Thought it was a good day to get lunch at the waterfront with the girls… temp dropped 10 degrees, was foggy, breezy and crowded as hell! Tomorrow is supposed to be warmer too!
Have to say, I love how this thread just ticks along, unimpressed by all the new gear chaos. Tip of the hat to all.
GeorgeBo wrote:
Joe - send some of that snow down here to NC. 75 degrees and hiking in shorts and t-shirt today. I need some winter weather.
pbraymond wrote:
Less than 15 shots this month so far. 25-50 AIS.
I like the crop and the black and white Ray.
I took the 25-50 out today for the first time this year I think. Maybe I got a keeper to share tomorrow. Lot of hiking today and just sitting back watching football tonight. No processing
DeltaSigma wrote:
Happy birthday Andy - and it's another from me for the color version.
I guess you have fallen foul of friends and family rolling your birthday and Xmas gifts into one?
AM4L wrote:
More from the Kanas Countryside, always try to stop and record abandoned house when I see them, many either disappear or they sometimes get revamped. Playing around with some of the tools I have in post. Still from last weeks drive. Lens in the first is actually the 55 F/1.2, really renders sharp landscapes! Last two are same processed differently.
Spooky ! Kinda reminds me of Blair Witch ! I like the 1st one best
GeorgeBo wrote:
Ominous skies coming off the trail at dusk today. Weather now more like October/March than end of December. Mid 70's forecasted all week with a chance of storms. Crazy.
George
Very nice George, the branches of tree on the right almost seem to be glowing.
And, now the shot I went out to capture on my birthday.
A pano of I think 3 landscape shots with 28/2ais (probably could have got away with 2 but wanted to ensure adequate overlap).
Much better colours than the last time I took night photos when it was Green & Purple alternating for some reason (it wasn't Christmas), and the colours weren't alternating this time which was good. The last time I was there a couple of months ago when I was living in Kangaroo Point the building with the cranes was in earlier stage of construction so the cranes were right in line with the bridge so good that construction has progressed so much since then.
One of our stops yesterday was at a nature preserve that is in the eastern/central part of the state. This is a unique area that has a north facing bluff that is home to clusters of Eastern Hemlock. Typically they are found much further west in the state in the mountains. This bluff has a microclimate that is suitable for the hemlocks to naturally grow here.
This is a stitched vertical orientation panorama with the 25-50 Ai f/4. Shot at 25mm.
It really does not do the view justice and it was midday sun as well. But it is a beautiful area. An island in the middle of the cities.
Yesterday was crap weather, but I decided to head out anyway. I called it my "go east safari", because last time I went west. I headed for a little park I love called Townsend Park that has this meandering creek named "Honey Creek". Sackem frassem - of course, all the roads were chained off. I could see from the road one of it's handful of meadows that is surrounded by very tall white pines. The meadow is semi marsh, and I noticed a young white pine had ventured into the marsh and was growing. It is likely 5-6 years old and about 25 feet tall. So, White Pine became my first subject.
Here is the marshy meadow from my vantage, and the small pine is dead center. The creek wanders in from the right and zigzags left through the meadow, and then exits on the far right.
5DS-R 55mm f3.5 ai'd images
6 image stitch of a more mature White Pine from about 60-70 feet away - towering over me.
D800 180mm f2.8 ai'd 3 image stitch of the central meadow.
Here is that near by mature pine in IR, and the meadow in IR both black & white which makes the young tree stand out even more.
5D-IR 35mm f1.4 ais
James Markus wrote:
Yesterday was crap weather, but I decided to head out anyway. I called it my "go east safari", because last time I went west. I headed for a little park I love called Townsend Park that has this meandering creek named "Honey Creek". Sackem frassem - of course, all the roads were chained off. I could see from the road one of it's handful of meadows that is surrounded by very tall white pines. The meadow is semi marsh, and I noticed a young white pine had ventured into the marsh and was growing. It is likely 5-6 years old and about 25 feet tall. So, White Pine became my first subject.
Here is the marshy meadow from my vantage, and the small pine is dead center. The creek wanders in from the right and zigzags left through the meadow, and then exits on the far right.
Statue in bronze (sculpture?) of Nova Peris in Federation Square Melbourne. She was the first Indigenous Australian Woman to win an Olympic Gold (Hockey Atlanta 1996) before becoming a sprinter and winning 2 gold medals at the Commonwealth Games and the first Indigenous Australian person to carry the Olympic Torch for the Sydney Olympics in 2000. For her leg she carried it around Uluru !
from me for the color version.
