They had a classroom full of lab-boxes, I will skip that class (although quite a treat to see 15 or so of those, the ones with orange lids, lined up, ready for new students ), and try out a dark room printing session for one or other of the rolls of negatives I have.
Remember your roots because sometimes, that's all you have to keep you from falling.
I took a drive and a walk in the rainforest yesterday
Z6ii + 16/3.5
The buttress roots of a strangler fig. They use an existing rainforest tree to get a leg up towards the sky/gap in the canopy of the rainforest, eventually enveloping and strangling the host tree, sometimes I suppose thereby creating a gap in the canopy.
The trees in the rainforest have very shallow roots, the fig uses the above ground parts of the buttresses as its means of support.
B&W or colour ?
Andy,
I had no idea those were strangler figs. It seemed like the trails in Binna Burro were covered in roots to trip upon; and I didn't realize it was a plant murder scene. The buttress shaped roots are beautiful.
Jim
cadman342001 wrote:
Remember your roots because sometimes, that's all you have to keep you from falling.
I took a drive and a walk in the rainforest yesterday
Z6ii + 16/3.5
The buttress roots of a strangler fig. They use an existing rainforest tree to get a leg up towards the sky/gap in the canopy of the rainforest, eventually enveloping and strangling the host tree, sometimes I suppose thereby creating a gap in the canopy.
The trees in the rainforest have very shallow roots, the fig uses the above ground parts of the buttresses as its means of support.
B&W or colour ?
cadman342001 wrote:
Remember your roots because sometimes, that's all you have to keep you from falling.
I took a drive and a walk in the rainforest yesterday
Z6ii + 16/3.5
The buttress roots of a strangler fig. They use an existing rainforest tree to get a leg up towards the sky/gap in the canopy of the rainforest, eventually enveloping and strangling the host tree, sometimes I suppose thereby creating a gap in the canopy.
The trees in the rainforest have very shallow roots, the fig uses the above ground parts of the buttresses as its means of support.
B&W or colour ?
Back yard with the 180mm f2.8 ai'd Nikkor-P K2 & K3 Tubes and the modified TC-16a - made for a pleasant working distance to capture some emerging flowers.
James Markus wrote:
Andy,
I had no idea those were strangler figs. It seemed like the trails in Binna Burro were covered in roots to trip upon; and I didn't realize it was a plant murder scene. The buttress shaped roots are beautiful.
Jim
I can try some bargain, like 1500 or less, hopefully.
My NMFAS was dead lately, but this is one of the last I would like to have in my humble collection.
Rare find here in Brazil, neve saw one in shops, but now this one is screaming for me to be bought
Been busy and had not read the thread, will find out if Jose bought this or not as I keep reading. Is the lens worth $1600 in 9+ condition for the market? me thinks yes. But only Jose can decide if it is for him. This lens is not as good as the 180mm 2.8 ED at 2.8, but it is as good at 2.8 as the 200mm 2.0 is at 2.0, it has very even performance across the zoom range. (here I giving lens opinions again)
The little 20mm 4.0 is a better lens than my testing showed, you must focus the corners of interest when you focus the whole lens for quite satisfactory results (for me).
rafaelcasd wrote:
The little 20mm 4.0 is a better lens than my testing showed, you must focus the corners of interest when you focus the whole lens for quite satisfactory results (for me).
Rafael, I wonder is the same is true of the tiny 20mm f3.5 (52mm filter version). I had some shots today with unsatisfactory sharpness beyond the DX frame, and I tried f8 and f11, and should have had enough depth of field to cover the edges somewhat. Anyone with any experience to share?
Here I focused the 20mm 4.0 on the guard tower to the detriment of the right side. I always post full size on flickr, my way of sharing the fun. Forgive the dirty sensor.
It has been a while since I used a MF lens.
With my D610 IR off at Nikon for a repair estimate I decided to fire up the D7100 IR.
Glad I didn't get rid of it!
This cricket pavillion is nearing completion. It still needs a coat of whitewash.
Popped in to see this one posted. I was surprised to see that Reagan was not the first "like" on this one
George
rafaelcasd wrote:
Here I focused the 20mm 4.0 on the guard tower to the detriment of the right side. I always post full size on flickr, my way of sharing the fun. Forgive the dirty sensor.
They had a classroom full of lab-boxes, I will skip that class (although quite a treat to see 15 or so of those, the ones with orange lids, lined up, ready for new students ), and try out a dark room printing session for one or other of the rolls of negatives I have.
), and try out a dark room printing session for one or other of the rolls of negatives I have.
The buttress shaped roots are beautiful.
