I was just reading a thread over at MacRumors, and I thought that a thread that could showcase photos that ehMac member have taken would be an interesting way to display our talents.

It would also be a good way to offer critique and advice as a way for us to improve our skills. If possible we should indicate what settings were used to create the photo.

I know quite a few of you are into photography, so why not post your pictures and see what we are capable of?

Currently I do not have anything worthy to post, however as soon as something becomes available, I will add it to the thread.

I'll start with one of my faves. Taken during a miserable night game of highschool football...

http://www3.sympatico.ca/karl004/Gallery/avlight/Lola.jpg

Good idea tho not everyone has FTP I think.

This actually made it to the National Diabetes promotional material. My little guy just being a kid.

http://www.macdoc.com/uploads/kenzie.jpg

and this with an early Kodak digital taken off the Pacific coast and I had no idea the camera would pick out the colours so well.

http://www.macdoc.com/uploads/sunsetsmall.jpg

and this likely my favourite a spectacular sky in British Virgin Islands - taken off the deck of the place we stayed overlooking Sir Francis Drake channel. Again magical light and the camera did far better than expected.
I sigh every time I see this wanting to go back.
Truly a paradise. :cool:

http://www.macdoc.com/uploads/bvisunset.jpg

Macdoc, one word: Stunning! That second shot is amazing.

I have taken some pretty decent ones, but haven't figured out how to use my Rogers webspace.

One day...

MacDoc,

A question on a personal note:

You mentioned that the picture of your kid was for the he National Diabetes promotional material. Is he diabetic?

I'm just curious because I have had diabetes for 12 years now and I was wondering how someone of his age copes with this condition.

I realize that most people do not have access to ftp or a web server, so that could limit their ability to post pictures. But hopefully there will be enough that do have this type of access.

I have a photo that I retouched in PS that I would like to share with everyone, however I can't seem to find it right now. Once I do I'll post it.

Kind of keeping with the memories thread...

The old College St. Eaton's:

http://www3.sympatico.ca/karl004/Gallery/avlight/Eatons.jpg

This is moving day when you work for a mining company...

http://www3.sympatico.ca/karl004/Gallery/upnorth/Copter.jpg

Maxpower - yes Kenz has diabetes - developed it at age 9 and it was a very tough couple years for his mum but there are silver linings.
He got into a pump from Disetronics which has made life much better without the needles 4 times a day ( you can just see the tube of the pump hanging out from his sun shirt ).
Tho it still is much management he gets easier control and can in general eat what and when he wants as long as he tests regularly.

The silver lining is that his mum is employed as sales rep and trainer for the pump manufacturer - nothing like "hands on" experience to be effective.

I was very proud of how he and his mum handled a very disruptive and threatening illness. :cool:
Thanks for asking.
Do you use a pump??

BTW for all parents if any kid develops a case of "stop every 20 minutes for a restroom break" do have them tested for diabetes at the first opportunity.

I'd love to share some of my orchid, cat, garden, and other digi-pics... but I don't have a site to host them. :(

Maybe I should finally get a .Mac account!

MacDoc,

I inject twice daily. I have been on this method since I was diagnosed and I find that it works quite well for me. My glucose levels are managed quite easily with the injections, diet and exercise. Although I do have my highs and lows, for the most part my diabetes is managed.

I don't know that much about the pump, although from what I have read, it helps mimic the insulin delivery that your pancreas would normally produce. The only thing is that I would think the pump would be an inconvenience and limit your ability to swim, shower or generally move around. But whatever works to manage this condition, I am all for it. Wish your son the best of luck from me, and tell him that even though the diabetes may seem like a pain sometimes the most important thing is that he is running around and playing like in your photo. It sure beats the alternative.

Max - You are type II I think since you can manage with diet and exercise as well. Juvenile is type I.
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Anyone who has a few picts - limit 2 per person please I can upload and I think Macspectrum would as well. Yes this is a good time to ask about ftp access for this type of venture. :cool:

MacDoc,

I am Type 1 - Juvenile Diabetes, since I am insulin dependent.

Wo you must really control your diet and exercise very well to get away with two injections. :eek: Well done.
of course it WOULD allow that Chinese pig out ;)

OK, first time trying to attach a file, if it works, this is my nephew...

http://homepage.mac.com/rmulley/.Pictures/Photo%20Album%20Pictures/2002-09-11%2018.30.28%20-0700/ImageDSCN0277.jpg

OK. Here is a picture that I took (not artistic by any means) but it clearly demonstrates the capabilities of my business.

This BBQ is all Stainless Steel - 2" square tube, 11 ga. bottom pan, 1/4" laser cut grill.

http://www.rjantz.com/images/IMG_0586.JPG

kps, that is a great picture!...what camera did you use and did you PS it to get that grainy finish on it ?

No Photoshop enhancing on that one, Olympus OM1, 50mm lens, Tri-X Pan...might have been "pushed" to 800ASA, don't remember...I took that picture in '74 or '75 using available light at the stadium. Neg scanned to Photo-CD for archiving.

Last summer during the fires in the Okanagan, I watched a water bomber skim the lake at Willow Beach in Oosoyoos , B.C., where I was camped in my motor home.

Not many people have an appreciation for the sheer size of these planes, so I waited patiently until they had to take on supplies and got this shot. The smoke and haze were problems, but my digital Canon Pro 90IS did the trick using the full power of the 10x optical zoom.

Note the crew member on the top of the aircraft, just back of the cockpit windows.

http://homepage.mac.com/plmnice/plane.jpg

Cheers

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I am no Pro, but i do enjoy taking pics. These were shot with my old 2MP Sony. I have since picked up a Canon A80, there will be some good quality pics to come.

Pic 1: Is of a Yellow Mini Rose plant i am growing. The actual rose in this pic is about the size of my thumb. Turned out pretty good.

http://srv.fotopages.com/?o=738580&t=2

Pic 2: Cute little condo complex just outside of Collingwood. Its not an outstanding picture technically, but it just pleases my eye.

http://srv.fotopages.com/?o=738581&t=2

[ March 31, 2004, 12:18 AM: Message edited by: maximusbibicus ]

Sinc that's awesome quality with a 10x Zoom and 2 megapixel.
That's the same as my camera and holding the damn thing steady at 10x is a trick in low light.

That thing is humongous :eek:

MacDoc, thanks, but I do have the stabilizer feature which helps a lot.

Here is the photo I took from the front door of my motor home on Willow Beach as the same plane left for take off an hour or so later. (Clutterd camping area and all, but hey, I did get the wife on the left, in the pic.) By then the smoke had lifted somewhat.

By the way, I use this as my desk top all winter and think about next summer and going back!

http://homepage.mac.com/plmnice/beach.jpg

Cheers

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For the past 20 years, I have tried to photograph Mount Robson in its entirety. To date, this is the closest I have come. Damn clouds!

http://homepage.mac.com/plmnice/MountRobson.jpg

Cheers

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Photo mosaic from Salt Spring. 7 images stiched together. There was one more but it didn't turn out very well so I didn't bother including it.

<div align="center">
http://homepage.mac.com/mcsimpson/desktops/photos/stich-small.jpg
</div>

Here is a bigger version (1280x734) (http://homepage.mac.com/mcsimpson/desktops/photos/stich-big.jpg) too.

Here is the other one I did, too.

<div align="center">
http://homepage.mac.com/mcsimpson/desktops/photos/stich-2-small.jpg
</div>

And the bigger version (1280x960) (http://homepage.mac.com/mcsimpson/desktops/photos/stich-2-big.jpg).

