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Nikon Wednesday 2017: #51


Matt Laur

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So, it's the last Nikon Wednesday of another year, as the calendar works this time around. Hope everyone is having a peaceful holiday season, and perhaps seeing some sights (or some sites) that are inspiring a bit of photography. Our Christmas day visitor this year was a juvenile red-tailed hawk who hung around outside our kitchen window for over an hour. Maybe those meat scraps we tossed out there had something to do with it! Let's see what everyone else has been up to - share some photos!

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D810 at ISO 250 and 1/640th with a Nikon 200-500/5.6 at f/6.3 and 500mm.

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It's snowy and wickedly cold in Vermont, I hear, but I find myself not quite at home at the moment. I'm about to go under the radar, so here's a happy new year picture from Costa Rica, which is decidedly not freezing and buried in snow.

 

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D7100, 55-300 lens, cropped and not very well processed on my nasty little computer, but hey, it's not snowing!

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along the Mississippi River between New Orleans and Baton Rouge the locals of the "River Parishes" have for well over 100 years built bonfires to guide Papa Noel down the River to their houses.They are lighted on Christmas Eve just after dark, a very big family affair, people come from surrounding areas to view and to share a very south Louisiana Christmas Eve experience. Of course there is food!

 

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Also in the neighborhood is the San Francisco Plantation, bedecked for Christmas

 

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As usual, late I'm afraid. I've been to visit my sister in Wales, where she actually has scenery and birds in the garden (a combination of cats and the urban setting means I've normally been stuck with pigeons and the occasional magpie at home).

 

First, boxing day rains...

 

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(D810, 24-120 + polariser, since I got to learn what polarisers do to rainbows...)

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