Today we have two smallish sets of photos. Click photos to enlarge, and the photographers’ captions are indented. And remember to send your wildlife photos, as the tank is dangerously low.
First, a few photos of Colorado from Douglas Swartzenruber.
This is just a collection of pics from being out and about in Colorado. I did not think that any captions were necessary – some folks may recognize a locale or two, but it’s not really important.
A deer and a beer:
Given the last two pictures, I’ll have to relate a joke (slightly NSFW):
Q: Why are beer nuts like deer nuts?
A: They’re both under a buck.
The last time I told this to someone, they pointed out that beer nuts are probably more than a dollar now. And indeed they are! There goes the joke. . . .
Here are a couple of photos by Muffy Mead demonstrating the macro capabilities of phone cameras:
You were asking this morning for more wildlife photos and I can’t say mine are all that great, but I thought your readers might be interested in the fact that you can now buy a macro lens for your phone camera very inexpensively, and it’s a lot of fun to take closeup pictures of insects and other stuff! So attached are a few photos I took (dragonfly, butterfly, dragonfly wing, wasp nest) including one of the lens I have, but there are several others to choose from on Amazon.
Click to go to the Amazon site (the price has gone up):
Deez are great!
^^Internet humor to match the above jokes. Back to seriousness, these are beautiful shots, rich color and depth.
Thanks for the product note for the “macro” set – compelling price.
What fun! It has been ages since I’ve broken out my old clip-on lens for cell phones.
In a pinch, a fun experiment to do is to try out a water drop as a macro lens. You simply apply a hanging drop of water onto the cell phone lens (they are sealed), and it magnifies plenty — although it is jiggly.
Thanks for the water-drop lens idea. I’ll have to try that!
Thank you! And thank you for doing your part to keep this feature alive. I rarely take photographs of anything—my wife holds the camera—so I will forever be useless when it comes to wildlife photography.
No problem, just change the joke to “How are beer nuts different from deer nuts?”
I will add the nut joke to my repertoire 🙂