03-09-11 – Stars

I was already leaning that way, anyway, so no worries. I guess I can post the bees now:

Taken in Hawaii a couple of years ago at christmas:
https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/OYwFTvJvSLU0p0Y0MghrzA?feat=directlink

Taken in a previous trip to the Sierra, close to the same location (actually on buttermilk road, which fans of Galen Rowell may know of from some of his incredible pictures):
https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/TuR7cklTNUvg3cohKpZfhQ?feat=directlink

Same trip as the A-side milky way, just lots of stars. I might use this one in some other contest:
https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/LsRnPesy_j82PcnxnlNmAw?feat=directlink

Almost exactly the same as the A-side milky way, I just like the colors in the A better. Also, a car drove across the bottom of the frame (which you can see).
https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/DnKChjTDgzk3njEzU7OWcQ?feat=directlink

The streetlight from my above post. Didn’t really turn out as well as I was hoping:
https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/Ki-Jw1T1kf3hGsZyJ-i63Q?feat=directlink

i got nutin — again. the clouds got in the way of real stars. the star substitute stuff is sub par. since even my good stuff fails to register with the voters rather than post entries that will tank i’d rather sit out a contest now and then.

and for various reasons photo trips have been few and far between since Christmas.

If those are just the bees, I’m sunk.

I highly doubt that. You never know what the voters will go for. I certainly don’t.

Startin’ off the thread with a LOL 😉

mopsy earned a genuine gut laugh with poor Charlie’s eyes in the tuna can.

Googly eyes make everything better. 🙂

Some bees – (if anybody has strong feelings that one of these is better than one of the three I posted I’d like to hear about it. Not saying I’ll change but…)

Lake Tahoe last week – http://photos.imageevent.com/ulle17/fark/Tahoe_6897.jpg
Tiny farm land cemetery – http://photos.imageevent.com/ulle17/fark/Cemetery_5179a.jpg
Tattered flag with Holga-on-dSLR – http://photos.imageevent.com/ulle17/fark/Tattered_9990.jpg
40 minutes – http://photos.imageevent.com/ulle17/fark/StarTrails_0346-square-aa.jpg

This is from the flag barn evening. It was the first picture after taking my camera from a cold air-conditioned van out into 90ish degree humid air.
Instant fog. I sort of like the feel though – http://photos.imageevent.com/ulle17/fark/Barn_4607.jpg
Same barn, similar to a prior post – http://photos.imageevent.com/ulle17/fark/Barn_4641.jpg

ennuipoet, thanks.

justkat, I almost used Patrick. Glad I did not. Yours is better.

Hey, kestrana, I think we have the same galaxy!