• Members 41 posts
    April 14, 2023, 6:05 p.m.

    The gallery is open but the walls are bare once again, so step up forum members and fill the walls with your latest photos. As always, when you post your photos, please reply to the first post - then put the title of your post in bold at the top of your reply to reflect the images in your post.

    Please keep comments respectful.

    "Spring is here,
    Go get your macro gear!”

  • Members 20 posts
    April 15, 2023, 4:20 a.m.

    A Few from Big Bend National Park

    My wife and I just got back from a week-long stay in Big Bend National Park. I have tons of images to cull and edit, but here are a few that I've already edited. Luckily, we were there when the desert was in bloom, so there were tons of cactus blossoms and desert flowers to photograph. All images were taken with a Sony a6500 and are 2400 pixels on the long end. Thanks for looking!

    A Mexican Jay posing along the Lost Mine Trail within the Chisos Basin
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    Sony 70-350mm @ 350mm, f 8, 1/1000 SS, ISO-400

    A flowering shrub at the Ernst Tinaja Trail, after about 30 minutes of off-roading to arrive at the trailhead
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    Minolta 100mm Macro with Sony LA-EA5 Adapter, f 5, 1/250 SS, ISO-100

    A lone flower embedded in the rock formations of Ernst Tinaja, whipping in the wind
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    Sony 200-600mm @ 600mm, f 8, 1/640 SS, ISO-160

    A prickly pear cactus bloom at a pull-off from the off-roading portion of Old Ore Road
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    Minolta 100mm Macro with Sony LA-EA5 Adapter, f 6.3, 1/1000 SS, ISO-100

    While searching for birds on the Dugout Wells Trail, this isolated flower was blowing in the soft greenery
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    Sony 200-600mm @ 600mm, f 8, 1/1250 SS, ISO-500

    On the hunt for more birds, we spotted this butterfly flitting throught the sunlight
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    Sony 200-600mm @ 600mm, f 8, 1/2000 SS, ISO-400

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    JPG, 1.7 MB, uploaded by jazzedmurf on April 15, 2023.

    DSC05937.jpg

    JPG, 2.9 MB, uploaded by jazzedmurf on April 15, 2023.

    DSC05447.jpg

    JPG, 2.4 MB, uploaded by jazzedmurf on April 15, 2023.

    DSC05431.jpg

    JPG, 3.0 MB, uploaded by jazzedmurf on April 15, 2023.

    DSC05417.jpg

    JPG, 2.6 MB, uploaded by jazzedmurf on April 15, 2023.

    DSC05180.jpg

    JPG, 3.5 MB, uploaded by jazzedmurf on April 15, 2023.

  • Members 25 posts
    April 15, 2023, 3:25 p.m.

    Early season Wisteria blossom (in Dutch, and for all I know German, "Blue rain"). Sony a6600 and Zeiss Touit 32/1.8 at F1.8
    Piemonte wisteria

  • Members 252 posts
    April 15, 2023, 9:18 p.m.

    Some obscured outhouse I came across during a ride on my bike.

    A3000 + Rikenon 50mm f/1.7, f/8, iso100, 1/500
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  • Members 41 posts
    April 17, 2023, 3:52 p.m.

    Bumblebee

    Taken with Touit 50 in my garden.

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    JPG, 768.0 KB, uploaded by AdVeen on April 17, 2023.

  • Members 97 posts
    April 21, 2023, 12:05 p.m.

    Tulips, thanks for looking

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    JPG, 514.8 KB, uploaded by DNSJR on April 21, 2023.

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    JPG, 498.9 KB, uploaded by DNSJR on April 21, 2023.