Photo Of The Week 11/9/08

This weeks contribution:

 

Actually from 2 weeks ago in the Adirondacks:

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From my September trip to NH with my brother...not an HDR but similar.

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And from a paddling trip on a local lake/outlet:

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As always, Justin, great stuff. I love the sky in the second shot. Here are three from this past week.<div></div>

autumn continued<div></div>

and finally<div></div>

"Sleeping Beauty" is really magnificent, Justin! I mean, my absolute favorite of all your stuff.

Pretty much a ditto on that for Heron Tree, Robert.

Australian Dream is very nice, Ben--really speaks to me.

 

I'm going monochrome this week.<div></div>

I stumbled upon this cabin while getting out the vote in Pennsylvania last Tuesday.<div></div>

Dave - nice rustic sepia. That's a really rare find. Thanks for sharing.

 

Ben - wow, the sky is on fire. Nicely captured.

 

Robert - your shots continue to amaze me. Both landscapes are stunning.

 

Justin - the moody sky in your second shot rocks. Simply superb.Kudos.

 

Here are a few quick ones from me. Still playing with the Bigma on the K100D Super....<div></div>

Another duck...<div></div>

A one of my daughter...<div></div>

Wow, really nice.

 

I have a few more from my hiking trips as well.<div></div>

Another trail shot to a great view also but the sun shining through the trees really made for a great hike.<div></div>

Although we don't rock climb like Justin, some of the summits can be a bit steep at times.<div></div>

And a fall shot of a nice pond.<div></div>

Could not believe the number of bald eagles that I saw on my trip this past week. This one was unfazed by me. He

let me get this close with the DA* 300mm.

 

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Bells TN<div></div>

BArn&Truck Bells TN<div></div>

Ladder &window. Bells TN<div></div>

I should have known about keeping it simple and stupid (KISS) when I was asked to take photos of the halloween

night march of the children. But instead, I tried using the slow speed second curtain (integrated) flash when available

light was not enough to stop the fast motion even with the A 50mm F 1.7. I failed miserably because every time I

changed lenses my K10D on "P" mode resetted the flash settings to a very slow shutter speed instead of the desired

1/30-1/45 to catch some ambient light. So, most of my photos are blurry and I now feel the pain other Pentaxians

described here from lost photo sessions as well :-) At least I got some photos for the client....<div></div>

I've got a bad case of eagle envy, Patrick :~)

What lovely pictures from everyone !

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I haven’t made any pictures this week, still busy processing pics from my last holyday…. Of which I’ll show you these two anyway, just to give you an idea where I’m at. <br>

These were taken during one of our daily fishing sessions, the first is my dear wife Anjana, facing and bracing the storm. On the second you can actually see my fishing-rod, if you have good eyes… <br>

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we call it "Raebelichtli"<div></div>

and one for the truck lovers<div></div>

All photos are excellent. In short of time, I can only comment a few.

 

@Justin, I love the shot of your back and I can see how strong your leg muscles and I love the sky

color. Dave, your leaf shot is outstanding.

 

@Duane, your duck shots remind me of Javier and your daughter is pretty, she has the look of a loving

teacher. Patrick, the eagle shot is amazing.

 

@Bob, I love the b&w, is that a fisheye lens as I see some fisheye effect in the shot

 

@Shiva, your outstanding shots continue to amaze in every POW and I hope you take me as your

student for the training on artistic shot.

 

@Markus, I love your self portrait in the other thread and I love the bus shot, and I will go and re-read

your report on Halloween shooting.

 

@Beerbain, I love the truck, very classy look

I forget to comment on Robert's picture

 

@robert, I like the monochrome shot.

Here are few of mine taken this week

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I feel great to take this shot after Nov 4 election. <br>

And I am very happy with the outcome and <br>

I hope our president elect brings unity and confidence to the country<br>

as well as bring out troops home back to their families.

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I took this shot with <a href="http://techtheman.blogspot.com/2008/11/carl-zeiss-jena-sonnar-135mm-f35-

m42.html">Carl Zeiss Jena 135mm f/3.5 (M42)</a> <br>

along with <a

href="http://techtheman.blogspot.com/2008/06/cosinapentaxphoenixpromaster-11-matched.html">Cosina 1:1

matched macro adapter</a> testing the lens before <br>

I send it to Rose along with the <a

href="http://techtheman.blogspot.com/2008/10/zeiss-jena-sonnar-180mm-f28-m42.html">Cal Zeiss Jena Sonnar

180mm f/2.8

(M42)</b></a>. <br>

I used the Zeiss 180mm f/2.8 to take the flag shot above.

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I take this with Tamron 28-75 f/2.8 during Halloween parade in my company.

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