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Nikon Wednesday 2018: #21


Matt Laur

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It may be Nikon Wednesday, put mostly - here, anyway - it's Pollen Explosion Day. We've been having it in waves, but a sustained week of rain followed by a warm day of sun has the pines and oaks celebrating, in their own social way. And it's not just like dust! This stuff sticks right to the front elements on your lenses. Don't change lenses under a pine tree just now! Not unless you want to give your sensor a wet cleaning. Shot any annoying bits of nature this month? I hear the poison ivy is getting a good start, too. Share some photos!

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(D800 with a Sigma 105mm macro, followed by some antihistamine).

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I seem to be using Matt's themes as assignments rather than an opportunity to report... Although the weather report for yesterday was horrible, the weather turned out to be pretty clear where I was. So I thought I'd finally have a chance to take some astronomy shots.

 

I think what I shot last night instead counts as "annoying bits of nature", given that goal. Fortunately it wasn't even raining for much of this (although I had to bolt for cover at the end). It stayed above the clouds, so I have no forks I'm afraid, but it meant multiple flashes in a sequence so I could just shoot on high speed and usually get the flashes after the first one. All of these with the D850 and a Sigma 35mm f/1.4.

 

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