Random pictures. - Let's try to have a random picture thread.

[wyattgarrett79]

Wow

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[Cheese]

My wife planted several of these around the garden to ward off garden pests. They seem to work very well but I was more consumed by the very delicate form and the color.

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[six-point socket II]

Beautiful! Oh, and I like those planting sacks on the fence!

Kind regards,
Oliver

 

[BarneyD]

This little guy has been hanging around in my shop for the last week or so.
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[Michael Kellough]

[member=61023]BarneyD[/member] unless you have a bunch of other bugs in your shop, take the little mantis outside before it starves.

 

[Michael Kellough]

Young cucumber this morning.

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[Michael Kellough]

On a different scale, somewhere between Huntsville, Ala and Washington DC around 8pm Eastern time, July 22, ‘24.
I really appreciate computational photography. iPhone 14 Pro.

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[BarneyD]

[member=61023]BarneyD[/member] unless you have a bunch of other bugs in your shop, take the little mantis outside before it starves.

Thanks, Michael. He was a short walk away from the overhead door which I always leave open during nice weather. And, indeed when I came back to the shop after lunch, he was gone. They're good critters.

 

[Sparktrician]

This year's elusive crocus, found in my yard for only about five days per year. 

Lumix G9, Nocticron 42.5mm lens, f/6.3, 1/160, ISO 200

 

[Sparktrician]

Fox kit in my neighbor's yard. 

Lumix G9, 50-200mm at 200mm, F/4, 1/500, ISO 1600.

 

[Cheese]

I like the fox photos Sparky...especially the 2nd one.  [smile]

Talk about elusive crocus, ours never even came up this year...not one.  [sad]  And to make things worse, the mulberry tree produced zilch and the 2 apricot trees flowered and then promptly dropped all of their fruit.

I think it was a combo of a very warm winter along with all of the rain that screwed things up.

 

[smorgasbord]

Vacationing in Carmel, CA this past spring:
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Shot with an old Sony RX-10 iii, hand-held. One from a burst as they flew overhead.

 

[rmwarren]

Tons of depth in this, it's my mobile device wallpaper.

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RMW

 

[rmwarren]

Another shot with lots of light happening. Pilings from a 1920's life saving station, early AM in summer.

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RMW

 

[Crazyraceguy]

This truck does not exist. It's a Photoshop job I did many years ago, just found the pic again.
The real truck is just a normal single cab.

 

[Sparktrician]

I like the fox photos Sparky...especially the 2nd one.  [smile]

Talk about elusive crocus, ours never even came up this year...not one.  [sad]  And to make things worse, the mulberry tree produced zilch and the 2 apricot trees flowered and then promptly dropped all of their fruit.

I think it was a combo of a very warm winter along with all of the rain that screwed things up.

 

Thank you, O Cheesy One.  I feel your pain.  A few years ago I got a shot of an Autumn Fires daylily in my yard.  Two days later, it was eaten by a deer.  It's never returned. 

Lumix G9, 12-60mm at 60mm, f/4, 1/30, ISO 200.

 

[Sparktrician]

I also shot an Eastern Tiger Swallowtail butterfly, dark form, on the Skyline Drive.  She patiently waited until my work was done before she moved on. 

Lumix G9, 12-60mm at 60mm, f/4.5, 1/320, ISO 200.

 

[Cheese]

Shot this in the backyard about 8 years ago.

Nikon D500, 75-300mm at 300mm, f/14, 1/800, ISO 1250.

Interesting that the bokeh is roughly the same in both butterfly photos, yet the exposure values are radically different.

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[Michael Kellough]

Both the LUMIX and Nikon butterflies have pleasant bokeh.

 

[Michael Kellough]

Five years ago I was lucky enough to witness the metamorphosis of a black swallowtail caterpillar into a butterfly.

The caterpillars like to eat dill.
After feeding enough it went looking for a safe place to roost.
It took a couple days for me to find the roost.

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