Nikon Wednesday 2018: #37

If you're here on the eastern seaboard like me, you're probably weary of the season's unusually rainy episodes. We're soaked. The ground is squishy. Everything's moldy. Enough! Aaaaand, we're about to feel the wrath of Florence. For us, that will probably be six more inches or rain or so. But for folks in the Carolinas and parts of Virginia, it looks really grim. Hope any and all PN-folk along that stretch of the coast and inland up against those hills are taking it very seriously, and being prepared for terrible flooding. Be safe!

So for now, I've got no choice but to embrace the never-ending damp, and shoot some wed plants. See you all next week once that storm has done what it's going to do. Be careful out there! Don't be that guy that just had to photograph that raging river from the slippery bank.

D810 and a 105mm macro.

In Polynesia the trees have a lot of personality. This one seems a bit worried.

A cemetery tree is very inviting (the view is good but I'm not sure it's to die for):

These tree buddies are inseparable:

D300, 50mm

Pelicans, FX body with 600mm Nikkor lens

When I was out shooting herons not too long ago, the noise from my camera's mirror made this fellow curious. So no, a loud camera is not always something bad.

Nikon D800E, AF-S 300/2.8 VR, TC-20-EIII

In Polynesia the trees have a lot of personality. This one seems a bit worried.

Had to laugh - everywhere we go I have to take photos of tree trunks - my wife is a weaver and has an idea for patterns - I call it the Bark Project!

Getting away from the rain, and spending quality time with the tools. Nikon F, 28-85mm Nikkor, Tri-X, Xtol/Rodinal. Swansea, MA.

I wish we had too much rain! But I guess be careful what you wish for. Two shots this week, one from a rare Friday night free, too close to town and too much light pollution, but it's all for fun and practice. And one from a hike Sunday. Nikon D750, Rokinon 14mm, Nikon 24-85VR.

Oregon Fall, D300s 24-85 AFD

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If you're here on the eastern seaboard like me, you're probably weary of the season's unusually rainy episodes. We're soaked. The ground is squishy. Everything's moldy. Enough! Aaaaand, we're about to feel the wrath of Florence. For us, that will probably be six more inches or rain or so. But for folks in the Carolinas and parts of Virginia, it looks really grim. Hope any and all PN-folk along that stretch of the coast and inland up against those hills are taking it very seriously, and being prepared for terrible flooding. Be safe!

 

So for now, I've got no choice but to embrace the never-ending damp, and shoot some wed plants. See you all next week once that storm has done what it's going to do. Be careful out there! Don't be that guy that just had to photograph that raging river from the slippery bank.

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I feel your pain. While I'm not in Virginia anymore, my wife still is while we're going through the process of selling the house. I've been hearing the rain stories pretty much every day. I'm just praying that the big tree in our front yard doesn't get get blown over with a strong gust of wind with the ground so wet and us being so close to closing on the house.

In keeping with the water theme, here are a couple more shots from my hike the week before last. D3400

A bit late, but better than never, right?

"Dead in the water"

Handheld, Sigma 150mm Macro on D750.

I'm way behind on triage again, and can't really fit the theme. But here's the Lynn Valley bridge, which I wouldn't like to be on in a hurricane. I hope the forum regulars are all safe.

D850, 14-24.

When I was there, the bridge was closed for a few hours while some teenagers were hauled up from the river below by firemen - they'd ignored the "people hurt themselves jumping off the rocks" warning and one had done so; I'm told nothing life-threatening, fortunately. The others had got cold waiting and weren't up to travelling over multiple waterfalls to get out. These are the crowds waiting to cross when the bridge was reopened. (The broken tread on the bridge was caused by the rescue equipment.)

The view over the edge of the bridge - which is why the rescue would have been a bit tricky; Capilano is, relatively, much more accessible. Apparently people injure themselves a lot at Lynn Valley (despite the signs) - even while the bridge was closed people were asking about getting down to the river, and in the full-size version of this, you can make out someone getting ready to swim in the pool above the farther falls. I kind of wish the fire crews were left to help put out BC's wild fires, but there's no accounting for people.