Canon Thursday Pic 2011: #1

<p>Happy New Year everyone! This marks the first Canon Thursday Pic of 2011. I hope everyone had a great and safe New Year's and I hope no one has already broken their New Year's Resolution. My resolution this year was going to be to eat healthier, or more healthy, but that's unrealistic, so I think since I'm transferring to a bigger university and taking a bigger load of classes, my resolution is to stay on top of things and not to procrastinate, something I'm very good at. Let's hear your New Year's Resolutions.</p>

<p>So my photo this week is of a White Breasted Nuthatch (according to my handy dandy Audubon Society Field Guide). These guys along with Downy and Red-Bellied Woodpeckers and many other birds are all over our yard so I decked myself in some of my newly aquired camoflauge clothing from the ever so exciting Bass Pro Shop (Christmas gifts) and sat on a stool with my camera about 12 feet from the tree and feeders. The birds had to see me there, but I think the pattern of sticks and leaves on my clothes gave them some comfort. Anyways, here's the photo. I had to give back the 100-400mm to its rightful owner a couple weeks ago :(, so its back to the ole 70-200mm, which explains why I was so close to the tree.</p>

<p>Oh yeah, just a heads up to everyone, next week I start a new school schedule which requires me to be up at 6am every morning, so the Thursday thread may start a couple hours earlier on Wed. night so I can get to bed at a decent hour. Hope that's okay with everyone.</p><div></div>

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<I>Wanna Buy a Watch? Market Street, San Francisco. 5DII, 35mm</i>

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<p>Dug into my records. So I offer a mystery for the New Year....</p>

<p>This was my submission for an abstract competition at the photo club I was a member of at the time. Canon 20d, 100mm macro, 0.3 sec at F3.2 > It's a few years old, as shots I took this week were boring.</p>

<p>Am using it as desktop background image for my PC at work. Makes people very curious.</p><div></div>

<p>Didn't shoot much in last days, but here's one from my moms garden.</p><div></div>

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<p>I havent dont too much either this week, but whilst archiving my Dec studio shoots I saved this one as one of my favourite shots to date from my newly acquired studio set up. I have colourised in PS and i know opinion is a bit divided about this but hey I liked it and thought it suited the subject. My client was over the moon with it.</p><div></div>

<p>With my New 300 mm f/2.8 USM IS lens.</p><div></div>

<p>Greetings all. This will be my last post until further notice. Camera and lenses are heading off to be sold to pay bills. Decided to put up an older pic. My 1st ever portrait shoot with my 500D. Wishing you all the best and thank you for the opportunity to share every thursday and appreciate the incredible talent displayed here.</p><div></div>

<p>A shot from a few months ago. Taken in Lausanne's train station (Switzerland)</p><div></div>

<p>Shot of a toy TLR in the process of being built. The instructions were all in Japanese, luckily the pictures were all that was needed to build it. It was a fun project. Canon 40D 17-85@68mm, 1/160, f11, ISO400, 430ex ii.</p><div></div>

<p><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v96/KerrBear219/010111resized.jpg" alt="" />This week's shot is NOT the best photo of me, but heck with it, my kids look cute lol. This was a fun shot we did JUST before bedtime on 1-1-11. I started a project along with some friends, a picture a day for the whole year. This was the start of it. Hopefully this marks the start of many new challenges this year. I'm up for it!</p>

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<p>Street cobbles in old San Juan, Puerto Rico. Was there on a cruise with the family over the holidays and thought the color unusual.</p><div></div>

<p>This was shot at a local park. The leaves became encapsulated in ice due to temperature swings from cold to warm (with rain) back to cold. </p><div></div>

<p>Snow, snow more snow. Work, work, work. 5D 70-200/2.8</p><div></div>

<p>Duplicate post. Sorry!</p>

<p>I didn't get out to shoot much this first week of the new year. Not because of the weather though. Here is another hibiscus from my backyard. I caught this one backlit at sunset and added a little fill flash.</p><div></div>

<p>I made several trips to a bird feeder in a nearby park over the past week. I had some difficulty deciding which shot to post, but finally decided on this cardinal. </p><div></div>

<p>The lake mist was rolling across this fisherman at a pretty good pace. I kept watching and took this shot when a small clearing appeared around his boat. In the next moment, he was completely enveloped in the mist. Think I'll call this one "Cloud Fishing".</p>

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<p>Ice crystals on our car window this Monday, cropped about 50%. It was damn cold out there!</p><div></div>

<p>All the best for the New Year everyone.

 

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I worked on a collection of shots in and around an old building on the weekend at sunrise. This one was taken showing Gibraltar in the background. I used two strobes to light the building, one on the side and one on the patio.

<p> Keep shooting and see you next week.<br>

John</p>

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<p>This is a Red Shoulder Hawk taken at a local park in Florida on New Year's day. </p>

<p>Sorry for the second post. Here is the picture. </p><div></div>

<p>While on a drive thru rural suburbs of Delhi/Gurgaon region again, my eyes caught this tower and the tree enclosed within. I stopped to take a picture simply for the pictorial value. Now, it occurs to me that this is a perfect representation of the urbanization of rural India. All the cities are expanding so rapidly that farmland is becoming an endangered species! Since there is no fence around the tower, the owner of the field has planted under the tower also. Every inch counts! (Canon D60, Tamron24-135, 1/350, f4.5, ISO400)<br>

<a title="Entrapped! by pksswat (Praveen), on Flickr" href=" src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5289/5330194278_3155edbf74_z.jpg" alt="Entrapped" width="640" height="427" align="center" /></a><br>

<strong>Entrapped!</strong></p>

<p>out walking around on some frozen ponds late tuesday afternoon</p><div></div>