Here are a couple of pictures I took with my Canon A70:

This one is of my Niece on her third Birthday in November. The picture was edited in photoshop. The background was converted to B&W with a Gaussian Blur added to it, then the image was cropped.

http://www.rjantz.com/images/Melanie.jpg

This next one was taken of my back yard this winter. I used an aperture priority of 4.

http://www.rjantz.com/images/IMG_0232.JPG

Here's a shot of the Gooderham & Worts distillery in downtown Toronto. Taken in the mid-seventies, long before the trendy makeover of today.

http://www3.sympatico.ca/karl004/Gallery/bandw/Gooderham.jpg

Makes you wonder what's going on here, don't it.

http://www3.sympatico.ca/karl004/Gallery/bandw/Mystery.jpg

http://idisk.mac.com/maxman23/Public/PerthShotMini.jpg

This is a shot taken on the weekend in the west end of 'tranna... looking over some railway tracks in a vacant lot on Perth Avenue. Old industrial feel to the place. I get a kick out of visiting and revisiting aging or derelict industrial sites.

This is a photograph of my recent trip to Russia. The St Isaac cathedral in St Petersburg is abolutely massive and awe inspiring. The picture was taken by putting my camera on the floor and using the timer. There are several 'floors' and levels of painting, culminating in the glass dove at the very top.

http://homepage.mac.com/wwstrategies/.Pictures/General/St_Isaac_Coupole.jpg

http://www.thesquire.ca/junk/killerscar_sm2.jpg
i don't do digital too much.

this is shot in the middle of night, no flash, on a 1956 Zorki 3-C (russian leica copy), lens jupiter 8, &fnof;8, slooow shutter, AGFA APX 400. someone held up a shop light and i held still and snapped.

Hey, I got a Zorki! Haven't used it in 20+ years. Maybe I should dust it off...

what kind of zorki is it moscool?

what a kewl thread.

Ha... I have a few that I like myself. Hmmmm... How about some self portraits?? BTW, sorry that I could not reduce these before putting them up... not @ home and that's where PS is. Unfortunately @ work until late tonight. [update: just reduced them - finally]

here are the 2 that I took on Miami beach - self port#1:

http://members.rogers.com/mymanhenri/ohenri/me.JPG

and this self port#2 as seen off my ladyfriends spectacles - see me lying down??:

http://members.rogers.com/mymanhenri/ohenri/she.JPG

Both taken with an antiquated Canon A30.


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[ March 30, 2004, 08:01 AM: Message edited by: Ohenri ]

a couple pics i took in highschool with infrared film... havent take any pics since..
i kinda miss workin in the darkroom..

http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v104/kloan/water.jpg

http://img34.photobucket.com/albums/v104/kloan/swamp.jpg

Kloan... :eek:

What hot shots. what hot shots... those are tight.

Librarian:

I don't remember which Zorki; it is at my parents' in Paris. I bought it because my father has lent me his Leica but I didn't want to risk damaging it. Can't remember the lens on it either. I just remember that I also bought one of those funny accessories: a multi-focal viewfinder (obviosuly for no SLRs) that sat on the flash shoe.

Elegant these cameras, but the combination of external light-metre, approximate focus (when you are myopic like I am) and chemicals makes the whole combo a bit unattractive nowadays...

By the way: the St Petersburg church picture above was taken with an Olympus Miu. From memory it is 28mm/f2.8. I was really surprised by the quality and detail. Goes to prove that these 'notebook' cameras are only weak when operated clumsily; the timer works wonders!

kloan, I like your IR images. I tried IR film once, but I was stuck in the city...not enough green folliage to turn white. ;)

Best I got was this shot of the Yonge Street "Mall". Should bring back some memories to the older than dirt crowd.

http://members.maclaunch.com/kps/mall.jpg

http://srv.fotopages.com/?o=697351&t=2

This is one in a series that I shot in downtown Toronto.
There are very few buildings that can reflect into themselves like this.

Shot using a 3.2 mp Minolta Dimage 5,
With a 35 mm - 250 mm zoom lense.

D :cool:

Great shots everyone!

Nice to see so many ehMacers that are so talented.

Well done all.

Cheers

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Here is a shot of my wife at 9 months pregnant. Again I used my A70 with the largest aperture setting. I cropped the image and converted it to B&W.

http://www.rjantz.com/images/AmySilloutteBW.jpg

Ohenri: holy isaac hayes! nice shot man.

Your images are too big,
The biggest you should post is 800 x 600 @ 72 dpi.

Otherwise it takes too long to load the page,
I feel sorry for those using dialup.

D :cool:

Your images are too big,
The biggest you should post is 800 x 600 @ 72 dpi.
Perhaps then, we should make this a standard so all can enjoy these.

When I get some time, I'll make a conscious effort to reduce my file size.

I'm not a photographer, I just take shots where I see them.

Toronto as seen from Ontario place with a Canon A20.

http://www.schiedel-webb.com/photos/cntower.jpg

A barn window at our old riding club. Same camera.

http://www.schiedel-webb.com/photos/barnwindow.jpg

thanks Ohenri, kps smile.gif

seeing all of these great pics is inspiring.. i feel like going out and taking pictures again.. (when its nice out.. smile.gif )

kps, when was that pic taken?

just curious how everyone is posting their pics?

I used to use Sony Imagestation, but for some reason they stopped working, so now I'm using Photobucket as a host, and using the [img] tags.

just curious how everyone is posting their pics?
I have a free web space at http://www.fotopages.com/

Any image that I post there will be linked to here.

D :cool:

I post mine via .mac.

But I have no idea how to make them smaller.

What my camera takes is what you get.

Sorry 'bout that!

Cheers

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kloan, I don't quite remember when I took that "Yonge St. Mall" picture, possibly '74 or '75. I was also in highschool at the time. Maybe some one here remembers the exact years they closed Yonge St. for the pedestrian mall.

But I have no idea how to make them smaller.
Most photo editing programs will allow you to resize images to
a specified size, Like PhotoShop, GraphicConverter or Elements.

D :cool:

A picture of my better half feeding a gopher at Horseshoe Canyon at Drumheller, Alberta. I've always been confused by the weird illusions in this picture that make it difficult to tell how big the features in the canyon are.

http://homepage.mac.com/martinbaldwin/.Pictures/Photo%20Album%20Pictures/2003-01-24%2010.50.23%20-0800/ImageDSCN0159.jpg

- Martin.

Ohenri: holy isaac hayes! nice shot man. Thanks Librarian. Yeah... I was kinda stoked when it came out. Now, if I could only have the prolific musical career!

D.O.Lawren, that's a hot building shot. Really nice.

H!

Thanks Ohenri,
I've got thousands more...
Here's a deck fire at the dock in Cosumel, After I disembarked
and decided to return to the ship early to have a free lunch.
I ended up having to wait here for about half an hour until they
got the dock transformer fire out.

http://srv.fotopages.com/?o=705330&t=2

I used my Minolta Dimage 5 to take this shot.

D :cool:

Pizza delivery Honda C70 scooters in Cosumel, Mexico.
I love taking photographs of repetition.

http://srv.fotopages.com/?o=705343&t=2

Taken using my trusty Minolta Dimage 5 digital camera

D :cool:

Sinc use Graphic converter to scale your photos but when you open the photo do a "save as" - call it ehmac pict or whatever - close the original then work on the saved photo rather than the original.

In Edit ( in the menu ) go to size and select scale use 50% you should be fine then,

It will remember the scale settings and you can do them easily next time.
This will help when you email as well.

You can duplicate your photo folder and Graphic converter will batch process the entire group.
Always choose the highest settings for quality and use jpeg.
It's worth it to spend a bit of time as it's a superb program. :cool:

You can crop photos as well. BTW

Leaving Miami...The checking in is finally over...Time to relax.

This is a shot of the other passengers that have just started to
relax on the top deck.

http://srv.fotopages.com/?o=705335&t=2

Shot with my Minolta Dimage 5 digital camera.

