Iris in the woods

Ric GrupeRic Grupe Registered Users Posts: 9,522 Major grins
edited May 25, 2007 in Wildlife
Not much cookin' today and what I did get was more or less a repeat of something I've already bored you with.:rofl

This is why I'm glad I'm an opportunist when it comes to photography...too much beauty out there to just zone in on one thing...even if you do that one thing to near perfection.

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Exposure Time 0.0025s (1/400) Aperture f/9.0 ISO 200 Focal Length 420mm

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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited May 22, 2007
    Very nice thumb.gif
    Harry
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  • ShepsMomShepsMom Registered Users Posts: 4,319 Major grins
    edited May 22, 2007
    Ric, we need to ask for special section just for your flowers!! rolleyes1.gifNever bored with beautiful shots! :D
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  • Ric GrupeRic Grupe Registered Users Posts: 9,522 Major grins
    edited May 22, 2007
    Harryb wrote:
    Very nice thumb.gif

    Thanks, Harry. :D
  • Ric GrupeRic Grupe Registered Users Posts: 9,522 Major grins
    edited May 24, 2007
    ShepsMom wrote:
    Ric, we need to ask for special section just for your flowers!! rolleyes1.gifNever bored with beautiful shots! :D

    Thanks, Marina. :D

    Flowers for some reason meet an early doom as far as replies go. After all, what can you say that hasn't been said over and over.
  • JoemessJoemess Registered Users Posts: 112 Major grins
    edited May 24, 2007
    Ric Grupe wrote:
    Not much cookin' today and what I did get was more or less a repeat of something I've already bored you with.rolleyes1.gif

    This is why I'm glad I'm an opportunist when it comes to photography...too much beauty out there to just zone in on one thing...even if you do that one thing to near perfection.

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    Exposure Time 0.0025s (1/400) Aperture f/9.0 ISO 200 Focal Length 420mm


    NICE, Super shot of an Iris. When taking my research shots of plants I always try to sneek in at least one "art shot". I too wish that there was a forum for plants (heck, combine it with insects). For awhile there I was not sure if theywere even allowed in this forum with all the great bird shots we get. But yes, I can see where the plants die a slow death as far as replies.

    Andrew
    “Tug at a single thing in nature, and you will find it connected to the universe.
    [John Muir]
  • JoemessJoemess Registered Users Posts: 112 Major grins
    edited May 24, 2007
    Ric Grupe wrote:
    Thanks, Marina. :D

    Flowers for some reason meet an early doom as far as replies go. After all, what can you say that hasn't been said over and over.


    and thats different fom birds how????:D
    “Tug at a single thing in nature, and you will find it connected to the universe.
    [John Muir]
  • Ric GrupeRic Grupe Registered Users Posts: 9,522 Major grins
    edited May 24, 2007
    Joemess wrote:
    and thats different fom birds how????:D

    Well...if you have tried shooting little birds, particularly in the wild, then you know that the effort that goes into bird shots far exceeds that of plant life. Not to say that plants aren't as beautiful...just easier.

    I, for one, appreciate both.:D
  • Ric GrupeRic Grupe Registered Users Posts: 9,522 Major grins
    edited May 24, 2007
    Joemess wrote:
    NICE, Super shot of an Iris. When taking my research shots of plants I always try to sneek in at least one "art shot". I too wish that there was a forum for plants (heck, combine it with insects). For awhile there I was not sure if theywere even allowed in this forum with all the great bird shots we get. But yes, I can see where the plants die a slow death as far as replies.

    Andrew

    That's a reasonable idea, Andrew.

    Thanks.:D
  • JoemessJoemess Registered Users Posts: 112 Major grins
    edited May 24, 2007
    Ric Grupe wrote:
    Well...if you have tried shooting little birds, particularly in the wild, then you know that the effort that goes into bird shots far exceeds that of plant life. Not to say that plants aren't as beautiful...just easier.

    I, for one, appreciate both.:D


    I appreciate both as well, and I was mainly kidding.


    However, if you had ever hiked into some of the remote areas that I have to find a particular subspecies or variety of plant (hoping it is in flower or even still there due to being endangered), it can require much more effort than one may think. We all know that in the end it is the photo, yet the effort to get that photo can be hidden.


