First of all, I apologize for the focus being a little 'soft', but this was 300mm and handheld, through a storm window.

This guy showed up at my feeder tonite, for the first time, and I could use some help with the identification. Is it a young bluejay, or is it a bluebird? Take a look and let me know, please. Thanx!

I picked up a new camera (Norcent DC-1020), just a little point & shoot, for when I don't feel like lugging the Nikon around. While playing with the close-up mode, I took a picture I think might work for the challenge.

First, lets see the snapshot, and after a little cropping, some saturation and hue adjustment, the world is ready to meet  Spike.

As always, all comments & criticisms are welcomed, not neccessarily listened to, but feel free to speak your mind.

   It's been awhile since I've posted anything, but the second one fits the shadow challenge. I caught these guys as they passed overhead, on my driveway.
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Thanks for the reminder, SG!

First off, Hello Everyone! It's been awhile since my last post...can you say "slump"?

I work in a smalltown hospital(86 beds) and every year we have a Craft Faire to kick off the Holiday season. This event is also the kick-off for our "Adopt-a-Family" Christmas drive, with the JayCees. We managed to break two records this year. The first, for number of vendors (42, up from 23 last year) and for number of families adopted (217, up from 158). The families wishes are printed on paper angels, and we hang them on trees outside the vendors area. As an angel gets picked, the donor gets the pertinent info on sizes, colors, etc. and agrees to have everything wrapped & ready on time. Here are a few shots that fit this weeks challenge:

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Not that it matters, but #3 won this weeks "Picture of the Week" on the hospital-wide screensaver. It gets me a free lunch, and bragging rights for a week. All in all, not a bad deal!

I've been noticing a heron on the pond every morning on my way to work. Since I don't have to be at work until 11 p.m. (yuck!), I decided to take a walk down the driveway and see if I could get a couple of decent shots of him. I'll let y'all decide how well I did. I like the butterfly wing-man in the last shot.
His flight is done, now it's time to  survey his domain.

As always, all gripes, groans, complaints, and moans are welcomed!

After dinner tonight, I decided to take my coffee on the front stoop. The hummingbird feeder was about 4 feet away, so I was pleasantly surprised when they showed up. They were even nice enough to come back when I got up to go grab the camera

Hope you enjoy my feeble, freehand, first attempt at shooting hummers with a flash.
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And, the thumb is from earlier this year.

Sorry I haven't posted in awhile, I've been in a "slump", photographically, and busy with family & work.

These sort of fit the challenge, because all of this occurred over thousands of years, and were just discovered a couple hundred years ago.

I took over 150 shots on a 1 hour tour, but figured I wouldn't bore you with all of them. BTW, #4 is my new wallpaper for awhile.

Any people, or parts of, are left in
intentionally, to give a sense of perspective. As always, all comments &
criticisms are welcomed & appreciated.
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I stopped to see an old friend after work the other day. There was a flower bed next to the driveway, and I couldn't resist. Hope you like...

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As always, all comments, criticisms, and critiques are welcomed.

I saw my first butterfly of the season that didn't  look like a common moth today. I like the color contrasts in this one. And, 1 more for good measure. Hope you like, and, as always, all gripes, groans, **tches, and moans are welcomed!

Nikon D-70, Nikkor 70-300, handheld from 6 feet away

Weekends are a little more casual at the hospital I work at. I had time to play with the camera for a change. These
trees are outside of our office. I don't know if they're Cherry trees, or Bradford pears, but the bees like them. Being in Maintenance, I get to go where the rest of the folks don't, so I grabbed this sunset shot from the roof. This last shot is from one of the many  marker lights on the roof, to keep the planes away. Hope you like...as always, all gripes, groans, bit**es, and moans are welcomed!

Some days, you just gotta' wait for the traffic to clear.....welcome to rush hour.

This first shot doesn't count towards the theme, as it was taken last spring, but, IMHO, it's worth being revisited.

These next 3 were taken over the weekend,  around the  yard. Hope you like!

I'm already impressed by everyones entries so far, so i thought I'd give it a try. Took a mediocre shot, and played with it a little, in the hopes of being the first to try this for the theme.

I took this one from about 40 yards away, on my driveway. Nikon D70, 300mm, handheld.

I know it's been awhile since I've posted, but it doesn't mean I haven't been around. Lots of great pic's over the last several weeks!

I was "critter-sitting" at my sister-in-laws this weekend, and caught
  this through the patio door, totally by accident. Enjoy!

Here's my entry...