Happy Woosday

 
:woohoo: WOW! That is gorgeous! Mellow Yellow. Thanks for sharing.

I spent a day on Sanibel looking for small, little Warblers to photograph but the migration had not really started and all I could find was this little Hooded Warbler. He was kind enough to sit still long enough for this photo. Tracking tiny birds through the woods with a very long lens is a new challenge. I need a lot of practice!



The birds were not present so I switched over to wild flowers. I had paid my $6 toll to get out there and wasn't going to waste the day.

The Thistles were doing their thing.


The sunlight on this Thistle down caught my eye.


Some of them were white when they first opened and turned purple with time.


I have no idea what the rest of these are, I need to break down and buy a field guide one of these days. This pink one was about an inch across.


These little gems were growing up through a big clump of swamp grass, using the grass as support to reach up into the sun. They are very small, less than a quarter of an inch across. It wasn't till I put a close up lens on that I could see how beautiful they really were.




These little blue and white flowers were growing in great profusion, almost covering the ground in places. They are about a quarter of an inch across.


This pretty blue is about half an inch across.


These little ones are no more than half an inch from the stem to the end of the blossom.


Hope you all have a great Woosday,

Gator

 

Cool, Man!

Yes it is Happy Woosday


Ross

No recent bird or flower pictures to share, but I did just complete my fourth and best batch of homebrew. It's a clone of Pliny the Elder. Among beer aficionados it is one of the best beers made in America, but is only sold in California (the brewery is up in the Sonoma region. The damn thing contains 17 oz. of hops while a typical Pale Ale or IPA has 3-7 oz. Wow - it's wicked good :woohoo:

 
Hi Mellow

I have fairly new Nikon D90 that rocks! My everyday go to lens is a Nikkor 18-200mm but lately I have not had it out much. For close ups I have added a 105mm Micro Nikkor, a fantastic lens. To that I can add in any combination a set of extension tubes that allow me to get in even closer with out a great expense.


To that I can add a Nikon R-1 wireless close up flash unit so I don't get any shadows from my lens or just want higher f stops for greater depth of field.


This little Hopper was about 1" long, he happened to jump into my world while I was photographing a tiny little wild flower.


For my long range photos I have a Nikon Fieldscope ED 82mm spotting scope and a Nikon FSA-L1 adapter to mount it to my D90. This gives me a 1500mm lens with a fixed aperture of f13. I wish it had auto focus but for the magnification it gives me I am delighted with it. A Nikkor 600mm lens goes for $10,200 on line and weighs 13 pounds I think. This is much less. I wish I could use it more often from the drivers seat of the old Honda but it is usually mounted on a large Bogen tri-pod and across my shoulder as I search for subjects.


This was shot from my car after some recent rains, it is a Glossy Ibis that was nice enough to pause next to the flowers.


A White Ibis that same day.


I think as important as any equipment, or even more so, is the passion, photography can be a true form of art. Not just the recording of things and events. I was lucky enough to study it in Boston back in the Simon & Garfunkel days myself and carried a big 4X5 view camera almost every day for two years. I got to meet and study under some great photographers. I was infected with the passion. I have just gotten back into it and my equipment lets me go to extremes, both near and far. Unemployment gives me the time to play and I am always looking for new places to go and new subjects to shoot. My '93 Honda Civic lets me do it on a shoe string. :laugh:

Have a great Woosday,

Gator

 

 
Great photo JYD! I would love to spend a lifetime in the deserts with my camera. I have lived in the east all my life and the deserts are another world.

Gator

 

 
I love the photo Beli, are those Easter cookies? The colors are great, they look good!

Gator

 

 
That's amazing, we are also getting pollen but nothing like that! I'm lucky not to have any allergies.

Gator

Yes mi amigo, cooked by Valeria my 7 year old......after all she's got her mini....

Unfortunately no OKC this year. I've shared some of my homebrew at last year's Eggtoberfest after party and at a gathering of North Georgia Eggers. I'm seriously considering the second annual Indy Eggfest in August, and I KNOW of some serious beer drinkers there. :silly: