Nikon Wednesday 2016: #35

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<p>Hello Nikon people. Are there any of you still left out there in PN-land? Can't be sure if this thread will be seen or if it will stick around, given the adventures in site redesign currently happening. But what the heck - change isn't always bad, despite rough starts sometimes. I'm not sure where PN is headed, but I'm also never sure where my own photography is headed. Here's a shot of one of my other cameras (a Micro 4/3-format body carrying an Oly 12/2) on its way aloft to survey some crop damage for a farming friend of mine. So new can be stimulating, and here's hoping that the PN admins/devs are stimulated into getting the kinks out before giving that makeover another try! Share something new, Nikon folks - even if Nikon Wednesday IS on a Saturday this time around.</p><div></div>

<p>Pennybacker Bridge in Austin, Texas.</p><div></div>

<p>Well, let's do this again. First Friday was the new Wednesday, now it's Saturday. Glad that nightmare V2.0 is over for the time being.</p>

<p>D500 with 200-500 at 500mm, f/7.1, 1/2000s, ISO500<br>

<a title="what's for dinner?" href=" data-flickr-embed="true"><img src="https://c4.staticflickr.com/8/7793/29330574115_f496e66b38_z.jpg" alt="what's for dinner?" width="640" height="427" /></a></p>

<p>D500 with 200-500 at 500mm, f/7.1, 1/1600s, ISO320<br>

<a title="Snowy Egret" href=" data-flickr-embed="true"><img src="https://c3.staticflickr.com/9/8226/29215018826_9acdf63957_z.jpg" alt="Snowy Egret" width="640" height="458" /></a></p>

<p>D500 with 200-500 at 500mm, f/7.1, 1/2000s, ISO500<br>

<a title="Osprey" href=" data-flickr-embed="true"><img src="https://c8.staticflickr.com/9/8130/29060651775_f2e671b356_z.jpg" alt="Osprey" width="640" height="427" /></a></p>

<p>White pelican with catch.</p><div></div>

<p>Ok, here's a flying Yellow Jacket</p><div></div>

<p>As most of you have found out, we are back to PN 1.0, and PN 2.0 is back to beta.<br /> This was not so much a "failure" as it was a very clever way to insure that further testing of PN 2.0 will have much more participation. ;)</p>

<p>Regardless, here from the wonderful world of Nikon F80, plus a little PS is</p><div></div>

<p>A Skipper Butterfly</p><div></div>

<p>Waiting for version 2.0</p><div></div>

<p>Grandson</p><div></div>

<p>Dali Museum, Tampa, FL</p><div></div>

<p>Lion Fish</p><div></div>

<p>If the #2 version comes back this may be the last photo that I post on Nikon Wednesday. <br>

I couldn't get to first base with that nightmare. </p><div></div>

<p>Well kudos to PN for trying their best.. I guess I'll post the ones I did before.</p>

<p>I just got back from Alaska, and am suffering a nasty bout of airport flu so have not sorted many pictures yet, but here are a couple. The visit coincided with the 100th anniversary of the National parks, and a big Tlingit reunification ceremony at Glacier Bay, where the natives had been forced out, not for once by us anglos, but by the glaciers. Lots of native stuff going on, and one thing I found was that once you start looking around, the woods are full of natural totems and ideas that seem to coincide with their art. </p><div></div>

<p>One of the guides remarked that the woods in some places were reminiscent of the California site where the Eewok scenes were filmed... and sure enough, out comes an Eewok!</p>

<p>Oops, sorry, I forgot which things I posted. Here's a bird totem instead! You'll have to wait for the Eewok.</p><div></div>

<p>I prefer this version but must say that if there had been no loss of images I could have gotten along with the new one, despite some clumsiness.</p>

<p>So finally a plane flight above Petersburg at low tide, and the mud flats are full of art!</p>

<p>p.s. all of above with D3200 and 18-55 kit lens. </p><div></div>

<p>Ah, I wondered if the previous thread would survive (unless it's still stuck in a spam filter). I'm sure it's Wednesday on Venus. Anyway... day three of my holiday of doom (you've seen the safari park and I didn't inflict Disneyland on you) was Sequoia National Park. I'm not overly impressed with what I captured, but here's what I got. Sadly, I did shoot the sunset-through-the-smoke because I didn't realise how special it would be. In the interests of not sharing exactly the same picture as everyone will capture there, here's General Sherman in infrared. With, it turns out, a cheap 720nm filter I don't trust - I got little foliage glow (though I suppose I was on the shaded side of most of it) so it might be mostly red and not very infra, and it arrived loose in its ring.</p><div></div>

<p>Here's Hospital Rock in Sequoia - my first bit of odd geology for the trip. Possibly "hospital" because of the slightly dangerous switchbacks on the road above this car park. Could have done with a nicer foreground, but I had to crop cars. I might have been a bit frisky with the vibrancy control after the mono filtering of General Sherman, so apologies for any eye damage - but it felt like this!</p><div></div>

<p>A little more conventional, and - for Sequoia - back to trees. "The Twins" in the Giant Forest (near General Sherman). Quite a bit of shadow recovery (I'd have liked more sky colour, but it started looking fake).</p><div></div>

<p><img src="/photodb/folder?folder_id=1013966" alt="" />Reece.</p><div></div>

<p>Tony - that's the most abstract photo of a dog I've ever seen. (It took my wife a while to work out what it was, so I don't think it's just me.) Very cool!<br />

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Ronald: I've tried to do that kind of thing, and failed miserably. Great shot.<br />

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Dieter: As I said on pnet2, lovely ospreys; I'm now much less proud of my own images of a nest!<br />

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And generic lovely shots, everyone. Inspiring as usual. ('scuse my breaking the "no words" theme, but recent threads suggest we don't say nice things often enough, so I felt I should respond to this thread.)</p>