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[swift]

The boys taking a break from the long car ride this last weekend from Eureka.

 

[easyrider]

Animals

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[easyrider]

Crocks

 

[easyrider]

Flamingos

 

[Kingwayne]

 

[swift]

 

[dmharris]

This is for Steve

Mt. Rainier from the air

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

Since I mentioned the Makewehi Cliffs in another thread, I thought I would post another pic from that area. It's one of my favorite spots in the world.

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

Mt. Rainier from the air

Tx, Diane.

This hasn't been a good winter for Mt. Rainier pics. I've got a couple of locations I'm occasionally check.

A few days ago as I was walking down the street from the bus stop near my house, I could see all the way to Mt. Baker, near the Canadian border. Didn't have my camera with me, though.

 

[dougp26364]

 

[dmharris]

Doug, LOVE the swan photo; I'm obsessed with water reflections!

Steve, You're welcome! And great color in the cliffs photo!

 

[RDB]

We've had a few storms this winter with heavy snow and wind; ... It's amazing how powerful nature is.

... I want a sustained freeze so we can ice skate. ...

Susan

Susan, Thanks for sharing the winter scene. Reminds me of an area in Michigan where I walked to school as a kid.

Robert

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

Let's go back to St. Martin.

Baie L'Embouchure from Pic Paradis

 

[swift]

This was a great show at Disney's Hollywood!! (aka MGM)

 

[SueDonJ]

Susan, Thanks for sharing the winter scene. Reminds me of an area in Michigan where I walked to school as a kid.

Robert

I went back out there every day this week because it's been sunny and much warmer, but wouldn't you know it today is the only day I took my camera and it's quickly turning gray before tomorrow's storm. Anyway, with this one you can really see how the storm just ripped out those trees:

I found this guy sitting and waiting on some little birdie to fall prey:

Susan

 

[SueDonJ]

I'm convinced Photobucket is one of those things that serve a good purpose but will drive you bonkers! Resizing is hit or miss (or I'm not doing it right), the pics in this thread show up in different sizes every time I open the thread, and now today there seems to be a new editing process. I am trying to not eat up bandwidth, honestly.

Susan

 

[swift]

It is still just as easy to change the picture size with the new form as the last one. I had to figure it out too at first I thought I would have to memorize screen sizes but you don't.

Above each picture is a tab labeled "edit" click on it.

To resize click on the button labeled "Resize"

For simple resizing there is a bar labeled "Preset Sizes" click on the drop down menu arrows for it. Generally I will use "Message Board", 15"screen or 17" screen then click on "Save"

You will then be brought back to your album where you can click on "Direct Link" and post your picture on TUG.



Have fun with your pictures. Save more than one copy of them and play with the Crop feature to bring out images in the pictures. Don't be afraid to make mistakes. If you have saved more than one copy you can always delete the one you don't like.

 

[dmharris]

Shearwater Fledgling early November Kauai

 

[swift]

New Toy!!!!!

In the new Photobucket edit feature there are lots of new buttons to play with on your photos. You will find them under the Tabs on the top after you click into edit. Some of the Tabs are "Effects", "Decorate", "Beautify". Here is a picture that I had of a bridge that I used the "Old Photo" button under the tab "Effects".

 

[swift]

Here is one more that I played with.

Here is the original.

 

[SueDonJ]

... Have fun with your pictures. Save more than one copy of them and play with the Crop feature to bring out images in the pictures. Don't be afraid to make mistakes. If you have saved more than one copy you can always delete the one you don't like.

Oh no, I do like Photobucket's new editing options - they're very similar to the ones in iPhoto, which is where all of my original photos are saved.

When you resize in Photobucket, do your pictures always show up on this board in the correct size? That's where I'm having problems, because mine don't! For example, in my post from yesterday the first picture was small and the second was large in both the preview and original posts. Now today both pictures are small. The same thing happened with my last pic in this thread. That's how Photobucket is driving me bonkers.

Remember Goldilocks? I prefer the medium size to either the small or large! Like you I do the Message Board preset but next time I'll look for that 15" or 17" screen size that you mention, set it to 17", and maybe that will help.

And finally, if you have any hints about better focus in cropped shots I'd love to hear them. The hawk pic was cropped a few times but any more and it gets blurry. I took it with a telephoto lens after the camera had been out in the cold/damp for over an hour.

Whew, what a lot of words about a fun thread!
Susan

 

[cindi]

Here is one more that I played with.

Here is the original.

Really cool effect with the water. Makes it kind of look like it was all done with tiny mosiac tiles.

 

[SueDonJ]

Now this one should be medium-sized, it's resized to Message Board. That sound you hear might be me bonking my head on the desk. Ha.

(Another odd thing I just noticed about Photobucket since they changed things. Any editing done in iPhoto is not transferring; Photobucket uploads the original image even though I'm importing my saved edit. That's different from before.)

It's the little things that will send us over the edge, donchaknow?
Susan

 

[KristinB]

Just loving all these wonderful images... Here are some from my recent Wyndham Flagstaff exchange.

Two different views of Cathedral Rock, Sedona (from the Crescent Moon Ranch, Red Rock Crossing):

Montezuma's Castle:

Mandrill at the Phoenix Zoo:

 

[SueDonJ]

I went to the spring flower show in Boston today. It's sunny here but cold and windy still so it was really nice to see and smell spring! Some of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society-judged displays were way out there, but this is my favorite new plant for a flower garden:

It's called "campanula medium".

Susan