Picture of the day...

[freebooter]

Flapping Big Black Butterfly

Daegu, South Korea
August 22, 2006
Pentax Optio W10
f3.3@1/100
iso 64
6.3mm (widest, like ~35mm)
forced flash, macro focus, flower preset
NoiseNinja'ed, smart-sharpened, darkened, cropped quite a bit (about 1/2 of the original)

My usual trailhead is a garden on the forest's edge with lots of flowers and even more vegetables and fruit trees. After a run today, I was almost out onto the road when I spotted this big butterfly. It is about the size of a big hand.

I took lots of shots because the butterfly kept moving from flower to flower and never stopped flapping its wings, especially the upper pair. I therefore turned on the flash to freeze the motion. I was surprised to see that, in this shot, the leading edge of the flashed, moving wing took on the illusion of transparency.

It was quite a friendly seeming bug, flapping up every 10-20 seconds or so to swoop gently around my head before alighting once again to continue its nectar-lapping endeavors. After taking its picture for 5 minutes, I was quite fond of the creature.

 

[Marky_Mark]

Second Severn Crossing, between Severn Beach, in England and Magor, in South Wales. Taken last night at 9.27pm local time, about an hour after sunset.

120mm
ISO 100
f/11
25 secs
-0.3EV

Compression seems to have buggered up the sharpness, but there you go...

 

[srf4real]

After taking its picture for 5 minutes, I was quite fond of the creature.[/QUOTE]

Great picture! I can never get butterflies to be still long enough to focus!

 

[srf4real]

east coast sunset

Indialantic, FL | oct. 10, 2004 | got married here April 2005

 

[DJMastaWes]

Name - Parking Meter
Date - August 21st 2006
Camera - Fuji Finepix S5000
ISO - 200
Aperture - F8.0
Shutter Speed - 1/400

So, this was taken yesterday on my walk around my area. It was a nice day and I have some neat photos to post for the next few days. The quality is quiet bad on this because I saved it as a JPG and the quality was on 8 rather then 12, so there's a little bit less detail in it. Anyway, I still like the image.

Preview of tomorrows image:

 

[FrankieTDouglas]

8/11/06, Ruston, LA

Body: Nikon D70s
Lens: Nikon DX 18-70
Exposure: 1/50s @ f/4
Length: 31mm
ISO: 400

 

[beavo451]

8/11/06, Ruston, LA

Body: Nikon D70s
Lens: Nikon DX 18-70
Exposure: 1/50s @ f/4
Length: 31mm
ISO: 400

Very nice, although the chopped hands bug me. Frame closer or wider would be my suggestion.

 

[MT37]

Second Severn Crossing, between Severn Beach, in England and Magor, in South Wales. Taken last night at 9.27pm local time, about an hour after sunset.

120mm
ISO 100
f/11
25 secs
-0.3EV

Compression seems to have buggered up the sharpness, but there you go...

I would love that as a wallpaper. Great picture!

 

[Keebler]

Second Severn Crossing, between Severn Beach, in England and Magor, in South Wales. Taken last night at 9.27pm local time, about an hour after sunset.

120mm
ISO 100
f/11
25 secs
-0.3EV

Compression seems to have buggered up the sharpness, but there you go...

great photo...forgive my lack of knowledge as i'm in canada..is that on the M4 or M48? I ask b/c i'm pretty sure i took that bridge years ago on my way to Cardiff for a conference...very cool..

 

[freebooter]

Energy: Electrical, Mechanical, Biological

Daegu, South Korea
July 12, 2006
Pentax Optio W10
f3.3@1/50
iso 64
6.3mm (like~35mm)
4 shot panorama

Energy manifests in manifold manners. Here, witness electricity, wind and life.

I went to sleep one night in July to the sound of torrential rain, really torrential. The next morning, by gum, it was raining even harder. "Alright," I thought, "I'm going up the mountain!"

Mustering my gear--including my Nano/ziploc/duct-tape rainy-day music system--I ran up trails-turned-rivers to find on the ridge that the wind was gusting especially strong. I found out later that I had been running in a typhoon. "Sweet!" I was so happy I had my waterproof W10 that day. I got several "keeper" extreme weather shots, and I had a good time, too. I like few things better than extreme exertion outside in extreme conditions (any B.C. treeplanters out there?).

This is a four picture stitch using "Double Take" software. I converted to b&W and tinted using the "Convert to B&W pro" plugin. Adjusting the plugin's settings gave it an infrared look.

 

[Marky_Mark]

great photo...forgive my lack of knowledge as i'm in canada..is that on the M4 or M48? I ask b/c i'm pretty sure i took that bridge years ago on my way to Cardiff for a conference...very cool..

There are two crossings about a mile apart. The suspension bridge and the older of the two used to be the M4 crossing until the new cable-stayed crossing (about a mile south, and which my picture is of) was built, whereupon they re-routed the M4 and made the old crossing a spur off the M4, renaming it the M48.

