Nikon WedNEsDAy PiC 2010: #12

<p>My son took me to a skateboarding park this past weekend. Although he is just starting out, there were some very talented kids there, including this one.</p><div></div>

<p>There are so many wonderful pictures, I can not begin to pick a favorite. I wish I had the time to comment on all of them . Please just accept my thank you for sharing.<br>

Benjamin S, Arthur, Dave W, Joe W, Dieter and Narayan , thank you so very much for your kind comments. I admire all of your work and am very appreciative that you took the time to comment.</p>

 

<p>Sorry for the late entry but here it is anyway!</p><div></div>

<p>Oops, my photo was taken with the Nikon 10-24mm lens at 24mm, not the 16-85mm VR.</p>

<p>Holy Wednesday my dear Nikon colleagues,</p>

<p>I'm already late due busy things. There was a long walk for <em><strong>Stop Discrimination Day</strong></em> in the city of Paramaribo past Friday, 19 March 2010. One of young participant with his attractive, funny glass. Hope you like it. You may find more info about "<strong>Stop Discrimination Day</strong>" at <a href="http://www.signtostopdiscrimination.org/" target="_blank">signtoSTOPdiscrimination.org</a> or you may Google it for more information. Thanks for stopping by and many cheers you to all. Regards,</p>

<p>Ertugrul</p>

<p><img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/10846894-lg.jpg" alt="" /><br /> Nikon D2Xs, Nikkor 50mm f/1.4D AF, Aperture Priority, f/1.6, 1/500sec, ISO100, ExposureBiasValue -0.33</p>

<p>A little late this week. A little busy. Oh, well.</p>

<p>Here's a shot this morning, just after sunrise, Boston Harbor from the South Boston waterfront. My best to all!</p>

<p><img src="http://2under.net/images/nw/100325-Boston-Waterfront-D01-0429-NikWed10-12-Shd.jpg" alt="" /></p>

<h4>Boston Harbor at Sunrise -- D300, 35mm f/2.0 AFD, Polarizer</h4>

<p>Re the low Jpeg quality. Sorry about blaming Photo.net. It appears that the problem is due either to my IE settings or the fact that I'm surfing via the 3G phone network. Anyhow, if I refresh the page using CTRL+F5 the pictures magically come back in their original quality.</p>

<p>Red-faced apologies again!</p>

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<p>Comments on Nikon Wednesday 2010 #12:</p>

<p>@Bill J Boyd, the raccoon is great. Cute. Too bad they are pests.<br>

@Gej, the stairway has a nice pleasant feeling to it.<br>

@Matthew Brennan, nice clouds!<br>

@Paula Wang, the orange flower macro nice... Light, airy flower, sharp bug.<br>

@Anish, great evening pic of the city.<br>

@Jens, I've been in that spot. Great museum. <br>

@Apurva, your forks are unusual and wonderful. Got my attention.<br>

@Rick Moran, amazing... With the bird landing and moving, how is the water still smooth. Great image.<br>

@Dave Wilson, you must have an amazing garden.<br>

@Andrew Meszaros, I really like the boots. <br>

@Mark Mandell, nice blue spring night.<br>

@Roberta, another great water drop photo.<br>

@Lawrence Ho, the pinochio figure is very nice. I guess you like the new lens?<br>

@Mark Jordan, the buttons... Very colorful.<br>

@Rodeo Joe, just a nice feel to this image.<br>

@Jennifer Meighan, great rainfow finch. <br>

@Heyley Karl, nice indoor track image; I like the motion.<br>

@Colin Mangan, what a nice waterfall.</p>

<p>And... I got so busy I never got back to comment last week. For Wednesday 1020 #11:</p>

<p>@Bill J Boyd, your two tulips. Glad to hear winter is over. Snow here this morning was discouraging. But, your tulips are crisp and great color.<br>

@Gej Jones, the trees lit from below make the Ferris Wheel just surreal<br>

@Grant Tanner, I like the Melbourne waterfront. I can't tell if it's straight or tone-maped... To me that means you've done it well.<br>

@Caillum Smith, I can see you are going to enjoy your D90.<br>

@Tiffany Brook, your family portraits are always just great.<br>

@Rick Moran, the bird, the action, the colors are all terrific.<br>

@Dieter Schaefer, the bird, the pose, the colors are all terrific, and so different from Rick Moran's. I'm continually amazed and inspired by the variety here.<br>

