Your Best Nature Photos Thread

[Goose55]

Thought it a good idea to create a thread to show off some of our better nature photographs.

Here's one of my favorites I made many years ago on the trail to Feather Falls in Plumas National Forest, N. California. Yes, I did seek out and chose those leaves to place on that mossy log. Technically, it's not "nature," then, because I manipulated the landscape. But lets just imagine this is how I found it:

[DepartedLight]

this is gonna be neato

[Skip]

Leaves?

[Goose55]

Leaves?

Nice. I like how the one leaf stands out. Reminds me of a colorized black & white photo

[Skip]

Leaves?

Nice. I like how the one leaf stands out. Reminds me of a colorized black & white photo

That was the plan. Didn't even have to do anything to the original file to make it stand out more.

1/80, f/5.6, ISO 100, 70mm
Canon 5D Mark III, EF24-70mm f/2.8L II USM

[Bloodhound]

I am not good with a camera...but I take tons of photos and every now and then one is nice to look at...I do better with scenery and vistas...this is from a trip 4 years ago to the Oregon coast.

[Goose55]

A pair of European Collared Dove babies nesting in my front yard semi dwarf Grapefruit tree. They became so accustomed to me that they let me pet them.

[ReverendThom]

We get some beauty sunsets at the lake

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[durangopipe]

This is dangerous . . .
a regular Pandora's box, I tell you.

I'll try to control myself.
Two?





I'd have to dig up the details, but the equipment basics (and location):

1) Fuji X E1, 35mm f/1.4 XF lens (canyon wall across the county road from our house)
2) Fuji X E1, 18-55mm f/2.8 XF lens (Animas River south of Durango, CO)

[DepartedLight]

We get some beauty sunsets at the lake.

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Holy Beautiful, Batman!

[durangopipe]

Nope. No control.
Boids ? You want boids?





1) Fuji X E1, 60mm f/2.4 XF lens (hummingbird, on chainring of my bicycle in my garage)
2) Fuji X E1, 50-205mm f/4.5-6.7 XC lens (mourning dove at Lake Pastorious, Laplata County, Colorado)

Okay. I'll stop. For now.

Great thread, Goose!
Beautiful photos, Goose, Bloodhound, Skip and RevThom!

[durangopipe]

Addiction. Photography is an addiction. Worse than Crack. Worse than pipes!



Lime Creek, San Juan Mountains, San Juan County, Colorado.

[durangopipe]

Worse than heroin.



Fuji X E1, 60mm, f/2.4 XF macro lens (grasshopper on day lily, photoshop post)

Checking into rehab now, but it won't work. I've tried before.

[Skip]

There's always one...

[durangopipe]

There's always one...

Or two . . .
Go, Skip.
You know you wanna.

[Bloodhound]

another one I found that doesn't suck

[durangopipe]

Beautiful spot--definitely doesn't suck.

[Bloodhound]

As seen while I was grouse hunting

[DepartedLight]

this is gonna be neato

Heck yeah. Already even.

[Goose55]

Nice images, DP, Blood, & DL. I especially like that Black & White, white water at the Aminas River, DP. Nice movement of water with the slower shutter speed.