Nikon WedNEsDAy PiC #46

<p>Lawrence, thanks. Infact I forgot to mention thats Larnaca Airport on Cyprus, a good spotting place, or sunbathing, depending on the season.<br />Aguilnaldo, that was a good idea to illuminate with the torch, it certainly worked.<br />Steve H , thanks, it must have been a great experience, but conditions for the photographer can be difficult. Even at 75 mph its quite a slipstream in open cockpit conditions. I know, I lost my glasses whilst sitting in a helicopter with no door. The moment I stuck my head out into the slipstream, whoosh, they were gone. The reason I stuck it out was because something was bursting to come out, but thats another story.... Flying and concentrating on the camera too much does sometimes bring on an unwanted side effect, thats why you don't want to be fuddling with too many lenses and stuff.<br>

There are times when a saying comes to mind that says, "better to be on the ground and wishing you were in the air, rather than being in the air and wishing you were on the ground" Have a nice day.</p>

<p>Thank you Lil, it's good to know what I aimed the Sigma at. Luckily, that guy was not alone in his far travelling, it seems that he brought his spouse as well.... :) (she was the more modest bird, eating grass just a few feet behind him)</p>

<p>Paul sooHoo, that's an amazing shot!</p>

 

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<p>Dan South: Thank You! for the comment on reptile picture. I appreciate it.</p>

<p>Thanks,<br>

Ray</p>

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<p>This Wednesday thread continues are add spark every week. Thank you all for you terrific contributions. I really like the spirit of this thread.</p>

<p>As usual, I'll just mention the images that particularly caught my attention:<br>

@Jose, that's a pretty good image of a dead fly<br>

@Jens, your granddaughter's birthday with colored hair, there's a wonderful soft human feeling in the image.<br>

@Lil, the male mandarin duck<br>

@Bill J. Boyd, angels with trumpets, threatening sky. Wow! Should be a movie! <br>

@Sasvata, Anuj at seven months is very, very cute!<br>

@Chauncey, that's a terrific shot of your son in the leaves<br>

@Epp, the silhouette is a very mysterious and wonderful image<br>

@Janne, abstract lights again, very nice<br>

@James Kazan, great abstract interior<br>

@Phil, @Tiffany, @Ryan, @Michael -- great kid portraits<br>

@Wouter, playing around in the kitchen<br>

@Sergio, the St. Francis Lights is a very creative image. Gives me a 3-D feeling.<br>

@Charles, times square zoom... Says "Speed!"<br>

@Anirban, nice evening shot in Minneapolis</p>

<p>My thanks for Alex, Dieter, Dan, Paul & Lil, thank your for mentioning my night-shot HDR. I'm glad you liked it. </p>

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<p>Example from a D300 taken on a terrible day. Heay rain, wind and mist made for a VERY difficult wedding - but the camera saved me and coped very well.<br>

<img src="http://www.northwestphotography.co.uk/_DSC7608.jpg" alt="" /><br>

Nikin D300 - 1/640 sec - f/3.2 - ISO 200 - Nikkor 17-5mm</p>

<p>Richard Karash - Thank you for mentioning my Mandarin duck<br>

Lil</p>

<p>James Hart and Lil, thank you for your words. As always, encouraging!</p>

<p>Now my top 10 this week:<br>

Rene - like the bird and composition.<br>

Luis Arguelles - interesting perspective. Nice.<br>

Joseph Leotta - again, you nailed the color of fall. I wish I could do as well.<br>

Aguinaldo - like I said, I never get tired of your night sky photos. Um, who's that?<br>

Lil - what a beauty and nice timing. <br>

Richard Armstrong - Wonderful. Which is which?<br>

Bill J Boyd - nice color combination; sky and the statue.<br>

Richard Karash - beautifully done HDR.<br>

Buglady - oh! my... As a photo, very well done!<br>

Tom Mann - wonderful street shot.<br>

Ian Rance - love the photo; center horizon working very well.<br>

Paul SooHoo - nice shot.</p>

<p>Seeing and picking up these my favorites, I really feel the low level of mine. Have to practice a lot more, I guess.<br>

Just an observation (not complaint) - portrait photo takes up bigger space than landscape photo. Suppose the system accepts as long as the horizontal length is below 700.</p>

