Canon Thursday Photo 2011: #11

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<p>Happy St. Patty's Day to everyone! I took it upon my self to change the weekly thread title from "Canon Thursday Pic" to Canon Thursday Photo." Pic just seems like something a teenager takes with their cameraphone, and I believe the photos represented here are much more worthy of being classified as such. I hope no one objects, but let me know if you have a problem with this. Otherwise, let's see all those great photos and I hope your team wins in the NCAA March Madness tourney this week, that is unless they're playing the Louisville Cardinals. </p>

<p>I didn't shoot a lot this week, but I did make it up to the State Forest in search of more Wood Ducks. I found them, but they were gone before I could see and photograph them. I did get this male and female mallard on one of the other ponds.</p><div></div>

<p><img src="http://spirer.com/images/thewin.jpg" alt="" width="700" height="525" /></p>

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<p><em>The Win</em></p>

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<p>A second try...</p>

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<p><img src="http://www.arievandervelden.com/BattleAbbey/5680StarryNight.jpg" alt="" width="800" height="533" /><br />Shot at -35C (same in Farenheit) with Tokina 10-17 fish-eye. Ski cabin lit with headlamp for 1 second.<br /> I can pick out the Andromeda galaxy on the full-sized shot.</p>

<p>Two sail training yachts down in the Caribbean a couple of weeks ago. No polariser or colour enhancement, it really looks like that......</p><div></div>

<p>Happy Thursday!</p>

<p>I love all the photos that have been posted so far. We sure are in for a treat this week. Great job everyone!</p>

<p>Here is my entry for the week, a bit lame, but just had to wing it in the last 15 minutes or so.</p>

<p><img src="http://indy.smugmug.com/2011/Misc/A-Trusted-old-Friend/1218957067_3ztwz-X3.jpg" alt="" /><br>

<strong>A Trusted Old Friend</strong>, 40d, 50mm</p>

 

<p>Taken about two weeks ago at Morro Bay. Just some smoke stacks near the beach.</p>

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<td><a href="http://www.flickr.com/cameras/canon/eos_7d/">Canon EOS 7D</a></td>

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<th>Exposure</th>

<td>0.002 sec (1/500)</td>

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<td>f/11.0</td>

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<th>Focal Length</th>

<td>85 mm</td>

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<th>ISO Speed</th>

<td>100</td>

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<th>Exposure Bias</th>

<td>-1/3 EV</td>

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<td>Canon EF-S 15-85mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM</td>

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<p>Recently shot near an NYC construction site.</p><div></div>

<p>Here's mine. A fire broke out last night, not too far from where I live, so this is a nod to the emergency services who made haste to put it out.</p><div></div>

<p>Snapshot during shooting ...<br>

Canon 7D, Canon 17-40mm L @ F9 - 1/160s</p><div></div>

<p>Been doing a bit of gardening, oh happy days.</p><div></div>

Just a statue in my moms garden.<div></div>

<p>Canon 7D , 35mm f2.0, ISO 640, 1/250 @ f6.3 - Taken back in January</p><div></div>

<p>A very good Water Harpist. </p>

<p><img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/12812033-lg.jpg" alt="" width="650" height="628" /></p>

<p>@ Scott F - nice for a handheld TS<br />@ Dan S - love the color contrast<br>

@ Lupo - great thought!</p>

<p>Had one of those weeks; couldn't buy a good photo. A few more Spring flowers...</p><div></div>

<p>7D, ISO 100, f/5.6 1/320 @ 400mm</p><div></div>

<p>Caught this Pileated (sp) in our backyard this week. It was fast, two shots, this is the best of the two.</p><div></div>

<p>Just out walking in the woods.</p><div></div>

<p>More experimenting with the tilt adapter.<br>

f/4 (probably), 1/250 sec, ISO 400</p><div></div>

<p>I went to shoot a judo competition this past week. As it turns out it was a ne waza (ground fighting) event.</p><div></div>

<p>I was shooting a trail race this past weekend. I like this photo because of the high color contrast with the still not yet blooming background.<br>

<img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5171/5533003797_898cb18f21_b.jpg" alt="" /><br>

Shot with my Rebel T1i and my 75-300 USM set to 150mm 1/500 f/5.0.</p>

 

<p>How can any day start bad when you wake to a view like this? Just took this on St. Patrick's Day morning here in CT.<br>

<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v96/KerrBear219/Morning.jpg" alt="" /></p>

<p>This was shot last week, . . . haven't downloaded & processed yet this week.</p>

<p>Somewhat of a history buff, I'm trying to document some of the area's rich history before it is destroyed by vandalism. Which is the case here. You can see in the photograph that the door has been kicked in, and the grounds are littered with trash. Appears that with the State's maintenance is faltering a bit, or at least it's frequency. "Current economic times I suppose."</p>

<p>The Marker reads . . .</p>

 

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<p>MURDER on the MARAIS DES CYGNES<br>

The bloodiest single incident in the Kansas-Missouri border struggles 1854-1861, occurred May 12, 1858, when about 30 Proslavery Missourians seized 11 Kansas Free State men near Trading Post and marched them to a ravine 225 yards Northwest of this marker. Lining up their Prisoners, they callously shot them down killing five and wounding five others. One escaped injury by feigning death. Northerners were horrified, and John Greenleaf Whittier immortalized the fallen in a poem. "Le Marais du Cygne."<br>

A few weeks after the massacre John Brown arrived here and built a two-story log "fort" about 14 X 18 feet, which he occupied with a few men through the summer, in December he made a raid into Missouri in which 11 slaves were liberated and one man was killed. Brown's famous "Parallels," dated January 3, 1859, at Trading Post, pointed out that "hell is stirred from beneath" because of his raid while no comparable action had been taken to find and punish the Marais des Cygnes murderers.<br>

A Brown follower, Charles C. Hadsall, bought this property in 1858. Later, adjacent to the site of the fort, he built the stone house which stands here today. The building and grounds were presented to the State of Kansas in 1941 by Pleasanton Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars.</p>

 

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<p><a title="Kaleigh by Dean Schreuder, on Flickr" href=" src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5096/5525549078_0c11f3850c_z.jpg" alt="Kaleigh" width="427" height="640" /></a></p>

<p><strong>Kaleigh</strong></p>

<p>Camera: Canon EOS 7D<br />Lens: EF-S17-55mm f/2.8 IS USM<br />Exposure: 0.017 sec (1/60)<br />Exposure Program: Aperture-priority AE<br />Aperture: f/4.0<br />Focal Length: 28 mm<br />ISO Speed: 640<br />Exposure Bias: 0 EV<br />Flash: Off, Did not fire<br /><br />Post Processing: Adobe Photoshop CS5 Windows</p>

 

<p>nice post Jim, i never heard that story.....we have a few places here that have fallen in disrepair as well</p>

<p>my shot is just last nights sunset hitting a clay sculpture in the living room.....the light hits this thing twice a year for about 3 days right around the equinox...</p><div></div>