A Touch Of Nature

[AleG]

a few pictures I took on the soi behind my office.

[BigSnake]

AleG, nice pictures, very nice touch of Mother Nature doing her thing, I love Mother Nature, Father Time is the dude I don't like he is Sneaking upon us ALL

[The Vulcan]

Very nice - good selection of DOF to enhance the subject matter

As good as I've seen on this forum

Well done

[hughden]

Lovely, particularly like the second one.

[Kan Win]

Hi 'AleG' welcome to this forum.

For me the 3rd one works.

Thank you for sharing your photos with us and please post more if you so wish.

Yours truly,

Kan Win

[bkkjames]

3rd one by far the best, the concete block the little guy is sitting on let's us know that this was taking in a somewhat urban environment.

[AleG]

Thank you very much for the comments, very appreciated.

A few more from the same location.

A very small bird, you can tell by comparing with the barb wire. I saw this little fellow a few times at the same spot when going out for lunch, one day I took my camera, went to the same place and sure enough, there it was. Although I only had a few seconds to take the picture before it flew away.

I'm kind of developing a taste for shooting vines...

Some macro photography, the spider was less than 1cm across, found it under a palm leaf.

[The Vulcan]

Nice again AleG = you've sure got a good eye for this type of shooting

Very impressive

[aeon]

nice shots, what camera/lens did you use?

[The Vulcan]

nice shots, what camera/lens did you use?

aeon - if you right click on any of the images you can see the "Exif" data

Canon Kiss etc etc

File change date and time: 2009:06:17 19:41:48

Image input equipment manufacturer: Canon

Image input equipment model: Canon EOS Kiss X2

Exposure time: 0.00625

F number: 11

Exposure program: 1

ISO speed rating: 200

Shutter speed: 7.32193

Aperture: 6.91886

Exposure bias: 0

Maximum lens aperture: 3

Metering mode: 3

Flash: 9

Lens focal length: 105

Focal plane X resolution: 4865.6

Focal plane Y resolution: 4876.71

Focal plane resolution unit: 2

Custom rendered: 0

Exposure mode: 1

White balance: 0

Scene capture type: 0

Edited June 24, 2009 by The Vulcan

[AleG]

nice shots, what camera/lens did you use?

To clear up The Vulcan's answer... I used a Canon 450D Kiss camera, all shots except the last two with a canon 55-250mm lens and the last two with a Sigma 105mm macro lens.

For the last one, the spider, I used the camera flash for lighting, the others are natural light.

Edited June 24, 2009 by AleG

[zzdocxx]

I especially like the critter shots.

[aeon]

thanks for the info and compliments for the photos.

sorry just updated to iphone os 3.0 and I am addicted, but of course I can't read the exif data

[Goshawk]

A very small bird, you can tell by comparing with the barb wire. I saw this little fellow a few times at the same spot when going out for lunch, one day I took my camera, went to the same place and sure enough, there it was. Although I only had a few seconds to take the picture before it flew away.

very good shot this one...

it's a 'Common Tailorbird' - more easily heard than seen with it's loud repeatative, "cheup.. cheup.. cheup.. .. .. " song

[aeon]

I love the circle of confusion on the lizard photo.

[AleG]

Goshawk, thanks a lot for identifying the bird, I looked it up in Wikipedia and it shows that they make an interesting nest. I think I know where the bird is nesting so maybe I'll try to sneak in and see if I find it. I'd like to take a picture of it, with any luck it'll have eggs or hatchlings.

Aeon, that's one of the things I like about the 55-250 lens, it makes a very nice bocke/blurring of the background when used at close ranges.