More here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severn_crossing

 

[Keebler]

There are two crossings about a mile apart. The suspension bridge and the older of the two used to be the M4 crossing until the new cable-stayed crossing (about a mile south, and which my picture is of) was built, whereupon they re-routed the M4 and made the old crossing a spur off the M4, renaming it the M48.

More here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severn_crossing

very cool..thanks. you brought me back a few years

 

[Butters]

My first picture of the day

23/08/06, West Midlands Safari Park, UK

Camera: Fujifilm Finepix S5600
Length: 63mm
Aperture: 3.4
ISO: 400

 

[-hh]

More Tanzania stuff (4100 down, 300 to go)

Elephant family group crossing a raging creek; Babob trees on hillside behind:

Okay, its the DRY season

Canon 20D w/70-200 f/2.8 IS & 1.4x @ 98mm
ISO 400; 1/500sec, (f/8?)
1 July 2006
Two vertical frames stitched vertically.


-hh

 

[Mr. G4]

In my garden.
Olympus E-500
Zuiko 35
f 9.0
1/160s
ISO 100

 

[ksz]

In my garden.
Olympus E-500
Zuiko 35
f 9.0
1/160s
ISO 100

Extraordinary!

Looks like the Alien from Alien.

 

[FrankieTDouglas]

8/12/06, Shreveport, LA

Body: Nikon D70s
Lens: Nikon DX 18-70
Exposure: 1/400s @ f/3.5
Length: 18mm
ISO: 200

 

[beavo451]

8/12/06, Shreveport, LA

Body: Nikon D70s
Lens: Nikon DX 18-70
Exposure: 1/400s @ f/3.5
Length: 18mm
ISO: 200

Got a little distortion there. Try a longer focal length. The distortion combined with up nostril angle doesn't make a very flattering photo.

 

[crazyeyes]

Turtle Skeleton at the Natural History Museum in DC



Nikon D50
Shutter: 1/25
Aperture: f/4.5
Focal Length:
Lens: Quantaray 28-90 f/3.5-5.6

 

[snap58]

8/12/06, Shreveport, LA

Body: Nikon D70s
Lens: Nikon DX 18-70
Exposure: 1/400s @ f/3.5
Length: 18mm
ISO: 200

I like the distortion, I doubt it was an accident. I like the background too, I wonder if she were off to one side or the other (rather than dead center) if it might open up and have a little more "environmental" feel to it?

Nice work,

 

[GoCubsGo]

This is something I took today. I like it.
Utica New York
1.5" F8 R72 Filter

 

[snap58]

This is something I took today. I like it.
Utica New York
1.5" F8 R72 Filter

I like it too, very nice!

 

[blodwyn]

First post for picture of the day

Playing with my new camera at Lost Lake, Mount Hood, Oregon, at around 5:30am. A forest fire is burning the other side of the mountain, hence the haze - normally the mountain is crystal clear. No significant photoshop tweaking done, the color is as recorded.

Body: Nikon D200
Lens: Nikon AF 18-200 Zoom, shot at focal length 46
ISO: 1600
Aperture: F8
Shutter: 0.125 secs

 

[GoCubsGo]

Second Severn Crossing, between Severn Beach, in England and Magor, in South Wales. Taken last night at 9.27pm local time, about an hour after sunset.

120mm
ISO 100
f/11
25 secs
-0.3EV

Compression seems to have buggered up the sharpness, but there you go...

Awesome! Got it in 1680x1050 for my wallpaper?

 

[Abstract]

Second Severn Crossing, between Severn Beach, in England and Magor, in South Wales. Taken last night at 9.27pm local time, about an hour after sunset.

120mm
ISO 100
f/11
25 secs
-0.3EV

Compression seems to have buggered up the sharpness, but there you go...

Wow, you have redeemed the name "Marky Mark" for ever Mark in the entire world.

Daegu, South Korea
August 22, 2006
Pentax Optio W10
f3.3@1/100
iso 64
6.3mm (widest, like ~35mm)
forced flash, macro focus, flower preset
NoiseNinja'ed, smart-sharpened, darkened, cropped quite a bit (about 1/2 of the original)

Interesting. You really do post some interesting things from over in Korea. Been there, but I don't see things with an eye as good as yours. Food was good, though.

Name - Parking Meter
Date - August 21st 2006
Camera - Fuji Finepix S5000
ISO - 200
Aperture - F8.0
Shutter Speed - 1/400

So, this was taken yesterday on my walk around my area. It was a nice day and I have some neat photos to post for the next few days. The quality is quiet bad on this because I saved it as a JPG and the quality was on 8 rather then 12, so there's a little bit less detail in it. Anyway, I still like the image.

Preview of tomorrows image:

Fantastic.