Nikon Wednesday 2011: #41

[panayotis_papadopoulos]

<p>Good day everyone where ever you are. Wish you' re doing fine. Cheers!</p><div></div>

[gej_jones]

<p>Good morning and happy Wednesday! Thank you to all that commented on last weeks submission.<br>

By contrast, the gray skies only added to the vivid colors of the straw flowers.</p><div></div>

[martin_z.]

<p>The colors were cool, but I think this flower looks better in B&W.</p>

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[blake_knox]

<p>Just some B&W HDR portraiture.</p>

[angela_roy1]

<p><img src="http://angelaroy.ca/photonet/nikonwed41.jpg" alt="" /></p>

[blake_knox]

<p>Just having fun the other night with the wireless remote.</p><div></div>

[jannekaakinen]

<p>Good Wednesday evening! This one is from a graveyard nearby.</p>

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[m_kevin_johnson]

<p>D7000 - Giraffe Bull at Silver Springs</p><div></div>

[lisae]

<p>Wonderful photos this Wednesday. I look forward to viewing them at length this evening.</p>

<p>Wednesday is Zoo Day for my daughter. While she volunteers, I spend the day taking pictures. Here is one from last Wednesday. And now we're off to the Zoo again.</p><div></div>

[mvihava]

<p>Autumn at it's best.</p><div></div>

[rob_mulligan1]

<p>Here's my daughter Keena and son Liam taken at a local sitting park.<br>

D7000, 24-70, SB-600 controlled by an SU-800 off a 60" umbrella.</p><div></div>

[wpahnelas]

<p>I've been waiting since 2007 for my favorite band, the Mekons, to play a show in my neck of the woods. last Thursday, my wait was over, when the band appeared in Arlington, Va. at a club named Iota. I was not disappointed, especially when the venue did not enforce its "no photography" policy.<br>

For the curious, here's the Mekons in a recording made Friday afternoon, courtesy of WXPN public radio in Philadelphia: <a href="http://www.npr.org/2011/10/07/141086823/live-today-the-mekons-in-concert?ft=1">http://www.npr.org/2011/10/07/141086823/live-today-the-mekons-in-concert?ft=1</a></p><div></div>

[Keith Gierman]

<p>Dew on Ornamental Grass</p><div></div>

[JDMvW]

<p>St. Louis Zoo</p><div></div>

[ronald_muscio]

<p>Hi All,<br>

A trip to Maine in September to shoot Lighthouses resulted in this brooding PM image of Portland Head Light. It was my first visit to this lighthouse, so please pardon this composition that has been shoot many times by others.</p><div></div>

[adam_weaver]

<p>I picked up a Dine 100mm f/2.8 macro system last night (including ring flash) so I gave it a try this morning. My early impression is the lens is frighteningly sharp, but I've only spent a few minutes with it. I dabbled with the ring flash, but it seems to me it's meant to blast light on-axis into recesses, not to provide flattering light. It was a dental system after all. I shot my son, thinking the ring-flash might make it interesting, but he ended up with red-eye twice the size of his eyes, and temporarily blinded, so I won't try that again. Maybe for next week I'll find a subject more interesting than this cheese grater. A testament to the lens' preliminary sharpness is the grater's crustiness as evident in the photo. I'll get to work with a brill-o pad on that. </p>

[adam_weaver]

<p>I picked up a Dine 100mm f/2.8 macro system last night (including ring flash) so I gave it a try this morning. My early impression is the lens is frighteningly sharp, but I've only spent a few minutes with it. I dabbled with the ring flash, but it seems to me it's meant to blast light on-axis into recesses, not to provide flattering light. It was a dental system after all. I shot my son, thinking the ring-flash might make it interesting, but he ended up with red-eye twice the size of his eyes, and temporarily blinded, so I won't try that again. Maybe for next week I'll find a subject more interesting than this cheese grater. A testament to the lens' preliminary sharpness is the grater's crustiness as evident in the photo. I'll get to work with a brill-o pad on that. </p><div></div>

[ed_hazera1]

<p>Haloween fun</p><div></div>

[tom_serio]

<p>A bit elusive, so need to be in the right place at the right time. Dangerous and beautiful at the same time. Here are several lightning strikes off the beach in Ft Lauderdale, Fl. As the storm drifted east towards the Bahamas the clouds appear to be dropping, closing the window on the streaks. Taken on an 8 second exposure.</p><div></div>

[ed_hazera1]

<p><br /> D3100, 35mm 1.8</p><div></div>

[eric_arnold]

<p>occupy oakland demonstration</p><div></div>

[don_harper_the_edge]

<p>This was an image taken at the W hotel in D.C. of a bride and groom. It's one of those situations that required off camera lighting to balance out exposure over the distance of the stairwell.<br>

Fun bride was also the subject of my Wednesday photo last week.<br>

Don Harper at The Edge</p><div></div>

[gib]

<p><strong>industrial site? to face Ste. Marie Among the Hurons on the Wye River, Midland, Ontario</strong></p>

 

<p id="yui_3_4_0_3_1318442188257_1019">apparently Midland, Ontario is looking at putting an industrial development very close to the right bank of the Wye River</p>

<p id="yui_3_4_0_3_1318442188257_1017">Martyrs Shrine is across the highway from this spot, behind me over my left shoulder. It celebrates the Jesuit Martyrs who lived and worked at Ste. Marie in the 1640s. This is a major historical-religious site and various groups are preparing protests.<br>

The development is a fabric recycling plant. <br>

There must be a better location locally for such a plant.</p>

<p><em><strong>Nikon D3100 w the kit 18-55 VR lens</strong></em></p>

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[stickletodd]

<p><img src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-8ZqgbUJ7jLc/TpXryIcQlqI/AAAAAAAAdNw/vx7hEP0VYq4/s700/4.jpg" alt="" width="700" height="466" /><br>

Glover Park Fountain, Marietta, Georgia USA<br />Nikon d700, f8, 1/60 sec, Nikkor 28-300mm f3.5-4.0, Focal length 300mm.</p>

[orourke]

<p>Before my first cup of coffee I managed to catch the first rays of sunlight chasing away an early fall chill at the marina.<br>

Nikon F4, Nikon 75-300, Kodak 200, cropped with FastStone.</p><div></div>