Nikon WedNEsDAy PiC #27

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<p>Hi all, not so many photo opportunities this busy week, looks like we`re on the final stretch at work before summer holidays... then I decided not to struggle my head. Someone told me time ago that a good magazine photo should have black, white and... red on it. I found this idea somewhat silly, and I took a National Geographic magazine (from the seventies I think) to check the pics on the magazine I considered the best at that time; that was true, a very high percentage of photos show similar bright reds. At that time I also noticed the Nikon subliminal advertising; every issue has one or perhaps even two images of a photographer equipped with a Nikon. Only Nikon, <em>On Assignment</em>. It is true up to the nineties, I believe. Do you remember it?</p>

<p>My pic only has a bit of red in common with the rule, I bet it`d never be published even in a remote parochial sheet. It has been taken with a D700 @ 800ISO, 14bit RAW, 50AFS (f8 - 1/30sec), hand held under a soft flat illumination inside my porch. Processed in NX2 and Ps.</p>

<p>Please post your Nikon weekly pic if you like. Thank you all.</p><div></div>

<p>Goooooooooood moooooooooorning, wooooorld!<br />It's summer, it's soon vacation, and it's WEDNESDAY!<br>

We have all our favorite activities on vacation. This fisherman was shot on my way to a moose safari..</p>

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<p >Went for walk up a steep hill on Monday evening. The path led us through some areas with quite dense forest, but there were some rays of light that managed to break through the foliage and illuminate the underlying vegetation. These Woodland Geranium (or Skogstorkenebb as they called here in Norway) caught my eye. </p>

<p >D300 with Nikon 50mm 1.4G @ f2.8, 1/80s, 200 ISO</p><div></div>

<p>Taken 2 weeks ago.<br>

D300 + 18-200 VR@200mm - 1/100 f/5.6 ISO 2500, as shot, Vivid Picture Control</p><div></div>

<p>Already Wednesday again - time sure flies. <br>

Photography at the Versailles Palace is a nightmare - way too many people are in the way and it is a constant struggle to get into any decent position for a shot. Wasn't quite centered for this shot ; hand held 5-exposure HDR at shutter speeds between 1/50s and 1/3s - you try and get a tripod into that place and set up. D200 with Nikon 12-24mm at 12mm, f8, ISO800.</p><div></div>

<p>I went to the Mississippi National Wildlife Reserve again -- the breeding grounds of the Great Blue Heron. This time I did manage to get a photo of one during mating season. I think it’s a Great Blue Heron. It big, blue, it has long legs, it has a long neck, and a long beak. It’s in the center of the photo -- the little light blue dot in middle of the trees. That’s the closest I could get to it with my 200mm lens. There was a swamp between the tree it was sitting in and myself. D60, ISO 800, 55-200mm VR at 200mm f6.3 1/200sec.</p>

<p>As a side note: There are also blood sucking bugs here that attach themselves to you that you have burn off you body with a hot needle.</p>

 

<p>Ah, it's Wednesday again, what joy!<br /> Per: love that mood! Hamish: the lucid blue is great! Ton: an almost sad impression. Jose: do we learn about your other pastimes now? ;)<br>

<br /> <strong>It's that time of the year again:</strong> <br /> <img src="http://www.abload.de/img/lavender17kd.jpg" alt="" /> <br /> Taken in my garden (yes, yes...) with D700 - 50/1.4 @ 2.8, ISO Low1</p>

<p>D700 with Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 lens @3200 ISO, f/2.8 1/8 sec. handheld.</p><div></div>

<p>Mother duck and ducklings ... :-)</p><div></div>

<p>Alcatraz at dusk handheld. The miralce that is VR!</p><div></div>

<p>is it wednesday already? it is...<br>

let's see what i got here...</p><div></div>

<p>Yet another sunrise photo..........</p>

<p>This was taken on the way to work early last Friday morning. I shot this scene through my vehicle window with the engine and heater still running as it was a crisp minus 1 deg C outside...........too lazy to get out and maybe get a better frame....</p><div></div>

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<p>Last Saturday we went to the beach for the first time this year. In the morning, on our way to the bakery, the sky was really great with these fluffy scattered clouds and I took some photos of the typical fishermen houses in Costa Nova - Portugal.<br>

D700, Series E 28mm f/2.8 @ f/16, 1/125, ISO200 with circular polarizer.<br>

<img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2590/3674388643_f5fc70feaf_o.jpg" alt="" width="700" height="466" /></p>

<p>More from the same day can be found <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/petterpictures/">here</a>.</p>

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Hey everybody. WedNesDay.again....GREAT

Mine is from last weeks vacation

From Midsummer’s Eve where we in Denmark celebrate ‘Sct. Hans Eve’, The day before Johannes the Baptists Day. We have hundreds af huge bonfires all over the country on which we burn a witch or in fact sends her, it is a she, to a mountain in Germany called ‘Brochen’.

Apparently a witch meeting place:-).

 

So may fine pictures already.

 

D700 14-24mm at 24mm f/11 1/60s ISO1600<div></div>

<p>So she took her love<br /> For to gaze a while<br /> Upon the fields of barley<br /> In his arms she fell as her hair came down<br /> Among the fields of gold</p>

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<p>HUH! WOW! I am so busy that I completely forgot! </p>

<p>Hi,<br>

looks like Wednesday is going to be another great one. Lots of good shots at a studio session last Saturday - but this one stood out - totally unplanned - small son at front was going to do a star jump, son #2 rushed on behind & mum rushed on behind him - one shot. D700, 24-70mm, Interfit strobes, Lastolite vinyl.<br>

andyc</p><div></div>

<p><strong>Per-Christian Nilssen</strong>, great fishing scene, much enhanced by capturing the ripple caused by the cast - lovely image.</p>

<p><strong>Hamish Gray</strong>, well executed frame, the background is rendered beautifully ditto <strong>Monica Epsefass</strong> & <strong>Shawn Mc Farlane</strong></p>

<p>Do any of you bird photographers know what this bird is. It does not have the long neck like the first Blue Heron I photographed at the Wildlife Reserve. Could it be a fledgling Blue Heron? D60 55-200mm VR ISO 800 at 200mm f/6.3 1/125sec</p><div></div>

<p>Great work so far - thanks for sharing it! I see a sunset theme emerging - must be that time of year as I have one too. This is the sun going down on the longest day - and Father's day too. We went an evening walk to the reservoirs and apart from the mozzies it was very tranquil.</p><div></div>

<p>Monica and Matthew, Thank you!<br />Matthew, your image is stunning (as usual). Wasn't aware you guys had frosts down-under. I thought it was always + lots of degrees, summer and winter :-)<br />Monica, beautiful colours in your shot too!<br />Per-Christian, vakkert!</p>

<p>ian, what's a mozzie?</p>

<p>Went into NYC on Saturday. Was on lower Broadway with the camera when this colorful person came by dancing down the street.<br>

Nikon D300 with 18-135 DX Nikkor<br>

<img src="http://i715.photobucket.com/albums/ww160/jml0306/yellowrat.jpg?t=1246436613" alt="" width="800" height="540" /></p>

<p><strong>Hamish Gray</strong>,</p>

<p> Australia is not called the 'Wide Brown Land' for no reason - Yes, plenty of inland areas receive dozens of frosts every winter. I live only 25km inland and it can fall as low as -7 degrees C on occasion and in summer days of over 35 degrees C are regular and often come in consecutive runs of 4,5 and 6 days in a row . And that's only here in the S.E. Corner of Aust...... it's a very large island.............different story up north............. </p>