All it takes to end it is up to John!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ah! Yes! The Presidents vacation. I believe he decided that he was needed so he cancelled it.

How easy it is to have amnesia when it comes to acknowledging the previous administration's vacation times.

Condemn the opposition and defend my position even though I am OPEN MINDED!!!!!!!!!! What a laugh.

Oh! Yes! QUIT BASHING BUSH!!!!!!

Go back to your lounge chair and turn on your favorite channel Fox or Rush or Bill or the other blind sided jerks.

All that the worried John has to do is bring it up for a vote to end this crisis.....and it would....but he is afraid of the T Party....of losing his seat....his job. His job vs. the country.

I still have a problem with the Reps. position.... is it tongue-in-cheek or do you really believe that they are doing this FOR the country when their accumulation of activities points to bringing hurt to the Pres. and the country be damned.

I have taken a lot of Moose photos...I usually take them from the car...lol....sometimes you can slowly come right up next to a moose in a neighborhood or on the street...or off of my deck or from an open window...I don't often take a lot of photos of them in the wild...I normally go on my way if Im on foot and hike on out of there...lol...i have been attacked by moose twice...once when I went to the garbage can to take out the trash and nearly tripped over one who had bedded down next to the trash can...and another that came after me when I was going out to my car...that one scared me! But I got back in the house before they both hit me.

Thanks Sunnykaren, colo43, and Linda! It was interesting to watch the interplay between the three moose. There was definitely no threatening or defensive postures taken my the cow. In fact, they would snuggle up to one another every once in a while. The cow was almost always at the side of her calf, but the bull was just kind of standing guard, so to speak. It was quite the functional moose family. There were times when I could see the bull and cow actively seeking responses from one another as they monitored their calf. I only wished I could have been closer, but I don't think that would have been a very wise move!

Take a look at the following for impressive insects in flight

http://gizmodo.com/5995394/this-laser-shutter-photography-rig-freezes-insects-in-flight

http://www.flickr.com/photos/13084997@N03/sets/72157610450102014/

http://gizmodo.com/5464119/make-your-own-rig-for-ultra+high-speed-photography?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+gizmodo%2Ffull+%28Gizmodo%29

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fotoopa_hs/

This takes money, skill and dedication but the results are spectacular. I look forward to seeing more photographs with your three flash set up

I agree entirely with your response - the wings would have been much more impressive taken at a different angle with a faster shutter speed - but catching a wasp in frame and then getting it in focus is enough of a challenge for me right now. Maybe when I retire next year I will be able to spend more time training my wasps to fly into just the right pose in the correct light :D :D

Seriously this is a difficult photographic challenge. You are constantly fighting dof, available light and shutter speed apart from getting the insect in focus. Probably the major trick is to try and understand and anticipate the insect behavior so you can be prepared to capture it in flight. Right now I am at the stage where I am pleased to be able to catch an insect in flight - next year in
retirement I am hoping to spend time to improve on these shots