A Wing And A Prayer
by KMcC

Comment:
The color of the bird blending into the color of the water behind it may have dinged this one in voting.
For wildlife, it's usually better if you can crop to have the critter "coming into" the image with room to go forward.
You captured a great pose, from a good angle,and did a nicely artistic rendering of the subject as well.

Clouds of Smoke
by Revecca

Comment:
My family has been in S W Florida for about 6 generations. I'm happy that the park service/ forestry finally figured out that the natural landscape here does better if it is allowed to burn off the fluff every few years. We both my grandfather and my father were woods guides. My grandfather, born about 1875 at Ft Myers guided with an ox cart, which was a popular mode of land transportation in this area back then. My Dad and I used to burn palmetto patches in the middle of wet season so that deer and quail would have good places to live and fresh growth to eat.
Nice snapshot of an activity that not too many people understand fully.

Hope
by godot

Comment:
Nice treatment of the clouds in this shot, not over done. My experience with sunsets is that it works to try to get some blue sky in the image to contrast with the orange, which you have done.
The wire is a major element, and fits well with the title.
Congrats on your new 5+ finish, and thank you for your comment on my entry in this challenge.

mollyspook
by tnun

Comment:
That's a different sort of way of looking at "doggieness". Shutter speed is longer than I thought it would be.

contact sheet544
by tph1

Comment:
I looked through all of them. You've given me the film bug again.

Radial Symmetry
by nfessel

Comment:
I also use some of the old glass. Two of my fav's are the B&L Zeiss Tessar 140mm f4.5. I mounted it on a bellows macro rail for focusing, and it works great that way. You can also unscrew the front element, and just use the aperture and rear element to get some very interesting soft focus effects. This one was done that way using direct flash, with a Christmas tree about 3 ft behind the subject. With the front element removed, it's focal length is around 60-70 mm. It's a very sharp lens with the front element on, and has a delightful bokeh, having 19 blades in the aperture.


Another that I use is the B&L 32mm f4.5 Macro. It's about the diameter of a quarter, so I made a mount for it from pvc pipe fittings and a camera body cap. It's only good for a tight range of focus distances, yielding aprox 1/1 mag ratio. It works good with on cam flash for macro, because it's small enough that it does not shade the on cam flash from the subject.


The B&W is great for this one.

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by Ja-9

Comment:
What an unusual image. Nice find.

Bear's Room
by Art Roflmao

Comment:
WTG Art!

lightningwithfire.jpg
by Kelli

Comment:
Zapboom. It's just that quick too, when it's this close. You can hear a snap then the thunderclap. Glad you were not on the receiving end of that bolt. Congrats on the weather report hit.

Trying to steal my thunder, are you?
by herfotoman

Comment:
What everyone else said, and also, it's pretty special that the lightning originates in the center of the arc. It's definitely not an everyday snapshot.