A special deal for everyone: find the unusual situation in this series of images...

First right guess is an 8x10 of an image of your choice printed on an Epson 9800 series printer!!!

Great Blue Heron hunting images:

EXIF:
Camera PENTAX Corporation PENTAX K10D
Exposure Time 0.0006s (1/1600)
Aperture f/5.6
ISO 320
Focal Length 600mm (900mm 35mm)
Photo Dimensions 3872 x 2592

Great Blue Heron:

EXIF:
Camera PENTAX Corporation PENTAX K10D
Exposure Time 0.0012s (1/800)
Aperture f/5.6
ISO 100
Focal Length 250mm (375mm 35mm)
Photo Dimensions 3420 x 2304

Female Mallard:

EXIF:
EXIF:
Date Taken 2008-10-17 15:10:58
Camera PENTAX Corporation PENTAX K10D
Exposure Time 0.0012s (1/800)
Aperture f/6.3
ISO 320
Focal Length 430mm (645mm 35mm)
Photo Dimensions 3872 x 2592


Crop of the above image:

Photo Dimensions 1942 x 1316

I hope you enjoy these images...

Regards,
Marc

[Jimbo]

Ok, I will take a shot at it. All their beak reflections hit the edge of the lilly pad.

[Marc Langille]

Ok, I will take a shot at it. All their beak reflections hit the edge of the lilly pad.

Yer killing me Jimbo... No sir...

Did you like the shots?

[J.Scott]

Great images Marc. You are the bird man!

The only thing I see that may be somewhat unusual, and probably not planned, is in the second image. On the extreme right I see you captured a large dragonfly in flight.

[Marc Langille]

Great images Marc. You are the bird man!

The only thing I see that may be somewhat unusual, and probably not planned, is in the second image. On the extreme right I see you captured a large dragonfly in flight.

Thanks J. Scott! I love photographing them.

Great images Marc. You are the bird man!

The only thing I see that may be somewhat unusual, and probably not planned, is in the second image. On the extreme right I see you captured a large dragonfly in flight.

I saw that as well but it seemed to obvious. Did you see the reflection of the dragonfly as well?

[Marc Langille]

Ok, I will take a shot at it. All their beak reflections hit the edge of the lilly pad.

The only thing I see that may be somewhat unusual, and probably not planned, is in the second image. On the extreme right I see you captured a large dragonfly in flight.

Jimbo: that was not my original observation, and you caught another similarity - therefore I will honor both of your guesses...

EDIT: removed part of post, since subsequent post was completely correct...

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Last edited by Marc Langille; 11-07-2008 at 09:41 PM.

[Marc Langille]

I saw that as well but it seemed to obvious. Did you see the reflection of the dragonfly as well?

Actually that was my original intent - the reflection of the dragonfly in the water below and the dragonfly itself... Gary got the whole picture...

[Jimbo]

Did you like the shots?

Marc... The first shot should be in a magazine and the other three need to be on my wall! I have to say I didn't see the butterfly.. Nice call Gary... I thought we were looking for something silimar in all of them. That's why I picked the lilly pad thing... Cheers Marc...
JIMBO

Sorry Marc, I forgot to say, but you know I'm an admirer. xoxo

[nulla]

Marc

I always admire your work

most times I am lost for words of praise... cannot say much more than brilliant and inspirational.



Neil

[J.Scott]

Actually that was my original intent - the reflection of the dragonfly in the water below and the dragonfly itself... Gary got the whole picture...

Hells Bells! Close but no cigar!

Congrats to Gary.

[Marc Langille]

Well, Gary is the person getting all of the aspects right, although I am not sure if he was lead down that path by the others' posts before him....

Gary, it's your call: do what you will - you hold Jimbo and J. Scott hostage until you make a decision on whether or not those "leads" made it too easy for you to be the winner...

Nothing like a little suspense with the "judge Gary" making a decision.

Well, Gary is the person getting all of the aspects right, although I am not sure if he was lead down that path by the others' posts before him....

Gary, it's your call: do what you will - you hold Jimbo and J. Scott hostage until you make a decision on whether or not those "leads" made it too easy for you to be the winner...

Nothing like a little suspense with the "judge Gary" making a decision.

You're not getting out of it that easily Marc. I can honestly say that I did spot it, I can't say whether I spotted it first and that I had spotted it without the other guys clues.
However, the other two guys did post before me. It's you're competition and it's up to you to decide how flexible you want to be in you're decision making. I'm happy to abide by whatever decision you do make. So, I'm afraid it's back to you Judge Marc.

[Marc Langille]

Alright then, I knew Gary was going to bail on me... what a wasted previous post...


Here's the final results... drum roll please:

3rd place for thinking outside the box: Jimbo
2nd place for spotting part, but not all: J. Scott
1st place for putting the clues together: Damn Brit

For Jimbo and J. Scott: prizes for second and third will be some run-off (extras) from the TX ranch order. Therefore Jimbo and J. Scott will receive an 8x10 also, but I get to choose the final picture....
Here's the one request: I would like a small amount of input from both of you on which sort of image you would like me to send, ie. macro, landscape, mammals, birds, etc. Just a general categorization - that does not mean you'll get your choice, it will be to assist me a little bit.

Gary: unfortunately you don't get off that easy - I am not referring to just this post... You have to decide what image I've posted here at any time or anything viewable on my website. Please let me know!

Regards,
Marc