Post Your Best Nature Shots!

[Kayaker72]

Cool, you've got punk cardinals.
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ROFL!!!


Great pictures Denise....[Y]

[qwRad]

Thanks Denise. Your shot of the red "punk cardinal" ([]) is very cool

[Fast Glass]

Very nice shots Denise, the purple crest might be worth trying![H]


Keep up the great work,


John.

[btaylor]

Very nice shots Denise. Just proves that in capable hands the 100-400mm is a fantastic birding lens.


I would love to have had that focal length last week - I was on a week long fishing trip up the in Gulf of Carpentaria and the bird life was incredible after the recent wet season. I got a few nice ones that I

[Fast Glass]

Here isa couplefrom me.


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24mm,ISO 100, 0.8 sec, f/11, tripod.


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24mm, ISO 100, 5 sec, f/22 (needed lots of DOF), tripod.


I was using my Minolta MD 24mm f/2.8 Rokkor-X, great lens!


John.

[Andy Stringer]

At the end of May, I visited Knoydart, a remote part of the west of Scotland. I've wanted to go there since seeing it from across Loch Nevis on a trip last year. This time, the weather was very unkind with stormy winds and heavy rain much of the time, either falling on me or my intended landscape subject. In between the showers, I captured a few shots:

Sunlit lichen on a boulder on the shoreline of Loch Nevis

5D Mark II, TS-E 24mm f/3.5L II @ f/11, 1/400s, ISO 100

Deer come down to the shore to feed on kelp in the evenings. This one was very close to the lodge I was staying in.

1D Mark IV, EF100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM @ 285mm, f/6.3, 1/250s, ISO 1600

I spent a day on the Isle of Eigg, where I found these concretions on the shore, with the Isle of Rhum in the background.

1D Mark IV, TS-E 24mm f/3.5L II @ f/13, 1/25s, ISO 100

[thekingb]

Andy - the third shot, of the concretions, is spectacular. If only the clouds had lifted a bit on the island in the background!

[Jonathan Huyer]

Andy -- great shots and a very nice addition to your already spectacular Flickr album. It is cool for me to see photos of a place that I also visited recently. Too bad about your weather.... but you definitely managed to capture

[erno james]

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Sunset on Mono Lake, South Tufas. May 2011

[Andy Stringer]

Erno, that's another excellent capture, along with all the others you've added to your Flickr stream recently. You certainly have a talent for good composition, and much better luck than me with the weather.

a very nice addition to your already spectacular Flickr album...you definitely managed to capture 'pure' Scotland

Thanks for the kind words Jonathan. Here's my version of your 'Pure Scotland' shot, with my thanks for the creative idea.
5D Mark II, EF70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM @ 200mm, f/29, 1/50s, ISO 3200

If only the clouds had lifted a bit on the island in the background

This is what the island looked like on a clear day, last summer. On that occasion, I didn't have time to explore the beach to my right and never even knew about the potential for some interesting foreground elements.

1D Mark IV, EF17-40mm f/4L USM @ 35mm, f/6.3, 1/400s, ISO 200