Very nice. You make them come alive Seig!!

Beautiful photos . you guys had me chasing a big 6" yellow and black butterfly with my camera to take a picture of it while my dog was trying to eat it. She was no help! Only got a shot of it about 15' away and from the front not the colorful side.

I HOPE SOMEONE GOT A VID OF YOU AND YOUR DOG CHASING IT LOLOLOLOOLOL

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You should see this idiot trying to catch hummingbirds in the yard. :sieg:

Them bastages aren't easy to photograph! I had one framed up in good lighting and composition and was just depressing the shutter to lock focus and shoot and my daughter yell's "dad where are MY shoes" and off it goes! :bang:

My wife was out for a walk the other day and took these pictures. The owl blends in pretty well to it's surroundings.


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Really enjoy those birds, we have 5 or 6 residents at the ranch in Echo and a couple in the orchard behind the house. :thumbsup:

Great shots Sieg, a true artist.

Nice Dale, amazing ability to blend in.

Thanks mate :thumbsup:

A few I took last week in Cape Cod.

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69 Camaro Desert Pic Nice

ooooooh humpback whales. That's awesome. Was it by chance or were you on a whale watch cruise?

I was on a private whale watch with with my wife and my dog. We were on a smaller 28' boat.
A few years ago in Argentina I got these photos.

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Awesome, I was on a whale watch in Victoria Island Vancouver, watching
Orca whales, but we couldn't get close enough to get a good picture.

Few shots of some Oregon "Varmints" from my quick road trip to Coos Bay yesterday. These Elk are a common site in the meadows along Hwy 36 just east of Reedsport at beginning of the Siuslaw River Valley.

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Played with the flash on second curtain exposure last night.........this could get addicting.

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I'm no photographer but I thought maybe some of you would like to see places you might not have seen before. I know I like looking at what the world has to offer even if I'll never see it with my own eyes.

Today, I bring you a part of the Oklahoma panhandle believe it or not. Most of the panhandle is flat and, quite frankly, nothing special to look at. This is the Black Mesa Nature preserve though. I hiked to the top of Black Mesa which is OK's highest point at just under 5000 ft.

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This little town in the distance is Kenton

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You're looking at New mexico here
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This is why it's called Black Mesa. It's covered in basalt which is volcanic rock from eons ago

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You sure you weren't on HWY 38.... and passing the Elk preserve.

Looks like a great place Trey :thumbsup:

Tail end of a thunderstorm system that rolled through yesterday.

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Played with the remote flash a little after that...........

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Nice sieg.

Thanks Scott. It's interesting what you can do with the remote flash. The silhouette looks cool

Woke up to find this dude in the yard.... Ya think he was eying the pool???




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That looks like a Great BIG Blue Heron!?

It is the largest North American heron and, among all extant herons, it is surpassed only by the Goliath Heron and the White-bellied Heron. It has head-to-tail length of 91–137 cm (36–54 in), a wingspan of 167–201 cm (66–79 in), a height of 115–138 cm (45–54 in), and a weight of 2.1–3.6 kg (4.6–7.9 lb).[4][5][6] Notable features include slaty flight feathers, red-brown thighs, and a paired red-brown and black stripe up the flanks; the neck is rusty-gray, with black and white streaking down the front; the head is paler, with a nearly white face, and a pair of black plumes running from just above the eye to the back of the head. The feathers on the lower neck are long and plume-like; it also has plumes on the lower back at the start of the breeding season. The bill is dull yellowish, becoming orange briefly at the start of the breeding season, and the lower legs gray, also becoming orangey at the start of the breeding season. Immature birds are duller in color, with a dull blackish-gray crown, and the flank pattern only weakly defined; they have no plumes, and the bill is dull gray-yellow.[3][7][8] Among standard measurements, the wing chord is 43–49.2 cm (17–19.4 in), the tail is 15.2–19.5 cm (6.0–7.7 in), the culmen is 12.3–15.2 cm (4.8–6.0 in) and the tarsus is 15.7–21 cm (6.2–8.3 in).[9][10]
The heron stride is around 22 cm (9 in), almost in a straight line. Two of the three front toes are generally closer together. In a track the front toes as well as the back often show the small talons.[11]
The subspecies differ only slightly in size and plumage tone, with the exception of subspecies occidentalis, which as well as normal colored birds, also has a distinct white morph, known as the Great White Heron (not to be confused with the Great Egret, for which "Great White Heron" was once a common name). It is found only in south Florida and some parts of the Caribbean. The Great White Heron differs from other Great Blues in bill morphology, head plume length, and in having a total lack of pigment in its plumage. This is mainly found near salt water, and was long thought to be a separate species. Birds intermediate between the normal morph and the white morph are known as Würdemann's Heron; these birds resemble a "normal" Great Blue with a white head.
The theory that Great White Heron may be a separate species (A. occidentalis) from Great Blue Heron has again been given some support by David Sibley.[12]
Voice[edit source | editbeta]
The call is a harsh croak. The heron is most vocal during the breeding season, but will call occasionally at any time of the year in territorial disputes or if disturbed.

That is a bada$$ pic of what we think is a big friggen bird!!

Rare?

WTF, sieg, you sit home and read the encyclopedia all daY? that was quite an explanation....:lol:

Not so rare around here. Wikipedia is always only a few keystrokes away!

Well........there are these seemingly little known websites called Google and Wikipedia that can really make a person look smart in short order.

Though the family ranch in Echo, OR has one of the larger Heron Rookeries in the state so I've done a little research prior to GW's exposure of the prehistoric beauties. They are exceptional to watch stalkers of prey around rivers, lakes, and ponds in our region.

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Saw this while making my lunch for tomorrow. Not photographic genius but kind of cool.

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Life is awfully good thanks to this wonderful woman!

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I usually wouldn't share images of this nature out of fear of decapitation but I consider this a real trophy out of the thousands of shots I've taken in the past months. :underchair:

A picture like that posted would have me in the dog house so fast. :smiley_smack:

I know, I know.......I couldn't resist. It wasn't a pose pic (those don't happen)........my daughter and her were on the trampoline last night and she was recovering from getting bounced off her feet and I quick-snapped two shots. From a photog perspective it's more "I can't believe this shot from that situation" scenario.

The dogs never complain about their glamour shots? :sieg:

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Great stuff as always Seig!!!!

So.......a car buddy puts a water feature in his backyard and a few Chorus Frog's take up habitat in the five star resort he created.......we're having a couple beers and he goes on a major rant about the noise these little *#@!*!* frogs are making. He's tried numerous tactics to eradicate them with little success. Well........I found this unfortunate guy in my yard 5 weeks ago and set him out in the sun to mummify and built this little gift for my buddy yesterday

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Presentation tomorrow.........:unibrow:

That is killer! His own little amphitheater in there. LOL

that's just wrong.... but funny as hell

You are one sick unit Sieg, I love it.

Awesome I love it!

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For clarification - I didn't kill the little guy, found him deceased and recycled him. :unibrow:

Some friends deserve more special attention that others! :D

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Thats Awesome.... You're The Man!!!

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