title is pretty self explanatory - just looking for comments/criticisms so I can get better.

the first batch: Today was sunny(ish) for the first time in a while, so I went out in the woods.




























































Thanks for looking!

Nice pictures.. Must be very good and clean air there with all the treemoss growing so much.

I like your pictures.

Moss moves me.

Nice terrestrial monti

several good ones

Yep, the wind off the pacific blows all of our pollution into idaho.



thanks.



my thoughts exactly. Unfortunately I haven't found any purple ones yet.



Thanks

Winner!

those mosses look like some of the ones I have in my freshwater aquarium. You wouldnt know what they are called would you?

Really? I almost didn't include that one. It might just be my colorblindness, but it looks really flat/monochromatic to me.



I have no idea what these are called. Are you talking about java moss? It looks similar to this. Then again, most mosses look alike.

It's probably a species of Usnea. Don't know which one thou.

I me some "oly"...

Amazing shots!!!

lol, i'd never heard of it before - I thought it was a paint can or something at first.

C'mon, really? You obviously don't remember the Artesians then.

Oh ya, nice shots.

she likes it cause of the composition. I agree.

Compo, yeah, but I like semi-monochromatic too.

oh right, my mistake - she likes it cause it's boring.

Well yeah, I like you.





OH SNAP

you cut me real deep, shrek

Tha'll do, donkay, tha'll do.

shenanigans!

ok though, I'll try taking more boring pictures to see if you guys like them.

Well, I went to the beach this weekend, and took lots of pictures. So yeah...






























Someday I will crop these and make one of those 3-panel things that dshnarw is so fond of, but for now:















new lens = fun with night time pictures!

I think the glowing is a crab boat. It seems to be slowly moving leftwards in the series of pictures I took.

you got way better those pics look great!

I agree with Lala, that's a nice picture.

thanks.

are any of those sky pics taken by hand? i

no it looks more like christmas or taiwan moss.

jesus i need to get into photography, those are amazing. I thought my point and shoot was good.

missing something though. contrast maybe?

Did you mention what you were shooting with?

I used a tripod for all of the night ones. 10-20 second exposures, depending on how light it was.



Haha, thanks.



I'd lighten the darks up a little more if I had remembered to put my camera in raw :facepalm: . Too noisy to make it any lighter than that, but I think it's the darkness of the shadows that's the problem.



No, but here:

Nikon d40 body. Lens - AF Nikkor 50mm 1:1.8D -edit: I also used the kit lens (18-55) for a few photos-
Manual setting, f/1.8-5.6, shutter speed 10-20 seconds, both depending on how dark it was (these were taken at dusk, so it was rapidly getting darker as I was shooting)


I finally got to go back down to the beach this past weekend, and the weather was spectacular. El niño sucks for the east coast, but here it's mid 50's (and supposed to hit sixty this week) and pretty sunny. All the flowers are blooming already! So yeah, no cool night shots, (I was too lazy) but I took a few daytime shots on our hike.

A sea of dunes


b&w waves


pooch and pond


mushy


scotchbroom


drip


spidey web

Very nice shots Jamie!

Where did you hike at?

thanks. It's more of a long walk, really, but it starts at the south end of Manzanita, and goes down the center of a two mile spit to the north jetty of Nehalem Bay, then back on the beach side of the spit.

You really have an eye for composition.
Love that spider web.

!!!

Oh very cool. Yea it looks nice, it's a bit drier here

Thanks. So do you.







Ew, desert. I'm gonna be living in socal for the next four years, though, so I guess I'd better get used to it.

BELIZE!!!!!

was awesome. I took tons of pictures, both above and underwater. I'll be uploading in little bits as I process them. I would do it all today, but I took around 700 pictures, and I have to write a play for creative writing class. But here are a few to get it started.

Installment I: The In-Shore Lagoon

Atlantic carpet anemone






not sure about the id for this nem




gorgonian


snail eating gorgonian


stingray!


more to come

Installment II: The Reef















to be continued...

Looks like the frost that covers the woods on a crisp Wisconsin fall morning! Beautiful.

If only that forest was in my backyard!

The Reef, continued.

ooooh



ahhhhhhh

moar The Reef

















still to be continued

still more reef

okay, this is the last of the reef shots. I still have some underwater stuff around the mangroves, and lots of land shots, but I have work to do, so those will come later.

















Thanks for looking!

^

A lot of them could use white balance adjustments though.

The originals are 90x bluer than these ones. I felt like I shouldn't change them too much. Also I'm colorblind, which is my excuse for everything.

Okay, I spent way too long on this, but I wasn't just going to give up halfway through!

Southwater Caye Polar:



more regular photos on the way.

That's nice..

Woo! Nice one.