Tonight we´ll take the car and drive to a dark place with clear skies. Well, that´s the plan...
If we are lucky we´ll be able to shoot the perseid meteor shower. Let´s see how that goes since most of the sky is grey and very few places around with little light pollution.
For now, here´s a couple from december shot with the 28/2.8 ais. Cliffs by Kristian Hagelin, on Flickr
mp356 wrote:
I found it has to be stopped down to f8-f11 to get the best from it. Here are a few taken on a DX body. The last was shot at f22.
Scott, I’m always amazed at the work you produce with the 25-50/4. My copy of it badly needs the focusing helicoid lubed, but I can’t part with it until the autumn rains set it.
The 5.5cm Micro-Nikkor has a thin barrel lip overhanging its rear mount. The lip moves ever closer to the camera the further out you move away from macro distance. On the Df, the clearance lets you get to just over 3 feet before you run out of space. That's probably about the distance I was at for this shot. Not that there's a burning need to use this lens at infinity.
The 5.5cm Micro-Nikkor has a thin barrel lip overhanging its rear mount. The lip moves ever closer to the camera the further out you move away from macro distance. On the Df, the clearance lets you get to just over 3 feet before you run out of space. That's probably about the distance I was at for this shot. Not that there's a burning need to use this lens at infinity.
Hi, gang. Here a few shots (from a recent Northern California trip) of a very interesting structure in the community of Sea Ranch.
It's a nondenominational chapel that was designed by San Diego architect James Hubbell and constructed by local artisans in the 1980's. The building's lines and its combination of cedar, teak, stone, brass, copper and stained glass elements are unusual and very eye-catching.
Unfortunately, as you can see in the third photo, plywood has been placed in two sections of the front door where stained glass used to be. In May, someone broke the glass, entered the chapel after hours and made off with the collection box. Very bad karma, to be sure. The foundation that operates the chapel is raising funds to replace the stained glass.
