Nikon Wednesday 2013: #39

[Bill J Boyd]

<p>Pennybacker Bridge (aka 360 Bridge) in Austin, Texas.</p><div></div>

[Kent Shafer]

<p>Kyle: Great pictures, and I agree they're brave. Reminds me of the old wheezer:</p>

 

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<p>Q: Why do bicycle racers shave their legs?</p>

<p>A: So it won't hurt as much when they tear off the bandages.</p>

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[jonb]

<p>Camping in Vermont last week. Sunrise lighting the valley fog from in front of my lean-to in Coolidge State Park.</p><div></div>

[jonb]

<p>A pretty Vermont pond with patriotic display.</p>

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[jonb]

<p>(Bad pun alert!) A powerful image.</p><div></div>

[lornesunley]

<p>Snow Leopard kitten</p><div></div>

[lornesunley]

<p>Snow Leopard attack kitten</p><div></div>

[Jon Eckman]

<p>More foolhardy I think</p><div></div>

[lornesunley]

<p>Surprised</p><div></div>

[DawsonPointers]

<p>Greetings from the depths of northern Ontario.<br>

We spent the last 3 weeks visiting both shores of the St. Lawrence River in Quebec. Absolutely beautiful!<br>

I took these shots of a minke whale from the cliffs at the shore of our campsite in St. Simeon.<br>

The first is of the whale approaching and just coming up for air. I hope you can see the blow hole in this small format image.</p>

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[DawsonPointers]

<p>We got a good side view too.</p><div></div>

[DawsonPointers]

<p>It even rolled for us. They apparently do that sometimes as they catch the fish in their baleen. I like that explanation better than the thought that we were being mooned by a whale.</p><div></div>

[Andy Murphy]

<p>Visited 8th Air Force Museum: WW II Planes</p><div></div>

[Andy Murphy]

<p>Wall of Remembrance</p><div></div>

[Andy Murphy]

<p>Chapel Stained Glass Window</p><div></div>

[hanappa]

<p>Nothing foolhardy, but we did finally have some rain, so there is a new life to nature around here. Below are two from this past week, the damsels anthropomorphized into a couple of couples chatting. The fern was naturally lit through the trees. <br>

<img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/17538942-lg.jpg" alt="" width="700" height="420" /></p>

<p><img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/17538943-lg.jpg" alt="" width="700" height="420" /></p>

[Gup]

<p>Matt, your image brought back some memories and a trip through the archives. <br>

When younger, 15 or 20 of us used to transport our dirtbikes to a location near Lake Erie on long weekends and participate in various 'sports' and challenges. One sport we called 'Moto-Ball' and was basically soccer on bikes. I was always the resident photog and videographer and so had to divide my time. When photographing moto-ball I would basically kneel in the centre of the field and everyone would attempt to avoid me. The most thrilling shots are on 8mm video, though, where the audio plays a huge role in determining the proximity and identity of the rider. Ahhh, there's nothing like the smell of two-strokes in the morning...<br>

These three were shot over 30 years ago and recently scanned on a Nikon LS 9000.</p><div></div>

[Gup]

<p>Moto-Ball!</p><div></div>

[Gup]

<p>... and all things cool must eventually come to an end.</p><div></div>

[cjk]

<p>Greetings to all, </p>

<p>Many great pictures today. I love Lil's portrait of her daughter and Lorne's baby snow leopard... </p>

<p>Mine is of last week's full moon over Manhattan, taken from across the Hudson. <br>

The landscape was taken at 35mm while the moon at (about) 200mm and the 2 photos merged in Photoshop. If you look closely, you can see the "real" moon's halo behind the Freedom Tower. I was to lazy to edit it out... </p>

<p>Cheers, <br>

CJK</p>

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[peter_simpson1]

<p>Annual Yankee Steam-up at the New England Wireless and Steam Museum last weekend. These huge horizontal steam engines were rescued from old mills and manufacturing plants and restored. If it's not hot, it's moving :-)</p><div></div>

[purplealien]

<p>Happy Wednesday everyone. Lots of lovely work once again. The photos I lingered over the most this week were: Mikhail's beach, Simon's Angel of the North and Lil's beautiful b&w portrait of her daughter.</p>

<p>It was a quiet week for me photographically, so here's a couple more from one of my wheat field series....</p>

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[purplealien]

<p>and another one of Merlin our black lab scratching his belly.......</p><div></div>

[User_6502147]

<p>Viewing the Northern Lights two nights in the row was (yes, that abused word) amazing.</p><div></div>

[mark_mandell]

<p>So this guy comes to the back door and poses. Problem was the background was so bright it overwhelmed most everything else. D800 70-200 VRII</p><div></div>