Digital Photography Thread

[Scout]

Wow, Bob – that picture was breathtaking. Makes me want to head west.



While I’m here I thought I’d add a link. In my spare time, I run a website for Blackwater Refuge in Maryland, and we’re in our third year with our online Osprey Cam.



This year we had two successful chicks. They’re both flying now and spend a lot of time out of the nest, but our cam galleries are full of amazing photos of their upbringing.



Running the cam can be quite a challenge. Our problems have included everything from lightning strikes to red ants to vultures, which have all managed to take down the cam for short periods, but we’re still up and probably will be until the ospreys migrate south in late August.



Here’s the link if you want to check out the live cam or the galleries:

Osprey Cam

Edited by: Warduke at: 7/27/03 8:06 am

[xita]

So Garfield was in town and we went to puff and spuckie's wedding and while it at it we went up and down California. He took many more pics than I did and I am sure he'll share later, these are some of mine. Mostly of the Golden Gate Bridge and of Berkeley where I went to college and I hadn't visited in 9 years



xita.org/calitrip/calitrip.html

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"The suspense is terrible. I hope it'll last."

-Willie Wonka

[concrete]

Thanks for these pics, Xita ! A great fore-taste ‘cause I’ll be in S.F. in a few weeks time (no doubt I’m gonna have to do some damage control after you and especially G rampaged it ) and you’ve captured the atmosphere really well! It is such a fabulous town. Thank you.

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.

Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious. ...

[Domaris]

Brian, I stopped in the middle of the road and looked like a TOURIST, just to take pics FOR YOU! :P You're gonna love it (and laugh).. Now u just have to use photoshop to add Lil Trevor.. ghehehe



in the "pics" album :P

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those who want an explanation.. I live in the town next to where Celine Dion was born.. and at the borders of Charlemagne(where she's born) they put this.. TERRIBLE scuplture.. I think it's SUPPOSED To be the earth with celine's name on it.. anyway everybody around here HATE it.. :P that's the story..

"Rock my world!" - Gia

"Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way, you'll be a mile from them, and you'll have their shoes!" - Somebody

[Warduke]

Nice pics xita.



Isa, it's the sculpture that will go on and on!!!

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Lil' Trevor : Always the life of the party.

[Willow wtch]

Just a picture I took in Iguazu waterfalls last week...

[BytrSuite]

Ooh, that's gorgeous, Julieta.





Heh, La Celine!

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"Oh, good! I was hoping to add theft, endangerment and insanity to my list of things I did today."
"Ah! You, too?"
(Stitch laughs delightedly)

[Warduke]

Julieta, that's an amazing shot, just beautiful.

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Lil' Trevor : Always the life of the party.

[petal of roses]

Here is a sunset picture I took a couple of weeks ago.

[littlecrazy80]

Yesterday I was in a cavern in Bavaria where I took this pic. I think it looks really interesting.



*lil´c*

Let´s get happy and let´s be gay. germany´s grand prix song



Check this out

[xita]

littlecrazy80, I wonder what your meaning of "interesting" is, sure does kinda seem like something. Very good picture though





petal of roses, that is a beautiful sunset!

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"The suspense is terrible. I hope it'll last."

-Willie Wonka

[littlecrazy80]

yeah xita, one woman said, that it looks like a big penis. Not me.



*lil´c*

Let´s get happy and let´s be gay. germany´s grand prix song



Check this out

[urnofosiris]

Petal, that was beautiful! Dutch sunsets are the best of course.

Lil'c you certainly have an eye for 'interesting' objects.

I need to get of my lazy butt and upload some of the pics I took when I was in the US.

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Coffee, Food, Kisses and Gay Love........Get it while you are hot

[petal of roses]

Here is a picture of a butterfly that visited my garden.



xita, glad you liked the sunset picture. Thank you for your pictures of California and especially the pics of the Golden Gate Bridge. I stood on the GGB 10 years ago. How time flies.



DrG, thank you, you're right Dutch sunsets are the best.

Looking forward to your pics of the US.



petal of roses

[dulcinea]

I've been out and about today trying out my new fuji finepix S602. So far, I'm loving it!



the cat

daffodils in the garden

the river



the rest of my days photography is here

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subtle salvation in poems we know, hiding our heads in a shadow of home,
now i wasn't looking for wreaths or for bells,
just someone to listen to stories i tell
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stories I tell - Toad the Wet Sprocket

[Warduke]

Great pics dulcinea. I read good things about the 602, you should have a lot of fun with it

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Lil' Trevor : Always the life of the party.

[BBOvenGuy]

Folks, do not try this yourself, even if you're a professional driver on a closed course. But I couldn't resist. I've driven past this sign many many times now, and I had to share.

