I bought these years ago. Theyy seem to be the only dragonfly I manage to capture an image of. This one is on the top of the tree away from little hands that seem bent on destruction.
rmeyer7 wrote: Nice photos everyone, lots of good work!
lesanne45, kpeditions, eryck: your subjects are all so interesting.
I'm wondering on the "school bus" photo, if there's an angle where you'd be able to see the building behind it, but still be able to read the words "school bus"? That might be another cool composition to try on that subject.
Rob and Barry: excellent as usual. I really love the rich colors in the garden photo, and the spotlight and shadow in the Chet Pickard photo.
Nice cute photos of pets and the baby, too. I'm enjoying looking at this thread
Thank you I will see if I can't get that particular shot.
THE RED DESERT : Our local camera club had our last outing for the year at a place called the Red Desert. It's not really desert, it just looks that way. We were given a "project" which was to take one nature pic, one monochrome (which could be anything) and one with a prop. These will be submitted for judging at our January meeting. It was a drizzly day but we went anyway and needless to say the light was not good but that only made the challenge even greater. Here is my shot with a prop where I used what we call Monkey Balls. They are hollow seed pods, similar, I suppose to a calabash but smaller.
THE RED DESERT : The second pic from our Camera Club challege. The box was not a prop that I took along - it was just used to transport someone else's prop and when I saw it there I thought "How funny, to some, this could be an Oasis in the desert.. This will be my monochrome entry at the January meeting.
THE RED DESERT : This is my third pic for our local Club's challenge and will be my Nature pic. As I mentioned it really was a very drizzly day so unfortunately all the pics lack some oomph but I thought that this small tree, clinging to the cliff face represented how life struggles in the desert.
Thanks for sharing Jennifer's story. So good to see her looking so well after the surgery as well. Go Jennifer!!!!
McBeth Photography wrote: A portrait of my lovely bride, Jennifer. She had suffered from an invisible illness for about 6 years when this shot was taken. Her symptoms included dizziness, nausea, migraines that last for weeks, extreme sensitivity to sound, extreme sensitivity to light, and seemingly damaged cognitive function. We'd been to a multitude of specialists and had found no relief for her at all, until, we found the right doctor! He quickly saw that she needed to be tested for the possibility of having Superior Semi-Circular Canal Dehiscence and so she began a battery of testing that lasted a few weeks. At the very moment that this shot was taken she was starting the last vestibular function test and she was about 45 minutes from hearing that a brain surgery could completely fix her problem and give her her life back. She had the surgery about 10 days later and 2 days after surgery, her symptoms started to subside....The pain was gone at last.
Sometimes to get the shot you live with the noise. Shot with my D70 @ 35mm, 1600 ISO, f2.8, 125th sec. I brought this up about 2 stops in PS to bring it up to exposure and ran a Topaz denoise.
Joy Mullin wrote: Thanks for sharing Jennifer's story. So good to see her looking so well after the surgery as well. Go Jennifer!!!!
McBeth Photography wrote: A portrait of my lovely bride, Jennifer. She had suffered from an invisible illness for about 6 years when this shot was taken. Her symptoms included dizziness, nausea, migraines that last for weeks, extreme sensitivity to sound, extreme sensitivity to light, and seemingly damaged cognitive function. We'd been to a multitude of specialists and had found no relief for her at all, until, we found the right doctor! He quickly saw that she needed to be tested for the possibility of having Superior Semi-Circular Canal Dehiscence and so she began a battery of testing that lasted a few weeks. At the very moment that this shot was taken she was starting the last vestibular function test and she was about 45 minutes from hearing that a brain surgery could completely fix her problem and give her her life back. She had the surgery about 10 days later and 2 days after surgery, her symptoms started to subside....The pain was gone at last.
Sometimes to get the shot you live with the noise. Shot with my D70 @ 35mm, 1600 ISO, f2.8, 125th sec. I brought this up about 2 stops in PS to bring it up to exposure and ran a Topaz denoise.
It was our pleasure, Jennifer feels compelled to share info about her recent medical breakthroughs. This is a syndrome that is just now hitting the medical books in the last few years, she figures if she helps just one person then it is worth it! Talk about mystery illnesses though, the best part is it is completely fixable with surgery....she doesn't even need to be on any meds!
Here is a water feature in the Portland Japanese Garden in Portland, OR. I took this with my D70 and my Zoom-Nikkor 80-200mm f4.5 Ai'd. It is such a beautiful place!
As my friend Jeff would put it a winged rat..LOL...
taken at Mallory Square, Key West, Fla, 11/12/11 This lil guy was looking for bread crumbs outside a hotdog vendor's booth on the square.
Canon D5, f/4.5 ISO 400, 1/250
McBeth Photography wrote: A portrait of my lovely bride, Jennifer. She had suffered from an invisible illness for about 6 years when this shot was taken. Her symptoms included dizziness, nausea, migraines that last for weeks, extreme sensitivity to sound, extreme sensitivity to light, and seemingly damaged cognitive function. We'd been to a multitude of specialists and had found no relief for her at all, until, we found the right doctor! He quickly saw that she needed to be tested for the possibility of having Superior Semi-Circular Canal Dehiscence and so she began a battery of testing that lasted a few weeks. At the very moment that this shot was taken she was starting the last vestibular function test and she was about 45 minutes from hearing that a brain surgery could completely fix her problem and give her her life back. She had the surgery about 10 days later and 2 days after surgery, her symptoms started to subside....The pain was gone at last.
Sometimes to get the shot you live with the noise. Shot with my D70 @ 35mm, 1600 ISO, f2.8, 125th sec. I brought this up about 2 stops in PS to bring it up to exposure and ran a Topaz denoise.
Barry, I am so glad your bride is doing so well and that they finally were able to help her. I also LOVE the fact she is still your bride.
McBeth Photography wrote: Here is a water feature in the Portland Japanese Garden in Portland, OR. I took this with my D70 and my Zoom-Nikkor 80-200mm f4.5 Ai'd. It is such a beautiful place!
Oh this is a beauty, love it
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