D :cool:

Camera USed: Nikon - F70; slide film

Under a bridge at a park
http://img32.photobucket.com/albums/v96/Blood_Lust/snow1.jpg

Guildwood Park
http://img32.photobucket.com/albums/v96/Blood_Lust/bluffers2.jpg

My little boy and I
http://img32.photobucket.com/albums/v96/Blood_Lust/hands-copy.jpg

http://members.rogers.com/raindog61/car.jpg

Photographed along Clifton Hill at the Falls, Sept. 2002.
Photo Specs: Kodak Digital Camera using fill flash and a lot of camera shake. Saturation added in Photoshop.

http://members.rogers.com/raindog61/cabbagetown.jpg

Photographed in Cabbagetown during the mid '90s.
Photo Specs: Scan from a silver print. Photographed with a Contax camera and 35mm lens and Tri-X film.

SINC you can download GraphicConverter (http://www.lemkesoft.com/en/graphcon.htm) here.

I use Adobe Elements for my images because the processing is
quick and simple, I save my shots at 800 x 600 @ 72 dpi and
at 39 % of the image size. (Depending on the original size)
I can shrink an 18 mb file down to 192 k and it still looks alright.


D :cool:

A shot from the Toronto Portands taken about a year ago. Filtered in P-shop to give it a more illustrative feel.

http://idisk.mac.com/maxman23/Public/PortlandsApr270342.jpg

Bloodlust...That is a great picture of you and your boy....brought a tear to my eye!

http://homepage.mac.com/rmulley/.Pictures/Photo%20Album%20Pictures/2002-09-03%2020.08.41%20-0700/ImageDSCN0288.jpg

My wife to be on a trip back home to visit friends and family....note the odd British tradition of Morris Dancing smile.gif

Bloodlust...That is a great picture of you and your boy....brought a tear to my eye! Thanks Loafer... ;)

Rome - Nun Couture?

http://homepage.mac.com/crabcraft/.Pictures/Rome/10.jpg

Florence - mmm... gelato!

http://homepage.mac.com/crabcraft/.Pictures/Florence/a.jpg

Just to keep this going...

This is a night shot in front of a Toronto hotel, I liked the way the intensely bright lights of the entrance reflected in the manhole cover and the streetcar tracks.

http://www3.sympatico.ca/karl004/Gallery/avlight/Hotel.jpg

Thanks to MacDoc and Dave, I now own a copy of Graphic converter. The email with the code arrived this morning and I am learning how to use it.

Cheers

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Orford Keep, in East Anglia, England.

<div align="center">
http://homepage.mac.com/mcsimpson/desktops/photos/orford.jpg
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this one was taken last year on a trip to the Island. I used a Fuji 2800 digital camera at full resolution.

http://www.ghz-doc.com/image/toronto.jpg

This one was also taken last year on the way back from Ottawa we came the long way around and passed by Marmora where they have a huge open pit mine. This photo was also taken with my thrusty Fuji 2800, and as soon as I find my portfolio I will scan in some of my other work and post it.

http://www.ghz-doc.com/image/openpitmine.jpg

This one is an interesting study in reflections, although it did not turn out as good as I had hoped.

http://homepage.mac.com/plmnice/Bonnie.jpg

Scaled down with GC thanks to MacDoc and Dave!

Cheers

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More Rusky snaps – This one is the outside of St Paul & St Peter where the Tsars are now burried. It is in a fortress on the other side of the Neva in St Petersburg. Again, point and shoot Miu 35mm camera. No editing.

http://homepage.mac.com/wwstrategies/.Pictures/General/St_PetePaul_blue_sky.jpg

This is a great thread, with wonderful pix. I'd love to post a couple of my own but don't know how to get them from iphoto to this thread. Can anyone help please? Thanks.

K'Os what a great shot of Toronto - you should enter that in a contest. :eek:
That should be a poster for Toronto Islands. WOW!! :cool:

Wolfshead - just drag a couple of photos into an email to me - I'll set them up on the web and you can put them in a post. :cool:

can someone tell me how to post a picture?

I don't have a .mac account or website (dunno if this is necessary) But If so I could always grab a free webhost somewhere.

PM me please.

A couple of trucking pics...

I used to own this truck and trailer...don't any more. Miss being a "commercial tourist", don't miss the headaches. Taken outside of Wenatchee WA.

http://www3.sympatico.ca/karl004/Gallery/trucking/myKW.jpg

One of my "concrete compadres". Knew both, her father and uncle, she drove that thing by herself. Taken someplace in Oklahoma.

http://www3.sympatico.ca/karl004/Gallery/trucking/Lorie.jpg

Zigzagry: How about we start our own thread? The two of us can describe what our photos would look like if only we knew how to post them...

Wolfshead & ZigZag

You need to have some kind of web space (most ISPs give you a small amount, or a .Mac account would give you some). Upload an image to your web space (hopefully scaled down to 800x600).

The follow the instructions here (http://www.ehmac.ca/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=ubb_code_page), or use the "Image" button below the posting area.

Hey Loafer!

You remember what Stan Rogers said / sang about Morris Dancers?

:D
M

Thanks PosterBoy

Thanks to U2 Macdoc

http://www.wolfshead.fotopages.com_yorkshire

oh, ********!
Sorry guys - I'll try again later

You can join http://www.fotopages.com/ and then upload your
images to there, Then link to them with an image link in your message.

Dave :cool:

more picture...
Camera USed: Nikon F70, slide film
Edited in photoshop, blurred the background.

http://img32.photobucket.com/albums/v96/Blood_Lust/bath2.jpg

This is a shot from my garden.
using a 30 year old canon AE1 and 220 mm bushnell telephoto.

http://img1.imageshack.us/img1/1949/bee.jpg

[ April 09, 2004, 08:55 PM: Message edited by: zigzagry ]

I had a couple more images I wanted to post, but I need to re-scan them. Stay tuned! I might actually do it!

Here is a pic I took of my brother and I with my new Nikon Coolpix 5000 I got through ehMac.

Needless to say I love the quality.

http://members.rogers.com/rarcher/images/roland_russell.jpg

Zigzagry try using this link in the image button for your post:
http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/1919/long-legs2.jpg

I think you had a link set to the page and not the actual image,
If you control-click-hold on an image then you'll get a sub
menu that will allow you to open an image into a new window,
That window will be the correct link to use for the image address.

I hope I worded that right.


http://srv.fotopages.com/?o=705347&t=2
Parking for four in Cosumel, Mexico.

Dave :cool:

couple more from the garden

http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/9307/long-legs.jpg

http://www.imageshack.us/img4/9144/orangflow.jpg

[ April 10, 2004, 01:57 PM: Message edited by: zigzagry ]

Okay here goes... http://srv.fotopages.com/?o=804082&t=2

http://www.fotopages.com/perl/show_photo.pl?id=804085

Hmmm...there were two shots in there. One of our Top Fuel dragbike gettin sideways just after launch, and one of the crew positioning the bike for takeoff.

One came through, but the other didn't. Not sure why (I've checked the URL...it's dead on)

Macnutt your second image link is incorrect,
It should be this:
http://srv.fotopages.com/?o=804085&t=2

Try it again.

Dave :cool:

This thread is way to cool to let fade away here's something I shot with a Canon Poweshot G3:

http://pages.infinit.net/mannyp/img/forums/callme.jpg

http://pages.infinit.net/mannyp/img/forums/ottawa.jpg (http://pages.infinit.net/mannyp/img/forums/ottawa.jpg)
(Click me)

[ April 14, 2004, 09:19 PM: Message edited by: « MannyP Design » ]

Cool thread!
I was going to start something on Photograph too. My question is, does anyone currently own a digital SLR? If you do, how do you like it? I have plans to acquire a Nikon D70, but coming from film SLR's, I don't know whether all my lenses will fit.

