Nikon Wednesday 2015: #11

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<p>Hello all and a good Nikon Wednesday to everyone. Just walked back in the door from a little nocturnal spooking around the nearby construction site I've been photographically haunting. Today's earlier clouds blew out, and the temperature has dropped by about 40 degrees - it makes for a clear night sky to contrast with the monochromatic light from the street-side sodium vapor lighting. So here are some minutes-old JPGs, all shot with a D600 at ISO1600-3200 and about 30 seconds on the shutter, using a Sigma 30/1.4 between f/8 and f/14. No thematic encouragement this week - just hoping everyone shares some work. Off we go!</p><div></div>

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<p>Spring is coming to the North, little by little. <br>

<br />Down by the lake, the eagles are coming back.</p>

<p>Ill equipped as I am for the job, herewith, a crop of a crop of a crop.</p>

<p>Oops, try again.</p><div></div>

<p>There's still a whole lot of snow</p><div></div>

<p>But the bright spring colors are starting to emerge.</p><div></div>

<p>We've had an unusually dry winter in the Portland, Oregon area (and all of the Pacific Northwest, for that matter). I shot this about 40 minutes prior to sunrise on March 1. Flanking the St. Johns Bridge is Mount St. Helens on the left and Mount Adams on the right.</p>

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<p>Shortly before sunrise, Mount Hood looms in the distance as fog wafts over farm fields in Washington County, Oregon.</p><div></div>

<p>Waliking the beach as the tide rolled out. Got this one Handheld.</p>

<p>Got this one handheld as the tide rolled out</p><div></div>

<p><img src="/photo/17980747" alt="" />Good day - my shots were taken during a winter break in February (2015). They will be from Key West Florida and they have the geographical reputation that they are the most southern part of the USA and only 90 miles from Cuba. Duval is the main street and there is a plethora of stores and services and all quite interesting. My first image is a storefront with some 'outrageous' T-Shirts, etc. </p><div></div>

<p><img src="/photo/17983241" alt="" />Continuing in Key West - Clinton Square Market - I liked the abstract wall and the palms.</p><div></div>

<p><img src="/photo/17903575" alt="" />(Key West - Florida) to the left of Clinton Square Market was this scene.</p>

<p>Smart phone usage: texter, photographer and talker (*_*)</p><div></div>

<p>More infrared -- pretty much all I'm using the D2H for nowadays -- plus experimenting with homebrewed lighting modifiers for a noirish effect.<br>

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<img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/17984049-md.jpg" alt=""It doesn't look bad now. But in the morning ..."" width="680" height="450" border="0" /><br>

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<img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/17984065-md.jpg" alt="The odious rhetoric of carnations." width="680" height="450" border="0" /><br>

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<img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/17986053-md.jpg" alt="Hot mirror" width="680" height="450" border="0" /><br>

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<em>All Nikon D2H, 55/3.5 AI'd Micro-Nikkor, with three-filter IR rig</em>.</p>

<p>it's dead, jim.</p>

<p><img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/17007738-lg.jpg" alt="" width="1500" height="1000" /></p>

<p>as there is no thematic encouragement this week i decided to show some "work" :)</p>

<p>Bristlecone Forest. Should have used orange instead red filter.</p><div></div>

<p>Aurora borealis in Porkkala yesterday.</p><div></div>

<p>The lights were flashing in and out around 7.45pm, then the activity subsided a bit and came back later.</p><div></div>

<p>Pointing the camera straight up.</p><div></div>

<p>So many good shots this week! Especially like:<br>

<a name="00dBec"></a><a href="/photodb/user?user_id=3676315">Robert Wayt-</a> Your second picture of mount hood is outstanding.<br>

<a name="00dBfX"></a><a href="/photodb/user?user_id=6502147">Leszek Vogt</a> - Your bristlecone pine is great!<br>

<a name="00dBfs"></a><a href="/photodb/user?user_id=19054">Ilkka Nissila</a> - I love all your aurora shots!<br>

Here are mine for the week. Just a shot in the backyard with Nikon D800 + Nikon 300mm f4 and Nikon 2x tele. Enjoy.</p>

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

<p>norbert--wow! What is (was) that camera? :-)<br>

Paul</p>

<p>Spring has sprung,<br>

The Geese are here</p><div></div>