My bedroom window on the Harbor and Bay of Algiers
Bedroom - It was huge!
The sitting area. I think I used flash and a 28mm lens.
Balcony of Eisenhower's Room (Hq) at the Saint Georges Hotel in Algiers
Room where the Allied invasion of So. Europe was planned. St Georges (El-Dejazair) hotel, Algiers
I can swear there ain't no heaven but I pray there ain't no hell. _ Blood Sweat & Tears
i have arranged appointments with a regular weekly client which takes me on a road west to cortona, up to 1700m. then down to lower views of the val di chiana and the very end of lake trasimeno.
heading this way the effect of there being many sunsets in a row as i head up then down over the mountains.
and the client loves the pix, so if it's particularly good photo weather, it's ok to be a bit late, it's understood! ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
i like the stark carbon lines of the tree, with the wispy clouds in similar tones. ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
i love how nature blends even the dullest winter colours and makes harmony of them. the composition of this shot reminds me of the famous japanese lithograph of the wave, the line of the hill, and the curling mist. ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
tiny jewels beneath our feet, like your crab! ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
Super photo, melo.
Hey, Grandma Moses started late!
"What can I do, What can I write, Against the fall of Night". A.E. Housman
1/100th of the way there... Thanks to all of you who have made this possible.
Mr. Horst Wagner of Austria, please come to the ticket window to pick up your prize!
Sorry for not following protocol, but I'm like that! ;-)
You can always argue you wanted a slanted horizon for a dynamic effect :-)
Do they still have those "sawn together" fishing boats at Puri ? The one I see seems more modern ! "What can I do, What can I write, Against the fall of Night". A.E. Housman
I don't know about boats you asking, some were simple, others with modern motors, I did not go further into village as beach behind these children was sadly turned into public toilet.
Bubaneshwar and it's "chariot" temple is quite a sight :-)
I'll have to scan those slides one day, if I can find them...!!! "What can I do, What can I write, Against the fall of Night". A.E. Housman
That's a 100% crop from the D70s with the 70-200mm 2.8 AF-S G IF VR (etc) that we picked up last week: the bird is a little dot taking up a few percent of the original exposure - it was far, far, too far away.
The VR is great: it gives you two or three stops worth and the newer lenses with VR II are meant to give you three or four. I was shooting with the thing last week at the stables - just playing with it, there was nothing much happening- and was getting sharp shots at 1/30s at 200mm, which is silly.
you are the media you consume.
Will now have to get out and practice using it to get some more interesting subjects... We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. Oscar Wilde
And can we suggest names? After all a Euro baby should really have something international rather than parochial... You can't be me, I'm taken
(...nearly missed it as I'd run out of film on the roll!!) We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. Oscar Wilde
...I think this was in the Imperial Palace. Again taken with the Nikkormat FT3. We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. Oscar Wilde
Bundled up for the cold...
With the parental units...
One of the best costumes!
They are yelling "HALLO", so cute...
Trampoline on a float? Dangerous!
Good view from here...
The cheer squad...
Farmer by day...
My competition! He's got better equipment...
Quite the ham...
I love draft horses, we had Belgians while I was growing up...
FREE BEER!
Love the cat on the sax...
What a set of teats!
John, is that you?
Dixieland jazz...
Hmm, can I get to that candy before the next float runs me over?
Everybody was dancin', dancin' in the streets!
He knew exactly what I was doing...
The best dressed ladies!
Fabulous!
Pooped from all that partying...
What are Dad and I standing in front of?
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The trunk of a fallen giant along the Avenue of the Giants in N. CAl. Dad is 6"1'. "I said, 'Wait a minute, Chester, You know I'm a peaceful man...'" Robbie Robertson
The usual advice (If I may...) is to "expose to the right", meaning for the highlights, as with the usual softwares, getting back details from the shadows (even with some noise or grain) is mostly always possible while the overexposed parts are usually lost...
It's the "bane" of digital sensors up to now...! "What can I do, What can I write, Against the fall of Night". A.E. Housman
There's often something inspiring in looking at what was at the moment a "bad" picture... It can have strength and a value we didn't see at the shooting time (like In Whales' crab) !
Limiting oneself to one shot of a given scene gets back to what Colman called "thinking" with primes, some replies up there ! If it ain't good enough... You'll try again another day... And if it's an unique event ? Then one shot should suffice anyhow ! (I'm thinking of Robert Capa's pictures of D-Day)
In the "golden sixties" with "Blow up" (the film) the whirr and the schlack of motorized reflex cameras was the bang... It still is in media rooms! But maybe not for most of us who try to capture the essence of the instant... In one frame !
Otherwise it's already movie directing... :-) "What can I do, What can I write, Against the fall of Night". A.E. Housman
This picture is from a street at dusk, between the districts of Fener and Balat. About half an hour walk from the more sight seeing zones of the golden horn. End of Ramadan explains the "emptiness" as everybody was poised to get to the shops to buy food... :-)
The main draw back might be the metering... The D200 allows for using the three metering modes with all old lenses in A and M modes... You can also memorize those lenses so as they show in the exif file.
I used them on my D70 but had to rely on the "sunny 16" technique or shoot , view, and shoot again after some aperture or speed modifications... Great for not fast moving subjects (meaning really slow :-) )
The manual focusing can be much more precise then AF, and the focusing ring has a much better feeling and has more "room" the the new AF ones! "What can I do, What can I write, Against the fall of Night". A.E. Housman
I use my old ones... Because I can ! And because I have them already. I did buy the 28/2 because it was sold at 150€ at a recent time when most thought old lenses were useless on digital... Seems that now, prices have gone up again (sigh)! "What can I do, What can I write, Against the fall of Night". A.E. Housman
Maybe you should have a look at this "web critique" blog together (if you didn't know about it already) :-) "What can I do, What can I write, Against the fall of Night". A.E. Housman
Even if "revolutionaries", those young people still abide by old lore and young couples are seldom seen... But as a "bunch" or as here, two by two, it doesn't seems too suspect ! The romantic sunset is always marred by several huge container cargo ships, as Izmir was already a high level trade port in neolithic times :-)
