Nikon Wednesday 2015: #47

[Matt Laur]

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<p>Hello Nikon people, and a good Wednesday to all. Digging through some old boxes this week, I came across an artifact of my early adventures in the graphic arts. Part of learning the ropes of the printing business, before we got to play with photosensitive materials and lithography, was to work with an old style self-inking movable type card press. These were used to periodically make some ID cards for a small group at the school. Things have changed a bit, but I enjoyed the nostalgia. Shot any tools of a lost art? Share!</p><div></div>

[tolga_anil]

<p>From old jam fabric...Peach core...</p>

[tolga_anil]

<p>again...</p><div></div>

[johnfarrar]

<p>And so we have the first real snow of the winter.</p><div></div>

[vrankin]

<p>Maritime Museum, Manitowoc, WI USA</p><div></div>

[ChrisSpeaker]

<p>Looks like the Christmas cactus is in bloom. Nikon Df w/ Voigtlander 125mm.</p><div></div>

[ChrisSpeaker]

<p>#2</p><div></div>

[ChrisSpeaker]

<p>#3</p><div></div>

[Jon Eckman]

<p>A break from my normal attempts to post something relating to your theme Matt, here are a few looks at the bird of the day tomorrow -</p><div></div>

[Jon Eckman]

<p>Next</p><div></div>

[Jon Eckman]

<p>And finally</p><div></div>

[Two23]

<p>D&I train passing by elevator at Fairview, SD. Camera: Chamonix 045n, Lens: Nikon 90mm f4.5, Film: HP5 (4x5). Flash: x5 White Lightning X3200 @ 1/1.</p>

<p>Kent in SD</p><div></div>

[Matthew Currie]

<p>Away from home and my collection of mystery tools and lost arts,so that will have to wait. Down here in Georgia, it's nature this week, at Phinizy swamp mostly.</p>

<p>It's a good season for ibises, it seems.</p><div></div>

[peteraitch]

<p>Good morning all - it's afternoon here!</p>

<p>Been out of the loop with a dirty sensor, but finally worked up the courage to do a wet clean. All now seems well, so I took a still-life in natural daylight to celebrate. After all, Christmas is coming - although first it's Thanksgiving for you guys over the pond...</p><div></div>

[Matthew Currie]

<p>Part of that same flock of ibises in flight.</p><div></div>

[Matthew Currie]

<p>Phinizy Swamp (near Augusta) is on the site of an old farm, of which nothing but the silos remains.</p><div></div>

[Bill J Boyd]

<p>This turkey was walking across my backyard.</p><div></div>

[jim_momary]

<p>Lost art. Lost manufacturing. Lost our ability to produce.</p>

<p>Below is a shot of a rejuvenated area in Bethlehem Pa, near "Steel Stacks" ... all that is left of the once great & proud Bethlehem Steel in the Lehigh Valley. Bethlehem Steel's blast furnaces were responsible for the world's largest single piece of cast iron that had ever been made (in 1893) for the Chicago World's Fair Ferris wheel. They supplied part of the Golden Gate, the George Washington, the Ben Franklin Bridges, 80% of the steel of the New York Skyline in the 1920s & 1930s and countless military items starting from Civil War times. The US Navy was supplied Liberty Ships built at Beth Steel shipyards. For a couple of years during WWII, the rate was one ship per day!<br>

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All things come to an end, for a variety of reasons. The blast furnaces went cold November 18, 1995. 20 years and one week later we are here. There is a three mile long scar in Bethlehem from the furnaces and rolling mills. Lots of rusty metal left by Beth Steel still remind us today of what once was.<br>

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Maudlin Jim</p><div></div>

[peter_simpson1]

<p>My back yard, Monday. I'd be making myself scarce...</p><div></div>

[Dieter Schaefer]

<p>Great Blue Heron "ballet". D7100 with 200-500/5.6E VR at 410mm, f/8, 1/1250s, ISO220<br>

<a title="Threat display III" href=" data-flickr-embed="true"><img src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5809/22880517989_56474c7f08_z.jpg" alt="Threat display III" width="519" height="640" /></a><br>

Great Egret "striking gold". D7100 with 200-500/5.6E VR at 500, f/8, 1/1250s, ISO900 (image cropped from landscape to portrait).<br>

<a title="Struck Gold" href=" data-flickr-embed="true"><img src="https://farm1.staticflickr.com/580/22839722187_7ec48e9cc8_z.jpg" alt="Struck Gold" width="531" height="640" /></a></p>

<p>Seagull portrait at sunset. D7100 with 200-500/5.6E VR at 500mm, f/8, 1/500s, ISO2500<br>

<a title="seagull portrait at sunset" href=" data-flickr-embed="true"><img src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5694/23222345036_2cdc55b73b_z.jpg" alt="seagull portrait at sunset" width="640" height="512" /></a></p>

[sjmurray]

<p>Sometime in the 90's, before digital, I shot this photo of some stumps in Crosby lake with 35mm Nikkormat, probably 24mm lens. The water levels were low that year. I photographed the same stumps in 2005 with the D70, and this year I went back and photographed some stumps that are roughly in the same area, but they are more deteriorated now, and its hard to tell if they are the same ones.</p><div></div>

[sjmurray]

<p>2005 Version, d70 (not D7100)</p><div></div>

[sjmurray]

<p>This year's attempt. Are they the same?</p><div></div>

[thadley]

<p><img src="/photo/18130730" alt="" />Dieter "Striking Gold' struck a good chord with me. Mine was taken this fall in park St.Catherine Quebec early in the morning.</p><div></div>

[mjferron]

<p>Wet Leaf</p><div></div>