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Post by mljbray on Oct 14, 2008 11:50:09 GMT -5
What gorgeous pictures, Cammy!! They look like a professional shot them!! I love your flowers.
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Post by mbucksfan on Oct 14, 2008 12:27:46 GMT -5
Cammy I am so glad you posted. Those are fabulous. Where was the shipwreck? That is amazing. Love all the beautiful flowers and the butterflies. This is definitely one of my favorite threads. It is really uplifting to see all the beauty that is posted here.
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Post by silentone on Oct 14, 2008 13:23:08 GMT -5
That was from our Disney cruise and that is The Flying Dutchman from the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. It is in the lagoon on Castaway Cay, Disney's Island.
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Post by mbucksfan on Oct 14, 2008 14:16:09 GMT -5
I bet the boys were excited to see it
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Post by 2ton on Oct 14, 2008 18:56:44 GMT -5
Cammy, I love how you use the depth of field on the close-ups. My little point and shoot does have a macro setting, but you cannot really get all that close and still be focused.
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Post by ange4mig on Oct 14, 2008 23:52:39 GMT -5
Cammy, all your photos are beautiful! Do you know what kind of flower the purple one is? I haven't seen one like that before - it's so detailed and pretty. I love the butterflies! Especially the black and red one, and the black and white one. And the photo of the ray (is that what it is?) as it swims is so cool. The markings are amazing!
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Post by silentone on Oct 15, 2008 7:15:35 GMT -5
The purple one is a passion flower. It is a vine that is growing along side the fence in my yard. Sometime I have over 50 blooms on it at once.
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Post by 2ton on Oct 15, 2008 9:14:54 GMT -5
We used to have one of those vines when I lived in L.A. The fruits are orange/yellow and shaped sort of like a grape only larger. They have red goo and seeds inside if I remember correctly. I think you can eat them, but they looked too slimy inside for me to try them.
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Post by mbucksfan on Oct 15, 2008 14:27:11 GMT -5
I ate passionfruit while in Australia last year. They make a great meringue dish called pavlova(my motherinlaw makes a similar dessert and calls it angel pie) and one of the ones I had over there had passion fruit in it. That was pretty good but I didn't care for passion fruit by itself when someone gave me some to try. I think the yellow ones are edible and the purple passionfruit poisonous, is that right?
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Post by 2ton on Oct 15, 2008 18:50:16 GMT -5
Rah has some pictures of her making pavlova. It looks yummy!
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Post by purpleclown13 on Oct 16, 2008 15:05:01 GMT -5
The pictures all of you girls are posting here are amazing. I don't think I've ever taken a picture even half as nice as the ones you all take...just beautiful. #smiley2# #punten#
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Post by 2ton on Oct 16, 2008 19:06:22 GMT -5
The point and shoot cameras make it easy for those of us who don't really know how to take good pics....and photoediting surely helps! I usually end up cropping most of my pictures, sometimes sharpening and brightening also. I am really in awe of photographers who know how to use different camera settings, especially those who take pictures with film.
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Post by Tigerlily on Oct 18, 2008 12:59:41 GMT -5
I was having a bad day yesterday, which can happen when you have car trouble and have to "bus and hoof" it to get things done. I took the day off work to take care of things I was going to do the day before when the timing belt on my car snapped on my way home for lunch (only a few blocks from where I work). I hate riding the city buses here cos the drivers donl't care if they turn corners too sharp and drive over the curb or throw you all over the seats. Anyway, I needed to actually cross the bridge between Huntington, WV, and Chesapeake, OH, downtown. It's a mile across. I carry my camera with me all the time since it's small and compact so I decided to try out some of the settings on my camera and see what I could come up with by playing around with it. I'm going to post some of the shots I took here. Some have been cropped from the originals and some were done with my close-up setting on the camera as well as the landscape setting. I'm not a good judge of good or bad, I just know I liked the way some of them turned out, especially the roses and the Ringling Brotehrs' tiger. I'm also going to try to post the video I took of the tiger pacing. Since it's not a You Tube vid I don't know if it'll work here or not but I'm gonna give it a try. Video first: This was the first picture I took of him, fast asleep. The guy keeping peopld from disturbing him told me to go really quite and take a picture of him so I sneaked between the fence and the semi trailer behind it to shoot this shot: He awakened just a few seconds after I got back out where the guy was standing and decided to get a drink of water: . The guy told me to go to the other end of the fence where I could get a little closer and possibly get a really good picture. I wanted a picture of his eyes and luckily, I got one: I'll follow this post up with ones of the roses and trees since they're still uploading to photobucket as I type this.
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Post by Tigerlily on Oct 18, 2008 13:25:46 GMT -5
Now, these pictures are ones that I've been taking over the last few weeks when the mood strikes me. There are a couple of the all-grown-up goslings swimming in the pond, a shot of the fountain in the middle of the pond, even a long shot from the bridge of my town across the river. I also took a shot from the bridge I was on upriver of the next bridge crossing the mighty Ohio...it's about 5 or 6 miles up the river from where I was but I cut half of it off so I'm not going to post it since the bridge is a suspension bridge and absolutely gorgeous. Here was a sunset a couple weeks ago... the only one of the shots I thought looked like anything: . The fountain in the pond: and the geese: My town: Close up of 2 roses: and then one rose on the next bush: Here's some of the trees around my apartment: , , , and Finally, a few close ups. These are some of the leaves on the first tree: and Here's the wreath I made that is hanging on my apartment door: and a close up of the central part of it: and, lastly, here's a shot of the the lone ear of Indian corn on a group of foddershocks that was decorating the posts at a Bob Evans restaurant where I had breakfast yesterday after walking back across the bridge: If there's to many pix or it takes too long to load please let me know and I'll reduce the number of shots in the post.
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Post by mbucksfan on Oct 18, 2008 14:01:11 GMT -5
The fall color looks great in your area. I love the sugar maples The rose are beautiful too
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