[Na Horuk]

This is a heavy cropped version (about 1/5 from the full size) of an image taken by K3 + FA50 f2.8 macro.

Need to add DFA 100mm macro Your photos are really great. How do you find the vantage points to take them??

[pakinjapan]

Need to add DFA 100mm macro Your photos are really great...

Thank you a lot. and Yeah, I am thinking of going back with a DFA100 macro soon.

...How do you find the vantage points to take them??

I keep look and looking when walk in town. and I usually spend 1 day a week, 1-2 hours on google map and 4-10 hours scouting and shooting outside. The higher I can get the better it is. But my rule is “no trespassing”. Sometime I come back with tons of good locations and photos. Sometime, like last weekend I come back empty handed. Well, I spot one location seems to be good. I will find time to go back later.


By the way, I usually post what I found on my IG and blog with more details, technical used and google map link to help out those coming to Tokyo looking for interesting places to go for shooting. Feel free to use it if you happen to visit Tokyo.

[aslyfox]

these nests found under the eves of a couple of "relief stations" in the Lamar Valley region of Yellowstone NP are interesting

I like the shapes, the texture and fibers

link to 90 second video of construction of a cliff swallow nest - https://academy.allaboutbirds.org/cliff-swallows-build-nests-from-mud/

didn't approach too closely since obviously the nests are occupied (and the birds look a little irritated )

I believe these are Cliff Swallows Petrochelidon pyrrhonota :

" . . .One easy way to find Cliff Swallows is to look for their gourd-shaped mud nests clustered under horizontal overhangs—many a highway overpass is swarming with Cliff Swallows in summer. . . . " - Cliff Swallow, Life History, All About Birds - Cornell Lab of Ornithology

[WPRESTO]

With or without the texture of the nests, that is a fun image.

[WPRESTO]

As with a similar image I posted earlier, this might go as an abstract, but I think it's more logically a texture.

[Racer X 69]

As with a similar image I posted earlier, this might go as an abstract, but I think it's more logically a texture.

I had a friend whose back was nearly that hairy.

[aslyfox]

not the same image but the same idea

out with the old - it's getting warmer

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[WPRESTO]

I had a friend whose back was nearly that hairy.

There was a fellow I knew in college who once observed that when shaving, he didn't exactly where to stop.

[ramseybuckeye]

[aslyfox]

Can you find a straight line in this blossom???

I like all of its curves

[goatsNdonkey]

It's called "smooth brome grass," but in a stand it has texture.



BW conversion of scan of expired Fujicolor 200.

[aslyfox]

I like:

the curvature of the tail mimicking the curved colored scales on the back of the lizard,

the curved posture of the lizard itself,

the curved shadow it casts

and the texture of the rock and the shift in texture from the smooth back of the lizard to its tail's raised thorny scales

unknown species of lizard found in the Serengeti National Park Tanzania

[schnitzer79]

[paulh]

[aslyfox]

don't believe everything you read on the internet or in the guide books - they tell you that the sole remaining petrified tree in Yellowstone National Park is found on a trail

this petrified tree stump is right outside the Albright (Mammoth) Visitor Center

[ if you check the link you will find a photo of a kid sitting on it - Visitor Centers - Yellowstone National Park (U.S. National Park Service) ]