<p>See you in a few days.</p>

<p>Ken</p>

<p>Mike M - very nice late entry! Very creative use of the day's weather.</p>

<p>Ken - Thank you for you comment & for noticing my photo. He did it a few times, but this was the only time he did not go out of my frame. I was almost too close this time.</p>

 

<p>Finally have a little time to really go through the thread, great job everyone! <br>

Lil- Glad you like the Jag, nice duck shot.<br>

Joseph Leotta- Very nice collection of autumn images.<br>

Roberta Davidson- Like the detail that you captured.<br>

Jeannean- How do you do it? Always great work.<br>

Alejandro- Beautiful image, the rainbow really makes it kick.<br>

Richard Armstrong- Super photo.<br>

Bill J Boyd- Nice contrast between the warmth of the angels and darkness of the sky.<br>

Peter Heritage- Shooting into the sun really sets this one off.<br>

Josh Loeser- Like the photojournalistic feel of your image.<br>

Andrew Fedon- Cool shot, almost looks like 2 photos made into 1.<br>

John DiLeo- Like it a lot.<br>

Good shooting to all, see you in a couple of days.</p>

<p>John - sure I do & thanks for enjoying my Mandarin Duck.</p>

<p>Thanks <strong>Tiffany</strong>; I have thought a lot of times in this topic, don`t ask me why I used to shoot this kind of subjects (dead birds, dogs, cats, etc.). Your folder produce on me somekind of goth?/romanthic feelings...</p>

<p><strong>Dieter</strong>, although light was so rude (a SB800 directly over the fly at a few milimeters) the resulting softness was pleasant to me... the reason of posting this pic. Thanks <strong>Paul, Jeannean</strong> and <strong>Richard </strong>for your kind comments.</p>

<p>Well, my mentions this week are for <strong>Lil</strong>`s duck, <strong>Greg Kowalczewski</strong> birds, <strong>Steve</strong>`s plane, <strong>Tiffany</strong>`s heart (I like that atmosphere on many of your pics), <strong>Ian</strong>`s walking scene (like the colors, too), <strong>Mike McCann</strong>´s wedding, and my favourite, <strong>Dave Lee</strong>`s funny toast!</p>

<p>Thank you all for participating. See you tomorrow.</p>

<p>Thanks to <strong>Alex Foto</strong> , <strong>Tiffany Brook</strong> (from time to time someone goes there to jump to follow that rainbow, fortunately no while I was there!) and <strong>John DeMarco</strong> for your kind words <br /> <br /> Great pictures everyone, the ones that caught a little more my attention were: <br /> <br /> The Architectural pics of <strong>Dan South</strong> and <strong>James Kazan</strong> . The colors in <strong>Alex Foto</strong> lane, <strong>Maurice Orozco</strong> sky and <strong>Waldemar Giers</strong> fall.<br /> <br /> From the natural world: <strong>Jeannean Buglady</strong> colorful crowd, <strong>Paula Wang</strong> Great Blue, <strong>Dieter Schaefer </strong> Osprey, <strong>Sjoerd Leeuwenberg</strong> mushroom and <strong>Lil Judd</strong> Mandarin Duck (glad your horse is better!) <br /> <br /> The humor of <strong>Greg Kowalczewski</strong> birds serial, <strong>Ken Yamamoto</strong> runner and <strong>mike mccann </strong> umbrellas<br /> <br /> The night shots of <strong>Richard Karash</strong> and <strong>Aguinaldo de Paula </strong> <br /> <br /> The kid in <strong>Phil Evans</strong> shot, the portrait of <strong>Tiffany Brook</strong> and the poetry in <strong>Epp B</strong> picture and <strong>Sergio Galicia</strong> St Francis<br /> <br /> See you tomorrow</p>

<p>It is Tuesday already and is time to close this thread from last week.</p>

<p>I should point out that in early October, I nominated that Jose Angle to be a photo.net hero because of his contribution to these Wednesday threads, and Lex quickly agreed. However, since Josh was very busy, the nomination did not take effect until late October while I was on vacation. So a belayed congratulation to Jose; thanks a lot to your consistent job every week.</p>