Picture This!!
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you got one😊
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This afternoon
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Lisa, the hummer is beautiful.
So the Perseid meteor shower starts for us tonight. Gonna covewith bug spray and hope for breaks in the clouds. Cameras and telescopes are on standby.
Fingers crossed
Scottie
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Beautiful pictures Lisa.
Love your flowers Joanne.
Thanks ladies. I always appreciate your encouragement. I have some hummer pics I got at my mom's. I am home now. It has been a really busy time. I will post some soon.
Scottie, have fun getting some meteor shower pics tonight. I live in the suburbs and they have already said this is not the place to view them because we have so many lights. So I hope you get some great shots and can share them with us. Good luck and keep that bug spray handy!
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Here are some pics from downstate.
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WOWZA!!!!! Great hummer shots!!!! I love the background colour too.
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Thanks Barbe. That means a lot to me. This was my first time using my first long lens. That is a real learning experience. That was the last time I will be at this nature center for the season. I wish I would have had more time to do some more experimenting. I still have time to practice on my hummer feeder at home but taking pics from the inside won't work with my setup unfortunately so I will have to figure ways out to not scare then off taking them a few feet away. I am making this week a staycation and hoping to get out with my camera every day the weather will permit. My pool is closed for the week so I am going to have some fun doing whatever the spirit moves me to do.
Nancy
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love the hummers . The ones in my yard are skiddish so I leave a door or a window open and retreat so they don't see me.
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Thanks Lisa. I have only tried to get some pics at home. They could see me on the inside and my drapes cast a reflection on the patio door. I tried to hide behind my hibiscus on the patio and got some shots but it was too dark. I will have to fool them somehow. Maybe I should buy a blind and put it on my patio. LOL
I got these pics when i was hunting for butterflies. I ran into an outdoor wedding and got to see the bride walk down the grassy aisle. That was pretty neat.
I will call these pretty in pink.
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Beautiful hummers Nancy. Dh swears we have them coming to our feeders, but I haven't seen any this year. Didn't get to speak much time at Botanical Gardens on Saturday do to crazy traffic from all the highway construction here. Got a few pixs of the Chihully glass sculpture exhibit.
Scottie
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Thanks Scottie,
Those are amazing glass sculptures. Are these all glass? The purple one looks real. Incredible.
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The Y pool is closed this week so I am on a staycation and taking advantage of that.
Nancy
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Holy crap - that dragonfly!!!!!!!!!!!
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So Barbe, are you referring to the creepy factor. LOL I think their head and eyes look like aliens.
Joanne, I chased this thing around and every time I went to snap a pic it would fly. I finally was all ready and focused to take a pic and this man comes walking out of the weeds with his fishing rod. There was no path there or anything and at first I thought a wild animal was going to emerge when I heard all of this rustling. i was about to strangle this man with his fishing pole for messing up my shot but I did finally get some pics.
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wow what a shot. Well worth the wait. 😋😋😋
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Holy cow you ladies have some amazing talent! I have been enjoying a lot of 'eye candy" here! You should put it in a coffee table book or something...."BCO Photographers" Kudos!
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In our yard
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Thank you April from all of us. I like the way you think. We could have a BCO Garden and Nature book.
Lisa. thank you. I tried out my new long lens today with the teleconverter. Oh my gosh is it heavy and it is not heavy compared to many lens but for me alot. There is usually many egrets and herons at this place and today only on egret and it flew away. I at least got to try out the new equipment. As usual I have a lot of practice to do with it. Right now I have my tripod set up aiming at my hummingbird feeder to see what will happen. I put up a new bird feeder that was a birthday gift so hoping for more backyard bird shots in the near future.
Love your flowers. What are they? The pink one reminds me of a sunflower.
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Nancy, that is an absolutely amazing dragonfly shot. I've stalked them too. You're right, the one photo is an actually water flower. I want to find that plant for my pond. The others are the glass scultures.
Scottie
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Nancy, my heavy lens uses a tripod. My camera hangs free and it's the actual lens attached to the tripod. Check to see if your heavy lens has a "foot" to receive a mono or tri pod.
What's a teleconverter? It's been almost 10 years since I checked out new stuff!!
