Photos you have taken in the last month of which you are proud?

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Number 1 daughter.

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Number 1 son.

Taken just as they woke up the other day (after I'd been out taking dawn pics of the allotment).

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redthunder,

Awsome picture.

I'd like to see it on billboards outside every ASDA.

This is a most excellent thread. My faveourites from a weekend en ecosse
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Don't normally 'do' the sky, but quite keen on these ones. Taken a few minutes apart driving back from the Alps...

DrP

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Love these threads, cracking bunch of photos people, congratulations.

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Oh go on then, another spider from me,
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And I've recently found out he is a she
This photo with a USB Microscope shows the inside of her opisthosoma (bum).
The sort of pyramid shape with a dot is her sex organ Spermathecae.
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shoei - where is that? looks beautiful

ooo spiderporn 😆

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Like Yoshimi's. Summer riding in one photo....

Another lucky capture, from last weekends, err...., weekender (Rowan '8s faster than anyone else on the DH' Sorrell) -

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p.s. anyone know how to link back to Flickr by the photo, now they've changed it around & mozilla script don't appear to work no more..? 🙁

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Nice pics once again everyone. Shoei's is of Heysham church by the way.

I like yoshimi's action shot.

Not got anything very exciting recently.
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Creg - Member

shoei - where is that? looks beautiful

As Grum said, it's a Church in Heysham, Lancashire.
Slighty different as i shot with a 720nm IR filter on the camera.

Grum, your pic is brill. It just works. Wouldnt look out of place as an advert.

Teadrinker's shot is now my desktop background. It sums up the perfect end to any ride or walk.
And remember you can't charge me for nicking it cos proper-tea is theft!
Sorry 😳

Grum,

Great pic as usual. Either you know that handsome devil or you waited 3 days for him to pass by? Which is it?

Cheers folks - was just sat on a bench in town playing with my old manual focus Canon 50mm 1.4 and this guy walked past. He's very slightly our of focus as the DOF is really thin at 1.4, but it blurs the background quite nicely.

Great pictures, although the spider one's keep making me want to check under the sofa! Some more pictures from a slightly misty ride yesterday...
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ROPER: let me get this right - in your spare time you stick web cams up spiders bums!!!!!!!!!!! 😯

qwerty, Not strictly up the bum but yes. 😀
Only when they have moulted though and then it's just a hollow skin. most spiders moult their eyes, mouth and sex organs.
I think you realise you are in trouble when you start sharing photos and info with other people about your spiders naughty bits. 😳

And as it's a photo thread, here is a baby M.calpeiana or European Funnel web
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My friend's little kid - they were well chuffed with these pictures 😀

no doubt! ace

Just back from my hols on Tiree:

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ROPER: Are all those spiders your pets or is it part of your job? Or do you just live in some exotic location full of random beasties?

Really like the Tiree pictures, would love to visit there someday

Church at Les Crosets, Swiss Alps with Les Dents du Midi in the background.

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Creg, I have just under 40 spiders. Most are tarantulas but I have a trapdoor and a few funnel webs and other types of spiders. The funnel webs are native to where I live (Southern Spain). I have some pairs for breeding too. I am nerdy enough to keep records on them, and have one or two experiments ongoing as very little is know about certain species and their behaviour. Some of these notes may be published in a paper, if they work out OK.
This is another of mine (though she is bigger now)

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African Horned Baboon, [i]Ceratogyrus darlingi[/i]

(If you fancy keeping one, let me know and I can give you plenty of info and put you in touch with a good dealer).

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Really rather chuffed with this one I took this afternoon with my iPhone. It's a Marsh Hellebore, one of our prettiest orchids, but only grows about three or four inches tall. Hundreds of them grow in one small area of chalk downland near Calne, Wilts.

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(If you fancy keeping one, let me know and I can give you plenty of info and put you in touch with a good dealer).

I'd love to have one but I'd have all hell on trying to keep my 5 cats away from it.

A friend of mine had quite a few Tarantulas and a Huntsman, my favorite was a pink toe tarantula called Elvis (who ended up dying ironically). Really amazing creatures.

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Mission "Get the missus into biking" continues.....

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well she's off the brakes downhill already!

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I'm rather partial to this 'Un..
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DT78, you're a lucky man! Very lucky indeed!

Those dusty trails, I mean, of course... 😉

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Taken by wife again...

Me and my boy...

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didmat - whers that?

Its Snowdon Pyg track, First major climb we did with our kids. 🙂

yoshimi - Member
didmat - whers that?

Android is right, its the Pyg track on Snowdon in Wales.

It that rideable?

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First time out climbing with the kids - my son high on Ilkley Moor by the Cow and Calf. Fortunately mum wasn't there 🙂

Chew - Member
It that rideable?

Would love it to be, but its a footpath. Although the rideable bridelways on the other side looks great too!

We're going to have to go back on a cloudy day, the sign's a bit overexposed and hard to read.

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"Bridleway follows stream bed" if you can't make it out. 😀

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As a casual observer, the reason why many of these snaps fail (from a photographic perspective only you understand) is due to poor cropping. A little post production crop will as oft' as not tighten the image or subject matter and make it a far more successful photograph (flower & damn images above being perfect examples of this).

Adding a border is a sure-fire way of preventing the image from bleeding out into the page - it works especially well in the graphic monochrome barbed wire picture above.

Thanks Ti29er.

Well cropped 😉

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DT78's picture above is well cropped 🙂

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As a casual observer I fail to find any problems at all with the cropping of the reservoir photo above. But then I'm just an amateur who's been taking photos for the best part of twenty five years, so what do I know?

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I rather like what I've managed to do with this pic of my niece dancing at a wedding. I think the photo was taken by my wife, and was a bit of a 'nothing shot' as it stood - I used Aperture to play around with exposure settings, cropped it, converted to black and white, then used a brush tool to 'remove' the black and white from her dress.

Being colour blind, I generally find it difficult to play about with photos in this way, so using black and white is a good way of overcoming that particular snag.

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One for Roper:
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Not that proud of these, I just find them interesting. The middle one's missing a small terrier scampering along in front of the handlebars.

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This still going? Excellent!

Grum - consistently brilliant mate.

Here are a few from the last week or so:

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Agree, grum's images are first class.

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(the rider is in focus when the picture hasn't been mullered by facebook's low res)

Thanks folks 😀

stuartie_c - really like the pic of the cams. And the one after makes me feel queasy!

Here's another from me - most of the way up the horrendous slog of a push to Bram Rigg Top in the Howgills - looking back towards the Lakes. Worth it for the downhill though I'm not sure my GF agreed. 😛

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That's ace GaVgAs - just trying to work out where it is?

More fantastic shots guys well done.

Here are a few I'm proud of all shot on a point & shoot Casio not top quality but I'm happy with them

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That's ace GaVgAs - just trying to work out where it is?

If you get a ruler and align it with the summit of Dodd wood and Skiddaw summit you will have found the trail/ridge (clue) 😉

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A friend's niece at his wedding learning how to blow bubbles.

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