Nature...Backyard and Beyond

**Mike S** · 29 June 2005, 05:06 PM

Ok this is easy take any picture related to nature in your backyard or beyond. Nature can be anything from bugs to amnimals to weather anything at all other than people. (we dont want to get sued now do we) these were beyond my backyard they were across the street. but i took them from the backyard.

http://thenetbuys.com/coppermine/alb...001/daisys.jpg

**Crow Haven** · 29 June 2005, 07:38 PM

http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif Cool pic, Mike, those are pretty across the road!
Well, then, here's some tidal pool sea creatures I took a pic of while in NZ...waaay beyond my backyard...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...goaquarium.jpg
http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif

**Mike S** · 30 June 2005, 05:26 AM

Maya if there is one thing io love more than space and stars and you hit it head on. i love sea life! all these were in one tidal pool?? great shot !

Mike
unofficial president of the Maya fan club http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif

**AntonM** · 30 June 2005, 10:19 AM

The colours are amazing, Maya!

**John Rayner** · 30 June 2005, 04:53 PM

Rich was taking pictures of sea life until a wave took him and his 'spensive camera for a swim... Now I think he just does bugs...

**Crow Haven** · 30 June 2005, 08:23 PM

http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif You guys are so funny! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif Thanks too, Anton http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif -- the tidal pool was down at the Otago Harbor (Dunedin, NZ)...the creatures are native to those waters and there is a marine laboratory and aquarium there. There are large outdoor holding pools with sea water circulated from the area and all sorts of fishes, etc. There's indoor displays and huge tanks also. http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/smile.gif
Here's a pic of the Otago Harbor area...there's an albatross colony down at one end also...they even have yellow eyed penguins.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...harbor2_sm.jpg

Okay here's another of the Otago penninsula, NZ taken with the help of a friend I met there, Heather Wilson http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...eatherw_sm.jpg
...and here's one of the fishes on display at the lab, a moki...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...iumfish_md.jpg
...they also have the most beautiful abalone species, the paua, found only in NZ, here's a shell found on the beach....
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...abalone_sm.jpg
...and at Moeraki beach there's these amazing huge round boulders..concretions of mud fallen right out of the hillsides and found scattered around the beach...I've got some closeups of the boulders I'll post after I reduce the pics in file size...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...erakibeach.jpg
http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif
Here's one of the boulder's insides after being fragmented...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...ragmentsmr.jpg

**Mike S** · 30 June 2005, 09:19 PM

Forget it i am not gonna say wow great pics Maya. cause if i say wow great pics Maya your head will swell up and you wont be able to go outside and take care of the kids! so i wont say wow great pics. is that ok if i dont say wow great pics or will you get upset?

i better say it i dont want you to get offended if i ignore your pics. so here it goes

WOW great pics Maya! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif