Wow, that looks like something you'd see in Nat'l Geo. Really lovely! (although I was scanning for dragons)

Hi, hon! Nope, no dragons in this one, just a simple, Earthly piccy of a very pretty contrast between gulls and reflected sunset. Though, now that you mention it, those gulls could so easily be tweaked...

Beautiful, utterly beautiful.

There's a kind of golden light you only seem to get out on the Pacific coast. Maybe it's that huge, almost endless expanse of water stretching so far beyond the horizon.

*looks at the picture again and sighs* There's a kind of... longing in that image. Loneliness, desire. Hope, too.

Very, very beautiful, my _niHan. *purrrs deeply and hugs the opal dragoness very close, nuzzling and nibbling*

Thak you, hon! *huggles* I've seen that golden light on the Plains, too, especially before a big rainstorm, or after a large wild-fire... Particulates in the atmosphere can make for some brilliant sunsets. There had been some big fires, around then- it was wild-fire season in Cali at the time. I have about twenty pix like this one- I'm going through them, now to pick out the best.

beautiful sunset
nice clouds

the one thing i miss about calif the ability to go out and sit down look out over the ocean

I can't really lay claim to the image- Nature provided that! It was certainly pretty that evening. It's not always that vibrant, but wow, that night was a block-buster for colour and textures. I hope to get more images like this, now that I'm finally figuring out what the various settings on the camera are for. *chuckles*

that is a winner that one is the fold out picture they have in national geographic

Woo! If I ever get that good... Yummy! I'm working on it, though. Mwahahahaaaaa... *tries to look evil... fails*

its that sweet nice icon your using LOL

*giggle* Yeah, maybe I should go back to my "Evil Murrah in the window" icon...

I'd have sat there till all the light had gone, beautiful.

We did! Then I ran out of image slots in my camera... That little glitch has now been solved via a new memory-card KaniS gave me for Yule: a whole 16GB of room. I can take over 1200 images in full RAW format without cringing about losing a potentially good one. RAW format is huge- they can be up to 35MB in size. EACH.

Hmmm, mine doesn't seem to saw in raw format. Just 4MB ish jpg's....and your memory card is twice as big as mine. You win this round

Oh, I'm nowhere near to being a professional! I'm still learning how to use that camera properly... Depending on the model, your camera may hve RAW format on it- check through the settings menu- you'll find it in there, if your camera has it. There's one format I'd love to have, and that's a Macro setting- you can take the coolest close-up pix with that...

Mines got macro settings, two of them. I took some awesome frosty leave photos a while ago, but i don't like to up to many photos as i mainly colour pictures.

I love taking pictures, for every.......err...100 pictures i get one really good one, but that's the advantage of digital

It's a good camera but i couldn't find anything even mentioning jpg let alone raw.....time to google it and find some specs.

Yup... I don't know much about cameras, myself, but I'm currently using my fiancee's Canon Eos Digital Rebel XT. Mid-range, as far as quality, but pretty good for a lot of things. Sounds like you might be getting more good pics than I am! I might be willing to show off maybe one out of two or three hundred, myself. Out of well over a thousand, I've only posted maybe four...

Nothing wrong with posting photography here. if there was, there wouldn't be a photography section in the submissions pages! Doesn't have to furry-related, either.

I started taking a lot of photos 'cuz I kept seeing all this beautiful landscape that I wanted to paint and use in my illustrations. My memory is kinda lousy, so I wanted references, basically. Now some are just too pretty on their own not to post them as themselves.

I've got nothing against people uploading pictures, it's just i spend a lot of time doing colourations for people. So for me it feels like cheating just to up my submission count. I usually send them straight to scraps, not coz they're rubbish but just to keep them separate.

I've started taking photographs to use as backgrounds for some pics. Although that's only really been successfully once.

My camera has amazing features and 12times zoom!! That's mainly why i bought it, cost me £130 ish so it's a cheap ish one.

I remember buying my first 3MP for three times that years ago, the pictures look rubbish now.

Gonna check out your other pictures now

(sorry about lots of talking, alcohol and new year just passing have made me chatty)

No worries! I'd actually forgotten the usual mode of celebration! Heh. I'm just working on art, as usual. Hope you find stuff in my gallery enjoyable!

Just browsed through it and commented on a couple, you draw as well. That was a nice surprise

I forced myself to work on a picture, i fancy starting and ending this year with artwork(well, colourations).

Have a great start to the year

Thank you! I do a lot of odd things: make clothes, costumes, poetry and prose, even a little music, along with the illustration and photography you've already seen. I'm what's called a polymath- I do many things fairly competantly, if not well.

Which ones did you comment on? Just curious- 'cuz nothing's shown up in my comments pages. Have an awesome year for you, too!

I commented on these in addition to the ones you found

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1571910/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1682827/

Sweet! I managed to find one of them- so odd that the notifications didn't show up for the other. Don't get it.

It's happened to me before, maybe FA is going senile?

Who knows? It shouldn't be, after all the cash-injections and new servers... Dragoneer was supposedly putting one of the old servers back online recently- maybe it's the "won't-shake-hands" bug again?

Could be, maybe there's a bit of jealousy between the servers

Bahamut's apparently a grumpy old thing... Me, I know squat about stuff like this. When I need to know some computer thing, I go bug my Mate- he's the IT guy.

I'm okay with normal pc building etc. but not to server levels.

Bring in the furry tech guys for that

Thus, people like Kanis will never be unemployed- he's a tech, programmer and all around nerdy brain. A lovable nerdy brain.

oooh, pretty ^_^

Thank you, hon! It was a very pretty evening! I only took a picture of it. Heh.