My Contribution for today

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A potpourri of images from my late afternoon shoot. Hope you enjoy.

Butterfly #1 & #2, yeah yeah same butterfly





A little layered reflection


A Flyby BIF


Second story balcony guard


And finally a hunting bird with a little foot action going on


Hope you enjoyed todays exotic expedition :lol3

KimballPhotography

Great set...
I really like your layered reflection of the birds. Very cool! The first butterfly is cool, was he sunning? I like the second butterfly but wish he was completely in the shot. Anyway, all are very good. You must of had a nice late afternoon stroll.

Steve Cavigliano

Ben,

Good stuff

I agree with Natalie, that layered reflection shot just sucks you right in. Very, very nice You also did real well on the Heron shots. The BIF would have been very nice without the building in the BG Your GBH guard is real nice as is the last shot. Which I believe may be a juvenile Night Heron.


Looks like you had a successful day :


Thanks for sharing,
Steve

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KimballPhotography wrote:

I really like your layered reflection of the birds. Very cool! The first butterfly is cool, was he sunning? I like the second butterfly but wish he was completely in the shot. Anyway, all are very good. You must of had a nice late afternoon stroll.

Thanks Natalie for your input. I'm glad you enjoyed
You are right that second butterfly not the way it should of been :cry, My wife said don't post that one, but I was to excited about my 1st sunning butterfly (silly huh ). Should always listen to the little woman she is my toughest critic

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Steve Cavigliano wrote:

Ben,

Good stuff

I agree with Natalie, that layered reflection shot just sucks you right in. Very, very nice You also did real well on the Heron shots. The BIF would have been very nice without the building in the BG Your GBH guard is real nice as is the last shot. Which I believe may be a juvenile Night Heron.


Looks like you had a successful day :


Thanks for sharing,
Steve

Hi ya Steve, hope you had a good week
Thanks for commenting
Yeah better BIF's to come (well, I hope ). Boy if I could of only got the one that happened a second later, picture this:

Heron flying by open balcony. 2 people man/woman embrasing as the bird flys past they stopped and still embrasing point at bird. Bathed in golden evening light building, couple, bird & oh and lets not forget metal balcony had a golden glint also :wow :bash

Sometimes I can just GRrrrrr............. my shot of this OOF, Oexp, just sucked :cry :cry :bash

Oh, well got a couple keepers

Harryb

Hey Ben,

Looks like you had a productive day there. The reflection and bif shots are excellent.

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Harryb wrote:

Hey Ben,

Looks like you had a productive day there. The reflection and bif shots are excellent.

Thanks Harry

SusanB

bfjr wrote:

A potpourri of images from my late afternoon shoot. Hope you enjoy.

Butterfly #1 & #2, yeah yeah same butterfly
Hope you enjoyed todays exotic expedition

Congratulations on the captue of that flighty butterfly, interesting colors too. I heard that the Palos Verdes Penninsula at a preserve type of location, has a rare blue butterfly there this year as a result of the rains. I'm thinking of trekking up there and checking it out. Cool captures of the wildlife blending right in with the urban scene. :

Susan

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SusanB wrote:

Congratulations on the captue of that flighty butterfly, interesting colors too. I heard that the Palos Verdes Penninsula at a preserve type of location, has a rare blue butterfly there this year as a result of the rains. I'm thinking of trekking up there and checking it out. Cool captures of the wildlife blending right in with the urban scene. :

Susan

Hi ya Susan Thanks for viewing
I've heard of this butterfly, and in fact know of an area backside of LAX in El Segundo that is fenced and marked "Protected Blue Butterfly Perserve". However I've never seen one

Rumor has it that LAX did that so they could get the property, used to be houses there, now nuttin, I don't think any butterflys either :lol4 :lol