Post your best current shots

[Jayson]

What a great story and shot Pierre! Thanks for sharing!

[ahab1372]

spectacular Pierre

[Giy]

looking at some of the pics in these threads i hardly want to post anything i can produce!

but none the less i will post a few flower pics i took, while not my most resent they are the ones i have took off the memory card and added to my collection.

these were took a couple of months ago with the standard 18-55 kit lens that came with my 600D.


081 by Blaupunkt182, on Flickr


080 by Blaupunkt182, on Flickr


079 by Blaupunkt182, on Flickr

[conropl]

Giy:

Those are great. Especially the first one... I like the back ground in that one.

Pat

[cls]

Hi, this weekend I was covering the final rounds in "TV-pucken", Sweden's biggest youth hockey tournament. This is a traditional tournament for regional teams of selected 15 year olds. Of course there were a few memory cards filled, but I thought I'd share only one shot from the moment right after the final game was over. One thing about this tournament is that it's broadcast by national public service TV - quite unusual for youth hockey. The production isn't too far from what you see when "the big guys" play, and this makes it special for the guys.


First the shot I mentioned:





And then a bonus video linked from the public service broadcast, you may notice a dark fellow in the background around 19-20 seconds into the clip. Yup, that's me. (Lesson learned: Try to predict what will happen if you're really eager to be on TV ;-)


http://www.svt.se/wd?widgetId=32050&sectionId=541&articleId=1575784& type=embed&contextSectionId=541&autostart=false" width="480" height="270" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"

[ahab1372]

That's a great shot. At first I thought they were fighting, I guess I fell into a stereotype trap

[Jonathan Huyer]

Hi everyone - I'm back from a fantastic adventure to the shore of Hudson Bay, in Nunavut Canada (about 60 degrees north latitude). I stayed at a fly-in lodge and watched the bears walk right by each day... it was well beyond exciting. This shot gives a bit of perspective of the layout, and the electric fence that kept the bears out. Stay tuned for more as I sort through the 7000 pictures I took!

[Kayaker72]

Wow. Looks like an epic trip.

I look forward to the other 6,999.

Ok. Maybe a "best of" series

[Jonathan Huyer]

Okay I've been going flat-out on processing my photos today, and have five favourites to show right now:

"The Stare-down"


The big fight:


Mom & Cub


Arctic Fox, trying to sleep


Mom & cubs, distracted by a fox


I used my 500 mm f/4 lens, and my 70-200 f/2.8 for virtually all my photos. No extender was needed... the animals came plenty close. I had to dial in exposure compensation of plus 1-1/3 stops, to get the histogram far enough to the right side. There was enough light during the day that I normally didn't go beyond ISO 800 and still got very good shutter speeds.

The camp I stayed at is about 100 miles north of Churchill Manitoba. It is surrounded by an electric fence, which allowed for ground-level shooting of the wildlife. This is a huge advantage, compared to the 'regular' way of photographing polar bears from the tundra buggies where you are sitting quite high. Plus there was plenty of room to walk around and get the best angles. The bears migrate north along the shore of Hudson Bay until they find ice, and then they walk out to start their seal hunting. So this is a perfect time of year to see them. If you'd like to find out more about going to this area for polar bear photography, please let me know! It is also a great place for aurora photography, except for the fact that the sky was socked in the whole time I was there, and I forgot my cloud filter at home . However it meant I could at least get some sleep at night after full days of shooting.

[M_Six]

Wow. Great shots, Jonathan. The second pic of the bear fight is superb. National Geographic cover stuff.