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This was taken in the Florida Everglades. It looks more menacing than it is. The alligators don't typically try for Anhingas unless they're starving. Still, I feel the framing tells the story I wanted it to. Interesting note, I took this with a 100mm lens and it's uncropped. I'm like 5 foot from the bird and 10 from the gator.

Also I completely fail at posting images in note threads anymore. They never show.

I'm not a big Flickr user (heck, I'd not even noticed I had a "Popular" page, so thanks for that!). Here's my #1:

Kiwis are ordinarily strictly nocturnal. In April '07 on Kapiti Island (about 45 min north of Wellington, New Zealand's capital) we were lucky enough to see by day Apteryx owenii, the Little Spotted Kiwi—the rarest type (only about 1600 are left nationwide). A ranger suggested our little fellow might be a bit stupid (we'd suggested insomniac) and didn't fancy his chances of escaping being "fluffed up" by an aggressive weka (another flightless native bird).

This is our pumpkin carving from Halloween 2006. My wife usually picks the theme of it and she decided on the comedy & tragedy theatre masks. My son posed next to the pumpkin and it came out fairly eerie.

This was taken in a tunnel under some railroad tracks as I was leaving the Multnomah Falls. Ironically, it turned out better than any of the photos I took of the actual waterfalls.

Flickr says this one of Conor Oberst drunk onstage is my most interesting but I don't know if I agree.

Neat.

It's a view of the city I live in, Antwerp, Belgium. I submitted it during my 365 project when the weekly theme was "connected".

From the caption: "Me, the city, connected to the port, connected to the world."

Great thread this!

Since my most interesting photo is the same shot as the one I posted in the other thread of my LG chocolate phone, I'll skip to number two.

This is Jamespig. A friend's guinea pig that I took care of for over a year when she moved to Canada. He was a great pet and a great listener. He died last year and this shot is 7 Pigs In A Wheek. A daily site I kept for my friend where I posted a new picture of him every day, and even had a webcam on him later on.

RIP Jamespig.

Like Peroty, my most interesting picture is the same as my most viewed, I'm also going to put up number 2...

This is a shot of how I had my computer set up when I went away on holiday last week to get some writing done. I holed up in a slightly shabby hotel on Guernsey, plugged in the PowerBook and let the muse descend. I can't understand how it is so popular/interesting, other than people do seem to have a fascination for how other people work.

(I do recommend viewing the picture on Flickr as there are oodles of explanatory notes.)

John Handcock building in Chicago.

here's my most interesting .... a lovestruck graffiti artist in my neighborhood peppered the sidewalks with messages to his beloved. i walked past this one at a time when i most needed to receive this message, even if it wasn't exactly intended for me =)

the image below actually made it to the explore page, but is only the 7th most interesting. oh flickr, will we ever understand you?

@nils: so dreamy!

John Handcock building in Chicago.

Tee hee, JPhill ... a bit juvenile of me but perhaps you meant "Hancock?" :D

Oddly enough, the same one that is my most popular.

The one on the left was taken when I was about two years old, holding my parents' OneStep. The one on the right I took last year, holding the same camera (which was about to get some real use again after nearly a quarter-century...if only I'd gotten back into it sooner).