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That's a great shot, though. I've never seen a green spider like that.larkspur said:I was going to use this for the close up but due to the prevalence of arachnophobia I decided against it.
That's a great shot, though. I've never seen a green spider like that.larkspur said:I was going to use this for the close up but due to the prevalence of arachnophobia I decided against it.
zoobyshoe said:That's a great shot, though. I've never seen a green spider like that.
That's a great old bridge, and beautiful scenery.scorpa said:This would have been my entry for bridge over troubled water but I was gone on holidays and missed out on the contest.
Mk said:Yeah, it is a great picture, but kind of negative.
I love the shine on the thorax.
zoobyshoe said:Here are three that I was debating about posting in the closeup thread. Eventually I went with the eyeball closeup and set these three aside:
zoobyshoe said:That's a great old bridge, and beautiful scenery.
Yeah, the eye was obviously the most...eye catching.larkspur said:I think I like the eye the best. Do you ever play with the white balance on your Lumix?
Probably worth it for a good shot of such an interesting old wood structure.scorpa said:Thanks. I had to go stand in the river to get a decent shot of the bridge, luckily the water level was fairly low at the edge...but oh my god was it ever cold. By the time I had taken the picture my legs were numb.
Those are great. My favorite is the third one showing the engine going down the crest of the hill with the long smoke trail.GeoMike said:Some more Mount Washington Cog shots I was going to enter:
http://www.mcschell.com/cog2.jpg
http://www.mcschell.com/cog3.jpg
http://www.mcschell.com/cog4.jpg
http://www.mcschell.com/cog5.jpg
http://www.mcschell.com/cog6.jpg
-GeoMike-
[/URL]gravenewworld said:I missed the 'where we live contest'
Good ol Philadelphia
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That[/URL] is really cool. What part of Philadelphia? I used to work in Bala Cynwyd.gravenewworld said:I missed the 'where we live contest'
Good ol Philadelphia
http://myspace-925.vo.llnwd.net/01076/52/96/1076636925_l.jpg
A bad kitty?scorpa said:I was just getting ready to head to school, picked up my bad and what did I find?
Gokul43201 said:A bad kitty?
So, did you let the cat out of the bag?scorpa said:Lol I picked up my BAG as in Backpack. It's fixed now :rofl:
:rofl:Gokul43201 said:So, did you let the cat out of the bag?
Evo said:That is really cool. What part of Philadelphia? I used to work in Bala Cynwyd.
I thought the weird thing about him is he has no eyes! The way the flash reflected off his face, I did a double-take when I first looked at the photo, thinking he really didn't have eyes.gravenewworld said:As you can see the weird thing about him is the fact that he has a solid brown coat, exactly like a brown lab.
More great shots, GeoMike! You submitted the best one for the contest, though. Mt. Washington is a beautiful place. On a clear day, the views from the summit are to die for. I wish I had owned a digital camera on one of my Baxter hikes - a crystal-clear fall day on Mt. Katahdin with gorgeous views of much of Maine. Katahdin is visible from our former home in Skowhegan and I tried in vain to spot it from the summitt. Then again, even with my binoculars, spotting a little white farmhouse at a distance of 80-90 miles was probably not going to happen. :rofl:GeoMike said:Some more Mount Washington Cog shots I was going to enter:
http://www.mcschell.com/cog2.jpg
http://www.mcschell.com/cog3.jpg
http://www.mcschell.com/cog4.jpg
http://www.mcschell.com/cog5.jpg
http://www.mcschell.com/cog6.jpg
-GeoMike-
Moonbear said:I thought the weird thing about him is he has no eyes! The way the flash reflected off his face, I did a double-take when I first looked at the photo, thinking he really didn't have eyes.
turbo-1 said:More great shots, GeoMike! You submitted the best one for the contest, though. Mt. Washington is a beautiful place. On a clear day, the views from the summit are to die for. I wish I had owned a digital camera on on of my Baxter hikes - a crystal-clear fall day on Mt. Katahdin with gorgeous views of much of Maine. Katahdin is visible from our former home in Skowhegan and I tried in vain to spot it from the summitt. Then again, even with my binoculars, spotting a little white farmhouse at a distance of 80-90 miles was probably not going to happen. :rofl:
Cute!:rofl: :rofl:gravenewworld said:i also have a cat pic. this is our new cat cocoa.
http://aycu24.webshots.com/image/5303/2000280677292571938_rs.jpg
As you can see the weird thing about him is the fact that he has a solid brown coat, exactly like a brown lab.
Everybody in the NE who likes to hike ought to come do Katahdin at least once. The sheer drop on the South side of the Knife's Edge makes it seem almost like an undercut (like Table Rock at The Balsams - a baby hike for those not afflicted with acrophobia) and the winds there create strong updrafts/downdrafts that can enhance the effect. I joined some friends and relatives for a 3-day weekend at Russell Pond once and had a great time. There's a modest hike in and out (although 7.5 miles with several days' worth of gear on your back can be tiring if you haven't done it for a while), but the fishing was great, and we had to constantly keep moving our canoes to stay a "respectable" distance from the feeding moose, who frankly didn't give a damn if we were there or not. The rangers were gentle but insistent that if we had found a good spot to fish and the moose came there to feed, we had to give them space. That's all well and good, but I have been fly-fishing all my life (OK, over 40 years of it) and I know that if you are behaving yourself, feeding moose will get REALLY close to you and will never bother you if you don't bother them. I have pictures from a little pond in Pleasant Ridge when I was snapping shot after shot of a feeding moose, and when I looked up from my viewfinder, I said "holy ****", set down my camera and slowly paddled away. The bow of my little Old Town Pack Canoe was almost touching him. He was a really photogenic Swamp Donkey, and I just kept taking the shots until I realized I might be a BIT close.GeoMike said:Thank you! Katahdin is great too, the Knife's Edge is one of my all-time favorite sections of trail. Sadly I haven't hiked it in about 4 years (from where I live it's about three time the distance to Baxter SP as to Mt. Washington). There are a few places around here where you can see Mt. Washington, but probably no chance of finding them from the top of Mt. Washington. I do know that if it is clear you can see the sun reflecting off the Atlantic Ocean at certain times of the day from the summit.
I think my favorite place in all of New England is Huntington Ravine on the east slope of Mt. Washington. Even in the middle of the summer, when the summit is packed, it's easy to be the only one on the trail through the ravine. And the ice under the boulders sticks around well into July creating natural air conditioning.
-GeoMike-
Evo said:Cyrus, where are the pictures from? What restoration? Did I MISS this? Are you insinuating that as mentor of GD I don't actually read EVERY post?
Actually, I probably read 99% of them, that's why I'm on medication now.
turbo-1 said:Follow-up on the moose thing: When I was probably 10 or so, my dad and I went to a remote bog early in the morning to fly-fish. When we got close, we found a large, steaming placenta in the trail and my dad said "there's a new baby moose somewhere, and we've disturbed the mother." We located the "boat" made out of two Pontiac hoods cut off and welded together at their butt ends, and started fishing. The number of moose feeding in that bog was astounding and several of them swam out near us, just giving us "the eye" and moving on. About an hour after we got there, we heard some noise in a thicket of alders, and watched as a cow moose repeatedly moved her baby and got her muzzle under it to move it closer and closer to the water. She got the baby to the bog and he/she was a pretty cinnamon color and swam around freely, staying close to mom all the time. Before noon, she had him/her over near the trail that we had used to get to the pond, and the newborn was walking out of the pond, although a bit wobbly in the knees. TV and the internet is great, but I have never learned anything from them that has greater impact than my real life.
turbo-1 said:Follow-up on the moose thing: