Welcome to Mini-challenge#169 WILDLIFE

CAPTURED2HCAPTURED2H Registered Users Posts: 142 Major grins
edited September 2, 2013 in The Dgrin Challenges
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Welcome to Mini-Challenge #169! The theme of this challenge will be Wildlife with emotion ! I love the challenge of shooting birds but it has bin done so this is the best I can come up with. Any wildlife [animal bird etc ] please not your dog or cat love them also but I think that would be a challenges of it's own!! So a shot with feeling I will post 2 maybe 3 not just a ID shot but something that gives you the feeling they are feeling or what you think the emotion is -a caption will help ,humor will work

This challenge starts now and will close at 11:00 PM (Pacific Time) on Wednesday , July 31, 2013.

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Well I was #2 so now we have a #2 challenge I do hope this works I did not think for a minute I would have won so I did not think about it and all the themes I thought of we have palyed in the past .

So this one my caption would be LOVE ,do you get that feeling ?
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  • CAPTURED2HCAPTURED2H Registered Users Posts: 142 Major grins
    edited July 16, 2013
    And this one ---LOVE---- I don't think so rolleyes1.gif

    This is one I take humor from . I hope you all get my thinking headscratch.gif
  • Alans GrinAlans Grin Registered Users Posts: 346 Major grins
    edited July 17, 2013
    OK I'll give it a go ....


    1) Reassurance - Kenya

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    2) Motherly Love - Kenya

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    3) Curiosity - Goshawk, Tanzania

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    Good luck everyone,

    Alan.
  • DonRicklinDonRicklin Registered Users Posts: 5,551 Major grins
    edited July 17, 2013
    1) They didn't tell me I was adopted! :cry
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    2) Lonely place for a swim. Where is everyone?IMGP1175-L.jpg

    3) Hey, buddy, what you looking at?
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    :D

    Don
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  • CAPTURED2HCAPTURED2H Registered Users Posts: 142 Major grins
    edited July 17, 2013
    Thanks guys great start I feel better now
  • pixelpeeperpixelpeeper Registered Users Posts: 22 Big grins
    edited July 17, 2013
    Happy to add support with my three

    1. Feeling Shy

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  • pixelpeeperpixelpeeper Registered Users Posts: 22 Big grins
    edited July 17, 2013
    2. Do not disturb - feeling angry

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  • pixelpeeperpixelpeeper Registered Users Posts: 22 Big grins
    edited July 17, 2013
    3. Motherly Love

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  • CHANDLERJACHANDLERJA Registered Users Posts: 400 Major grins
    edited July 17, 2013
    I love the wildlife!!
    Great pictures so far! thumb.gif


    Come just a little bit closer...:D
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    Not now Bob! Someones watching!! :D
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    Hey buddy! You wanna keep that foot?
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    Jeromy
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    Light is everything in life and photography.
  • superduckzsuperduckz Registered Users Posts: 377 Major grins
    edited July 17, 2013
    Love.
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    Panic
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    Patience
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    Accidents and Inspiration
    One of these days I'll have to figure out what my "style" is..
  • zoomnzoomn Registered Users Posts: 142 Major grins
    edited July 18, 2013
    1. Contemplation

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    2. Annoyance

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    3. Glee

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  • jmesseder2jmesseder2 Registered Users Posts: 7 Beginner grinner
    edited July 18, 2013
    I'm a little puzzled. The rules say I can upload 1-3 images, and I've got a 3-image sequence. But the Manage window will only allow me to upload one image. This is my first time, so I may well be missing something.
  • Alans GrinAlans Grin Registered Users Posts: 346 Major grins
    edited July 18, 2013
    jmesseder2 wrote: »
    I'm a little puzzled. The rules say I can upload 1-3 images, and I've got a 3-image sequence. But the Manage window will only allow me to upload one image. This is my first time, so I may well be missing something.

    Hi jmesseder2 and a big welcome to the DGrin challenges.

