Just because I am not patient enough to wait for spring

[Fovea]

I fished this out of the archives.

[Blue_In_AK]

1. That's really exquisite

I love it. What lens did you use?

[Fovea]

2. Ok, time to freak out a little...

Camera: Pentax Optio S
Exposure: 0.002 sec (1/500)
Aperture: f/4.3
Focal Length: 5.8 mm

This point and shoot camera fits in an altoids tin.
About the only things it does well is macros, landscapes, and it has crazy white balance skillz.

It records a lot of audio with great compression, and did I mention it fits in an altoids tin.
I think I have only gotten one or two good portrait distance shots out of it. Now it records classes for my GTA sweetie.

[Fovea]

3. For Contrast

here is one from last January.

[Blue_In_AK]

4. Also very cool...

...but I see enough of that around here this time of year. :)

[TahitiNut]

6. I can't remember ... Puget Sound area?

That sure looks like something around Seattle/Olympia/Bremerton. It has that sullen, brooding, quiet look I've seen there so often. You captured the mood very well, I think.

((I'm puzzled why people hide their profiles.)) :shrug:

[Fovea]

7. Kansas City Kansas

overlooking a river that is both called the Kansas River and the Kaw River.

[ConsAreLiars]

5. Excellent

It's not all that hard to get a pretty picture of a pretty flower, but it is very tough to get a really good one where the background clutter is not only attenuated but even enhances the image. Good control of focus and composition. Very nice.

[F.Gordon]

8. One of the nicest flower shots I've seen

Looks like you had the perfect light.... exposure consistent across the shot.. focus. And with a point and shoot? Goes to show that you don't need to have a big check book suckin' camera to take really good photographs.

I really got hooked on flowers a year ago. Hopin' I can take all my learnin' and stuff and do a better job this spring with flower snaps.