Werner, What a great shot. I keep telling myself I don't need this lens and then see a shot like this. I have two of my guitars up for sale to fund the purchase. Looks like it is an outstanding landscape lens.
Pierre:
In response to your comment form a few days ago, the misty beech trees also look good with a bluebell backdrop which I will try and capture in a few weeks.
Olaf
What a stunning dramatic shot.
Phillip
Those wild flowers are what we in the UK would call wood anemones and I have tried to photograph them myself in the past but with disappointing results because they like the shadiest parts of the forest floor. Yours look great however so I will have to have another go.
The pace of great images being posted on this thread is simply amazing. Kudos to everyone !
For the very first time in my life, I had the chance to explore ice caves under the Vatnajökull glacier in Iceland. What an amazing experience! The 45 minutes we spent exploring and photography flew by so fast and somehow, I felt the pressure of doing that within the allotted time limit. I wish I had more time doing that... The season to explore ice caves was over the following day. It simply became too dangerous as the days got warmer.
It seems like I have been liking posts indiscriminately but it's simply because the past few pages have condensed some pretty amazing works.
Joshua: Amazing shots! You make me want to go to Iceland to explore. Which months did you go there? Your shots have certain clarity that is hard to describe.
Olaf: Typically I don't like long panoramic shots because they tend to lack the connection with the viewers via foreground, but yours was very well executed. The cable really connect me to the scene. How did you get such a clear shot from the cable cart?
Thank you very much for your very kind comments!
The panorama is made of seven pictures @35mm with lots of overlap.
The pictures were taken from a small balcony close to the platform where the cable cart is arriving. Somehow this balcony is mainly overlooked by the visitors because it would be impossible to set up a tripod in the "normal" area which is completely overcrowded at any time of the day.
The panorama is basically a re-take of a panoramic shot I took ten years ago with a 5 MP Canon Powershot S500/IXUS 500. Cameras have changed quite a lot since then...
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