Nikon Wednesday 2016: #52

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<p>Hello, fellow Nikon people, and special thanks for all those who visit this thread every week. Hard to believe we're on the 52nd Nikon Wednesday of yet another year. It's fun to reflect on the fact that this thread has been going here on PN for almost a decade (remember when Jose started it - that was quite a while ago!).<br /><br />I took over launching these back on January 1, 2010 ... which means well over 350 of these for me so far. <em>Thank you</em>, everyone, for making these posts worth doing, week in and week out all these years. It's great to see both the frequent fliers and the occasional visitors giving us all something to look at. I think everyone deserves a cookie! Fresh from my wife's efforts, here are some gingerbread treats. Looking forward to seeing everyone in 2017 - and wishing everyone a happy new year.</p><div></div>

<p>I guess i'll start it off tonight, with a few more from Peru.</p><div></div>

<p>School kids at a village called "The 9th of October."</p><div></div>

<p>There's plenty of time to feel bad about the world, but not here and not today.</p><div></div>

<p>Something seasony from closed Crater Lake NP.</p><div></div>

<p>From this summer's road trip...</p>

<center><img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/18326674-lg.jpg" alt="" /><br />in the line Canada Day</center>

<p>Oak tree with bales of hay</p>

<p>A warm day in Austin...</p><div></div>

<p>Hi all.<br>

Happy new year.<br>

Tolga</p><div></div>

<p>Another one. With same set up.</p><div></div>

<p>Matt, those look very nice; your wife puts quite a creative effort into the decoration.<br>

And a big thanks to you for keeping this thread going for six years, and of course to Jose for starting it way back then.</p>

<p>From yesterday's tour. D7100 with 16-85 at 16mm, f/8, 1/320s, ISO 100. Gates near the Happy Canyon Road intersection.<br /> <a title="Gates" href=" data-flickr-embed="true"><img src="https://c7.staticflickr.com/1/311/31562560190_4260370661_b.jpg" alt="Gates" width="1024" height="683" /></a><br /> <br /><br /><br /> Along Foxen Canyon Road, on the way back from one of our favorite wineries, Rancho Sisquoc.<br /> <a title="Along Foxen Canyon Road" href=" data-flickr-embed="true"><img src="https://c5.staticflickr.com/1/700/31898634196_d4c9e35f9d_b.jpg" alt="Along Foxen Canyon Road" width="683" height="1024" /></a></p>

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<p>Puppy had no problem unwrapping his Christmas presents. :)</p><div></div>

<p>Great shots of the kids Matthew. This is the Penn Station train yard at night.</p><div></div>

<p>The most popular camera is your smart phone.</p><div></div>

<p>Abstract Misty</p><div></div>

<p>Thank you for continuing to breathe life into this forum Matt, it is always a pleasure to come here to see and to share.</p><div></div>

<p>Happy New Year to all!</p><div></div>

Cold outside but John was heating it up indoors for us.<div></div>

<p>Pretty nice sunrise this morning in Ashland County, Ohio</p><div></div>

<p>One of many; too many, squirrels that come to our back yard every day.</p><div></div>

<p>Christmas gathering at our house.</p><div></div>

<p>Nick and his Grandmother.</p><div></div>

<p>Jenny and friend Tara</p><div></div>

<p>A recent shot from the harbour close to where I live on Vancouver Island.</p><div></div>

<p>Thank you Matt and everyone for making these images special. Wade: So much for my new year's resolution to exercise! Glenn: I envy you your choice of home - I'm hoping to visit Nanaimo (well, Piper's Lagoon) again in a few weeks; lovely part of the world. I have some blurry birds from my local mill pond after a brief walk today, but instead I'm going to go with an "out with the old..." theme and claim it's topical.</p>

<p>And I can't do much older than Dinosaur National Monument (near Vernal), where we chose to break up our drive from Moab to Jackson Hole. Amazing place: run-off from a river where many large dinosaur bodies got washed up, leaving a rock full of bones. A lot went to museums, but they decided to preserve some of the open rock face in situ, with a building over it. Here's about a quarter of the exposed face, with a bit of photoshopping so you can hopefully see the bones a bit better. This shot is mostly bits of diplodocus and apatosaurus (brontosaurus to those of use of a certain age and taxonometric inaccuracy), with, appropriately for this site, a camarasaurus neck and skull at the top.</p><div></div>