok
Title: Re: Nature vs Man
Post by: Phantomz on November 29, 2009, 11:42:45 PM
The pic with all the birds almost looks like a Aces High furball  :D :salute
Title: Re: Nature vs Man
Post by: manurin on November 30, 2009, 06:01:29 AM
The pic with all the birds almost looks like a Aces High furball  :D :salute

And that bird on the second pic looks like he's looking for a pic!  :D
Title: Re: Nature vs Man
Post by: Stalwart on November 30, 2009, 02:18:55 PM
That first pic looks like it could become an award winner in a DP challenge contest:

http://www.dpchallenge.com/ (http://www.dpchallenge.com/)

FTW!~
Title: Re: Nature vs Man
Post by: mechanic on November 30, 2009, 04:07:27 PM
lol guys, Dentin spotted the two crows doing an impression of a P38, can you see them?


Stalwart, I would love to enter something like that, thanks for the info. It tells me i have to pay for a membership to enter, so i may think about it for some time. Thanks for the kindness, I also think many people on that website are actualy very talented whereas i just go and click a few pictures sometimes and get lucky here and there.
Title: Re: Nature vs Man
Post by: ghi on November 30, 2009, 09:03:39 PM
I've been following this butterfly yesterday afternoon for few miles, abandoned my truck in "non stooping zone", jumped 2 fences, got chased by dogs but ...finally i put my Canon on him  :D
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2583/4148244371_a2ff020370_b.jpg)

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2511/4148322327_1331f3dfd0_o.jpg)
Title: Re: Nature vs Man
Post by: mechanic on December 01, 2009, 01:08:09 AM
Stunning Ghi!
Very, very beautifull. Sounds like it made you work hard for it :D

Show us some more sir. I would love to see more of your pictures.
Title: Re: Nature vs Man
Post by: PFactorDave on December 01, 2009, 01:17:45 AM
Here's one of mine from last summer...

(http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w220/Davis_Andrews/IMG_8135.jpg)
Title: Re: Nature vs Man
Post by: mechanic on December 01, 2009, 01:20:34 AM
Wow Dave, now there is an animal to be rekoned with.

He looks mildly surprised to have his picture taken  :D

Keep them coming guys, I love to see wildlife shots, especially other peoples.
Title: Re: Nature vs Man
Post by: PFactorDave on December 01, 2009, 01:32:27 AM
Wow Dave, now there is an animal to be rekoned with.

He looks mildly surprised to have his picture taken  :D


He was...  My family has a lake front cabin on 20 acres in Northern Wisconsin...  There is a tree that lightning struck and killed the top 1/3 many years ago.  The Eagles love to perch there, watching the lake for fish near the surface.  On this day, I had a 300mm f2.8 lens with a 2x teleconverter on a Canon 10d camera.  The Eagle was looking out over the lake, I snapped a few shots...  Then I whistled.  He looked directly at me.   Then I got the shot you see, eye to eye with the great bird. 

The full resolution shot is really breath taking.
Title: Re: Nature vs Man
Post by: mechanic on December 01, 2009, 01:39:01 AM
canon D10...woohooo. We need to start an O'club Canon D10 appreciation fan club :)
Title: Re: Nature vs Man
Post by: Chalenge on December 01, 2009, 01:56:21 AM
Not roses Den, but brambles, where black berrys come from :)

We have some kind of blackberry here that doesnt have the barbs but they do have huge seeds!  I think I prefer natures method over mans in the case of barbs.
Title: Re: Nature vs Man
Post by: mechanic on December 01, 2009, 01:58:20 AM
Nautre > Man

Right on Chalenge!
Title: Re: Nature vs Man
Post by: PFactorDave on December 01, 2009, 02:13:34 AM
canon D10...woohooo. We need to start an O'club Canon D10 appreciation fan club :)

Hehe, I would join, but I recently replaced my D10 with a 5D Mk2 for portrait work and an EoS1D Mk3 for Sports/Action...  I would consider selling my 10D...  But in all honestly, I've ran more then 1.5 million images through it and I'm on my fourth shutter assemby.  So, it's really not much more then a paper weight at this point.  I tend to use my camera equipment to death.
Title: Re: Nature vs Man
Post by: saggs on December 01, 2009, 02:27:57 AM
Nice, I'll see your one Bald Eagle

(http://www.kirksagers.com/Nature/Wildlife/Eagles/002/504631300_yrRtb-L-1.jpg)

and raise you one

(http://www.kirksagers.com/Nature/Wildlife/Eagles/Bald-Eagle-105/504655524_w9nB7-L-1.jpg)
Title: Re: Nature vs Man
Post by: saggs on December 01, 2009, 02:32:13 AM
Here is one of my favorite critters to photograph; Pika, they are a threatened species only found in high altitude rock fields where they make their nests.

(http://www.kirksagers.com/Nature/Wildlife/Pika/DSC00727/650685243_b6wsS-L-1.jpg)

I've sat on a lot of rocks on cold mountain mornings trying to photograph these guys.


And this weekend I found a HUGE Beaver lodge with lots of fresh sign around it.  I sat there for 3 1/2hrs at dusk waiting, they never showed, didn't get a single shot.  I'll try again though, I know they are there.
Title: Re: Nature vs Man
Post by: mechanic on December 01, 2009, 07:38:38 AM
Very nice Saggs, very nice indeed. I bet it is not easy to get close to those Pikas.
Title: Re: Nature vs Man
Post by: Shuffler on December 01, 2009, 12:57:28 PM
All very nice pics.

The very first one is a keeper.
Title: Re: Nature vs Man
Post by: saggs on December 02, 2009, 12:34:56 AM
Very nice Saggs, very nice indeed. I bet it is not easy to get close to those Pikas.

Yeah they're impossible to sneak up on.

The trick is to let them get close to you, I pick a spot (early morning, or late evening, when they are most active) were they are likely to come pick grass (for their nests) and just wait very quietly, and very still.  That shot I was about 10 ft. away, don't think he ever noticed me there.  Probably though I was just a funny looking rock.
Title: Re: Nature vs Man
Post by: Simba on December 03, 2009, 06:42:07 PM
Beautiful pictures, thanks for posting them. Especially appreciated the kite pics, I spent a few years in Wales looking after Milvus milvus.

 :cool:
Title: Re: Nature vs Man
Post by: mechanic on December 03, 2009, 06:50:39 PM
They are dominating the food chain round here between oxford and london, Simba! Ten years ago they were introduced to the wildlife here and looked like they may fail to get a foothold, but now I see them circling over our village every day! Thanks for looking, I'll try and get some more up. It's been hard to get out lately as it just keeps raining.