Anyone?

http://srv.fotopages.com/?o=823532&t=2
Shriner that I photographed at the recent Beaches Easter Parade.
Photographed using my Minolta Dimage 5 Digital camera

Dave :cool:

MacNutt, Manny P - those are really sick shots... Might go out today and get some done too... Feel inspired.

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dolawren,

rocking. simply rocking picture.

Thanks O'Henri, I take that as a great compliment - especially since I'm not a photographer. ;) I have around 500 digital pics (most of objects, textures, buildings, etc.) that I take every once in a while during lunch.

I'm very much a "if it looks good on the view-finder, it looks good to me. I took photography classes almost 10 years ago and it's pretty muched vanished to a point and click direction since the Canon G3 doesn't have a whole lot of control over the aperature, F-stop, etc. I just kind of fake it, like in the phone pic using the "macro-lens" option on the camera.

The pic of Ottawa from above is really two pics that were stitched together. I wish I had take more snapshots that night as the seam is pretty visible across the middle. :(

I shot these, in the then sleepy little village of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico in 1984.

Good thing I had them framed because I lost the negs years ago. These are two shots of the frames hanging in our dining room.


http://homepage.mac.com/plmnice/mexico1.jpg

http://homepage.mac.com/plmnice/mexico2.jpg

Cheers

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Tree Crossing Series
http://srv.fotopages.com/?o=871436&t=2
Another series of photographs that I'm involved
artistically in doing, This is a series that involves two
trees that I found by accident while walking the dog
and I ended up doing a multi season series of the trees.
http://srv.fotopages.com/?o=871435&t=2
The series is quite long, So I'll only post a few here.
Here's a shot where I decided to turn the landscape into
a nice stained glass window.
http://srv.fotopages.com/?o=871438&t=2
Dave :cool:

Hard to take a full image of the "King Kong" building...so I had to settle for the lobby... ;)

http://www3.sympatico.ca/karl004/Gallery/otherp/Empire02.jpg

One more for good measure:


http://www3.sympatico.ca/karl004/Gallery/avlight/Monument.jpg

When I go to car shows, I like to get interesting shots that have more appeal than people who just shoot the whole of each car as they walk by.

I look for different content and angles like this 51 Chevy panel.

http://homepage.mac.com/plmnice/carart.jpg

http://www.kb244.com/images/rebel/bfly_hibicus_9732.jpg
http://www.kb244.com/images/rebel/bfly_hibicus_crop.jpg

more of my stuff at kb244.deviantart.com

So, here is my first attempt at posting a pic to ehMac. It's one of my favorite from Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It's taken at some point in 2000 from the edge of construction of the "Old Bridge," which was destroyed during the war.

http://srv.fotopages.com/?o=891351&t=1

Um...now could someone please explain why the image is so small??? It's not that way in my computer or on the site I posted it to.

Try using http://srv.fotopages.com/?o=891351&t=2

Your image appears to be a generated thumbail... I replaced the link http://srv.fotopages.com/?o=891351&t=1 with a http://srv.fotopages.com/?o=891351&t=2 at the end and it happened to work.

http://srv.fotopages.com/?o=892241&t=2

That's strange...Works fine for me.
It's possible that you can't link too many images in a row,
I haven't tried posting more than 3 images in a row yet.

Dave :cool:

Cool stuff. I'm using dolawren's instructions to post photos via fotopages.com. To the letter.

But all I can get is the very first of the five images. All the others simply generate an advert that says "use Fotopages!" when I preview the post. tongue.gif

I've control-clicked the image into a new window and copied the new URL to the letter...

But all I get is an ad when I try to post it here. What gives?

I can't seem to get past the first image. Maybe I'll try deleting that one and just listing one at a time at fotopages. :confused:

Here goes


http://srv.fotopages.com/?o=804085&t=2

This is the crew (minus me, of course) pushing the Top Fuel bike into place for another high speed pass.


http://srv.fotopages.com/?o=804086&t=2

This is the type of wellsite that I used to work at in Northern Canada. This one is located at Pink Mountain, about fifty km west of the Alaska highway, north of Ft.St John BC.

This is one I took with one of my cameras (Nikon CP5700) yesterday, just messing around at work. No edits...

http://www.fotopages.com/perl/show_photo.pl?id=900021

graemlins/nuts.gif K, let's try this again ..

http://srv.fotopages.com/?o=900021&t=2

I have tons of beautiful pictures from BC (since I moved here last year for UBC) up here:
my temperamental webpage (http://samiam.instantlogic.com/PhotoGallery.ilx)

Artistically, this picture is nothing to speak about, but the scene got to me. This Canada Goose made her nest in a narrow strip of grass between two parking lots in a rundown industrial area of Toronto. It bugged me from a human perspective, but really, the stupid bird didn't know any different...and it didn't care. It's primary concern was its eggs. I included the reflection in the convex mirror to expands on the surroundings. Taken April 20, 2004

http://members.maclaunch.com/kps/cndgoose.jpg

Interesting comment:

This Canada Goose made her nest in a narrow strip of grass between two parking lots in a rundown industrial area of Toronto. It bugged me from a human perspective, but really, the stupid bird didn't know any different...and it didn't care. Here in London we have major problems with Canadian geese. Not sure how they arrived in the first place, but they are very territorial and have no predators, upsetting the eco-balance in all parks. They will probably be culled in large numbers soon. If my fellow Canadians want sweet revenge for the seal culling controversy, then this has to be it!

http://melroseschools.com/mms/tech_ed/briefs/maglev_animation.gif
This is a test to see if I can post motion gifs

Dave :cool:

Here is a shot after my son was born. He was a day old and his Grandpa is holding him for the first time.

http://www.rjantz.com/images/Grandpa.jpg

Algonquin in August (2003)

http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/915/marcofing.jpg

[ April 25, 2004, 02:14 PM: Message edited by: zigzagry ]

You can't tell it's Algonquin, but the short boots are my riding boots. This was taken last year during a two day horseback trip through Algonquin.

http://www.schiedel-webb.com/boots.jpg

Hey, I just tried Fotopages.com, thanks for the tip, folks.

And here's a picture of The Cat, with his usual 6pm question.

http://srv.fotopages.com/?o=932869&t=2

Here's another one that I stuck on Fotopages.com

A typical Gulf Islands eagles perch scene, near where I live.

http://srv.fotopages.com/?o=933073&t=2

this shot is taken from the peak of Blue Heaven at kickinghorse in Golden B.C. at around 10 am in mid febuary
(2001)( before the they put the chairlift up to the peak.)

you're looking at part of the columbia river valley.

I hope someday I can call Golden home again. It still feels like it.

http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/693/columrivrvalley.jpg

i sent this one in to a NASA affiliated, earth science, website. They posted it but could not explain what it was.

I had a number of people with military and nasa email addresses asking for a copy so i figured I'd share this with the community.

this is taken from my backyard in july 2002. The band stretched all the way across the sky from west to east horrizons.


http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/1033/skyannfrmhell.jpg

[ April 25, 2004, 03:07 PM: Message edited by: zigzagry ]

http://www.flyingmonkeys.org/~mcsimpson/archives/2004/04/27/seattles_window_to_the_future.php

http://www.flyingmonkeys.org/~mcsimpson/archives/2004/04/22/leaning_tower.php

Got this shot walking out of Variety Village on Danforth Ave in Toronto. This was Monday night after the brief thunderstorm. The star caught in the tree is Venus. Unfortunately you can't see Mars in the photo.

http://www.schiedel-webb.com/tree.jpg

It's tough being trapped in a bus shelter...

http://members.maclaunch.com/kps/bus_shelter.jpg

...and now some industrial heavy metal.

http://members.maclaunch.com/kps/industrial.jpg

http://www.flyingmonkeys.org/~mcsimpson/archives/2004/04/29/flowers.php

http://www.flyingmonkeys.org/~mcsimpson/archives/2004/04/30/classic_porsche.php

shot of my friend taken in the photography room at my school.

