Nikon Wednesday 2016: #10

[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>Hello Nikon folks, and a good Wednesday to everyone. Digging through some on-site work done for a client, I came across that favorite folder of files ("../not_used/") where I dump all the stuff I shoot while I'm waiting for the thing I'm there to help with. Here's two of my clients doing some sunset prep work for a big endeavor the following morning. Got anything you shot between shooting? Share some photos!</p><div></div>

[johnfarrar]

<p>Don't think I've posted this before; it was shot as I was walking in to the photo I'd planned to take. The planned pic has the same mountain in the background, but with a foreground I'd found last year - and has a very different feel.</p><div></div>

[erik_christensen3]

<p>Deep concentration</p>

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[tom_stough]

<p>Waiting for sunrise at Sunrise Point in Bryce NP. Scanned from slide.</p><div></div>

[Bill J Boyd]

<p>Austin, Texas...</p><div></div>

[Sanford]

<p>49er Jacket</p><div></div>

[Member69643]

<p>Another of my cancer-stricken best friend. He's always up for a ride, no matter to where!</p><div></div>

[Dieter Schaefer]

<p>Some "high surf" at the Santa Barbara Breakwater on Sunday. D4 with 24-85 VR at 85mm, f/8, 1/400s, ISO 100:<br /> <a title="High Surf" href=" data-flickr-embed="true"><img src="https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1489/25471610181_bf11b3f549_z.jpg" alt="High Surf" width="640" height="427" /></a><br /> D4 with 24-85 VR at 85mm, f/8, 1/250s, ISO 100:<br /> <a title="High Surf" href=" data-flickr-embed="true"><img src="https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1476/25196794949_1e0214db3b_z.jpg" alt="High Surf" width="640" height="360" /></a></p>

[ShunCheung]

<p>Spring is arriving. Nikon D7200 with 200-500mm/f5.6 @ 280mm, f8 (for a bit more depth of field), 1/200 sec with VR, and base ISO 100.</p><div></div>

[ShunCheung]

<p>Annas Hummingbird<br /> D750 with 200-500mm/f5.6 @ 500mm, f5.6, 1/2000 sec and ISO 800. It is actually all natural sunlight, although it may appear that I have added some fill flash. At the D750's maximum 6.5 fps, I don't have any flash that can keep up with it. It is also a natural setting with no sugar water to attract the birds (although the Pride of Madeira flowers that attract the hummingbirds are not exactly native to the California location, though).</p><div></div>

[Miha]

<p>A photo made at the seaside. Nikon D300s, 70-200mm VR, B+W110 (ND 3.0, 1000x)</p><div></div>

[User_6502147]

<p>Bit of an inferno in the sky. Taken in Kanab, UT....just before I was lucky enough to check out the Wave.</p><div></div>

[tholte]

<p>Mending the big net</p><div></div>

[sjmurray]

<p>Friends visiting this week. Light from front living room window.</p><div></div>

[sjmurray]

<p>Making a smoothie with my Ninja.</p><div></div>

[sjmurray]

<p>Milan. Window light.</p><div></div>

[thadley]

<p><img src="/photo/18197963" alt="" />I just got back from a winter vacation in the Caribbean and this one is of Half Moon Cay in the Bahamas.</p><div></div>

[Matthew Currie]

<p>A couple of quick ones at the last moment, still from recent trip to Belize. Oddly enough, there is also a Half Moon Caye there, where we stayed.</p>

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[Matthew Currie]

<p>The Island on Lighthouse Reef is a nesting spot for red footed boobies and magnificent frigate birds, which live in a tense alliance. "Kleptoparasites," the frigates provide some protection for the boobies, and in return steal the fish they catch.</p><div></div>

[Matthew Currie]

<p>The keel billed toucan is the national bird of Belize. I did not get good shots of that one in the wild, but here is a captive one at the Belize zoo, where injured animals are taken and either kept out of harm's way or treated and returned to the wild.</p><div></div>

[thadley]

<p><img src="/photo/18197636" alt="" />I did not realize there would be two half moon Cayes. Good to know. Here is one from Grand Anse beach in Grenada late in the afternoon. The sun had already dipped below the horizon.</p><div></div>

[thadley]

<p><img src="/photo/18198136" alt="" />Grenada in the Caribbean is called the spice island for good reason. Here is what the nutmeg fruit looks like. The black interior is the nutmeg. The red part is called mace. Botanically, the nutmeg fruit in fact is a drupe like apricot. Once completely ripen, it splits open through its bottom (basal) end to reveal a single, centrally situated oval shaped hard seed (kernel) known commercially as the “nutmeg.” Adhering closely to this nutmeg kernel is crimson-red, lacy or thread like arils known as mace spice. This mace aril is then carefully peeled off its kernel surface either by hand or using a knife, and allowed to dry under shade for 3-4 days. Dried mace arils, which now appear amber in color are then processed and graded before being dispatched for sale.</p><div></div>

[Ray House]

<p>Spring is near...</p><div></div>

[lahuasteca]

<p>"Borderland Mayors" - Leticia Salazar, Matamoros, Tamps. and Tony Martinez, Brownsville, Texas. Charro Days parade, Feb. 27, 2015. Notice the heavy police protection and bodyguards. Things are still quite unsettled in Matamoros, Tamps., and other northern Mexico border cities.</p><div></div>