Canon Thursday Photo 2012: #52

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<p>Happy Thursday everyone! Hard to believe it's the last thread of 2012. As we did last year, I'll post a link to the first Thursday thread of the year just for fun to look back and see how we have improved in 52 weeks. I hope everyone had a great holiday and was safe. I'll see you in 2013. Let's see those photos.</p>

<p>http://www.photo.net/canon-eos-digital-camera-forum/00Zp6x</p><div></div>

<p><img src="http://spirer.com/images/tth2.jpg" alt="" width="700" height="467" /></p>

<p>Lake Washington from Marina Park</p><div></div>

<p>I went for a walk over by the river last Thursday and liked the shadows and light.</p><div></div>

<p>The next day my wife went down to the San Luis Wildlife refuge and were disappointed in how few birds were around. I did find this great egret though.</p><div></div>

<p>But finding these Tule Elk bulls made the trip worthwhile.</p><div></div>

<p>Hard to believe it's been just a week since the big snowstorm. Here's a shot from last weeks blanketing.</p><div></div>

<p>5DMK2, EF 17-40mm f/4 L, ISO 400</p><div></div>

<p>Canon T2i / 17-55mm 1600 ASA @2.8 </p>

<center><img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/16706652-md.jpg" alt="" /></center>

<p>A company Christmas dinner at a Chinese buffet restaurant on December 15, 2012.</p><div></div>

<p>All the best for the new year.<br>

My niece has a group exhibit in the south of Holland (Oerle, Veldhoven) till the 1st of januari.<br>

I went down there yesterday to take a few snaps.. <br>

These people open their house and garden for this event. First one is my niece Mayke with her installation. next one is a pinecone with a ribbon, but the carpet belongs to another artwork. I still don;t get the pinecone with ribbon , but they were all over the place. 3rd one the trees.<br>

Have to look up who the artists of the other works are. There were 16 artist exhibiting.<br>

So more to come. On their website <a href="http://www.vaaggrond.nl">www.vaaggrond.nl</a> you can find some pix i took last year.</p><div></div>

<p>Pinecone</p><div></div>

<p>trees</p><div></div>

<p>Doesn't seem like another year has passed. It was fun to look back, Nathan. Thanks for posting the link. It has been a good year. Thank you all for providing inspiration to keep improving. I look forward to seeing your photos each Thursday and am rewarded with a visual feast for the eyes.</p>

<p>Seeing Gil's cat reminded me of a recent photo when I was testing a new 24-70 f/2.8L II. Someone on another forum humorously quipped this lens was so sharp, Canon should issue a BAND-AID^®with it. I can't disagree. It is nearly prime sharp across the zoom range even when used wide open. The downsized image here does it little justice.</p>

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<p>Happy Christmas everyone.<br>

I've just started getting orders for images shot on film, something over a year after going back to film photography.<br /> My first publication is a "Big Picture" item published in a newspaper and comes from the first roll of colour film I pushed through the camera. I've added the shot for rating on PN and it's interesting to see how it's done here.<br>

EOS-1+100-40, f8, ~400 mm, ~1/1000, Fujifilm Supra 200<br>

<a title="Early morning by Peter Meade, on Flickr" href=" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8498/8290190859_49e2f5ddfc_z.jpg" alt="Early morning" width="640" height="429" /></a></p>

<p>This was taken last summer but sat waiting for a snowy day. Taken with an IR converted XSI. Happy New Year to all.</p><div></div>

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<p>here's a shot from a Pueblo in New Mexico, taken in late October.<br>

"Keep shooting, my friends"</p><div></div>

<p>I'm surprised I'm the first person to post up a Christmas dinner shot.</p><div></div>

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<p>I'm surprised I'm the first person to post up a Christmas dinner shot.</p>

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<p>You are not. Jeff Spirer had one, but for some reason he completely deleted it. He has that editing power. You and I don't.</p>

<p>My apologies to Jeff and everyone. I am responding to too many posts and am losing my mind. Jeff's photo which is pretty similar to yours, Kayam is here: http://www.photo.net/canon-eos-digital-camera-forum/00bAPw</p>

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<p>Jeff's photo which is pretty similar to yours, Kayam is here: <a href="00bAPw" rel="nofollow">http://www.photo.net/canon-eos-digital-camera-forum/00bAPw</a></p>

 

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<p>Thanks for the link Peter. I think Jeff's photo is substantially better than mine. Delicious.</p>

<p>Sunday before Christmas.</p><div></div>

<p>Trying to catch the first flakes of the blizzard. As soon as I got outside, the snow let up until I went back inside. Bashful clouds, I suppose.</p><div></div>