Pictures

[Scriblerus the Philosophe]

Very nice!
:mine! Mine! Mine!:

Was near a dam recently, got pictures. Here then are. Pretty all year round, if hazy this last time.




I was also there in April of last year, and it was very pretty. Flooded with run-off from the mountains.

[Aggie]

Lambi...  click the + next to 'Additional Options' and upload the files to do the expandable thumbnail thingie.

The upshot is that they come right off your h/d; however, I suspect this eats up more server space than the [img] method.

[Sibling Lambicus the Toluous]

Let's try this with a small one.

This is me.  No, I'm not on the bike.  I'm the guy in white down at the bottom of the photo.

Edit: Hey!  It worked!  How about that!

[Bluenose]

A couple of photos I have taken in my garden over the last week or so.


A dragon fly (unknown species) that has just emerged from its nymph case after climbing out onto a rock in my pond.



A southern brown tree frog Litoria ewingi that I found sitting in a grevillea on a wet(ish) day.  It was about 15 mm (5/8 in) long.

[Vita Curator]

WOW!  That picture of the dragonfly is amazing!!!

[Bluenose]

Thank you!  I must say I was pretty happy with it myself!  if you look closely you will see that it has not yet fully deployed its wings - there are small lumps along the leading edge of the outer parts of the wings.  They had dissapeared when we saw it later on.

Actually a little later on we found the dragonfly lying on its side on one of the nardoo leaves with one wing on the water surface.  it obviously did not have the strength to break the surface tension, so Margot got a stick and gently lifted it onto a rock at the edge of the pond and about 10 minutes later, after it had diried off, it flew away.  By that time it had coloured up to a beautiful combination of brown and blue, but I did not have the camera handy then.  Still it made us feel good to help the little critter on its way.

Sibling Bluenose

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

Thank you!  I must say I was pretty happy with it myself!  if you look closely you will see that it has not yet fully deployed its wings - there are small lumps along the leading edge of the outer parts of the wings.  They had dissapeared when we saw it later on.

Actually a little later on we found the dragonfly lying on its side on one of the nardoo leaves with one wing on the water surface.  it obviously did not have the strength to break the surface tension, so Margot got a stick and gently lifted it onto a rock at the edge of the pond and about 10 minutes later, after it had diried off, it flew away.  By that time it had coloured up to a beautiful combination of brown and blue, but I did not have the camera handy then.  Still it made us feel good to help the little critter on its way.

Sibling Bluenose

Most dragonflys are insect-predators.  So, I like'em--yes I do.

EAT those other annoying-to-human insects! Go, baby! 

[Scriblerus the Philosophe]

I do like the dragonfly and the little frog. He's cute.

I have been playing with my camera since I've been off.

After a rain storm in January.


Spring in my yard.



My city's court house. I was there for a mocktrial tournament, and had to have this shot.
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Assorted birds that spend time around here.

[Opsa]

Oh! Lovely!

I particularly love the extreme close-ups of plants. Very Georgia O'Keefe.

[Aggie]

That one red flower (nasturtium?) picture reminds me of some fractal art I have up in the apartment...

Hmm, used to be around online but I can't find it. 

[Scriblerus the Philosophe]

Thank you! I finally figured out how to use the the macro function on my digital camera. Yes, that's a nasturtium. I always like Georgia O'Keeffe.

[Scriblerus the Philosophe]

I was at one my local parks, and up on a hillside, right below a caveish sort of crevice.

[Opsa]

Y'arrgghhh!

I tooks this one last week in Ocean City, Maryland:

[Aphos]

Playing around with Google, I discovered this picture...



I swear...I have no connection with these people.  Still, interesting.

[Sibling Chatty]

Um, invisible people?