Nikon Wednesday Pic 2010: #20

[jos__arnaud]

<p>Hello Everybody ! <br>

First of all I would like to thank very much <strong>Jonas Fjellstedt</strong>, as well as <strong>Hayley Karl </strong>and <strong>Doug Rice</strong>, for their comments and mentions of my picture last week.<br>

So far, I have specially enjoyed <strong>Gej Jones</strong> Venise warm colours (hope you get well soon), <strong>Greg Kowalczewski</strong>'s tennis player, <strong>Jennifer Meighan</strong>'s "Lil Lady" (fantastic colours and composition), <strong>Scot Pogorelc</strong>'s baseball player, <strong>Samford Gerald</strong>'s and gigantic "Blowing Bubbles". My deep sympathy to <strong>Tiffany Brook</strong>´s hard disk failure, reminding all of us of the absolute need of backuping our precious photos...<br>

This week I am sharing with you a picture taken at a horse jumping championship in Portugal. The concentration of the rider, biting her tongue, was the reason for selecting this picture. </p><div></div>

[Apurva Madia]

<p>Happy Wednesday folks! My entry is a picture I took about 4 months back in a Casablanca Hotel where I was staying. Never processed it since, which I did last night. The courtyard restaurant was totally empty and I did get an interesting perspective from my fifth floor lobby.</p><div></div>

[marc_mccoy1]

<p>Hey Everyone! This week has been busy and gone by really fast! My picture is from a dumpster fire near where I live, I just happened to be driving past, This shot made it to the paper and was printed, My first pic in the paper I was pretty stoked! Things are looking great so far! Jeff Lipsman that is pretty cool I love it! Have a great week everyone!</p><div></div>

[liljuddakalilknyttphotogra]

<p>Last week has been exhausting & today our daughter graduated from college. Yesterday was Honors commencements & today the regular graduation. She's having her party which luckily is winding down, but I've been running on empty for a while now. She's going to Shanghai tomorrow morning at 5:30am for two weeks. I don't think she's done packing yet......<br /> OK this week's shot is another Reverse Lens macro, but I've made my life a bit harder. This is shot with the D300 & my 24mm f/2.8 AF. Shot in Manual metering, f/16, 1/60s, ISO 640, on board flash with diffuser. So now I'm down to approximately a distance of 1 inch or 25mm to my subject. This is a Katydid nymph with is less than 10mm in body length.<br /> I hope you'll enjoy - talk about no dof..... But I'm happy to say I'm even getting the 24mm f/2.8 reversed under control. Light on the subject is however not easily achieved. Oh, I should mention that this is the complete shot - no crop. <br /> Tiffany - good luck with your computer. That's not a happy message...... My thoughts will be with you.</p>

<p><img src="http://lilknytt.zenfolio.com/img/v14/p962690390-4.jpg" alt="" /></p>

[ryan_long]

<p>It is spring indeed. I've returned to Wrangell, Alaska finally, and I have to say I've very much missed the Tongass</p>

<p><img src="http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb311/longrya2/IntheForest.jpg" alt="" /><br>

Nikon F100 Kodak Ektar 100 Nikkor 20mm f/2.8 @ 2.8</p>

[famico]

<p>Happy Wednesday, all! Wasn't able to post the past couple of weeks, so am especially happy that I could participate this week. Took this little guy while he was playing in the yard at a kid-sized picnic table.</p><div></div>

[eric_arnold]

<p>tamron 17-50/nikon d300</p><div></div>

[peteraitch]

<p>Many thanks to Wayne Ervine and Doug Rice for your kind comments on my photo last week. In such august photographic company, it's a privilege to be noticed! The stand-out for me last week was Jose's extraordinary capture in Cambodia. I managed an inferior version of this subject a few years back in Guilin, but his is perfect!</p>

<p>Nothing new today (I've been unwell for a couple of weeks). Staying with the chromes, I recently unearthed an indoor shot with Ektachrome that I rather like. It was taken in an old (unused) church in Amsterdam.</p><div></div>

[greg_kowalczewski]

<p>Hi Tiffany,<br>

Assuming it is in fact a <strong>failed HDD</strong> and not a failure in the boot up sequence caused either by a hardware impediment (through a FDD or USB connection) or a software corruption (insert your boot up disk to confirm this) - then remove the HDD.<br>

Take the HDD to a qualified specialist uses non-destructive techniques and will only charge you for recovered files (and even better, only those with the file extensions you choose to recover).<br>

If they are able to recover the data by "seeing it" it as a secondary drive the recovery cost should be significantly less. If the drive either needs to be "repaired" or interrogated using special data recovery techniques things will become much more expensive. If the drive is dead, you will begin to incur costs the minute they start "doing things" to the drive - so make sure you understand the process as to how you will be charged.<br>

Now for some good news - provided smoke didn't come from the drive you should be able to get all your data files back.</p>