@Greg Kowalczewski, that's a great bird portrait. Intense!<br>

@Vineet Rajasekhar, the fence posts are ethereal. The one on the left is a rocket, about to launch. Great color and tone.<br>

@Benjamin Majcen, very cool photo looking down at the little boy. Love the big eyes.<br>

@Laurence Ho, your little green frog on a finger<br>

@Jon Eckman, your rainy night show becomes a beautiful abstract.</p>

 

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<p>I really love these threads! To mention just a few of the wonderful pictures:</p>

 

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<li>Shun's cool light and shadow composition — suggestive of the Nike swoosh? (Though, it may be hard to make a bad picture of Maria.)</li>

<li>Rene's duck</li>

<li>Dieter Schaefer's bird. A graceful pose yet a bit fierce looking too. Entirely plausible that his (the bird's) ancestors were dinosaurs.</li>

<li>Jens — I love the colors.</li>

<li>John Mita — great sharp/blurry 3D effect done with a sometimes maligned lens</li>

<li>Josh's beautiful digital black-and-white — looks like good old Tri-X, D-76, and a condensor enlarger</li>

<li>Rick Moran — there are no words!</li>

<li>Tim Holte's very Irish portrait</li>

<li>Andrew's boots. I like it that they're obviously well worn yet cleaned, shined, and fitted with new laces.</li>

<li>Steve J Murray/Lydia - gorgeous eyes</li>

<li>Brian Guy. Very cool! (I'm a sucker for Jeeps. We have three, two of which run.)</li>

<li>Jeff Lipsman — "decisive moment" for sure!</li>

<li>Greg Kowalczewski. I really enjoy looking at this great picture even though I'm an American and have no clue as to its significance or what "Death Rattle" means or anything else about cricket. (It is cricket — right?)</li>

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<p ><strong>These are just a few of the outstanding photos this week.... thanks for sharing!</strong></p>

<p >Matthew Brennan – Blue Sky, Great Clouds & the color of the land make this shot memorable.</p>

<p >Rick Moran – Yellow Legs is magnificent. Very, very enjoyable to look at. <strong>My Favorite</strong> for the week!</p>

<p >George Allred – Sensational shot. Walls and Doors are special to me and you’ve capture is excellent.</p>

<p >Mark Mandell – Your time was well spent and your friend’s choice of Wallpaper will be pleasing for a long time.</p>

<p >Gabriel Hasser – The Shaddows, Footsteps through the snow & the Sodium Light make the shot special.</p>

<p >Alejandro Held – Great Shot! The Sun, Reflections and the capture of time are most pleasing. I really like your shot.</p>

<p >Larry Gardner – Your Position and the captured reflection is outstanding! The bride is beautiful.</p>

<p >Jeff Lipsman – Your Surfing shots amaze me. </p>

<p >Rodeo Joe – Love the lines, Light & Shadows. </p>

<p >Richard Karash – You’ve captured a sky that most of us look for day after day. Nice Shot!</p>

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<p>Richard, thank you also for your very kind comments.</p>

<p>Richard you're very kind, thank you. I'll be sure to post up some more as the Wed go along.</p>

<p>First up -<strong></strong><strong> Thank you to Matthew, Keerthi, Jeff Farkash & Narayan Kovvali</strong> for noticing & commenting on my flower. I hope I haven't missed anyone.<br>

Secondly - My favorites this week are<br>

<strong>Epps</strong>'s pup photo, <strong>Gej</strong>'s staircase, <strong>Matthew</strong>'s amazing cloud formations, <strong>Greg</strong>'s Flamingos, <strong>Paula</strong>'s California Poppy being visited by a bug, <strong>Rene'</strong>s Pintail male in flight, <strong>Keerthi</strong>'s butterfly, <strong>Dieter</strong>'s Curlew, <strong>Vineet</strong>'s landscape, <strong>Bogdan</strong>'s street scene, <strong>Rick'</strong>s stellar Yellow Legs, <strong>Kent</strong>'s sea turtle - amazing post processing, <strong>Tim Holt</strong>'s amazing character, <strong>Dallas</strong>'s landscape, <strong>Roberta</strong>'s water drops, <strong>Gabriel</strong>'s snow tracks in the night, <strong>Alejandro</strong>'s landscape/seascape sunset, <strong>Juho</strong>'s for me very nostalgic from my childhood photo (I always used one of those while visiting my grandparents in northern Sweden. My father is right now on the way up there to celebrate Easter up there), <strong>Janne</strong>'s dogs, <strong>William</strong>'s girls reading, <strong>Narayan</strong>'s flower with such a wonderful & calm background, <strong>Jennifer</strong>'s macro Finch shot, <strong>Greg</strong>'s cricket shot, and finally <strong>Richard</strong>'s marina.<br>