The wall is photoshoped in cuz the lighting was poor.

http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/6579/ianweb.jpg

http://www.flyingmonkeys.org/~mcsimpson/archives/2004/05/02/sunset.php

Ya just gotta love those boulders which are placed along side driveways of industrial units or shopping malls so tractor trailers don't climb the curb and run over their precious grass. The smaller the driveway, the bigger the rock.

Here's one, but it's a lucky rock. I have no idea how the painted "horseshoe" got there or why.

http://members.maclaunch.com/kps/lucky-rock.jpg
[Photoshop filtering for enhancement only]

http://srv.fotopages.com/?o=1074655&t=2

I just took this shot today using my Minolta Dimage 5
digital camera with a Hoya RM 72 infrared filter.
The image is of the street I live on.

Dave :cool:

:eek:

Dave, that is so hot!!

Man... I've been thinking about getting some filters... Don't know too much about them though. Time to look.

H!

The seller of the filter is on eBay.ca,
Here's a link: Ben Naden (http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewSellersOtherItems&userid=ben.naden&include=0&since=-1&sort=3&rows=50)

You can bid on the filters or "buy them now",
I watched 2 filters go for over the "buy it now" price,
So I paid the "buy it now price" for one of them.

I searched all over the U.S. and found that the
Hoya RM 72 was way over priced.

The seller is in Singapore, But he ships world wide.

If you want to shoot infrared on a digital camera then
first make sure that it can use an infrared filter,
The newer digital cameras can't shoot in infrared.

You can test your digital camera by pointing a remote
control from your T.V. into the lense and press the on
button while you click a photograph, If you see a beam
of light coming from your remote control in your digital
picture...Then you can use the infrared filter with your camera.

You'll need a threaded receiver on your camera as well,
My camera has a 49 mm thread on the fixed lense,
So adding filters is very easy to do.

Dave :cool:

[ May 11, 2004, 07:58 PM: Message edited by: dolawren ]

http://srv.fotopages.com/?o=1083515&t=2

Here's a wider shot of my street,
A little different angle this time.

There are two filters being used in this shot,
One is a U.V. and the other is the Infrared RM 72.

Dave :cool:

I had no idea you could use an infrared filter with a digital camera. You should try converting these images to black & white. Next increase the contrast of the image, this will render the image closer to a true continuous tone infrared image.

I had no idea you could use an infrared filter with a digital camera. You should try converting these images to black & white. I could change the mode of the digital camera to black and
white, But then I wouldn't get the subtle colours and the
surreal atomosphere that I'm trying to get with the filter.

Dave :cool:

Ahem, isn't the definition of infrared shorter wavelengths than the visible spectrum, therefore you should not be able to see colours?

I suspect that what you are observing are subtle tint changes within a monochrome environment. If there are colours, then it is probably a calibration issue with your camera...

B/W does it for me in infra red, it gives that 'nuclear winter' feeling...

B/W does it for me in infra red, it gives that 'nuclear winter' feeling...

Yup, tend to agree with Moscool and raindog61, B&W is the way to go to get that contrasty dark sky, while folliage effect in landscapes.

I'll have to try it in Black and White,
The filter is actually a near infrared filter.

The truer infrared filters 89b, 87c and 87 filters cost a lot more.

Here's some interesting photo galleries for infrared fans:
http://infrareddreams.com/photo_galleries.htm

Dave :cool:

Nice... infrared is kinda hot. I like it.

H!

Here's an image of my street that I shot this morning in
B & W mode using the RM 72 filter and my digital camera.

http://srv.fotopages.com/?o=1096625&t=2

I tried some macros of some flowers,
But they didn't turn out very well.
I think I'll need to do a setup with a tripod.

Dave :cool:

A little wilderness shot:

http://www3.sympatico.ca/karl004/Gallery/upnorth/NorthScape.jpg

[sniff, sniff]

http://members.rogers.com/mymanhenri/ohenri/flowers.jpg

Last year on Feb 14th in Niagara Falls through a Pentax K1000 I saw this ...
http://homepage.mac.com/elmer_12/.Pictures/Photo%20Album%20Pictures/2003-11-04%2021.44.42%20-0800/Image-C39C89DE0F5211D8.jpg

[ May 26, 2004, 03:46 PM: Message edited by: elmer ]

Finally created a Fotopages account. Here's a pic of one of our Himalayan cats, his name is Kobi. He's the best big ol' buddy in the world. graemlins/love2.gif The pic was taken this morning with my new Lumix LC70 camera - it's fantastic. So glad I bought it.

http://srv.fotopages.com/?o=1153943&t=2

Well, this is new territory for me, posting pics here. I did the Fotopage thing. Now, if I understand the directions correctly (sounds complicated), I'll click on the "image" button, and copy the Fotopage url to my pics.
It's an image of Jelli, Fox and Sash.

http://srv.fotopages.com/?o=1153358&t=1

Wow, I did it. Now I have to figure out how to load a bigger picture. I think somebody else had the same problem?

That happened to me when I was testing using "Preview Post" before adding my reply, but I figured it out.

When you open your image in Fotopages, it'll be in its own Fotopages window with their site logos etc. - but control-click on the image that's in the Fotopages window, and select "Open in New Window" from the contextual menu. This will open a new Safari window without Fotopages formatting. Select the URL showing in the new Safari window, and use that one to link to your image.

http://srv.fotopages.com/?o=1155819&t=2

Since cats seem to be the order of the day, here is a shot of my son's three year old cat, "Neo", a Siamese/Tabby cross.

http://homepage.mac.com/plmnice/Neo.jpg

Cheers

smile.gif

Okay, I think that I got it.
Let's try this:
http://srv.fotopages.com/?o=1153358&t=2

Not really a quality photo but the content is their. http://srv.fotopages.com/?o=1173054&t=2


Took me 2 edits but finally posted a pic.This is of my dog Daisy and a bird friend she found sitting on the window sill.

James

[ May 23, 2004, 04:11 PM: Message edited by: James ]

http://www.schiedel-webb.com/invite/Lilly.jpg

Taken with a Canon A20 in good summer sunlight. Minor editing in PhotoShop.

Just thought I'd share my next purchase as I take my next step in the world of Photography:

Minolta Maxxum 5 SLR (http://camera.minolta.ca/Minolta/MinoltaC.nsf/5ff1544cf279673d8525693f0065392d/a03d996eff95808c85256e60006dd538?OpenDocument)

Just to keep this going...come on, where's all the photogs?

Here's my "wanna be" Ansel Adams shot, taken somewhere in Montana:

http://members.maclaunch.com/kps/montana.jpg

Nice shot, kps - not only does it obviously have the subject Adams would have shot, but it has that rhythmic foreground I've seen so many times in his stuff. Love it.

When the sun broke through the clouds after a rain squall in Radium Hot springs, B.C. last weekend, it caused the power wires to sparkle.

http://homepage.mac.com/plmnice/sun.jpg

Cheers

smile.gif

Thanks, elmerus snape...thought you might be interested in seeing the original which was taken several years ago from the driver's window of my 18 wheeler parked on the shoulder of I-90:

http://members.maclaunch.com/kps/mont.jpg

Here's a picture that I took a bit more than a month ago, at the bottom of my driveway. I was photographing the tree in the sunset, the deer just wanted to be in the shot. Originally posted on another discussion board.

http://srv.fotopages.com/?o=999935&t=2

http://axesofevils.com/hive/catnipdreams.JPG

"If I stare at this dang useless plant long enough, it WILL become catnip."

Dwight, a Siamese who is known for wishful thinking. Currently still recovering after losing life #1 while investigating the utterly fascinating inside of a pot full of hot water.

http://axesofevils.com/hive/bluballyhoosammy.JPG

"You WILL burst, dammit!"

