Nikon Wednesday 2017: #1

<p>Haven't been out lately. Minus 1 F this morning here in MN. The trails in the woods where I bike are icy right now from freezing rain last week. So, here's a couple shots from last night: granddaughter Iris (pink pants) playing with a neighbor girl Vivian. </p><div></div>

<p>Cuddling in a chair with grandma (and the dog).</p><div></div>

<p>At the doll house.</p><div></div>

<p>Couple of shots from Fairbanks wild space in town.</p>

<p>Les</p>

<p>Couple of shots from Fairbanks wild space in town. D610 and 300/4.5.</p>

<p>Les</p><div></div>

<p>No idea why the text doubled.</p><div></div>

<p>Out on a lunchtime walk with my new (for me) Micro-Nikkor AFS 105mm/2.8. Wow, is that thing sharp! (Even if you can't tell in this severely down-sized image.)</p><div></div>

<p>All the best in this new year to you Matt, and all here at P.net.<br>

Here are a few from this afternoon.<br>

We had a brief respite from a serious snow storm so I sprang into action. These were taken 45 minutes apart. <br>

We didn't have any appointments scheduled for today so I'm just letting it pile up. Tomorrow will be a serious snow removal day. I will unleash the mighty Honda track machine and we will together do battle against Mother Nature, usually a failing cause.</p>

<p>I did a lot of work putting up and tearing down toy trains to benefit several museums holiday events. This shot is from the B&O Museum in Baltimore testing out my newly acquired 14-24.</p><div></div>

<p>Several day of rain have cleared with cold coming.</p><div></div>

I think I found something interesting to shoot this week. I need to get a cable for my Pocket Wizard PlusX's so I can snap

the shutter while the camera is in front of the shooter and I'm behind them in a safe position.

 

The benefits of a dreary day... every once in a while you can catch the muzzle flash.<div></div>

<p>A Hudson River Pier</p><div></div>

<p>Hudson River Pier 2</p><div></div>

<p>Elevated subway station at 125th street</p><div></div>

<p>Immediately as I was about to post this afternoon, our power went out. Not unusual given the conditions. So, six hours later, I'll try again...<br>

All the best in this new year to you Matt, and all here at P.net.<br>

Here are a few from this afternoon.<br>

We had a brief respite from a serious snow storm so I sprang into action. These were taken 45 minutes apart. <br />We didn't have any appointments scheduled for today so I'm just letting it pile up. Tomorrow will be a serious snow removal day. I will unleash the mighty Honda track machine and we will together do battle against Mother Nature, usually a failing cause.</p><div></div>

<p>The sun interrupted the storm for less than 5 minutes.</p><div></div>

<p>And one from an upper side window.<br>

These were all taken with a D800E and my ever-trusty AF-S 17-35mm. The reason my Sigma ART 35mm spends a lot of time in it's case.</p><div></div>

Nikon d7200 tamron 17-50<div></div>

<p>@<a href="/photodb/user?user_id=4103361">Wade Roth</a> - that's a great photo! A friend of mine once captured me shooting a handgun just about like yours. Only he was using a manual focus film camera. Quick reflexes. :)</p>

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

Great shots to start the year off!

 

Thanks, Patrick S. 10 fps helps a lot. I'd like to get one with the bullet just past the muzzle flash. I was having to much fun

shooting the guns to shoot much with the camera though.

<p>Northern Harrier in stealth mode.</p><div></div>

<p>Off to a good start...</p><div></div>

<p>Happy new year everyone. I've had a new year's cold (or some combination of ill, anyway) so I hope you'll forgive me defining "Wednesday" as "Sunday" for a week (otherwise I'll still be posting shots from my last Yellowstone trip when I'm back in Yellowstone...) My holiday had finally reached Yellowstone, and in the interests of editing, I'm going with the elements, starting with earth.</p>

<p>You can't go to Yellowstone and not take a picture of a bison. This is the Yellowstone sub-species, known as the "not another" bison, the cause of many a "bison jam" in Yellowstone. (Not to be confused with a "bear jam", which is marmalade if you like Paddington and hunny if you like Pooh.) Maybe it's because I'm belatedly watching a Peter Pan holiday season pantomime on television (a comedy version), but I'm going to say that this picture is evidence that every time someone calls one a buffalo, a bison dies. (Don't worry, it's fine, it's just what our guide was insisting was the "dating season" and this is a scent thing.)</p><div></div>

<p>"Earth" is supposed to mean "land animals" (if you think it's confusing and I should have mud pots here, it's not as dubious as how I'm distinguishing fire and water...)</p><p>I have various shots of big-horned sheep, mountain goats (blown highlights every time - I must remember that next time I hire a D500) and <strike>mooses</strike> <strike>meeces</strike> <strike>mooce</strike> a moose, but it was this prong horn that had the decency to step out of the foliage and show an interest in a modelling career.</p><div></div>