Nikon Wednesday 2020: #18

 

Hello Nikon people and a good Wednesday to all. Last week, I dropped in a couple shots of dewy, springy flowers making their spring appearance. This week, I feature Elmer, The Destroyer Of Ornamentals And Also Hostas.

 

Elmer's an odd one. He probably shouldn't have those velveted antlers at the moment, so his hormones are a bit off, or he's just mature enough to go from being a whitetail buck to an official "stag." Either way, he's got a knack for destroying gardens. A tasty venison dinner would certainly improve the quarantine dinner routine ... hmmm. Anybody else capture a portrait of a back yard villain? Let's see some photos!

 

Grabbed this one with the D810 and a Nikon 200-500/5.6 after having my breakfast rudely interrupted by the sounds of screaming azaleas.

I'm still playing around with old pictures -- more fun than knitting!

 

1976 Nikkormat EL with Nikkor-S 55mm f/1.2

 

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Hello Nikon people and a good Wednesday to all. Last week, I dropped in a couple shots of dewy, springy flowers making their spring appearance. This week, I feature Elmer, The Destroyer Of Ornamentals And Also Hostas.

 

Elmer's an odd one. He probably shouldn't have those velveted antlers at the moment, so his hormones are a bit off, or he's just mature enough to go from being a whitetail buck to an official "stag." Either way, he's got a knack for destroying gardens. A tasty venison dinner would certainly improve the quarantine dinner routine ... hmmm. Anybody else capture a portrait of a back yard villain? Let's see some photos!

 

Grabbed this one with the D810 and a Nikon 200-500/5.6 after having my breakfast rudely interrupted by the sounds of screaming azaleas. [ATTACH=full]1339554[/ATTACH]

I'll see what I can find but I don't think I'll find a pilferer to the level of Elmer here and especially not as a worthy dinner option! I wish I knew how to make a laughing emoji here cuz that's what I did after I read your lead-in... funneee.

Z6 14-24G @14mm 1/160th f11 iso 100

Local siblings playing in an alley

 

Good Wednesday, everybody! Sheltering at home here in California, I have two good models, our nearly three year old Havanese, and our 13 year old cat.

Taken in Jack E. Hill Park, Elk Grove, CA 10 April 2020 @ 3:18 PM

Nikon D750 1/1250 sec, f/8, ISO 2500 (Auto) Tamron SP 70-200mm f/2.8 Di VC USD A009N @ 200mm, Range: 10 meters

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D850 + 200-500mm @ 440mm f8 ISO 900

 

No flower ravaging, but a distinctly guilty look....;)

 

. Edited April 29, 2020 by Sanford

Prepping for the venison

Eastern Bluebird in Austin, Texas (Nikon D850)

I think I switched flashlights because the battery died... this was probably at 5x.

 

Coincidentally, I can do back yard villains. I was about to spray my rose bush, and then thought I'd give my macro lens a quick work-out before I did so. Unlike last week's bluebells I had a macro rail this time and these are focus stacked - but the movement came from the rose waving in the wind. I disapprove of outdoors, it's annoying. I never did get the hang of the big blue room with the yellow light - I've had enough trouble trying to colour balance my Zoom conference calls...

 

D850, Laowa 2.5-5x, probably not the right settings, focus stacked.

 

And a crop (not 1:1) for a bit more detail. The white things confuse me, by the way - I'm assuming they might be shed skins?

 

D850 + 200-500mm @ 400mm 1/800 ISO 360

 

Not a very spring-like image, I admit. I was just screwing around in photoshop yesterday, and this was on my laptop. (My desktop is where I do most of my photo editing and where all my photos are stored, but my husband is in the office 24/7 these days between online grad school and working from home, and this was just something I had on my laptop...) Nikon D750+24-85VR.

Nikon F, 28-85mm Nikkor, TriX, Xtol/Rodinal.

but the movement came from the rose waving in the wind

Time to sacrifice the bud and bring it indoors....it's suffered enough.....:D

This morning - minor villain. D810 AF Micro Nikkor 105 2.8 D

Time to sacrifice the bud and bring it indoors....it's suffered enough.....:D

 

It actually looked surprisingly healthy (for a flower in my garden), so hopefully I'll provide blurry pictures of an actual flower in the future. The aphids got a good drenching of rose maintenance fluid, anyway. I was tempted with the bluebells, but I think it might actually be illegal to pick them.

I apologize because I have realized that the first photograph (Police-Horses) I had already posted last January

D750 Nikon 55mm 1.4