Nikon Wednesday 2015: #1

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<p>Hello Nikonistas, and a good first Wednesday of 2015 to everyone. Also happens to be, at least where I'm sitting, a very COLD one. I can tell, because a couple of my tires always lose some pressure once temps get into the low 20s F. Sure enough, I had to break out the portable compressor to add a few PSI before heading out today. I guess it's time for new tires. Are you encountering the big cold blast in the US, or are you someplace warm and comfortable this week? Share some photos!</p><div></div>

<p>Well, it's mighty cold in Vermont, and we had a big snowstorm in December, so we decided to go south for the holidays. </p><div></div>

<p>Cold at Timberline Lodge</p><div></div>

<p>The ice is wonderfully abstract</p><div></div>

<p>Cold as it is down there, it was warmer than Vermont, and we're heading for a few days of subzero weather. Maybe I'll have time to cull the thousands of pictures I took. <br>

The D3200 acquitted itself well, but shared with other digital cameras the fault of making it too easy to take too many pictures. I traveled light, with the kit 18-55 and the 55-300 lenses, but threw in my old pre-AI 28/3.5 and a polarizer, which gets along well with sun and ice.</p><div></div>

<p>Matthew, great landscape with the 28mm f/3.5. I have a Type K version (not sure if they are different), which I love. There is a lot of character in your shot.</p>

<p>It was a bit chilly, and the fireworks made you forget the cold</p><div></div>

<p>number two ...</p><div></div>

<p>and three</p><div></div>

<p>Stiff winds combined with frigid temperatures to create surreal, ice landscapes around the waterfalls in the Columbia River Gorge last week. I'm posting three images, one of each waterfall I photographed. Here is Lower Latourell Falls.</p><div></div>

<p>The granddaddy of Oregon waterfalls, Multnomah Falls, which rises more than 600 feet, also put on a show.</p><div></div>

<p>Here's the last of the three, Horsetail Falls, with plenty of ice all around. Wind was blowing so hard and the air temp was so cold that icicles formed sideways (kid you not).</p><div></div>

<p>A few weeks ago I found a Kiron 70-150/4, which I'd been looking for, in a very friendly camera shop (which only deals in analogue gear!). This is from its test run - sharp enough to show that what the bird has in its beak is long like a strand of seaweed.</p><div></div>

<p>Still editing over 6600 images from the SW....this was near Kanab, UT.</p><div></div>

<p>On Friday we got a lot of rain and some winds which took away all the snow and ice we had so far in the south coast. Yesterday, however, it was very cold again and the sea started to freeze up again.</p><div></div>

<p>In areas such as the forest where there had been a lot of snow, the water from the melted snow was busy flowing when the temperature dropped, and it looked like this.</p><div></div>

<p>Finally an image of a nearby creek. The first image was from Lauttasaari and the second and third from Nuuksio.</p><div></div>

<p>WOW!! some very beautiful exposures this Wed. morning. I'm afraid mine pale in comparison but we did finally get a taste of winter yesterday.</p><div></div>

<p>This little red squirrel sat still long enough with his black walnut breakfast for me to get a shot. Usually they are very wary of intruders in their woods. </p><div></div>

<p>One of the best things about it being cold outside is being able to be warm inside</p><div></div>

<p><img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/17855984-md.jpg" alt="" width="452" height="680" /></p>

<p>architecture photography job, 1 of 5 shots.<br>

nikon d3. 50 1.8G, 30 sec, iso 200, f8, big stopper, -3stops graduated hand helt and tilited.</p>

<p>Shadows on the University of Texas campus in Austin.</p><div></div>

<p>It was warm inside the Minnesota center where our granddaughter bowled with a little help from her dad. They didn't have shoes small enough so let her bowl in her rubber boots, which turned out to be on the wrong feet but didn't seem to slow her down.</p><div></div>

<p>Great shots everyone this week!<br>

<a name="00d3Kv"></a><a href="/photodb/user?user_id=19054">Ilkka Nissila</a> - Your shot number 2 is especially good.<br>

Here are mine for this week. First shot it a new one of clouds reflected in a pond and the other two are older ones of crater lake in Oregon. Nikon Df reflections Nikon D700 crater lake. </p><div></div>

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