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Thanks Scottie. As we all know there is a certain amount of luck involved in photography and being at the right place at the right time is key. What is amazing to me is that I was hand holding my macro lens which is heavy enough and I shot with it for two days without realizing I forgot to turn the switch to VR (vibration resistance) to on. When using a tripod which I have done almost exclusively for quite a while you are supposed to turn it off which I did. It was not until I shot a ton of butterflies and had the majority come back not in focus was when I realized something was wrong. I bet I will not make that mistake again as I had waited for weeks for a cooler day when I was free to go to this butterfly house which is way out of town.
Barbe, yes, my new telephoto lens has a collar to mount to the tripod which is what I am doing. I even bought an different lens collar as the Nikon collar had terrible reviews. The teleconverters fit between the camera and the long lens and they act as a magnifier. They screw on like a lens does. I have a Nikon 1.7x TC so it extends my reach without having to buy a $5000 lens which would be the next upgrade. There is always a trade off and I lose 1 1/2 F stops of light and speed and a little loss in image quality. Ideally the lens I would like would be $10,000 and the weight of it would be insane for me with neck problems not even counting the cost of it. This teleconverter is small but heavy when added to the lens which is already heavy for me. I have read about carrying the camera and lens attached to the tripod over your shoulder being a bad thing and I don't want to chance ruining the screws in all of my set up which is very expensive already. I have quick release plates and a pretty expensive ballhead that I don't want to ruin and of course I don't want my camera or lens to crash. So I am trying to hold these things while getting to where I want to shoot and that has been a challenge. I will eventually figure it out but I am sure more money will be involved somehow. I do love it otherwise I would not be investing all of this money into it at this stage of my life.
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Duh. I knew what the converter was, but didn't know it as a tele converter. I don't attach my camera until I'm at the spot I want. I carry my camera on a strap around my neck and my tripod in my hand. I wouldn't trust carrying it any other way. Do you mean you carry your camera already attached to your tripod and walk around like that?
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Barbe. I usually put my lens on my camera in the car. I am a bit paranoid of getting dust in the sensor. The new long lens came with a bag but I am planning on keeping the converter on the lens as it was such a pain to get on and I had it on at one point and couldn't get it off. No directions and when I watched a youtube video from this guy who posts many how to videos he broke a piece off the teleconverter during his demonstration putting his on so I didn't feel quite so stupid. The bag now doesn't fit with the TC on it so I know I will need to buy another one. I have a backpack type of bag that houses most of my other lens but I never actually carry it on my back. My new camera bag isn't big enough for this lens. This is a prime lens and not a zoom so it is pretty long. So that is the story. I have so many bags and cameras and equipment I need an addition on my house!
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Nancy, I didn't mean carry the LENS separately, but carry the CAMERA separately from the tripod...
I have a special camera backpack which I LOVE! It has a waist band/belt which helps distribute the weight so it doesn't all yank on my shoulders.
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I feel silly with my point and shoot.
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Barbe, I will have to look into a different bag. Yes, I knew what you meant. I need to buy one of those photographer vests and really look like a camera geek. LOL
Lisa, it takes great skill and intuition to get the beautiful shots you do with your camera. You are making the ones spending a fortune on all of this look silly. The thing is when I was working I was all consumed with work. I thought my outlet in retirement was going to be my music but because of health matters that was not meant to be. I am having so much fun with this that I am going to enjoy the ride while it lasts.
Joanne, you will be able to get some great shots with that camera. With some of my pictures I wasn't sure at first glance which camera I used and my little Canon produced shots that rival my expensive gear.
There is a full moon tonight and it was gorgeous last night so I went out to practice some shots last night. Tonight it is pretty cloudy and the pictures actually might be more interesting with clouds but here is from last night. Staying inside tonight.
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I remember when nothing was automatic with my cameras. The only thing we had was a hand held light meter. We had to hand set everything. But we learned a lot. 😊😊😊
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We had a darkroom in our basement when I was growing up. We only had stuff for black and white developing and printing. No polycontrast paper. So we had many many different papers. We all rejoiced when polycontrast paper came out. We also had a contact box to print large negatives. And oh, the red light. Developing a roll of film was a long process beginning with hand threading it into the tank. Mixing the chemicals. Drying. That's all before printing. It's a wonder I didn't lose interest.
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Lisa, I figured you had quite a bit of experience from your background. How interesting. I saw a most fascinating documentary on Netflix today called the Flight of the Butterflies. If you have not seen this you have to check it out. It is all about Monarchs and the scientist and his team who figured out the migration patterns.
My dragonfly made a weekly winner in our newspaper. One of my photographer friends saw it online and let me know. It has not come out in the printed newspaper yet.
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