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[taffy19]

man...last trip I took that I got a decent photo of was a contracting gig in houston before I took over tug.

fantastic shot of traffic...I had never seen 14 lanes of dead stop traffic before!

sorry its not a pretty vacation type pic =D

That is a very sharp picture! What camera did you use?

I enjoy looking at all these pictures!

 

[Aussiedog]

here goes -

keeping my fingers crossed that this works

Ann

 

[Aussiedog]

Africa

this is a scanned pic so not as clear

Ann

 

[naudette]

The picture of the lions is fantastic! I'm sure there is a story behind it. Would love to hear it.

 

[Aussiedog]

Africa

Thanks!

Once a year we try to go on an ecotourism vacation. We have been to Tanzania twice on photo safaris, spending most of our time on the Serengeti.

On this particular occassion we drove up to a hippo watering hole and found a huge pride of lions and their cubs. The cubs were playing around - about a dozen total, and when a few of them went to the water's edge for a drink we were all snapping pictures like crazy. I was lucky to be able to frame up these three cuties!

(as long as you stay in the Jeep you are not part of the food chain so you are "pretty" safe - even the guides are not allowed to carry guns for self defense in the national park)

Ann

 

[jules40]

Aruba

Hope this works.

 

[Aussiedog]

it worked!

looks wonderful!

Ann

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

Amazing Two-Headed Giraffe at the Lincoln Park Zoo

 

[Aussiedog]

excellent pattern match!

great angle, and the pattern match in their markings is perfect!

Ann

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

great angle, and the pattern match in their markings is perfect!

Ann

Tx - the match isn't quite perfect though; you can see a few spots where the light markings end.

I didn't plan out or set up this picture at all. We were visiting the zoo in the late afternoon the day after Thanksgiving, walking by the giraffe enclosure, and I snapped off four or five photos while the animals were still in the sun. Only after reviewing the photos later did I realize how lucky I had been with the angle and how the markings happened to align.

**

And here are the camels

The guy on the right was awfully cute:

 

[Aussiedog]

So ugly she's cute?

my baby albatross picture - right up there with the good looks of a camel....

Ann

 

[Fletcher921]

I took this one at the Banff Springs hotel this last summer.
Beautiful place.

And this one in Bora Bora a few years ago.

 

[Aussiedog]

oh my goodness

that is beautiful!

is this a timeshare property?

Ann

 

[naudette]

Ann,
I keep looking at the lions. They are so cute and I'll bet that was a fantastic trip!

Nancy

 

[billymach4]

LAZY River at Aruba Surf Club

 

[TUGBrian]

That is a very sharp picture! What camera did you use?

I enjoy looking at all these pictures!

I believe it was a nikon coolpix S somethingorother.

it broke earlier this year and i tossed it out...sorry I dont recall which model :/

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

I believe it was a nikon coolpix S somethingorother.

it broke earlier this year and i tossed it out...sorry I dont recall which model :/

Nikon S1. Taken at ISO-50, 6.9 F-stop, 1/69 sec shutter speed and 6 mm focal length. (Info stored in file properties.)

 

[swift]

POTD

 

[tomandrobin]

Disney this past New Years Eve trip

 

[dmharris]

water at Poipu Point in Kauai

This photo is sanity for me in these endless gray days of winter in Western Pennsylvania. Click on the thumbnail and it should open in a more viewable size.

I uploaded to Photo Bucket and followed Theresa's well written instructions, but the "Once you are back in TUG click on the Insert Image (the one that looks like a postcard with a mountain on it below the redo arrow)

A box will pop up" failed because the box did not pop up. Must be some blocker on my computer, though I clicked to let things come through.

 

[silvib]

You guys truly have shared some lovely photos. Thanks for sharing. Guess I reduced the photo too much.

 

[TUGBrian]

This photo is sanity for me in these endless gray days of winter in Western Pennsylvania. Click on the thumbnail and it should open in a more viewable size.

I uploaded to Photo Bucket and followed Theresa's well written instructions, but the "Once you are back in TUG click on the Insert Image (the one that looks like a postcard with a mountain on it below the redo arrow)

A box will pop up" failed because the box did not pop up. Must be some blocker on my computer, though I clicked to let things come through.

if you do not have tugbbs.com in your list of trusted sites...IE7 and perhaps other current browsers will block the script from running to show the popup box (and instead you have to click manually to approve it)

so if you add tugbbs.com and tug2.com for that matter to your list of trusted sites....it will prevent many common issues we have on the technical side of things.

 

[dmharris]

Dear Admin,

That's is helpful info, but how do I add tug to "trusted sites"? I've never done this for anything. Didn't know I could.

Living in ignorance.

 

[swift]

This photo is sanity for me in these endless gray days of winter in Western Pennsylvania. Click on the thumbnail and it should open in a more viewable size.

I could stare at that all day!!

I uploaded to Photo Bucket and followed Theresa's well written instructions

Thank you

 

[dmharris]

No, thank you Theresa, you should be a technical writer they were so good!

I love to do photography and I also do artistic scrapbooking. So I've learned to take some photos of the components of the subject matter, like not only the baby, but the baby's toes, ears, etc. So I did the same with a gorgeous site and focused on the color of the water that was like a moving jewel. It mesmerized me and couldn't take my eyes off it, so I captured it and glad I did as it's one of my favorites. When I look at it, I can hear the sound of the ocean and almost feel it moving.