Post Your Best Nature Shots!

[qwRad]

Captured this guy last week. Comments and critique welcome and thanks for viewing. More photos of him and one other squirrel eating in my blog

[George Slusher]

You really should cut down the photos you post here to no more than about about 800 pixels wide. By forcing the photo into a box, you

[qwRad]

You really should cut down the photos you post here to no more than about about 800 pixels wide. By forcing the photo into a box, you're forcing the browser to scale the photo, which can result in effects you don't want. It also slows down the page--this photo is 1.3 MB.


At least you scaled it a bit. Someone sent me an email with two full-sized 12 MP photos, one of which needed serious cropping.

Thanks for the suggestion. I actually thought that when I add a new photo from an URL in rich formatting and specify 800px as width (which I did) this site will automatically make a smaller 800px wide version from the URL but indeed it is as you say and the image is scaled by the browser to fit into 800px wide and seems quite jagged and wastes bandwidth and you have to right click and select 'view image' to see the full size version. I will post the 600px wide small versions from my blog from now on and make a link to the full size image. Thanks and sorry!

[Kayaker72]

A few pictures from the White Mountains in NH from this weekend:


Evans Falls:


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Along the Tuckerman trail, near Crystal Cascades


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Thompson Falls (first one)


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The map just called all of these "Thompson Falls" but there are about 8 waterfalls as you move up the mountain.


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Along the Ellis river on the hike to Glen Ellis Falls


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And a moose


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Sorry for so many pics....thanks for viewing......


Brant

[qwRad]

Great waterfall photos Brant! I'm jealous since we don't have too many of those here in Finland and especially near where I live. I have to go look for some a bit further away some day. And the moose is also very nice, looks like a young one? They are magnificent up close.


Here are some of my photos from today and last Friday. Don't know if they fit strictly speaking to this thread since they are from the local zoo and Sealife aquarium but I'll put them here anyways. You can find a lot more photos and links to dedicated galleries from both trips in my blog.



Brown bear, 7D + 70-200mm f/4L IS USM @ 200mm, f/5, 1/500s, ISO100



Asian lioness with her cub, 7D + 70-200mm f/4L IS USM @ 183mm, f/4, 1/320s, ISO320



Lion fish of some sort, 7D + 100mm L IS USM Macro @ f/2.8, 1/50s, ISO3200



Some sort of a ray, 7D + Sigma 30mm f/1.4 EX DC HSM @ f/1.4, 1/40s, ISO2000


Comments and critique on these and also on any photos in my blog/galleries is very welcome and thanks for viewing!

[ddt0725]

Beautiful waterfall pictures and perfect comp on the ray photo! Really nice for ISO 2000!

[Kayaker72]

Denise...love the composition of the Mallard.


QwRad....really like 1 and 4. Great character in #1 and #4 is very interesting. Just one of those things I've never really seen.


And thanks for the comments...much appreciated. Below is one more that I processed last night. BTW, I took #2 & #3 above and the one below with a B+W ND 106 filter. #1 above was with a CPL.


This is the upper portion ofCrystal Cascades. In total, it is ~80 ft tall.Shot with a 7D, 15-85 @ 24 mm, 1/4 sec, f/5.6, ISO 100 with the B+W ND 106 on an overcast day.


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[ddt0725]

Two days of walking the nature trails has left me with LOTS of photos to go thru! Very early this morning I met up with one of the deers above and he walked with me for about 15 mins. He didn't even mind my flash and better beamer!

[Steve U]

What a great set Denise, excellent work.

[ddt0725]

Thanks, Steve! These woods were packed with deer but it was hard to get a clear view of most of them, especially the babies but this deer I ran into this morning had no problem with me hanging out with him for awhile.