Disaster struck not far from home today. Sad for the people involved. I saw the fire from the frozen lake where I was out shooting with my Contax 120mm macro (first image). Went home and changed lens to Contax 50mm f1.4 and went to the site to get some photos.
Thanks for the warm welcome! Lots of nice photos since my last post, especially sebboh's heron and Jacob's trees. plasticmotif's Tokina shots were also very nice, even though they remind my of my lost bokina :P Long story short: bought bokina online, arrived with non-functional aperture, Swedish postal service lost it on the way to repair. Still feel a bit sad that there's a bokina all alone and lost out there.
I got a C/Y Sonnar 85/2.8 and some extension tubes instead, here's some oddly colored wood anemones I shot last spring with it:
And when I got tired of fiddling with the tubes I got the C/Y S-Planar 60/2.8:
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Thanks for the warm welcome! Lots of nice photos since my last post, especially sebboh's heron and Jacob's trees. plasticmotif's Tokina shots were also very nice, even though they remind my of my lost bokina :P Long story short: bought bokina online, arrived with non-functional aperture, Swedish postal service lost it on the way to repair. Still feel a bit sad that there's a bokina all alone and lost out there.
I got a C/Y Sonnar 85/2.8 and some extension tubes instead, here's some oddly colored wood anemones I shot last spring with it:
Mine is the Bokina Sorry to hear your bad luck with the lens.
You two with the flower shots! Enough already. I don't need another reason for more glass but you aren't helping me resist a nice macro. Beautiful shots.
Norfolk Western ran a steam excursion through the area over the last couple of days. Got this one when it steamed through Bedford Va. Nex7 contax 90 F2 G.
I miss the desert. I don't miss the traffic and other big city stuff of Phoenix but I miss the wilderness of Arizona. Love the shots of the desert and especially the Superstitions. Great shots Ebookman.
Any more from the Grand Canyon State. I'm partial to Northern Az.
I'm not quite old enough to remember steam locomotives, so I live vicariously through fine photographs of them, like your dynamic shot above. Everything is well done—composition, depth, motion, and the processing as a monochrome. Thanks for the "new" memory!
I'm not quite old enough to remember steam locomotives, so I live vicariously through fine photographs of them, like your dynamic shot above. Everything is well done—composition, depth, motion, and the processing as a monochrome. Thanks for the "new" memory!
Thanks, I'm extremely happy with this one, after my first attempts at shooting it I almost bagged it and went home. It was an out and back run. On the way out I tried to get some shots and failed miserably. I was trying to juggle focus and was trying to shoot continuously which blacked out the screen too much. It was my first 'action' shooting since switching from an SLR and I wasn't ready for the limitations.
For the second shot of it coming back through I set everything up much more carefully and decided I'd have time for about 3 shots as it went by at 45 mph. This is number two. The others were good but this one hit the mark.
Sorry to hear your bad luck with the lens.
All with kit lens, except the flower shot, Canon 50mm 1.4. 
