Day 02: July 2010 Photo-a-Day Thread

[JK6065]

Thanks Jeroen,

I think I've got that technique pretty well sorted now

I bet you do . You manage to amaze me every time.

And thank you (and others) for your comment.

[rick55]

I looked out at that same tree this morning and it was swarming with wax-eyes. These fragile wee birds disappear if great, gallumping sparrows come near. The wax-eyes were my original "hope for" yesterday, but they quickly flew away when the sparrows arrived.
Wax-eyes are hard to catch - they move very quickly and "flitter" their wings often when feeding, like babies. There was a bit more light today, and less noise than the sparrow image yesterday. This wee one stayed on the apple long enough for me to catch her. Notice that the apple is much more hollowed out than yesterday and there is some light shining through the skin.

A great image, Kit: the eye-rings are very neat, and the light makes the apple glow.

Cheers,
Rick

[rick55]

Wonderful shots, Colin: they give such a sense of timelessness, something you think you'd see if you could open a panel to 100M years ago.

Cheers,
Rick

[Donald]

Wonderful shots, Colin: they give such a sense of timelessness, something you think you'd see if you could open a panel to 100M years ago.

Well, we know Colin's getting on a bit, but ......

[rpcrowe]

Was this supposed to be only architecture and wildlife for the shot a day?

Here is a six week old Maltese puppy. I am sending this picture to his prospective adoptive mom. I'll bet she comes to look at him. These rescue pups are remarkably cute. In fact, if I were raising showdogs again, any of the nine pups we recently rescued would do well in the ring when they get older.

[rick55]

Musica Statue - Music Row Nashville TN

Nice shot, Chriss: it looks more like dance than music, but it's a great sculpure.

Cheers,
Rick

[rick55]

Beautiful, Jeroen - great concept, and it shows how good the reflection was.

Cheers,
Rick

[rick55]

Rick - You shouldn't have shooters remorse over that. True, the front-most log is oof, but it then gently leads the eye to the back of the view. Voila!

Thanks for that, Kit.

Cheers,
Rick

[Wirefox]

Friday 2nd July (UK time)





My diary is here...http://soloimages.smugmug.com/Other/...21053742_H3Qas
The reason why my colours may appear like a swatch book for a Gerry Anderson set is here.....Day 01: July 2010 Photo-a-Day Thread

[James G]

Day 2 and another rainy day.

Up at 6:30 noticed a little moth near the ceiling, must have come in overnight... OK fist quick shot of the day, start breakfast and then a wander round the garden.

Rain on the plants, so a few more shots.

Then logon and all hell beaks out, typical Friday under way. come up for air about 14:00.
Sun is out off to get a tyre changed....

[PopsPhotos]

Our "porchlight tenants" are finally getting used to us standing on the porch as they come and go.
Where ARE you?

There you are!

Guess I'll preen a bit

Nest is still busy

Aren't you done, yet?

I'm w a i t i n g ...

My turn!


Pops
http://tinypic.com/a/25x01/4

[James G]

So Sun has come out, down to HiQ to change tyre.
1 hr later tyre done......except they change the wrong one so, another 20 mins to sort that out.

Oh well that Friday for you. One compensation though, I browse a food magazine and find a couple of interesting recipes that might be fun to try.... so I photograph the pages.

Guy in Tyre Centre thinks I'm crazy......

Onwards and upwards, I need new ink cartridges for the printer so I pop around to Calumet. Epson rep in and he lets me have a sample pack of new fine art media (A3)gratis.... Fridays looking up at last.

Somewhere along the way I mention the PAD challenge and CiC. They are curious so why not I give them 20 secs and snap them. I like the nice people at Calumet and I got to swap war stories over the images that got away :-)

16:00 head of home.... onto the motorway and a deadstop..... 50 mins later have traveled 5 miles and do the last 2miles in five mins.... Thats Friday for you.

19:30 offload the images select , process upload..... somethings has finally gone without a hitch...

By the way with the exception of the moth which I shot using a Canon 7D and a 100 mm Canon macro lens, the resof the day I used my G9

James

[Colin Southern]

Love that 2nd image Colin! The only thing i can say is "AMAZING!"

Thanks Chriss,

I was trying to use only my 70-200mm lens, but in the end I gave I and swapped to my 16-35!

[Colin Southern]

Wonderful shots, Colin: they give such a sense of timelessness, something you think you'd see if you could open a panel to 100M years ago.

Cheers,
Rick

Thanks Rick,

I wasn't sure what I was going to do for day 2, but when I saw that the wind was up and the tide was going out I thought "breaking waves over rocks", and the rest as they say, was history

[Colin Southern]

Well, we know Colin's getting on a bit, but ......

They say that we're only as old as we feel ...

... so 100M years seems "about right" some days!

[Colin Southern]

Was this supposed to be only architecture and wildlife for the shot a day?

No - anything goes. I had to put it somewhere, so I exploited the "and all other photography" clause in the forum's description!

[Colin Southern]

Hi James,

I've been "wrestling" with what prices I should charge to hire my studio out for (with and without the electronic equipment) - so the "Studio Hire" in your shot really caught my eye. Any possibility that you'd be able to send me a 100% crop of the pricing in the shot? Also, do you know roughly how big it is, and how well equipped it is?

[James G]

Colin,
blow up attached.
Never used it myself, but from memory it is about 16m x 8m.

As regards equipment, Calumet hire a large range of equipment (you can check them on the web).

I should have a copy of their last magazine somewhere. I'll hunt it out tomorrow and send you more detail if I can find it.

cheers, and I'm still stunned by your last set of images.....:-)

James

[carregwen]

Forgive me (no, do) but I looked at this and couldn't help but be reminded of those in-your-face Patek Phillipe adverts where Leonardo de Caprio does the biz for a few dollars more...
http://ffamora.sites.uol.com.br/cele...dodeCaprio.jpg

[Dave Humphries]

I took the Macro lens out in the garden tonight ...



Nikon D5000 + Macro 105mm VR2: 1/125s at f/16, iso800, with flash to fill the shadows of the evening sun.

This looked interesting



Nikon D5000 + Macro 105mm VR2: 1/200s at f/16, iso800, with flash to fill the shadows

Cat up a tree



Nikon D5000 + Macro 105mm VR2: 1/60s at f/16, iso800, with flash

A colourful spider, a may return to him/her for a better attempt another day.



Nikon D5000 + Macro 105mm VR2: 1/60s at f/16, iso800, with flash to fill the shadows