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by **hickybank** » September 8th, 2010, 10:35 am

Morning all

Thought it might be nice to start a thread where you can post your favourite pictures for all to see, (Foodie or otherwise)
I will start off with a couple I have taken this year, it will also tell what my other hobby is

http://i912.photobucket.com/albums/ac32 ... 0_4791.jpg

http://i912.photobucket.com/albums/ac32 ... 0_4051.jpg

cheers
Terry

by **chools** » September 8th, 2010, 10:42 am

Nice idea Terry

Here is one of mine

http://www.flickr.com/photos/chools/4964508942/

I have no problem in pressing the shutter button on the camera, and can even manage to upload OK onto the computer, but when it comes to naming, editing, and uploading to the likes of Flickr I'm the worlds worst!

KrC

by **PurpleLuv** » September 8th, 2010, 10:50 am

A big hobby of mine too

by **hickybank** » September 8th, 2010, 5:28 pm

Thanks chools & Purpleluv for your pictures, lovely use of light in both of them

Heres another one for you, the Butterfly is a Silver Washed Frittilery

http://i912.photobucket.com/albums/ac32 ... 0_3628.jpg

Please feel free to share some more with us.

Cheers
terry

by **Monnikka** » September 8th, 2010, 5:45 pm

Hi folks. Some super photos! Here's one of mine.

http://img339.imageshack.us/content_rou ... ia=mupload

by **Suelle** » September 8th, 2010, 5:57 pm

Hi Monnikka - I only get a sign-in page when I click on your link - not a photo!

by **Suelle** » September 8th, 2010, 6:00 pm

Here's one of my recent holiday photos. not sure if it's any good, but it's very representative of the holiday we had:

http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/suelle35/Canada2010#5503039795137368274

by **hickybank** » September 8th, 2010, 6:16 pm

Hi Suelle,
I got monnikkas picture o/k.

Just viewed yours & actually all 63 of your canada pictures are on there & some great pictures too, we are looking at going to canada, but are first forray into is is too expensve,

we were going to do Niagara Falls, them motor home for 5 weeks & finally 3 days in Vancouver, but with spending money we are looking at around £10,000 so need to have a huge re-think.

I need to sign off now as we are child watching at my sons house for the next 4 days so will catch up on Sunday

by **tezza** » September 8th, 2010, 6:23 pm

You are a talented lot. Great photos.

I do dabble in a bit of photography but my photobucket account usually gets the better of me when I try to download and I lose my patience with it quite easily. I may have another go at the weekend now that this thread has been started.

Chools - your Findhorn photos reminded me of a fabulous holiday I had there when I was aged about 10. My uncle lived up there on a kind of commune. Is it still there do you know? I have never in my life seen so much snow! :shock:

Wonderful place though.

by **chools** » September 8th, 2010, 6:33 pm

tezza wrote:Is it still there do you know?

Ah yes, the Findhorn Foundation

http://www.findhorn.org/index.php?tz=-60

Still going strong although much more of a business now rather than a commune

I live about 12 miles away

KrC

by **tezza** » September 8th, 2010, 6:49 pm

chools wrote:
tezza wrote:Is it still there do you know?

Ah yes, the Findhorn Foundation

http://www.findhorn.org/index.php?tz=-60

Still going strong although much more of a business now rather than a commune

I live about 12 miles away

KrC

Thanks for that. Happy days and very happy memories.

I must say you live in a most beautiful part of the world.

by **thenewf** » September 8th, 2010, 7:15 pm

Hi Suelle

You have made me homesick

but it doesn't look like you got to Newfoundland. You must try it next time.

Great photos.

ATB

by **Suelle** » September 8th, 2010, 7:34 pm

hickybank wrote: Hi Suelle,
I got monnikkas picture o/k.

I didn't realise I could click on the 'somersetriver' thumbnail - I hope that was Monnikka's and not just a random photo! :lol:

hickybank wrote:Just viewed yours & actually all 63 of your canada pictures are on there & some great pictures too, we are looking at going to canada, but are first forray into is is too expensve,

we were going to do Niagara Falls, them motor home for 5 weeks & finally 3 days in Vancouver, but with spending money we are looking at around £10,000 so need to have a huge re-think.

I need to sign off now as we are child watching at my sons house for the next 4 days so will catch up on Sunday

Trying to do all of Canada in one go is quite an undertaking. We've done Vancouver and some of the East - it's just the centre left now! :lol:

by **mum-at-the-oven** » September 8th, 2010, 7:44 pm

Hi Sue, Have you or indeed anyone else on here considered the Trans Canadian Railway trip?

Although from flying to Vancouver it just looks like thousands of miles of prairie, I have heard that it's a brilliant journey albeit probably very expensive.

by **spotteddick** » September 8th, 2010, 8:10 pm

Hi mum!

