A7II + Tokina 20mm f/2 AF
Abandoned house on Idaho/Wyoming border. Not sure I'm happy w/my B+W conversion, trying to get a creepy/ominous mood without it being tacky.
Great photos Helena and a great subject, but then boats are another (i.e. as well as photography) obsession of mine.
It seems slightly strange to photograph grave stones but this one is a bit special (some of you will perhaps remember his assassination). The grave is in the next parish a few miles down the road and very unusually, they have allowed a rose bush to be planted on the grave. I thought the Voigtlander 50 1.2 might work quite well for this subject.
For the first version of this post the image seemed too large for my screen so I have reduced the size. Now it seems too small, but that's life I suppose!
Gunzorro wrote:
Joshua -- You are always a hard act to follow!
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Like a journey through the Shire.
a7R2, Loxia 21, LR
Thank you very much, Jim! And that image of yours is superb; love the sunstar.... go Loxia 21!
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From my recent trip to Peru - I used a single ball head alternatingly on my monopod during the day and tripod in the evening/night. I was in hurry to venture out from the hotel in the evening and I grabbed the tripod and forgot my ball head... . For this image, used the tripod alright but only as a support under the L-bracket. There went the SRA opportunity out the door... Oh, well.
The town of Puno at Lake Titicaca, Peru in the evening
To celebrate the impending arrival of my fourth f3.5 lens (the tiny Voigtlander Heliar 50/3.5 will join the CY Vario-Sonnar 35-70/3.4, the Voigtlander Color-Skopar 21/3.5 and this one, the mighty Contax Sonnar 100/3.5) here are two examples of how the better slow prime lenses are, almost without exception, ultra low aberration high performance character lenses with a beautiful settled draw. The mainstream photographic world will never know. Shown below is not just the road less travelled, but the majestic road that can no longer be travelled. It's off-limits due to the 2015 earthquake (magnitude 7.8) convincing the authorities to move the land border westwards, to Kyirong.
Contax 100/3.5 - a7r - lonely outpost
Contax 100/3.5 - a7r (7500-8000m peaks seen from 5000m pass, the edge of Tibet)
Looking at a Fledgeling or Juvenile Tricolored Heron.
Cropped; tripod mounted 100-400mm f4-f5.6 GM set to 400mm and A7rIII.
ISO 100, f5.6, 1/50 second
Exposure corrected +0.48 Stops
May 11, 2019
At Gatorland, Orlando or Kissimmee, FL
1. View of Tower Rock from property of a friend in the Cispus Valley.
2. Two shaggy old buddies: intertwined maple and Pacific Yew. I have been told like the company of each other, although not parasitic or dependent on one another. Maple has traditional deciduous broad leaves, the yew having heavily moss covered branches of evergreen needles (similar to hemlock in appearance).
