I just shoot with my camera, but I know we have lots of photographers on the site. Let's see your work!
Hugs, Devlyn
Heron on the Norfolk Broads
(https://www.susans.org/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FtrwKRaG.jpg&hash=d5e85eefe34a2d768990805edc63b7fd1a261e9a) (https://imgur.com/trwKRaG)
How about something electrifying!
Our house in Colorado was on the side of the hill, and we had an awesome view of the front range of the Rocky Mountains. I was able to take several nice photos of lightning while we lived there.
(https://i.imgur.com/MSBUxzJ.jpg)
This White-Marked Tussock Furry Horned Caterpillar (Orgyia leucostigma) was hiding on a rose:
The white-marked tussock is a yellow and black furry caterpillar that turns into a giant brown moth. The spiny caterpillar is identified by its red head and tufts of yellowish hairs on a yellow and black body. You'll also notice long black spines sticking out of the body. This unusual fuzzy caterpillar measures 1.3" (3.5 cm). The white-marked tussock larva is a stinging caterpillar due to its urticating hairs that can cause allergic reactions in humans.
(https://i.imgur.com/ApsHUqJ.jpg)
Great Sand Dunes NP, Colorado.
(https://i.imgur.com/3Lwsgwg.jpg)
An old hammermill in Upper Austria.
(https://i.imgur.com/Zr4eGh8.jpg)
Impressions from the Head of the Charles Regatta in Boston, MA.
BTW, I love that 6mph speed limit sign on the bridge, knowing that they are all coming down the race course at 12mph...
(https://i.imgur.com/5yefsBp.jpg)
Here is an older one, from 1995. Sunrise over the Gulf of Mexico, seen from the crater rim slightly below the summit of Mt. Citlaltepetl (Spanish name: Pico de Orizaba) in Mexico.
(https://i.imgur.com/8Ea22jS.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/7pgN1cF.jpg)
A view from, 12,000 feet of Denali, the highest peak in Northa America. Based on how cold it always is at Danielle's home I think she lives somewhere on this mountain. FYI, this picture was taken last July.
Ellen
Shifting the topic a bit towards architecture: here is a timeless 20th century classic, the gateway arch in St. Louis. Captured on Ilford HP5 black & white film back in 1998.
(https://i.imgur.com/4BddIF4.jpg)
Some of my nature shots
Frangipani Flowers on Water in Bangkok: This serene image, captured in Bangkok, Thailand, features two frangipani flowers afloat on the surface of the water, the day before an important personal milestone — my Gender Confirmation Surgery. The flower in the foreground is pure white with a vibrant yellow center, exuding tranquility. Behind it, the second bloom displays a soft transition from pink to white across its petals, contributing a subtle richness to the scene. Reflected on the water's surface is a zigzag pattern of branches, adding a layer of complexity and natural artistry. This peaceful tableau holds special significance, symbolizing a moment of reflection and calm before embracing a transformative new chapter in life.
Branch of White Blooms: Delicate white flowers cluster along a slender branch, each bloom intricately layered with petals around a green heart. The backdrop is a gentle blur, creating a stark contrast with the flowers' fine details, reminiscent of finely crafted porcelain.
Mushrooms Emerging from Dark Soil: In this close-to-earth view, a group of pale mushrooms rises from the dark mulch, their broad caps textured and domed. Surrounding natural debris highlights the mushrooms' gentle curves and the organic intricacies of their environment.
Bee on a Pink Flower: A bumblebee, patterned with black and yellow, is busy at work on a magenta flower, its golden center a hub of activity. The insect's translucent wings are captured in repose against a backdrop of a blurred garden, full of greenery and other floral hints.
Orange Flower with Insect: A vibrant orange flower with a reddish center stands out against dark soil and soft greenery. A small insect rests on its petal, forming a dark silhouette against the fiery hues of the flower, a moment of interaction in the cycle of nature.
My preferred field is astrophotography. With moving this year, I had to decommission my observatory, and I wasn't able to get it back online before the cold weather hit. Here is a nice image from a few months ago.
(https://astrob.in/0vj45m/0/rawthumb/gallery/get.jpg?insecure) (https://astrob.in/0vj45m/0/)
@KathyLauren
Dear Kathy:
I am so very glad to see that you posted your night sky pictures that you have taken.
