GeorgeBo wrote:
Enjoyed the series Glen That is what is so great about this thread. A travelog sometimes and get to see things I would never see on my own. Really enjoyable
Thanks George! I agree: see my comment about Serge's post.
serge07 wrote:
Glen, great photos and processing. It is a very nice look.
X-E1 + h.c 50/2
Serge
Thanks Serge! I continue to greatly enjoy the vicarious tour of Europe you provide through your skillful use of your X-E1.
rafaelcasd wrote:
All your Fort Williams photos are great Glen, but the last one takes you back in time, the processing makers you feel like a time travel to 1870.
Thanks Rafael. That is a fine set of flower photos you posted today!
pbraymond wrote:
Glen, I've heard about birch bark canoes but pretty sure this is the first time I've seen pictures. Thanks for sharing and making them look really old with the PP.
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Playing with 2023 shots. 200mm f4.0 Micro AI, starting with a built in LR b&w preset.
Thanks Ray. That water lily image is poster-worthy!
Here is my final set of photos from the flight museum outside Winnipeg, along with a very last image from Fort William that got left behind on my hard drive. These were all shot with the Fuji X-E2 and the first three, at least, were taken with the 16 f/3.5 Ai fisheye.
The Washington DC Air and Space Museum is open during renovations but most of the exhibits are not available. This is the Boeing 247-D; the silver plane partly visibly above is an Eastern Air Lines DC-3
Rafael, I went looking for this lens on the photosynthesis site, and indeed, it points to your flickr photo!
rafaelcasd wrote:
Masterful composition Ray.
Give a photog any lens and the results will be similar. We love these lenses and some have unique rendering, but the mind and the subject are the majority of the photograph.
The rarest rangefinder Nikkor lens: R-Nikkor 5cm 3.5, only known copy in world . (feel like a circus ringmaster when I say that!)
Same flowers but someone rearranged them on the vase, can't duplicate the 55mm 1.2 'O' photos. Vignetting added.
serge07 wrote:
Siphiwe, glad the you enjoy the photos.
I am not traveling at this time but that will change the second half of April. Hope I can manage to take a few decent photos along the way to post in the forum.
You must have a super nice garden. We have nothing but bare limbs around here but that will change in 2-3 weeks with the arrival of spring.
Serge
Cool. Looking forward to your travels again. Garden is wife's passion but for me, peak garden is Spring. Fresh blooms, clean foliage, polite sunshine. 95 deg F (tomorrow) is not my idea of fun. I think the plants agree.
saph wrote:
Rafael, I went looking for this lens on the photosynthesis site, and indeed, it points to your flickr photo!
In their Japan museum Nikon exhibits documentation for the design of this lens and samples of the document microfilming it was intended for - But they do not show the lens, so I figure, for now at least, I have the one and only known copy of this lens. The R-Nikkor is the prototype for the first Micro- Nikkor.
rafaelcasd wrote:
Great photo Kingfish! on owl is very masculine, the other very feminine, amazing.
Rafael.
Istarted with the male for many images, then the female arrived and perched on several rocks, post etc, and left. The male t hey went into the cry, miss you mode and much nois e e tc. T hen she came back and lande d near him, but kind od kept her distance. T hose cries and feathers r uffled would have made a great video.
Harry
Loved the owl shot Harry ! I have seen a few shots of these Burrowing Owls, I presume they are not nocturnal? And endemic to the Americas ?
Here's a pano using the 105/1.8 from the shore of Lake Wakatipu with snowy mountains behind, luxury hotel on the lakeside beyond. Wide open on the GFX50S
Wow Andy! Looks awesome! Viewing from my iPad and can’t wait to see it on the big monitor. Really like the background rendering from shooting wide open.
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cadman342001 wrote:
Loved the owl shot Harry ! I have seen a few shots of these Burrowing Owls, I presume they are not nocturnal? And endemic to the Americas ?
Here's a pano using the 105/1.8 from the shore of Lake Wakatipu with snowy mountains behind, luxury hotel on the lakeside beyond. Wide open on the GFX50S
Nice Matt! If you don't mind me asking, what was your exposure setting for that shot?
AdaptedLenses wrote:
George, love that last shot with the Millennium and Andy, that’s outstanding. Does the structure have a purpose? Or just someone having fun.
One from the other morning, hint of the Milky Way. AIS 28mm f/2.8, need to get a taller tripod next time.
Top notch delivery, Andy and the early morning wiz, Matt. Are things warming up nicely now, Matt or is the warmth of the above picture fooling me?
We are going to try and move things along, one shot at a time. No idea what these are. Google Lens answers aren't convincing but all I know is I've never seen them before. Very short flowers I had to lie on the ground to make it happen.
Df + AI Micro NIKKOR 55mm f/2.8S | F5.6 ISO 800 +0.67EV
20 Seconds at ISO 1250. I think I was at f/4 but might have been 2.8. I had a little Manfrotto pocket tripod sitting on the pipe. I took some others of the pipe which I might go back too because it’s kind of interesting, but they were all much less sharp (high ISO and handheld.)
And the warmth is completely misleading. It was trending warmer but slipped back into the upper 30s the past couple of days.
GeorgeBo wrote:
Nice Matt! If you don't mind me asking, what was your exposure setting for that shot?
GroWeb wrote:
Thanks George! I agree: see my comment about Serge's post.
Thanks Serge! I continue to greatly enjoy the vicarious tour of Europe you provide through your skillful use of your X-E1.
Thanks Rafael. That is a fine set of flower photos you posted today!
Thanks Ray. That water lily image is poster-worthy!
Here is my final set of photos from the flight museum outside Winnipeg, along with a very last image from Fort William that got left behind on my hard drive. These were all shot with the Fuji X-E2 and the first three, at least, were taken with the 16 f/3.5 Ai fisheye.
Thanks, Glen and glad you enjoy the travel photos.
I seem to enjoy cameras with quirks and its simplicity and small size/weight are huge plusses when traveling. On these trips, the camera bag is with me 10-12 hours daily. The camera has been through all sorts of weather and still looks like the day it was purchased.
You have been posting excellent photographs with the X-E2 which in my view was the last great X-E design. Do you still have the X-E2, nothing wrong with the 16mp chip.
My youngest is a performance percussionist. He owns more mallets & sticks than anyone I know, and I have seen him use six at a time. The far corner of the "music" room is his mallet rack. A metal twin bed frame with a hanging shoe organizer lashed to it. He collects triangles, bell sets, drum sets, odd drums, tambourines, drum sticks etc - plus he designs and manufacturers many of the same items.
James Markus wrote:
My youngest is a performance percussionist. He owns more mallets & sticks than anyone I know, and I have seen him use six at a time. The far corner of the "music" room is his mallet rack. A metal twin bed frame with a hanging shoe organizer lashed to it. He collects triangles, bell sets, drum sets, odd drums, tambourines, drum sticks etc - plus he designs and manufacturers many of the same items.
I don’t think I have ever thought to use a teleconverter with anything shorter than a 135mm. These kind of have a feel like using a 35 on a good crop sensor. I like these a lot!
That is what is so great about this thread. A travelog sometimes and get to see things I would never see on my own. Really enjoyable 
. (feel like a circus ringmaster when I say that!) 
