shashchatter's photostream

A new group deserves a new upload: The Beauty of Flamingos.

This is has been sitting in the pool of pictures I took last summer. It is an OK shot as far as Flamingos go (I like the sound of that :-)), but I do love the backlit glow!

Hope everybody is having a great weekend!

More on my Animals set.

You mean there is a cream for the bumps?

More on my Animals set.

I thought this was going to be a cheerful shot for the new week, but the more I look at it, the more it has the opposite effect on me!

More on my Flowers set.

I'd like this to be a tribute to one my most favourite flower photographers on Flickr, Judith Meskill (jude), whose work is a feast for the eyes. Not because this image could hold a candle to any one of hers, but because of her latest pic that is a fav of mine that reminds me of the pink and green and the soft focus!

My favourite shot from the Plano Balloon Festival (see set). We'd all gone on the second day, arrived around noon. We waited and waited until after 5PM before any action even happened. Then a couple hours of waiting and a couple balloons later, it was announced that due to high winds no more ballooons would take off. It was starting to get dark, and most people left. As we were about to leave as well, we saw this balloon being filled and we rushed near it. The long wait was well worth it, it gave me this picture! I took this shot lying down in a completely prone position below and just a few feet away from the balloon, looking up, as I felt the heat from the burners.

This is an HDR tone-mapped image, I did that to get detail both inside and outside the balloon as well as some color in the sky!

You can see the same ballooon in my friend Jhinuk's stream

To me a quintessential scene, could be from any decade in the last century.

Another shot from the Plano Balloon Festival (see set). You can see the clouds in this shot from my friend and fellow DFW Area Meetup cohort Syann's stream: