POTW May 9

<p>So I'm up too late, wrestling with the blasted printer trying to output the first image as a Mother's day gift to my good wife. One bleepin' ink cart is leaking somewhere. Ugh. Not that I'd rather be in a darkroom right now. I have a backup printer so all is not lost. I'm sure she'll like it, and we're just glad to have her around, and gaining strength very rapidly!</p>

<p>These are from our gardens, taken during the late afternoon light on a lovely day. The first shots using a spiffy new Manfrotto carbon fiber tripod 190CXPRO4. It's intended for hiking use, but it has this great ability to instantly make the center column go horizontal by simply pressing a little button. You can also laterally adjust it along the horizontal plane. I had a Gitzo CF tripod that was a little better made, but the twisty locks (vs. the Manfrotto's locking levers that are easy to see and grab) and the inability to get real low got me pretty frustrated. The Manfrotto is a tad less stable, but more functional, and it's 2.5 inches smaller when compacted due to the four sections. So far, so good.</p>

<p><strong>Mother's Day Lilly</strong></p>

<p><img src="http://www.smugmug.com/photos/861162351_RhCkm-L.jpg" alt="" /></p>

<p>K20D, Voigtlander 125mm f13 @1/8, ISO 200</p>

<p><strong>Electric Red</strong></p>

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Pentax K20D, Voigtlander 125mm f9.5 @1/45, ISO 200</p>

<p><strong>Iris Details</strong></p>

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<p>Pentax K20D, Voigtlander 125mm f9.5 @1/45, ISO 200</p>

<p>ME</p>

<p>These are just lovely Michael! - and I am glad to hear things are going well.</p>

<p>I stitched this together this week - taken with the 70mm Ltd.</p><div></div>

<p>Greetings from Da Nang, Vietnam. Took a bump on a motorbike two weeks into my stay and fractured my olecranon (elbow) so I had to fly to Saigon and get pins and plates put in it, but it's on the mend now, I'm within a degree or two of full extension again. Meant my P&S olympus stylus epic has seen some use. Just started shooting the MX again now that I'm two handed. This from a home for orphaned and abandoned babies, the child is blind and has numerous health problems.</p><div></div>

<p><strong>Michael,</strong> lovely pics and, more importantly, great news that mom is feeling well. I hope that picture was finally printed. <strong>George C.</strong> sorry to hear about the accident but glad things are getting better. A very touching image by the way. <strong>Peter</strong>, well done, I am going to have to figure out how to do that some day.<br>

I did nothing this week but on Friday my students took the AP History test so suddenly my workload has been reduced by 75%! Hooray, more time for photography now. I did go out yesterday for a few minutes and managed to capture some flowers. </p><div></div>

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<p>Wonderful flowers Michael and Robert and yours is a very a very affecting photo, George!</p>

<p>Now that I think about it, I did a ton of shooting this past week. I dusted on the big lenses and got some interesting birds, including a Red-Headed Woodpecker! (the photos are ok but not braggin' good); then there were the lacrosse games (again, ok but nothing special) and some Mother's Day portraits of Clara (who's been a surprisingly cooperative subject.) But I've also been grabbing shots here and there like these from Friday when I did a workshop for some local kids down at the stream, introducing them to benthic macroinvertabrates. All taken with the Tamron <strong>SP AF ASPHERICAL XR DI [iF] </strong>28-75mm f2.8<br /> <br /> <br /> @28mm: 1/30s, f/10,ISO=500 <br /> <img src="http://dadipentak.smugmug.com/The-Fun-House/2010/IMGP7670cas1600/860954915_jzw2W-L.jpg" alt="" /></p>

<p><br /> @75mm: 1/200s, f/8, ISO=100 <br /> <br>

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@28mm: 1/50s, f/8, ISO+400 <br>

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<p>My POW is from an adventure race. These races involved running, swimming, bicycling and canoeing. There were several teamwork-type events where people had to solve puzzles. In the photo below, the teams running through the course get to a station and they're told that they have to swim across a water filled quarry to retrieve some golf balls from two buckets floating on buoys on the other side of the quarry. It's a fair swim. They had to wear these life jackets and carry these oh-so-macho inflatable rings as part of the requirements. These folks are just about done.</p>

<p>There were a bunch of fun pictures made in this quarry.</p>

<p>Pentax K1000, 35mm Takumar, EWA Marine UF. 400 ASA generic C-41 film. AP2 from minilab scan. </p><div></div>

<p>One more just because. The girl on the left cut up her hands on a bike spill earlier. <br /> Pentax K1000, 35mm Takumar, EWA Marine UF. 400 ASA generic C-41 film. AP2 from minilab scan.</p><div></div>

<p>Bicyclist.<br>

Pentax K1000 & 35mm Takumar. 400 ASA generic C-41 film. AP2 from minilab scan.</p><div></div>

<p>A friend, Viviana, whom you might have seen at 15 in my portforlio, came out a few days ago, desperate for a yearbook photo. She is a senior now, and what she liked was not my cup of tea, but I thought that I could share it.</p>

<p>Taken with my K20D and the DA17-70.</p><div></div>

<p>I'll raise a cup of tea for that photo, John--I think it really works!</p>

<p>John, She's got a good eye, I like it!</p>

<p>Michael - Glad to hear your wife is getting better. Lovely pictures.<br>

George C. Ouch! Hope you continue to heal quickly The woman looking away somehow adds to the picture - well caught.<br>

Robert- #s 1 &2 Gorgeous.<br>

Dave #1 speaks volumes - it's an almost unbearable tension., #3, so delicate.<br>

My three are plants in hard sunlight:<br>

Allium:</p>

<p>Again</p><div></div>

<p>Iris</p><div></div>

<p>Banana Leaf</p><div></div>

<p>We have been having some very colorful sunsets here in Oregon this week so I ventured out to the Columbia Gorge to see what I could find , this shot is looking West from a bridge on the old Gorge Highway , during a heavy rain shower with the sun setting through the clouds.</p><div></div>

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<p>Excellent work guys! I'll make formal comments later this week!</p>

<p>I was inspired by Justin's panorama stitching stuff last week, and decided to try one myself. This is from the park at Lookout Mountain. This park is less than 100 yds from the final resting place of Buffalo Bill. Although this shot isn't perfect, I was happy with the results. It's probably hard to see at 700px wide, but it's pretty close. :-)<br>

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<p>I don't know anything about stitching but I think that's really super. Jeremiah!</p>

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