random pics that YOU have taken.......

[Baz]

One of the locals.....and proud member of the brigade.......

[masraum]

Originally Posted by bugstrider

What was your FL when you shot that? Very cool btw.

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According to the Firefox add-on "exify", the bar across the bottom of the photo is how it was shot, but I'm not sure how that would compare to a 35mm. I'm guessing not well at all.



I did take this one, and waited for what seemed like forever to a 14 year old for the damn bird to line up right to get his reflection. I have no idea about how it was shot except that it was shot with my dad's Canon AE-1 Program and a 70-200mm lens (that I still have).

[kach22i]

My wife and I took a walk in the woods yesterday.

I found a couple garter/garden snakes.

One I picked up off the ground.



The other I left sunning himself/herself on a stalk in the high grass.



I didn't know they did this.

My wife took the pictures, I spotted the snakes.

[bugstrider]

^^^ very cool and very beautiful too.


Every bit of 5" across











This AM on my walk with Sir Lump



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[Aragorn]

Mid Ohio Sports Car Course approaching turn 8 "madness"
Camera: Pentax k-x
Lens: Sigma 70-300mm F4-5.6 APO DG Macro

[Aragorn]

Mid Ohio Sports Car Course turn 6
(cropped the photo in post a little on the bottom)

Camera: Canon 30D (AI Servo mode)
Lens: Canon 70-200 f4 L series USM non IS

[scottmandue]

Originally Posted by Aragorn

Mid Ohio Sports Car Course approaching turn 8 "madness"
Camera: Pentax k-x
Lens: Sigma 70-300mm F4-5.6 APO DG Macro

Very appropriate name... when I drink vodka things get fuzzy.

[Baz]

Nice pics guys....flowers by Bugs....race cars by Aragorn....and the pelican in flight by Scott...

Couple from today...(ying and yang).....Florida Box turtle who lives on my property did a drive by as i was working on the driveway...came out of the bush....cruised on by....then back into the bush. I gave him a little shower as he passed my way....

Then a souvenir left on my armrest from a bird that perched on my half rolled down window while I was at a store later in the day.

Keep smiling.....

[bugstrider]

Baz,

Nice FL.Box Turtle.... also well played on the matching Croc's too. He probably thought it was fellow box and wanted to hang for a spell. Look on the bright side on the bird do, at least it wasn't one of those pelicans you've shown us that live in your area.

The wife's Amazon package was delivered today. When I opened it up(she said it was ok), my initial thought was that I was going to have my man-card revoked. Then I realized it was the replacement hose for the Dyson vacuum that I broke this past weekend. LOL

It's my stupid sense of humor again



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[Jolly Amaranto]

[Baz]

This little guy was munching down on one of the plants I installed at a local project I recently completed. It's called a Saddleback Caterpillar and those hairs have a chemical on them which will burn the heck out of your skin - so don't ever let them touch you! Thing is they hang out on the underside of the leaves so you rarely see them before it's too late....

[bugstrider]

Yikes! What the heck was nature's intent/design with that little bass-turd?!?!?!



Da Didg



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[masraum]

Originally Posted by Baz

This little guy was munching down on one of the plants I installed at a local project I recently completed. It's called a Saddleback Caterpillar and those hairs have a chemical on them which will burn the heck out of your skin - so don't ever let them touch you! Thing is they hang out on the underside of the leaves so you rarely see them before it's too late....

Cool looking critter, too bad he's bellied up to the wrong buffet.

Maybe Hawaiian Ti Red Sister Plant or Canna lilies?

The moon and Pleiades


The nebula below Orion's belt.

[bugstrider]

Steve,

You have got to post more of your astronomy shots! My gawd man, those are fantastic!!!!


Random iPhone camera misfire

[scottmandue]

Point Fermin early Sunday morning:

[bugstrider]

Originally Posted by Baz

This little guy was munching down on one of the plants I installed at a local project I recently completed. It's called a Saddleback Caterpillar and those hairs have a chemical on them which will burn the heck out of your skin - so don't ever let them touch you! Thing is they hang out on the underside of the leaves so you rarely see them before it's too late....

Hey Baz,

In keeping up with your critter, I found this little guy on our deck. Never seen one before. Not as sinister as yours but interesting nonetheless.








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[Craig T]

Nature is just ****ing awesome... caterpillar to flowers.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by bugstrider

Steve,

You have got to post more of your astronomy shots! My gawd man, those are fantastic!!!!

Thanks, I haven't really done that much since I live in a pretty horribly light polluted area. Fortunately, the moon is a pretty easy subject, but anything else is tough, tough, tough.

Random iPhone camera misfire

I actually like it in an abstract kind of way.

iPhone pics of my 3 orchids, Cattleya hybrid, Oncidium hybrid and Phalaenopsis hybrid.

[bugstrider]

Originally Posted by masraum

Thanks, I haven't really done that much since I live in a pretty horribly light polluted area. Fortunately, the moon is a pretty easy subject, but anything else is tough, tough, tough.

I fully understand the light pollution issue. Back in my school days of the 80's, my dad took my brother and I to a friend of his who was also an amateur astronomer. I say amateur, he was one of five amateur astronomers invited to Hawaii to view Haleys comet, he was that good. Anyway, we all loaded up in the car to visit his personal observatory he built in the foothills above Folsom Lake at one in the morning. It was unbelievably amazing the telescope he designed and built with hand polished mirrors and German gearing. I don't recall the exact size but I think it was 12 or 15' and was something like 18 or 20" in diameter, but I could be totally off base. It was monstrous though. His observatory dome could be rotated by hand it was that well balanced

His pictures were fabulous. It was the first time I ever saw our sister Galaxy with a pair of high power and quality binoculars. The best way I can describe it is that it looked like someone placed a cotton ball out in space and pulled the ends apart to stretch it out. It still has to be one of the most beautiful things I have ever gazed upon. He showed us this one shot it took him literally all night to shoot due to the aperture settings, then literally in the last 5 minutes of the exposure, an airliner flies through the shot. It left some very interesting light trails. Back in the day he was successful in getting the local mercury vapor street lights changed out to a different type conducive to night photography. So he said.




iPhone couldn't catch the essence of the moon. Kept focusing on the pine.


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[masraum]

Yeah, it's tough to catch the moon with a phone, I've tried several times. I'd love to do astrophotography, but between the light pollution and the fact that I don't have a tracking mount, it's tough.

The easy subject.



These were both taken when we were having an extra super moon. One of these days, I want to catch the moon as it's still between some buildings, but that only happens two times a year, I would assume near the equinoxes, equiniis?



The moon over downtown. Another pain, getting the buildings exposed nicely without killing the moon. This one still has the moon blown out, but overall, the shot seems ok.


The Moon and Venus over downtown just before sunrise. It's just about impossible with a digital camera to get the dark side of the moon without having the sliver WAY overexposed. I'm guessing this worked because of the not quite dark, but also not quite light conditions.


The Moon and Venus at about 10am, 7 Dec, 2015.