Photo Addict (lots of pics)

[AtticaFish]

I have literaly thousands (would guess 10K+) of digi pics saved - an ungodly amount of gigabytes used up on external drives. :blush: Probably 2/3 of them are good old fashioned family pics of the kids, get-togethers and what not. The other 1/3 are things i find funny, odd or just really cool when you see it close up. Might be a few fish pics in that 1/3 too. Almost always have my camera with me too. NONE of these are photoshoped.

Sorry for those one slow internet connections - these might bog you down some!

 

[Jig Man]

Nice pictures.... Luv the wasp!

 

[CrappieHappy]

Greatness...

 

[AtticaFish]

The frost and ice can make some beautiful artwork. Mother nature at her best.

These couple were taken out on the ice after dark using my LED headlamp. It has both a regular light and red light....

 

[AtticaFish]

Either i just love taking pics or.....

......i am a little nuts.

 

[Radtexan]

Awesome pics Russ,,,Hope ya dont mind ,the sun through the trees makes a great wallpaper !!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Ron Don]

WOW! Always love looking at nature pics!

 

[AtticaFish]

No problem Roger - just sent you a higher res version of it to your email. Cropped it so it should fit a wide screen monitor and not stretch. Those are the trees straight across the road from my house. Caught that one on a foggy morning.

JigMan - The wasp is very cool. Found them on a tree on a hike down in southern ohio last year. No clue what kind they were but there was about 20 on 2 seperate trees and didn't see them anywhere else. Sure wish that picture was in focus just a hair more. :-/

 

[Radtexan]

Thaks Russ,the stretch was ok ,,but that pic is muy bueno !!!!!!!!!!

 

[crappiecripplerjigs]

Very nice pics Russ. The wasp is an Ichneumon Wasp. I had never seen one until this summer when I found one dead in the lab at work. I put it in a jar of alcohol and did a little internet search. Very interesting creature. The long stinger looking thing is actually an ovipositor. They "drill" that nasty thing into wood and lay their eggs. Some say they don't sting, while others claim of a very painful sting. Native to your area but no common this far south in Missouri. Great pic of the wasp doing its job there!!

 

[crappiecripplerjigs]

And.... the crazy barefoot guy in the snow is not commonly seen here either!!!

 

[JSC]

Thanx

 

[JUNGLEJIM1]

Killer pics,what kind of camera are you using ? My photography skills could use a ton of fine tuning.

 

[StumpHunter]

Cool pics!!!! I enjoyed all of them.

 

[Fatman]

Great pics

 

[AtticaFish]

Crippler - Cool info on the wasp! I had wondered what that long stinger was about and had never seen anything like them. I can say that i was scared to even get as close as i did - looks like an impressive weapon/phallus. Got some pics of what must have been the females as well and this pic was better in focus.

One more bug pic too from a few years back now - a hummingbird moth! This thing was big.... that is a Lilly it is eating from. You can see it's tounge pretty good too, it easily stretched out 3 inches. Took me 8 pictures chasing it around from different flowers till i got one in focus.

 

[AtticaFish]

Jungle - The camera is an old (in tech years) Kodak Z700 - 4 Megapixel. It is one of the bigger sized ones. My wife has a newer one (higher MP) that is one of the slim tiny things and i can barely keep hold of the thing. The bigger style just feel more comfortable to me. Most every thing i do is either auto-point-shoot or done with the close-up/macro setting. Getting one of the small tri-pods and using the timer setting is very helpful for getting close-up shots. Any thing else that i see that catches my eye i just pick a center point and take about 10 pics....... one of them is bound to turn out!

I'll throw a few more up.....

I have ALOT of the sunset/sunrise pics with the sun behind and the foreground being dark or black, guess it just screams out to me:

Next one is the end of the same tree line as the picture that Radtex liked. Lots of depth to this one... 2 sets of trees, clouds, sky and the sun.

Cant leave out my kids either.....
My son (5yrs. at the time) was 'baleing hay' with his Tonka truck after my wife had mowed some of the field. Something about the lighting in this photo just makes me happy - summer evening as the sun was about to set.

And here is my daughter at just over a year old. Man was she was a tomboy back then!!! Around 1st grade she decided to be a girl. She's 8 now (9 in January) & still loves to fish once she is out and sitting by the water...... but getting her to agree to go is the hard part.

Last 2 ARE edited in PHOTOSHOP. These are panoramic stitch pictures. Took several different pictures standing in the same place and then 'stitched' them together in the PhotoShop software.

One of my favorite eddy holes on my river:

This one my daughter was only there on the 1st pic and kept walking as i took the others that went up the cliff:

 

[Hawnjigs]

Your centering is comfortable.

 

[crappiecripplerjigs]

You've got excellent photography skills to say the least. Last picture of the wasp is really neat. The coloration/patterning of the body looks like some type of Transformer from the movies. I'm kind of a freak when it comes to nature pictures and nature in general. To most people cliffs, critters, lakes, etc... go un-noticed. I find them amazing. Nicely done!

 

[StumpHunter]

Amazing pictures.