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oblomow

macrumors 601
Apr 14, 2005
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Netherlands
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Apple fanboy

macrumors Ivy Bridge
Feb 21, 2012
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Behind the Lens, UK
He’d prefer some hazelnuts! Nice capture. I’m guessing he must practically live in your garden?
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Have you photographed this one before? I seem to remember it on a darker day? Anyway I like.
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Looks very wintery. Roll on spring!
 

spacemnspiff

macrumors 6502a
Feb 11, 2009
941
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MD
How about a marmot (also called a wood chuck)? Every spring a male marmot takes up residence in a big pile of broken pieces of concrete fence in a field behind our house. It takes him a few weeks to recruit a female (or 2!) to join him, a few weeks after that little marmots like the one in the picture appear on the pile.

Junior here decided to dig under the fence and explore the house being built a couple of lots over from ours. While returning from the mailbox, I spied him dashing across the empty lot toward our house, then saw that he had jumped or fallen into the window well. If you look at the size of his claws, you can see why I was concerned about him tearing up the screen while trying to get out.

I borrowed a 2X12 from the construction site and stuck one end in the well. I checked on him from the basement now and then, and it took him about 20 minutes to figure out how to get out. We enjoy the yearly marmot "show"; it sure beats having a row of 2-story houses behind us.

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Nice pictures.
Where is the picture of him getting his way back out?
 

Apple fanboy

macrumors Ivy Bridge
Feb 21, 2012
57,003
56,027
Behind the Lens, UK
I have been watching YouTube tutorials again....

DSCF6983-Edit.jpg by Ken OHagan, on Flickr

First attempt at fake motion shots of vehicles. Not up to @steveash standards but I think a decent first (ahem... fourth) attempt... no?


EDIT: OK, so I need to be a bit more detailed in my edits. I need to think about the blur in the fore, mid and backgrounds. Also, as the cars are travelling at different speeds relative to the van, they should exhibit different blur patterns too.
Pros get it right in camera :D

But if your not using a Nikon I can see why you struggle! :p
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Yesterday I went to a local scenic gardens and was surprised at how many flowers are still in bloom there.....

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Beautiful.
 
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kenoh

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Jul 18, 2008
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Glasgow, UK
Pros get it right in camera :D

But if your not using a Nikon I can see why you struggle! :p
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Beautiful.

I broke my picture... will have to do it again...

You cant get it in camera when you are there on your own... as usual the camera isnt the limiting factor...
 

erayser

macrumors 65816
Apr 9, 2011
1,267
1,232
San Diego
Sorry... sort of a double post from the pic I posted yesterday:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/photo-of-the-day-october-2018.2144640/page-19#post-26691596

Kind of a funny story. Facebook flagged my previously posted picture because it was against the community rules for children's safety, and the moderators deleted the post... even if it was mentioned that we would not put our son in danger by posing him next to or near a real fire, and that the original picture was taken 4 days later after the fires passed in day light. Also mentioned... is that I Photoshop'd the original image to add drama. I don't know whether to be upset, or be happy that I actually fooled the Facebook moderators... lol....

Here is the original just in case my previous posted picture offended anyone... :p

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Darmok N Jalad

macrumors 603
Sep 26, 2017
5,425
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Tanagra (not really)
Sorry... sort of a double post from the pic I posted yesterday:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/photo-of-the-day-october-2018.2144640/page-19#post-26691596

Kind of a funny story. Facebook flagged my previously posted picture because it was against the community rules for children's safety, and the moderators deleted the post... even if it was mentioned that we would not put our son in danger by posing him next to or near a real fire, and that the original picture was taken 4 days later after the fires passed in day light. Also mentioned... is that I Photoshop'd the original image to add drama. I don't know whether to be upset, or be happy that I actually fooled the Facebook moderators... lol....

Here is the original just in case my previous posted picture offended anyone... :p

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I think that a takedown would be ridiculous, and it shows how little people read or think through a situation and instead just react and/or jump to conclusions. No apology needed, IMO. It was good symbolism—hope in the face of destruction.
 
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oblomow

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Apr 14, 2005
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The village Moresnet. Close to the former neutral state Moresnet.

Wikipedia: Neutral Moresnet was a small Belgian–Prussian condominium in central-western Europe that existed from 1816 to 1920 and was jointly administered by the United Kingdom of the Netherlands (Belgium after its independence in 1830) and the Kingdom of Prussia. After 1830, the territory's northernmost border point at Vaalserberg connected it to a quadripoint shared additionally with the Dutch Province of Limburg, the Prussian Rhine Province, and the Belgian Province of Liège. Today it is known as the Three-Country Point, being the meeting place of the borders of Belgium, Germany, and the Netherlands.
 
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