POTW, July 19, 2013_Olympus, Panasonic, or anything similar

<p>Monterey Bay Aquarium</p><div></div>

<p>MBA 2</p><div></div>

<p>A South Florida Super Model...</p><div></div>

<p>Sanfors - Like the first one quite a bit.<br>

Early morning dew as Bokeh.</p><div></div>

<p>Lily</p><div></div>

<p>Sgwd Gwladus (Wales, water and sun - the third a rare feature!)</p><div></div>

<p>I met Karen, enjoying life in front of a Starbucks.<br>

<img src="http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee183/bobdein/19-07-13_zpsc2978799.jpg" alt="" width="700" height="700" /><br>

Olympus OM-D, Zuiko 45mm f1.8.<br>

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<p>Thanks Rick</p>

<p>Sanford, I like the first image, great color, and movement. Rick, the Peruvian Lily is well captured, as is the dew drop. Elliot, wonderful shot of the "super model" whose make-up is very colorful, nice capture.</p>

<p>It has been a week with the flowers in my garden. This Calla has come back for three years so I guess it is happy and well established.</p><div></div>

<p>The hot weather seems to agree with the Glads, but they do enjoy an occassional bath</p><div></div>

<p>This little dancer greets me on the way into the house.</p><div></div>

<p>Charles - thumbs up on the 2nd image.</p>

<p>Sanford, your first image reminded me of the water shots I've been playing with lately. Here's one of my favourites - water crystals in a glass jug with H2O in various fonts all over it.</p><div></div>

<p>My 2nd shot was with my new 75-300mm lens. I have wanted to capture a decent shot of Shorncliffe Jetty from a distance for some time now. This is basically the view I see when I am about to turn into my street. Lucky me!</p><div></div>

<p>Finally a shot taken in my backyard testing the 75mm length for flowers etc.</p>

<p>Trying again...</p><div></div>

<p>Nice shots Anthea, I had to Google Shorncliffe Jetty to see where that is. I was just out using my 45-200mm Panasonic zoom on a G2 and have never been satisfied on how the thing focused at 200mm-hit and mostly miss. How does the combination you are using do?</p>

<p>Thanks Sanford - I guess I take it for granted that everyone knows I live in Brisbane, Australia. Shorncliffe is a suburb on the northern outskirts of Brisbane - the jetty is around 100 years old and has always been a popular place for day trips as well as a lovely place for locals. Sadly it has been closed for some months now due to safety concerns, there is a campaign going to get it restored rather than replaced.</p>

<p>Anyway, back to your question, I was delighted with this lens, and had no problems at all with focusing, I was also concerned that the weight would make my shaky hands even worse but I found that the size of it actually meant I could stabilise it with my hand while shooting. Here's a shot taken at 300mm of the jetty (from the same position). Actually, when when my friend saw the boat he speculated that the guy may have been diving to do some surveying of the damage.</p><div></div>

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<p>There was a rally in Delhi to protest the killing of seven people in Ramban, Kashmir, when men of the Border Security Force opened fire on unarmed citizens.</p><div></div>

<p>Why are protest signs in English Mukul? Is it because many people in India speak English or so the rest of the world read their signs?</p>

<p>Sanford, India was a British colony until 1947. As a consequence, English is the language in which the children of the elite are educated. There were often violent movements in the 1960s to replace English with Hindi (and, in the south, with other Indian languages), but English held its place: and now "globalisation" has given it an even greater importance than it had. Today's protest was organised mainly by university students, who are taught in English. I don't think the world comes into the picture. For one thing, few photos such as this one will be seen outside India. For another, in England in the 1970s I saw that for the press and television, India was seldom newsworthy.</p>