POTW 8-19-2012

[dshombert]

<p>Kicking things off with another shot from the raptor rescue center exhibition a couple weeks ago. This guy's a barn owl who suffered the loss of a wing as a chick and is now a permanent resident there. He was very dignified.</p><div></div>

[bobbuck19]

<p>Here's some recent attempts at handholding my old 300 f4 super tak, the K5 makes it possible to get a high enough shutter speed for hand holding, but manual focusung a long lens with my shaky hand holding still escapes me.</p>

[bobbuck19]

<p>Trying again</p><div></div>

[bobbuck19]

<p>Eating berries</p><div></div>

[bobbuck19]

<p>Bambi</p><div></div>

[duane_mills]

<p>Great Start Dave and Robert. I'll keep with the wildlife theme. Here are two shots from a few weeks ago...</p><div></div>

[duane_mills]

<p>Here's the second...</p><div></div>

[ukhov]

<p>Spend few shots , what is was no attempt , to holding on midtown Art Festival and Ping-Pong One Day in the Park my Sigma (wide to normal).<br>

Anyhow there it is - half of adult size Great Blue Heron on the fish hunt in crowded park on events!</p>

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[ukhov]

<p>second pic , the whole posting ,as manual for wild fishing</p><div></div>

[ukhov]

<p>diving </p><div></div>

[ukhov]

<p>last pic</p><div></div>

[snik75]

<p>Here's a few from a recent trip to California, all with the FA 24-90 and K5:</p><div></div>

[snik75]

<p>This one looks better bigger, but oh well.</p><div></div>

[snik75]

<p>And last...</p><div></div>

[markus maurer]

<p>This must have been the first week in a long time when I left the camera at home but I'm more into sports at the time anyway so I just went out this afternoon for a few snaps instead of boring you with food shots :-)</p><div></div>

[markus maurer]

<p>left for the birds and worms</p><div></div>

[markus maurer]

<p>resting.</p><div></div>

[frank_b._baiamonte]

<p>A few of us got together on Thursday for some shots of the downtown San Diego skyline from Coronado Island.</p>

<p>K-5, DA40, 1/80 sec. at F/8.9, ISO 125, -1EV, cranked up the contrast some in Aperture.<br>

<img src="http://frankbaiamonte.smugmug.com/San-Diego/San-Diego-at-Night/i-L6Wc5qr/0/L/51FB5661-L.jpg" alt="" width="800" height="492" /></p>

<p>k-5, DA21, 15 sec. at f/10.0, ISO 100.<br>

<img src="http://frankbaiamonte.smugmug.com/San-Diego/San-Diego-at-Night/i-cLZW56H/0/L/51FB5693-L.jpg" alt="" width="800" height="564" /></p>

<p>Finally, here's the actual San Diego skyline - the first two were taken looking the opposite direction.</p>

<p>K-5, DA70, 25 sec. at f/9.0, ISO 100. Shot in color and converted to b/w in Aperture. The colors in the direction of downtown just weren't all that great on Thursday, so I tried this instead.<br>

<img src="http://frankbaiamonte.smugmug.com/San-Diego/San-Diego-at-Night/i-2jRm8Th/0/L/51FB5707-L.jpg" alt="" width="800" height="530" /></p>

 

[patrickwells]

<p>My 10 year old Grandson has an interest in Photography. I took him out this weekend to practice. I took my P30t and DL. These are from the DL I am waiting for the film to get developed.<br>

OOPS While doing this post I noticed every shot was at iso 1600. I had been shooting in low light, hand held I forgot to move back to a lower iso. It has now been moved back This gives me another reason to post here. I have to read my EXIF data.</p><div></div>

[patrickwells]

<p>second one</p><div></div>

[patrickwells]

<p>third one</p><div></div>

[glennpollockphotography]

<p>http://glennpollockphotography.zenfolio.com/img/s1/v47/p781432875-4.jpg</p>

[stemked]

<p>Sorry, nothing from me. The semester is almost started and my time is busy elsewhere. </p>

<p>Anyway...<br>

Love those shots Marcus, especially the B&W image.<br>

And Nick, I really dig those drifting head-less wonders.<br>

Nice sequence Yury.<br>

<br />Love the owl shot too. (sorry, can't check to see who it belongs to right now)<br>

Always like your work Robert, especially when you pull out an ol' Tak. Not to be TOO critical, but weren't you a touch TOO close to that bear? We need all of our Pentax folks to keep all of their fingers.</p>

[robbiec]

<p>My favourite and most willing photo model. Rufus.<br>

<img src="http://robbiecc.smugmug.com/Other/Updated-Ad-Hoc/i-CHj54Nq/0/L/B0001224-L.jpg" alt="" /></p>

 

[bobbuck19]

<p>Douglas, didn't see him up the tree until I was practcally under him, backed off a ways until I was about even height wise, sorta know this bear and was glad to see him eating natural foods since he has made a few visits to the campground, he usually shadows a big female with 2 young cubs, I'm assuming he is her last years cub since he's only about 80lbs and from my limited bear behavior think its a he since I've been told male cubs usually get run off when new cubs are born and these are the ones that are at risk of being problem bears.<br>

Markus, like the black and white, gotta ask, what are those things?</p>