AGeoJO wrote:
It is but for some unexplained reasons it is also cross posted in the Leica forum. Maybe, only maybe when the thread was originally started, it was posted in the Alternative Gear forum; since the Sony forum was not in existence yet. So when more forums were created, in addition to Canon and Nikon, this thread was put under the Leica and Alternative Gear. The same goes for Fuji X image thread and may be a few other. They are cross-posted in the respective brand forum though after their own forums were initiated..
The long and the short of it is there used to just be the Canon, Nikon and Alternative Gear forums. This thread originated in the Alternative Gear forum back when the A7 was released, and was later set as a cross-posted thread when the Sony forum was added and the Sony-specific content moved there.
Eventually Fuji and Micro-4/3rds got their own forum too, and Leica was officially added to the name of the Alternative Gear forum rather than getting its own Forum, as by that time the Alternative Gear forum was mostly Leica focused as everything else active had got its own home.
A few other threads are like this, including the main Micro 4/3rds image thread.
I finally got out to the desert to use my new 12-24GM. I love it. And I also love the Southwest light. It's hard to describe what the light is like when the sun is setting in a place like this. It feels like the light is completely surrounding you in a warm glow. That's about as close as I can get to a description. The images look nice, but they don't come close to the feeling of being there. The Southwest is truly a special place for light.
First shot is at 12mm and the second in the same spot at 21mm. This copy of the 12-24GM is very sharp all the way to the corners. Not always necessary, but nice to have. I'm going to use this one a lot after I retire in a year.
While editing images of a Blueberry devouring Spotted Towhee,
I was listening to a video clip of Stanford University Professor Andrew Huberman
about Sugar & Your Brain.
Huberman pointed out that humans are not the only ones craving sweet food.
How fitting.
Nice reflection of the bridge, Tim. I shot this bridge a few times, I love d it when the bridge roof and the ground were all covered in snow.
Last Saturday I stopped by the Flight 93 Memorial in Shanksville, Pa on my way to the Latrobe show. I didn't use my cameras to photograph the memorial yesterday, just my iPhone. However, this time I went inside the visitor center to look around, I listened to the only three known recorded voice messages two passengers and one of the flight attendants left on their loved ones' answering machines. It's really something to hear what people would say to their loved ones when they knew they would likely die in minutes, no words to describe it, especially when you listen to the actual voices.
On to Latrobe, the lineup was pretty short, and the smoke from the Canadian wildfires was back again! The sky was for the most part grey and hazy. Anyway, here are some shots from the show, all shots taken with the 600 f4+1.4TC were uncropped.
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ILCE-1FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS lens374mmf/6.31/4000s250 ISO-0.7 EV
Thanks Douglas, I've been there when there's been a little ice on the water, but not when everything is snow covered. I'll have to give that a shot...although last winter we didn't get much snow. We'll see this winter. I've never been to the Flight 93 memorial, it sounds moving, something you can't understand without hearing that recording.
Great shots of the jets, I wish I had more time to see shows like that. There seems to always be something going on that makes it hard to plan anything.
tsdevine wrote:
Thanks Douglas, I've been there when there's been a little ice on the water, but not when everything is snow covered. I'll have to give that a shot...although last winter we didn't get much snow. We'll see this winter. I've never been to the Flight 93 memorial, it sounds moving, something you can't understand without hearing that recording.
Great shots of the jets, I wish I had more time to see shows like that. There seems to always be something going on that makes it hard to plan anything.
In any case, incredible shots!
Thanks Tim. Two years I also stopped by the Flight 93 Memorial for the first time, on my way to the airshow in Latrobe. I was the first one at the crash site, it was very cold for a June morning, a little bit of drizzles and fog. I took some pictures of the crash site and the wall with the victims' names, with two cameras. Strangely, when I got home and loaded the pictures of the day to my computer, I didn't see one single picture from the Memorial, from either camera, but all the airshow pictures were there! I didn't think I would have messed up, at least not both cameras. I am not one who believes in that type of thing but it was very spooky! I didn't go to the visitors center last time because I was there too early. This time I didn't even try to photograph the site with my cameras, just my iPhone. I did have the pictures in the phone.
My wife and I were in Seattle last Saturday night (a two hour drive from Aberdeen) for a concert by the Minus 5 (and it iterations, including the current "The No Ones" and previous members of the original Young Fresh Fellows) on their mini-tour before heading to Norway for more shows. This is the old stomping grounds of the Young Fresh Fellows, and great to see them in their hometown. I'd seen them before in the L.A. area, once with The Replacements, and another with Buffalo Tom and Mojo Nixon in the '80s. We met two people there, unrelated to each other, that had flown up from the L.A. area just to see this show! Small world of music!
Peter Buck of R.E.M. on bass. Driving force, Scott McCaughey, had also toured as an auxiliary member of R.E.M. from mid 90's til their 2011 break-up. The two younger Norwegian additions to the Minus 5 were great. (Helena -- you should try to catch their upcoming Trondheim, Norway shows!)
Great show, good times!
Had just gotten the Zony 35 in the mail earlier this day -- shipped from Seattle the previous day! Serendipity!
a7R4, Zony 35, LRc
Scott McCaughey -- Singer, songwriter and driving force of the many iterations of The Young Fresh Fellows. (None of us quite the YFF we were once before!)
ILCE-7RM4FE 35mm F2.8 ZA lens35mmf/2.81/60s8000 ISO-0.3 EV
Original YFF guitarist, Kurt Bloch (left), joined the band on their later set. Awesome!
ILCE-7RM4FE 35mm F2.8 ZA lens35mmf/2.81/160s3200 ISO0.0 EV
ILCE-7RM4FE 35mm F2.8 ZA lens35mmf/2.81/60s2000 ISO-0.3 EV
