Nikon Wednesday 2014: #21

[Matt Laur]

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<p><strong><em>Important:</em></strong> please keep your image under 700 pixels on the longest side for in-line viewing, and <em><strong>please keep the FILE SIZE UNDER 300kb</strong></em>. Note that <strong>this includes photos hosted off-site</strong> (at Flickr, Photobucket, your own site, etc).<br /><br />Are you <strong>new to this thread?</strong> The general guidelines for these Wednesday threads are <strong><a href="/nikon-camera-forum/00W7km" rel="nofollow">right here</a></strong>:<a href="/nikon-camera-forum/00W7km" rel="nofollow">http://www.photo.net/nikon-camera-forum/00W7km</a>. This forum's moderators are allowing up to three images per week, so share some work!</p>

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<p>Sometimes the art direction is crystal clear. Even when the required results are ... a bit fuzzy. On purpose.<br /><br />In this case, the image will end up getting dropped in behind other web content, so it's serving as a deliberately relaxed decorative/layout element. I've taken to shooting a lot of this sort of thing while also shooting foreground/focus pieces of the same objects. You never know when the same client will have a new marketing piece that needs a topical abstraction. So in this case, the devil ... er, the art director ... made me do it! Shot anything that's going to be just one part of a larger work? Share!</p><div></div>

[Jerry_]

<p>In the weed patch.</p><div></div>

[Jerry_]

<p>And in a bucket of water.</p><div></div>

[Barry Clemmons Photography]

<p>Dogwoods in bloom around cabin in Cades Cove, TN</p><div></div>

[Ray House]

<p>On a wall...</p><div></div>

[samuel_lipoff]

<p>I was playing with my new 45mm f/2.8 Ai-P lens the other night and f/2.8 just wasn't cutting it handheld . . . so I broke out the Noct.</p><div></div>

[rjm photo]

<p>Street art in my city....</p><div></div>

[pics]

<p>I did a little night shooting in the Mojave Desert with some speedlights.</p><div></div>

[peteraitch]

<p>Took some "Summer is coming" shots a couple of days ago.</p>

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[peteraitch]

<p>Checked out the busy bees...</p><div></div>

[peteraitch]

<p>Macro of a tree fruit.</p><div></div>

[lex_jenkins]

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<p>"Shot anything that's going to be just one part of a larger work?"</p>

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<p>Once again, Matt seems to anticipate whatever I'm currently working on.<br>

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Not an exciting photo, and even in the context of the larger documentary project it will be only a transition photo. But I've learned not to underestimate the impact of photos like this.<br>

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My mom suffers from lordosis, scoliosis and degenerative arthritis, and after multiple knee replacement surgeries her balance is poor. So while she can walk short distances she needs a wheelchair to get around distances. She's also fiercely independent. As with my cousin's son Stewart's progress through coping with repeated open heart surgeries, I've documented much of daily experiences in the challenges of living as independently as possible for my mom and a few neighbors.<br>

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A year or so ago I sent photos of the challenges faced by folks like my mom in trying to catch the city bus. The neighborhood bus stop was located in the worst possible place - on a dirt slope with patchy grass that was impossible to navigate from a wheelchair in wet weather. Even on a clear day the fresh grass was wet enough to cause her wheelchair to slip toward the curb - I had to physically restrain the chair! I'm not sure whether my photos had any impact, but recently the city moved the bus stop to a much safer location for the many elderly and disabled residents in our neighborhood.<br>

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Challenges remain everywhere for folks with limited mobility. Simply traveling to the corner store or pharmacy often involves navigating rough terrain for folks in wheelchairs and walkers. The sidewalks and driveways are so rutted and pockmarked with potholes that many of my neighbors risk riding in the streets rather than ruin their wheelchairs or risk toppling over on the rough sidewalks. Here's my mom negotiating one of the trickiest obstacles in her neighborhood, within 50 yards of the nearest pharmacy: the sidewalks and driveway are heavily rutted and pockmarked; the alternative is venturing into the street at the busiest possible intersection on this street, where drivers are more concerned with making their unhindered right turns on the red light than paying attention to their pedestrian neighbors. Not far from here another fellow was killed while crossing the street, despite the pedestrian crossing warning signs.<br>

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I'll send copies of the photos to city officials. Maybe it will help. When I attended UT-Arlington in the 1980s the busy Cooper Street thoroughfare divided the campus, forcing students and faculty to cross a busy, dangerous street. Many UT-A students were disabled and the university recruited them for the wheelchair basketball and volleyball teams. While that was laudable, it took two decades and the deaths of two disabled students, struck and killed on Cooper Street, before the university and city finally built a safe crossing.<br>

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<img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/17769600-lg.jpg" alt="DSC_9884_May 07, 2014_NIKON 1 V1_LR4" width="700" height="469" border="0" /><br>

<em>Nikon V1, 10-30 VR</em>.</p>

[Alex_Es]

<p>At Akashi Castle moat, Akashi City, Japan. Nikon FM3A + Nikon 43-86 (last version). </p><div></div>

[Alex_Es]

<p>The bird feeders are very popular...</p><div></div>

[Alex_Es]

<p>A calm moment...</p><div></div>

[Wayne Melia]

<p><img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/17769710-lg.jpg" alt="" width="700" height="464" /></p>

<p><img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/17769711-lg.jpg" alt="" width="700" height="464" /></p>

[peter_schauss2]

<p>From a boat yard on Shelter Island.</p><div></div>

[User_2019667]

<p>My son is contemplating how he is going to take the first bite out of this gourmet double burger.</p><div></div>

[User_2019667]

<p>5 baby birds in a nest</p><div></div>

[r1a2d3ok]

<p>So many pics are taken of the Daddy Cardinal I thought I'd post one of how beautiful Mom is. Nikon D3X, Nikon 300 2.8, 1/250 sec, F/13, ISO 400</p><div></div>

[Kent Shafer]

<p>D800E, 24-70, ISO 100, one monolight with shoot-through umbrella, 1/250 @ f/11.</p><div></div>

[justthings]

<p>This weekend was the annual Dominion River Rock festival in Richmond, VA. This is an outdoor sporting oriented event with bicycling, kayaking, climbing, running activities as well as great music and food. We had just had a pretty big rain event in Virginia on Thursday and the James River was running up near flood stage and provided a fantastic stage for the kayakers participating in various competitions and demonstrations. All were shot with a Nikon D80 and a Tokina 50-135 f/2.8.<br>

This first shot is actually the second of a 4 piece sequence starting with the guy entering this white water pillow backwards (i am facing downstream to take this picture), flipping over then righting himself, on purpose.<br>

<a title="kayaker_2_web by chris thompson, on Flickr" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/outwithmycamera13/14230605741"><img src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5075/14230605741_7d74a1fd29_b.jpg" alt="kayaker_2_web" width="700" height="530" /></a><br>

Another kayaker paddling hard through the white water<br>

<a title="kayaker_a1_web by chris thompson, on Flickr" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/outwithmycamera13/14047320827"><img src="https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2931/14047320827_7daee3cb8f_z.jpg" alt="kayaker_a1_web" width="640" height="428" /></a><br>

Two kayakers race downstream<br>

<a title="kayaker_a2_web by chris thompson, on Flickr" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/outwithmycamera13/14233897585"><img src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5564/14233897585_8182a6da53_z.jpg" alt="kayaker_a2_web" width="640" height="444" /></a></p>

[lornesunley]

<p>Tiger</p><div></div>

[lornesunley]

<p>Snow Leopard mom and cub (the upside down one)</p><div></div>

[lornesunley]

<p>Squirrel portrait</p><div></div>