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Inspired by J's thread, I figured I would post some of my photos here. All the photos link to larger versions and the rest of my stuff.




An eagle roosting for the winter.


A ball I found in my backyard.



A mystery flower I found in Thailand. Does anyone know what it is?



A bird showing that you can take closeups of animals. (With a 300mm lense )



Some more flowers from Thailand


Bullseye!


A dancing chef.


A small sculpture of a lion outside the Forbidden City.


This one was pure luck.


A protester realizing that the cops were serious when they said that they were going to arrest her.


Some more protestors on AIDs day outside the White House


A homeless lady outside the Capitol. Only later after taking the picture did I notice that her shoes were under the bench. I thought that she had none!


Sunset on the Tidal basin in D.C.


A homeless man outside the White House.

What's the ball made of?

Zablorg wrote:What's the ball made of?

Honestly I don't remember. Some sort of red glass or marble type substance?

How HUEG is the ball?

I LOVE that Mystery Flower. The color, the lighting, the semi-subdued tone of it - not too fuzzy and warm, but clearly not too sharp either.

That arrested protester chick looks hot

Why does the dart have a Union Flag on it?

Shroom Man 777
I want to say the ball was maybe a foot in diameter?

The flower actually looks like that because I did what is called the orton effect to it. Basically you overlay 2 light versions of the picture over one another and blur the top layer. If you click on the picture, there should be a link to the original, unprocessed picture. You can learn about the effect here.

And yea, alot of my protestor pictures, mainly the oneswith chicks seem to have made rounds on some groups on flickr that like arrested chicks.

Dartzap
Because thats how I found it in my basement? The other darts have the US flag on them.

Bullseye! looks like it should be black bordered with a motivation slogan.

I really like the shot of the homeless woman with the capitol in the background; I'm a sucker for long shots.

Unknown Flower looks like a Snowblossom.

CaptainChewbacca wrote:Unknown Flower looks like a Snowblossom.

I looked for that, but I couldn't find anything. Got any pictures or references for that? Thanks.

tim31 wrote:I really like the shot of the homeless woman with the capitol in the background; I'm a sucker for long shots.

THanks! It took me about 6 shots to get one that I really liked.

And some more pictures!




Got bored so I went to try and get some night pictures of this pedestrian bridge near me. With a windchill of around -10 I gave up rather quickly, but I likes how this one came out

Heh. The first picture in the OP... For some reason I keep hearing a comical Jersey accent: "The fuck you lookin' at?!"

Nice photography.

havokeff wrote:Heh. The first picture in the OP... For some reason I keep hearing a comical Jersey accent: "The fuck you lookin' at?!"

Nice photography.

From what I've heard, eagles see camera lenses as one big eye. So he was probably trying to figure out what the hell was looking up at him.

Thanks

And a bump for some more pictures!

Went to the Chicago Autoshow this past saturday.













I would never have a thing for European cars

First batch of shots are fantastic, and those are some funkily awesome cars. . Great stuff!

No bikes?

DEATH wrote:First batch of shots are fantastic, and those are some funkily awesome cars. . Great stuff!

Thanks!

havokeff wrote:No bikes? Sad

It is the Autoshow, not the bike show. I was there for about 6 hours and I don't think I saw any bikes, even in the smaller companies booths.

The eagle-pictures are fantastic !

A bit too small to become wallpapers though

I have to agree on the eagle pics. Wow is all I can really say.

Thanks! Yea, we get alot of eagles around my school during the winter, so assuming you don't spook them it's fairly easy to get pictures of them. If you go here and tell me which ones you like, I can clean them up and throw a hi-res up for your backgrounds

No bikes.... blah.

I think I've already made it known which eagle pic I would like to see larger and better, but just in case, the first one posted in the OP.

havokeff wrote:No bikes.... blah.

I think I've already made it known which eagle pic I would like to see larger and better, but just in case, the first one posted in the OP.

Ok, not a problem.

Widescreen

regular

Those should work

Darth Mall wrote:Thanks! Yea, we get alot of eagles around my school during the winter, so assuming you don't spook them it's fairly easy to get pictures of them. If you go here and tell me which ones you like, I can clean them up and throw a hi-res up for your backgrounds

Can you also link to a high-res version of 5499 ?

Thanks !

Raesene wrote:

Darth Mall wrote:Thanks! Yea, we get alot of eagles around my school during the winter, so assuming you don't spook them it's fairly easy to get pictures of them. If you go here and tell me which ones you like, I can clean them up and throw a hi-res up for your backgrounds

Can you also link to a high-res version of 5499 ?

Thanks !

Tada
The cropped one is also at full res. I just had to crop alot to get it like that

Shroom Man 777 wrote:That arrested protester chick looks hot

She looks a little like Keira Knightly.

Anyway, great pics, Darth Mall. I like the bridge one a lot. The sunset in D.C. is really wonderful.

Pretty

I really like the flowers in the water, and the glowie bridge.