Photography thread --IMAGE INTENSIVE--

[sswilson]

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Bumble Bee (or carpenter bee) on Columbine flower.

Damn!!!!

Is that hand held?

 

[LaughingCrow]

Damn!!!!

Is that hand held?

Yes. Bright day so a lot faster captures. f4 - 1/640 - ISO 100 - 600mm. Luckily the camera can record a lot of frames per second. While I can do closeups with the camera lens almost touching, what sets the camera apart, is that I'm standing well back (varying from 6 to10 feet - 2 - 3 meters) using the zoom lens as a macro. So I don't disturb bugs by proximity - like butterflies. It does have anti-vibration but at that focal length/distance it doesn't take much camera movement to lose the subject or have the auto-focus pick up on something else. Plus it's a heavy camera - so I do get lots of shots that are a little to a lot out of frame, out of focus, etc.



Slightly cropped full frame

 

[LaughingCrow]

Nothing of mine here but there's a lot of interesting historical pictures worth looking at...

75 Extremely Rare Historical Pictures

 

[GeezerGamer]

Nothing of mine here but there's a lot of interesting historical pictures worth looking at...

75 Extremely Rare Historical Pictures

Number 51 is hilarious! Suddenly and frighted!

LOL

 

[GeezerGamer]

Snapped a photo of this guy yesterday.

 

[Marzipan]

Snapped a photo of this guy yesterday.

Dr. Claws Jr.?

 

[LaughingCrow]

Mink - along the Niagara River breakwall

 

[Marzipan]

I'm not against fur coats...if the fur is trapped and killed humanely. it's mind boggling how huge the mink fur market is in Canada...we have a fur farm in the prairies that raises / kills 500,000 of them a year, I think...maybe more. I do not agree with fur farms...no matter what the is done, their short lives are pitiful and torturous.

 

[LaughingCrow]

I'm not against fur coats...if the fur is trapped and killed humanely. it's mind boggling how huge the mink fur market is in Canada...we have a fur farm in the prairies that raises / kills 500,000 of them a year, I think...maybe more. I do not agree with fur farms...no matter what the is done, their short lives are pitiful and torturous.

This is a wild mink. It's wet because it just came out of the Niagara River. Guessing it may be a young one. It headed back down a sink hole next to the sidewalk. I've seen mink in my urban back yard and in the neighbourhood a couple of blocks from the Niagara River.

Yes, the whole fur market is just like all the other meat factory farms. They periodically have to cull thousands because mink, birds & the other animals can get covid and avian viruses.

 

[LaughingCrow]

Crow