POTW 5/19/2013

<p>Some nice shots. Favorites are Nick's garlic mustard and Matt's first. I also fussed with post processing this weekend and have three I liked, all taken over the last few months with my K5 and kit lens.</p><div></div>

<p>2nd.</p><div></div>

<p>Last.</p><div></div>

<p>Forgot to mention: I like Dave's optimistic bird as well.</p>

<p>Three recent photos from.. the first two with the k5, and the last one with the D800</p><div></div>

<p>#2</p><div></div>

<p>#3</p><div></div>

<p>Haig,</p>

<p>You really got a spectacular Hummer there. Nice going!</p>

<p>You guys just blow me away.<br>

<br />I went back to the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and was kept very busy between acrobats, punk and designer clothes and portraits.</p>

<p>I'll go with portraits which Im mentally labeling "Faces in the Crowd".<br>

Faces I</p>

<p>Faces I</p><div></div>

<p>Faces II</p>

<p>Faces IIa</p><div></div>

<p>Faces III</p><div></div>

<p>And suddenly I was a paparazzo...</p><div></div>

<p>Haig, I agree with Doug. Another awesome shot. Great detail. I just watch our hummers feeding.</p>

Thx, Doug & Bob.. I must say that this weeks photos are especially good.. Always an inspiration.

<p>Lots of good ones this week!<br /><br />Bob- wow, that's quite a fish! The underwater one is super cool!<br />Yury - I like the water drops in those photos. Good catch.<br />Markus - Hey I have one of those too! I used to record live music with it before going to DAT, then microdrive. Then I sold most of that gear off to buy camera stuff but still have one MD recorder since it was worthless anyway. <br />Nice moving water Robert!<br />Nick - that garlic mustard shot is interesting. I like all those stalks.<br />Jean B., that's a nice looking countryside. I like that second one but wonder how it would look woder and closer to those big rocks. Might make for a more dramatic shot.<br />Excellent hummingbird shot Haig!<br /><br /></p>

<p>Favorites for me:<br>

Don - Very thought provoking poster.<br>

Bob - Amazing trout shot<br>

Yury - flower shots<br>

Robert- They keep going into the distance and the greens.<br>

Nick - 1 & 2<br>

Dave - #1 - It will fit, if by chance, he gets it in the long way. Great catch!<br>

Matt - #1 & 2 are incredible, in the best way possible. Is making me think hard about the sale on the Nik suite.<br>

Haig - #1 Colors #2 A knockout #3 Amazing<br>

Great week for pictures, here.</p>

<p>Thanks Matt and Howard. After what Nick informed about WG's eventually leaking, I am a little gun shy or should I say, underwater camera shy. But since I only coughed up $70 bucks on ebay I figured it was worth the risk of wrecking the camera to get a subsurface image of the species that has so captivated me for so many years. I guess it was more luck than experience or knowledge but it worked.</p>

Thanks Howard and Matt, glad you liked them. I must admit that the combo of the d800 and the 70-200mm f2.8 is pretty

awesome.. A monopod and a gimbal head are definitely a good idea though.

<p>Haig - are you allowed to say that on this forum? :-)</p>

 

<p>Thanks, Howard. Actually, he did get it in longways, shortly after I got that shot. I wish I could have seen what they did with it after he got it inside.</p>