Photos By Shadows, through my eyes...

Thanks Rose, see my replies to your questions in the quoted area.

Thanks Rose!

Shadows, I am so thankful God gave us talent such has your own
so people like me can appricate the beauty of the earth.
All I can do is capture thing like, the inside of my purse, my shoe,
the ceiling or wall. I might get lucky and get half a person.
Again thank you for sharing. Your pictures are beautiful...

Herer are 2 pics of a four legged that has been enjoying the aboundance of black walnuts that my two trees have left on the ground since last fall:









Comments and edits welcome!

Here are a few pictures from the woodland cornor of our yard:

#1 Fiddlehead fern and Woodriff - our local rabbit has been munching in these!




#2 Don't ask me to spell or pronounce these flowers, they are grape hy... LOL! This is the original untouched up photo:



#3 This one is digitally enhanced using photo editing software, the bug stands out more in this one:




All coments and edits are welcome!

Ahhhh Shadows I love the squirrel photos. So cute eating the walnut. I like squirrels very much. The blue flowers I think might be grape hyacinth they took my breath away. What a beautiful color. I may have to get some of these.

Slainte

Nice photos, Shadows! What software editing program are you using? I am just curious as I am trying to learn what I have, Picasa and Adobe Photoshop. Love the blue flowers. I don't believe I have seen those before. I love photographing wild life. Great close ups of the squirrels! Did you use a telephoto or did they allow you to get that close?!

Went on a desert photo walk yesterday. It was hotter than Hades out! I think I got a wee bit of heat exhaustion. Took about 147 photos that I have yet to go through. But guess what? I actually saw Cardinals! So there is a reason why they call our ball team the AZ Cardinals after all...LOL

I use Jasc Paint Shop Pro, Jasc Photo Album, and Olympus Studio 2.
Each has features that I like.

I used my 40 -150mm lens ( a ZUIKO DIGITAL ED 40-150mm F4.0-5.6 , 300mm (35mm equivalent) lens in a short 7.2cm body )
and was 6 feet away from the squirrel. We might be having to shoot the squirrel, it is getting very aggressive and starting to chase the cats, it was on our front porch 2 nights ago around 11pm climbing our screen door ( very out of the norm for a squirrel, we are beging to think it might be rabid. I was just outside right now letting in one of the cats and it was only about 3 feet away holding it's head real weird and moving slow...I think I am going to have to remove it today.

I visited your photo page and left you a comment, real nice photos Rose!

These are really really nice! Almost feel like I could touch those flowers.

Thanks! I have been working with this new camera for awhile now and feel I am getting to know it like my old 35mm.

Here is another sign of new life and spring I found in the yard this week...after looking again today there are now 4 eggs in that nest...it is raining and I did not set up a shot so the momma bird could get back on her eggs!




Yes I used flash on this one since the nest was deep inside a lilac bush and in the shade.

Here is one from Fall 2007:




field behind the house.

I had forgotten about this one. A friend wanted us to look into having it made into a wallpaper border for her house.

I used my software to crop and make this look like a panorama.

Thank you to everone who is commenting and enjoying these photos.

As usual comments and edits are welcome.

Shadows

Shadows! Really love the wallpaper photo! Really terrific image! I am not familiar with your editing software, but no matter. We all use what we like and is user friendly to us, eh?

I did indeed see your kind comments in my photo gallery. Thank you so very much!

I added new photos to my gallery.

http://www.pbase.com/desertrose_images/galleries

Check it out if you all have time and comments and critiques are so very welcome! Many thanks!

DesertRose your pictures are amazing. Several took my breath away. I really loved the one of Riley with his kong toy. Makes me want a Sheltie again. Your doing fantastic with the camera. Cactus blooms can be so beautiful. Thank you for sharing all of these. I hope you will continue.

Slainte

Hey Shadows! I know of others who use the Jasc paint pro and really love it.

Love the new panoramic photo!

Here are a few of my new photos:

My wife's cats enjoying the summer.




We had purchased new bedding and the old was waiting to be removed... The Princess and the Pea ( this is Riley )...she claimed it her own:




Full moon 09/04/2009:



Food photos! Kosher Dill Refrigerator Pickled cukes and Kosher Dill Refrigerator Red Tomatoes:




Comments and edits welcome!