I must be the only person who didn't notice the floating Bachelor buttons. My eyes were drawn into the green sections of the image. I had to take another look after ani's comment. Actually, I find myself doing that a lot when you guys with way more attention to detail comment on pictures. It is really cool, George.
Seconded on the last tulips picture. The mass planting and wide angle makes for a wonderful picture.
pbraymond wrote:
Great tulips Chris! Agree with Leighton, that last shot is special. I love how the tulips are so densely planted together at that location, a couple tulip areas I've hit close by have the tulips spaced far enough apart that, for a photographer at least, always leaves unattractive brown dirt in the picture.
Really liking the 105 f2.8 Micro. I take it out quite a bit, that flexibility to go close is great. Now I just need to do an informal comparison with the 105 f2.5 AIS at regular distances.
That bachelor button shot is outstanding George. The melty dreamy backdrop rocks. I spy a PD tripod, if it's good enough for George maybe I should think about it :-)
Thanks, the wind settled down enough to at least have intermittent periods of stillness. Forecast says a stretch of 5 straight days of sun, now just to break free to get out to shoot some, though playing with longer focal lengths in AF and trying my hand at songbird shots tempers productivity with MF lenses....Show more →
Thanks for the comments and the likes.
It was quite a hectic last 2 years.
In a nutshell; started a new, demanding job, got sacked because of the pandemie, started a full education (back to school at 64 ), "graduated" last November, got infected by Covid a week later, Covid became Long-Covid and now I'm recovering veeerryy slowly from that. Still not much energy, bad fysical and mental condition, lots of sleeping and doing nothing.
Most of the time , when photographing, I used my Z- or F-lenses.
I slowly transferring to the Z-system.
Chris Dees wrote:
Thanks for the comments and the likes.
It was quite a hectic last 2 years.
In a nutshell; started a new, demanding job, got sacked because of the pandemie, started a full education (back to school at 64 ), "graduated" last November, got infected by Covid a week later, Covid became Long-Covid and now I'm recovering veeerryy slowly from that. Still not much energy, bad fysical and mental condition, lots of sleeping and doing nothing.
Most of the time , when photographing, I used my Z- or F-lenses.
I slowly transferring to the Z-system.
At George; almost all my MF lenses are chipped....Show more →
saph wrote:
Hope you start getting better faster Chris!
Thanks, it's already much better than 4/5 months ago. It just takes a lot of time. There're people who are already suffering 2 years from this and I'm already further in the healing process. 95% will cure, but no idea how long it takes.
Chris Dees wrote:
Thanks, it's already much better than 4/5 months ago. It just takes a lot of time. There're people who are already suffering 2 years from this and I'm already further in the healing process. 95% will cure, but no idea how long it takes.
Chris,
What a journey! Hope you can recover as soon as possible. BTW - I loved this one from the first series.
Jim
Chris Dees wrote:
Thanks for the comments and the likes.
It was quite a hectic last 2 years.
In a nutshell; started a new, demanding job, got sacked because of the pandemie, started a full education (back to school at 64 ), "graduated" last November, got infected by Covid a week later, Covid became Long-Covid and now I'm recovering veeerryy slowly from that. Still not much energy, bad fysical and mental condition, lots of sleeping and doing nothing.
Most of the time , when photographing, I used my Z- or F-lenses.
I slowly transferring to the Z-system.
At George; almost all my MF lenses are chipped....Show more →
Chris, bummer on the Covid/Long covid. Listen to your body as you recover, if it wants a nap, give it a nap. Tough to do, for sure.
Chris Dees wrote:
Thanks for the comments and the likes.
It was quite a hectic last 2 years.
In a nutshell; started a new, demanding job, got sacked because of the pandemie, started a full education (back to school at 64 ), "graduated" last November, got infected by Covid a week later, Covid became Long-Covid and now I'm recovering veeerryy slowly from that. Still not much energy, bad fysical and mental condition, lots of sleeping and doing nothing.
Most of the time , when photographing, I used my Z- or F-lenses.
I slowly transferring to the Z-system.
At George; almost all my MF lenses are chipped....Show more →
NightOwl Cat wrote:
From the other end of the spectrum, the 15mm got its turn
Oh Laura, I love these. It shows even 15mm sometimes juuust qualifies as wide enough. Possibly stupid question, on the second picture, are you on a raised platform when you take it or it's the wide angle lens magic?
Thanks for the sympathy. I'll get there. It just takes a lot of time and I have that.
I consider it as an early retirement and that is of course not a bad thing.
), "graduated" last November, got infected by Covid a week later, Covid became Long-Covid and now I'm recovering veeerryy slowly from that. Still not much energy, bad fysical and mental condition, lots of sleeping and doing nothing. 