I have thought about it, many times, Vancouver was my home port for 2 years in the early 70s and I always wanted to see the prairies, I have been up North and lived with the Inuts, a friend is actually working with them at the moment (IT teaching). I have done the Great Lakes up to Thunderbay and the St L Seaway, Thousand Islands. Montreal where our friend lives is a place I have always wanted to visit but never made it, though I have seen the lights at night whilst passing. I have promised myself I will one day travel across canada from one side to the other. This is now becoming a reality as retirement approaches. We have a few stopping off places on the way, Linda's best friend in Dublin is married to a vancouver Islander, I still have many friends in vancouver. Her niece is married to TV presenter from Channel 4 who's parents live in Thunderbay and if we are quick our friend in Montreal could be a stopping off place, but he is looking for a job in France. I think I will do it in a mobile home before I set of to Oz.

Cheers

Dick

by **spotteddick** » September 8th, 2010, 8:43 pm

Here are a few that will make you think!

http://img836.imageshack.us/slideshow/w ... 20213w.jpg

:cry:

Dick

by **Monnikka** » September 9th, 2010, 6:53 am

I've never had it show only a thumb before. Perhaps the image was too big. Here's another:

by **Tatihou** » September 9th, 2010, 7:10 am

Dragonfly newly emerged from it's exuvia (nymph casing) earlier in the summer, down at the pond. The casing splits down the back and over the course of several hours, the dragonfly emerges, unwraps itself, does a sort of back handstand to unfurl from the casing and then hangs there for a few more hours, to allow the body and wings to dry out in the open air before setting off to find a mate.

by **PurpleLuv** » September 9th, 2010, 7:18 am

What a tallented bunch

by **mum-at-the-oven** » September 9th, 2010, 8:22 am

Hi Dick,
I do sincerely hope you get to realise your dream trip sometime soon. I have to confess I would love to do the TCR but don't think it will ever be likely so if you manage will you post some photos please?

by **hickybank** » September 9th, 2010, 1:23 pm

Some years ago I photographed the life cycle of the Dragonfly, it took two years to complete, photographing underwater as a larvae to emerging as in your great picture, sadly mine are all on slide so I cannot post them on here to share with you,
Do you have any more?

Anyway to keep the post picture related heres a couple more

Mute Swan displaying
http://i912.photobucket.com/albums/ac32 ... 0_3865.jpg
Peacock Butterfly
http://i912.photobucket.com/albums/ac32 ... 0_3433.jpg

cheers
terry

by **PurpleLuv** » September 9th, 2010, 1:43 pm

Mute Swan displaying

How do you know it's mute? It might just be shy

Lovely Pictures BTW.

by **chools** » September 9th, 2010, 1:49 pm

hickybank wrote:it took two years to complete

Amazing patience Terry! Your post has inspired me to spend some time putting more pics up onto my Flickr account

http://www.flickr.com/photos/chools/collections/

KrC

by **hickybank** » September 9th, 2010, 1:58 pm

PurpleLuv wrote:It might just be shy

Or just "Coy" like a Carp :lol:

by **hickybank** » September 9th, 2010, 2:08 pm

Nice one Chools, love the sunsets,
Your first picture (Culbin)is a Speckled Wood butterfly ( don't know if you knew or not.
I assume late in the season as it is a little ragged.

I have posted a picture for you to compare

http://i912.photobucket.com/albums/ac32 ... 0_3574.jpg

cheers Terry

by **chools** » September 9th, 2010, 2:21 pm

hickybank wrote:Your first picture (Culbin)is a Speckled Wood butterfly ( don't know if you knew or not

Thanks Terry, no I didn't know as to what kind it was, I'm not a very good nature photographer and usually miss or forget to take photos. I've been close up to numerous whales, dolphins, fish, birds on our boat but they are usually a distant speck by the time I think 'camera' and in days gone by I once took some amazing photos at the top of Cairngorm only to arrive home to find there was no film in the camera :roll:

KrC

by **Catherine** » September 10th, 2010, 12:04 am

This is one of my mums favourite photos. It was taken by my sister

by **Tatihou** » September 10th, 2010, 4:07 am

hickybank wrote:Some years ago I photographed the life cycle of the Dragonfly, it took two years to complete, photographing underwater as a larvae to emerging as in your great picture, sadly mine are all on slide so I cannot post them on here to share with you,

Fascinating. I've only recently begun to understand the life cycle of dragonflies. The nymph stage is particularly interesting, I think. Though not as photogenic! I know they're voracious predators of pond life and apparently, the alien in the Alien films - the mouthparts were based on those of a dragonfly nymph... though rather enlarged.

hickybank wrote:Do you have any more?

by **scullion** » September 10th, 2010, 9:34 am

this is my pic of a glow worm from a couple of months ago!

and i'll match your mute and raise you 7!

by **snowy** » September 10th, 2010, 12:05 pm

What lovely photos.
This is one of my favourite.

