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Canon Powershot S230

stitched photo, no other editing done

3X zoom + crappy 10X scope

Was playing with the macro mode on my Samsung Digimax 420..
(My daughter's foot - taken the last day we were still at the hospital, when she was 3 or 4 days old, with a penny for scale)

Fourth of July, 2004. Taken with a Canon Digital Elph Powershot S200

HP 735

went to the beach to celebrate my 11th anniversary of going out w/ my girlfriend

Secret Squirrel: Can you link to those images and put smaller (1024 pixels wide or fewer and 100KB in total size or less) images in their places? 1600 pixel images break the tables for most monitors.

Nice shots though.

Hey, I was looking around the Photo Forum and saw the picure Falbay99 posted of a spider. I believe that is called a spitting spider. They are supposed to be harmless. But I guess they spit some sort of venom at their prey to catpure them. Here is a nasty little spider that I can't identify.



I am pretty sure it's harmless but it looks menacing to me. I live in Texas and the only two venomous spiders are the Black Widow and the Brown Recluse. This isn't either but doesn't he look deadly?

Here is a nasty little spider that I can't identify.

You wouldn't happen to live near Black Mesa, would you?

On the way to Drumheller:


Some or other creature:


Weird rock formations near Drumheller:


Nice pic of dinosaur:


A marriage had just taken place and I was lucky enough to snap this pic from the mouth of a 185ft dinosaur before it sped by.

At a place called the blowhole, because of a hole in the rock that the waves get pumped up through there's a lighthouse.

Here it is:

nice drumheller pics!

here's mine:

You wouldn't happen to live near Black Mesa, would you?

Sorry I live in San Antonio, Texas. But they do kinda look like those Black Mesa monsters from HL. Good catch!
But I do have another picture of something Black. I took it yesterday just after the one in my previous post. Here it is!



I just moved closer to the country so my odds of surviving with these guys around may be slim. I also killed a brown recluse the other night.
I tried to snap some photos of it but it was too dark and they kept comming out blurry. He was about two times smaller than this Black Widow. I think I need a better camera.

element wrote:

thegleek wrote:

Aphasia wrote:

Just some asian tourist on the train.

yummmmm. i think i'm in love. me luv her long time! so where exactly
is that train station she takes? i'm flying over there now dammit! YUM!

Gleek, you're terrible .. but that was exactly my thought too.

LMAO I can't believe you people would actually post that.


...btw where was that taken?

Cool, got the picture to work!

Edit: Thanks to LJ for resizing the pic for me.

I hope I don't hijack this thread but Element what is up with your "Website"??

You better check to see if it violates the forum rules or something.

Great shots guys! Here are a few I took today. I really need to take my tripod with me:



Sorry for all of the ducks. Easy subjects =)





I just got back from seeing Breaking Benjamin live tonight. Awesome show!

Hey Guys. I just found out how to make my photobucket album public so here's the link:

http://img65.photobucket.com/albums/v19 ... ythecamel/

Have a browse through if you like

smakkythecamel wrote:

At a place called the blowhole, because of a hole in the rock that the waves get pumped up through there's a lighthouse.

wow... that lighthouse totally reminds me of a japanese movie called:

Battle Royale

...btw where was that taken?

On the train between bangkok and auyathaya in thailand.

Aphasia wrote:

...btw where was that taken?

On the train between bangkok and auyathaya in thailand.

Cool. I have a friend who's part Thai.

Hey guys, couldja plz post the names of the cameras and the settings you shot at?

that picture above me is the jefferson memorial correct

The Matterhorn in Zermatt Switzerland.


Same day, different weather... yes we did ski in there.



Best skiing of my life BTW.

Ithkul_prime wrote:

that picture above me is the jefferson memorial correct

Yes, that is the Jefferson Memorial.

I shot all the first one of the New York City skyline with a Nikon D100 and a Nikon 85mm f/1.4 lens. I shot the other two with the same camera and a Nikon 80-400 f/4-5.6 lens. I believe the exif data is preserved if anyone wants to look at that.

FireGryphon wrote:

Hey guys, couldja plz post the names of the cameras and the settings you shot at?

All of my pictures were with either my 300D or my A75 (the earlier ones were all with my A75). The EXIF data is intact for all of my shots, so if you want the particulars just save the pictures and and view the advananced properties.

Snapper: really nice shots.

This one was taken in NYC looking over ground zero at the world financial center, camera is a Nikon 5700. The image has been reduced in size.



This was in Clearwater, near Tampa FL Dec 23rd 2003



Also in Clearwater, looking at the Gulf of Mexico

A couple I shot today.

This guys' parking-lot time trials stopped shortly after I got there so this was one of the few i took:



I was trying to get a good angle on this bugger but he wouldn't quit moving.



Settings are in the EXIF data. Both cropped and resized.

Hello, All,

I'm a professional photographer and have been lurking a bit on this forum to see what would be posted.

I'm very impressed with much of the work...the macro and low light stuff in particular! I don't make judgments or critical observations on composition....or at least, try to shy away from doing so because I'm a technical photographer, not an artist, and because I know how impossible it is to read the mind of a photographer exercising their artistic muscles.

Of all the photos on this thread, I'd like to especially salute Snapper's dusk image of the Jefferson Memorial. Snapper...don't beat me up for this, please, but I pulled the image and (For Educational Purposes Only):

Took some contrails, background lights, and reflections of those background lights out.

Changed the color balance of the sky, water, and monument

Reformatted and sharpened the image.

This shows what can be done within the digital format, especially given a very pretty original.

Hat's off to you!

lgeis wrote:

Snapper...don't beat me up for this, please, but I pulled the image and (For Educational Purposes Only)

Took some contrails, background lights, and reflections of those background lights out.

Changed the color balance of the sky, water, and monument

Reformatted and sharpened the image

This shows what can be done within the digital format, especially given a very pretty original.

Hat's off to you!

lgeis, I am not at all offended that you modified my picture. I appreciate constructive criticism, and I am impressed with what you were able to do with the picture. The original, although pretty, just doesn't look realistic. I was never able to satisfactorly get the results you did. Perhaps I didn't work at it long enough, or I just need some more post-processing practice. Also, thank you for the kind comments.