Nikon Wednesday 2016: #16

[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>We happened to be down in the Potomac River valley over the weekend, spooking around some of the crops planted in a wildlife management area. As the sun fell through the trees, it lit up an otherwise invisible layer of misty, dusty semi-fog hovering six feet or so above some young wheat. Looks almost like lens flare, but that glowing orange wisp was hundreds of yards long. Quite a sight. Here, we're looking at it through a deer trail break in a hedgerow. Spring! Got any, on this fine Nikon Wednesday? </p><div></div>

[Dieter Schaefer]

<p>Turkey Vulture close-up</p><div></div>

[Dieter Schaefer]

<p>USAF Thunderbirds Calypso Pass</p>

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[Dieter Schaefer]

<p>Bill Braak Smoke-n-Thunder Jet Car</p><div></div>

[User_6502147]

<p>Water ballet.</p><div></div>

[aggiusti]

Spring time in Majella National Park, Abruzzo, Italy

[hamish_gray]

<p>Spring Mushing. Heading home on sunday after a night out in peaceful surroundings.</p><div></div>

[rodeo_joe1]

<p>An amaryllis that I inherited from my mother has flowered after being dormant for two years. And what a gorgeous flower it is, now that it's finally shown itself. I tried to capture the iridescence of its petals, but despite being clearly visible in the viewfinder it didn't appear in the captured image. Very strange. I might try the higher resolution D800 next time, but I only had the D700 to hand.</p>

<p>D700 + 105mm AF Micro-Nikkor, 1/80th @ f/11 - 200 ISO.</p><div></div>

[rodeo_joe1]

<p>Another one of the same flower, but closer in. This was about the closest I came to capturing the elusive iridescence.<br>

D700 + 105mm micro-Nikkor, 1/320th @ f/5.6, 200 ISO.</p><div></div>

[User_2019667]

<p>Spring has certainly sprung in NE Ohio and along with Spring come the honey bees. This swarm decided to hang out on this fence post. I am actually standing farther away from the bees than the photo depicts. Smart man!</p>

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[tholte]

<p>Pond scum with maple leaves</p><div></div>

[ChrisSpeaker]

<p>@<a name="00dtP2"></a><a href="/photodb/user?user_id=2344388">Matt Laur</a> = Really love that opening picture.<br>

Here are mine for the week. Nikon Df v/ Voigtlander 125mm SL.</p><div></div>

[ChrisSpeaker]

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

[ChrisSpeaker]

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

[Bill J Boyd]

<p>Cactus Blooms in central Texas.</p><div></div>

[lew_carver]

<p>Nikon D7200 Nikkor 17-55 f/2.8 (Cropped 5521 x 3394)<br>

<img src="http://i86.servimg.com/u/f86/17/50/72/69/the_de10.jpg" alt="" width="700" height="430" /><br>

<strong>The Devil in Spring</strong><br>

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<strong><br /></strong>From a set taken several weeks ago but took me this long to get anything out of it.<br>

Nikon D7200 Nikkor 17-55 f/2.8 (Cropped 1851 x 1881)<br>

<img src="http://i86.servimg.com/u/f86/17/50/72/69/japane10.jpg" alt="" /><br>

<strong>Japanese Magnolia With Forsythia</strong></p>

<p>Nikon D7200 Nikkor 17-55 f/2.8 (Cropped 3643 x 2624)<br>

<img src="http://i86.servimg.com/u/f86/17/50/72/69/abando10.jpg" alt="" /><br>

<strong>Abandon House With Trees</strong></p>

[User_2019667]

<p>Leszek, I like your water ballet, very good eye my friend!</p>

[chip_chipowski]

<p>Falls Creek Falls, Lower</p><div></div>

[Matthew Currie]

<p>Spring is sneaking in slowly here - oops, wrong image size, try again....</p>

[Matthew Currie]

<p>Okay, try again</p><div></div>

[Jon Eckman]

<p>Enjoying the afternoon Spring sun</p><div></div>

[Member69643]

<p>The biggest joy in my dog's life, swimming and fetching sticks. Fetching is a very loosely defined concept in his mind. Apparently bringing the stick to the bank suffices, followed by energetic barking at the stick, as if I do not know it has returned. </p><div></div>

[thadley]

<p><img src="/photo/18221156" alt="" />Wednesday forum has such a variety of images and they are all very good. Thanks for sharing. Spring here in southern Quebec looks like late fall - no leaves with the exception that the days tend to be brighter. Most of the trees are bare with very small evidence of some new growth.A couple of days ago I went down to the St. Lawrence river bank and the subtle evidence of Spring is that the waters have much more velocity and I tried a few shots. It was challenging because I wanted a slow shutter speed for the water motion but the waters were pushing against a fallen tree trunk that was stationary causing intermittent motion in the log. I ran off a few shots with continuous High shutter in the hope that one might be acceptable. </p><div></div>

[photo_galleries]

<p>Green Iguana Conservation Project - D800e with Sigma 50/1.4 ART</p>

<p><img src="http://www.leonin.net/img/s10/v106/p1907846648-4.jpg" alt="" /></p>

[phillips]

<p>From my morning walk.</p><div></div>