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Nikon WedNEsDAy PiC 2010: #14


Matt Laur

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<p>Good Wednesday Morning, Nikonia.<br /><br />Saturday morning had me following around a new client's bird dogs. This young female GSP is just learning - she points birds, but isn't yet steady enough to resist chasing them when they flush. She's very fast, and just now figuring out that she can't actually fly. This moment's chukar partridge was last seen headed over the trees and into the next county. The action unfolded so quickly that I was barely able to pan with the dog's high speed pursuit through the knee-deep remains of last year's growth in the fallow field we were working.<br /><br />Was your Nikon rig handy for an unexpected recent turn of events? Share an image!</p><div>00WB5Z-234791584.jpg.7461ae3cd50ceca75ec52494f9d50669.jpg</div>

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<p>Good evening from Seattle</p>

<p>My contribution is a bird...</p>

<p>just a bird...</p>

<p>just a bird that always amazes me when I see one and is one of the only things that ever makes me question evolution.</p>

<p>Happy Shooting. Happy Wednesday.</p>

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<p>Nice capture and all inside the frame - excellent execution Matt!</p>

<p>This week's contribution from me is a simple test shot of a red rose my partner picked for me. I recently have aquired an 85mm f/1.4 Nikkor and was testing for isolation of subject - fooling about with aperture settings. I'm quite taken with this simple image despite it just being a 100% crop test shot.</p><div>00WB5k-234791984.jpg.7e5228f44ad7b3a09a27fd8a163cfea1.jpg</div>

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<p > First up – I have to apologize for not commenting this last week. It’s been a busy week & my workload has just increased a lot. I just know I loved every ones shots & leave it there this time. I hope you’ll all find it in your hearts to understand & forgive me. I promise to try to do better this week.<br />My photo this week is yet again a nostalgic shot. But for it to become nostalgic I need to share a story with you all. I’ll do my best to make it short, though actually rather long…<br />11 years ago in the month of May a small colt was born. He was originally named Taebo, but fast renamed Naboo. If the name seems tribal, please blame George Lucas as our daughter named our Naboo after the planet Naboo in the Star Wars universe. Naboo arrived at the tender age of 4 months from Washington state to Los Angeles. He was the scrawniest foal I’ve ever seen. We thought the wind would blow him over. But the scrawny foal grew & grew & grew to a magnificent gigantic horse. Due to my debilitating headaches & our daughter’s change of interests we chose to sell Naboo. It was a long & painful process. Finally my trainer told me he’d found the perfect match for the horse. I’d spoken to the buyer on the phone & had reservations to say the least. It’s been three years of misery if you ask us. The woman was a first time horse owner & followed none of my recommendations & suggestions. Naboo’s gone through more veterinary exams etc during this time, than in his whole life prior. She’s now sure he’s got neurological problems etc. I’ve tried to help until she just proved impossible & I finally gave up. The horse has suffered. I’ll give her this – she’s spent a fortune on the horse. But it finally came down to her not being able to afford him any longer. A month ago she contacted me to let us know that she has to sell him. She was asking far too much money for him. My husband told me to leave her hanging for a month & so I did. I offered her a third what she asked. She jumped on it. This was last Thursday. Since then I’ve been in high gear to get the barn ready to bring Naboo home. That happened Saturday afternoon. Since then I’ve been working on ensuring peace down at the barn as our little American Shetland was not happy that this huge horse invaded his barn. My older 18 year old Warmblood gelding Destined which I’ve had for almost 14 years now is thrilled to have his younger “brother” back. They can’t get enough of each other. They’re almost inseparable. I’ve been trying to get a good mutual grooming shot, but that’s not turned out. But I got a lovely shot of them together. I feel it shows their strong bond & love for each other. They may have been apart for four years, but you would not know it looking at the two of them. It’s 18 year old Destined on the right & soon 11 year old Naboo on the left. Destined was smelling & licking something on the overturned feed barrel & Naboo checked it out with him. The two geldings are very close & I feel the strong bond in between them in this shot. To us, three years of misery are now over. Naboo’s home again & here he will stay. <br />Shot Monday morning after the rain had passed in cloudy weather in our arena in the backyard. Shot with the D700 & the 24-70mm f/2.8, f/8 at 62mm, matrix metering, -0.3 EV, 1/250s. at ISO 400 & this is a crop as I felt it looked better this way.<br /><br />I hope you’ll all enjoy this more nostalgic photo than anything… After all, Naboo’s return has to be shared with all.</p>

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<p>Great stuff all, I'm posting early this week as I have a few days off. My camera was ready for spring and my relatively young Red Bud Tree has produced it's first real buds. I was kind of excited to see them so went and grabbed my run-a-round-rig D200 with old 28-80 SP Tamron. For these examples I used a touch of soft flash because the lighting wasn't so hot. Enjoy.</p><div>00WB6m-234796184.JPG.1af14f99001a9ecab7aa7b3008fa0ecc.JPG</div>
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<p>Greetings fellow Nikonians. While visiting the Leatherneck's (USMC) Aviation Museum at Mirimar NAS in San Diego, there was a nice static display of an AV-8 Harrier. I felt motivated to poke my head into the port side jet intake and thought the geometry looked kind of cool.</p><div>00WB6r-234796384.thumb.jpg.2b40298b97f905bace73267a1b901ae1.jpg</div>
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<p>A new photo adventure for me this week. At the Everglades.</p>

<p>I relied on the many suggestions here on photo.net and on Grover Larkins' terrific guide to photography in the Everglades, also here on photo.net.</p>

<p>The first day we went to the Anhinga Trail in the Park. It's a paved/boardwalk path along and around water-filled channels and ponds. The birds are relatively comfortable with humans nearby. And, it was an amazing array of birds. Same for Snake River the next day.</p>

<p>I'll post more in the travel photography section, and probably more here in coming weeks, but for starters... This is a male double-crested cormorant. He's all decked out in mating dress (the plumes to either side of the head, sort of a haircut with attitude). Behind him is a female, busy preening. My guess is she's pretending to ignore him, part of the ritual. <br /> <img src="http://2under.net/images/nw/nw10-14.jpg" alt="" /></p>

<h4>Double Crested Cormorant, Mating Plumage, with Female -- D70 and 55-200mm VR Nikkor lens</h4>

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<p >Hi everyone. A fun shot. My interpretation of the four seasons in a flower that was flapping gently in the breeze on Easter Friday. Moving clockwise from top left - Spring - Summer - Autumn - Winter. </p>

<p >Camera: Nikon D300 Lens: AF-S VR Zoom-Nikkor 70-200 mm f/2.8G IF-ED</p>

<p >Settings: 200 mm, 1/100 sec, f/22 and ISO 560 (Manual, hand held, VR on, manual focus)</p><div>00WB76-234799584.jpg.aa19fc62976ac5896a64a8663a2dd2e2.jpg</div>

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<p>Hello Everybody,<br>

Tiffany, we had similar thoughts this week (although yours were on the large scale :-)) and I am submitting one of my first macro photos I've ever done, and now I can see for myself, how difficult macro photography is. I have a long way to go to achieve photos, that I would be happy with, but this will have to do for this week. <br>

Shot with Nikon D700, Tamron 90mm f/2.8 Macro@ ISO 200, f/22, 1/1,3s<br>

Have a lovely week.<br>

Jana</p><div>00WB7E-234799684.jpg.1f866f9c2c4463796b39f5b56e8b98b4.jpg</div>

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