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Nour El Refai (K:12481)
11/22/2005 11:28:06 PM
Hey Steve, i've been into wildlife lately, so the only one came in mind is you to learn from your portfolio, this is amazing, the lens is the f2.8??
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Rashed Abdulla (K:163889)
11/22/2005 7:32:37 PM
very creative,so plesent to view,a great original job been made here.very best regards.
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Marusnik Bela (K:11611)
11/22/2005 7:06:32 PM
Fine composition, very good reflection photo, beauty dark tones.Congrats!
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Roberto Arcari Farinetti (K:209486)
11/22/2005 6:46:28 PM
fine steve.. i love the natural shot..
oustanding macro and colors-contast!
cheers
roby
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Mort Gage (K:2743)
11/22/2005 6:26:28 PM
very pretty.
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Branimir Fagarazzi (K:38367)
11/22/2005 6:22:13 PM
Nice
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Marcus Armani (K:36599)
11/21/2005 8:30:42 PM
Nice colors and dedication to you favorite photographer, I really dislike frogs though, but give yourself an award....
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Kunal Mehta (K:2496)
11/18/2005 10:55:39 PM
What a image. Beautiful bird and very well captured.
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Sam Kh (K:19017)
11/14/2005 11:20:29 AM
you have written very useful information and your pic is so great.you were good luck that are alive now 
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Steve Kaufman (K:2748)
11/12/2005 6:50:45 PM
I did know that these little guys had toxins, but I was surprised when my lips and tongue turned numb. One note of interest: if poison dart frogs are kept in captivity (zoos) they lose their toxic compounds. Apparently the toxins come from food they eat, and lacking their natural foods, they also lose the toxins.
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Ann Nida (K:45248)
11/12/2005 4:04:04 PM
This is amazing. They are almost like little carpenters sawing through the leaf. The colours are stunning and the detail is superb. Wonderful image. Cheers - Ann
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Ann Nida (K:45248)
11/12/2005 4:00:51 PM
I know I shouldn't chuckle at the story but I can't get past you perspiring. Coming from Alaska anywhere else in the world would be hot. What a wonderful little froggy to find to photograph. So much colour. I guess you should have consulted with Yamil beofre shooting this one then he could have warned you about the toxicity. I love this and into my favourites it goes.
Oh by the way....I don't know how far your interest in aviation goes but I've posted a couple of shots of the Space Shuttle Discovery you might be interested in. More for subject matter than photographic quality.
Cheers - Ann
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Steve Kaufman (K:2748)
11/11/2005 2:48:54 PM
Jim, I've been in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge a number of times. My wife has a mountain named for her there (Mount Mary). Her father spent time there in the early 50's doing research for two books he wrote, birds of the arctic and mammals of the arctic. He named several geographic features for his daughter, son, and wife. ANWR is a beautiful area, but it is quite costly to go there, as you must charter a plane (roundtrip around $5-6000), I'd be happy to give you any advice. Contact me directly: steve@naturephotography.net
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Lee Harris (K:14694)
11/11/2005 1:14:28 PM
This is a very good shot and a very nice for Yamil, I'm sure this put a smile on his face.
Thank you for the about....very interesting...I most likely would have been scared to even pick it up.
Steve thank you for the recent Staff Choice, never made the front page so it didn't get any extra attention buy that is ok, just having a shot recognized by you was very nice.
I'm leaving uf after this weekend and this award did mean allot to me.
Wishing you the very best.
Lee
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Seyed Babak Musavi (K:496)
11/11/2005 12:28:29 PM
Dear Steve
Very nice shot , What a beautiful color with many detail!
very well done.
Babak
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murat TASBASI (K:1352)
11/11/2005 10:13:43 AM
Hi Steva
Superb capture
Excellent photo
Congrats
Murat
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murat TASBASI (K:1352)
11/11/2005 10:07:51 AM
Hi Steve
Superb macro photograph
Congrats
Murat
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Jim Goldstein (K:21230)
11/11/2005 7:21:34 AM
Great background story. Rather comical on one hand and rather alarming on the other. Beautiful shot.
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Jim Goldstein (K:21230)
11/11/2005 7:20:02 AM
Steve fantastic image. The composition and saturation are incredible. The detail and sharpness of this image is impressive.
On a side note I'm tinkering with the idea of visiting ANWR. Ever been? I'm assuming you have. If you're around maybe I can hit you up for some advice on the area via email.
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AlZahraa Sulie (K:7255)
11/11/2005 6:21:50 AM
wow Extraordinary colors !
its so beautiful
well seen and well captured Steve!
