The best camera in the world...

[shmn]

In fact, before looking closely, the distortion on the background trees look like floating smoke in the field between, and adds to the eerie blues in the large evergreen, left of center, in the first shot.

Actually, that is not distortion but early morning mist...so your initial observation was correct. Thanks for the comments.

 

[EarlyMon]

Ah! From the temperature I was guessing evening, I'm less accustomed to woodlands and greenery anymore.

A second look and I can see from the sky where I went wrong.

Thanks for clarifying!

 

[MoodyBlues]

I was heading out to the patio yesterday, with my camera hanging from my neck as usual when I do that, and as soon as I opened the sliding glass door (screen still closed), this is what appeared:

It's a peafowl feeding frenzy about to happen!

 

[Kaat72]

It's a peafowl feeding frenzy about to happen!

You know we want to see what happened next, right?

I love making snap shots
Took these just now on my way home after work, around lunchtime. Autumn had set in and the weather is changing rapidly. Sun, cloudy, rains. This is a man made lake in a park nearby.

 

[MoodyBlues]

You know we want to see what happened next, right?

Here are a couple, although not from that same day:

Instead of posting a million pics in this thread, I'll post some blog links people can view at will.

Baby peacocks in my yard
First peacock chicks of 2013
Parade of peacock chicks
Partially white peacock in my yard

 

[breadnatty08]

Pizza Tuesday!
Apple, fennel, fontina, pine nuts and tarragon (awesome!)
Tomatoes, carmelized onions, fresh mozz, parm, pepperoni.

 

[Clementine_3]

Went on a ghost tour of the NY State Capital tonight. The stone workers left all sorts of carvings everywhere, one worker said he left a curse behind.
This is sort of up high and I cropped it a lot but it sure looks like a good curse to me!

Really, really cropped, because it's cool. And, for a phone camera this didn't do so bad!

 

[nickdalzell]

Some more of Daisy

 

[Clementine_3]

Another from tonight.

 

[saptech]

I just took this on the way home from work this morning. I was passing a cemetary and snapped this with dawn breaking and misty fog!

 

[nickdalzell]

Why, hello there!

 

[EarlyMon]

Here's a curb.

It's really nice.

Ummm... Why??

 

[general eclect]

Curb that thought. Did you think of trying kerb?

 

[EarlyMon]

Oh? Another American English difference - I didn't know about that one.

Here, one can curb thoughts or park at the curb.

 

[Clementine_3]

Here's a curb.

It's really nice.

Ummm... Why??

I like it, it has curb appeal.

 

[breadnatty08]

Banana bread (with walnuts and dried cherries).

 

[Clementine_3]

Hold the nuts when you make my loaf

 

[breadnatty08]

Eh, it was a sorta kitchen sink recipe. Had a ton of bananas in the freezer waiting to be made into bread; found some walnuts and dried cherries and though, why not?
Still cooling but smells delicious.

 

[huh]

Just found this on my kitchen floor.. Yes those dots are blood spatter. Found nothing else! Just a few feathers and some small dots of blood that don't lead to anywhere!!! Guess this is a case for CSI special pet victims unit ...:0
Where is the bird man..... :0

????? WHERE IS THE BIRD???????

 

[Revenant Ghost]

Just found this on my kitchen floor.. Yes those dots are blood spatter. Found nothing else! Just a few feathers and some small dots of blood that don't lead to anywhere!!! Guess this is a case for CSI special pet victims unit ...:0
Where is the bird man..... :0

Spoiler

????? WHERE IS THE BIRD???????

Oh boy, here we go again...

PET SEMATARY 4:
WRATH OF THE BIRDS​

 

[sfbloodbrother]

Took these with my Nexus 7. One of the clubs at my college are raising awareness for homelessness, so they are sleeping outside the campus for the weekend to raise money.

 

[saptech]

Here's a curb.

It's really nice.

Ummm... Why??

I've finally figured it out, it's for the Roadrunners!

 

[EarlyMon]

lol

And the other side of the road and other direction was just as blank.

Wait until I get back to show you what I found 10 miles north of that!

 

[MoodyBlues]

I've learned a lot about peafowl since moving back home [to SoCal], and one of those things is that males mutilate their own necks. I wouldn't have believed it had I not seen it with my own eyes. The first time I saw a bald area on a peacock's neck I assumed it was a battle scar. Nope. They do it to themselves. Here's the most extreme case I've ever seen; he showed up in my yard recently, and these are from yesterday:

In some of the other pics I took, blood is very visible on his beak. HIS blood...

 

[EarlyMon]