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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Pennsylvania
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Join Date: Dec 2008
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Yaa... exactly. I'm always afraid they're gonna take off on me and I don't want to be running around in this heat chasing flutters. I never catch em anyway. As soon as I get close... they take off then.... off I go again trying to get em. Now repeat that about 10x and it can wear a body down.
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Pennsylvania
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WG Contest Coordinator
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Browns Mills, NJ
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Lucky you! I keep trying to get a picture of a spicebush swallowtail but no luck for me. That butterfly's wings are really shredded! At least it still has tails, most of the ones that I see flying around the yarden are missing at least one tail...
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Tinley Park, Illinois, USA
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Here's a rare one for me, a bird photo. I got a call this morning from a friend that a few White Pelicans were hanging around a pond about 5 miles from my house, so I got down there this afternoon, got the attached photo. Not my sharpest photo ever, but I had to use the Sigma 170-500 zoom with a 2X extender on my big beastly tripod. Even on the heavy tripod, the slight breeze was enough to take the edge off the image sharpness. I need to learn how to use this lens better, it's a real challenge.
Anyway, it's quite rare to see these here, the first time that I've seen them here in my whole 59 years of life, so this was a thrill just to see them. I have about 178 more RAW photo files to look at and process yet, so there may be some better shots, but I like this composition, so I thought I'd enter it. John ![]() |
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Pennsylvania
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Great shot! So cool. I like the composition too and there is so much to look at it keeps your eye moving (both of them if you have two).
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WG Prize & Gift Coordinator
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Michigan
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Such wonderful photos....
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Curious George & UAOKA recipient
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Chapel Hill, NC
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I really like jpdenk's white pelicans! Birds are harder than insects - I just got back from a week on the Outer Banks and the pelicans just wouldn't stay still long enough for me to take their pictures.
My mistflower came into bloom while I was gone and I caught this guy nectaring there this morning. The bees seem to find the purple flowers faster than the butterflies, although there were some swallowtails there this afternoon.
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WG Hospitality & UAOKA recipient
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Pennsylvania
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Beautiful photo, turttle.
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WG Facebook Administrator
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Lyme, NH
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We get to do 3, right? None of these are as good as any of the ones already posted, but what the hey.
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