Picture-A-Week 2018 - Week 47

[pierces]

Pictures taken between Monday, November 19 and Sunday, November 25.

 

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!

[ski ww]

I volunteer at a local museum & right now we have a winter project getting a steam engine ready for display next summer.

 We'll clean & paint and hopefully it can be run using compressed air for display.

[dileep]

Auckland

[Krazy Kruizers]

Great pictures gentlemen.

[dileep]

Bay of Islands, New Zealand

[shootr]

My first ever try at smoking a turkey... 

 

Wonderful! 

 

 

[pierces]

The turkey has met a gristly end. Stripped of feathers, beheaded and condemned to death by fire. The tender flesh is ripped from its bones and consumed. Its limbs torn from its body and fought over by the spawn of those who give thanks. The vegetables are decimated. Only small, scattered pools of cooling butter left to mark where their colorful profusion once brightened the plates and bowls. Full to bursting, the thankful try to leave the scene of their ravenous overindulgence but before they can flee, the Goddess of Just Desserts swoops in and enthralls them anew with glistening objects of sugary lust. Aren’t you glad Thanksgiving wasn’t invented by H. P. Lovecraft or Stephen King?

 

Post-Thankalypse

 

 

 

Dave

[zackiedawg]

I have no photos of turkey for Thanksgiving week.  We'll have to substitute with some other birds...all alive and thriving too:

 

A pied-billed grebe:

 

Great blue heron, aka 'sky crane' - carrying back nearly an entire tree for the nest:

 

A mating pair of great blue herons, doing a little necking:

 

An ibis flying past, and seemingly having a look at me as he flies past:

 

At sunset, the light is low where I'm shooting and where the birds are flying, but the background is lit up by the last warm light of the sun - like where this anhinga is flying by the warmly lit foliage:

 

Three whistling ducks high enough in the sky after sunset to still be catching some red strains of light as they jet over my position:

[shootr]

I want to book an excursion with Zackiedawg someday...

[puppycanducruise]

Interesting project ski ww, hope you have success.

[puppycanducruise]

Wonderful New Zealand pictures, thanks for posting them.

And I love the birds (in flight), although that turkey looks pretty tasty.

Thanks to everyone for sharing their pictures.

[zackiedawg]

Anytime you're in the SE Florida area Shootr, let me know - be glad to take you out to my local wetlands hotspots!

[Krazy Kruizers]

It's been a while since I have been here.

 

Lot's of great new pictures.

 

Thanks everyone.

[boeckli]

Richmond - a picturesque small town near Hobart, Tasmania