Nikon WedNEsDAy PiC 2010: #15

<p>Happy Wednesday everyone. Enjoy the great photos from around the world. Mine is another close to home pic at our local Dodge Park taken with Nikon D300 70-200mm f/2.8 VR lens. </p><div></div>

<p>Great stuff, as always! I'll come back a little later to comment. For now, here's my shot this week. For those outside the USA, our tax paperwork is due on April 15.</p>

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<p>Hello All<br>

Last week while visiting Recoleta Cementry, here in Buenos Aires. Statue of a mother and child with climbing plants<br>

D300 +18-200 VR@18mm - f 3.5 - ISO 500 - 1/200 Sec.</p><div></div>

<p>Happy Wednesday to all of you. In a trip to Scottsdale, Arizona, I went hiking at the Pinnacle Peak mountain and I saw this rare Gila Monster. My first time shooting wild animal. He was out for few seconds. So excited, I didn't realize the flower in front. Still in the process of learning composition</p><div></div>

<p>Good Wednesday to everyone. Great shots already.</p>

<p>This past weekend I took a photography class on flowers. We went to Longue Vue Gardens to photograph the beautiful flowers that are blooming on these 4 acres in the midst of the city. It was so peaceful, and quiet, like stepping into another world. <br /> While others were taking grand landscape type photos, I found myself on the ground with the lens as close as I could get to the flowers or trying to chase some bug to get a picture. Help, I can't get away from shooting macro!!! </p><div></div>

<p>"Out of the dark"</p>

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<p>Good day everyone...I'll be back on to comment later tonight.</p>

<p>Not much time to shoot this week...but got a few good ones of the Southern Maine Rebels during warm-ups. Here's my favorite:</p><div></div>

<p>Seeing that nasty eagle of Rick's, I to will contribute with a nasty bird.<br>

I fight with this little friendly guy every time, daily, it has to be put away for the night, (the fox).<br>

Happy Wednesday everybody.</p>

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<p>Rufous Hummingbird. D200, 300mm.</p><div></div>

<p>Thanks to those offering kind words last week. As always, there are a number of great shots. Here is my contribution for this week. <br>

Male Painted Bunting.</p><div></div>

<p>Squirrels are generally quite anti-social animals when it comes to human interaction.<br>

This one jumped up on my fence post less than 6 feet from me before he noticed<br>

<em>"Hey, you're a human; I'm outta' here"</em><br>

I was lucky to squeeze off two shots before he ran off.<br>

Had to switch to manual focus quickly since this lens is notorious for back-focus at close range AF.</p>

<p>Nikon D-300. 80-200 AF-D @ 200mm</p><div></div>

<p>thanks to all the contributors to this thread, who make wednesdays something to look forward to every week. here's my offering:</p><div></div>

<p>WoW! Another wIlD and WoNDerFUl WeDNesDaY! Seems like I wasn't the only in a macro frame of mind this week. This is a shot of the centimeter-long blossoms on the blueberry bushes in my garden, once again taken with my late father-in-law's vintage extension tubes and the E-series 50mm lens from the Nikon EM he bought my wife's mother in an ultimately unsuccessful effort to get her into photography.<br>

I'll be back with comments on the spectacular offerings later in the day, but I can already tell this is going to be a great thread...<br>

PR</p><div></div>

<p>Hello folks<br />Some amazing photographs this week. My submission was taken this past week at Cape May where the bay meets the ocean. Three fisherman relaxing and enjoying the solitude. It was a foggy afternoon..no polarizer with me....<br />Nikon D700, 70-200mm 2.8 VRll shot at 200mm, 2.8, 1/2000 sec, low iso</p><div></div>

<p>Another shot of the cherry blossoms from the tidal basin.</p>

<p><a title="Ducks by mamemimo, on Flickr" href=" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4007/4488211770_6d1bedfb53.jpg" alt="Ducks" width="500" height="333" /></a></p>

<p><strong>Nikon D40, 35mm f/1.8 at 35mm, f/16, 1/80s and ISO 200</strong></p>

<p>Photo taken in Zions National Park last week, Kolob area. Nikon D300 Sigma 17-50 lens<br /> <img src="file:///D:/Backup%2012-30-00/Office2/My%20Pictures/wallpaper/KolobSkyLineZion.jpg" alt="" /></p><div></div>

<p>Hello everybody</p>

<p>My picture for this week is the macro of a small bee on a pollen. Shot using 55mm f/2.8 Micro & extension tube mounted on a D700.<br>

regards<br>

Issac</p><div></div>

<p>Spring is springing here. For this weeks contribution I am posting a picture of baby blooms in a front yard taken a couple weeks ago in a small town called Niagara on the Lake. It's a quaint town in Southern Ontario, near the US NY border. This town hosts a playwright's festival named after George Bernard Shaw. Hence the name of the festival, The Shaw Festival. The surrounding region is also home to many wineries, one of three in Southern Ontario. The other two are in and around Lake Eerie and a smaller region East of Toronto in Prince Edward County.</p><div></div>

<p>First post here<br>

from my d300 this past saturday<br>

<img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/10911493-lg.jpg" alt="DSC_4092b" /></p>

<p>Spiderwort shot today in a light tent with a D700 and a 55mm f/2.8 Micro Nikkor (reversed)</p><div></div>

<p>First shot of my wife in our new studio - a small apartment with big windows and not much furniture - bright and airy.<br>

Nikon D80 with Nikkor 28mm F/2.8 at f/3.2 1/160 ISO100 0EV with single ceiling bounced flash.<br>

Treatment in PS.</p><div></div>

<p>Happy Nikon Wednesday everyone!</p>

<p>Tulip back-lighted with window light.</p>

<p>D300, AF Nikkor 85mm f1.4. Shot - 1/200 sec at f1.4. Lightroom PP</p>

<p>Spring isn't here yet in Metro-Chicago, thank you to all commercial flower growers.</p><div></div>

<p>Second attempt at posting.</p><div></div>

<p>Elephant seals flip sand onto their back to protect themselves. I found this one doing so just before sunset. Nikon D300 with 200-400mm/f4 AF-S @220mm, f4, 1/400 sec, ISO 200.</p><div></div>

<p>First time I'm contributing, as I'm new kid on the block.<br>

Nikon D5000<br>

Nikkor 50mm F1.4<br>

ISO 200 <br>

3s F/16</p><div></div>