These are the newest additions to our little family.
They are Cavachons, 8 weeks old, and the only brothers from a litter of six...My daughter picked the names.

Thanks for your consideration - Hapster

Shot Easter Sunday around sunset.

A700 & Beercan (like I use anything else it seems?)
f/4, 1/500, 200mm, ISO 200

"Secrets At Sunset"

Go Gators! I love the turtles on the tree to the right. Turtles always seem to be nearby the Gators. I have several other images and you can always find a turtle here and there. These Gators are completely wild and protected on a preserve.

This is a 100% crop from an image taken with my a100 and the 75-300 big beer can. If you would like to review the actual full image and several others in this set please visit my web pages at.

http://actiniclight.smugmug.com/

These will be located in the a100 folder with many others in the Florida folder.

Enjoy, in case you are wondering I am University of Florida Alumni Class of `78

Very nice shots, I am stuffed again in this one, I make a lousy nature shooter!

I see Eric and Carl are now "Chefs" lol ;-) What's cooking tonight guys?? Oh and how is it Gordon Ramsay looks so bad for a 41 year old, hell I hope I wear better than that..

Even though I've posted it before...

Now ill go back to stirrin the pot in the kitchen, Barry :).

;)

Carl

One of our great southern secrets is just how great the gator tail is. Just think of it as fish & chips and cook it the same way. Diced in small bite size cubes, batter and fry. . . a cold beer and you are ready to settle in on the front deck!

Can we submit something, then change our submission later, before the deadline?

A very fishy shot. I posted this a week or two ago already, but let's run with it.

Ovlov, love the humming bird! Hapster, awesome! Great doggie moment. This will be a fun thread.
Scott

You have a month to enter, take your time :)

Carl

haha really, gator tail eh =0

Perhaps we should make that a prize :-D. But if it's fish and chips like and goes with a beer sounds good. It's definitely neat seeing your part of the country in your images. Drastic contrast to southern California.

Shot RAW+ Using Sony 100mm f2.8 Macro Lens at 1/2500 f3.5, ISO 400 in bright sun light.
Cropped in PhotoShop.

Alpha-100 body

This is my participation , being a long time Minolta user, I am happy to see that now I will be able to rely on Sony for the continuation. This shot is made with my Minolta 5D and a 100 mm macro 2.8. I am close to buying the Sony 350 which I am sure will please me with the flip out LCD Live view when shooting insects in challenging 'yoga'-alike positions ;-)

Nice photo. I wish I could get an owl to pose for me. What lens did you use and how close did you have to get to your subject?

I was using a Quantaray 100-300 at approx. 50 feet away, I have never had an owl sit for 5 minutes while I took pictures.

Perry

Hi all,

FYI the photo contest details above have been updated to include the prizes now.

Good luck

the monthly theme catagory over at Better Photo and should be receiving a Tamrac (?) sling type bag...

Though I always like the bragging rights... ;)

I appreciate your (both you and Carl) efforts to make this a complete and well rounded site.

Hapster

>I appreciate your (both you and Carl) efforts to make this a complete and well rounded site.

Thanks Hapster, you're welcome!

>the monthly theme catagory over at Better Photo and should be receiving a Tamrac (?) sling type bag...

Congrats on the win, well deserved, we see you post up a lot of great photos. I can't get that elephant photo out of my head, really enjoy that one.

Thats awesome :)

really enjoy posting here and viewing all of the other great posts. It really lets you know for the most part what your equipment is capable of. Not like viewing great images on other sites that are mostly put up with the "other 2"...

One thing that really made me smile, the image that won at BP, was taken with the original Alpha - the A100...now appearing at your local Best Buy as a kit for less than $300.

Here is the image by the way... The contest theme was "Diversity"

Thanks again - Hapster

I like the reflection on the counter or table top. Congrats!

This is certainly not my best work. However, it is spring in MN and we are short on good weather and wildlife! This is my retired greyhound and this is what he does best. A100 with 90mm lens.

Hi everyone,

First post here on Alphamountworld.com. Great site by the way.
Here is my contribution a shot of a Paddymelon (wallaby, small kangaroo) taken at Cradle Mountain National Park, Tasmania Australia.
Alpha 100 & KM 28-75

Enjoy, comment welcome.

Jens

Glad to have you here and thanks for your interest in the site.

Cool entry, we don't exactly see a lot of those around here in Southern California :-D

Very neat!

Taken at the Mystic Aquarium in CT.
Alpha A100 50mm F/1.7
ISO 400, F2.8, 1/25sec

Hello All - Her is my contribution, som Cormorant birds, from last weekend. Weather was overcast and a little dark.
Done with the A700 (jpg x-fine), handheld with the Sony 75-300 and the Olympus T-con 17 in front to get enough zoom.
There is a little PF etc. Image is ajusted in ACDsee Pro 2.
If you rule in the circumstances i think it came out OK.

A larger number of Cormorant birds, are recently staying at the inner inlet close to the city of Nakskov.
If you like to se more, use the link below, the first 2 img are taken with the Sony 16-105mm

http://www.lowlandphoto.dk/skarv/index.html

:-) Jesper

With all the talent displayed here, I'm dreaming, but I was very lucky with this shot a couple of weeks ago when he landed right in front of me. Someone wanted entries for a "Red, Blue & Green" contest, but I'd have had to host the next contest (ugh), so I declined.

Male Red Bellied Woodpecker
A-100, Big Beercan, f/8, 1/250, ISO 200, 300mm (450mm - 35mm eq)

Great shot. It inspires me to put the my "beer can" lens on my A100 and go birding. Thanks for sharing.

Dave

Very cool shot Jesper. There is a Double-Crested Cormorant that spends some time on a pond near my home in Virginia. He is always very careful to stay far away from me. I can't even get a decent shot with my Sigma 50-500mm.