photonoclast wrote:
Ronny - I'm amazed by that swallow-in-flight shot. I've tried many times with the swallows around here but could never pull that off!!
Thanks ! lucky shot
Another image of the male hooded merganser as it passed a sleeping buddy of his. After catching their prey, hooded mergansers do not stay still but swim at a fairly fast speed back and forth and sometimes make a circle, while they prey still struggles to break loose.
AGeoJO wrote:
Brett, great images using the GM 400mm! You are my idol by having both long GM lenses; I am secretly coveting that lens but I haven’t found the justification for it...yet.
Thank you Joshua. I had zero justification. Ha. The 400mm definitely has a wider range of uses. Love this image you posted. Would be great to shoot birds with you some time.
A couple shots from at sunrise this morning at the same old place. My sunrise/sunset forecast app "Skyfire" predicted a fiery sunrise in our area but it turned out to be a cloudless sunrise, the "clouds" in one of the pictures were actually smoke from a nearby power plant. The Skyfire app is right about 25% of the time in its prediction.
Well, I feel a bit inadequate posting this after some of the recent stunners above, but I just wanted to show off this mundane photo of a garden decoration left behind by my parents before they left for retirement in Japan.
I took it with the Sony Zeiss 35mm f/1.4 and heavily cropped it. I edited it exclusively on the iPad Pro, which has been fun and interesting. I’ve been making an effort to use this lens more because I want to kind of dispel the notion (maybe to myself) that it’s a terrible lens. I don’t know if my copy is good or not, but it’s good enough for me.
Added a photo of some fall colors (in winter), too.
'inadequate posting'. Your photos are excellent and out of the ordinary fare. Also, great to see images from unusual or often disparaged lenses produce such results. It has fine pictorial qualities.
so nice 
