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Beautiful shots, Sury. Thanks for sharing--this is on my bucket list. But I start getting altitude sickness after a day above 8,000 feet. I don't know how long I'd last at 22,000 feet, so thanks for the warning

These photos were taken in Yellowstone National Park at the end of May, 2012, just after the most recent snows had melted. At this time of year, males and females are in separate herds. 1. Male bighorn in new spring grass. (Females have short, spiky horns.) http://cubit.smugmug.com/Other/Yellowstone...

Very nice. Your riders are much cleaner and better dressed than the ones I photograph. (Yours haven't been dragged through a muddy rodeo arena by an angry bronco.... ) You have the panning down to perfection. I particularly like the first of the racing shots--the part with the rider staring into the...

I first saw these animals when I was about 12 years old--in 1956--when the first big interstate highways were being completed across the U.S. My family was driving through the rolling hill prairies of the western U.S., and a herd of about 50 pronghorn (aka antelope) ran en masse in the grassland alo...

In the U.S. many of the college photography classes force students to start with film. Makes no sense to me. But I just donated big loads of Minolta and Nikon film gear plus a wide array of manual focus lenses to the film departments of two colleges. The departments loan the equipment to students. I...

Some great oldies there Dennis, check the Oldsmobile, wow I never knew that GM made something as ghastly as that, love the Mustang. Greg Hey Greg, All the American cars in 1958 were just as "ghastly." Loaded with chrome, they were among the heaviest ever made. I figure it must have been t...

Hi Dennis, Living in Southern California, I'm no stranger to car shows featuring these same models--but I have never seen a car show featuring rusty ones. I like it. You did a good job of capturing a phenomenon I would have never guessed as existing in Sweden. Thanks for sharing both the event and t...

Pronghorn--commonly called antelope--are one of my favorite mammals. Thanks to the help of local residents, I found these animals peacefully grazing in an isolated area outside the Yellowstone Park boundaries, where they were unperturbed by the crowds of tourists and wildlife paparazzi who are ever...

Nice composition and colors. Nice Rembrandtian chiaroscuro effect on the second. The painterly pp is not intrusive.

Some quick background: With its abundant mega-wildlife, Yellowstone National Park is called the Serengeti of America and attracts more than 3 million visitors per year. This includes thousands of serious photographers from all over the world. When they saw the coyote roaming through the distant sage...

1. Fishing gear, Dutch Harbor, Unalaska Island, Alaska (in the Aleutian Islands). http://cubit.smugmug.com/Other/Storage-2/i-zbkQRk7/0/XL/Unalaska-June-2005-291-gear-XL.jpg 2. Aukuu (Hawaiian black-crowned night heron) on Oahu, Hawaii. http://cubit.smugmug.com/Nature/Misc/i-QZPjnNJ/0/XL/Night-Heron-...

Nice shot, Mike. Nice light, nice subject, nice context with the background. Nice surprise, too (something I would expect in India, but not Morocco). I have read explanations that snake charmers are never bitten because the snakes focus on the moving horn and the charmers maintain a safe distance be...

The sharpness on the front bird in #2 is amazing. I never get anything that sharp. JB, Getting sharp shots of flying birds is not as difficult as it may seem. The main things to do are: 1. Use shutter speed priority. 2. Always use a shutter speed of 1/2000th or higher, no matter how high you have t...

The side-lighting and well-chosen exposure time of the half-moon nicely shows the craters, and the steady camera work kept the image crisp. Nice images, Dennis.
---John

Dr. Harout wrote:All are exceptional shots, superb.
EXIF shows 420mm, what lens is it? Any teleconverter used?

Thanks, Dr. Harout. They were shot with a Minolta 300mm f4 + 1.4 teleconverter on a Sony A900 (full frame sensor).