Gary Clennan wrote: AGeoJO wrotedarrellc wroteWill you pick my lottery numbers for me? AGeoJO wroteI went to an antique store and I bumped into this girl and she had a Sony A7r II with a GM lens. So, I must take a picture of her since I had my camera as well .I like the way you think but too bad, I do not have that much luck in that respect nor in Vegas . However, I knew I would enormously increase the chance of bumping into a girl like that in an antique store, since a birdie was telling me that there would be some kind of shooting activities at that particular location .
philber wroteJoshua, René, Werner, superlative pictures, as ever! And Rioni, Kater, MedicineMan, Mitesh....hat off to you all!
On my end, once a s**t, always a s**t... Otus 28, wide open.My apologies for skipping your post inititially, Philippe and thank you for your compliment. Hey, I love the Otus bokeh and the bokeh balls in the first one. Thank you for sharing, Philippe.
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When I selected my CR images from the last trip the first time around, I put a lot emphasis in choosing well focused and sharp images, understandably so. There was a few occasions that I deliberately handheld the camera and panned a flying bird or birds just to bring a variety. I posted a few images but didn't bother with this one.
This cockatoo was flying fairly low, swooping from branch to branch in a playful way. Somehow the shutter speed synced with the flapping wing/wings and most of the blue feathers of the wings are rendered well in focus and sharp, while the rest is blurred from the panning action and flapping of wings at that low shutter speed. The eye is barely visible... Oh, well.Joshua - I love this artsy fartsy photo. Well done!
Gary, thank you very much! You haven’t shared your images with us here lately. Busy, I assume?
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Still in the theme between blurred and sharp, here is another one from the previous trip to CR...
Last month in the Canadian Rockies snowshoeing along the Cline River. It was COLD and once again my tripod had frozen so I was very limited on compositions. A7r + CV12mm FE.
Dave
No art whatsoever, just an example of absurdity.
See the tiny flash drive! That's what I ordered. This is all the packaging it came in, including a plastic encased between two welded sheets of cardboard. Note the size of the box in the background.
Very cool mural at the Lourdes Grotto and Our Lady of Guadalupe “Tepeyac de San Antonio”. The candles I posted earlier are from the Grotto, the most perfect replica in America of the original Shrine in Lourdes, France. I'll post images of the Grotto soon.
Challenging scene to capture because the mural was backlit. Please excuse the slight HDR look.
Loxia 85mm. It looked like a regulation composition, a lot of ramshackle iron roofs, backed by tall apartment blocks and trees, all shrouded in monsoon rain mist. Then I saw what looked like the biggest strand of spaghetti wire draped across the outside of the Raj era yellow building (top centre), leading to an array of high tech comms on the roof.