I've been checking the forum daily for the last year and finally decided to send in some shots. All were shot with my Nikon D800e. The Flamingo and the Mandrill were at the Columbus Zoo and the dove was about 2 feet outside our front door in the Petunia hanging basket where she had made her nest.

Flamingo - D800e w/Sigma 70-200 2.8 at 92mm. 1/1,1250 @ f5.6. ISO 400

Mandrill - D800e w/Sigma 70-200 2.8 at 135mm. 1/320 @ f4.5.
ISO 400

Dove - D800e w/Sigma 105 f2.8 Macro. 1/250 @ f3.5. ISO 100
Handheld because I was afraid the tripod would disturb her.

If you respond to overcharged criticism, you usually lose. Ignore the trolls.

In Norse mythology, troll, like thurs, is a term applied to jötnar, and are mentioned throughout the Old Norse corpus. In Old Norse sources, trolls are said to dwell in isolated mountains, rocks, and caves, sometimes live together (usually as father-and-daughter or mother-and-son), and are rarely described as helpful or friendly. In the Prose Edda book Skáldskaparmál, a scenario describing an encounter between an unnamed troll woman and the 9th century skald Bragi Boddason is provided. According to the section, once, late in the evening, Bragi was driving through "a certain forest" when a troll woman aggressively asked him who he was, in the process describing herself: