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ruxpriencdiam · Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 11:05 am

Got some shots today of some frogs doing the wild thang!

And my Dog was barking in the woods so i went to check it and got some shots of a big ole female Snapping Turtle laying eggs!

kellyplz · Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 12:27 pm

That's pretty neat Barry.

I'm heading out to the hummingbird feeder now, I hung one from the apple tree, which is blooming, I'm hoping to catch him up there.

apotterdd · Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 12:31 pm

Dang Barry you gotta zoo in your backyard.

Heard one lone coyote howling last night across the street really close. If there were others I didn't hear them. Course a few weeks ago there were a pack of them in our yard about 3am when they started to do their "barking" and it scared the crap outta me.

I don't get it the sun was out an not one ding damn hummingbird yesterday *sigh* The ones I've seen were green and have a white band around their neck. Last year all I saw were ones that looked like they were solid green.

Anyhoo kids need to get to work so I'm offa here for a bit. Behave ya'all ;)

gtranquillity · Joined: 01 May 2010 Posts: 745

kellyplz · Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 2:38 pm

Sounds like the female ruby throat Anita.

apotterdd · Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 2:43 pm

Now Kelly if they'd just show up later on this evening. I really have to learn to get up early so I can get the early sunlight.

ruxpriencdiam · Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 2:57 pm

Or just stay up all night long, i mean if like me you are awake till 3am sunrise is just a few more hours away.

Storm moving in.

apotterdd · Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 3:01 pm

Once the kids are out of school on the 22nd I might just do that one night without having the pressure of them being in the way and I can sleep after I shoot.

ruxpriencdiam · Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 3:15 pm

No interruptions or distractions just turn on a movie and listen to it or some music and go to town.

Only thing is dont expect being able to be able to sleep in because of KIDS.

kellyplz · Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 4:18 pm

They're tricky Anita, it takes patience. ;)

It just got really windy and a storm is moving in here too.

wendyt · Joined: 28 Aug 2008 Posts: 2045 Location: Australia

Kelly I hope the hummingbird does not get dinged for noise ... sorry you missed your pheasant. lol on autotracing (still have no idea how you got that rejection on a photo). Sorry you missed the doe. Isn't it always the way that great photo-ops happen when the camera is nowhere near.

Wow on the kids being off for 3 months Barry, the longest break our kids get is 6 weeks over summer. Wow on the snapping turtle laying eggs. Not something I have ever seen except on the tv.

Sari I love edible passion fruit. I had a plant but it died unfortunately.

Susan if they are using that type of search no wonder my images are never found, I hardly go anywhere on the net (well usually, I am having to do research for school which means I am looking more lately lol)

Anita I can well imagine that hearing coyotes close would scare you. Sleeping in and kids do not generally go in the same sentence lol.

Diana I hope the search is kind to your downloads.

Ok off to do reading on typography :S

okiepony · Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 6:03 pm

Hai Keedz...

Wendy - I think the best juice EVER I've had was passion fruit juice. It just beats everything else hands down. I may have to start a quest so I can have my own source of awesome juice :D

Kel - I think you can master the Hummer shots even with a higher ISO :) Just remember what we talked about before!

Anita - I don't know anything about the sunlight in Colorado, but out here the best time to get Hummer shots is between 9 and 10 am -- plenty of light, but it's not too high yet to kill the pics with shadows.

I have tried sometimes in the late afternoon, but it's never as good as the morning light - here anyways.

Would you all just send your storms THIS way? PLEASE???

I gotta go water my plants and see if I have more Passion flowers open... :)

I saw someone just got an EL on the exact same kind of Passion flower I have...

apotterdd · Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 6:10 pm

Where we're at the sun starts getting harsh around that time with shadows and whatnot. I'm going to park myself outside after I'm done with upload hell to see if I can get anything decent.

Got 6 in the queue and didn't run into the issue of corrupt files. I've seen it before but it's been awhile.

kellyplz · Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 6:26 pm

The hummy got dinged for focus...1 of 9 approved, this is getting ridiculous.
Since when, by the way, are you supposed to remove the text on a greeting card, what is this, iS?

apotterdd · Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 6:38 pm

Damn Kelly it is getting ridiculous.

*hugs*