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[T_R_Oglodyte]

Geo, what state were those Mt. Vernon flowers in?

I'm not geo, but Mt. Vernon is in Washington state about an hour north of Seattle. There are many beautiful tulip fields like these in the area.

Google "Skagit Valley Tulip Festival"

 

[Zac495]

Geo, love the flower shots, just wonderful! Karen, thanks for posting the Yellowstone images, I'm going there twice next year (January and September), just whetting my appetite for what I'll be seeing...

Well, we just got back from Vermont and Cape Cod. One of the things we did while we were gone was a whale watch out of Provincetown, so my theme for a while will be "whale of the day"!

Probably my favorite:

Outstanding!

I should add - I LOVE looking at the pictures - they're all incredible and fun - just because they're not commented on doesn't mean they aren't incredible and a joy - thank you everyone for continuing to post. You often make my day.

 

[geoand]

Can't believe everything you read on this thread!!!!

Geo, what state were those Mt. Vernon flowers in?

Don't believe what Karen and Steve are saying. I only posted that these pics were from Mount Vernon to help keep location secret. Then I realized that people could read that I am from Bothell. These flower shots were really, I mean really taken from my back porch into my backyard. It is a lot of work, but someone has to do it.

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

Don't believe what Karen and Steve are saying. I only posted that these pics were from Mount Vernon to help keep location secret. Then I realized that people could read that I am from Bothell. These flower shots were really, I mean really taken from my back porch into my backyard. It is a lot of work, but someone has to do it.

For those who are interested in more TUGger tulip pictures, I believe that upthread TUGger ricoba posted some other Skagit Valley tulip festival pics.

 

[KristinB]

Thanks Kristin. Am looking forward to seeing more of your Whale shots. I remember how incredibly lucky I felt when capturing my whale shots. Constantly scanning the water and there you see it and now its gone feeling. Had to resort to just keeping the camera in shoot position and using the other eye to scan. Sometimes the whales cooperated and magically appeared in my camera.

Outstanding!

I should add - I LOVE looking at the pictures - they're all incredible and fun - just because they're not commented on doesn't mean they aren't incredible and a joy - thank you everyone for continuing to post. You often make my day.

Thanks, Geo & Ellen! Yup, there were a number of shots that I missed because I wasn't in the right place (or my camera wasn't in position). But I consider myself fortunate to have gotten the ones that I did, as I've never been lucky enough to capture breaches before.

 

[KristinB]

 

[geoand]

WOW!

This whale must have surfaced right at your boat. Amazing shot. What kind of whale is it?

 

[Passepartout]

It looks like a humpback diving under the boat to me. As Geo. said, WOW!

Jim Ricks

 

[KristinB]

This whale must have surfaced right at your boat. Amazing shot. What kind of whale is it?

It looks like a humpback diving under the boat to me. As Geo. said, WOW!

Jim Ricks

Thanks, Geo & Jim! Jim got it exactly right...

 

[KristinB]

 

[Zac495]

oh my gosh!!!

 

[taffy19]

Geo, love the flower shots, just wonderful! Karen, thanks for posting the Yellowstone images, I'm going there twice next year (January and September), just whetting my appetite for what I'll be seeing...

Well, we just got back from Vermont and Cape Cod. One of the things we did while we were gone was a whale watch out of Provincetown, so my theme for a while will be "whale of the day"!

Probably my favorite:

Krystin, your Humpback whale pictures are amazing and so razor sharp. I know they are Humback whales because you answered my question in Facebook already.

I love your photo albums and thank you for sharing them with us. Do you have to rework your pictures quite a bit to make them look this beautiful or not?

 

[geoand]

What a neat shot of the humpback "spyhopping."

 

[KristinB]

oh my gosh!!!

Ellen, much appreciated!

Krystin, your Humpback whale pictures are amazing and so razor sharp. I know they are Humback whales because you answered my question in Facebook already.

I love your photo albums and thank you for sharing them with us. Do you have to rework your pictures quite a bit to make them look this beautiful or not?

