Awesome shots everyone!
Yetibuddha....you get the courage of the year award for that bear shot, well done!

@Yeti: There seem to be a lot of white specks in your shot - particularly to the left of the bears head - ?

@TheChemist: Is that the Trout Inn beside the infant Thames?

Was in Yellowstone last week for a few days. This is the largest black bear I have ever enountered.
Brown colored black bear, Yellowstone:

D700, 300mm F4 with TC 1.7

Really cool colours in the shot, @Thechemist

The Öxará river immediately below the waterfall Öxarárfoss, at Þingvellir

D7000 - AF-S 24mm f/1.4G - f/8 - ISO 100 - 1/200sec

Found myself without my tripod - couldn't really pass this up, so just trialing photomatix to HDR it - recommendations for free alternatives gladly accepted!

Shot on a canal in Oxfordshire, it was pretty much pitch black so handheld I had to bump the ISO a bit on my poor D5000!

Rocco said:
My first post and it worked!!!

Congratulations.... Welcome to NRF PAD!

My first post and it worked!!!

@Pierre - Nice butterfly!

Queens day in the Netherlands. Smack an Egg :)

@studio460... love this clean stuff.... and all the nice ones on PAD. Documentary/street people are my favorites.. I will jump in today with this one...

Thanks for the kind words, guys!

Nikon D800; AF-S Nikkor 24mm f/1.4G; ISO: 100; f/8 @ 2/5th second.

@studio460 : Great shot, it really gives me that urge to drive down it at high speed
@El_Pickerel : oh man, you give me the urge to fly to somewhere cold. Pretty sure the mercury is at 35c today.
@Regulator : Join the dark side, haha.

For today : An anon at the rally on Sat. I think the rally is all over the news by now =/

El_Pickerel, the last pic you posted on the last page reminded me of the snowy battle scene in "The Empire Strikes Back" then lo and behold Regulator75 posts the pic above. Freaky.

Here's one I posted on another board but don't think I did here.

D7000, Rokinon 14mm f/2.8, 1 of my daughters. Shutter speed was like 1/20 so I got a little motion blur in her feet.

msmoto said:
Just a note to posters on PAD. I like to go to Flickr and see the huge files... 2000x2000 or even larger. Some of the stuff posted here is so nice, to see it super sized is even better.....so, now I have said it...

I wouldn't mind posting bigger but I do not have a paied account and I have limits on size and number of visible pictures I am allowed. I already have 3 different accounts. Beside, my Internet uplink is rather tiny and shared with my wife that takes most of it so full size all the time is rather prohibitive.

Also, there are charks out-there and posting full size basically means abandonning copyright rigts.

I am sure others are in the same position and have the same concerns.

If you have specific requests, I will be glad to put it.

@Bland - I love how you captured that car... the movement in the rear tires is incredible.
@soldado - Some real character in those VWs!
@studio460 - Really like the tunnel capture.

NSXType-R said:
Are you still in that area? You could have gone to B and H, they probably would have let you test one.

Nay, plus I think they are closed on Saturdays. I was with friends, and dinner was between two halves of a dance, and getting back to the dance was somewhat more exciting than testing out lenses. Crazy, right?

Just a note to posters on PAD. I like to go to Flickr and see the huge files... 2000x2000 or even larger. Some of the stuff posted here is so nice, to see it super sized is even better.....so, now I have said it... Thanks, Tommie

And, the posts here get better all the time. I am still worrying about El_Pikerel falling into a crevice under that snow.... unless you had a couple folks and were tethered....

The butterflies.....OMG for sure.....

Let me see if I can find an old VW bus somewhere......

Alright, something similar to the previous one.

One of my favorites from the VW show yesterday.

Pierre, your Butterfly is amazing! Which lens did you use?

El_Pickerel, the way you are discribing the Iceland scene is so real. Thanks for sharing all those incredible shots.

Started the month with a powerplant, thought I should finish with one as well. Again, no political statement, its all about photos.

Jürgen

The tires looks like they are made of fabric Bland, perhaps lots of weight in the trunk.

Thanks msmoto.

Edit for Juergen: D700, Nikkor 105mm macro.

SquamishPhoto said:
That one is awesome, studio! Score another one for the d800! :)

Gee, thanks!

msmoto said:
@studio460.... how about posting one of these on Flickr at around 8-10 MB size so we can really take a look....? I would like to see how the D800 looks in real life with a 20" x 30" posting on Flickr. Thanks

No problem, as soon as I re-wire the CAT6 to my main computer (100' cable run through the entire length of the house just broke at the router). All I have now is a POS netbook, which I can't really do anything with but browse the web.