Leslie Reid Posted January 8, 2018 Share Posted January 8, 2018 Basic Guidelines: In the strictest sense, nature photography should not include "hand of man elements". Please refrain from images with buildings or human made structures like roads, fences, walls. Pets are not permitted. Captive subjects in zoos, arboretums, or aquariums are permitted, but must be declared, and must focus on the subject, not the captivity. Images with obvious human made elements will likely be deleted from the thread, with an explanation to the photographer. Guidelines are based on PSA rules governing Nature photography which also cover the Nature Forum. Keep your image at/under 1000 pixels on the long axis for in-line viewing. Note that this includes photos hosted off-site at Flicker, Photobucket, your own site, etc. We post one image per week. I had a two-slime-mold day a couple of weeks ago. One of the two was kind of ordinary, as slime molds go; it looked a lot like tapioca. And then there was this one. What you’re seeing here is about a 24 mm x 32 mm swath of Sitka spruce log, with the slime mold Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa var. porioides being consumed by a filamentous fungus. I came back a few days later and there was no evidence left of either one. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sallymack Posted January 8, 2018 Share Posted January 8, 2018 White-tailed kite, northern California. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShunCheung Posted January 8, 2018 Share Posted January 8, 2018 Leslie, thanks for starting the thread. Nature is amazing, and thanks for capturing that in your opening image. Mandarin Duck in flight, at the Elk Grove Regional Park near Sacramento, California. Mandarin Ducks are native to the eastern part of Asia, in Japan, China and Russia. This duck is not captive but is fed by people visiting the park, such that he has incentive to hang around the park. Most likely he has either escaped or has been released from captivity in California. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob_bill Posted January 8, 2018 Share Posted January 8, 2018 I had named my resident wood stork "Walter" after Jeff Dunham's bald, grumpy old man. Now, Walter has a girl friend. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DawsonPointers Posted January 8, 2018 Share Posted January 8, 2018 Tropical Kingbird. I was about to tell it that Uruguay is in the sub-tropics, but, it took off from the bamboo before I could ;-} 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill J Boyd Posted January 8, 2018 Share Posted January 8, 2018 Sunday morning in my Austin, Texas backyard. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcstep Posted January 8, 2018 Share Posted January 8, 2018 Formation Flying Formation Flying by David Stephens, on Flickr 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brian_niemi1 Posted January 8, 2018 Share Posted January 8, 2018 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dieter Schaefer Posted January 8, 2018 Share Posted January 8, 2018 Got a straight-on look by a female mallard 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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ShunCheung Posted January 8, 2018 Share Posted January 8, 2018 Formation Flying Formation Flying by David Stephens, on Flickr Very nice that the wings for both geese are up, and it is not always easy to get multiple subjects all in focus. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bnelson Posted January 8, 2018 Share Posted January 8, 2018 Very nice that the wings for both geese are up, and it is not always easy to get multiple subjects all in focus. But sometimes you get lucky. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DawsonPointers Posted January 8, 2018 Share Posted January 8, 2018 Dieter, this is a perfect photo to look for moire. Did you notice any? Got a straight-on look by a female mall Got a straight-on look by a female mallard 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dieter Schaefer Posted January 8, 2018 Share Posted January 8, 2018 perfect photo to look for moire. Did you notice any? Didn't notice any. Would the noise at ISO 2200 not mask possible moire? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShunCheung Posted January 8, 2018 Share Posted January 8, 2018 Didn't notice any. Would the noise at ISO 2200 not mask possible moire? ISO 2200 is pretty high. Moreover, since this is a straight-on, frontal image, only a small area is in focus. It is very unlikely to find moire under such circumstances. The chances are much higher at base ISO and with a side view of the bird feather such that more area is in focus. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Currie Posted January 8, 2018 Share Posted January 8, 2018 Been away for a while, enjoying the rain forest and the warm climate of Costa Rica and Panama. Now back in the frozen northland, but here's a little souvenir from Costa Rica. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bing_huey1 Posted January 8, 2018 Share Posted January 8, 2018 Moon jelly washed onto beach 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fgorga Posted January 9, 2018 Share Posted January 9, 2018 One from the archives (June 2015)... Downy Woodpecker Feeding Interaction ... juvenile male (on left) being fed by adult male. I am always amazed at how often juvenile birds are so much fatter than the adults that feed them... ahhh, to be young again! :) --- Frank (www.gorga.org/blog) 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Gosden Posted January 9, 2018 Share Posted January 9, 2018 It's a snowy owl irruption year, so I rented a Tamron 150-600mm over the holidays and took a day trip to Prime Hook NWR in Delaware. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin Smith Posted January 9, 2018 Share Posted January 9, 2018 Forest stream in winter 5 Robin Smith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leslie Reid Posted January 9, 2018 Author Share Posted January 9, 2018 Update on the first photo! Laura W. gave me a heads-up that this isn't a Ceratiomyxa after all, so I'm back to "something eating something on a spruce log." Which is part of the allure of the myco-world: I'm always enticingly close to the unknown (whether it be because I don't know it or because no-one knows it--there's a lot yet to be discovered out there, and still more to be learned) 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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dcstep Posted January 9, 2018 Share Posted January 9, 2018 Very nice that the wings for both geese are up, and it is not always easy to get multiple subjects all in focus. That's why I took lots of shots and cropped out the other one that wasn't in sync. ;-) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Tony Parsons Posted January 10, 2018 Share Posted January 10, 2018 [ATTACH=full]1227377[/ATTACH] WoW ! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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