POW - 7/26/09

<p>It looks like no one has started a POW as of yet. It seems whenever I start one, someone else does as well. I have been away on holiday to the northeastern point of the US - Bar Harbor, Maine / Acadia National Park. I will be wading through a couple of thousand images and won't bore you with them all. Here are a couple of them:<br>

<br /><strong>The Harbor Itself</strong> <a href="http://s407.photobucket.com/albums/pp153/marzrw/acadia%201/?action=view&current=BarHarbor.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/pp153/marzrw/acadia%201/BarHarbor.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket" /></a> <br /><strong>Cadillac Mountain</strong> / Highest Peak on Mount Desert Island / the first point of the US to see daylight each day, so they say. <a href="http://s407.photobucket.com/albums/pp153/marzrw/acadia%201/?action=view&current=CadillacFog14.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/pp153/marzrw/acadia%201/CadillacFog14.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket" /></a></p>

<p><strong>On Jordan Pond</strong><br /><a href="http://s407.photobucket.com/albums/pp153/marzrw/acadia%201/?action=view&current=JordanPond.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/pp153/marzrw/acadia%201/JordanPond.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket" /></a></p>

<p>Shooting slide film this week, no results yet, but here's a few from last week when I took my family to northern Wisconsin. All with the F 24-50 zoom, k100ds, other info in titles.</p><div></div>

<p>Fishing</p><div></div>

<p>And last, the girls call this "grandpa's boat" because it's my dad's, but originally it was my grandfather's. I love that.</p><div></div>

<p><a title="The Bagel Boss by Mountain Visions, on Flickr" href=" title="The Bagel Boss by Mountain Visions, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3001/3726185478_f245ba4ba5.jpg" alt="The Bagel Boss" width="500" height="500" /> </a></p>

<p><em><br /> Photo data....<br /> <br /> One fine looking bagel crazed dog (significantly smarter than his person), Pentax 645N, SMCP-A 55mm f/2.8, damaged (pre process by dump human) Ilford Delta 3200 pushed to EI 3200 (1.5 stops) , Kodak HC110 devel at 1:63. Scanned using HP G4050 and Silverfast Ai. </em></p>

<p>Got some good shots of the family for this week.</p>

<p>The wife</p>

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<p>The daughter</p>

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<p>The son</p>

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<p>I try to reserve comments until later in the week if I have the time, but I cannot hold off telling Nick S. that Grandpa's Boat is one helluva shot. Dreamy but real. Nice work.</p>

<p>This was an active shooting week: Seattle street shots, hummingbirds, and even a few flowers.</p>

<p>This sign was for a new Mexican more-than-taco trailer that opened near my office. I was outside shooting a challenging scene for a work-in-progress, and had to walk around the "neighborhood" to clear my head. And the sign and the surrounding textures broke through my fog.<br>

<strong>Authentic</strong><br>

<img src="http://brookselenko.smugmug.com/photos/601948919_B4sfU-L.jpg" alt="" width="800" height="531" /><br>

K20D, M 135, f 8 @ 1/750, ISO 800</p>

<p><strong>Purple</strong></p>

<p><img src="http://brookselenko.smugmug.com/photos/601948601_GKNPh-M.jpg" alt="" /></p>

<p>K20D, FA 50mm, f 4 @ 1/180, ISO 800</p>

<p>One muggy afternoon (for here) we had diffused light caused by a low cloud layer. Good enough to pop some colors without glare.</p>

<p><strong>Orange</strong></p>

<p><img src="http://brookselenko.smugmug.com/photos/601948632_Xetda-L.jpg" alt="" /></p>

<p>K20D, Voigtlander 125mm, f 5.6 @ 1/125, ISO 400</p>

<p>ME</p>

<p>I went to Appenzell, Mt. Hohenkasten and the cheese factory in Stein and the chocolate factory Maestrani in Flawil again but took the SMC Takumar 85mm and 28mm on the *istD with me this time. Using some chocoloate paper I tried the aluminium foil trick to enable focus confirmation on the *istD for M42 lenses but had no luck, gladly the 28mm at F8 and around 3 meters is nearly fool proof DOF wise for landscapes. The light is never right on a bus mountain tour but I show you two samples with the SMC 28mm and an extra painting from Zurich with the FA 50mm macro on the K10D.</p>

