As the cold weather settles in, it is a good time to
sort through favorite nature pictures. I was reminded of this by seeing
the winning entries in the
Nikon Small World 2014 contest. My personal favorite is the jumping spider eyes at 20x above. You can see all of the winning entries at the
Nikon slideshow site, using your right arrow key to thumb through the pictures.
Each year the MDC Nature Calendar contest brings out the competitive urges among our members (Jay is a perennial favorite),
and several of their pictures have been selected. I suspect that many
of you have favorite pictures hidden away on your computer.
Most
of us carries a camera around daily that has more capability for high
quality photography than was available 20 years ago in high end
equipment. The digital era and the cell phone has made photographers
out of all of us.
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| Larva crawling out of a grey headed coneflower seed head after the seeds were removed. |
Here is a challenge to our Springfield Plateau MN
members. Email me your favorite nature pictures for a future show of
Best Shots. You can pick them for beauty, unusual subject or just an
interesting discovery you made as above. We will all be winners.
