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Images For Conservation Photo Contest   RSS
30 day nature photo contest in the Hill Country of Texas, West of San Antonio, sponsored by Images For Conservation Fund, an organization formed to bring together private landowners and nature photographers ( www.imagesforconservation.org ) Purpose is to show the natural beauty of flora and fauna on the ranches within the Hill Country in Texas. 17 nature photographers were selected and each had their own ranch to photograph nature for all 30 days of April 2006. Awards were announced in June with my submissions placing 4th among the 17 entries in 5 categories: mammals, scenics, insects, reptiles, and birds. No images could be submitted of nonnative species or people or manmade objects. In addition to the 75 images submitted, included here are additional images of ranch owners and ranch.

After the photo contest, I wrote a cover story for Naturescapes.net, an online nature magazine, detailing my experience photographing nature on the ranch during one of the driest Aprils on record. To read the story go to: www.alperry.com/files/Naturescapes.pdf
       
    
 RayofhopeUnited States wrote: Thursday, August 3, 2006 - 11:05 AM

Fantastic shot. As the years roll on, fewer and fewer photos have the ability to surprise me. This is one that brought an "oh wow" from me. I don't believe I've ever seem anything like it before.

 RayofhopeUnited States wrote: Thursday, August 3, 2006 - 10:59 AM

LOL - and he knows just where to wait for the fly.
As usual I'm over awed by your photography. Just a wonderful album. Please keep posting them.

 ♣ enarcadie ♣United States wrote: Friday, July 28, 2006 - 2:02 AM

wow!!!!

 ♣ enarcadie ♣United States wrote: Friday, July 28, 2006 - 2:02 AM

fantastic...by the time i'm done i'll only be able to give one or two letter comments...so if you see "fa" it means fantastic or fabulous...i'm becoming speechless! :-)

 ♣ enarcadie ♣United States wrote: Friday, July 28, 2006 - 2:00 AM

precious!

 ♣ enarcadie ♣United States wrote: Friday, July 28, 2006 - 1:59 AM

what a beauty!

 ♣ enarcadie ♣United States wrote: Friday, July 28, 2006 - 1:58 AM

what, no pics of a rattlesnake bungee jumping?!? :-)

 ♣ enarcadie ♣United States wrote: Friday, July 28, 2006 - 1:57 AM

that's it, have had it, i'm not looking at any more of your pics, it's too much. LOL
a stunner!

 ♣ enarcadie ♣United States wrote: Friday, July 28, 2006 - 1:55 AM

a little more clarity...you know, these are just not perfect enough! LOL

 ♣ enarcadie ♣United States wrote: Friday, July 28, 2006 - 1:54 AM

looks like a match sticking out from a bunch of mini-banans! LOL

 ♣ enarcadie ♣United States wrote: Friday, July 28, 2006 - 1:54 AM

humbling

 ♣ enarcadie ♣United States wrote: Friday, July 28, 2006 - 1:53 AM

and one more "stunning" for the record :-)

 ♣ enarcadie ♣United States wrote: Friday, July 28, 2006 - 1:52 AM

how "wide" is this lens? :-)
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Not that wide, I would have to go back and look at the exif data, but I believe it is about 40mm.

Al Perry

 ♣ enarcadie ♣United States wrote: Friday, July 28, 2006 - 1:52 AM

and again

 ♣ enarcadie ♣United States wrote: Friday, July 28, 2006 - 1:51 AM

look at that light! wow

 ♣ enarcadie ♣United States wrote: Friday, July 28, 2006 - 1:51 AM

oh my, breathtaking again...between the spiders and the vistas, you should hand out meds here! first for depression, then to sedate before the close-ups and finally, something for the heart when it stops with these views! :-)

 ♣ enarcadie ♣United States wrote: Friday, July 28, 2006 - 1:49 AM

beautiful

 ♣ enarcadie ♣United States wrote: Friday, July 28, 2006 - 1:49 AM

he's gorgeous!!!

 ♣ enarcadie ♣United States wrote: Friday, July 28, 2006 - 1:49 AM

ok, one needs heart medication for this! :-)
FANTASTIC!!!! i never saw a spider this close!

 ♣ enarcadie ♣United States wrote: Friday, July 28, 2006 - 1:48 AM

whoa! i jumped back from the screen...not a cuddly critter in my book...but the photo's great