Emmy, I shoot in what's known as raw format, not jpg. It's essentially the digital equivalent of a negative. Then I do the digital equivalent of developing film, by processing the raw file in special software. So I do a certain amount of post processing just to get the jpg. That said, I usually crop a little for composition, and can do minor corrections relating to exposure and white balance. I also can clone out any small imperfections. My Photoshop skills are quite limited (as Steve Nelson knows, he and I have discussed this before), but I have always intended on improving them. So I guess my answer is no, not really, but I would never like to show anyone a picture straight out of the camera (not that I could anyway, the raw format is not renderable in a browser).

What a neat shot of the humpback "spyhopping."

Geo, thanks! So that's what it's called...

 

[taffy19]

Ellen, much appreciated!



Emmy, I shoot in what's known as raw format, not jpg. It's essentially the digital equivalent of a negative. Then I do the digital equivalent of developing film, by processing the raw file in special software. So I do a certain amount of post processing just to get the jpg. That said, I usually crop a little for composition, and can do minor corrections relating to exposure and white balance. I also can clone out any small imperfections. My Photoshop skills are quite limited (as Steve Nelson knows, he and I have discussed this before), but I have always intended on improving them. So I guess my answer is no, not really, but I would never like to show anyone a picture straight out of the camera (not that I could anyway, the raw format is not renderable in a browser).



Geo, thanks! So that's what it's called...

Your results are beautiful and I enjoy all the pictures here because we are traveling through someone else's eye and often from a whole different perspective too which makes it so interesting. It's a great thread and I believe it is the longest one too.

 

[KristinB]

Your results are beautiful and I enjoy all the pictures here because we are traveling through someone else's eye and often from a whole different perspective too which makes it so interesting. It's a great thread and I believe it is the longest one too.

Thanks, Emmy! That's so true...

Here's another tail fluke:

 

[geoand]

Is this a "Tail Breach - This is very similar to a breach, but this time the whale raises it's flukes first and quickly slams it back down into the water." or in my situations missing the bigger part of the whale but catching the last moment it was on the surface.

 

[KristinB]

Is this a "Tail Breach - This is very similar to a breach, but this time the whale raises it's flukes first and quickly slams it back down into the water." or in my situations missing the bigger part of the whale but catching the last moment it was on the surface.

Yup, that's what happened, but I didn't know that's what it was called... as I said, I've only gone out on four whale watches in my life, so I'm not as conversant with the terminology as some of you veterans are. Thanks, Geo!

 

[KristinB]

 

[KristinB]

Okay, if you want to see the rest of my whale shots, here is the gallery.

Switching gears now, my new theme will be Cape Cod light houses and landscapes (although I'm not too thrilled with these images, the weather didn't cooperate while we were there, so I had to take these photos under less than optimum light conditions).

Nobska Light:

 

[SueDonJ]

Okay, if you want to see the rest of my whale shots, here is the gallery.

Switching gears now, my new theme will be Cape Cod light houses and landscapes (although I'm not too thrilled with these images, the weather didn't cooperate while we were there, so I had to take these photos under less than optimum light conditions).

Kristin, I love the whale shots - very nice!

And you can say that again (!) about the grey gloomy drizzly rainy depressing uncooperative weather up here. It is STILL the same and it feels like it's never going to end.

So here's an old sunshine one that somewhat fits your new theme. It's the original working lighthouse on Hilton Head at Harbour Town.

(I have a request: PLEASE if you have sunshine shots post them here. We're desperate after what feels like eighty-four weeks now in the dark.)

 

[Karen G]

(I have a request: PLEASE if you have sunshine shots post them here. We're desperate after what feels like eighty-four weeks now in the dark.)

Okay, here's a shot of my backyard right now. Come on in, the water's fine & the sun is shining. It's only going to be 105 today!

 

[HatTrick]

Gay Head Light, Martha's Vineyard

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

have sunshine shots post them here. We're desperate after what feels like eighty-four weeks now in the dark.)

Oh, all right.

DS and DIL on Seven Mile Beach - Grand Cayman

 

[KristinB]

Nauset Light: