Sorry that I am unable to participate regularly due to sporadic net connectivity. Wanted to share pictures from my travel.
Below photo is my Nephew playing mridangam, a traditional percussion instrument. Playing Mrudangam by Ramkumar Sangameshwar, on Flickr
Belated 7th everyone!! Pleasure to be here in exalted company and learn so much!
Have enjoyed every minute of it. Thank you Curtis and everyone who call this place home!
You make this journey worthwhile indeed!
a storm drain from last week.
Df & 50 f/1.2 AIS - wide open
leighton w wrote:
We can plant the brassica family now. It wont hurt it to get frosted on sometime in October. We hope to have most of it harvested before then.
Love the pic of Anna, we finally get to meet your better half.
Thanks so much Leighton. She is not always very happy when I take pictures of her. But sometimes she is. What better place to do it while hiking in the woods
CGrindahl wrote:
Actually Ben, you're a Johnny-come-lately to this adventure, arriving shortly before we decided to send a lens around the world... AND you disappeared for at least a year when you lost your soul to Sony and Leica. Of course, we're a forgiving lot, so we were happy when you decided to follow your jousting partner Phillipe back into the fold. Now it seems you've always been with us. Clearly, your obstreperous spirit fits with the tenor of this group...
I recall when we did an exercise with folks noting the date of their initial post on this thread. I looked for that list but alas I couldn't find it. I know that Laura arrived before any of the other regulars, followed by Donald Jean who now visits rarely. Funny that some folks come for a brief visit and others choose to hang out over the long haul. Yes, enthusiasm for photography can ebb and flow, but for those who call this corner of cyberspace home, this seems simply to work. I know I never tire of stopping by for a visit, or, when the muse is speaking, share photos I've taken. Perhaps there is another year left in this adventure... ...Show more →
Oh Curtis - you couldn't resist could you? And you call ME obstreperous? When you first called me "Johnny-come-lately" some years ago it seemed like a cheap shot as I'd been on the thread for some time at that stage but I thought; let him have it, he's got to have something to level at me and if the worst he has to say is that he was here first then that's pretty minor in the scheme of things. But here we are some years down the track, you're the one who's mostly MIA, yet you pop your head up once in a blue moon and say 'kit building is forever', and Ben is a 'Johnny-come-lately' and disappear again.
As the years go by that jibe just doesn't work. You'll have to find another stick to beat me with, and no, 'obstreperous' doesn't cut it.
Curtis, you need to visit more often and you're going to need a stronger gambit, cause I'm here and waiting sir.
Lieutenant Z wrote:
Ram & Lestor, I love your b/w shots ^^^^
Sony A7s & 55/1.2 ai :
+1
Ram and Lestor - love the B&Ws. Ram, such lovely light in that pic.
Philippe - another amazing shot. I love the one on Flickr, that blew me away and this is great too. Does this kid take a bad photo? Actually, whoever's dressing him has a great sense of style; that T shirt, the 3/4 pants with the turned up ends and that hat to top it off....I want them to dress me. I throw on whatever's closest, and after looking at him, I'm starting to feel like a complete slob.
Great eclipse shots all. You were all more committed than I (with ~70% occlusion and 105/2.5 and film). Perhaps I'll fare better in 2024. The center of totality passes within 30 miles of my house and the D850 might have come down in price enough for me to upgrade to a newer body with more modern technology.
Happy 7th anniversary everyone. It's been a good ride with lots of good pictures, and even more great banter.
For those interested, here's a link to a video I made during just before to just after totality.
Not shot on a Nikon camera or using a Nikon lens, but you do see me tending to the 400/5.6 and 600/5.6 just out of the frame
CGrindahl wrote:
Perhaps this thread has reached the end of its life. I feel a need to add what might be a postscript.
I've been watching many of Nikon's great manual focus lenses languish on the Buy and Sell board, lenses that are being sold at prices below what is being charged for rather mundane consumer glass. I relate the story above about the Japanese gentleman who sold me his 35 f/2 AI-s who had recently bought his first digital camera and was switching to AF lenses. I understand that the vast majority of photographers relish the use of AF zoom lenses. A smaller set of photographers will shoot with prime lenses, but again, most of them prefer AF lenses. Clearly, the number of folks who prefer prime lenses who ALSO are content with manual focus is VERY small. AND, consider that the price of entry for that rather exclusive club is generally ownership of a full frame camera that can cost from $2,000 to $8,000.
I started this thread because of the joy I was experiencing shooting with these gorgeous lenses. And that was BEFORE I took a trip to the Netherlands with ONLY MF lenses. I've been processing the 2800 images and am even more impressed with what these lenses produce on my D700. I found during the trip that it is EASY to shoot MF, no doubt in large measure because these lenses are so beautifully crafted and the D700 viewfinder gives me such a bright image with which to work. And having five lenses with a camera, extra cards, lens brush, extra battery in a rather small shoulder bag is sweet as well.
So I'm reconciled that not every Nikon shooter will gravitate toward old Nikon MF glass, but it doesn't trouble me at all. I may or may not add to my collection of such lenses, but I'll surely keep enjoying them. If anything from my kit is sold it will either be Canon gear or Nikon AF lenses...
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Curtis,
Going back nostalgically to my 1st board post in 2010 I came across the above posted on Oct 3, 2010.
Just goes to show when you open Pandora's box!
I really like the line " I may or may not add to my collection of such lenses".
Thanks again for starting this thread which binds together such a cordial group of people.
jhinkey wrote:
For those interested, here's a link to a video I made during just before to just after totality.
Not shot on a Nikon camera or using a Nikon lens, but you do see me tending to the 400/5.6 and 600/5.6 just out of the frame
DeltaSigma wrote:
Thanks for sharing - I wonder what the view was like for the occupants of the plane looking down onto the surface of the earth.
What was really interesting, if I had not cut it out of the video 1/2 hour later on, is that while we were watching through telescopes/camera lenses at the ~30% occluded sun post totality, a jet on a very similar flight path passed right in front of the sun. Though we all saw it, none of us were fast enough on the camera shutter to get the plane in front of the sun - would have been a fantastic image! It was fantastic enough seeing it in live view.
