POW 30-11-2008

[hagar]

helps to post a photo...<div></div>

[hagar]

Another shot from Sydney<div></div>

[trw]

<a href="http://trentwhaley.smugmug.com/gallery/5608070_kcZVH#427108297_qEenP"><img

src="http://trentwhaley.smugmug.com/photos/427108297_qEenP-L.jpg" /></a><br />From product shoot of fused glass.

Strobist-style with double diffusion

[michael_elenko]

Holiday weeks are fun weeks with lots of family activities. Often they encompass pretty decent shooting

opportunities. This week was better than average as we had Thanksgiving dinner with friends.

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We also visited the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, WA, but that deserves its own thread (see above).

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First picture is the now obligatory commuting sunrise shot o’ the week (it’s getting more dismal here until

March, so this may be it).

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HappyMonday2, K20D, Pentax DA 35mm Limited Macro, 1/20 @ f6.7, ISO 400</a>

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We spent Thanksgiving dinner with close friends in their new, partially finished home. The man is an architect

and spent the past three years designing and building a remarkable abode on 5 forested acres with a beach below.

What is most interesting is the building design and materials. He licensed a construction method from Canada that

uses rammed

earth exterior walls. Earth is mixed with some cement and is compacted into forms. When dried, you have exterior

and interior walls.

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The finished look is very artful, organic, and a nice fit into the forested environment.

This shot also features a lovely and functional Finnish wood stove made from Finnish soapstone. One wood box load

dissipates enough heat for 24 hours. And you can bake bread on the top half oven.

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The food and wine were good too.

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Rammed Earth and Stove, K20D, Tamron 17-50mm, @ 22mm 1/30 @ f4.5, ISO 400</a>

 

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ME

[roseberry guitars]

Spent this week, photographically speaking, working on material for my web site. We're building a page following the construction of some of my instruments. I'm not sure I'll use these but...we'll see.<div></div>

[roseberry guitars]

And a second.<div></div>

[johnmarsden]

Cheers Haig - and I thought he'd been fighting!

 

So he's just a grumpy so and so normally.

 

Nice detective work Justin 11/30/2008.

 

My fav is the crazy hair pic too.

[dorus]

Great shooting ! I mean it, my admiration goes to all pictures, here above.

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Three very different photo’s this week. None of them perfect, been walking around with a touch of the flu, which sort of disturbs concentration. <br> <br>

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is it : 1) Irak or 2) Afghanistan or 3) the Netherlands

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A grumpy building-site- boss came running up to me, and asked me what the hell I was doing. Told him I was quickly making pictures before he could chase me off… He didn’t think that was funny. It being a Monday and all 

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from a series about daily things. Not sharp enough, but I don’t get this late sun every day.

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[hinman]

I finally came to the weekend in trying out my Pentax DA* 50-135 f/2.8. I have been discussing with

Justin about letting go either one of 31mm limited or the DA* zoom. Originally I thought of keeping all

primes and limited. Now I am not sure. The DA* zoom is the best that I have used. It is just as

amazing. Expensive it is. The 31mm and the DA* zoom are a great combination and I am rethinking of

what else to trim but not the two expensive lens. I shot all three in K20D and DA* zoom.

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My neighbor bunny named Daisy<br>

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Shot in Monterey Bay of California in a golf course close to a Lighthouse in the background <br>

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<b>#3</b><br>

A dead seal<br>

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[markus maurer]

I did some table top photography of an artists small plaster models with the Pentax F-50mm macro and learned a lot

about

ligth and shadows. Looking out for a cheap and light zoom for my coming holidays in Costa Rica in January I tried the

Pentax F-80-

200mm zoom yesterday and while I'm quite surprised of the quality at 80mm-120mm, the photos at 200mm are quite

soft and

some even slighty out of focus as well. So the search will continue, next candidate is a Sigma 28-300mm hyperzoom

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[markus maurer]

at the Christmas market<div></div>

[markus maurer]

BNIF<div></div>

[markus maurer]

Fruity<div></div>

[personalphotos]

Some excellent work here that I'll take some time to comment on later. This is a bit of a cheat on my part. They aren't exactly this past week's photos but ones I took recently that hadn't been looked at till this week. So I hope you don't mind this week's 'work'.

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This one is an in camera multi exposure experiment. First frame was a normal exposure and the second was with an ND filter and a slow shutter speed to give the image something of a painting like look.

 

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This was shot 10 days later and usually winter shots have frozen water. Since we're not quite in the depths of winter yet, the water was still open.

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<p> Finally part of the walls of an old church.

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[pj_vesterback]

A self portrait. Anyone recognize me?

 

 

 

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[christer_medin1]

Picked up a DA 21 Limited and had some fun.

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<b>K20D, DA 21 Limited</b>

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<b>K20D, DA 21 Limited</b>

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<b>K20D, DA 16-45/4 @ 45</b>

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[personalphotos]

Patrick, Didn't you get a pardon from the President on Thursday?

[k_kakkinen]

For a long time I have been watching this POW and felt that I don't really have any picture to contribute with...neither is this one of my home town here in Sweden but still I wanted to conrtibute with something.

K10D 16-45/4 @ 45<div></div>

[rogerdaltx]

Here are a few from a classix car auction I went to last weekend.<div></div>

[rogerdaltx]

American Steel & Style<div></div>

[rogerdaltx]

1940's Packard

[rogerdaltx]

Let's try that last one again. It hung in the middle of the upload.<div></div>

[jaophotography]

The pow gets better and better every time!

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John - Reptiles intrigue me-from a distance. I should say the reptiles with legs, as I don't care too much about

snakes. Nice shot.

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Nick - Crazy hair reminds me of a science show I went to in the 7^th grade. Or the "stick your fingers

in a light socket" bit!

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Justin - Great shots, as usual.

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Javier - I've never seen a wet deer, cute though.

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Bob - Looks like its turning winter in your area.

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Michael - Nice sunset.

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Markus - That is some really great lighting on the sea gulls.

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Kari - Welcome to the POW. Nice winter scene!

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Well, all I have is a bunch of portrait stuff with a white background that's going on some other

pictures(overlaying). So, I'll dig something out of the HD from a few weeks ago and post it later.

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-Jon

[vegard_nervik]

I like your composition Kari. The ski jumping hill in the front. It almost looks like they will jump straight

onto the main road. Takes me back to winter-Scandinavia after 6 years in Durban South Africa. We don't

get much snow here :-)

[xpiotiavos]

Alrighty then, I missed last week's POW cause I was off wandering around in the smoky mountains. I know Justin will never forgive me for

not posting because of a lame excuse like backpacking, but oh well ;).

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first one's of yours truely, taken with my friend's D80. not to worry though: i got him back for shooting Nikon when it started snowing and

his camera was forced to retreat into his pack. win one for the K10D! ;)

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at any rate, my real entry for POW is a quick-and-dirty panoramic, taken from Charlie's Bunyon on the AT, looking out over tennessee.<div></div>