cadman342001 wrote:
Just read on Leighton's Homestead Farm Facebook page that he is having a major op to remove a liver tumour.
Get well soon Big fella !
Thank you all for the kind words and encouragement. The prognosis looks good at this point. The only bad part is that I'll be out of commission for up to 8 weeks after. Bad timing for Barbara and I.
I will try to post an update after my surgery.
This really IS a special place in cyberspace and the only place I feel truly at home. Keep the pics coming, I'll need something to look at.
pburke wrote:
today I went deep in my MF archives - D7000 shots from July 2012 with the 300mm f/4.5 AI EDIF. Similar images were processed and probably posted here 5 years ago, but these are definitely new takes of those three planes seen in Oshkosh at the EAA that summer
leighton w wrote:
Thank you all for the kind words and encouragement. The prognosis looks good at this point. The only bad part is that I'll be out of commission for up to 8 weeks after. Bad timing for Barbara and I.
I will try to post an update after my surgery.
This really IS a special place in cyberspace and the only place I feel truly at home. Keep the pics coming, I'll need something to look at.
Now that's the best news I've had in a long time!
Jack
leighton w wrote:
Thank you all for the kind words and encouragement. The prognosis looks good at this point. The only bad part is that I'll be out of commission for up to 8 weeks after. Bad timing for Barbara and I.
I will try to post an update after my surgery.
This really IS a special place in cyberspace and the only place I feel truly at home. Keep the pics coming, I'll need something to look at.
These are good news Leighton!
Come on, we are all waiting for your farm pictures.
Let's go from warships to weeds, from 50-300mm 4.5 to 200mm 5.6 Medical with no aux lens and with the .5 lens. The 200mm medical has the best macro bokeh I know of.
Wall frescoes from Livia's Villa (originally in the suburbs of Rome), made around 30-20 BC and rediscovered in 1863.
The remains of the paintings show gardens with plenty of birds, fruits and flowers. Even after 2000 years and the increasing critical condition of the frescoes, I think they are still marvelous.
For me, an ornithologist, they show several species and ecological relationships as one of the first records of frugivory by birds.
I had to wait patiently some 30 minutes to be alone in the exhibition room at Palazzo Massimo, in order to shoot several images to do the panos of the 4 walls.
D610 + Nikkor 25-50mm f/4 ai-s @ 50mm, ISO 3200, f/8 at 1/20-1/60s. "Poor man VR" technique, 3-4 shots/sec of each framing, then chose the not blurred one.
Next days I am going to edit close ups of some of the best (less deteriorated) birds in the walls with the 75-150 at 150mm.
Bad timing for Barbara and I.
