and this one

[Mama Dove]I spy, with my little eye...a people![/Mama Dove]


ETA: I may have mentioned this, but, Momdigr can pet this dove. Popdigr mows all around her and she stays put (when weedwhacking too). Weird.

Haha, no, it's not real. But, it catches the eye doesn't it?:D

Japanese red maple.

Fantastic entries.. Keep up the great shots.

I love your pics and verbage gravdigr

and LJ you did not take those photos! No ,I know you did but wow. You really have a talent. That should be hanging huge in someones office building.

Now don't be quitting your job to be a freelance photographer and leave your kids hungry. Jinx would find me and shoot me just for encouraging you prolly. :p

A few I took recently...


http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x...969/church.jpg


http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x.../church-up.jpg


http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x...969/flower.jpg

Nice!

Columbines are kinda hard to shoot.:thumb:

That's a bad pun for the Colorado readers.

Groans a Gravdigr.

nice ones dmg

Believe it or not, that was completely innocent and totally unintended. (But it does sound exactly like something I would say, I can't believe I didn't catch it.):rollanim:

Thanks skysidhe.

That's OK Gravdigr...I missed it too. LOL! Thanks.

Grav, I totally thought you meant it as a pun. You're punny even when you don't realize it! That gets a A+

I'm always amazed at the talented people here. Nice pictures.

Alt Two
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4006/...401fac32_b.jpg

The panoramic view from near the dining hall at Gaea Retreat Center, from whence I have just returned after another successful Pagan Festival.

Snapped that before all the writhing naked bodies showed up, eh? :lol:

Grilled poppers.

I just got back from a trip with my Dad to Boston to see my step-brother. My Dad wanted to visit the heavy cruiser USS Salem (CA-139)...the sister ship to the USS Newport News (CA-148), on which he served. A few photos (of the hundreds I took on the trip)...

Port

http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x...9/IMG_1199.jpg

View from the bridge

http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x...9/IMG_1104.jpg

Me under the 8 inch guns. They are HUGE!

http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x...9/IMG_1124.jpg

8 inch 55's

http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x...9/IMG_1051.jpg

Good shots - Wow those are huge!

Wow Jinx you are going to be a pro at macro! :)


@dmg1969> Nothing better than a big gun! :eek:

dmg, were you able to fit your head in the barrel?

Nice pics dmg. I've been on the USS Alabama, and the big ones are impressive. My only specific memory: Stenciled on the protective gunner's shields were the words "LEAD, DAMMIT, LEAD".

Thanks! It's my favorite lens right now...

Thanks, classic.
Nirvana...agreed.
HLJ, I'm sure it would have been close had they not been sealed.
Gravdigr, the Alabama is a beautifully preserved battleship. They are awesome to check out if you can. One pic I took that i thought was interesting was a placard of what to do in case of an "atomic attack".

A few photos from the cruise my brother and I took around Boston Harbor. You launch from a dock in the Quincy shipyards, go to Logan Airport, over to Boston and then back to Quincy.


Boston skyline


http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x...9/IMG_1291.jpg


Clock tower


http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x...9/IMG_1277.jpg

Clock tower close-up


http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x...9/IMG_1284.jpg

What time did you take that last picture?


Looks really nice. They don't seem to build them the way they used to.

I'm thinking around noon. :D

You are right...those are some very interesting architectural features and colors. Did you take note of the building behind the clock tower building? It almost reminds me of something you'd see in the middle east.

me @ Atlantic City b'walk last weekend
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4060/...1543582ff3.jpg

under the b'walk....
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4033/...af856ac7fd.jpg

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4035/...ba7e050538.jpg

That's what she said!

That's private

I love the tiny toads...

We were at Ocean City NJ today.

Jackie decided she didn't want the rest of her funnel cake and started feeding it to the gulls. 30 seconds later...

http://cellar.org/2010/jackiegulls.jpg

On the bank of the Sieltz River, Oregon.

Some how I get the feeling this old fellow has settled down for a well-deserved rest.

Do you mean the tree, or is there something in that little root-cave?

The tree, because floods redirected it's growth several times but it kept on keeping on.

There's probably a spider in that root-cave that's bigger than my head.:bolt:

It looks like it is sitting with its legs crossed

Tilt shift processing makes stuff look like it's a model. I think I posted about this before elsewhere in the cellar, but I just made another one from an image I took.

cool, I wonder if I have that plugin.

if you don't, you can upload the source picture to the website I linked and then download the resulting image.

My grandson, Sam, on the Clackamas River, Oregon
I liked the (accidental) field-of-focus here... the salmon at his feet seem to have a dream-like quality.
Olympus digital D-560

http://cellar.org/attachment.php?att...1&d=1276801467

Man I would love to learn to fly fish.

That is so pretty, Lamp. I can almost feel the water.

Looking at photos two pages back. Lots of great shots! esp. that tree!

One day I was sitting with my back to the window and on my bedroom door is a shadow of my cat looking out the window. I was so intrigued I tried to get the perfect shot but this little camera is grainy and didn't capture the detail or the contrast depth. I still think it's neat though. I kept it just for the memory of it and to remind myself to try again sometime.

Just fiddling with this new camera while waiting for someone one day. It has such a grainy quality about it I find annoying but for practicing taking pictures I figures a small investment was best. I liked the clouds.

Is that through your windshield tint at the top? looks deep.

what kind of a camera is it? if you have upwards of 3mpx, you can usually take a high enough quality shot to enable you to do good things in post production programs like photoshop to make good pics.

There's an interesting range of blues.

To the both of you.
Yes it is the windshield tint.

I have a Finepix 10mp with 3x zoom. I got it cheap for 68 dollars. I thought it was the funky design being discontinued but I now see it is selling for 149.
http://www.amazon.com/Fujifilm-FineP...=pd_cp_p_1_img

I would have thought it would do a better job than my cell phone. I probably don't have the functions down yet. I am not exactly disappointed with it yet on that account.

I know you are right. Tinkering with a photo program will help. I have ordered the serif. I hope it does sharpen the images up a little. That and with my acquainting myself with the camera's features. As a wannabe newbie I didn't want to spend very much to begin with.

There are so many great cameras around 200 -350. Too many for a novice to decide so I just bought a cheap-o hoping it would be better than just OK.

edit- I had at one time messed with the ISO setting. I'll read up on that and see if I can correct the grainy factor.

J's brother has two hobbies... auto racing, and fostering guide dogs for the blind.

I love this picture.

http://cellar.org/2010/tonycardogpic.jpg

It's a great picture.

and two very cool hobbies and just look at that smile on that dog.
what a happy face

Needs numbers on the dogs. :lol:

But at least they're color-coordinated.

I didn't take any of the pictures I wanted to today.

Speaking of bees...
 

An old bee pic...Not the easiest of subject matter (and too much 'sharpen').:2cents:

ooh look at that. That bee has it's head way down in that flower. Cool capture gravdigr

I had to pen up my dogs they were trying to eat this little guy!

Hey, that scene could be out of a Hitchcock movie!

Sky, I like that shot a lot, the graininess actually looks intentional.

Alt. blue etc.