^^^ but it's a great start! :hello:

These are from last week Wings over Houston airshow.

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Supposedly one of two flyable Me-262 in the world
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Nice! Thanks for sharing, Tu.

Here's a few of the distractions we were dealing with at OUSCI.

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Those are awesome!! Not really a fair fight though! LoL!

Now I am really upset I really love air shows !!!!

Definitely some cool rides...

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Was out for a drive yesterday and after some screaming from the back seat I quickly turned around and caught this guy hanging out next to the highway. Got a couple snaps of him on the tree then one as he was flying away.

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-u.../Eagle%2B2.jpg

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-M.../Eagle%2B1.jpg

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-L.../Eagle%2B3.jpg

Always a treat to see one of these...even more so to capture one on film.

I did a little waterfowl hunting today.

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Autofocus missed :( Still thought it was cool though.
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How cool is that? Great shot!!

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Looks like you limited out today!

Gear down......check

Full flaps........check

Rudder deployed.......check.

:)


I have a target rich environment for waterfowl this time of year, don't often get good shooting light like this though. We say a high of 40* today but the wind was clocking 17 mph so it was cold. Pic's make it look warm. :)

Agreed! Great job capturing the last second mechanics of that little guy's landing.

Now these aren't necessarily the greatest of pictures...but the subject is of note. I took these about 7:30 this morning out my bedroom door. The hay bales are about 400' from my house. I first saw the critter jump on a mouse out in the field when he was about halfway across the field closer to the house. I got a few shots of him in the field before he made his way over to the bales.

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-U...o/DSC05964.JPG


Just like a dog, he scratched a bit, rubbed his face on the hay...then finally settled down for a nap...

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I did catch him mid jump up onto the hay bale...

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The wife said he slept up there until about 9:30 am or so before he snuck away.

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That guys appears pretty comfy in his surroundings......socialized coyotes in your hood?

We get them around the resort areas in Central Oregon, at the family ranch in NE Oregon not so much.......they're in full stealth mode up there in open range country.

I've lived out here at this place for 14 years, that is the second time ever I've laid eyes on one. We hear them quite regularly howling in the middle of the night, but you don't seem them in the daylight typically.

It was surreal... The wife was none too pleased when she saw how effortlessly he jumped up onto that bale. We've got a regular 4' cedar picket fence around our back yard that our small dogs stay inside. Pretty certain he could get over it if he really wanted too.

I see a coyote every other day here... lots of golf courses -- lots of rabbits and other nutritious food for them. They could care less about humans... they seem really well fed! LOL

GREAT photos Lance! Grainy or not -- you usually see stuff when you don't have a camera with you.

Thanks Greg. Yeah, it was the lack of light that killed them. If it had been sunny and not overcast they would have turned out pretty good. That's with a Sony Point and Shoot BTW, in the auto setting. :D I love this camera.

Pretty cool pictures. We see them a bunch on the local trails sometimes they trot with us sometimes they run away. Personally I prefer when they run away

They're thick at the ranch, burrows in draws 100 yds from the house and the multiple howling choruses down the river valley at night can get downright spooky. They've been harmless over the 100+ years the family has had the ranch there's been no human encounter issues. When they pack up and get on deer it's not pretty........so when we see them it's .223/.308 time.

no, this is what im picturing

If you look real close to the tailman.....thats Charley. I recognize the finger.

LMAO!!
Good eye!!:trophy-1302:

Wow what a clear picture. nice.

Just a thought!
 

As a submariner thinks ..... that's cool, however there are more airplanes in the ocean than there are submarines in the air!!

Nice pix thou!

Bird's were out enjoying a brief moment of winter sun yesterday.

http://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-z...zH9sFTp-X2.jpg

The dogs enjoy every day........

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Man that's a good looking Dane! Great pictures fer sure!

Napa quake
 

Here is an interesting one that I didn't get around to posting in the quake thread. It's pretty amazing when you think about how the plate shifted liked this for a few miles up the valley.

In this picture the crack was between 8"-10" and shifter about a foot.

http://i855.photobucket.com/albums/a...psdenknuid.jpg

The Great Dane had fun today playing bird dog. :)

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Neat picture, Jeff. Really drives home the power of the earth

Haven't been on in quite a while, figured I would show off a couple shots of the vehicles I have now.

wow
 

Sieg, do you have the metadata for the bird in the tree pic?

That Napa shot is awesome too...that's the only thing I don't miss about Cali..and was close to that in Sonoma County

Camera Canon EOS 7D
ISO 500
Focal Length 250mm (400mm in 35mm)
Aperture f/6.3
Exposure Time 0.0025s (1/400)
Name _MG_6902.JPG
Size 3456 x 5184
Date Taken 2014-12-16 11:03:31
Date Modified 2014-12-16 11:03:31

File Size 7.24 MB
Flash flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode
Metering pattern
Exposure Program normal program
Exposure Bias 0 EV
Exposure Mode auto
White Balance auto
Color Space unknown

Lens Canon 55-250 EFS STM

Nice, Thanks
 

Cool shot..I couldn't replicate being on Nikon gear...Matrix or spot focus?

nm, just saw the metering pattern

Just for DBasher........

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:rules:

Few selects from over the years
 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...nk/porsche.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...unk/snaps2.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...unk/snaps1.jpg

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Toter Taxi.....

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