*OFFICIAL* Snapshot of the Day (one image per post please) #2

[Itsed65]

Kind of unnerving to look up from my yard the other day and see this many Vultures overhead!

Vultures and the Moon by lennycarl08, on Flickr

[M_Six]

Haha, I posted something similar in OT a week or two ago. I had just finished mowing the lawn and was sitting out in my yard enjoying the breeze when I looked up to see a TV circling just over my head. Had me worried.

[Terry989]

Costa Rica - Coati coming down out of the "Mammal Tree" in the early morning.

Why is this large fig tree the "Mammal Tree"? The night before I was on my nightly walk on the trail to the beach while looking for night creatures to photograph when I felt a bat brush the top of my head. I figured the bat was just eating the mosquitoes that were eating me, something I was perfectly fine with! I took this opportunity to scan the jungle with my flashlight to see what else might be out there and I see a bright set of eyes coming my way and getting larger all the time. Soon after that I can see that it is a raccoon which continues its trek towards me. At about 15 feet, the raccoon stops, sizes me up, and decides no territory dispute was necessary. The raccoon then turns, scampers off and climbs up into the fig tree where I follow its progress for awhile until it disappears from sight. A few moments later I hear all hell breaking loose in the tree as the raccoon finally found a worthy opponent for the territory dispute. I continued on to my most productive evening of night photography on the trip.

Next morning my wife spots a roving band of Coati moving through the jungle just below our hotel room - - - so off I go. By the time I was dressed, grabbed the camera gear and waited ~10 min for it to defog after taking it from the cool, dry air conditioning to the hot, humid outdoors, I'm back to the same tree as the night before. I see a few Coati climbing the tree, so I move in position to photograph then as they come down. Watching them climb, I now notice a number of Howler monkeys hanging out in the same tree, and then all of a sudden a variegated squirrel jumps into the middle of the melee. So one tree equals bats, coati, monkeys and squirrels, or in other words, the "Mammal tree".

[dcstep]

Terry, great story and image.

[Itsed65]

First time I have messed with high-speed continuous on my X-T2. This is one frame my wild backyard cat Smokey rolling around in the gravel during an 11 FPS burst. Pretty impressive that the blackout is almost non-existent in the EVF, a HUGE improvement from the X-T1. This was shot from across my modest sized pool at 200mm. I may now have to pickup the Fuji 100-400 and give it a try, as they are throwing in the 1.4 at no additional cost at the moment.

It's Too Bright by lennycarl08, on Flickr

[Terry989]

Costa Rica - - - Lair of the Tarantula at night - - - plus a bonus in the upper left!

This one actually made me nervous. When I approached with the flashlight to set up the camera and tripod, the spider wiggled down like a cat getting ready to pounce. With Macro work the lens is very close to the subject, and I manual focus for most of my shots, which means my hand out in front of the camera in the dark only a few inches from the crouching spider.

[Itsed65]

Great photo, but Jeebus do I hate spiders!

[Itsed65]

Saw this beauty fly over this afternoon. I hope to be able to get it facing the light tomorrow instead of out of the sun. Consolidated B-24 Liberator, "Witchcraft"

Withcraft by lennycarl08, on Flickr

[M_Six]

^^^^Very cool.

I was shooting a university project at a cemetery in southern IL last year. I had my 70-200 f2.8 IS on my 5D MkIII and set to EV +2 because I was shooting into shadowy trenches. I heard an airplane coming over the nearby treeline and looked up to see a similar airplane flying over. Maybe 200ft over our heads. It had just taken off from the nearby airfield. By the time I got my camera reset, he was gone. Luckily it seems you were ready or quicker on the reset than I. Great shot.

[Itsed65]

I have C3 set on all my bodies for shutter priority at 1/160 and ISO 100 for just such situations

[Ickdeep]

IG: Henry_the_pointer

[Terry989]

Yea - - - It's Witchcraft Day! Not as clean as yours Ed, plus that nice blue background! For me, APSC + 192mm + ISO200 + Crop = Noise

[Itsed65]

Well I tried to get the B-24 again but we had some very uncommon weather for June here yesterday and that changed all the flight paths around so I had no idea what was going to fly where. I had to "settle" on the B-25. It is very hard to get a sharp shot with prop blur in the best conditions, but the wind was screaming here and then it started to rain

Tondelayo by lennycarl08, on Flickr

[Itsed65]

Coyote in the Grass by lennycarl08, on Flickr

[Zing]

A Muscovy duck in what I thought was perfectly filtered sunlight.

[Ickdeep]

[bosstones]

Moar pets!

[dcstep]

I was working on a church work crew, out on the Great Plain, just East of the Rocky Mountains, in East Aurora, CO. One of our leaders received a text saying that her good friend had been taken off life support, about when we started work. Then we saw this:

God Rays On The Rockies by David Stephens, on Flickr

[dcstep]

Jeff, super portrait of your sweet Boston.

[Itsed65]

Scrawny little guy. Same critter as above but different cameara and lens. 5DIV at 700mm versus 1DIV at 400mm.

Cross-eyed Coyote by lennycarl08, on Flickr

[dcstep]

Originally Posted by Itsed65

Scrawny little guy. Same critter as above but different cameara and lens. 5DIV at 700mm versus 1DIV at 400mm.

I looked at it Large on Flickr and I think that he might be blind in that right eye. The vegetation would make you think that hunting is good, but he doesn't look it. ;-(

[Itsed65]

Yeah there has to be millions of mice and voles out there, but he seems to be at a disadvantage. Nature is not always kind.