LIFE'S A BEACH!

mumito

the building in the background is where the gas explosion took place. Most of the resorts in that area were all built over swampland.

faithandfifty

Today is my nephew's birthday.

He's THIRTY.

Can you tell??

I love his newest picture.

Makes me smile.

He now lives in Portugal.

He teaches fourth grade.

How can he be getting older?

When I'm still so very youthful.

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mumito

playa del carmen

Eph3_12

Mum-love the "off with her Hair" photo!

mumito

Sacred Ibis  can't decide if this bird that my DH captured is beautiful or scarey.

SoCalLisa

Wow Muma, great photo

3jaysmom

how majestic! elegant and a bit scarey!    3jays

BarbaraA

Wow, Mum, We have Ibis in FL but they are all white with orange beaks and feet. I'll go stalk some and take some pics.

faithandfifty

BarbaraAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

What a great picture in your profile. Don't know when you changed it, but I love it. Your smile is so inviting!!!! Are we gonna meet this winter? In real life?? IRL??? I sure hope so!!

That Ibis seems like a Disney character -- not because of the unbelievable colors, as we've commented previously, but more like a cartoon personality. I can just hear the Dangerfield voice attempting to get some respect.

Do you think animals make fun of each other??

We're safely in KY & there's good/free/fast internet!!!!

Happy camper!!!!!

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My NYC "tour" is coming together -- right after turkey time. I'm sooooooo excited!!

BarbaraA

Hi Faith!! I hope we can meet. I travel a lot and try to meet up with BCO friends wherever I go.

OK, folks, this is the sunset tonight from the master bedroom balcony and the fighter jet contrails

 from the McDill AFB.

 

marlegal

not quite as beautiful  as the beach pics perhaps, but here's what my backyard at home has to offer these days

chabba

Lovely Mary. 

chrissyb

Great pics girls! Love sunsets and Love colored trees....yummmmm!

SoCalLisa

an autumn colored flower

chrissyb

What a beautiful rose Lisa and the color is amazing!

SoCalLisa

The roses are amazing, I wish they were mine!!

Someone has a green thumb and I just take the pix

SoCalLisa

I took this in the fall in Canada

chrissyb

Lisa, When you photograph the roses do you use a macro to out the background?  Sorry, I just love the fact you only get the rose so that's where your focus goes when you look at them.  These pics as usual for you are beautiful.  I also love roses.

3jaysmom

marklegal, that picture made me feel soooo homesick. i grew up in Boston, havent been there in two lifetimes. nice to see it.

  not a great day here, the weathewrs again taken just a little dip. it seems thats all i need for the lymphedema to kick in. add truncal to the snb site now, since 2nd surgery.. its not too swollen, just enough to get me   tchin"    3jays

BarbaraA

Love the roses and the trees. The leaves turning are about all I miss about living 'up north'.

barbe1958

Lisa, that pic is beautiful!!! I'm trying to guess where you took it as I've been right about so many of your shots.....the gardens in Victoria? Let me know if I'm cold/warm or hot....

SoCalLisa

Crissy, when I take pix of flowers I stand back and then use the optical zoom to get close then use the auto focus..that way the background usually stays blurry

You are right Barbe

one more

BarbaraA

Lovely, Lisa.

faithandfifty

I just LOVE that in addition to the amazing pictures, views and beaches, we get personalized photography "lessons" from our own photographers. I am going to read & reread Lisa's explanation. (I know you've attempted to clue me in -- in the past, and I can't replicate it with any dependable regularity...... but I will try again, with this newest explanation.)

Headed 'home' from KY. Had such a great weekend/conference. Tomorrow a friend is having a book-launch party in her home for me. I feel such appreciation.

Hope that everyone has some great plans for the weekend...... or if not, can bask in the amazing photos being shared here.

Hugs, Beachies!!

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barbe1958

If you want to look up the process, it's called "depth of field". You don't want to always see everything in a picture so you let it go.

SoCalLisa

Barbe, in the old 35mm SLR's there was a button I could push to see the depth of field..

mainly the deal was if the f.stop was set so the lens  aperature was wide open , the depth of field

was shortened so the area around the object was blurry..of the aperature was tiny, almost everything

was in focus...

but with digital, they are playing with us to make us feel like we are still using the old technology

I think....but my mind still works that way

but lenses still work the same way...

chrissyb

Thanks Lisa and Barb.  I don't usually take close up photos of individual things I do more of the panaramic but I'm so gonna give it a good try.

faithandfifty

That's where I get confused, Lisa.

Is with the 'automatic/digital' camera, how this concept gets accomplished??

I get it artistically & I LOVE it in your examples, but when I attempt on my simple, digital camera, it seldom 'works' with my level of understanding and expertise.

Any specficiations/clarifications that you can add for the digital camera would be GREATLY appreciated. Oh how, I wish that I had ever availed myself of a photography course, back in the day..... or finding a course here-in-the-day.

SoCalLisa

Faith ...I don't know what kind of camera you have but for me

I put my camera on automatic..step back about three steps from the object...

zoom in on the flower or whatever and push the take  picture button

down half way for  the focus and when the lines around the focus box turn green,

 I snap the picture.

If the camera doesn't like it take another step back and try again...

SoCalLisa

I forgot that if you have a small camera, the lens may not be far enough away from the

back of the camera to really work well..