Thank you all - Lil :-)</p>

<p>@ Kent Shafer, Thanks for commenting my picture. </p>

<p>Lil, your comments mean a lot to me. Thank you!</p>

<p>Anytime Roberta :-)</p>

<p>Linda, Richard & Gej,<br>

Nice to have caught the eye of folks as good at this as y'all. Thanks for the encouragement.<br>

[next time I'll take a pod so I don't have to do the sniper routine to not shake so much. |;-}} ]</p>

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<p>Shun's cool light and shadow composition — suggestive of the Nike swoosh? (Though, it may be hard to make a bad picture of Maria.)</p>

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<p>I like the shadow too, but it is not all that difficult to create a bad picture of Maria Sharapova. I have quite a few of those to prove it, but I don't share them on the web. Of course the subject is fine and so is the camera; the culprit is what is behind the camera, as usual.</p>

<p>My favorite from this week is Rick Moran's yellowlegs. Great timing with wings up and a perfect reflection. Doug Santo's Anna's Humming Bird is very nice also. As a bird photographer myself, I know those are not easy to capture. The spiral pattern in Gej Jones' staircase image is nicely presented.</p>

 

<p>Hi guys, and happy Wednesday for everyone. Here is my contribution for today.</p><div></div>

<p>Thanks to <strong>Arthur Richardson</strong>, <strong>Jeff Farkash</strong>, <strong>Gej Jones</strong> and <strong>Lil Judd</strong> for the comments and kind words!!<br /><br />The ones I like a little more are: <strong>Lil's</strong> Artistic macro, <strong>Gej Jones's</strong> Stair, <strong>Greg Jones's</strong> Flamingos, <strong>Jana Hughes's</strong> Car, <strong>Josh Loeser's</strong> Guitarist hands, <strong>Rick Moran's</strong> Ballet Bird, <strong>Roberta Davidson's</strong> Water drops, <strong>Gabriel Hasser's</strong> Steps, <strong>Janne Kaakinen's</strong> Dogs point of view, <strong>Aguinaldo de Paula's</strong> Cathedral (enjoy your trip!) <strong>Alpo Syvänen's</strong> Trees (Don't ever leave the forest! every week a fantastic picture from there) <strong>Greg Kowalczewski's</strong> Death Rattle. I also have no idea what it means, being South American. but a great sport shot!<br>

<br /><strong>Tiffany Brook</strong>...Very funny!! but you still owns us a Landscape ;-)! About what you asked Pascal Burel on his beautiful last week pic (the 3 dogs) I'm almost sure the picture is a card of Padre Pio AKA <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padre_pio">Saint Pio of Pietrelcina</a> a controvertial Capuchin Priest who died in 1968. Famous for his Stigmata [wounds similar to the Christ ones] and other miracles as being in two different places at the same time ( That would be great!!) <br /><br />by by <br />Alejandro</p>

<p>OK, here is my first Wednesday submission. This is a dogwood tree in my front yard, just leafing out. I shot it with D90 + 105 f2.8 AF micro at ISO=200, f8, t=1/5. I used manual focus on an old Bogen tripod and auto exposure.</p><div></div>

<p>Thank you <strong>Alejandro</strong> - glad you enjoyed it.<br>

Lil :)</p>

<p>Great shots from everyone again, loved them all, but I especially liked the shots by <em>Lil Judd</em> (lovely, as always), <em>Jana Hughes</em> (love the mood), <em>Apurva Madia</em> (simple and effective), <em>Rick Moran </em>(beautiful shot), <em>Kent Shafer</em> (impressive use of PP), <em>Roberta Davidson </em>(love the background), <em>Temi Kujore</em> (weird shot, but it stops me every time I scroll through this thread), <em>Filip Lucin</em> (cute series), <em>Alpo Syvänen</em> (excellent shot) & <em>Hayley Karl</em> (great use of motion blur).</p>

<p>And thanks to Lil, Linda & Alejandro for the comments! See you all tomorrow!</p>