Is this is one of your posted photos from before the site crash? What is the name of
what you photographed? Looks like a Nebula to my untrained eye.
I have always been a big fan of your home observatory photos. Hopefully you can be
able to get your observatory back up and running in the Spring season... I want to see
more photos of your work.
Welcome back to the Forum.
HUGS,
Danielle
Hi, Danielle. I don't remember if I had posted that photo here before. I took it in October 2022. It is an emission nebula located in the constellation Cassiopeia. The official designation is Sharpless 199, but it is more often called the Soul Nebula. The nebula is too large to fit in the field of view of my telescope, so this is just a small part of it. Orange colours in the nebula represent hydrogen gas; blue colours represent oxygen. Stars are their natural colours.
These are all very nice photographs.
Chrissy
Hello!
Happy to see everyone is posting their beautiful images! This is one of my favs from last fall, probably the most intense sunrise I was lucky enough to capture.
(https://i.imgur.com/xo3Rl5A.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/s2RJLxb.jpg)
Very nice photographs!
Chrissy
It is COLD out there...
...I am all bundled up and face and head covered.
minus -45 deg(f) -43(C)
(https://i.imgur.com/Twn3ebEl.jpg)
So very, very nice these photographs are!
Let's see more pet pictures (although maybe those should be in the pets area, if there is one.)
Also some funny pictures, maybe with something odd or peculiar in the background.
I really like these pics that have been posted. Keep bringing them on!
Chrissy
Winter pictures from up North
(https://i.imgur.com/TBJ8Yr4h.jpg)
Fantastic! Living the dream. Nice coat too!
Quote from: Northern Star Girl on January 25, 2024, 04:40:31 PMIt is COLD out there...
...I am all bundled up and face and head covered.
minus -45 deg(f) -43(C)
(https://i.imgur.com/Twn3ebEl.jpg)
With the right lighting even a steel mill can look beautiful.
(https://i.imgur.com/ZsodQqW.jpg)
This web was only about three inches across. It love how it looks with the morning dew...
(https://i.imgur.com/MpLjHdl.jpg)
Quote from: Devlyn on January 05, 2024, 09:07:26 AMI just shoot with my camera, but I know we have lots of photographers on the site. Let's see your work!
Hugs, Devlyn
Heron on the Norfolk Broads
(https://www.susans.org/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FtrwKRaG.jpg&hash=d5e85eefe34a2d768990805edc63b7fd1a261e9a) (https://imgur.com/trwKRaG)
What I find interesting in this photograph is that the is a bird in the foreground and in the background there is a bird painted on the hull.
Chrissy
Quote from: ChrissyRyan on January 27, 2024, 07:37:46 AMWhat I find interesting in this photograph is that the is a bird in the foreground and in the background there is a bird painted on the hull.
Chrissy
That's exactly why I took the picture...it made me happy. :)
BTW, this was taken from inside an awesome pub, the Ferry Inn of Horning.
Hugs, Devlyn
Quote from: Jessica_Rose on January 06, 2024, 09:43:15 AMHow about something electrifying!
Our house in Colorado was on the side of the hill, and we had an awesome view of the front range of the Rocky Mountains. I was able to take several nice photos of lightning while we lived there.
(https://i.imgur.com/MSBUxzJ.jpg)
Jess,
This picture is interesting as I have seen lightning hit near the ground when I was not far away.
Chrissy
Quote from: Jessica_Rose on January 06, 2024, 10:19:02 AMThis White-Marked Tussock Furry Horned Caterpillar (Orgyia leucostigma) was hiding on a rose:
The white-marked tussock is a yellow and black furry caterpillar that turns into a giant brown moth. The spiny caterpillar is identified by its red head and tufts of yellowish hairs on a yellow and black body. You'll also notice long black spines sticking out of the body. This unusual fuzzy caterpillar measures 1.3" (3.5 cm). The white-marked tussock larva is a stinging caterpillar due to its urticating hairs that can cause allergic reactions in humans.
(https://i.imgur.com/ApsHUqJ.jpg)
I think I will avoid this stinger for sure.
Sometimes I see green caterpillars on my tomato plants.