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[kemalriza]

<p>Hi all,</p>

<p>Good morning, good afternoon, good evening and good night...<br>

I'm again here after a while.<br>

My contribution to this Happy Wednesday is as follows:<br>

Nikon D300 and Micro Nikkor 60 mm G @ 60 mm, f/14, 1/800, ISO-800.</p><div></div>

[Ian Rance]

<p>Nothing like a quiet woodland trail on a spring day. The sound of the contented birds in the trees, occasional hush of wind in the treetops and the prostect of a sit down with tea and cake. I used my Nikon F100 and 75-240mm with Fuji Superia 200.</p><div></div>

[jose_angel]

<p>I`ll contribute with another sports pic, taken on past sunday. They are our <em>absolutely glorious</em> water-polo team, one minute before starting the game. After the usual <em>war cry</em>, they all jumped to the water... :)</p><div></div>

[fpessolano]

<p>I am going to join the theme of kids. I saw this yesterday when I picked my son (first in the row) and somebody entered the daycare. <br>

<img src="http://photography.siteaside.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/871403967_CE9fq-XL.jpg" alt="" width="512" height="768" /></p>

[Matthew Brennan]

<p><strong>Lanarch Castle</strong> in Dunedin, New Zealand. The lighting was horrid when we visited, low clouds wisping across the grounds, very grey and overcast with colours muted everywhere so I kept B&W in mind. This is a partial de-saturation in photoshop, just leaving the Dark Lady roses on the trellis in colour.</p><div></div>

[boris_miljevic]

<p>Portrait for this weeks Wednesday Pic...hope you like it...<br>

Shot was made with Fuji S3 Pro camera, so i hope it is ok to be in this thread...</p><div></div>

[slopoki]

<p>Caught this one coming in with some breakfest.<br>

D300 w 300/4 and TC-14E<br>

<a href="mailto:f5.6@1/2000">f5.6@1/2000</a> sec<br>

iso 320<br>

Thanks for looking, Rick</p><div></div>

[wmervine]

<p>Happy wednesday all.<br>

Not much from my side. Been too busy with moving and work to get out. So for now this is my attempt at coping with a brown dog on a brown chair. Gimp to the rescue. (maybe)</p><div></div>

[danielowen]

<p>It's been a few weeks since my last picture in this forum, (I have been having a lot of fun with my Olympus OM-1 and 35mm lens recently). It's great to be able to switch between old mechanical cameras and more modern techno-cameras and enjoy the benefits of both. This photo was taken recently in my back garden ("yard" for you guys across the atlantic)! </p><div></div>

[jim_momary]

<p>" ... Gull Stream 345 Heavy, taxi to 22L and wait for clearance ... "<br>

Nikon D200, 70-210AFD @ 210, F8, 1/80th.</p><div></div>

[adey]

<p>Another great Nikon Wednesday!</p>

<p>A curious neighbour.....see below :-) (can't seem to attach an image after deleting original image (incorrect caption) )</p>

<p>Adey</p><div></div>

[james_symington1]

<p>Nice shots everyone. </p><div></div>

[ray_rg]

<p>Good Morning WedNEsDAy :)</p>

<p>Beautiful images are already posted and many more to come. My image is from the past week when I saw these flowers in my lane. Went out with D90 and Tamron 90mm, I was hoping to get a portrait of bee but they were so busy could not get an image what I was looking for. So here is another one with shallow depth of field and I liked it. May be should be more conscious about composition... rule of third :)</p>

<p>Tiffany: Wishing you a luck, hope you can retrieve data.</p>

<p>Nikon D90 Tamron 90mm 1/500 f16 ISO 400</p>

<p><img src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_v_Hx1NTKpoc/S-nZ57s66tI/AAAAAAAABj0/Kr6sfotJ4ig/s800/DSC_5379_1.jpg" alt="" /><br /></p>

 

[pcg856]

<p>Fat Albert ,Blue Angels</p><div></div>

[aguinaldo_de_paula]

<p>IR conversion in PS CS4.<br>

Thank you for commenting my last week pic.<br>

best regards.</p><div></div>

[alex.held]

<p>Hello all<br>

Thanks to <strong>Doug Rice</strong>, <strong>Jeanne Hauschild</strong> and <strong>Greg Kowalczewski</strong> for your comments on my <br />last week pic.<br /><br />Taken 2 saturdays ago at Polo Circo Festival, while looking at the Swiss acrobats duo, Tr'space with Mischa Blau as Guest Musician.<br /><br /><strong>Tyffany</strong>: hope you can recover all your pics!<br>

PS. Week 20 ! I began posting last year at week 20 ...so a whole year torturing Nikonians eyes with my pics!!<br>

by by Alejandro<br>

D300 + 18-200 VR @ 135mm - f 5.6 - 1/160 - ISO 4000</p><div></div>