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!