Canon Thursday Photo 2011: #39

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<p>Happy Thursday everyone! Although I haven't been as active in these threads lately, (school is a bear this semester and I don't even have time to sleep) I have been looking at the photos each week and I must say they are amazing. Great job from all the regulars and the new faces, let's keep it up. </p>

<p>I had a few free minutes last week so I went to a state park not too far from here to see if any wildlife was active and to check out a new portion of the park that has just re-opened... after several decades. Being a wildlife lover it was hard for me not to post a photo I made of a curious fawn, but I found something else. Back in the 1930's a booming theme park known as Rose Island sat between the Ohio River and Fourteen Mile Creek in Charlestown, Indiana, just upstream from Louisville, KY. Until a few weeks ago when an old bridge was renovated to allow foot traffic back to the island, the only way to get there was by some major bushwacking. Some of the evidence of the old park is still on the island including this swimming pool. I had known it was there from research and Google Earth, but was dying to see it. Needless to say, it's quite a site. It's odd to stroll through the woods and see an abandoned swimming pool seemingly in the middle of nowhere. Definitely a cool thing to see.</p><div></div>

<p>I never get in this early but here is the back of a Chinook cloud over Canmore Alberta last Friday afternoon - it really did look like this - no manipulation</p><div></div>

<p>By the lake</p><div></div>

<p>Here is a shot from Oak Creek Canyon, near Sedona, AZ. I got lucky to find this little spot just as the sunlight was breaking through the trees to highlight the vegetation as so. Reminded me of a "Sword in the Stone" scene.</p><div></div>

<p>That's an eerie image Nathan, nature will reclaim everything given enough time. Gorgeous cloud shot Philip. This one is from the weekend races. The young man on the left is Anthony Sesely, the 2011 points series champion for the modified class.</p><div></div>

5D2, Contax Zeiss 50/1.4 Planar, about f2 at 1/13, ISO 1600<div></div>

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<td><a href="http://www.flickr.com/cameras/canon/eos_7d/">Canon EOS 7D</a></td>

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<td>0.001 sec (1/1600)</td>

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<td>f/2.8</td>

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<td>150 mm</td>

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<td>500</td>

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<td>+2/3 EV</td>

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<p><img src="http://spirer.com/kikisept2011/content/images/large/_57P7014.jpg" alt="" /></p>

After three weeks on the trail, this cowboy rolls up his bedroll for the last time. He has just finished driving 400 head of Texas longhorns over 200 miles. From the town of Caldwell, KS, along the old Cox Cattle Trail to the Kansas Pacific Railhead at Ellsworth. He and a handful of modern cowboys, along with their support wagons and cooks, followed the same route used by original drovers, they bedded down the cattle on historic bed grounds and camped at the very same cow camps that made the Cowboy famous.<div></div>

<p>Jeff, -is that daylight I see?</p>

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<p>is that daylight I see?</p>

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<p>Haha, it was dusk. The model is lit primarily by flash.</p>

<p>450D and S-M-C Takumar 55 mm, f/1.8, 1/1000 sec</p><div></div>

<p>Studio Shot, Canon 7D, 50mm 1.4 @ F8, 1/125s</p><div></div>

<p>Pandani (Richea pandanifolia) Cradle Mt National Park last Saturday.</p><div></div>

<p>I spent the day at Bosham yesterday.<br>

<br />I got there for the sunrise, saw the spring tide at noon and then the sunset. Bosham is a small and very pretty village now, but is of huge historical significance. The church is shown in the Bayeux Tapestry and it was at Bosham where King Canute tried unsuccessfully to turn back the tide.<br>

I'm going to be cheeky and show morning, noon and night.<br>

First Light<br /><a title="First light by Peter Meade, on Flickr" href=" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6159/6194109741_ca0ecb9619.jpg" alt="First light" width="500" height="333" /></a><br />High tide at noon<br /><a title="Spring tide by Peter Meade, on Flickr" href=" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6157/6194109641_8d66d9e98a.jpg" alt="Spring tide" width="500" height="333" /></a><br />Sunset<br /><a title="Last Light by Peter Meade, on Flickr" href=" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6176/6194626566_77a53f03b1.jpg" alt="Last Light" width="500" height="333" /></a></p>

<p>looks like i'm the first this week of the food department..<br>

This is a starter i had at an Italien restaurant in NYC when i visited in 2004. Have been trying to recreate it since. I think i have got it. All i have to do now is go back to New York and check<br>

(but i'll wait till they start treating visitors as visitors again at customs)<br>

5d2, 50 2.5 macro. Here the sausage is with mashed potato, but also nice with bread.</p>

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<p>Folks, I have to apologize that I've not been able to add some comments lately. Too busy with other matters. Hoping things will slow down for me just a bit so I can catch my breath.</p>

<p>Nathan, I'm sure that must have been a surreal site. Thanks for the details behind the photo. Nice! I haven't been able to shoot anything this past week, so here's one from a few weeks back.</p>

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<p>Rain, fungi, rain, fungi, rain........</p><div></div>

<p>Morning dew on a rose in our front yard. Lit from the side to emphasize the water droplets.<br>

5D2, 100L macro, 270 ex II</p><div></div>

<p>Anhinga</p><div></div>

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Canon 450d with 70-200 f4</p>

<p>Another cloud, this one shot from a beach on Arran, a Scottish isle, as a beach party came to a rapid end (1Ds Mark III, 70-200mm L II).</p>

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This one is old, been busy working 60 hours a week. EOS 1n, 50mm/1.8, Fuji Neopan 400. Developed and scanned at

NCPS. Does this seem to grainy for 400 speed film? I was just wondering if this is the norm.

 

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<p><a title="Sami by Dean Schreuder, on Flickr" href=" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6174/6178345871_281e966544_z.jpg" alt="Sami" width="427" height="640" /></a></p>

<p><strong>Sami</strong></p>

<p>Camera: Canon EOS 50D<br />Lens: Canon EF85mm f/1.8 USM<br />Exposure Program: Aperture-priority AE<br />Exposure: 0.005 sec (1/200)<br />Aperture: f/1.8<br />Focal Length: 85 mm<br />ISO Speed: 100<br />Exposure Bias: +1/3 EV<br />Flash: Off, Did not fire</p>