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

[The1]

Originally Posted by dcstep

I'd love to host you. I use my M3 as a shooting blind.

My Flickr friends in Mississauga and Etobicoke post lots of wildlife. Where are you in Ontario?

Dave

I'm kitchener/Waterloo area. Planning a boat trip up into north Georgian Bay towards august, so i'll have some opportunities around then.

If i were in Toronto, it would be pretty easy to find some wildlife i think with heading straight north, or even north east. But where I am, it's a lot of farm fields and such. There's a few preserves, but they are all man made, and basically feature lots of red shouldered back birds.... but there are millions of those and aren't too special

When my dad gave me a tour about in Colorado, it was amizing how much wildlife you come across within about an hour almost any direction of Denver. Wish i knew more of what i was doing with a camera back then. Would have had more fun for sure!

I'll make sure to look you up if i'm headed back out that way in the near future. I really want to see the inland dunes....

[dcstep]

Originally Posted by The1

I'm kitchener/Waterloo area. Planning a boat trip up into north Georgian Bay towards august, so i'll have some opportunities around then.

If i were in Toronto, it would be pretty easy to find some wildlife i think with heading straight north, or even north east. But where I am, it's a lot of farm fields and such. There's a few preserves, but they are all man made, and basically feature lots of red shouldered back birds.... but there are millions of those and aren't too special

When my dad gave me a tour about in Colorado, it was amizing how much wildlife you come across within about an hour almost any direction of Denver. Wish i knew more of what i was doing with a camera back then. Would have had more fun for sure!

I'll make sure to look you up if i'm headed back out that way in the near future. I really want to see the inland dunes....

I haven't been to the dunes yet and really want to go. A friend of mine, Bob Rozinski, has a great coffee table book available that you should check out. He's at www.dancingpelican.com

Well, whereever you have the grasses and cattails you'll have the red-winged blackbirds. They're all over here, but, like the all too common mallards and Canada geese, I ignor them most of the time.

My main haunt is a manmade nature preserve, right in a Denver suburb. Its mature enough that it's got everything appropriate for this biozone. I occasionally get annoyed hearing 500-hp speedboats on the lake and gun lovers shooting their 357-magnums, but the wildlife don't seem to care.

Sometimes I can't resist the Canada geese, like below:


Gooslings being cute. by dcstep, on Flickr

[The1]

haha, that one is definitely posing for you!

and i'll check out that link.

[gary88]

[The1]

clean...

[Weebl]

Dave,
In focus or not that action trumps. Congratulations on that, I think I only have one heron and one egret with a meal.

Panicos, is the fisherman coming up really purple on your screen? The shadow on the bucket is showing purple which means your changes in LR were off. See if you can borrow a screen calibration thingy it helps.
Good shot of the Pearl.

[TL]

Originally Posted by The1

Another nice night shot TL

Dave, you're always at the right place at the right time it seems!

[QUOTE=ShopVac;9871871

Tim...I think I like this shot better than the one you have posted in the night thread. Little more action with the lights on the water[/QUOTE]

Originally Posted by panicos81

TL my god man, excellent shot, you are my idol

thanks guys

[- Paul -]

One of their brothers - other side of the pond!


Baby Gosling by PRotography EU, on Flickr

[Weebl]

I like that one, no color to the rocks and "hey look at me" yellow.

[MATT0404]

Love the desaturated background, Paul. Nice shot!


Here's a shot of a local church that I'm shooting:

St. John's Pulpit View by mkrepp, on Flickr

[Activ]

EuroSunday Treffen Event :: June 23rd 2011 by Trevor Thompson, on Flickr

[ShopVac]

Originally Posted by MATT0404

Here's a shot of a local church that I'm shooting:

Church photo's are awesome...one of my favorites to take photos of. Very nice picture you took there.

This is from a small town in Italy

[slavik]

[adrean8j]

Iraqi Wild Flower by Adrean8j, on Flickr

[Chewy734]

those are some freaky looking flowers... like a mini, abstract swan attached to them. Nice shot!

[MATT0404]

Originally Posted by ShopVac

Church photo's are awesome...one of my favorites to take photos of. Very nice picture you took there.

This is from a small town in Italy

Very nice shot. Yeah, churches really are fun to shoot. Such interesting design and architecture.

One thing I find fascinating about the church that I'm shooting is the stained glass windows are original Tiffany windows from 1917. The rose window (pictured) is the third largest Tiffany window ever produced.

[remmib]

Not a great shot in itself, but I had to post it since it shot with a big white lens...
The $13000+ Canon EF 800mm f/5.6L IS USM.

[Chewy734]

did you take that shot from Sweden remmib?

[remmib]

Originally Posted by Chewy734

did you take that shot from Sweden remmib?

Not quite.

I see the exif says 73.3m or 240ft.

[ShopVac]

Originally Posted by MATT0404

Very nice shot. Yeah, churches really are fun to shoot. Such interesting design and architecture.

One thing I find fascinating about the church that I'm shooting is the stained glass windows are original Tiffany windows from 1917. The rose window (pictured) is the third largest Tiffany window ever produced.

I didn't even know we had anything that fancy in our neck of the woods. Where abouts is this?

[Chewy734]

Originally Posted by remmib

Not quite.

I see the exif says 73.3m or 240ft.

So... what were you doing with that lens? Mid-life crisis?

[MATT0404]

Originally Posted by remmib

Not a great shot in itself, but I had to post it since it shot with a big white lens...
The $13000+ Canon EF 800mm f/5.6L IS USM.

Originally Posted by ShopVac

I didn't even know we had anything that fancy in our neck of the woods. Where abouts is this?

Yeah, I was pretty surprised myself. It's in Franklin, PA. Apparently the church has a collection of 30 original Tiffany windows that are valued in the range of many, many millions.