April Challenge is Something Floating in Water

[Steve Foss]

This male bufflehead certainly doesn't seem to be bothered by a little rain in the eye, especially when he has to keep his attention on an eagle flying overhead.

Canon 30D, Canon 400 f5.6L, manual exposure, iso400, 1/500 at f5.6, monopod

[mmeyer]

Paul, that's pretty neat. I like it.

Steve, I love the texture of the water with the rain coming down. That's a great capture.

[dockothebay]

Great shots this month - Congratulations and Thanks to all you talented folks! These Challenge threads really get you thinking -

The Hitchhiker

Canon 30D; 1/200; f/5.6; 105mm; ISO 400 + Steve's advice from one of the first posts in this thread re: reflections on water!

Cropped @ 30%

C & C welcome -

[Dbl]

Nice group of shots. Steve that is a cool capture looking up. dockothebay many things floating in water, the spider and the bobber!

Thanks for including EXIF info in these shots as well except for......

[Steve Foss]

Geez! I went back and put in the exif.

[Dbl]

 Originally Posted By: stfcatfish

Geez! I went back and put in the exif.

LOL

[mmeyer]

Dockothebay, I like that shot. Pretty cool comp.

[MARINERMAGNUM]

I watched this whirlpool in a flooded ditch where it entered a culvert and saw this guy heading toward it. I couldn't help but wonder if this plastic guy had taken a life last fall and now mother nature is about to exact some revenge and take his daylight view and turn it forever murky.

What goes around comes around.

He went around about twice

Canon 30D,70-200L F2.8 IS,AV 2.8,1600 TV,ISO 100

[Steve Foss]

Nice one, MM. I like the theme and the attitude!

[Dave S]

 Originally Posted By: MARINERMAGNUM

He went around about twice

Maybe 2 birds with one shot?

[LeeKen]

With all the ice and snow, the idea I had is still frozen.

Frozen like these two sturgeon fishermen on the Rainy. This was from Saturday, during the storm. The snow let up enough so I could see them for just a few minutes.

canon XTi 70-300 f4-5.6 IS f8, 1/500, iso 400

[Dbl]

I thought the challenge was something floating in water...not ice!!!! Nice job! I hope you caught a few fish for your troubles.

[DonBo]

This was a harder challenge than I thought. You guys set the bar pretty high. Beautiful day today at the Gervais Mill Pond in Little Canada.

He may not be actually "floating" but he was just after this shot.

Shot with a Sony DSC-H2.

[Dark Cloud]

I was doing some flyfishing today and took a bunch of pictures - fish and scenery. Took this low angle scenery picture and when I got home noticed the hendrickson dun floating by in the picture...

[Dbl]

I ran out of time (7 minutes to go on this one) so I will use a shot from earlier in the month that I didn't post from Cincinnati. Lights.. reflections...floating on water.

EXIF is F8, ISO100, manual mode, 2sec exposure. 70-200/2.8 at 70mm.