After two hours of this Mexican standoff, the balloon got up and walked away.

G/<

Dwight, a Siamese who is known for wishful thinking. Currently still recovering after losing life #1 while investigating the utterly fascinating inside of a pot full of hot water. POOR KITTY!!!! did he jump in from the floor? is he gonna be ok?

cute cats btw smile.gif

http://www.flyingmonkeys.org/~posterboy/archives/2004/06/05/centurion.php

Moonsocket asked:

POOR KITTY!!!! did he jump in from the floor? is he gonna be ok?
cute cats btw I think he leaped off the fridge into the pot. He's fine although it will take some time before he grows all of his belly fur back.

Sammy, who's the balloon intimidator, is too old to climb on top of fridges.

Not my cats, but I hang out with them often.

Here's a cat who is the feline equivalent of myself.

Lance the Heavy Sleeper:

http://axesofevils.com/hive/lance.JPG

G/<

If my cat would stay still long enough to take a photo, I would take many.

In the mean time: http://www.flyingmonkeys.org/~posterboy/archives/2004/06/10/lake_view.php

Interesting, kps. The different cropping and the colours take away that nice rhythmic effect of the posts. However, the colours are great. Still, compared to Ansel Adams, the black and white is lacking range of values or contrast or something. I'm not sure if it's because it's originally a colour photo, or if Adams used to burn-in parts of his pictures. I've always wondered if he did, but if he did it was done very finely so it's not obvious.

Here's one where I did a little processing in colour:
http://homepage.mac.com/elmer_12/.Pictures/Photo%20Album%20Pictures/2003-11-04%2021.44.42%20-0800/Image-C39C56990F5211D8.jpg
It was taken with my Canon a70 digital in a park near Bancroft. There's something about the composition I don't like, but I don't know what it is. Maybe someone could help me.

And here's one with the same shapes in the sky, except this time I didn't create them, they were there! Chichen-Itza, Mexico.
http://homepage.mac.com/elmer_12/.Pictures/Photo%20Album%20Pictures/2004-03-02%2019.48.51%20-0800/Image-62F639846CC511D8.jpg
GratuitousApplesauce, what a perfect moment for making those colours vivid. What film did you use? Or was it digital?

[ June 10, 2004, 10:55 AM: Message edited by: elmerus snape ]

If my cat would stay still long enough to take a photo, I would take many.Heh heh. I know exactly what you mean! We have 2 Himalayan cats. Our Male, Kobi, is a big ol' lug and very easy to photograph (I think he likes it actually). Here's a pic of him (also linked in another thread):

http://srv.fotopages.com/?o=1153943&t=2

Our female, Molly, barely sits still long enough for me to get a good picture of her alone - she's such a funny little scamp. Molly is a blur in every picture I've taken of her, but a while back I did manage to get a small pic of the two asleep together:

http://srv.fotopages.com/?o=1168895&t=2

elmerus snape,

With your question regarding composition, here are a few things I noticed about your photograph. First off, it is a good photograph. The scenery gives a feeling of serenity and the beauty of the lake is captured.

There is a three step method for setting up every photograph you shoot:

Step 1. Know your subject .
Step 2. Focus attention on your subject.
Step 3. Simplify.

This simple Three-Step Method is the secret of every successful photograph ever taken.

So with that in mind, what is the subject? Is it the lake? Is it the tree line? Is it the beach? The eye wonders around the photo, not knowing what the subject is. Perhaps a different point of view would have made the photo better maybe zooming in to the tree line with the lake in the foreground.

The weeds in the foreground and the glare on the water is distracting. You mentioned you were using an A70, so a filter is out of the question, however if I were composing the shot with my SLR, I would have used a diffusing filter to reduce the water glare.

Lastly, to simplify I would just crop the picture in the top right hand corner. It would eliminate all of the distracting elements out of the foreground and really make the picture stand out.

Please keep in mind I am not deliberately ripping your photo apart, just offering some constructive criticism.

For those interested, here are a few sites I visit regularly:

New York Institute of Photography (http://www.nyip.com/)
Take Great Pictures (http://www.takegreatpictures.com/)

Hope this helps.

Posterboy said:

If my cat would stay still long enough to take a photo, I would take many.From my friend's site: http://www.kevinsteele.com/092903_cat.html

"some cats just don't want their picture taken"

The cats I know seem to like being photographed.
Some INSIST on being photographed. They are so vain!

Dwight in "Who cares about Picasso? Watch ME!"

http://axesofevils.com/hive/dwight-or-picasso.JPG

Thanks MaxPower, that's exactly the kind of response I was looking for.

The cats I know seem to like being photographed.
Some INSIST on being photographed. They are so vain!


I know! Our previous cat was like that. This one though, is 2 pounds of crazy in a 1 pound sack.

In a good way, though. smile.gif

Thanks MaxPower, that's exactly the kind of response I was looking for.
No problem at all.

That's why I started this thread. So we can all share our photographs and give/receive constructive criticism with the goal of becoming better photographers. It is sometimes good to also get a non biased opinion.

I only wish I had more photos to share on this thread. Unless you all want to see baby pictures :eek: I think I'll wait until I have something more interesting to share.

Here are a couple of prints shot a few years apart. Both were shot using Kodak infrared with a #25 red filter. The camera was my Nikon F3 with a 28mm 3.5. The infrared renders blue sky remarkably well. It's my film of choice until they discontinue it... :eek:

http://www.globalserve.net/~jlmac/1.jpeg




http://www.globalserve.net/~jlmac/2.jpeg

I haven't been able to take a decent shot of any of our flowers so far this year. I was bout to post a request for technical assistance with our camera when I remembered the control for macro shots. Much better now...

http://schiedel-webb.com/photos/yellow.jpg

mrjimmy,

Those are nice shots. I never could get that style or clarity out of my B&W photography. Now I know the secret.

I think I may just have to go purchase some infrared film and a #25 red filter.

The pictures really have an Old School feel to them. I like it.

mrjimmy...where were those shots taken??

Thanks MaxPower. Old school is a good way to describe what I like to photograph.

Pamela, both shots were taken in Utah, 5 years apart. The 'Tours' shot was Monument Valley on New Years Day 2000. The 'Cowboy' was in a town called Panguitch in 95.

Our Mock Orange shrub is in bloom, with hundreds of highly fragrant 1" flowers.

http://srv.fotopages.com/?o=1349303&t=2

not sure how to post but here goes.
http://homepage.mac.com/therealsocket/.cv/therealsocket/Sites/.Pictures/longexposure.JPG-thumb_269_202.jpg
Photo taken with a Canon A70 digital camera with 15 second exposure. Room was completely dark except for the flashlight i used to wash away my face. No photo editing done to photo(yet).
http://homepage.mac.com/therealsocket/.cv/therealsocket/Sites/.Pictures/clouds.JPG-thumb_269_202.jpg
This photo was taken with my Pentax Spotmatic using expired agfa 50 slide film pushed to 400 and then cross-processed C-41. it was an experiment smile.gif
http://homepage.mac.com/therealsocket/.cv/therealsocket/Sites/.Pictures/flowers.JPG-thumb_269_202.jpg

this photo was taken on the same roll as the cloud smile.gif

hey, it worked!now how do i get them bigger? or maybe thats a good size?

A good size is 800 x 600,
You can use a good photo editor to change the size.