Chrissy
Quote from: Jessica_Rose on January 07, 2024, 02:58:14 PMGreat Sand Dunes NP, Colorado.
(https://i.imgur.com/3Lwsgwg.jpg)
Walking on sand dunes can be difficult.
Chrissy
Quote from: Iztaccihuatl on January 07, 2024, 07:06:20 PMAn old hammermill in Upper Austria.
(https://i.imgur.com/Zr4eGh8.jpg)
Now this is a place that I would like to visit some day.
Chrissy
Quote from: Iztaccihuatl on January 07, 2024, 07:09:04 PMImpressions from the Head of the Charles Regatta in Boston, MA.
BTW, I love that 6mph speed limit sign on the bridge, knowing that they are all coming down the race course at 12mph...
(https://i.imgur.com/5yefsBp.jpg)
I have heard that there are many bridges in Europe over rivers and many are quite low to the water. This means at times there is little or insufficient clearance for river boats to pass under when the river level is high.
Chrissy
Quote from: Iztaccihuatl on January 19, 2024, 10:19:58 AMHere is an older one, from 1995. Sunrise over the Gulf of Mexico, seen from the crater rim slightly below the summit of Mt. Citlaltepetl (Spanish name: Pico de Orizaba) in Mexico.
(https://i.imgur.com/8Ea22jS.jpg)
This photograph is awesome.
Chrissy
Quote from: EllenW on January 19, 2024, 11:43:55 AM(https://i.imgur.com/7pgN1cF.jpg)
A view from, 12,000 feet of Denali, the highest peak in Northa America. Based on how cold it always is at Danielle's home I think she lives somewhere on this mountain. FYI, this picture was taken last July.
Ellen
Ellen,
Mountains do provide much gorgeous scenery. Nice photo!
Chrissy
It's that time of the year when I am ready for sunny days and pretty flowers. Spring is just starting here on the west coast so we do have some things blooming. The crocus and daffodils are nearing their moments to shine so I guess we are close. But we are a long ways away from the Dahlia bloom which are favorite subjects. Here's one from last season that brightens a dark January day.
(https://i.imgur.com/17BvhgW.jpeg)
Quote from: Brooke Renee on January 28, 2024, 09:38:17 AMIt's that time of the year when I am ready for sunny days and pretty flowers. Spring is just starting here on the west coast so we do have some things blooming. The crocus and daffodils are nearing their moments to shine so I guess we are close. But we are a long ways away from the Dahlia bloom which are favorite subjects. Here's one from last season that brightens a dark January day.
(https://i.imgur.com/17BvhgW.jpeg)
Very nice!
Chrissy
I like these "off directly transgender" topics too. It is not that our directly transgender related topics are not important, as they certainly are.
It is just that I and likely most of us have a variety of other interests that have nothing to do being transgender. While we may also go elsewhere for these non-transgender topics it is nice to share out here.
For instance, you ladies who posted images here in this topic sure have a talent for photography. Thank you all for posting some of your great photographs here.
Hugs,
Chrissy
Thank you Chrissy!
Today's entry is a little bit sad. Don't get me wrong, the pictures are great, it is just the message that they convey that makes me sad. Last year I was in Austria and visited the Hohe Tauern National Park, including the observation platform at Franz-Josefs-Höhe to have a look at the country's highest peak and its longest glacier. It wasn't the first time I was there, I have been there a couple of times, the last time prior to last year's visit was in 1996. I took a picture back then and another one last year from the same vantage point. And what a difference. I really was shocked and wasn't prepared at all for this. While in 1996 the glacier ended well below the observation platform, in 2023 there was a lake and the end of the glacier was much much farther away. I knew that the glacier has been receding, but never imagined the enormous rate until I saw it by myself. If one of the longest glaciers of the Eastern Alps can melt away and recede that much in just 27 years, I don't know what is in store for us in the next 30, 50 or 100 years.
Please see for yourself:
1996:
(https://i.imgur.com/ha2ztBm.jpg)
2023:
(https://i.imgur.com/aQEaIS5.jpg)
After months of rain I found the sun this morning over Puget Sound.
(https://i.imgur.com/WMbx4fK.jpeg)
Quote from: Brooke Renee on January 29, 2024, 10:44:43 AMAfter months of rain I found the sun this morning over Puget Sound.
