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June 28, 2012 at 3:34 pm #47489
Elsinore
KeymasterActually, you need to post on Fark.com in the Farktography thread here: http://www.fark.com/comments/7185620 . Do you have a Fark.com account?
June 28, 2012 at 3:35 pm #47490ravnostic
ParticipantNice picture, though! It’ll surely get some votes!
June 28, 2012 at 3:46 pm #47491fluffybunny
ParticipantBird in flight for the contest:
American Cliff Swallow?
June 28, 2012 at 4:26 pm #47492lokisbong
Participantfluffybunny, love the wings and tail open shot. Really shows off the coloring very nicely. Was out walking my dog over the weekend and there was a scissor tail sitting in a tree in one of the park areas we were walking by, he seemed perfectly content to let me walk really quite close, but alas I didn’t even have my phone on me.
And yes, this IS going to be an epic thread.
edit, U-Man, love the part-gray mallard head, you’re right, that’s awesomely sharp. //envy.
Wait. You can leave the house without so much as a cheap point n shoot? How do you do that? every time I leave home without one I see something that reinforces my need to carry a camera even if I will only be gone 10 minutes. I haven’t even taken the garbage to the dumpster without my little Canon PnS in my pocket in 2 years.
Lot of greatness this theme. Of which only one of my three qualify in my opinion. I love my 1st of 3 but I think I over did the processing on the other two. Number one is pretty much straight out of camera though.
June 28, 2012 at 4:30 pm #47493beakgeek
ParticipantActually, you need to post on Fark.com in the Farktography thread here: http://www.fark.com/comments/7185620 . Do you have a Fark.com account?
Thank you I figured it out. I posted 3 images.
June 28, 2012 at 4:36 pm #47494ParticipantBird in flight for the contest:
American Cliff Swallow?
Yes, American Cliff Swallow (Petrochelidon pyrrhonota)
June 28, 2012 at 4:37 pm #47495emiliogtz
ParticipantWait. You can leave the house without so much as a cheap point n shoot? How do you do that? every time I leave home without one I see something that reinforces my need to carry a camera even if I will only be gone 10 minutes. I haven’t even taken the garbage to the dumpster without my little Canon PnS in my pocket in 2 years.
Going out without a camera is like going out naked…
June 28, 2012 at 4:39 pm #47496Barracuda
ParticipantWait. You can leave the house without so much as a cheap point n shoot? How do you do that?.
I know, I know, I should have known better. 😉
beakgeek, lots of fantastic shots on your website, guess I should swing back through the Fark.com thread and see how many new entries I need to vote for now. 🙂 Can’t quite make out the Schwinn head badge in your avatar. Looks to be one of the standard Schwinn Chicago badges, Radiant Coppertone paint?
June 28, 2012 at 4:50 pm #47497ParticipantWait. You can leave the house without so much as a cheap point n shoot? How do you do that?.
I know, I know, I should have known better. 😉
beakgeek, lots of fantastic shots on your website, guess I should swing back through the Fark.com thread and see how many new entries I need to vote for now. 🙂 Can’t quite make out the Schwinn head badge in your avatar. Looks to be one of the standard Schwinn Chicago badges, Radiant Coppertone paint?
It is the headbadge for a – hand made schwinn from Japan’s Panasonic factory. It is a 1977 Schwinn Volare that was the bike that was one step down from a Paramount. It came with all first gen Dura Ace components. The color is “pearlescent orange”. They made that model in 1977 & 78.
June 28, 2012 at 8:04 pm #47498ParticipantAh, the Volare, I know the model. I’m a regular over in the Classic & Vintage section of BikeForums.net (cuda2k, admin), as well as the owner/developer of VeloBase.com. I’ve had a couple of vintage Schwinns in the last few years, but none quite that old.
// first contest that’s on the outside of the vote avg curve I’ve seen since I started participating!
June 28, 2012 at 8:07 pm #47499ParticipantAh, the Volare, I know the model. I’m a regular over in the Classic & Vintage section of BikeForums.net (cuda2k, admin), as well as the owner/developer of VeloBase.com. I’ve had a couple of vintage Schwinns in the last few years, but none quite that old.
// first contest that’s on the outside of the vote avg curve I’ve seen since I started participating!
I know who you are. I am on there too as beakgeek. You helped me out with an id on another bike.
June 28, 2012 at 8:11 pm #47500nobigdeal
ParticipantWow, there are some really cool birds I’ve never seen before. I wish more people would’ve said what kind they are, if they knew.
I’m No Big Deal: That hummingbird is so cute & fluffy! We don’t have that kind here that I know of.
Nice job, gang!
Thanks! The past few years the hummies haven’t been around when the blueberry bush is in bloom. I think in 09 the bush bloomed late and the hummies were early.
June 29, 2012 at 5:57 am #47485ParticipantWell I guess I should just not take pictures of Birds for Farktography anymore. Definitely not feeling any love for my shots this week. Did I really suck that bad with all three?( you can be honest it won’t hurt my feelings anymore than having my pictures completely being ignored.) I expect to wear out my thumb again this week. So at least my pics will have 2 votes each. lol
June 29, 2012 at 11:43 am #47501Uranus
ParticipantDefinitely not feeling any love for my shots this week. Did I really suck that bad with all three?( you can be honest it won’t hurt my feelings anymore than having my pictures completely being ignored.)
I’m prone to feel the same in some contests…
I think it to be less measure of your shots than a measure of the competition.
June 29, 2012 at 1:26 pm #47502ParticipantWell I guess I should just not take pictures of Birds for Farktography anymore. Definitely not feeling any love for my shots this week. Did I really suck that bad with all three?( you can be honest it won’t hurt my feelings anymore than having my pictures completely being ignored.) I expect to wear out my thumb again this week. So at least my pics will have 2 votes each. lol
Honestly, bird photos where the bird does not make up the majority of the image don’t have a lot of visual impact. Your shots are more landscapes that happen to have birds in them rather than portraits of birds. If that makes any sense.
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