*OFFICIAL* Snapshot of the Day (one image per post please) #1

[UdubBadger]

awesome!

[adrean8j]

Originally Posted by e9coupeguy

taken this fall while visiting family in Germany. Just a beautiful 20 mile stretch of road outside of Ansbach, Bavaria

Wow...amazing shot.....makes me miss Germany and my friends soooo much!

[The1]

great shots you guys!!!

makes me long for winter to be over, glad i'm going to florida soon, should find some stuff to snap while away

[Chewy734]

Gotta love auto shows... I'll post the rest of the photos from it tomorrow.

[e9coupeguy]

Originally Posted by adrean8j

Wow...amazing shot.....makes me miss Germany and my friends soooo much!

Thanks. i miss it too. Here's another one for you...


Same stretch of road as the first picture... you can see it twisting into the distance in the center background. REALLY wish i could have had the Z over there. Rented a Opel Astra GT... not a bad little car.

[adrean8j]

Loving the lush Bavarian visuals! Used to be stationed in Kitzingen a long time ago.....

[e9coupeguy]

Originally Posted by adrean8j

Loving the lush Bavarian visuals! Used to be stationed in Kitzingen a long time ago.....

thats funny. those shots were taken about 20 minutes east of kitzingen. i remember Kitzingen well. My dad was stationed in Ansbach at hindenburg back in the early 70s when i was little ( i was born in ansbach). We would occassionally drive past Kitzingen or Illesheim on the way to visit family in Hochstadt (just east of Kitzingen). Being stationed in Germany in the late 60's thru late 80's was fantastic. Very good times.

[UdubBadger]

Originally Posted by adrean8j

Loving the lush Bavarian visuals!

+1

[adrean8j]

Originally Posted by e9coupeguy

thats funny. those shots were taken about 20 minutes east of kitzingen. i remember Kitzingen well. My dad was stationed in Ansbach at hindenburg back in the early 70s when i was little ( i was born in ansbach). We would occassionally drive past Kitzingen or Illesheim on the way to visit family in Hochstadt (just east of Kitzingen). Being stationed in Germany in the late 60's thru late 80's was fantastic. Very good times.

Early to mid-90's for me! But still awesome.....everything really changed in ~'00 with the Al-Qaeda bombings in Africa....sigh Still love it though and I wish there was somewhere in America that had the same......vibe...for lack of a better word.

[The1]

stop!!!! you're making my need to travel stronger!!!!

[M_Six]

I was there in Schwabach from '82-'87 with the Army and then again '88-'89 with UPS. Virtually no speed limits on the autobahns then. Speed limits everywhere now. I owned a 633Csi when I was in the service. Great autobahn car.

[dcstep]

Leaping coyote by dcstep, on Flickr

This is one of a series of seven shots of the coyote hunting. You can see the entire series here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dcstep/...n/photostream/

7D at 8-fps is hard to beat.

Dave

[The1]

neat shot! did it catch what it was hunting?

[dcstep]

Originally Posted by The1

neat shot! did it catch what it was hunting?

Not on that particular leap. The evening before I watched one successful hunt where the coyote laid down and took a nap after gulping down a couple of voles in short order. Here, I was hoping that he'd catch a ring-necked pheasant. (There was one hiding less than 20-feet from where it's hunting in this shot. Pheasant amaze me at how well they can hide in plain sight).

They seem to come up empty about 2/3d of the time. When they catch a vole (a mouse-like creature with a furry tail), they'll gulp in down in about three-seconds. They're well feed, as you can see. They've got voles, prairie dogs, pheasant, bugs and the occasional deer fawn to keep them fat and content.

Dave

[adrean8j]

@dcstep: Just looked at your photostream...you, my friend, are a hero! Great shots you have in there!

[dcstep]

Originally Posted by adrean8j

@dcstep: Just looked at your photostream...you, my friend, are a hero! Great shots you have in there!

Thanks Adrean.

I invest a lot of time in photography. Luckily, the results are getting closer and closer to what's in my head.

Also, I enjoy the hours of sitting and waiting, or chasing, or climbing, or whatever's needed to get to the shot. You need to know your equipment, but the most important key I find in wildlife photography is knowing the subjects and then coming back over and over and failing over and over, but enjoying it all the while, until you get the shot that you've been dreaming of.

Dave

[M_Six]

You might enjoy this guy's work. The moose and critters in NH seem to regard him as a friend. It's amazing how close he can get to them without spooking them.

[e9coupeguy]

this guy has some nice wildlife stuff as well. Spent all afternoon one day flipping thru his photostream

http://www.flickr.com/photos/4926034...7625925204889/

[dcstep]

Originally Posted by M_Six

You might enjoy this guy's work. The moose and critters in NH seem to regard him as a friend. It's amazing how close he can get to them without spooking them.

Yes, very nice stuff. Thanks for the link.

Part of my family were early settlers in NH from England around 1620. I didn't realize that the wildlife was so rich there. I need to plan a trip.

The key to many of those shots is spending a lot of time and knowing where the animals are likely to be. He doesn't provide much background, but it looks like he lives very near where many of those images were taken. The right lens helps a ton.

Dave

[dcstep]

Originally Posted by e9coupeguy

this guy has some nice wildlife stuff as well. Spent all afternoon one day flipping thru his photostream

http://www.flickr.com/photos/4926034...7625925204889/

Bill's been one of my Flickr Contacts for several months. He's got lots of great stuff.

There's lots and lots of pure junk on Flickr, but if you search around a little you'll find lots of treasure. One thing I do is when I find a user that uploads stuff that I like, then I look at their Contacts. They'll tend to connect with people with similar interests and skills. Once a day I go to Contacts/Recent Uploads and see several really nice, brand new images, almost every day.

You can unilaterally make someone a Contact, unless they block you. Once you've identified someone as a Contact, then you can have Flickr show you recent uploads.

Dave

[TL]

360 Backflip Jump

[UdubBadger]

nice