Picture-A-Week 2019 - Week 23

[pierces]

Pictures taken between Monday, June 3 and Sunday, June 9.

 

 

Rules: See above

That's it. This isn't a contest.

All photos taken this week are welcome (not just cruising).

Prizes will not be awarded. Discovering the joy of photography is the prize.

The idea is to get folks out using their cameras for more than vacations and toddler birthdays.

Post one. Post many. Up to you.

Have fun with your camera and share your fun with others!

[AL3XCruise]

Just got a new Sigma 150-600C.  First time out and spotted some comorants.  Curious to hear what you all think!

[Krazy Kruizers]

Your pictures are beautiful.

[Krazy Kruizers]

Finally got to sit outside yesterday -- no rain and it was warm.

 

Lilies are starting to Bloom:

 

[Krazy Kruizers]

A few years ago, we got this perennial.  It had tons of pink flowers on it originally.   The man who sold us the plant said that it would bloom all summer long.  Well it blooms only for about week and then nothing.

 

[AL3XCruise]

More testing the new Sigma.  These guys were nice enough to do the same pose.

[Krazy Kruizers]

Love the pictures.

[Docker123]

Well, what a busy Sunday. Started off on the shore near my home, and ended up somewhere inland.

(Fortunately managed to miss all of my football team's abominable performance)..

 

Royal Spoonbill

 

 

Blackwinged Stilt

 

Purple Swamphen

 

Some type of plover

 

 

 

 

[Docker123]

Now for the countryside (I need my glass)

 

Eagle

 

Kite/kestrel (I think)

 

Scenery (with bird of prey sitting in the tree)

 

[pierces]

A few years ago, my son talked me into trying Borderlands 2. "You'll like it Dad! It's smart and funny!" Well, he was right. The artwork makes it look like you're playing in a graphic novel and the dialogue is clever and often hilarious. It also has a lot (really, a lot) of guns and a target-rich environment. Stress relief on steroids. In preparation for the release of Borderlands 3, they released an update pack with new adventures foreshadowing version 3. Less than an hour after the Sunday release, it was installed and I was linked with my son’s console doing run and gun across Pandora making the bad guys very, very sorry that they are the bad guys. Hold my beer while I blow this up...

 

Family Fun Time!

 

 

 

Dave

[Oakman58]

Two of my favorite shots from the Alaskan cruise/tour we just returned from.  The camera I took on this trip was my Canon SX530. 

 

 

[zackiedawg]

Finally got around to sorting through my vacation photos from the weekend of June 7th, just the family summer trip to Disney World.  Some random shots from Friday through Sunday of that week:
 

The resort where I stayed - Wilderness Lodge...specifically I was in the Boulder Ridge DVC villas section:

 

Nighttime scenes around the resort - this is a glimpse of the boat dock out on the lake behind the cypress trees:

 

the largest vulture species - the Nubian vulture, here having a rest on the ground and trying to figure out where to put those 10-foot wingspan wings:

 

They're not 'wild' - but they are free-flying and not in a penned area - Disney's Animal Kingdom has a few demonstration shows with macaws of different types, and when not in the 'show', they fly around the park, yelling, playing, and goofing off in the trees:

 

A cute baby giraffe, watching the safari truck pass by:

 

Male lion sitting on top of his rock outcrop:

[kenevenpar]

The first day of our trip to CA fell in this week, so

 

 

 

Within minutes of checking in, a juvenile Cooper's Hawk posed for me.

 

 

The mountains are spectacular out in the desert.

[Oakman58]

I was going through the pictures I took the day our cruise ship was in Glacier Bay National Park and discovered I had been photo bombed by a seagull. 

 

[kenevenpar]

16 minutes ago, Oakman58 said:

I was going through the pictures I took the day our cruise ship was in Glacier Bay National Park and discovered I had been photo bombed by a seagull. 

 

 

I took a shot from our ship as we were getting ready to leave the Port of Miami, and without realizing it, a seagull into the frame.  It actually made the picture much better.  Sometimes it is good to be lucky 🙂