The Photographers' Corner - 2021 to ?

[aja8888]

mathjak107, those are great pictures...that's from my home state.

 

[mathjak107]

mathjak107, those are great pictures...that's from my home state.

Thanks ….

 

[MissMolly]

Those are two different butterflies. You can easily see how unalike they are when looking at them side by side

 

[aja8888]

Those are two different butterflies. You can easily see how unalike they are when looking at them side by side

Of course they are different, it's a BIG family of butterflies. There are 6.000 species in the family. I just picked one that was similar. Google says :"it's so"....do you not believe Google?

 

[street]

According to Google photo matching it's a:

Gossamer-winged butterflies

Lycaenidae is the second-largest family of butterflies, with over 6,000 species worldwide, whose members are also called gossamer-winged butterflies. They constitute about 30% of the known butterfly species. The family comprises seven subfamilies, including the blues, the coppers, the hairstreaks, and the harvesters. Wikipedia

https://observation.org/taxa/266/?genus=Plebejus

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Thanks aja8888. You beat me to trying to find out a name. I never have seen a butterfly like that.

 

[mathjak107]

here are a few more

 

[street]

Very nice!

 

[Ronstar]

Wow - nice shots Mathjak!

 

[Ronstar]

Blue heron wading through the duckweed on the I&M Canal as seen on today's hike.

 

[Gotadimple]

Three-toed Sloth in a tree about 45 minutes north of San Jose, Costa Rica

 

[donheff]

I haven't done much lately but I took a "boatload" from the boat in the grand Canyon last week.

 

[street]

Ronstar & Gotadimple great captures!!

 

[street]

I haven't done much lately but I took a "boatload" from the boat in the grand Canyon last week.

Now that would be an exciting day, great picture!!

 

[street]

Here is a picture of a small antelope buck which is a rare sighting for me as I entered my ranch yesterday. Antelope range (live) in Montana is about 3/4 of the state but this was a first to see one on my place. I see small hoof tracks at times, and I suppose those have been antelope.

 

[mathjak107]

world war 2 re-enactment

nikon z6 with nikon 24-70 z series lens

 

[Ronstar]

Street - your ranch is so great for photography! Always wildlife and great landscape spots!

Mathjak - nice wwII photos. Those B&W shots look like the real war photos.

 

[mathjak107]

Thanks , I tried to keep that feel

 

[street]

Hiked into the eagle nest and what a change from about a week ago. This eaglet still looked like a chicken and almost all white but now it is looking more like an eagle now. To the far left just in front of the eagle's tail feathers is a prairie dog.

 

[Ronstar]

^ nice shot! Those eagle nests are big enough to hold lots of prairie dogs.

 

[JoeWras]

Street - your ranch is so great for photography! Always wildlife and great landscape spots!

Mathjak - nice wwII photos. Those B&W shots look like the real war photos.

And the last photo has a certain quality about it that reminds me of a civil war battlefield painting. Of course the vehicle is out of place.

All around, great job mathjak!

 

[mathjak107]

And the last photo has a certain quality about it that reminds me of a civil war battlefield painting. Of course the vehicle is out of place.

All around, great job mathjak!

Thanks .

We were at ny botanical gardens today ..just finishing them up .i will post some

 

[kcowan]

Wow - nice shots Mathjak!

Wow such amazing beauty! Thanks Mathjak.

 

[aja8888]

1966 photos - Worschiem, Germany

I was stationed at Hahn, Air Base between 1965 - 1966 and was a member of a nuclear missile launch crew (4 person crew). We had 12 active missiles designated Mace “TM-76A” - three launch crews of 4 missiles (surface to surface ) on our site that each could deliver a 1.1 megaton blast at a target in Russia or other satellite locations.

These birds were Jet - Assist (JATO) launched and had a range of 1,400 miles. We were "on alert" many times and were occasionally photographed by low flying MIG - 15's (chased away by F-102's!). The U.S. Air Force shut the sites down in mid 1966 as the targets were covered by aircraft and I was transferred into the Minuteman Missile (ICBM) system in the U.S.

Photos taken with a Minolta SR7A SLR and developed by me!

Launch Control Center (Block House)



Missile on Launcher



Me at Diesel Generator

 

[mathjak107]

we went to ny botanical gardens yesterday

nikon z6 with nikon 50mm macro and nikon r1c1 flash system

 

[Ronstar]

Bad hair day for this cardinal