    I'm no expert, but it seems to me that you can only have all three images in one message if you can provide a www reference (via the little yellow "mountain" pic icon) to those images already present on the internet somewhere ... ie Smugmug, Flickr etc. In the case where you need to upload your images for this competition I think you will need to upload and post three times as pixelpeeper has done - ie one image per post - using the paper clip icon (advanced mode).

    Hopefully someone might put me right, but also hoping to see your images - so if need be simply post three times - I'm sure CATURED2H will cope!

    Alan.
  • grandmaRgrandmaR Registered Users Posts: 1,942 Major grins
    edited July 18, 2013
    You guys are too good. So I'm just posting photo that I have taken while snorkeling, or in the first case, in a marina.

    Manatee in Titusville. Manatees are fairly inexpressive animals. I can't really see how anyone could have thought they were mermaids. Mostly they just stick their nostrils out to breath and don't let us see their faces. But I thought these guys looked like they were around the manatee equivalent of the office water cooler.

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    Grey angel fish taken with a film camera in Belize on a scuba dive in 1998. Grey angels always have a downturned mouth and look disapproving. This one is giving me the cold shoulder

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    Snorkeling in Belize with a digital camera this time - white spotted filefish - orange phase - saying o.m.g.

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    “"..an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered." G.K. Chesterton”
  • CAPTURED2HCAPTURED2H Registered Users Posts: 142 Major grins
    edited July 18, 2013
    jmesseder2 wrote: »
    I'm a little puzzled. The rules say I can upload 1-3 images, and I've got a 3-image sequence. But the Manage window will only allow me to upload one image. This is my first time, so I may well be missing something.

    Alan is right and you can if you do not have a smug account [or something like that ] I am not a computer guy

    so easy way-- below were you write your comment is attach files do old faithful and heve you shots ready and resized to fit the forum . manage attachments then browse pick one from your file then upload write your comment while it uploads then submit reply do it 3 times and with luck it will take 3 or 4 minutes and your 3 are all in a row .

    If you havwe a smug account then you can take all the time you want and put all the photos in one post . but above you have 3 posts but they are all together

    and yes I can deal with that it is the way I do it rolleyes1.gif
  • ShootingStarShootingStar Registered Users Posts: 145 Major grins
    edited July 20, 2013
    Some great pictures already. I love wildlife photography and I am really looking forward to seeing everyone's entries.

    Here are mines:

    1. French manicure is SO IN this summer!

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    2. You look tasty, please come closer...

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    3. Come back, I will always love you
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    Nature can be so different around the world but it is always amazing!

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  • jmesseder2jmesseder2 Registered Users Posts: 7 Beginner grinner
    edited July 20, 2013
    Alans Grin wrote: »
    Hi jmesseder2 and a big welcome to the DGrin challenges.

    I'm no expert, but it seems to me that you can only have all three images in one message if you can provide a www reference (via the little yellow "mountain" pic icon) to those images already present on the internet somewhere ... ie Smugmug, Flickr etc. In the case where you need to upload your images for this competition I think you will need to upload and post three times as pixelpeeper has done - ie one image per post - using the paper clip icon (advanced mode).

    Hopefully someone might put me right, but also hoping to see your images - so if need be simply post three times - I'm sure CATURED2H will cope!

    Alan.

    I do have a Smugmug account (jmesseder2.smugmug,com), and when I looked at the little yellow "mountain" pic, the light came on in the darkroom of my upper chamber. I created a new gallery, and then ...

    Thanks for the pointer, Alan. clap.gif
  • jmesseder2jmesseder2 Registered Users Posts: 7 Beginner grinner
    edited July 20, 2013
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    Just fly a little way and then you can have some goodies.

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    Flap those wings, son! Flap those wings!

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    But Dad, it's so h-a-a-r-d!

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  • brancaleonebrancaleone Registered Users Posts: 55 Big grins
    edited July 20, 2013
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    Lunch time..

