Photos of the great outdoors

Thanks, Lucretia!
The bees were not easy to get! they are all handheld shots and there was a light breeze all day that made the flowers constantly sway slightly, tricky!

 

I walked out to the garden yesterday evening and there was a baby bird in the grass. Didn't even move. I simply thought "oh, hey" and kept on what I was doing paying it no mind. I regret not snapping a pic now because it would have been good!

 

Couple of visitors this week..

 

Dingmans falls and my favorite silver thread falls.

 

Cool photos Jim.

I used to see those little turtles around my home when I was a kid. We were about....half mile from the river. Quite the distance for a little thing like that.

 

Nice pics, Jim!
I remember seeing turtles/terrapins in a pond at a local park years ago, someone set a few free and they multiplied and grew HUGE!

 

These are painted turtles. An adult is digging a nest to lay her eggs right now on my septic mound.
They get about 9 inches or so as an adult.

 

Wouldn't it be nice is they stayed that size in the photo? Cute lil ole miniature turtles.

 

You are the second person to say that today to me JJ!

 

Heres one rfom a recent hike we did in the Elfin Lakes are of Garibaldi park.

 

Very Nice Jeffery.

 

I just realized I hadn't seen those shots Warren. Great work. I've tried some macros on moving flowers and uncooperative bees recently and I know how tough they are. great shots.

 

Playing catch up Lucretia, those frogs in the rose shots kill me. they look so comfy in there. great catches

 

it was a big one and im not sure how it will show on the web

 

eastern swallow tail have bee beating up my carrots but im cool with it as i have had over a dozen on the crop at any given time

 

Great shot @butch !

 

that is the unedited shot(shots) i think it wasas like 9 shots stitched (16mm on 24MP sony dslr) a good friend ajusted the color curve a bit to make the blacked out foground pop more and you can see its green grass(still dark but much betterr balanced)

 

Great panoramic shot Butch

 

You are all unconscioulsy enabling me.... I have been doing an inventory of some knives to see which ones can part with to get a camera. Really great pics.