Nikon Wednesday 2014: #23

[Matt Laur]

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<p>Hello Nikon people, and a good Wednesday to everyone. I was intrigued, mid-week, to receive an email from someone I'd met at a holiday gathering. He's wrapping up a book detailing his involvement in some historically compelling events. Though he had most of the material covered, he was in need of some quick editorial photographs involving a handful of items that accompany parts of the book's memorable events.<br /><br />On a super short deadline, we had to get in some deliberately spartan, minimally theatrical imagery of some singularly unique objects. You'll have to buy the book for more context, but I can say that the other halves of these two currency notes stayed - as physical proof of contact - in the hands of the shadowy character with whom the author once found himself delicately negotiating. Shot any artifacts with a hair-raising back story? Share!<br>

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[Matt Laur]

<p>15 minutes? Put up gray seamless, some broad lighting, look through the customer's pile of interesting regional textiles, and chop up some corrugated cardboard to make simple little stand-off pedestals to relieve the bill fragments from the table surface.</p><div></div>

[Jerry_]

<p>A front-yard flower.</p><div></div>

[rich_johnson3]

<p>From the Blaine Minnesota Airport Days. The plane on the left is a Howard 500, the only known airworthy Howard 500 in the USA. Built in the late 1950's. The other plane is a 1929 Curtiss Wright Travelaire bi plane, restored in 1997.</p><div></div>

[Jerry_]

<p>Near the CSX railroad tracks.</p><div></div>

[Jerry_]

<p>In the rain.</p><div></div>

[martin_z.]

<p>From yesterday's visit to the zoo, here's a singing lemur. Only in Nashville.</p>

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[lex_jenkins]

<p>A favorite bit of neighborhood ephemera, as the light continually rewrites shapes on the industrial facade.<br />Nikon V1, 10-30 VR.<br>

<img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/17781344-lg.jpg" alt="DSC_9951_May 21, 2014_NIKON 1 V1_LR4" width="700" height="469" border="0" /><br>

<em><strong>6:39 pm</strong></em></p>

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<p><img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/17781343-lg.jpg" alt="DSC_9969_May 21, 2014_NIKON 1 V1_LR4" width="700" height="469" border="0" /><br>

<em><strong>7:40 pm</strong></em></p>

[martin_z.]

<p>Pink flamingohead</p>

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[pics]

<p>I thought the binoculars near a popular birding location looked interesting at night.</p><div></div>

[Dieter Schaefer]

<p>USS Ronald Reagan visiting Santa Barbara last weekend.</p><div></div>

[Dieter Schaefer]

<p>That should be D700 on the image above, not D300.</p>

<p>Fumes and glow from the summit vent of Kīlauea - Halema‘uma‘u Crater seen from the overlook at Jaggar Museum.<br /><br /><br /></p><div></div>

[Dieter Schaefer]

<p>Another one from Kīlauea - Halema‘uma‘u Crater</p><div></div>

[johnfarrar]

<p>Quite the reverse of Matt's approach - a return to a spot I found 5 months ago, when the light and atmospherics looked promising. Tryfan.</p><div></div>

[peteraitch]

<p>Matt, I think my first submission of the day probably qualifies as a "hair-raising back story". Noticed this plaque on the gate of a local Church. Friday will be the 70th anniversary of the D-day landings.</p><div></div>

[peteraitch]

<p>There is an old Manor House just down the road from me. It has an ice-house, built long before refrigerators for storage of blocks. In the winter, bats hibernate there but on Sunday I finally got in with my new fisheye.</p><div></div>

[peteraitch]

<p>Whilst on my way to the ice-house, I noticed this lady taking her rabbit for a walk...</p><div></div>

[mike_halliwell]

<p>Spotted this tiny day-flying moth in the back garden and grabbed the camera. It's ~ 12mm long. Called a Mint Moth because that's it's caterpillars fav snack....:-)</p><div></div>

[ilkka_nissila]

<p>Finnish National Ballet has an annual summer tour, in Helsinki on Thursday.</p><div></div>

[ilkka_nissila]

<p>Snow Queen, Persian Dance.</p><div></div>

[ilkka_nissila]

<p>Finally the exit.</p><div></div>

[mike_halliwell]

<p>Hairy Enough?? Spotted this one yesterday, sunning itself on a old plant trough. Body about 15mm. Haven't ID it yet.</p><div></div>

[peteraitch]

<p>Martin Z., John Farrar - nice captures!</p>

[mike_halliwell]

<p>I just can't ignore natural geometry! Some sort of Campion. Common name of Red Robin, I think.</p><div></div>

[georg_s1]

<p>Happy wednesday!<br>

Tried a Hoya R72 Infrared-filter on my old D700:<br>

<a title="IR-pond von georgsfoto bei Flickr" href=" src="https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2921/14141929019_e719ab4ab1_c.jpg" alt="IR-pond" width="800" height="542" /></a><br>

D700 (shutter click #283.654 ;-), ISO200, Ais 24/2.8 at f/8, 15sec</p>