Zichar wrote:
I... just returned from South Australia. Last Thursday, I lost control of the rental car while doing ~70. Loose gravel at the sides. Veered into the opposite side and slammed into a tree, with airbags deployed. We walked out without much injuries, couple of bruises, lacerations on my arm. Car's totalled (the rental agency and now the insurance guys are, less pleased) but I feel absolutely lucky we're all alive.
Ouch ! Glad you're ok ! Especially as we'll be in Singapore next July and wanted to catch up
You know you're only supposed to drive on the gravel bits when someone is coming the other way don't you ?
Some fantastic recent pix ..... I've been away in Malta for a couple of weeks and missed so much.
But you folks keep posting and there is a rich seam of images to learn from and enjoy.
My time in Malta ended up being spent chasing around people and places that my wife knew, and some I had visited.
She used to live there 50 years ago. So lots of relationships to recapture and reminiscing to be done.
We stayed at the Dolmen Hotel in Qawra - quality place.
Sunset over St. Pauls Bay whilst enjoying dinner each night. .....
Finally travelled with D810 + 25-50mm f4 and SB-910 - really light travel kit.
Anyway .... let's share a few pictures from the trip.
Steve
Nikon MF on tour
Stokesey 2019
Fine dining with wonderful sunset over the bay
Stokesey 2019
Buggiba bay front, view from hotel dining room
Stokesey 2019
One of Maltas old buses, a shame they have done away with all the old ones
Stokesey 2019
The hire car I had ..... I have shoes bigger than this !!
How about some market goods, in colour for the full experience
Carrots are red in India. Did you know they were originally purple until the Dutch bred Orange ones, and that orange is now synonimous with the colour orange now?
Scary stuff. Glad you were able to walk away relatively unscathed.
Colin
Zichar wrote:
I... just returned from South Australia. Last Thursday, I lost control of the rental car while doing ~70. Loose gravel at the sides. Veered into the opposite side and slammed into a tree, with airbags deployed. We walked out without much injuries, couple of bruises, lacerations on my arm. Car's totalled (the rental agency and now the insurance guys are, less pleased) but I feel absolutely lucky we're all alive.
I pulled out my 16mm f3.5 Fisheye Auto for a walk later this evening, then reviewed a few shots taken with it while I lived in Tasmania. Here's a good example of its output...
cadman342001 wrote:
How about some market goods, in colour for the full experience
Carrots are red in India. Did you know they were originally purple until the Dutch bred Orange ones, and that orange is now synonimous with the colour orange now?
Nice vibrant images! Given how I am not liking my Z7 with FTZ Autofocus I am now thinking of taken MF lenses with me, the question now is which to take.
Chin, glad to hear you and your family were all safe in the mishap!
Those red carrots are actually sweet. Somehow the orange cultivated ones did not carry forth the natural flavour of carrots. Andy I am sure you didn't try a close up of the ground chillies with a wide angle
Lose track of where all you have been David but have definitely enjoyed seeing Tasmania through your posts!
Steve good to see your Nikon on Nikon traveling to Malta!
Laura cute little car!
Jay, always good to see what you do with the 24 PC-E.
Zichar wrote:
I... just returned from South Australia. Last Thursday, I lost control of the rental car while doing ~70. Loose gravel at the sides. Veered into the opposite side and slammed into a tree, with airbags deployed. We walked out without much injuries, couple of bruises, lacerations on my arm. Car's totalled (the rental agency and now the insurance guys are, less pleased) but I feel absolutely lucky we're all alive.
Startling news Chin... so glad that no-one was hurt! I've come close to an accident in Oz several times (usually at dusk when 'roos are coming out of nowhere from the bush, crossing the road), but thankfully have managed to avoid a collision.
No worries about 'roos in Canada, however up in northern Ontario, where this pano was taken, one has to be aware of deer at dusk doing exactly the same thing! Here's a pano captured with my nearly 50 year old 55mm f1.2 SC Auto....
rafaelcasd wrote:
The 105mm 4.0 bellows screwed with no reversing in front of a 105mm 4.0 macro is the best optical quality of all.
Now need to wait some long weeks until the horrible Brazilian Post will decide to deliver it to me...
Consider that the pattern is: 4-7 days to arrive in Brazil...3-6 weeks to arrive at my home...
Apparently it is a "Rafael's condition" lens
And according to serials at photosynthesis.co.nz this is one of the last if not the last lens made of this model in 1974!
Always very good prices and excellent lens condition from Japan's Ebay sellers.
Jose, I’m sure you’re going to enjoy this 105/4 bellows lens. I almost bought a used copy years ago that I ran across in a camera store. It was grossly overpriced, and I’m glad I came to my senses. I later found a used AI-s version which I really like. The convenience of having a focusing helicoid plus the fact that it is multi-coated (which the earlier bellows version isn’t) makes me glad I waited. But I’m still not-so-secretly envious of you locating a pristine copy of the bellows version. Not only is this a wonderfully sharp lens, but I find the OOF rendition very pleasing.
When I was up (down under) we camped on a camping in Cape Tribulation. Fantastic place. Even though we were a bit scared of all those bugs one can find in the rainforest...
Your shots brought me back 16 years..
/Kristian
cadman342001 wrote:
However, I did promise that I would post pics from the camping at the NP rainforest end of the lake
Sorry if you think some of the pics a bit dark, that is how it is in the forest.
Sorry so many pics !
Loving the Z6 ! Only thing I would like is film presets like the Fujis have.
Mature strangler fig, you can see how it's vine like structure has criss crossed the host tree, eventually swallowing it's trunk. The large buttress roots mean that the fig can stand up on it's own even after the host tree inside dies and rots away
When I was up (down under) we camped on a camping in Cape Tribulation. Fantastic place. Even though we were a bit scared of all those bugs one can find in the rainforest...
Your shots brought me back 16 years..
/Kristian
Thanks Kristian ! I love bugs ! They're all pretty harmless. My mother in law cowered nervously under a mosquito net when we took her and the father in law up to Cape Trib.
I have just today received a new flash for macro, basically a Meike version of the Nikon R1C1 twin wireless macro flashes or Canon MT24EX mounted on the end of the lens.
Gotta get back into macro practice as we are stopping in Borneo for 2 weeks on the way back from the UK next August
Now there you will see some crazy insects !
Just need to save for the 200-500mm now for wildlife stuff
