SmugMug Photo & Video Sharing. You look better here. : " GO Away " Photo of the day July 5th ,2009 This is MUST VIEW in LARGE format for better DETAILS This KILLDEER wildlife bird, when she saw me she started making enormous noises and running back and forth...At first i didnt realize why......I was trying to be as camouflage as possible and still as possible....but she didnt stop...Finaly i came to understanding that she has nest near by.....I beleive she was misleading me in oposite direction so that i dont find them...She was so protective of her family...nest or eggs....That will be mistery to me as i never found out.....Went back there few times but there is no signs of KILLDEER bird......Killdeer nest on open ground, often on gravel. They may use a slight depression in the gravel to hold the eggs, but they do not line it at all..... DISCLAIMER: Information such as Identity of this WILDLIFE IMAGE is been collected from Un-identified sources and they might or might not be 100% accurate...Nor Aphoto4you Inc or Author of this gallery is responsible for wrong information or story... For proper information please seek other sources.For further information on this image or information Click Here .....

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DailyPhotos > popular today > Black sail in the moonset :-) - Nov 30 2009

Well didn't want to turn to the archives again... couldn't shoot new pictures... so fabricated this. A fake moon, fake ocean, fake stars, fake shadow... oh yes, the sailboat is real, but darkened... the whole picture is not a masterpiece, but hey... don't blame me, blame photoshop... in my head it was perfect ;-)

For yesterdays picture... the real Azur is the one in the middle.

DailyPhotos > popular today > "Itching to Scratch an Itch"
Day 273, Tuesday, December 1

This Tri-colored Heron isn't as sharp as I had hoped...
I was about to get more opportunities... when some passers-by scared him into flight.

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DailyPhotos > popular today > 12.01.2009 Natures Alarm

DailyPhotos > popular today > December 1, 2009 - "Deck Reflections"

This is another shot from the Japanese Garden in Ft. Worth. I find it interesting that a better view of the deck was available in the reflection versus what I could see directly from my perspective. The Koi under the deck are not reflections :)

I used the Adobe Elements Raw Editor for most of the pictures in my gallery from the gardens. This shot was cropped and exposure/saturation/vivid slides moved a touch along with a pre-sharpening filter. The gallery of shots from Sundays session is at

http://dakotacowboy.smugmug.com/Travel/Texas/Ft-Worth-Japanese-Garden/10491545_BjYrp/1/728088305_oab8o

I had not used the Raw Editor much before, but found it a very fast way to process most of these shots with results that I liked.

DailyPhotos > popular today > Tobacco House
This is part of a series of shot I will put up for the week that I took in Yorktown. This is a Tobacco house where the person lived and worked tobacco. Tomorrow I will show the inside of this house. The tones and the color reflected the bleak exterior of the home. It was a dull gray with mold on the side. Matching the lifeless feel the sky had. The B&W had a good feel for the day and the tone. In talking with the local colonial folks it was fitting as this was not a great place to work.

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DailyPhotos > popular today > Just some grass by the gulf.

DailyPhotos > popular today > December 1, 2009

The second thing at Christmas that's such a pain to me:
Rigging up the lights ~ Bob Rivers Twelve Pains of Christmas

Why is it that every year the light we bought the previous year break. My son was replacing bulbs that apparently burnt out or broke since last year. Every year we have to go out and buy another set of lights, such a pain to me!

DailyPhotos > popular today > Red Door.

Ripley Village

More of my Ripley Images @

http://littlespelk.smugmug.com/Other/Ripley-Village/

DailyPhotos > popular today > 81/365. Dec 1, 2009.

Fall Reflections.

This is from the photos shot at Tingly beach in early November. I rotated this one and did a lot of cropping, along with the usual color correction, etc....

ETA: I would post the original in my Fall folder--and I may later--but I am still having monitor problems on my PC--where I downloaded the pix. Today I am using the laptop.

Thanks for the wonderful comments so far today.

Black sail in the moonset :-) - Nov 30 2009

Well didn't want to turn to the archives again... couldn't shoot new pictures... so fabricated this. A fake moon, fake ocean, fake stars, fake shadow... oh yes, the sailboat is real, but darkened... the whole picture is not a masterpiece, but hey... don't blame me, blame photoshop... in my head it was perfect ;-)

For yesterdays picture... the real Azur is the one in the middle.