Nikon Wednesday 2014: #42

<p>Hello Nikon friends, how's your week so far, lovely pics, keep them coming...weather is still warm here so we take advantage of it :)</p><div></div>

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<p>Great start this morning. Tony and Ikka, brilliant! I was visiting a historic pioneer village display in Wisconsin, and happened onto three train station carts parked among the trees. I popped the setting into Vivid Picture Control, emphasizing reds, greens and yellows.</p><div></div>

<p>Hello , last weeks full moon triggered a smallish tidal bore on the River Severn early on Thursday morning.</p><div></div>

<p>Bryce Canyon, D600......</p>

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<p>Stopped while jogging to take this backlighted sunrise with Nexus 5</p><div></div>

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<p>My son is a helicopter pilot and flight instructor, and invited me to ride along with him last Sunday from Ellington airport in Northeast CT. While waiting for him to pre-flight the aircraft, I noticed something falling from the sky. It turned out to be members of the Connecticut Parachutists floating down at the end of their skydive. Most were jumping in tandem rigs, apparently a novice with an experienced instructor.</p><div></div>

<p>Iris at great grandma's house this weekend. Lucky quick shot as she sat on an antique foot stool.</p><div></div>

<p>Another fiddler.</p><div></div>

<p><img src="/photo/17882844" alt="" />Taken in Barbados a couple of months ago.</p><div></div>

<p>Michael ...</p><div></div>

<p>Expensive LED lighting at a downtown theater KO'd by a lightning strike, and this guy has to cover them.</p><div></div>

<p>A classic camera, the F2, but with a not-well-thought-of lens, the Zoom-Nikkor 43-86mm f/3.5 lens (mine is the AI lens, Kadlubek Nr. NIK4030)</p><div></div>

<p>Late to post this week, trying to get back on schedule here.... This week I especially enjoyed<br>

Edwin Barkdoll’s leaves & reflections from the woods... Andrew Roca’s landscape, Bill Keaton’s landscape, and Steve J Murray’s lovely portrait.</p>

<p>This week in a social forum I was challenged to a five day B&W challenge. I had to post one photo each day, which I succeeded to do. But I had to go into my “vault” to do it. So since I know I haven’t posted these anywhere else I figured I’d use some of them here as well. These were shot in between April & June of 2014.<br>

These are shot with the Nikon D70 IR converted & the D800<br>

#1 This was shot at Bodie Ghost Town up north here in California. Shot with the NIKON D70 (IR converted), Nikkor 10-24mm f/3.5-4.5 G ED, f/8 @ 24 mm, 1/1000, ISO 200, -1/3EV, Aperture priority</p>

<p><img src="http://lilknytt.zenfolio.com/img/s6/v142/p373454540-5.jpg" alt="" /><br>

<br /># 2 I’ve long wanted to visit Mono Lake up north here in California & this year I got a chance to. I’ve lightly started doing panoramas over the last year & this is a most probably 10 photo pano. But it could be a few less, can’t find my notes right now. Shot with the NIKON D800, Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8G ED, f/8 @ 48 mm, 1/500, ISO 100, 0EV, Aperture priority<br>

<img src="http://lilknytt.zenfolio.com/img/s6/v147/p418329145-5.jpg" alt="" /><br>

<br /># 3 Last but not least, this is a Lily in our pond. It’s not a water lily, but it’s a lily which can live in a pond... NIKON D800, Lester A. Dine 105mm f/2.8 Manual focus @ f/11 @ 105 mm, 1/320, ISO 400, 0EV, Aperture priority</p>

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<p>In rare keeping with the theme of the week, more or less, I went down to the lake to check on a stairway that I've been making, and of course happened to have a camera.</p>

<p>The leaves are piling up on the water, nothing unusual, but it might make a nice windows wallpaper....</p>

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<p>Trying out my old 50/F2 AI lens, a shot that makes little sense but I kind of liked the abstraction of colors and shapes, so why not? e.t.a. by the way, it's hard to see in a 700 pixel JPG, but both those lenses are very sharp.</p><div></div>

<p>Came upon a series of hippo images as I revisited my first trip to Tanzania in 2008. I am glad to have had the opportunity to see a hippo cow with calf, especially in light of my subsequent visit to this same locale (the "hippo pool") in 2011 and found that the water had become disgustingly filthy. The hippos were in terrible condition, and any shot made that included the filthy water was visibly awful.</p>

<p>The metadata reveal the image was shot with a Nikon 18-200mm lens on a Nikon D200, at ISO 800. It is a surprise (at least to me) that this relatively old DSLR could handle ISO 800 pretty well, and that there is decent sharpness @200mm from the 18-200 lens (think it's "Versiion 1"). No noise reduction was applied to the image.</p><div></div>

<p>Blue Ridge Parkway on Monday, Oct. 13th.</p>

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<p>The good old<em> Chinook</em></p><div></div>

<p>Lil, very nice post.</p>