Here are a few of mine.

That is his tongue, it was out for a split second, luckily the split second I pressed the shutter.

Some birds just don't like being photographed!

Here's one from today.

Your photo looked familiar. I too found a nest to watch last week!

Here are a few more from today.

Thank you all for the nice comments!! I will try to post a few more when I have my longer lens with me.



That tree is a Silk Floss Tree the trunk and larger limbs are covered with thorns simular to a rose bush. Not a great place to lean on to study your shots (trust me on this I did it).

Here are more from a few years back. Taken with my old camera a Nikon D50.

I took a morning stroll to a small park in downtown Los Angeles and ran across a few of the locals. Yellow Chevroned Parakeets are native to South America but this group has made Southern California their year around home. The flock ranges from a few... to hundreds sometimes roosting in the trees on an off ramp of the Hollywood freeway watching the traffic crawl by. I can usually count on at least hearing their unique squawk on my walks through downtown and always enjoy seeing them. These were taken with my 18-270 Tamron and are massively cropped (I plan to bring my longer lens next time I go birding in downtown LA).

Lovely couple at the Los Angeles Zoo

Thanks!!

Here is another low light theater shot of our counterweight system. This one is with my camera ISO 1600, F22, 20s exposure.

I was sitting in my office and a coworker popped in the door and handed me his brand new Canon T2i with a Tamron 18-270 and said "here ... play with this ... I'm too busy right now"! This is a shot on a dark stage of one of our prop men watching an opera rehearsal lit only with a 40watt bulb spilling from the prop box nearby. I was impressed the low light capability, I could barely see him in the available light! The shot was hand held ISO 6400,109mm Focal Length, F/S 5.6, Shutter 1/8. That camera has since been upgraded to a
T3i (but he hasn"t let me play with that one yet). I just really liked this picture.

I went outside to experiment with the off camera flash triggered from my Nikon d7000. Luckily I have some very patient humming birds in my yard

Looks like you and I are from the same area, Long Beach. Went to Jordan, class of 71. How about you?[/quote]

I was a year behind you Jordan, class of 72 and I got to see the firefalls camping with my parents. I don't remember what year it was.