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    Just relax

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    Do we look good?
  • puzzledpaulpuzzledpaul Registered Users Posts: 1,621 Major grins
    edited July 20, 2013
    McEnroe Moment

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    Swan score
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    Lustful look
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    pp
  • kentwallerkentwaller Registered Users Posts: 158 Major grins
    edited July 20, 2013
    1. pollen! num num num.
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    2. hungry koi
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    3. some kind of beetle
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  • JAGJAG Super Moderators Posts: 9,088 moderator
    edited July 20, 2013
    I have enjoyed watching this round proceed. I would like to show and tell a few of my own, but they are not to be considered for the challenge itself as moderators are exempt from that. Please indulge me a little while I play! mwink.gif

    1. The Gull Formation (Key West, Florida)
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    2. Totally Wild (Rainforest in Costa Rica)
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    3.Young Eagle (Anchorage, Alaska)
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  • CAPTURED2HCAPTURED2H Registered Users Posts: 142 Major grins
    edited July 20, 2013
    Great start clap.gifthank you all ! Kent I was just thinking fish not much emotion then your koi:D alan thumb.gif Paul great exposure all 3 eek7.gif Brancaleone :cry your eagle broke my heart I have seen that [not with an eagle] too much
  • jwearjwear Registered Users Posts: 8,005 Major grins
    edited July 21, 2013
    Ahhhhhhhhh I feel better now
    Jeff W

    “PHOTOGRAPHY IS THE ‘JAZZ’ FOR THE EYES…”

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  • juanherediajuanheredia Registered Users Posts: 345 Major grins
    edited July 21, 2013
    Here are mine. I've seen that there are many great pictures. Good luck to everybody.

    1. Beauty Butterfly
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    2. Are you watching me?
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    3. Butterfly always remember that it was worm
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  • PedalGirlPedalGirl Registered Users Posts: 794 Major grins
    edited July 21, 2013
    I'm sure I'll find a couple more to add, but I'll start with this guy.

    Intense
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    Pho-tog-ra-pher (n) 1. One who practices photography 2. one obsessed with capturing life with their camera. 3. One who eats, sleeps and breathes photographs. 4. One who sees the world in 4x6.
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  • bfluegiebfluegie Registered Users Posts: 736 Major grins
    edited July 21, 2013
    I only photograph wildlife as it crosses my path and I don't feel obligated to run. So these are not up to the standards of the group, especially since it is obvious that they were taken through a window. Still... the challenges are fun even when I am out of my depth.

    Ambition
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    Effort
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    Success! "Wait, this is a bird feeder? Well, call me birdie. Tweet tweet"
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    These were taken on different days. First I saw the result, the squirrel eating the bird seed. Later I saw how he got there. Both times I had a camera nearby and was able to record the dining experience.
    ~~Barbara
  • EaracheEarache Registered Users Posts: 3,533 Major grins
    edited July 21, 2013
    Me?... get outta' bed?... are you kidding?
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    Nope... no way... I'm not getting-up 'til the Panda does!
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    Did you hear the one about the Panda and the Koala?.... Ha Ha Ha!
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    Eric ~ Smugmug
  • juanherediajuanheredia Registered Users Posts: 345 Major grins
    edited July 21, 2013
    Earache wrote: »
    Me?... get outta' bed?... are you kidding?
    Hahaha, your post and photos are my favorites. So funny :-)


    Sent from my Galaxy S3 with Tapatalk 4
  • juanherediajuanheredia Registered Users Posts: 345 Major grins
    edited July 21, 2013
    PedalGirl wrote: »
    I'm sure I'll find a couple more to add, but I'll start with this guy.

    Intense
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    yes. So intense. I like the expression of its eyes. Great portrait shot.

    Sent from my Galaxy S3 with Tapatalk 4
  • EaracheEarache Registered Users Posts: 3,533 Major grins
    edited July 21, 2013
    Hahaha, your post and photos are my favorites. So funny :-)

    Thanks Juan, and right-back-at-ya... very nice close-up work on the butterflies and the pre-butterfly - beautiful!
    Eric ~ Smugmug
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