With all the great images on this thread, I thought I could pretend to be a tourist in my own town and maybe come home with something worth sharing...
BC Legislature Buildings (Capitol Building) - Victoria BC. Designed by an eccentric architect, Rattenbury who loved the birdcage style popular in the late 1800's.
A7r + Canon 24 TS-E II (Last 2 images with with Haida ND filter.) Some shift.
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Oops.
**First image with the Sigma 35mm/1.4 Art** - A stellar piece of glass
These are pelagic goose barnacles (Lepas anatifera). As the common name indicates, they typically live at sea and attach themselves to any wood they encounter. It's a good gig until the wind and tide turn against them and carry them ashore...then it's arthropod apocalypse. The first image is of the stranded colony on their 14 inch piece of driftwood, followed by two closer views.
A7 & CV 125 f/2.5 APO
Here are some images taken late yesterday afternoon and at or near the top of the Trexler Nature Preserve, Schnecksville, PA with my Leica R 280mm f4 Apo Telyt lens and my Sony A7r camera. The first image was with the lens monopod mounted while the remaining images were taken with the lens tripod mounted. All images processed in LR5.5.
Yesterday a new helicoid M39 adapter arrived, so now I can use all kinds of exotic lenses from enlargers or from old view cameras like this Schneider Kreuznach from a 3€ fleamarket camera.
Combined with a 25mm tube it makes a nice macro lens.
A few portrait images using a Sony ZA 135mm f/1.8 at close to wide open. I thought I set the aperture at f/1.8 but I must have nudged the scroll wheel without me realizing it. That happens quite a bit actually .
Taylor Sherman wrote:
Nice! It is a very good lens. I slightly regret selling mine, but it was either by an LA-EA4 or sell the lens, and with small 21 and 28mm lenses I wouldn't be grabbing the large 24mm very often.
Yeah, I'm not positive it'll stay in my possession for very long, but it is a standout in the A-mount line, price-to-performance.
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