MOTW - Jul 1 - Jul 7 - Uncle Chester

[UncleChester]

Jen may still be busy with vacation prep (the lucky girl), so following in the footsteps of Hercules I'm going to move on to today's labour. Tomorrow I clean out the stables, but today:

Wednesday, show and tell. Wow us with your pictures/videos/sound clips.

Some of these will be repeats for those of you who looked through my flickr stream or my albums here.
My frogs (Click to enlarge):

Tyr:


Bamf, Fatty, and Waldo:


I've recently become interested in trying to make triptychs, 3 images that are taken in the same style as one another, like the 3 frogs above. Here's a dragonfly one (apologies that the forum software decided to recompress both triptychs and butcher the quality. The same goes for everything here really, I don't know why the software feels the need to mess with pictures in some cases making them simultaneously larger and poorer quality):


An ongoing project is to get photos of all our native amphibians calling (and eventually their other 'standard' and non-standard behaviors). I've made some decent inroads this spring (though the Gray Treefrog below is an old one of Waldo). The leopard frog below is giving a release call, but it's much funnier than the ones I have of their advertisement calls so here it is:



I'm not really big on entering photo contests, but I have entered 2 national (Canadian) competitions to date, so I'm going to brag about them. The Peeper on the left came in 2nd in the 2010 Outdoor Photography Canada Fall Macro contest and I won a little tripod. The Peeper on the right hit an honourable mention in the 2011 Canadian Geographic Wildlife Photography of the Year contest and I won a $1 coin in a fancy plastic case that makes it hard to fit in a vending machine or split with the Peeper as a modeling fee. I have good luck with peepers I guess!

[UncleChester]

Now, for the real Wednesday, show and tell. Wow us with your pictures/videos/sound clips.

You beat me by 2 minutes while I was still typing

Jen may still be busy with vacation prep (the lucky girl), so following in the footsteps of Hercules I'm going to move on to today's labour. Tomorrow I clean out the stables, but today:

Wednesday, show and tell. Wow us with your pictures/videos/sound clips.

[Jenste]

I got up to do the post - first day of vacation =P

Love your photos! You have a real talent with the camera!

[UncleChester]

I got up to do the post - first day of vacation =P

Love your photos! You have a real talent with the camera!

Thanks! Enjoy your vacation

As for me, it looks like I'm getting off easy for Thursday:

Thursday, answer any questions posted to you regarding your threads on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Other members can use this opportunity to pick your brain. (All questions must be appropriate and related to topics of discussion.)