August 2010 Photo Challenge

Lots of good entries but I especially love your flowers, Mouse -- particularly the fuchsias. Procrastinator, those are very distinctive bowls and saucers/plates -- your own creations? I love the glaze inside the nearer one.
 
Mouse stole my idea for my second shot! Rrrrrrrr.

Not my creations Judge but the creations of my colleagues, including the fantastic wooden shelf made from the highly idiosyncratic wood of the Rough Barked Apple, an artist's tree if ever there was one. Just as in nature, when you make things by hand, no matter how hard you try to get them the same they always turn out very slightly different.
 
Fortunately I have another idea, if I only have daylight enough to take it! (And remember to take it when there's daylight...)

Its still winter down here, but spring is coming...the wattle is on the burn and the smell of honey and hay fever is thickening...

So I won't kill you Mousie...this time.
 
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Yes, I noticed the wood, Procrastinator, and thought how very lovely it looked. I've never heard of that tree before, so I shall have a good google to see what I can find.
 
Strangely, I was looking at something else when I had a brainwave.

Manual focus 35mm SLRs.

Both take 35mm film, have fixed pentaprisms and mount a 50mm standard lens. Beyond that the difference between the all manual/mechanical M42 screw Praktica and the Bayonet mount Fujica multi-mode are quite striking, especially on the top plates.
 

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Vertigo said:
Wow there are some really nice photos appearing - love the humming birds, how did you catch that!

And Mouse - you do like your flowers :D nice one!
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Thanks! It just takes a lot of standing very still and letting birds buzz by. I was trying for a picture of a ruby-throated guy with another type, for contrast, but the only pictures I could get of him were alone. I might try again this weekend for the second shot, if I don't think of something else by then. We have LOTS of hummingbirds, as we live next to the nesting tree in the neighborhood--we have to fill the feeder 3x a day in July and August!
 
Wow - there are some really good pics here, as usual!:)

I had lots of ideas for my second entry, but this one turned out the best:
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How come this isn't sticky, but the July one is still up? Had a bit of a confusion as I accessed the first topic that sprang to my view.

And my entry for the month:
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Wow those colours are great Mosaix, especially with the blue fish having it's tail almost exactly matching the yellow one - how long did you have to wait for them to pose for you?
 
Vertigo said:
Wow those colours are great Mosaix, especially with the blue fish having it's tail almost exactly matching the yellow one - how long did you have to wait for them to pose for you?
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Hi Vertigo, that was a 35 minute wait in Brighton Sea-Life yesterday. You wouldn't believe how many perfect shots I took that included the back of some kid's head! :mad:
 
He He :D

Now I really like your second offering - subtle and very clever! Did you plan that or grab an opportunity?
 
Vertigo said:
He He :D

Now I really like your second offering - subtle and very clever! Did you plan that or grab an opportunity?
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I started off with some mirrors at home hoping to get two views of the same thing, but I couldn't get it to work. Then I realised that I already had a shot of a building that was also a mirror with another building reflected, I'd done a series of them in Tokyo. The building in the reflection is the one I was staying in.
 
Wow, and I was just thinking of my fish for this last night--but they don't look like that! :D

Now I just have to hope that nobody comes up with my other idea before I remember to take it.
 
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