So beautiful, it was a shame it was in captivity really :(

Camera: OLYMPUS C4000Z
Focal length: 19.1mm
Exposure: 1/100
Aperture: f/2.8
ISO: 100

Took this in my garden last month a digital camera I got for £8 at a carboot !

not bad......eh?

Pictures of such elegance and beauty that they militate for an art thread...

;)

or a photo comp!

Here's another from the same day, I wasn't so close to this bird... this is cropped.

Focal length: 19.1mm
Exposure: 1/200
Aperture: f/2.8
ISO: 100

This is one from my collection that I photoed then modified.
Hyalophora cecropia

Bassoon, you did a great job of setting it!

Thanks Willy, I do have a lot of experience, and a four year college dergree in the study of insects.

Here's a photo I took this morning, my nextdoor neighbour is raising two baby crows ....... as thier mummy got shot !

aaaaaaaaaaah !

Dave... thats a nice photograph, if a little over-exposed... it told a story though, and that I like!

http://www.spunangel.com/bee.jpg
a bee on the table... still working on getting the levels right on these...

http://www.spunangel.com/seal.jpg
a seal on a rock, eyeing me with some suspicion....

Er.......which one was which ?








only joking !

Those crows are getting big now, still not able to fly yet though.

Have a look at my bucket of frogs.

No..................it's not my dinner !

A pigeon sat on the open window-ledge of our toilet last night. From around 8PM and stayed there until around 6:30am this morning.

I got some pretty cool photographs (it allowed me to reach out and STROKE it). I will go through them later and post some up here.

There's a lot more to nature than birds guys:)

bassoon spouted:
There's a lot more to nature than birds guys:)

Well here's some chuffing flowers out of my twatting garden then.................happy now ?

texture.

Taken at Port Eynon on the Gower Peninsular about 4 years ago. The boulders form what remains of the sea defences round to the south western stretch of the bay before the sea is able to start eroding the dune systems ago, i just liked it (have one showing the grading of sand pretty much based on the idea of the Hjulstrom curve somewhere too )

bassoon spouted:
There's a lot more to nature than birds guys:)

I'm sorry. When did seals, bees, frogs, flowers and rocks become birds?

Thank you for trolling.

When the pigeon you took photographs of... happen to be one? Speaking of which... where's those photos?!

Still on my computer. I have to bring them to the site later. Wanna show Karen first.

Cool enough. Sounds like they'll be pretty cool too.

Fireboy, oooooooh what super pebbles............I think my favorite pebble is that dark coloured one with white bits, it's smashing !

I'm sure I've seen it before though on Skegness beach in 1989 !

dave brown spouted:
Fireboy, oooooooh what super pebbles............I think my favorite pebble is that dark coloured one with white bits, it's smashing !



each to his own, i happened to like it, /me also likes jaopanese rock gardens. they are great :) in bizzare way

All I'm trying to say is that I just don't like birds very much. I have to conclude that you have an obsession with having sex with your mother because, of course, the german word for bird 'vogel', is also slang for 'to f**k'. Which leads to other obvious conclusions about penis envy and such.
But really more than half of the damn nature pictures were of birds, now this is not proportional to the amount of nature that birds actually represent.
I would like to institute affirmative action for insect and snake art.

This is from a couple weeks ago, not a bird in the sky.
That pointy thing on the hill is The House On the Rock.

OK.. ya big bug lover...

here it was while it was trying to escape from the ant hordes.....

http://www.spunangel.com/dogz/runner.jpg

and here it was when the ant hordes killed it (note apalling dimunition in number of beetle legs!):

http://www.spunangel.com/dogz/end.jpg

A visual triumph Charles! An ugly ground beetle (carabidae) being devoured by the merciless ants (formicidae, from the formic acid that fills their bodies, which is why ants taste lemony when you eat them). Don't eat a beetle that looks like that, they taste very badly, but ants don't care!

bassoon spouted:
blah blah blah.... But really more than half of the damn nature pictures were of birds... blah blah blah.

Number of Bird Pictures: 4
Number of Other Pictures: 10

Contribute More, Bitch Less.

Nice:) Favorite animal Simon?

bassoon spouted:
Thanks Willy, I do have a lot of experience, and a four year college dergree in the study of insects.

I studied Entomology for 5 semesters--really wanted my degree in that. However at my high school, Chemistry was mandatory; option being Marine Biology. Loved the Marine Bio course, but wished in college that I had taken the Chemistry course because I needed a college-level Chem course to attain the Ent. degree. And the Chem course wasn't offered at entry level at college. arrrrrg! Back to Psychology and a useless degree just because I needed to graduate.

could you hear my huge sigh??

Here is a pic (taken in Florida) of a moth. It's really cool, with transparency in its wings.

That's a real nice picture...

thanks! the subject cooperated nicely.

Following on from Fireboys pebbles on the beach, I found this unusual pebble in my garden...............Odd is'nt it ?

Willy Wanka spouted:


I studied Entomology for 5 semesters

you don't want to have a look inside my fly do you?

What !


look inside your fly................and see a little maggot !

hugo-a-gogo spouted:


you don't want to have a look inside my fly do you?

oh, indeed! just sit tight...must...find...my...flyswatter. I just know it's here somewhere. :D

oh, look at that bug!!

texture

Ok, I'll start finding some nature pictures from my archives.

Here's a recent one from the riverwalk in San Antonio Texas last weekend. Very inquisitive lettle fella. Taken with an Olympus C-920 digital (1.3Mp)

What happens to trees near Niagara Falls when its cold:

Texan lightning about 2 weeks ago:

A Massachusetts sunset last Christmas:

oh, both taken on a canon d60 6.3 megapixle.

a bee

Thats animal porn that is! He's showing it all off!

pb468 spouted:
oh, look at that bug!!

[img=BigBlackBugOnSkin]

Thats cool! Is that on your arm/leg?

PB468...that's a fabulous Coleoptera. Damn nice photo. I like the bee, as well (what, no birds?). Do you (or does anyone else) know offhand how much honey a bee will collect in her lifetime? ...a teaspoonful. and they work like hell for it. I kept some beehives for a while -- one day I was lazy and went tending in shorts. Got stung on my AREA. That was the last time I went near the bees. what a baby, eh?

it was on a friends arm

Here's those crows again.....

They can both fly now but they don't want to leave home, They'll disapear for a few hours then come back to be fed and watered.

Todays menu is cat food and maggots!

Gentreau spouted:
Texan lightning about 2 weeks ago:

Loads of the photos on here are ace guys. Well done.

Gent - lightning=awesome. How did you get the timing right?

Pokemink spouted:


Loads of the photos on here are ace guys. Well done.

Gent - lightning=awesome. How did you get the timing right?

Luck, pure and simple. I took about 40 pics to get that one.

Nice shot Gent, I've never been able to get any lightning, much less have it turn out looking decent.

is this close to nature? or is it a cornish pasty?