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This week's challenge is "Birds", but I'm having a really tough time finding any. I'll give it one last shot tomorrow and see if I can find any examples of the few species that winter over, like vultures and cardinals. Otherwise, I'm gonna have to skip this one. My little local camera club...

My birthday was yesterday, and my wife and I went away for a couple of days to celebrate. On the way back today I took some shot for this week's "Mammals" challenge. We live in farm country, so horses, cattle, goats, etc., are in no short supply. Unfortunately we pulled into our driveway late...

edit: Oh no! My wife and I were out celebrating my birthday - which is when I took this shot - and we may not have gotten back in time for me to post this by the deadline! If I'm too late, could a mod please delete it? Thanks.

I've wanted the NIKKOR 105mm Micro AF-S f/2.8 ED VR for a while, but it's way outside my budget. Cruising around Craigslist I found this D model. Can anyone tell me if this is a good deal for this lens, and if they have any positive or negative feelings about it (for my D5500)? Thanks!

This week's Challenge was "Still Life with Fruit", a subject I've always liked but haven't tried since my college film days 30+ years ago. For this challenge I decided to try a more monochromatic approach, with just one pop of color from a cut kiwi fruit. I've seen 17th and 18th century...

For this week's challenge of "Earrings" I had to move out of my usual studio space upstairs and set up in the basement (long story). Because of the cramped conditions I didn't set up my soft boxes the first day, thinking I'd be ok with a speedlight and some reflectors. Uh-uh. Couldn't get an...

I play woodwinds...my wife is a violist...our last name is "Note". So....

Wolf, do you do any post-processing? If so, you should try playing around with some of the tools to see what kind of variations you can make to the same picture. It can be very instructive, and help you quickly decide later how you may or may not want to compose future pictures (plus, it's just...

LOL @ "wingman" :) Hey man, I'm not familiar with the P900, so forgive my ignorance, but do you have the ability to manually focus that thing? If not, are you able to override the auto focus system and make it focus on something other than what it chooses (like the "focus and recompose"...

Some of the shots I took for this week's "Leaf" challenge. I've wanted to try taking a picture through a water droplet for a while now, so this seemed like a good opportunity. Unfortunately I couldn't get a drop big or round enough to make a good lens. Searching online it seems the secret is to...

The colors of the season....

So for this week's photo competition the theme was "night", and I submitted this view of lower Manhattan from my workplace window: Honestly, I really don't like that shot. The composition is meh, for one thing. But mostly I don't like it because I tried a new technique in PhotoShop that was...

Our Christmas table this year, panorama. One of the lights in the chandelier is blown, but I used the adjustment brush in Lightroom to make it look as luminous as the others. I'm inordinately proud of that, as I'm still learning PP....

I only recently heard of these, and it looks like something I'd use a lot in the woods around my house. Does anyone have one? Is it well made? Does it live up to the hype I've seen in online reviews? Thanks!

Lower Manhattan, Christmas morning. The view from my radio studio. EDIT: I don't know why my EXIF data often doesn't show up when I do any PS merging, like for panoramas or focus stacks. This is three shots merged with the "Mean" Smart Object option in Photoshop to reduce high ISO noise...

Merry Christmas everyone! I'm at work (of course I am) so I don't have access to my stored pictures...other than these from several years ago which for some reason are on my work computer: My wife being typically charming while we were looking at the Christmas windows in Manhattan. This was...

Shortly before the snow comes down, and just prior to the winter light displays going up, our local arboretum is usually deserted. I like that time, because even though there are no flowers in bloom or trees in blazing colors you can still find interesting things to photograph. And there's no...

Lol. Like practically everyone else, I don't think this is my "best" shot. But considering what I had to go through to get this, it's my favorite:

Figured it was time I started a Member's Folder, since I'm both a member and a folder. First up.... This week's photo contest theme was "Wood Grain". There is a LOT of wood around my place, both inside and out. I had trouble deciding between these: My favorite shot may be the second...