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Few more night time ice shots... I wandered a bit down the road to get some shots of a cool street light/sign combo, and a close up of each... The stop light was just too cool with the ice and glow of the lights. As was the street sign with the stop light glistening off of the icicles...

Dragged myself out, cold and all, to try and catch a few more ice shots at night. Went to the historic downtown section of our little town to start. Get your kicks on Rt. 66? The focus didn't settle on the highway signs like I was attempting to do, but on the LCD it didn't look quite so...

Ok, last of the ice shots from today... Hoping I'll find the chance to get a few more night shots (like the other two I posted, but better composition) tomorrow night. Perhaps I'll venture out and search for just the right shot.

Marcel, your shots outshine mine! Love 'em! I'll post a few more of mine anyway... including my poor attempts at night shots. No tenants running in/out of the birdie condo today! Suggestion: Heated seats? Light from the streetlight (on the block behind our house) shining through the...

Few more ice shots. Not a good day for riding bikes... ...or for shooting hoops. At least, not on an outside court. Random angle from the back yard. A close up of some of the branches in our yard. Amazing how the ice we all dread carries a beauty all of it's own.

Unfortunately, no "4 days after full" shot last night, as the system that brought all of THIS moved in yesterday afternoon... Even the birds are iced in. A shot down the street, framed by some of the same branches I've shown covered in leaves earlier in my thread. Some of the leaves...

3 days after "Full" now, and I was a bit blessed... the skies this morning were completely clouded over, but they cleared off again tonight before the front and rain moves in tomorrow. Here's the next shot! This was actually one of my better moon shots, I think, for a handheld shooter. A...

Now 2 days after the full moon. Wouldn't you know it, as soon as I find a "fun" project to undertake, clouds move in... had to wait until the moon was quite a bit higher in the sky tonight, so the rotation changed a bit. I tried to match it up as best as I could, to match the previous two...

Shot the full moon last night (or slightly before), then ran out and shot it again tonight, to see the difference just one day would make. Thought I'd take daily (nightly) shots until the weather prevents it... just to see what happens. :) Full - a little fade along the bottom left, so not...

Ran outside for a quick shot of the last full moon for 2013. D3100 with my 70-300VR @ 300mm, handheld, f5.6, ISO 200, 1/1600. Then I thought... might as well throw in my fave moonshot to date. :) This was a waxing crescent moon with the same combo, but at f4.5 and 1/160 shutter (not as...

My poor flowerbed now that winter has settled in... :( These were handheld shots after we got home this evening, with just the security floodlights over the garage for lighting. Had the nifty fifty on, aperture at 2.8, and cranked up the ISO to 1600. Took the 1st at 160 shutter speed, 2nd at...

Now, granted, I didn't use the NIK Collection, but I did use the content aware healing brush, a couple small patches of targeted cloning, and added a contrast layer. What ya think? I think I'm going to like this PS business as I learn it in detail.

Here's a few random "wilderness" shots. :) 1st, a bit of forgotten junk turned... scenic? Wandering the woods in Arkansas, I found quite a few plants going to seed.

In this case, just a better picture. I'd love to end up with a quality B&W out of it, but the main goal, in starting, is in sharpening up an ISO 800 image. Fixing up the contrast and feel to get a decent picture from the RAW. I'm a rookie LR5 editor, just picked up PS CC tonight, so no idea...

1/640 at f5.6, ISO 800, 70-300 VR at 300mm. Edited a bit for sharpness and contrast in LR5, and was cropped to portrait orientation from a landscape photo. The mat(border) comes from a script I was messing with in PS to make images printable in any size without actually cropping off parts of...

Working on my "Zoo in B&W" series, came up with a few more... Not as pleased with the Tiger pics as I would like to be, so I'll need to go back and catch him again. :) Or maybe I can just go back and play around a bit more with the photos to get 'em cleaner and touch up some of the shadows...

I've been trying to catch a good cardinal shot for the wife for quite some time, but 1) they are shy and evasive around here, and 2) they are SHY and EVASIVE around here. I finally caught one out in the open, and there I was... trapped with the nifty fifty on the camera, and the zoom stuck in...

Remember back in the old days, when you had to actually gather leaves and artfully display them on a posterboard, labeled with common name, scientific name, etc? Ahh, the Junior High leaf collection... Now, it can all be done digitally with pics and Powerpoint. My son said his pics were the...

Brrr... it's cold. Reason 1274 to move South. Decided to snap a few pics right after I started the car.

What happens when you ask a wee little man how a bear poops in the woods?