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It's heavy, but it balances well..... and I was seated with a beer at my side. Usually when I'm out birding I use a monopod with a gimbal head. If I'm at an eagles nest or somewhere I don't have to walk a long way I'll use the tripod.

A little afternoon snack.



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Any of you going out for fireworks pictures? I'm headed out tonight.

Still debating it. Probably will have had too much to drink to think about driving somewhere.

Just relaxing in the afternoon shade. I can't believe she just laid there and didn't bolt when she saw me.



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Went to BG, a good place to watch a good display. Took the camera, I'll post pics if I got anything worthwhile.

I did Toledo's the one year on the 4th, but cramming everyone on the waterfront is ridiculous.

That is fantastic.

Last night I realized I realy don't EVER NEED a full frame camera. I'm stunned with what I came back with.

I watched fireworks in the shadow of a shopping mall out in North Olmsted, Ohio.

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Totally didn't intend for this, and no colors were added. The fireworks and smoke creates an American flag effect in the sky!


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Nicely done!

Here's a shot from BGSU....that's Doyt Perry Stadium in the background. It's just a great place to watch fireworks. Easy in, easy out....a very short walk to the viewing area, no problem making two trips to get everything there. And most importantly, they put on a great display. I tried to include the spectators vs. cropping down to just the fireworks.

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Go away kid, you bug me.




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Black Swallowtail Butterfly vs. The Carpenter Bees, who will be king of the flower?



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Yes friends, the butterfly was victorious!



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Okay, last butterfly pic. This one I opened it up a couple of stops and slowed down the shutter speed and the blue really pops in it's wings. .



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niiiice.

..and who says butterflies are wimps?

Good morning everyone!




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Your pictures show a lot of the beauty in OK. I've been there a few times when I was younger, and all I recall is flat, barren land and red dirt. There were a lot of pretty women and good bars, so we didn't get out of the city much though.

Wow, that cloud looks like Mickey Mouse. That's really cool.

Sounds like you were in central or western Oklahoma. I live on the eastern side, we have brown dirt and lots of trees and water. I lived in Okc for 25 years and it's very much like you described. I don't miss that red dirt and wind at all.

I found a bird! Eureka! I am the worst birder on the planet.



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So in the absence of birds, lets go hunt some deer. I like deer, they are big and easy to see.

Found a new deer, she seemed curious about me too and we played tag in the trees.



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Having successfully lost me, I found another one, poor thing has ticks all over her eye.



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She kept an eye on me and we both had to crouch down to see each other under the branch.



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Then she decided I didn't pose much of a threat and went back to lunch.



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Yes. Edmund to be exact. By brother and a bunch of friends moved there right out of high school and we went to visit a few times. We were actually out there when the Buckeyes beat the Sooners in the snake pit in the early 80's.

Edmond borders the north east side of Okc. The early 80's was a rough patch for people moving to Oklahoma when the banking crisis started at Penn Square Bank and the economy went straight into the toilet as the oil loans all dried up.

I remember that. There were whole subdivisions of vacant new homes and a lot of empty strip malls. My brother and his friends were able to rent a practical mansion on the cheap. They all found jobs, though...and 2 of them still live there. My brother married an Okie girl and started his family there. The reason the whole group (there were about 8-10 of them) went out there was that a couple of their friends had high paying jobs on oil rigs, and those jobs were gone by the time they moved.

The 80's rock star of the bird world. The Pileated Woodpecker.



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Very nice, and two of them in the same frame! This is one bird that's evaded my lens. Nice job.

Thank you sir. Your tip, cranking the ISO and using the flash was most helpful. In looking at the various shots it caused my white balance to be much more accurate and provided that little front fill.




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Welcome to my backyard.






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Went to the wildlife refuge yesterday, instead of a bird I found this. It's called a swamp rose mallow.

Seriously? That's beautiful.

Yes, this is where I live. It's the first hole at Forest Ridge.

I have a pair of these by my house. They are awesome until the get all peck happy at 7 am.