Nikon Wednesday 2013: #10

[Matt Laur]

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<p>Hello, Nikon folk. A good Wednesday to all, and some digging-out sympathy for the mid-west-through-mid-Atlantic crowd that's catching this latest fun snow storm. We've been missing most of the big ones this winter, but it finally caught up with the DC area. I'm happy that I can post this before the inevitable power outages that will come with 35+mph winds and a bunch of heavy, wet snow.<br>

<br />Weather like that makes me hope that my weekend subjects - this fine committee of longhorns - have a nice barn to wander into until the storm blows through. While I spooked along their barbed-wire fence, they just stayed put and enjoyed the sunshine. Perhaps they were dreaming of Texas, and feeling out of place in the Shenandoah highlands. Hope you were out, also shooting something out of place. Share!</p><div></div>

[Rene11664880918]

<p>I have been telling my friend that he needs a stronger tripod for his 1D and 400 2.8 lens...</p><div></div>

[Matt Laur]

<p>Walking back to the truck from the cow pasture, a local turkey vulture was trying to tell me something by doing laps over my head for a hundred yards or so. I'd like to think he was trying to say that my ancient old 70-200/2.8 VR1 was looking like a goner, and that surely it was time for the VR2 version. Or maybe that new 80-400 that Nikon just announced. I wonder what costs more: that lens, or a field full of longhorns.</p><div></div>

[Rene11664880918]

<p>Isn't water amazing??</p><div></div>

[Rene11664880918]

<p>Last.....</p><div></div>

[ChrisSpeaker]

<p>Here is mine for the week. Enjoy. Nikon d800 + Voigtlander 58mm</p><div></div>

[nathansanborn]

<p>With some friends this weekend.</p><div></div>

[Member69643]

<p>I like your friends, Nathan! :)</p>

<p>Playing around with a radial filter. Wonder why... </p><div></div>

[Alex_Es]

<p>On Sunday I went to Akashi Castle and spent the day photographing a little black cat. It seemed to enjoy being a model. It followed me. F4 + Nikon 80-200/4.5....</p><div></div>

[Alex_Es]

<p>At one point someone threw a rock from the bluff where the castle stands. It missed both of us. The cat ran off. But when I called it, it came running to me and clowned around as if nothing had happened. F4 + Nikon 80-200/4.5.</p><div></div>

[Alex_Es]

<p>Can you stand just one more cat shot? I shot two rolls on this character. F4 + Nikon 80-200/4.5.</p><div></div>

[tony_demonte]

<p>a friends cat.</p><div></div>

[thadley]

<p><img src="/photo/16983732" alt="" />Greetings everyone. Rene: that skinny tripod is a riot - it must be made of some very special material (*_*). Nathan, I can't quite put my finger on it, but I like your friends also. <br>

My image was taken while i was waiting for my grandchildren to arrive on the school bus on a fairly quiet street in Candiac in Quebec. The snow was wet and slushy and I had to shield the lens from getting wet. It was hand held and i shot it at f16 which is much higher than I usually set but I wanted the 1/40 shutter speed to create some motion streaks with the falling snow. </p>

<p>All the very best,</p>

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[tony_demonte]

<p>also took this photo. cracks me up every time. lol</p><div></div>

[cjk]

<p>Greetings to Nikon's Cat Wednesday... Sorry to break the feline streak!</p>

<p>Portrait taken in a Dubai hotel room, with window lighting. </p>

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[cjk]

<p>And another portrait, this time with flash bounced on the wall, camera left.</p>

<p>I am sorry that my friends are not as glamorous as Nathan's ;)</p><div></div>

[tolga_anil]

<p>Hi all,<br>

All the snowy photos are beautiful. But I miss spring and sun too much. Ankara is still cold.<br>

Again Nikon F3HP & Nikon 50mm F1.4 lens. Film is HP5, 400 ASA.<br>

Regards,<br>

Tolga</p><div></div>

[johnfarrar]

<p>A good day for landscapes</p><div></div>

[johnfarrar]

<p>A bad day for landscapes; the idea was this bronze age stone circle in foreground, with the mountains of north Wales on the horizon. Not only was there a band of impenetrable industrial pollution blown in on an easterly, but through it you could just see 3 wind turbines erected in the last year..... oh, well</p><div></div>

[scott_pogorelc]

<p>The Harlem Globetrotters performed this past Saturday at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA. I saw them 35 years ago and took my boys this time around so that they could enjoy the show. Although the players had changed, the game was the same. They put on a great show.<br>

D4 + AF-S 70-200 @ 200, ISO 8000, 1/800s @ f/2.8</p><div></div>

[scott_pogorelc]

<p>Didn't follow Lex's instructions on how to do this in one fell swoop, so adding the second independently...</p><div></div>

[jenkins]

<p>Morning all, picture of a neighbour who popped in for a cuppa.</p>

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[elliot1]

<p>Good Wednesday morning all! Great shots everyone!!!</p>

<p>This shot was taken recently at the Chattanooga Aquarium.</p><div></div>

[bob_dein]

<p>He is my namesake, and likes beer.<br>

<img src="http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee183/bobdein/05-03-13_zps8a7f1de5.jpg" alt="" width="700" height="467" /><br>

Nikon D90, NIKKOR 85mm f1.8D @ f2.4<br>

http://www.deinfaces.com/</p>

[User_2019667]

<p>Rene that tripod caper is funny.<br>

While walking the other day at Byers Woods in cold, gray Ashland county Ohio I spotted this praying mantis egg case attached to a pine bough. Waiting for spring, to unleash the little buggers inside. </p><div></div>