7+++
cheers,
Z.S
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Eric Goldwasser (K:4294)
11/11/2005 3:22:56 AM
Wow Steve! Not only is this a great shot, but also a good cautionary tale! :-)
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Yamil Saenz (K:12434)
11/11/2005 1:53:01 AM
Great capture Steve.
Leaf Cutter Ants are another icon of the Neotropics.
They grow a fungus on the leaf material they collect. These guys are also among the major contributors to the nutrient cycling in the rainforest.
Very nice dof, colours and details.
Take care.
Yamil
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Yamil Saenz (K:12434)
11/11/2005 1:26:36 AM
This is so kind of you Steve.
Thank you very much for dedicating this beautiful image to me.
Superb bright colors and dof. I really like it.
The texture is so impressive that I can almost feel it. But I am afraid to touch her because I know they are poisonous.
These charming little guys are among the most charismatic, photographed and representative animals from Costa Rica. You can almost see them in every brochure. But yours is better than most the shots that I have seem. I will include this one among my favorites.
Plese take a look to my Dendrobates pumilio
http://www.usefilm.com/image/773172.html
I love them and hope to find them next time I visit my country.
Scientist believes that heir toxic skin and warning coloration may have evolved as antipredator mechanisms. (Janzen D, 1983).
For those UF interested, La Selva is a 3,900 acres of tropical wet forest. One of the OTS (Organization for Tropical Studies) biological stations located in the Caribbean slopes. It?s truly a paradise for nature lovers. Steve, I am glad you visited this spot.
This preserve was originally established in 1954 by Dr. Leslie Holdridge, as a farm dedicated to experimentation on mixed plantations for the improvement of natural resources management. It was purchased in 1968 by the Organization for Tropical Studies and declared a private biological reserve and station. Since then, it has become one of the most important sites in the world for research on tropical rain forest. Over 240 scientific papers are published yearly from research conducted at the site.
http://www.ots.duke.edu/en/laselva/
Steve thanks again for this wonderful shot. It means a lot to me.
Take care and hope to see more of your images.
Yamil
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Nour El Refai (K:12481)
11/10/2005 9:57:15 PM
ohhh my god, a reward winning image, colors are soo beautiful in this macro
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Teresa Moore (K:11063)
11/10/2005 9:21:14 PM
Wow, how brave you are. What we won't do to get that perfect shot. And you did! Beautiful macro, with excellent color and detail. Very nice work.
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Mireille Heirendt (K:7258)
11/10/2005 8:57:21 PM
and another amazing capture with great details and colours!!!
M.
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Mireille Heirendt (K:7258)
11/10/2005 8:54:28 PM
Wow! dangerous capture with a stunning result nonetheless: excellent composition, great colours and details.
Mireille
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Steve Kaufman (K:2748)
11/6/2005 4:04:06 PM
Lee, when I bought my first D2X, I was extremely disappointed with Nikon to want me to buy a $100 program to convert raw photos from a new $5000 camera. But, at that time, no other raw converter was available for D2X files. I bought Nikon Capture, and was even more disappointed when it brought my G4 laptop to it's knees when I tried to browse more than 30 files at one time. Bibble soon came out, and I found it to be much faster than NC, and it worked with larger folders of files, and batch processed fairly well. I bought Bibble, and waited eagerly for Adobe to make Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) work for NEF's. When Photoshop CS2 came out, they said it supported D2X NEF's, but as it turned out, it did not read the white balance as set by the camera. Now ACR2 does read the white balance. ACR works much faster than NC, and for most subjects I find the Tiff files it produces to be good. In some cases though, NC or Bibble seem to do a better job. I think basically what it comes down to is you'll still need to do some work on some images using any program. NC is the slowest of the programs I've tried/purchased. Bibble is very good, but I'm just not used to the interface. I had been using Photoshop with ACR for the past year, and knew that program the best, so naturally it's the one I still prefer to process the majority of my D2X files.
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Lee Harris (K:14694)
11/5/2005 6:11:46 PM
Hi Steve
I'm curious if you have found a alternative to the Nikon Software.
I've had my D2X now for a couple months and I shoot mostly in raw and at almost 20 meg per image it is a task in itself to go thru my images.
I have beefed up my Pc and that did help but still very time consuming.
Any tips ?
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Seyed Babak Musavi (K:496)
11/5/2005 8:37:59 AM
Dear Steve
We have also Red necked phalarope in Iran ( Winter visitor ). but your photo is very nice and beautiful .
Babak
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