"The first task of anyone, lest you get canceled, is to entertain people, because they ain't there for message." - Dick Wolf

[maudmac]

Okay. I've been holding these in for a long time. I figured it was time to send them out into the world. Please don't repost any of these anywhere, okay? (I've found my pictures in some of the weirdest places, with no idea how in the world they could have ended up there. ) So...just ask me.



Dead Things - Don't go here if seeing a cricket, cat, fish(head), and snake who have all shuffled off this mortal coil is going to squick you out.



Flora - Happy pretty flowers and green stuff (and some mushrooms).



Non-Pet Critters - Random fauna such as goats, a horse, gorilla, tiger, slugs, and one freaky humanoid creature, etc.



Pet Critters - My babies!



Places and Things - Graffiti, flags, kudzu, cars, buildings, trash, waterfalls, the moon, gravestones, etc.



Spiders - All but one (the tarantula at the zoo) were my guests at one time or another.



Trains and Tracks - Trains...tracks.



Some of these pictures are older and taken with the still feature of a Sony Handicam, but most are taken with a Sony Cybershot. It should be obvious which ones are which because the Handicam ones suck. I think the still on the Handicam is like one megapixel. Soooo lame.



Anyway, hope y'all like.

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Green green grass surrounding me / Wind is blowing through the trees / Sun is bright and I feel happy -- Shonen Knife

[Warduke]

Very interesting street there Bob





Great stuff Holley, you've got a good eye



Although I could do without the spider pics

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Lil' Trevor : Always the life of the party.

Edited by: Warduke at: 8/10/03 9:53 pm

[maudmac]

Thanks, Brian.



I took the tarantula ones at the zoo just for you.

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Green green grass surrounding me / Wind is blowing through the trees / Sun is bright and I feel happy -- Shonen Knife

[xita]

Bob, that's in my neck of the woods but it never occurred to me that it had the same spelling, duh!



Holley and this is my favorite of all your pics



www.maudmac.com/pictures/...lhead.html

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"The suspense is terrible. I hope it'll last."

-Willie Wonka

[jamboree]

Holley, very glad to see there was a rainbow flag at five point south.

[maudmac]

Thanks, xita, I like the dollhead, too. It sure gave me a scare amidst all the trash and very terrible smell of fishheads. (Oh, yes, there were a whole lot more than just that one up in Dead Things. A whole pile of them. Bleh. Which I didn't spot until after I'd nearly had a heart attack seeing a tiny little head...)



Kay, isn't it great? I think they only started a few years ago, so you probably missed it. They were hanging all over Five Points. I was surprised and very happy when I first saw them.

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Green green grass surrounding me / Wind is blowing through the trees / Sun is bright and I feel happy -- Shonen Knife

Edited by: maudmac  at: 8/11/03 1:09 am

[Urn of Osiris]

Had a little fun with pictures of my son playing on a sculpture. He's still trying to figure out how he did

this.

Urn of Osiris

Peace is not the absence of conflict; it's the absence of inner conflict. Unknown
When we stand up, we are standing up for everybody. Each of us needs to know, in fact, that we are rainbows in the clouds... for everybody. MAYA ANGELOU

[xita]

urnie, hee that's very funny . Did you have your camera on a tripod?

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"The suspense is terrible. I hope it'll last."

-Willie Wonka

[Urn of Osiris]

No, I didn't. Oddly it was very random but as I flipped through everything just seemed to overlay perfectly. Although a certain Kitten (thank you) hooked me up with some fantastic software that made this a piece of cake.

Urn of Osiris

Peace is not the absence of conflict; it's the absence of inner conflict. Unknown
When we stand up, we are standing up for everybody. Each of us needs to know, in fact, that we are rainbows in the clouds... for everybody. MAYA ANGELOU

[xita]

umm software? Loves me some software.. can I ask what?

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"The suspense is terrible. I hope it'll last."

-Willie Wonka

[Urn of Osiris]

Adobe photoshop 7



I've had it here for months and finally got around to installing it. Damn it is just fantastic. Although I have an older version so it wasn't difficult to adjust.

Urn of Osiris

Peace is not the absence of conflict; it's the absence of inner conflict. Unknown
When we stand up, we are standing up for everybody. Each of us needs to know, in fact, that we are rainbows in the clouds... for everybody. MAYA ANGELOU

[xita]

Ahh thank you, of course! Photoshop!

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"The suspense is terrible. I hope it'll last."

-Willie Wonka

[urnofosiris]

Petal, you really have an eye for beauty (your wallpapers are proof enough of that). Unfortunately, I have not seen many butterflies this year.



Urn, that is really funny and cute.



Edited to add: I have finally uploaded some of the pics I took in LA and SF. They can be found here. Just click on the little pics if you want to view the larger version. The last picture wasn't taken by me but by Xita's girlfriend Sean, but hey, it was still my camera.

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Coffee, Food, Kisses and Gay Love........Get it while you are hot

Edited by: DrG at: 8/19/03 8:58 am