Here are a few more guitar photos from Saturday, including two detail shots of my Taylor "grand symphony" style flattop (which is also the subject of my avatar), two photos of my Breedlove parlor guitar, and one image of my Regal biscuit bridge steel-body triolian style resonator. All were taken with the 55 f/3.5 micro Ai'd on my D800E.
James Markus wrote:
Shooting chickens with a manual focus camera is not easy! Well done Leighton. I love the color of your hens - my girls were a little more orange-ish, but made deep brown thick shelled eggs with dark orange yolks. Miss them eggs.
Thanks Jim.
You're right, most of is luck when using a manual focus lens as they hardly ever stay still long enough to pose. I took several to get this one. These new girls are the prettiest we've had in a long time. Are you going to get chickens again? We have kept chickens for over 30 years and I was seriously thinking on giving them up, but I like the eggs too much.
GroWeb wrote:
Here are a few more guitar photos from Saturday, including two detail shots of my Taylor "grand symphony" style flattop (which is also the subject of my avatar), two photos of my Breedlove parlor guitar, and one image of my Regal biscuit bridge steel-body triolian style resonator. All were taken with the 55 f/3.5 micro Ai'd on my D800E.
Those are some beautiful guitars. I especially like the wolf on the resonator. Nice touch!
Leighton,
I don't think so. My last four met terrible ends after 3.5 years of peace. Owls, Raccoons, Hawks killed them all in about 4 weeks time. One night I ran out with a flashlight only to see something (I think an Owl) snatch one out of mid air. Now I get eggs from Aldi that look just like what we got back then. The coup I built is still in place, and their pen - even my low tech heating system. My daughter and her husband have put dibs on the whole rig.
I consider this "Adult Candy". Photo features native Tasmanian "Black-heart Sassafras" wood tray holding the edible candy bits. The wood is dense and silky, and the end grain chopping block made of the stuff exited the house with my chef son. (which gained us six cubic feet of free space)
Got a little too enthusiastic last time I culled my photos. So I have been going through DVDs and Blu-ray disks looking for RAW files I stupidly tossed. I'm sure I could do this one (of a series) better, but I can not find the RAW files. Seems every-time I decide to get rid of a lens I find photographic evidence that it would be very very bad to follow through on that idea. Lesson: always hang onto those raw files.
mp356 wrote:
Very nice Leighton. What are you starting in the greenhouse?
Ray, nice color saturation and detail in this. Leighton surely likes the door!
Colin, nice snow scene. Do you get much of this in a typical winter?
Thanks Scott. We grow all types of vegetables in our high-tunnel (with no heat) year round. Barbara is watering the spinach that we're having for supper tonight. Wait a few weeks, and it will be ready to pick again. YUM! 😋
James Markus wrote:
I consider this "Adult Candy". Photo features native Tasmanian "Black-heart Sassafras" wood tray holding the edible candy bits. The wood is dense and silky, and the end grain chopping block made of the stuff exited the house with my chef son. (which gained us six cubic feet of free space)
mp356 wrote:
Very nice Leighton. What are you starting in the greenhouse?
Ray, nice color saturation and detail in this. Leighton surely likes the door!
Colin, nice snow scene. Do you get much of this in a typical winter?
Scott,
No, not much in the south of England. Usually only a few inches a couple of times each winter and some years we will get none, some years more.
With a maritime climate it doesn't stay around long. It warmed up a few degrees so most of it will be gone by tomorrow morning.
Hadn't thought of that. Guess it was a twofer.
