Nikon Wednesday Pic 2010: #50

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<p>Fall Colors</p>

<p>Lots of good stuff today as always.<br>

From a recent trip to Mexico, a juvenile brown pelican. </p><div></div>

<p>Hello all<br>

My nephew Pedro, playing with water.<br>

D300 + 50mm 1.4D - ISO 500 - f 1.8 - 1/640</p><div></div>

<p>greetings from west virginia!</p><div></div>

<p>Afterburner,United States Air Force F-16CJ Falcon West Coast Demo Team</p><div></div>

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<p>Hi everyone, love Wednesday with all your photos.<br>

Mine was taken at our local Insectarium in the butterfly garden. <br>

D300 105mm micro f/18 shutter 1/200 </p><div></div>

<p>Waiting for the Holiday boat parade on the intercoastal waterway in Ft. Lauderdale. Soon the tranquility of this place will explode into noises from bands, fireworks etc. etc. Well worth it to realize the value of silence. :-)<br /> Anyways......This was on a D90, Nikkor 35mm f2 @ ISO 200, f8, 1sec, Matrix, multipoint focus. Did I leave out anything?? Oh yea Aperture 3.1 converted NEF to jpg. I think LR3 is much better.</p><div></div>

<p>Nikon D300 24-120</p><div></div>

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<p>Don't get too worn out preparing for the holidays.</p><div></div>

<p>Top of the morning to all of you, good capturers!<br>

Here is mine from last month's natural light night-life test photography. Shot with---<br>

D300s Nikkor 50mm f/1.7 @ 50mm f/2.2 EV +3 ISO [i don't remember and recorded but I am sure it was in the high end] and it was hand-held.<br>

p.s. I didn't do the painting in the photo.</p><div></div>

<p>Martha, your picture of the rhinoceros made me laugh! What a great capture!</p>

<p>My Wednesdays at the zoo are over until next Fall so my children and I visited the city aquarium last Wednesday. I'm always struck by the beauty of piranhas. I expect them to look like horrible monsters, but instead they flash with color as they swim around their tank.</p>

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<p>Howdy, Nikon folk! Beautiful as always!<br /> This little friend was visiting us on a weekend. Instead of taking pics or watching TV, she rather took us for a walk.</p>

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<p>Lauttasaari; we got a lot of snow last week and things are quickly freezing up.</p><div></div>

<p>The creature moved forward right when I pressed the shutter. Fortunately it did not hide its head out of the frame. Yes, looks I should be doing something else than taking this kind of boring picture...</p><div></div>

<p>Hello Fellow Nikonians !<br>

Today I crossed the river Tagus to have lunch at a lovely fish restaurant at Trafaria, in front of Lisboa. Fish was very fresh, as usual, and the weather was fine, at 10 celsius, and as sunny as you can see. As most of you are already freezing and confined to indoor photos, I have decided to send you a warming picture. I hope you enjoy it !</p><div></div>

<p>testing out the sigma 50/1.4...</p><div></div>

<p>Hello Nikonians!!! Here is a pix of Xmas deco at "Galleries Lafayette" in Paris...<br>

As always, some nice pix on here!!!!</p><div></div>

<p>Nikon D700 + nikon 105mm macro d. Keeping with my shapes posting here is another one. Hope you like it and great shots everyone.</p><div></div>

<p><a href="../photodb/user?user_id=3949752">Gej Jones</a> lovely image of frost.<br /> <a href="../photodb/user?user_id=5189670">Jeannean Buglady</a> Where do you find these bugs? I think I'd move if they were all in my backyard! Very nice macro work. I always appreciate your photos.<br /> <a href="../photodb/user?user_id=4317240">Tony Kukulich</a> A lovely moment.<br /> <a href="../photodb/user?user_id=4815366">Peter Giraudin</a> What perspective! It looks you are flying right behind the F-16, but it must have been a LOW pass. Is the jet going vertical right over your head?</p>

<p>My laptop was in the shop this week, so I have nothing to post.</p>

<p>Merry Christmas everyone!</p>

<p>Thanks Jeff. I live by a canal (about 100yrds or so from my backyard) and there is all sorts of wildlife there (and surrounding area) from bugs, to birds, to racoons, etc. Not too many in my yard though. My two dogs chase them off...or eat them. : \</p>

<p>Lots of wonderful pics as usual. Some favorites:</p>

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<li>Hamish (wow!)</li>

<li>Andrew Meszaros</li>

<li>Tim Holte (another wow!—frightening power in those Great Lakes storms, as Gordon Lightfoot and Stan Rogers fans well know)</li>

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<p>Nikon Buddies,<br>

Very wonderful shots, today, including the contributions from Paula W (I could watch those guys all day), Thomas G, Hamish G, Aguinaldo de P, Ian T, Tim H, Peter G, Martha B.<br>

For my post, we had an unusual intersection of outdoor blooms (begonias, I believe), Christmas manger scene, and snow. Only the manger scene remains...</p>

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<p>I'm out shooting my last few rolls of Kodachrome today and this weekend. Brought along my D300 to shoot digital side by side. The photo below is of my favorite place to eat, the Roanoke Inn on Mercer Island, WA. They have a great menu and always have a great selection of beer, and a full bar as they are a tavern. Built in 1914 when ferry service from Seattle was established to the island. It's been owned and operated by the same family since 1953. </p><div></div>