Wednesday was a happy day. I had to shut off/drained the water Saturday night because the forecast was for <20° temperatures. My insulated pipes in the crawlspace are good for overnight temps above 20°. I turned the water on Wednesday afternoon but the local water system had to repair some leaks in the delivery pipes up stream of my place. After 4 days we finally had hot and cold running water.
Bill Gass wrote:
Beautiful Douglas, just beautiful.
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Danpbphoto wrote:
So powerful Douglas! Most excellent compositions!
Yes sunrise is the best time!
Fantastic images here and great timing on the Iwo Jima Memorial!
Dan
Thank you, Bill, Dan! The cemetery covered in snow is just more thought provoking, especially with the Christmas wreaths. Obviously I have seen JFK's grave there. I haven't seen any other famous persons graves except those of Gen. Claire Chennnault and his China-born wife Anna Chen. Mrs. Chennault was vehemently anti CCP pretty much her entire life. But in the 80's, like most U.S. politicians, she thought the CCP would change as China opened up. Boy, weren't they dead wrong!
A few more from the same morning.
ILCE-1FE 70-200mm F2.8 GM OSS II lens140mmf/2.81/500s100 ISO0.0 EV
ILCE-1FE 70-200mm F2.8 GM OSS II lens97mmf/11.01/100s100 ISO0.0 EV
ILCE-1FE 70-200mm F2.8 GM OSS II lens122mmf/11.01/80s100 ISO0.0 EV
ILCE-1FE 70-200mm F2.8 GM OSS II lens113mmf/2.81/800s100 ISO0.0 EV
Great shots Bill! Funny, I did a groundbreaking this morning for a big project and the gentleman in charge of construction is a guy that I have gotten to know and respect over the last six months or so. He was/is Special Forces and he has been there and got all the t-shirts, until an IED cracked his skull. I had forgotten what branch he served in, I thought he said the Navy, so I asked him, he smiled and said "Yes, in the men's department................." then he laughed, he was a Marine. Though I have only known him a short time, I see him as a guy who would go to the mat, and beyond for you if he cared about you. He has two loves in his life, his Harleys and his horses. I'm honored to know him, and I can never repay the debt that I owe him.
Slightly disappointed in the sensor size........but, let's see what a 30MP stacked sensor that records 16bit still images and has a dynamic range that exceeds anything Canon has ever made, looks like. I'm probably in for at least one.
JWilsonphoto wrote:
Great shots Bill! Funny, I did a groundbreaking this morning for a big project and the gentleman in charge of construction is a guy that I have gotten to know and respect over the last six months or so. He was/is Special Forces and he has been there and got all the t-shirts, until an IED cracked his skull. I had forgotten what branch he served in, I thought he said the Navy, so I asked him, he smiled and said "Yes, in the men's department................." then he laughed, he was a Marine. Though I have only known him a short time, I see him as a guy who would go to the mat, and beyond for you if he cared about you. He has two loves in his life, his Harleys and his horses. I'm honored to know him, and I can never repay the debt that I owe him....Show more →
Thanks Jim,
2nd time to use my new camera since black friday...Geeeesh, but all this and a KC-135, I can't complain.
Glad the ground breaking went well for you and your new customer/friend is working out for you as well, always helps when you like someone and get a long good. Still on the RF lens fence so picked up an EF 500 F/4 L/IS for now.
Call me a simpleton, but I am not getting the reason for the R1 and the R3. Will the R3 go away after the R1 comes out. The R1 specs seem to be an R3 II. I think the guy in the video is on the right track, but I wonder what will happen to the R3. I guess I thought Canon was going back to the 1D/1Ds days, a perfect portrait/architecture camera and a sports version with the R1/R3. Seems they are feeding the wildlife shooters.
Bill Gass wrote:
Thanks Jim,
2nd time to use my new camera since black friday...Geeeesh, but all this and a KC-135, I can't complain.
Glad the ground breaking went well for you and your new customer/friend is working out for you as well, always helps when you like someone and get a long good. Still on the RF lens fence so picked up an EF 500 F/4 L/IS for now.
Congratulations on the 500! You should be all set up for anything now.
Good Morning Ray! I guess the R3 might have a spot for a while if the R1 comes in at $7K + -, but you are absolutely right. If the R1 does have all those other upgraded features, I guess we'll have to see what they bring to the table as far as image quality and shooting capability. Does 30MP with a new type of stacked sensor, higher dynamic range, and an AI driven deep learning AF system bridge the gap of 15MP? "WEEBEESEE!"
You'll remember that I had two R3's ordered when Canon demo'd one to me at AFW for the weekend. 35,000 shots and a couple of days of post processing and I let them both go when they came in. Loved the camera, feel, interface, 24MP, not so much.
Canon isn't stupid, they have spent a lot of time developing this camera, and touting that it will be "the master of everything", to come out with a dud. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt until I see what the actual deal is and run one through the traps. Many of the wildlife shooters have been clamoring for more MP, and they are using the R5, so unless there is a big benefit I don't see them biting the R1. You are a sports shooter and I'm guessing that from your response, given what we know right now, you're not too taken by it. I'll have to confess that I don't get the argument that sports shooters want the smaller file sizes for expediency. How hard is it to throw a bunch of images into Lightroom and batch re-size them to whatever your end client desires?
My get the latest and greatest knee jerk response will be tempered by determining if it really is "the latest and greatest". My R5/R5C bodies are still pretty amazing and have lots of life left in them, it's like what I tell my car guy when he perpetually tries to trade me out of my 2015 Landcruiser, "Why would I do that?"
Douglas L wrote:
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Thank you, Bill, Dan! The cemetery covered in snow is just more thought provoking, especially with the Christmas wreaths. Obviously I have seen JFK's grave there. I haven't seen any other famous persons graves except those of Gen. Claire Chennnault and his China-born wife Anna Chen. Mrs. Chennault was vehemently anti CCP pretty much her entire life. But in the 80's, like most U.S. politicians, she thought the CCP would change as China opened up. Boy, weren't they dead wrong!
A few more from the same morning.
These are truly superior compositions Douglas!
I did a project many years ago for the Dept of Defense and my last military assignment with the Army Security Agency on Arlington's most famous military heroes. The cemetery is loaded with them and some that truly amazed me!
Presently the advocates of "sanitizing history" want ALL memorials of the Confederacy removed! I am a staunch advocate of learning from history not sanitizing it! We must learn from our mistakes not erase them!
Have a great weekend!
Dan
Congratulations on the 500! You should be all set up for anything now.
Ya, gettin there although big and heavy the images should be beautiful. Ice storms are slowing shipping by about a week, same for the EF-EOS R w/NDF I ordered. Hope you and the others are dealing with the cold and hopefully no frozen pipes.
