saph wrote:
After running into Scott at the Udvar Hazy museum (what a coincidence, huh? ) last Saturday I ran into a whole pile of work. A roll of film is still inside the Makina, undeveloped. There's still more Z6 pics to look through from the meetup.
And have barely seen anything from Scott yet.
Here's one more of the SR-71 with the Z6 and the 5cm f2 LTM Nikkor, hopefully to prompt Scott to get going on his stash
Doug, the Enola Gay nose section came to the Dulles museum. That's all they had for a while. Now the whole airplane is on display. Although looks like a middle part of the fuselage is non-original.
I am jealous of Laura since the Dayton museum allows tripods. NO museums here allow anything like a tripod or monopod.
Two whole buildings since you've been here. They also consolidated the Presidential and R&D Galleries back to the non-secure side, into building 4, no need to try to get a reservation on a bus to be driven over. I love having it in "my backyard" so to speak, and I'll take new gear there to give it a test in the dark, although they're also changing the lighting from the tungsten to LED.
Plan at least 3 days, if not more, to really see everything in there.
graytrekker wrote:
Laura: Thx for those links It looks like it has grown quite a bit from what I saw in 1993. Love the flying saucer and Kennedy's Air Force One. I would love to visit again someday!
Cheers - Doug
The Columbia River Gorge—Washington in foreground; Oregon on the other side of the river.
First 2 shots with 25-50/4 AI-s; last 2 with 75-150/3.5 E. All on Df.
Many burned and dead trees can be seen on the Oregon side, a consequence of the Eagle Creek fire. It was ignited 2 years ago by a 15-year old boy throwing a smokebomb into dry brush during a burn ban. It burned for 3 months and smoldered for at least 9 months, burning 50,000 acres. The smoke in Portland was like a dense fog at times. Many hiking trails are still closed and may be for for years to come.
In a vain attempt to capture the (in)famous "doughnut" bokeh of the 500mm f8 mirror lens i shot this pincushion protea which has just come into bloom. Playing around in Nikon Capture which I downloaded a couple of days ago I made a .tiff file and then into PSE and Nik Color efex. I didn't get the doughnuts but quite liked the result - still quite a lens, IMO
Ballard wrote:
The Columbia River Gorge—Washington in foreground; Oregon on the other side of the river.
First 2 shots with 25-50/4 AI-s; last 2 with 75-150/3.5 E. All on Df.
Many burned and dead trees can be seen on the Oregon side, a consequence of the Eagle Creek fire. It was ignited 2 years ago by a 15-year old boy throwing a smokebomb into dry brush during a burn ban. It burned for 3 months and smoldered for at least 9 months, burning 50,000 acres. The smoke in Portland was like a dense fog at times. Many hiking trails are still closed and may be for for years to come. ...Show more →
Love these landscape shots. You got some really dramatic and beautiful nature there!
Too bad about the fire. People should really be aware and educated about the hazards and risks about wild fires.
We've had fire bans on a lot of parts of Sweden this summer. Still people dont seem to understand and respect those bans...
A year ago we had huge forest fires as well...
Loving the space shuttle and SR-71 shots Samy and Scott, the cars as usual Rafael and the spectacular scenery Ken and a nice protea Peter, a beautiful flower we don't get here.
Big welcome to the thread for pja7 from my home country, what's your name etc. ?
Great colours in the 1st post, what event was that ? and that 2nd post is Genie-us
If you want to check lens details go to the bible for mf nikkors - www.photosynthesis.co.nz and check your S/N
Good to see you out and about James after your recent travails, lovely scenery and you can't beat a farmers market for colours and subjects to shoot.
) last Saturday I ran into a whole pile of work. A roll of film is still inside the Makina, undeveloped. There's still more Z6 pics to look through from the meetup. 