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<p>Appenzeller house</p><div></div>

<p>somewhere in Zurich</p><div></div>

<p>I haven't really done any 'personal photography' for a few months. These guys were fun to work with we found an old car by a beat up house to take a few shots. Fortunately the car was open. Kind fun to take a few grittier shots will doing this.</p>

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<p>Some classic shots here, folks. <br>

Bob - Bar Harbor, what a great place, can't wait to get back there. Wonderful shots! <br>

Nick - I agree with Michael, Grandpa's boat is very nice. <br>

Justin - Caney. Another wonderful shot of a dog we only know through your pictures, but know him we do.<br>

Jeremiah - nice family shots. I have been working on the same thing with not much success.<br>

Peter - a '67 Chevy Bel Air! Oh boy, what memories. Nice pic!<br>

I am going to break the rules this week and post three. I finally got out and spent some quality time with my camera this week. I think my favorite of the week was the shot from high atop the Ben Franklin bridge that I posted in Javier recent post. Here are three others.</p><div></div>

<p>From center city Phila., the Comcast Center</p><div></div>

<p>Lastly..</p><div></div>

<p>These are two more photos from our camping trip to Algonquin Park a few weeks ago. The first is of the kids on the Whiskey Rapids trail. Tripod mounted K200D, 18-55mm kit lens, f/27, ISO100, 0.7 sec to draw out the water flow. I little blur from the breeze in the bushes and on the kids (what kids can sit still for 0.7 sec’s?).</p><div></div>

<p>My second is a night shot, kids playing with sparklers. Tripod mounted K200D, 18-55mm kit lens, f/5.6, 2 sec.’s, ISO400.</p><div></div>

<p>Some great photos from this group as always , Bob's "the harbor itself " and Nick's "grand pa's boat" are the stand outs for me.. </p><div></div>

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K-7 DA 70mm !/125 F/11 iso200

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<strong>In Praise of Chainlink</strong></p>

<p>will comment tomorrow, just dropping now :<br>

this beautifully winged insect on a double-glass pane :<br>

<img src="http://static.zoom.nl/AC66A27BD429947F00048692DF183354.jpg" alt="" width="700" height="470" /><br>

Lens Focal Length: 55,00 mm ()<br />Shutter Speed: 1/90 sec<br />F-Number: F11,0<br />ISO: 800<br>

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and something to stir the mind, titled: <em>religion ?</em> :<br>

<img src="http://static.zoom.nl/BDFB48A5DCFD25654F9C9F33B2B1E74F.jpg" alt="" width="469" height="700" /><br>

Lens Focal Length: 40,00 mm (smc PENTAX-DA 40mm F2.8 Limited)<br />Shutter Speed: 1/90 sec<br />F-Number: F3,5<br />ISO: 400</p>

<p>James-<br>

Religion, I'd tend to agree with the interpretation I think you are offering. Would be interesting to see this photo posted/displayed in other arenas, then sit back and watch/listen to the thoughts/arguements/fireworks. It stirs the mind, no doubt.</p>

<p>Like Bob, I spent a few days on holiday this week and have a few thousand images to go through. My time was spent in Carefree Arizona, and I never knew the desert could be so beautiful. I think I have some nice sunrises and sunsets, and tons of cactus shots of course, but haven't edited them yet, so I post a couple LE lightning shots from the first night.. (One thing is for sure, spending that whole trip with my 18-55mm kit lens on sure made me want to buy a better WA lens! My goal is to try and figure out a way to get one before I head back to this same spot in the fall...)<br>

<img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2539/3757799177_97ddf5d0b5.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="325" /></p>

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<p>A couple of shots from a visit to Milwaukee.</p><div></div>

<p>A great day to enjoy the lake.</p><div></div>