Dave :cool:

Moonsocket, you're posting the thumbnails of your images on .Mac...but don't post your originals they're HUGE. The images you uploaded to .Mac are 3104x2058 pixels, weigh in at a wopping 1MB and at 72ppi they'll be 43"x28". That'll make this page strech a bit. ;)

Download something like GraphicConverter (Versiontracker.com) and reduce the size to what Dave recommended (800x600) or evern a bit smaller. They'll load much faster on .Mac and view better here too.

elmerus snape,

I suppose I could fire up Photoshop and try to get it to look more like an Adams print, but it was supposed to a "wanna be" and not the real thing. ;)

His techniques are well documented in his own books: The Camera, The Negative and The Print. Check them out.

http://iballer.indigofield.com/peggyscove.jpg

That's my first ever panoramic shot and it was stitched together automatically using PhotoStitch. Taken with a Canon S230.

These are from a recent trip to Havana. That place is a photographer's dream.

http://www.globalserve.net/~jlmac/3.jpeg


http://www.globalserve.net/~jlmac/4.jpeg


These were shot using a 28mm 3.5 Nikkor lens and an optical polarizer. The film was Fuji Neopan 1600 ASA shot normal.

mrjimmy, love the style and your images (Utah,Havana). Nicely done, great stuff, hope you'll post more.

This is my cat Jasper on his new... house, I guess.

http://www.jason.toma.ca/images/jasper.jpg

He's staring out the window at a crow. Not sure why, but he's absolutely fascinated by them.

Heh heh - Jasper sure looks like he's enjoying himself! I've been wanting to get a platform like that for our cats.

This is Kobi, our male Seal-Point Himalayan. In this close-up he's laying in his morning sunbeam.

http://srv.fotopages.com/?o=1366178&t=2

...And this is Molly, our female Tortie-Point Himalayan. This is one of those very rare occasions where she's sat still long enough for me to get a decent picture of her. Always such a busy girl!

http://srv.fotopages.com/?o=1366179&t=2

Most of my orchids have finished flowering for the year however this yellow Phalaenopsis decided to end its blooming season with one last flower...

http://srv.fotopages.com/?o=1374043&t=2

This is Kobi, our male Seal-Point Himalayan.A relative of that evil mastermind Mr. Tinkles. Isn't he? ;)

G/<

Mr. Tinkles: Evil does not wear a bonnet!

2 sunsets, 1 storm cloud.

http://axesofevils.com/hive/sunset1.JPG

http://axesofevils.com/hive/sunset2.JPG

http://axesofevils.com/hive/cloud.JPG

iGeek, what camera are you using? Those shots look great but at the bottom of the two sunset pictures there are artifacts where it gets dark.

It's the Nikon Coolpix 4500. Those "artifacts" may be either the lights on buildings, or indeed artifacts but from JPG compression. I did squueze these pix pretty low.

G/<

If you are talking about the bright spots here, they are indeed lights.

http://axesofevils.com/hive/lights.JPG

This is actually the first digital camera (if not the first camera) I've had. A borrowed first generation Xapshot and the Polaroid SX-70 don't really count.

A year of mucking around with it, and maybe I will graduate past the snapshot.

Some more sunsets, one of them eerily looking like something I do NOT want to see over theToronto skyline. Or the skyline of ANY city, for that matter.

http://axesofevils.com/hive/sunset3.JPG
http://axesofevils.com/hive/suns4.JPG
http://axesofevils.com/hive/suns5.JPG

G/<

Sunset shot returning home from Haliburton on Wednesday evening.

http://www.schiedel-webb.com/photos/sunset2.jpg

Here are two more:

P.E.I. 1993

http://www.globalserve.net/~jlmac/6.jpeg


New Mexico 2000

http://www.globalserve.net/~jlmac/5.jpeg

http://srv.fotopages.com/?o=1440084&t=2

http://srv.fotopages.com/?o=1439968&t=2

http://srv.fotopages.com/?o=1447962&t=2

That's really nice Doug,
I've been neglecting my camera duties lately,
It's been too windy here in T.O.

I'll try and get out and do some in the future.
(It's supposed to be windy tomorrow too :( )

Dave :cool:

I feel lucky that I was able to get these shots - guess I was in the right place at the right time! Here's another image from slightly farther away.

http://srv.fotopages.com/?o=1449883&t=2

http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/1354/tig.jpg

Here's a night shot from my Motorola V300 camera phone.

http://www.schiedel-webb.com/photos/rainyroad.jpg

Golden Elder flowers
http://srv.fotopages.com/?o=1509763&t=2

Stella d'Oro Daylily
http://srv.fotopages.com/?o=1509779&t=2

Macified wrote:

Here's a night shot from my Motorola V300 camera phone.

Old School Impressionists would highly approve.

So, how many megapixels? :D :D graemlins/nuts.gif

iG/<

One of my night shots. Lights, camera, wiggly action.

http://axesofevils.com/hive/pointillism.JPG

iG/<

Here is a shot I took last night at dusk (10:40 p.m.) on Wabamum Lake, about 80 kilometers west of Edmonton.

http://homepage.mac.com/plmnice/seba.jpg

Cheers

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And here is another of an abandoned barge stuck in the reeds on the same lake about 11:00 p.m. The one little cloud in the sky caught the last rays of the setting sun.

http://homepage.mac.com/plmnice/seba2.jpg

Cheers

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And this was our campsite at around the same time.

http://homepage.mac.com/plmnice/seba3.jpg

Cheers

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Cola Nut
http://srv.fotopages.com/?o=1546918&t=2

Uncola Nut
http://srv.fotopages.com/?o=1535361&t=2

[ June 29, 2004, 09:42 PM: Message edited by: The Doug ]

Van versus trailer. This sure did wonders to slow down the traffic for quite a while. The firemen took out all the contents from the trailer and lowered it down by hand.

Trailer 1 : Van 0

http://axesofevils.com/hive/trailervsvan.JPG

iG/<

http://srv.fotopages.com/?o=1564563&t=2

http://srv.fotopages.com/?o=1565644&t=2

[ July 01, 2004, 08:59 PM: Message edited by: The Doug ]

Van versus trailer. This sure did wonders to slow down the traffic for quite a while. The firemen took out all the contents from the trailer and lowered it down by hand.

Trailer 1 : Van 0
Hey iGeek - I meant to ask. After you pushed that trailer out into the middle of the road, how long did it take until the van came along and smashed into it? tongue.gif :D

My puppie. Ok well at 80 lbs he's only a puppie in his mind. http://srv.fotopages.com/?o=1222768&t=2

The Dougster inquired:

Hey iGeek - I meant to ask. After you pushed that trailer out into the middle of the road, how long did it take until the van came along and smashed into it?

About 30 seconds. :D graemlins/nuts.gif

The firemen unhitched the trailer just prior to taking it off the van's face. Rest assured that this was not an evil "I gotta photograph an accident" ploy.

Actually, this stretch of Toronto's Jane St. has bad road karma. There's a stupid left hand turn where cars get clipped all the time when they make the turn, and drunken morons keep smashing into one particular utility pole.

Bad Feng Shui, or bad urban planning, take a pick.
Although this still doesn't explain the drunk drivers and the utility pole.

Jane Street's Smash of a Reality Show:
http://probvs.info/hive/smashyreality.JPG

iG/<

[ July 02, 2004, 08:00 PM: Message edited by: iGeeK ]

Ram55 wrote:
"My puppie. Ok well at 80 lbs he's only a puppie in his mind. "

Nice photo. I like him already, and I'm even not a dog person! smile.gif

My canine contribution:

"I'm a blue dog"

http://probvs.info/hive/bluedog.JPG

iG/<

[ July 02, 2004, 07:57 PM: Message edited by: iGeeK ]

http://srv.fotopages.com/?o=1580635&t=2

This was shot using my Minolta Dimage 5 Digital Camera with a
49 mm near infrared Hoya RM-72 filter.

I reduced the image using GraphicCoverter and did some touch
up with unsharp mask.

The image is of a tree that has been allowed to have it's lower
branches grow out, It's typical of tree's found out in the country.
I found the tree while out on a mini holiday last week in Prince
Edward County. (A county that is an island south of Belleville, Ont.)