    Andrew
    “Tug at a single thing in nature, and you will find it connected to the universe.
    [John Muir]
  • Ric GrupeRic Grupe Registered Users Posts: 9,522 Major grins
    edited May 24, 2007
    Joemess wrote:
    yet the effort to get that photo can be hidden.
    Andrew
    Tell me the next time a plant does this...wings.gif

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  • JoemessJoemess Registered Users Posts: 112 Major grins
    edited May 24, 2007
    bowdown.gif I'll give you that one...but it looks like that one came to you! No fair if you don't have to hunt it. Great experience... I have had Prothonotary warblers land on me a couple of times, but never on of those guys.



    Andrew


    P.S. Please understand I ma not slagging anyones photos or subjects. I have prime on order so i can get more birds / small mammal shots as well. I just do plants for a living so I am little partial.
    “Tug at a single thing in nature, and you will find it connected to the universe.
    [John Muir]
  • bfjrbfjr Registered Users Posts: 10,980 Major grins
    edited May 24, 2007
    Ric Grupe wrote:
    Well...if you have tried shooting little birds, particularly in the wild, then you know that the effort that goes into bird shots far exceeds that of plant life. Not to say that plants aren't as beautiful...just easier.

    I, for one, appreciate both.:D

    Man ain't that the truth deal.gif

    and I'm with you like em all thumb.gif
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  • dallasdallas Registered Users Posts: 1,638 Major grins
    edited May 24, 2007
    But still a good photograph Ric. Thanks for showing the beauty of nature in it's many forms. thumb.gifthumb.gif
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  • Ric GrupeRic Grupe Registered Users Posts: 9,522 Major grins
    edited May 25, 2007
    dallas wrote:
    But still a good photograph Ric. Thanks for showing the beauty of nature in it's many forms. thumb.gifthumb.gif

    Thanks, William! :D
  • kdogkdog Administrators Posts: 11,681 moderator
    edited May 25, 2007
    Perfect is right! That's a beautiful composition. thumb.gif

    420mm, huh? What with the recent wildlife attack, I don't blame you for not wanting to get too close. rolleyes1.gif

    Regards,
    -joel
    Moderator of Landscapes forum
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  • LCDLCD Registered Users Posts: 494 Major grins
    edited May 25, 2007
    Hi Ric,
    Dutch Iris are one of my favorites. Nice shot!
  • Ric GrupeRic Grupe Registered Users Posts: 9,522 Major grins
    edited May 25, 2007
    kdog wrote:
    Perfect is right! That's a beautiful composition. thumb.gif

    420mm, huh? What with the recent wildlife attack, I don't blame you for not wanting to get too close. rolleyes1.gif

    Regards,
    -joel

    rolleyes1.gif

    When the birds don't cooperate one must find something else! I should take off the TC for shots like this.....but just when I did, the shot of a lifetime would show up. Very easy to get a nice OOF background this way. BTW, this is handheld as are 99% of my shots. Usually one out of every 3 frames is useable!clap.gif

    Thanks, Joel.

    Have not seen our pal around lately.ne_nau.gif
  • Ric GrupeRic Grupe Registered Users Posts: 9,522 Major grins
    edited May 25, 2007
    LCD wrote:
    Hi Ric,
    Dutch Iris are one of my favorites. Nice shot!

    Lucinda.....right? Where have you been? (I still love that name:D)

    Thank you.
  • LCDLCD Registered Users Posts: 494 Major grins
    edited May 25, 2007
    Sorry Ric. Shoud have "signed" my note.
    It's Lisa. But you're right Lucinda is a beautiful name.

    Big project at work for the last year and a half. It really cranked up the last six months. so, basically I had no life! working on getting it back now. Nothing a vacation wont cure!!
  • Ric GrupeRic Grupe Registered Users Posts: 9,522 Major grins
    edited May 25, 2007
    LCD wrote:
    Sorry Ric. Shoud have "signed" my note.
    It's Lisa. But you're right Lucinda is a beautiful name.

    Big project at work for the last year and a half. It really cranked up the last six months. so, basically I had no life! working on getting it back now. Nothing a vacation wont cure!!

    OOPS! Sorry Lisa. So many names to keep track of. A girl named Lisa knocked out my front tooth (well, part of it) in 7th grade.....and all I was doing was trying to drop a garter snake in her pants.rolleyes1.gif

    I think you're probably nicer than she was.:D (I'll keep my snakes to myself)rolleyes1.gif
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