Nikon Wednesday 2011: #36

<p>I will try again. Third time lucky I hope.<br>

I spent the weekend watching people fishing in the sea at dusk</p><div></div>

<p>Happy Wednesday everyone! I really enjoyed the dog pictures this week, especially those by: Matt, Robert, David and Todd. Rick's osprey really grabbed me too, as well as the wonderful portraits by: Lloyd, Panayatis, Juho and Wenshu. </p>

<p>Following the dog theme; here's one of Merlin (our black lab cross) retrieving a piece of driftwood from the sea (for about the 30th time!)</p><div></div>

<p>So many wonderful photos this week - thanks, everyone! My wife Marcia and I found a car show on Labor Day in beautiful weather. This 47 Chev is about as old as we are and in much better condition!</p><div></div>

<p>Pascal Burel...... When you say Kawaguchi, Japan...... is that KAWAGUCHI, NIIGATA, JAPAN? I live in Ojiya, Niigata next to Kawaguchi</p>

<p>So I started my "real" job this week so I am back in the classroom. The rain in the Northeast is limiting my chances to go out and create photos so I will go to my vacation photos. This one comes from a Gator farm. Saw this one gator floating towards us. I had my 60mm micro lense on my D300. I love the detail. I converted using lightroom 3.0</p><div></div>

<p>respect to legendary jazz drummer Eddie Marshall, who just passed. this shot is from feb. 2011.</p><div></div>

<p>A recent garden visitor. Hard to catch with my slow lens, but I like the motion. </p><div></div>

<p>Sailboats anchored outside Menemsha harbor at sunset.</p><div></div>

<p><img src="../photo/14163994" alt="" />10 minutes away from where I live in Quebec canada, yesterday, the sky was awesome and I could not resist. My recent folder has two other images from that shoot.</p>

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<p>Really beautiful pictures this week as well. Some favorites of mine are from the following friends: Matt Laur, Billy J Boyd, Jana Hughes, Robert Fann, John Rowsell, Roberta davidson, Keith Gierman, Simon Jenkins, Tony Hadley. See you soon! Cheers!</p>

<p>At the Baltimore Grande Prix last weekend. I thought they should loan me one of the 300mm f2.8s that they were not using, but I guess they couldn't hear me over the noise the cars were making...they had ear plugs too...</p><div></div>

<p>My entry this week is more of a snapshot. My kiddo's first day of school...Eleanor is in 4th grade and Braeden is in Kindergarten *sigh* The house is so quiet. I have spent some quality time going through archived photos and deciding on whether I need a photo or not. Should take the entire school year to complete this task ;) Last night I had a dream, or more a nightmare, that my external hard drive melted...talk about frightening. Hope you all had a great Wednesday.</p><div></div>

<p>From this Sunday's visit to Brookside gardens, MD</p><div></div>

<p>Being away for a while, to much work. But on vacation, I met Elvis... or I'm a working to much?</p><div></div>

<p>A sore foot</p><div></div>

<p>Nikon Buddies,<br>

<br />Always looking, but haven't posting in a coupla months. Especially enjoying today's posts by Matt L, Bill B, Lloyd K, Gwen K, David J, Rick D, Don H, Peter S.<br>

<br />My post is girls on a boat, getting their picture taken by someone else. My I liked my angle better.</p>

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<p>Mission San Luis Rey, in Oceanside California.</p>

<p>Tokina 12-24 - D90</p><div></div>

<p><img src="http://studio460.com/images/party3.jpg" alt="" /><br /> Nikon D3s; AF-S 24mm f/1.4G</p>

<p>Sorry I am a little late</p>

<p>Matt, Doug R and Greg K and Elliot - great action photos.</p>

<p>Here is the opposite of action:</p><div></div>

<p>Some great work here, but my votes for the top 3 shots from this thread are: Juho's excellent and unique self portrait; Lloyd's characterful "big guy" portrait; and Matt's amazingly sharp happy doggy kick-off shot.<br /> Nice!<br /> C</p>

<p>This week I have been rediscovering my 85/1.4AiS which, at a first glance, I don`t liked so much... it took several days to make me more confortable with it, learning how it works. The glare issue, which I like a lot on the 35/1.4AiS, is also the special character of this lens. I think I`ll give it a second chance; it has an interesting potential.</p>

<p><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lVESV9Hhios/Tm0egNbVi8I/AAAAAAAAAFI/pO4w9yeuFTg/s1600/nwp362011.jpg" alt="" width="700" height="569" /></p>

<p>Here is used wide open on the D700 @ 200ISO, 1/4000sec.</p>

<p>Thanks to all for a great Nikon Wednesday week, and also to those who enjoyed the spaniel shot. It will be Wednesday morning again very soon, and I'm looking forward to another inspiring round of work. Get those JPGs tuned up, folks!</p>