Dave :cool:

Random collection taken over the last couple of years - both digital and film (both Nikons)

Shots (http://www.themose.com/shots/)

http://srv.fotopages.com/?o=1600570&t=2

It's serious ball business man....

http://www.abrraxis.com/finnball.jpeg

This is Pearl. Flock guardian dog. She is NOT tame so quite hard to catch and photograph. She is a unique breed so thought I'd show her off a bit.

www.innovativelogistix.com/pearl1.jpg (http://www.innovativelogistix.com/pearl1.jpg)

Bo

What a wonderful thread! I'm a child of images. Seeing all these pictures has inspired me to finally finish off my photo website with my New Zealand pics. I'll post the link ASAP.

Sadly I lost many of my NZ pics to a crashed PowerBook HD. (I thought Macs were immortal!) But I try and look on my loss as a motivator to take more pictures (and better ones at that!)... oh... and to back up my HD with neurotic zeal. ;)

Cynical Critic wrote:

"I thought Macs were immortal!"

Macs are immortal (in more ways than one) but if you drive a wooden stake...

I got a stack of completely dead HD's on my desk as a material witness for my clients that backing up just MIGHT be a good idea.

iG/<

The Face of the Storm.

http://probvs.info/hive/stormface.JPG

iG/<

Or like, moments before the arrival of the Gigantic Alien Mothership, eh? tongue.gif

If you'd posted the pic on July 4th, it would have corresponded nicely with US TV stations playing Indepence Day (ID4) for the millionth time. :D

A stake, eh... ?

If you'd posted the pic on July 4th, it would have corresponded nicely with US TV stations playing Indepence Day (ID4) for the millionth time. :D

A stake, eh... ?

The Doug was worried:

"Or like, moments before the arrival of the Gigantic Alien Mothership, eh?"

The way the glass in the windows was flexing, I was hoping the Mothership would show up. I need to go home to K-PAX, the weather is much better there. :D graemlins/nuts.gif

iG/<

Aaaaah my post was carbon-copied! Maybe it was the aliens... not again!!!

Here's my daughter. Canon A70, unretouched.

http://pagefamily.homeunix.org/albums/caele2003/adw.sized.jpg

http://pagefamily.homeunix.org/albums/caele2003/ady.sized.jpg

Thought you folks might enjoy seeing the picture I shot in our back yard.

These are three Falcon chicks of the species MERLIN.

They are one of only four found in Alberta and a pair nested in our Spruce tree for the first time this year. They are VERY noisy, as are the parents with a very harsh ki-kiu-ki-ki call.

The remain here all winter, living on Bohemian Waxwings and English Sparrows.

Sadly they have eaten/driven all the songbirds from our neighbourhood.
The aerial acrobatics during the kill process are fascinating to watch. An ugly but real side of nature.

http://homepage.mac.com/plmnice/chicks.jpg

I apologize for the size of the picture but it was necessary to see the chicks.

Cheers

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Incidently, this is the proud Papa

http://homepage.mac.com/plmnice/adult.jpg

Cheers

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Sinc, that's very interesting!

Last year about this time we had two adult Merlin, and one youngster, hanging around for about 6 weeks. I think the adults were teaching the young bird to hunt. They spent most of their time on our neighbour's t.v. antenna tower. Very noisy raptors indeed - they call constantly.

I was desperate to catch some images of them - but the digital camera I was using last year didn't have optical zoom. So, I tried taking some shots with the camera through binoculars. The resulting pictures weren't great, but were of good enough quality for a raptor expert at McGill to confirm my I.D. of these birds as Merlins.

http://srv.fotopages.com/?o=1660453&t=2

http://srv.fotopages.com/?o=1660459&t=2

http://srv.fotopages.com/?o=1664417&t=2


Edit: Added last picture.

[ July 11, 2004, 10:44 AM: Message edited by: The Doug ]

Gull. Species: Annoyingus rapax. Well, actually Larus glaucescens, but the former label would have been more apt..

http://axesofevils.com/hive/gull.JPG

iG/<

Here's a few Pictures of my local bike trail. http://srv.fotopages.com/?o=1671384&t=2

http://srv.fotopages.com/?o=1671390&t=2

[ July 12, 2004, 12:27 AM: Message edited by: Hypno ]

I think fotopages.com does not allow for remote hosting of the images. i.e they can be seen on their site, but not anywhere else.
No, They allow it for the moment, I asked in their forum about
that, The reply was that you can at the present but that may
change in the future.

You can also post images for free at www.imagebay.org (http://www.imagebay.org)

Dave :cool:

Hypno,

I think fotopages.com does not allow for remote hosting of the images. i.e they can be seen on their site, but not anywhere else.
Yahoo! sites do the same thing. In case of photosites.com, it's apparent that they want people to see their advertising.

Just post the full URLs to the fotopages.com. I went there and saw your biketrail shots just fine.

iG/<

Thanks iGeek but it looks like i got it to work now

http://srv.fotopages.com/?o=1682826&t=2

Realism vs. Surrealism.
OK, both are realism, really smile.gif

http://axesofevils.com/hive/real-surreal.JPG

iG/<

http://srv.fotopages.com/2/1721286.jpg

http://srv.fotopages.com/2/1721289.jpg

http://srv.fotopages.com/2/1734895.jpg

Daddy Long-Legs are not really spiders - although they're in the larger Arthropod genus, they are separately classified. Tell that to someone who has one crawling up their leg. They'll thank you for that tid-bit of information.

Cool daddy long legs pic, Doug.

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Here's the closest I can get with the camera's zoom:

http://axesofevils.com/hive/bopzoom.JPG

Here is the shot through binoculars. Shaky hands don't help, but I will eventually manage a sharp shot of this bird. He sure hangs around the neighbourhood a lot.

Can anyone identify this bird? Red tailed hawk, possibly? I'm still not familiar with Canadian/Ontario bird species.

http://axesofevils.com/hive/bop.JPG

iG/<

[ July 19, 2004, 05:29 PM: Message edited by: iGeeK ]

I'm tempted to say that it's an immature Sharp Shinned Hawk. What I'll do is send a copy of the pic to someone I know in the Raptor Research centre at McGill. I'll let you know what they say...

Daddy Long-Legs are not really spiders Hmmm. Eight legs. Creepy. Sounds like a spider to me. *Shiver*

iGeek - I heard back from my raptor-expert contact this morning. You're right, it's definitely a Red Tailed Hawk...

The Doug - kudos for the great photos of flowers. That's hard to do.

Thanks TD. Although not immature, it's definitely young.

"[Red-tailed hawk] has one of the largest ranges of hawks in North America and has a wider ecological tolerance or adaptability than any other hawk."

No kidding. This one adapted itself to live right in the city. Hunting grounds: a golf field.

Yesterday it had to do a rather undignified retreat from a flock of seagulls. United they flew, and attacked.

iG/<

Maxpower shivered:

Hmmm. Eight legs. Creepy. Sounds like a spider to me. *Shiver*

They are not spiders because:

a) Spiders have two definite body divisions: cephalothorax and abdomen. Daddy long-legs have no body divisions.

b) Unlike spiders DLL's are not capable of biting. They have no fangs or venom glands.

c) Unlike spiders DLL's have only a single pair of eyes.

d) They can't weave webs. No silk glands.

Another name for DLL's is "harvestmen", something which actually always had some creepy association for me. But they are completely harmless, if indeed somewhat ominous looking. But put a daddy long-lengs beside a real spider, and they immediately become non threatening. And likely the spider's lunch.

iG/<

[ July 20, 2004, 12:27 PM: Message edited by: iGeeK ]

The Doug - kudos for the great photos of flowers. That's hard to do.
Aw shucks. Thanks for the compliment!

Here's the latest of my little guy...

http://www.rjantz.com/images/IMG_0582.jpg