cadman342001 wrote:
Haha, I certainly had plenty of sore bits, mainly due to my camping mat getting a hole so spent most of the last month sleeping on the ground ! Amazingly my body did get used to it.
It was actually more the divorce, loneliness and the Black Dog
I checked my previous posts and here are some more from Silverton. The new Mad Max film is to be filmed here too.
Phong, The Lotus blossom are beautiful. On the first one there seems to be a gloss black bee hovering above the flower. I have never seen a bee like that.
Jim
James Markus wrote:
Phong, The Lotus blossom are beautiful. On the first one there seems to be a gloss black bee hovering above the flower. I have never seen a bee like that.
Jim
You are right. That is Carpenter bee.
Below is worker bee hoovering over lotus flower. _D8E5524in by blurrist lump, on Flickr
My first photo post, so hopefully I'm doing it right! Traded in my D500 around the holidays 2020, but not before getting a few last ultra macro shots with the 1970s micro 55mm
Welcome to this forum Christopher! Terrific shot with the 55. There is a good group of people who post here and always useful suggestions and friendly chat.
Now MF glass purchase or “acquisition” as it’s described here is the common connection. So have fun!
Coincidentally I just traded my D500 in yesterday, I was selling it until I found out the camera shop was offering me 200 bucks (Australian dollars) more than I was selling it for
Coincidentally I just traded my D500 in yesterday, I was selling it until I found out the camera shop was offering me 200 bucks (Australian dollars) more than I was selling it for
Andy
Thanks so much for the warm welcome, Andy and Ken! A nostalgic lens for me indeed, as it was my dad's on his Nikkormat SLR at the time-- I was over the moon when getting into photography myself with the D500 in 2018 to discover that I could get John White's AI conversion on both Dad's 55 micro and his other MF lens, the 43-86 mm zoom (a much less beloved lens today haha-- but I like it because he used it at the time for portraits so it's special to me) to mount these on modern DSLR.
Somewhere in the basement in rural Pennsylvania, he still has all of these wildflower shots with it from the mid to late-70s.
I've since gone to the dark side (Sony!) for a couple of bodies, but fortunately got a D850 this past spring (late to the DSLR party, I suppose now with all the folks moving to Z), so I can still shoot these lenses Excited to see how they perform with a high-res sensor.
Awesome you got a good trade in deal with the D500! I was very sad giving it up, but it was having a shutter issue, and I got a full buy out from insurance, so I would have been silly not to take it. But I loved that camera!
Cheers guys, happy Saturday from NYC. Looking forward to a street photo Zine release in Brooklyn tonight. Community seems great thus far. I must be transparent in that I started posting to hit the 25 post threshold for PM, but I'll be sticking around, as this forum is a lot more helpful and kind than others I've found.
Excited to see how they perform with a high-res sensor.