Canon Thursday Photo 2011: #33

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<p>Happy Thursday to everyone! This is my last week of summer "vacation" until school starts on Monday. I've been working a lot lately (I'm not complaining, it is by choice) and haven't had much time for photography, but I have managed to get a few shots off and once school starts I'll be back in swing with the school newspaper. My good friend gave me a 1.4x II t/c as a gift recently for helping him out in his photography business and other things. I took it out in the yard yesterday to play with it and here's one of the shots. The camera was tripod mounted, but I still could have used a tad faster shutter to reduce motion blur. But for just stepping out the front door and snaping a shot, I'll take it.</p><div></div>

<p><img src="http://spirer.com/images/sandi9.jpg" alt="" width="700" height="550" /><br /> <em>Makeup</em></p>

<p>Good luck back at school Nathan. Not being able to sleep gets me in the first 5 posts... score ;)</p><div></div>

<p>Well .. Happy Thursday to everyone ...<br>

Went to the flower shop yesterday, and well .. just happened to have my camera ..<br>

Canon 350D .. with Canon 28-90mm Lens .. and caught this Zinnia</p><div></div>

<p>From a stairway in a Cinque Terre town. I liked the colors, and the statue's expression.<br>

Lupo, I just finished dinner, and your photo is still making me hungry!</p><div></div>

<p>This summer will soon be over.</p><div></div>

5D2, 24/1.4, f4 at 1/60, ISO 100<div></div>

<p>Mine for the week is another Great Blue Heron.</p><div></div>

<p>Almost spring downunder</p><div></div>

<p>Canon 5D MarkII / 24-105mm cropped slightly. <br>

<img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/14037335-md.jpg" alt="" /></p>

<p>Part of an old slaughterhouse ...</p><div></div>

<p><a href=" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6203/6045181122_ab5132df08_z.jpg" alt="Kaleigh" width="640" height="427" /></a></p>

<p><strong>Kaleigh</strong></p>

<p>(Click image for larger view.)<strong><br /></strong></p>

<p><strong> </strong>Camera: Canon EOS 7D<br />Lens: Canon EF-S17-55mm f/2.8 IS USM<br />Exposure Program: Manual<br />Exposure: 0.006 sec (1/160)<br />Aperture: f/13.0<br />Focal Length: 28 mm<br />ISO Speed: 100<br /><br />Strobe: Single 200ws Calumet strobe firing into a 48" octagon softbox positioned directly over the model. Triggered with a Calumet wireless RF trigger.</p>

<p>This is a shot from an Event called Retrofest, which was full of steam engines, classic cars and classic aircraft. <br />As the event photographer I was able to get out onto the (grass) airstrip and get some head-on views of the biplanes doing some stunt flying.<br />This is Limbo Flying where the aircraft fly under cables set at around 20 ft. I'd prviously only seen this in film of the 1930s RAF Hendon flying displays.<br>

<a title="Retrofestival at White Waltham by Peter Meade, on Flickr" href=" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6183/6042643424_da4d9c581d_z.jpg" alt="Retrofestival at White Waltham" width="640" height="426" /></a><br>

EOS 40D (back up camera) 100-400, iso-800, f5.6, 1/800, +2/3 ev</p>

<p>Different element of the multi-coloured spectrum of my life this week, compared to the wasp of last week. I'm English, and working with many nationalities in the USA we had a team cricket match last week (in a baseball diamond). Hilarious watching my US colleagues, who grew up with softball and baseball, trying to use the same skills and rules to master cricket. Replace bowler with 'pitcher', wickets with 'base', and lost count of how many times they hit the ball, <strong>threw down their bat (?!)</strong> and then just blindly ran...</p>

<p>rgds,<br>

james</p><div></div>

<p>You don't throw down your bat in cricket? What do you do with it then? lol</p>

<p>A shot of one of my favorite subjects on just another extraordinary ordinary day in a park somewhere in the world. </p><div></div>

<p>Once again, wonderful work by all. Manchester State Beach, Mendocino County, California.<br>

-Dave</p><div></div>

<p>Taken at the Hawk Conservancy, a good day out for the family. Canon 1D MkIII, 100-400L. ISO1600 1/250 @ f7.1.</p><div></div>

<p>This shot was taken with a Canon 30D and a 50mm - 200mm, f3.5 - 4.5 L. Yes that's a 50-200 L. This was one of the first, if not the first, L quality lens Canon made, mine still works perfectly. It is black, and about the size and weight of a 200mm prime, so it does not draw the attention like the big white lens do. It has several fluorite elements that give it great contrast and color handling capabilities, and a bokeh that you woud expect from a L lens.</p><div></div>

<p>Here's what you get when yuou rescue sunflowerseeds from the birdfeeder.<br>

Next week i'll try to get some of my alternate birdfeeder (gapes on the pergola..)<br>

The birds are eating the grapes.. i planted it mainly as sunscreen.<br>

5dII, 70-200 2.8L is.</p><div></div>

<p>I posted a few comments on last week's Canon Thursday photos. Sorry, couldn't get to them all.</p>

<p>Wandering around the local arboretum, I saw quite a few bees doing what bees do. I used a 7D with the 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS set on AI Servo to take advantage of the faster focusing sample rate with this rig. Evaluative metering, flash on camera with Sto-Fen diffuser, compensation set at -2/3.</p><div></div>

<p>Wow! Great stuff so far. <strong>Dean</strong>, that's really nicely done! Just walked out the front door, <strong>Nathan</strong>? I wish I could see that when I exit my house. Nice shot. <br>

Another egret, another day...</p><div></div>

<p>Great pics today as always. Last Thursday I took a walk down to the river. Along the way I stopped and talked to a neighbor. Upon arriving at the river, the sun had already slipped below the horizon, however this is the view I saw.</p><div></div>

<p>7D, EF 70-200 f/4 L IS</p><div></div>

<p>Little Blue Heron</p><div></div>