POTW 7/31/2016

<p>Hi All.</p>

<p>Back from three weeks of camping mostly in Western Canada. Hope all is well. Got a few to post for the week to get us started.</p>

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Canada Jay, Riding Mountain Manitoba.<br>

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Lilly in Field, Riding Mountain National Park, Manitoba<br>

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Young Bald Eagle, Riding Mountain National Park, Manitoba.</p>

<p>Terrific kickoff Doug. The slightly out of focus Maple Leaf in the Jay photo is outstanding (being a Canuck I may be biased). Here are two sets of two from me. The first is a portrait I shot of family friends whom were celebrating their 50th Anniversary last weekend...</p><div></div>

<p>Here's the second. A photo of their Grandchildren...</p><div></div>

<p>This is a HDR of an older home on a well kept property in old St. John's...</p><div></div>

<p>From another angle...</p><div></div>

<p>We have a small but active balloonist contingent here. This is one of two flying billboard balloons that regularly floats across the sky near my home.</p><div></div>

<p>Portrait<br>

K-3 & Leitz Elmarit-R 135/2.8 (adapted to K)<br>

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Berrries<br>

K-S2 & M100/4 macro<br>

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Great concert in Denver Saturday night, The Mike Dillon Band.<br>

K-S2 & DA* 16-50<br>

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<p>Hello everyone. The vintage, mechanical stuff still works wonders & with "real film" to boot. K1000 & 135mm Takumar, Obsidian Aqua developer, Ultrafine Xtreme 400 film. V800 scan. Bill</p><div></div>

<p>Grasshopper in the garden</p><div></div>

<p>Lovely works all!<br>

Duane, I'm kind of bias too being an "almost" Canuck. Nice portraits and a really lovely effect with the HDR.<br>

Patrick, hopefully they'll all keep out of the powerlines! We don't need to see those kind of photos here!<br>

Matt, lovely Brokah with that lens. Focuses pretty close for a 135mm. The concert image is a real stunner!<br>

Bill-real basic their, works great as an abstract (as I'm a bit slow I didn't get what the deal was with the windshield wiper). Cool!<br>

Kathy, you have a really beautiful image there, nicely composed, love the out of focus flowers in the background. Excellent contrast on your grasshopper. FYI when you post if the future, if you can, try and limit to 900 on the long side so it will show up on line.<br>

Have a great week y'all!</p>

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<p>Here is the down sized image of the grasshopper.</p><div></div>