And this is one of our local area, the marais poitevin.

by **hickybank** » September 10th, 2010, 12:32 pm

Some more great photo's today,I'm loving them.
Swans make such a good subject, there so majestic, I was photographing some yesterday, but away from home so cannot process yet.

Also nice to see pictures from around Europe.
Snowy I think that is a Hoopee isn't it, not something you will see in the UK.

Keep the pictures coming, any form further afield ?

Cheers
Terry

by **Monnikka** » September 10th, 2010, 1:04 pm

Hoopoe, pronounced hoopoo. You do occasionally spot them in England:

http://www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/birdgui ... index.aspx

by **Monnikka** » September 10th, 2010, 1:24 pm

I've created an album with the images I've already posted and added another:

http://img52.imageshack.us/slideshow/we ... bridge.jpg

Hope that works!

by **hickybank** » September 10th, 2010, 1:26 pm

Monnikka wrote:Hoopoe, pronounced hoopoo. You do occasionally spot them in England:

Quite right on both accounts, I can't spell & don't know the birds are in my own country :lol:

As an avid bird watcher & should have known that, but as a Midlander anything south of London is abroad :lol:

Thanks for putting me right,(makes mental note, "need to pay them shandy drinkin southern softies a visit

)

Cheers
Terry

by **Monnikka** » September 10th, 2010, 1:39 pm

Come on down! The cider's grand :lol:

by **snowy** » September 10th, 2010, 2:56 pm

Just had to post this one as I love these - they're called 'baudets de Poitou' and they were becoming endangered, but there's now a breeding programme for them.
There are 5 of them in the field in our hamlet.

This one is called Vinci.

by **chools** » September 10th, 2010, 3:57 pm

hickybank wrote:need to pay them shandy drinkin southern softies a visit

Hmm... well I'm nearly 500 miles north of you Terry and nearer to Stavangar in Norway than London, as for 'southern softies,' all beer is for them

We do get a lot of birders making trips up here, I once endured their ire rowing across a loch for a picnic whilst they were trying to watch a red throated diver!

Great to see everyones photos

KrC

by **hickybank** » September 10th, 2010, 5:57 pm

snowy

snowy wrote:they're called 'baudets de Poitou'

, do's that translate to "Rug with a head

:lol:

chools, there must be some great bird watching up there.

A couple of years ago we went over to Mull to see the Eagles,never saw one :cry:

anyway heres a picture of a Sparrow with a head cold
http://i912.photobucket.com/albums/ac32 ... 3967-1.jpg

by **chools** » September 10th, 2010, 6:40 pm

hickybank wrote:A couple of years ago we went over to Mull to see the Eagles,never saw one

Sorry to hear that, we saw a sea eagle swoop and pick up a fish a hundred yards from our boat last time we were in the Sound of Mull. I like watching the birds and we probably are a little spoilt here, I've seen two buzzards and a sparrow hawk today (two birds I can identify!)

Here is my take on a sparrow at our kitchen window

http://www.flickr.com/photos/chools/4977589080

KrC

by **Monnikka** » September 11th, 2010, 2:19 pm

Here I am again! Still haven't got the hang of this. The last two I uploaded don't seem to have joined the rest.......anyway, here''s some wildlife!

http://img835.imageshack.us/i/twobeesondahlia.jpg/

by **Fiona** » September 11th, 2010, 2:46 pm

http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/6686/p ... er2010.jpg

Walked along here this morning.......

Fiona

by **hickybank** » September 11th, 2010, 2:57 pm

Interesting Castle Fiona, where is it?

To keep it on track heres mine for today

http://i912.photobucket.com/albums/ac32 ... 0_3375.jpg

by **hickybank** » September 11th, 2010, 3:02 pm

Monnikka wrote:here''s some wildlife!

Nice one monnikka"Two bees or not to bees that is the question" :lol:

Terry

by **Sian** » September 11th, 2010, 3:20 pm

Not sure if this will work.......

[IMG]http://i465.photobucket

Sian xx

by **Sian** » September 11th, 2010, 3:22 pm

No, it didnt :lol:

Back to the drawing board....!!

(It was a lovely view as well

!)

Sian xx

by **hickybank** » September 11th, 2010, 3:26 pm

merchlleyn
On photo bucket
hover over the picture you want to post

3 boxes should light up,
click on the direct link box, then paste onto here

If no boxes light up click on your picture to bring it up to full screen, & the same 3 boxws shoud be on the left, follow as abive.

good luck

Terry

by **Sian** » September 11th, 2010, 3:40 pm

Ok - one last try :lol:

http://i465.photobucket.com/albums/rr17 ... y/0702.jpg

Lets see if that works
(no match for the wonderful photos already posted - but not bad for a 'point and shoot camers and photographer!!)

Sian x