Pic(s) you took today - an open thread

[hunnymonster]

 

[hunnymonster]

 

[Darren]

Dandelion clock cliche by Darren Ward, on Flickr

 

[justpix]

Hi, tried lilies in the neighbourhood :






At home, from the azalea in my garden :









Hawthorn :





Basima was bored ... :

 

[hunnymonster]

As good as it got tonight

 

[tommy6206]

 

[justpix]

Hi, the kestrel this morning :






Shaking the plumage :





Ready to catch a mouse :

 

[tommy6206]

 

[Darren]

 

[woof woof]

Lockdown fun. A build it yourself "retro car" with a plastic windup mechanism

It didn't take long to build and we played with it to see if it ran straight and it did

 

[woof woof]

I took this today. It's just a quick snap of Mrs WW tending the pot plants, we'll send the snap to her mam.

So, imagine my surprise when I realised I'd snapped a real fairy!

100% crop from the above...

See! They do exist!

 

[justpix]

Hi, played in the garden (SONY A7R2 - LEITZ (Leica) Macro-Elmarit R 2,8/60) :

 

[mstphoto]

Early morning sunshine at the River Don, Aberdeen ( a 2 minute walk from home )

Persley Bridge by Mike Stephen, on Flickr

 

[woof woof]

I haven't been two minutes walk from home for weeks now. I'm looking forward to it.

The hill as seen from our bedroom window. One place I'd like to go

I'm hoping to get there before the bluebells are done for this year.

 

[gogleddwr]

This evening - crab apple tree.



Pentax K3 + (old) Pentax 55-300mm


Howard

 

[justpix]

Hi, the first rose in my garden this year (SONY NEX5N - Leica Elmarit 2,8/21 asph.) :






And then I cut it off, and put it in a vase ... --- :

 

[john.margetts]

I am essentially an outdoors person- most of my working life was spent outside. This self-isolation is seriously doing my head in. Now it is pouring with rain and I cannot even go in the garden. Oh. well. There is a spider in the bathroom.

 

[Tirpitz]

It rained all day today but i took this on my walk yesterday if that counts.....

 

[drsilver]

This afternoon, my attack beagle treed (or posted, I suppose) this squirrel in the back yard.


Wildlife photography is hard. I actually had to get up, out of my chair, to get this shot.


This, on the other hand, was shot while sitting at my desk. It comes from my 'Roll End' collection.

It's been a while since I used the camera I shot these with. When I went to look at that squirrel picture, the only other images on the card were roll ends.

In the 35mm days, after you loaded the film, you'd shut the back and fire off 3 or 4 frames to pull unexposed film off the spool. When that roll was developed, you'd end up with a frame, frame and a half of picture at the right end. Mostly pictures of my feet, but occasionally you'd see one and think, hey, that's kind of cool.

With digital, there's no film ends, but I still have a need to dry fire a camera once in a while. And with auto focus, my hit rate is way better. Got a whole folder of images I call roll ends.

 

[tommy6206]

 

[justpix]

It rained all day today but i took this on my walk yesterday if that counts.....

Sure! I like canals ... ---

A walk in the country (SONY NEX5N- FE 2,8/35) :






Wine is growing :





Just a few apple tree blossoms left :





No rain for over 6 weeks. The farmer is worried if he will be able to sell his gourmet-cherries, when restaurants remain closed ... :

 

[justpix]

Hi, @drsilver - I used to have red squirrels in my garden up to last year. But building activities, cutting down of trees and a change in bird populations made them move somewhere else.

I miss them very much ...

Roll-End pics: I had the same experiences. Typically, I used one film/day when on holiday. And the last few, typically featured my dog ... ---

@All : Thank you for your contributions! I think we have a nice variety of subjects and styles here. When I started this thread, I felt uncertain how it would develop, of course.

It is nice, let's keep it up ...

 

[woof woof]

Hi, the first rose in my garden this year.

Looks like you're months ahead of us.

 

[woof woof]

In the 35mm days, after you loaded the film, you'd shut the back and fire off 3 or 4 frames to pull unexposed film off the spool. When that roll was developed, you'd end up with a frame, frame and a half of picture at the right end. Mostly pictures of my feet, but occasionally you'd see one and think, hey, that's kind of cool.

With digital, there's no film ends, but I still have a need to dry fire a camera once in a while. And with auto focus, my hit rate is way better. Got a whole folder of images I call roll ends.

My modern equivalent is the shot I take after cleaning he sensor, just to make sure everything still works.

 

[Topsy]

This chap popped in for a fish in the river opposite my house (behind the other side of the street's houses. He was lurking on the neighbor's shed watching. Taken with Fuji X-T2 and Canon FD 300mm f4 on a tripod.

 

[woof woof]

@All : Thank you for your contributions! I think we have a nice variety of subjects and styles here. When I started this thread, I felt uncertain how it would develop, of course.

It is nice, let's keep it up ...

Sorry for a third post without pictures as I haven't taken any today as we're in isolation and it's raining. Anyway. Thank you for the thread. I try to look every day and I do find it interesting and a little inspiring. It's also a little peep into another persons day

 

[tommy6206]

I hope you don't mind Immo..Wine needs sun and warmth

 

[gogleddwr]

Looks like you're months ahead of us.

Oh No he's not!!!!

This is taken today in the NW UK.




Taken after the rains.

I, too, like this thread it has given me inspiration to get out in the garden after being self isolated for 2 weeks. Please everybody keep it up.

Howard

 

[Topsy]

So as evening came we had a storm and after the storm there were dramatic clouds so obviously I had to photograph them. Phone Pole outside my house Fuji X-T2 16-55 f2.8.

 

[Topsy]

So as evening came we had a storm and after the storm there were dramatic clouds so obviously I had to photograph them. Phone Pole outside my house Fuji X-T2 16-55 f2.8.

View attachment 277021

And in B&W............

 

[justpix]

Hi, a walk in the fields, before the rain came

I hope you don't mind Immo..Wine needs sun and warmth

Hi, we have it here, more than in other parts of Germany. I live not far from Hochheim, where Queen Victoria got her Hock (a dry Riesling)

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Königin-Victoria-Denkmal_(Hochheim_am_Main) . ---

A walk in the fields with my dog, before the rain (pocketcamera SONY NEX5N - Voigtländer Ultron 2/28) :

 

[gogleddwr]

Another flower, a horse chestnut, from our walk this afternoon.



Pentax K3 + Sigma 18-250mm

Howard

 

[gilbouk]

Deer in a rush!!


JSC_4099 1 by Gilbo B, on Flickr

 

[woof woof]

The back garden is as far as I've been for weeks now. Today I stepped out for a moment to see the rainbow.

You can just about see at the bottom there how far behind our plants are compared to some of yours. I've been putting off cutting the grass as I love the dandelions and daisies.

 

[justpix]

Hi, showery weather here today :






Preparing lunch ... :






... with my personal kitchen aid :

 

[woof woof]

Hard at work.

The fairy again.

 

[lugworm]

Still blooming in my garden...

 

[woof woof]

A few more from my time spent sat on the garden bench this afternoon.

Sometimes I think I've taken pictures just for something to do but I try and tell myself that I must have seen something there that caught my interest. I nearly deleted these but after having them on a slideshow today I've decided there is something there and I quite like them. I like the first one as it seems a bit smokey and dreamy I think there's a moth hiding in the last one that I didn't spot at the time.

 

[Darren]

starling by Darren Ward, on Flickr

 

[Harlequin565]

New camera (to me) arrived today so I had to do some test shots.

This fella is 38 years old and has my side of the bed. Oddly, the camera that took the shot is 38 too.