Canon FD Photo of the Month: August 2015

<p>Beautiful work! Keep posting.</p>

<p>Yeah I agree, some outstanding pics. </p>

<p>Gabriel, nice composition and use of colors.</p>

<p>Thank you guys! As a relatively new photographer this is very encouraging to me. :)</p>

 

<p><em><strong><br />“…..Jim Bielecki , Aug 09, 2015; 06:57 p.m…..Love the colors……”</strong></em></p>

<p>Hard to beat the colors of Nature...best I can do is try not to screw them up.<br />Another example of color is this Swallowtail on a Lantana Bush.<br />( Canon FDn 200/4.0 Macro Lens )</p>

<p><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v630/roundball/PHOTOGRAPHY/INSECTS/BUTTERFLIES/080915%20Yellow%20Swallowtail_PinkampYellow%20Flowers%20245_PBHiDefPBCon10PBS20_zpsbatxjdcv.jpg" alt="" /></p>

<p>Great pic Bill!</p>

<p>Not quite in the Bill C. category, but close. Canon FL-F 500/5.6 at F5.6. Heavily cropped. A bunch of Sandhill Cranes feeding in a recently harvested field.</p>

<p><img src="http://gallery.leica-users.org/d/415115-1/Sandhill1.jpg" alt="" width="1000" height="587" /></p>

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Gabriel and Jim, you are doing darn well yourselves. Great work Bill. Keep them coming.

<p>Agree, good shots all...and doubly pleased that Canon's manual lenses from way back in the 80's still get it done in fine shape !</p>

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<p>Agree, good shots all...and doubly pleased that Canon's manual lenses from way back in the 80's still get it done in fine shape !</p>

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<p>My FL-F 500/5.6 probably dates back to the 1969 or 1970. A beast of a lens, both huge and heavy, but optically superb (Fluorite works).</p>

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<p>That 500mm FL looks like a beast. I love big lenses. :D<br />The IQ looks great to me from it as well.<br>

I wonder how it will compare to the FD 300mm 2.8 with an extender (well none of the extenders will give me a 500mm but still).</p>

<p>One more from the Folkfest..such a cool event!<br /> FD 50mm 1.4 on this one and cropped to remove the bottom of the stage and few heads in front of me.<br /> <img src="http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a368/shaolin95/20360288585_c46f3b9640_o_zpspzlcviig.jpg" alt="" width="1024" height="475" /><br>

Sadly it loses a LOT of the impact in this smaller, lower quality image compared to the Flick link :/<br>

Here is the flickr if you want to see it in full quality. :)<br />https://www.flickr.com/photos/lgabrielg/20360288585/in/dateposted-public/</p>

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<p><strong>Canon FDn 200/4.0 Macro...has definitely become one of my few favorite lenses.<br /><br />This Morning Glory was all alone in an otherwise green planting at an Arboretum...I'm assuming a leftover from some year's previous planting, or introduced by a local bird or something. <br /></strong><br>

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<p>Several Green Frogs (I think) have taken up residence in our backyard water barrel. FD 500mm F8.0 mirror lens on a Olympus OM-D (for an effective focal length of 1000mm).</p>

<p><img src="http://gallery.leica-users.org/d/415680-1/green+frog1000.jpg" alt="" width="1000" height="667" /></p>

Nice shot...it's so ugly it's almost pretty, LOL.

<p>This has really been a great month!</p>

<p>I fully agree! I wish more people will join us. :)</p>

<p>Canon FDn 80-200/4.0-L is a good one for sure.<br /><br />Took a short stroll through a patch of woods this morning in hopes of seeing a good cluster of mushrooms or something...came up on this sort of ho-hum mushroom but thought the Turkey feather behind it made for an interesting shot.</p>

<p><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v630/roundball/PHOTOGRAPHY/MUSHROOMS%20and%20FUNGI/082115%20Mushroom%20%20Turkey%20Feather_PBHiDefPBSat10PBS10_zpsfpbrwaga.jpg" alt="" /></p>

<p>Thanks, Gabriel! </p>

<p>Nice Bill. What's the story with feather?</p>

Just a wild Turkey feather that had dislodged as it flew up into a tree for its nightly roost (or as it flew down

the next morning)...they have a huge wingspan and it's not uncommon for their powerful wings to strike other branches as they're

flying up (or back down), ripping out the occasional feather

<p><strong>The 1st Generation Canon FDn 200/2.8 getting it done...</strong><br>

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<strong><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v630/roundball/PHOTOGRAPHY/DEER/082515_C_PM%20Portrait%20Young%204-5%20point%20buck%20again%2034_PBCon10PBS40_zps8hqzdcsn.jpg" alt="" /></strong></p>

What a fantastic month. Tons of great and various photos. Are we ready for September?

<p>A couple more to close the month for me.<br />With FD 35mm F2.0 and FD 20mm F2.8<br /> Sadly the impact of both images is really diminished when posted here as it robs the quality and "3d" pop of it specially on the first one but hope you like it. :)</p>

<p><img src="http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a368/shaolin95/DSC02931_C1_4K_Nik_zpsdcptzhcn.jpg" alt="" width="683" height="1024" /><img src="http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a368/shaolin95/DSC02759_C1_4K_Nik_zpsn2f7ndnk.jpg" alt="" width="1024" height="683" /></p>

<p>Beautiful final shots! Thank you.</p>

<p>Thanks Alex :)</p>