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Give Us Your Best Shot!; Photographers on the Forum?
Topic Started: Sep 18 2004, 12:45 PM (1,416 Views)
Heathertee
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Heather-Central Connecticut
Photobucket forum has a thread for members to post their favorite picture. I've asked for and got approval to start one here. Just ask that people keep the size down to screen-size, and only one or two at the most, so our dial-up members can enjoy it too.
Here's mine: (I've tried this in a larger format as the first one was much too small): the first picture I ever took with my new Kodak 6490 and so far, the best.
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Trailblazer
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Wow! That's a giant screen size flower, and beautiful too!

We'll try to post a "best" of our bunch in the next few days, when we find a college or Univ. library or comp. lab.

We've taken gobs of pics on this journey up the Rockies and across the northwest.
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cmoehle
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Chris - San Antonio TX
Heather, that is among the most awesome things I've seen. Some hurricane imagery compares, some outer space imagery. But that is beautiful.

Have you tried shooting birds, nummungbirds or other? I had a friend way back in undergrad college days who would sit all day at a window to capture a shot or two of a bird feeding outside his window.

If'n you don't mind, a link of that's going up on the Portal.

Oh, for those who don't know, we do have a Portal.
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Heathertee
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Wow, Chris, I don't only not mind; I am honored. Thanks! for the compliments.
Trailblazer, thank you too. I am so thrilled at being able to do this!
I will try the hummingbird thing, etc., once I get the hang of the finer points; there is a manual setting so you can play with shutter speeds, exposures and so on. At least morning glories don't zip around at a thousand MPH while you try to focus on them!
I can hardly wait to see everybody else's photos!
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TexasShadow
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Jane
this is one of my favorites, taken near Mt. Baker in WA.
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Cornelius
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One of mine favourites taken at Chartwell, England, home of Winston Churchill.

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This was only a few weeks ago, sunset at Inner Sound, Applecross, Scotland
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karmasasha
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Great idea for a thread. So far.......breathtaking and awesome!
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jackd
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One of my favorite pic. Taken near Lagos Portugal, some 3 years ago.
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Heathertee
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OMG!
Sorry to sound like a teenager, but these are so gorgeous!!

More! More!!
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jackd
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Here's one more from Portugal. The village is called Ferragamo
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Heathertee
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Heather-Central Connecticut
Portugal, England, Scotland....OK, you guys; you aren't the only ones with a credit card...but just to prove that beauty can be found at home, here is another one from Connecticut...(and I was going to post just one. Yeah right!). This is from the waterfront in Old Lyme on the Connecticut river.

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karmasasha
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jackd, the water looks crystal clear. Did you go in ?. Also, when you went to portugal did you and your wife go alone or in a tour group and why? Andrea
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Heathertee
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Andrea, the beautiful water was what I loved about that shot, too. Can't you picture what it would be like to snorkel in that little bay?
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jackd
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:wacko: :wacko: :wacko: :wacko:
Is this better?????? :rolleyes:
karma: We spent a full day at this paradisiac beach, in and out of the water on a beautiful warm sunny day.
We always travel alone (my wife and I) and never with a group. We could not stand the tight schedule of a tour operator where you are given 9.65 minutes to visit this or that. The tours usually concentrate their visits to what I call tourist traps (where you can buy T-shits and local things (made in China) and will never stop at a beach like I posted, as you have to carefully climb down to get at.
When we travel abroad, we always only have a vague idea of where we are going , how long we will stay in one place.
No thanks, no organized tours for us ;)
JackD :wacko: :wacko: :wacko: :wacko: :wacko:
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Walk behind me, I lead you
Walk beside me, you are a friend.
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Heathertee
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BWWAAHahahahhah!
Jackd, do you proof-read?
T-WHATs? LOLOL.

Sorry. I just cannot resist a typo.
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