gbohannon wrote:
Nice looking fire in that fireplace. Especially on another cold and wet weekend here.
Was a bad decision when I converted mine to gas. Made sense 18 years ago, but I can't remember the reason now.
San Diego Gas and Electric comes around clearing trees from the power lines, they leave all the branches to one side so I go collect them, result is I have more wood than I could burn. The fireplace has gas as well so I use that to start the fire.
it's a long time from my last post, a little lack of motivations for shooting and, shame on me, some new interest for M42 lenses, there are a lot of good lenses by a lot of lens makers for very cheap prices.
A few days ago I had to go to Venice for a few hours and I took with me the 35-70mm f/3.5 AIS to try it on my SonyA7RII.
This is the statue of writer and Italian patriot Nicholas Tommaseo, work of sculptor Francesco Barzaghi in 1882.
As soon as the statue was raised on the actual location, they realized that it was quite unstable and precarious and so the sculptor decided to had some books on the floor in order to give it one more support.
In front of the statue the books look well integrated, but from the back the effect is quite hilarious and venetian citizens very quickly started to call the statue with the still in use nickname of "il cagalibri (the bookshitter)", you can get the reason from this back picture.
Oosty wrote:
I might have got mixed up with "defishing" - what I intend to say is that I like the w/a view in a conventional rectangular format and don't like the circular pictures which don't gel with what I'm used to! But I am nearly 75 and a bit of an old f**t !
I used to fret over these curved lines. But sometimes it's the curve that makes the image. Below view of the early dawn from Mount Whitney would be dull if it was all straight
raboof wrote:
I took a quick trip tonight but didn't get anything interesting. Found out that the 15mm f5.6 QC is much better flare control than the 15mm f5.6 AI.
It does better than my eyes one month after LASIK surgery. My halos around street lights are about 4 times that size. Getting better every week, though. Lens will always be the same
pburke wrote:
I used to fret over these curved lines. But sometimes it's the curve that makes the image. Below view of the early dawn from Mount Whitney would be dull if it was all straight