(https://i.imgur.com/WMbx4fK.jpeg)
Wow.
Really beautiful!
Chrissy
I've been doing a lot of B&W Photography these days...
(https://i.imgur.com/3sqGaYh.jpg)
Here is another one...
(https://i.imgur.com/ZLgH1IZ.png)
Nice shots
@Zoey Starr! Beautiful!
Here is a portrait of my pup, Miss Beulah Mae Knucklebutt, on her first birthday...
(https://i.imgur.com/o2NZd1M.png)
These teo photos are very nice Zoey.
Chrissy
Thank you Chrissy
Quote from: Zoey Starr on January 29, 2024, 08:33:04 PMHere is another one...
(https://i.imgur.com/ZLgH1IZ.png)
Simple. Lovely! The construct isn't simple. Well done.
I take photos of spiders.
(https://i.imgur.com/fzg4ypO.jpeg)
Quote from: Cindy on January 30, 2024, 10:49:54 PMI take photos of spiders.
(https://i.imgur.com/fzg4ypO.jpeg)
To our members, if you're viewing this on a laptop or desktop, please understand that this is a life-size picture of one of Australia's finest eight legged death machines. If you're viewing on your phone, remember that this spider is probably bigger than the device you're holding! :laugh:
Hugs, Devlyn
Quote from: Zoey Starr on January 29, 2024, 08:46:20 PMHere is a portrait of my pup, Miss Beulah Mae Knucklebutt, on her first birthday...
(https://i.imgur.com/o2NZd1M.png)
What a cutie! :)
Hugs, Devlyn
Quote from: Cindy on January 30, 2024, 10:49:54 PMI take photos of spiders.
(https://i.imgur.com/fzg4ypO.jpeg)
Beautiful shot Cindy!
I love macro photography but it is such a challenge for me to get a handful of keepers from a shoot unless the subject is stationary. Yes, practice, practice, practice! I would love to hear about your lens, lighting and settings.
Cheers,
Brooke
Quote from: Cindy on January 30, 2024, 10:49:54 PMI take photos of spiders.
(https://i.imgur.com/fzg4ypO.jpeg)
The "eyes have it" on this photograph.
Do I like it? Aye.
Chrissy
There are some strange people who don't like spiders! This is a Mantis Fly. It isn't a Praying Mantis. It is a type of LaceWing Fly. The arms are an example of convergent evolution. Tiny, about 2 cm BL
(https://i.imgur.com/XT5Oq4d.jpeg)
Quote from: Cindy on January 31, 2024, 10:36:07 PMThere are some strange people who don't like spiders! This is a Mantis Fly. It isn't a Praying Mantis. It is a type of LaceWing Fly. The arms are an example of convergent evolution. Tiny, about 2 cm BL
(https://i.imgur.com/XT5Oq4d.jpeg)
Wow, that's an impressive shot!
Everybody wanted to know where I was going rock climbing when I posted this.
(https://i.imgur.com/wuSSjbM.jpg)
But no, it's just the ocean and weather taking apart the coast in Hingham, Massachusetts.
(https://i.imgur.com/jpRicGl.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/x91y4iO.jpg)
I took this photo of a very content seagull at the Elephant Seal Hatchery on the Central California Coast
(https://i.imgur.com/ykmfTuN.jpeg)
Ellen
Very nice pictures!
Thank you Cindy, Devlyn, and Ellen for posting them!
Chrissy
I thought I'd revive this thread with some spring flowers...
(https://i.imgur.com/mLecMBk.jpeg)
(https://i.imgur.com/0P45DTX.jpeg)
Love the flowers! Some I took last summer while traipsing the Black Hills of South Dakota:
(https://i.imgur.com/oQpcygN.jpg)
A Fairy Ring!
(https://i.imgur.com/eWmb4m4.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/vTFe9xE.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/sC0inMg.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/eriZaag.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/Kf1QlFa.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/LSbmHPW.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/ZFSpOza.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/tq0tfeo.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/4dktMfp.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/O1kq1RC.jpg)
Lots of other non-flower pics in the album too:
Camping July 2023 (https://imgur.com/a/jFbIv6c)