If you haven't already figured it out, I like to take visually simple images :p

From this morning - all subjects as is, where is. All 300mm f/4L - first image with 2x TC, remainder with various extension tubes. Handheld.

Thanks for looking :)

edit: ew - that last one came out a little flat. Hopefully you get the picture.

How did you find a frog today? It has been between 30 and mid 50's here for weeks and the last 2 days were 50 at best during the day!

Nice images, but that last will never get my vote for featured photo :lol:

Well isn't simple usually the best? These all have merit Loupey even the last one. I think it is just too phallic for your fellow moderator. Actually he wishes he had seen it and taken it first.

I dont think it matters what we choose to photograph, as long as we, the "taker", get something from it, it would be rather boring if we all took pictures of the same thing.

#2 for me!

Very nice Loupey!

A frog in November? It's been unseasonably warm here all week, (almost 70 yesterday!) but I haven't seen any frogs. Of course, I haven't been looking for them either. They drained the pond that I spent a lot of time at this spring/summer. :( I'm hoping they dredge it out, and fill it back up by this spring!

Great images Loupey! I really like the frog!

PaulNJ and MJS - tough little guy, eh? I saw two others and we even had a colder than normal October (30s ~ 50s here too). Definitely wouldn't want to fall in the water at this stage. I also saw two dragonflies (in tandem), a moth, a damselfly, a grasshopper, two hornets, and a few spiders - amazing how a few 60+ degree days changes things.

OT - I agree. Simpler is often more difficult to achieve - but communicates very easily across age/gender/cultural boundaries.

Thanks, Bev. I agree with you and even the reverse is true: we all can see and photograph similar subjects very differently.

Copy: thanks!

So here's how I first found the little guy. Uncropped and taken at eye level with just a straight 300mm. I didn't even notice until I sat down at the computer that the "rock" on the lower left is alive (at least a rock with 2 eyes)! As nuts as it sounds this late in the season, but it looks like a tadpole. How long do bull frogs remain in the tadpole stage? What's your guess??!!

bullfrogs are a 2 season tadpole .... that is what it is then because I don't think any others are in that area(green frog?)!

Hey Loupey,

I think I saw a frog yesterday! It could have been a toad too. I was sitting in the middle of a fallen tree waiting for some deer to come along, so I didn't want to crawl out to verify what I saw hopping across the ground. Saturday was beautifull, (sunny and mid 30's) but we got about an inch of snow Friday night, so seeing something hopping in the grass was very surprising. Now I wish I would have checked it out to see just what it was.

Definitely much colder in your area, Michael :p Glad you saw something - thanks for letting us know. Hope you got some more deer pixs!

Paul - bullfrog tadpoles it must be. We've got a bunch of those. Thanks!

Definitely much colder in your area, Michael :p Glad you saw something - thanks for letting us know. Hope you got some more deer pixs!


I did get some more deer pics this weekend and will be posting them as soon as I can.

Be careful out there, Michael. I saw a news report recently that Bigfoot is loose again - this time in Wisconsin stealing deer carcasses :p

Be careful out there, Michael. I saw a news report recently that Bigfoot is loose again - this time in Wisconsin stealing deer carcasses :p


I saw that too!!! I'll see if I can get a nice portrait of Bigfoot the next time I'm out in the woods. Of course opening day of deer season is this weekend, so maybe some hunter will have one strapped to the roof of his car. :)