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Strobist: AB1600 with gridded 60 X30 softbox camera right. Reflector camera left. Triggered by Cybersync.
Focale équivalente à 166 mm, la distance à vol d'oiseau entre Chamechaude et le Mont-Blanc est supérieure à 100 km!
Program:Manual
Lens:12-28mm f/4 G
F:16.0
Speed:20
ISO:100
Focal Length:12.0 mm (35 mm equivalent 18.0 mm)
Focus Mode:Manual
Shooting Mode:IR Control
VR:Off
EV:-1/3
Metering Mode:Multi-segment
WB:Auto1
Focus Distance:3.16 m
Dof:inf (0.39 m - inf)
HyperFocal:0.45 m
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For me, elephant photos are the equivalent of nachos, I can’t do with just one! Well, after that awful analogy, let’s move on to our beloved elephants.
I always seem to put up doom and gloom photos of elephants here. But not everything is bleak. Not a lot of people know this but Amboseli faced one of its worst droughts in 2009. Animal died everywhere; zebras, wildebeests, buffaloes, hippos and elephants – around 400 of them. Young calves died due to lack of milk from their mothers and older calves died due to lack of fresh greens. Older matriarchs often starved and older bulls were poached. It was widely known as the tipping point for elephants in the Amboseli ecosystem, a situation worsened by escalating ivory poaching. But conservation efforts prevailed and the numbers have now bounced back. Collared elephant monitoring and heightened anti-poaching efforts have also helped the numbers tremendously.
We often focus on the negatives and forget to applaud the positives, and I am guilty of this all the time. When I visited Amboseli in August 2014, I saw numerous elephant herds, with elephants of all shapes and sizes. They looked happy and Amboseli looked healthy. It’s true that we can’t control nature’s fury, but today I would like to tip my hat to the dedicated organisations doing incredible work for our beloved behemoths, the thousands of people who dedicated their lives so that I would witness scenes like this; Elephants – walking wild and free.
La Mussara, Tarragona (Spain).
EnFoCa: 2ª KDD - "Los Castillejos" i La Mussara [22/03/2009].
ENGLISH
La Mussara is a town in Tarragona that has been left about 50 years ago. It is on the edge of a cornice of the Muntanyes de Prades, at 990m. height, and thence there are spectacular views of all Tarragona.
It appears mentioned in documents in 1173 where it states that the town already was inhabited. The church of La Mussara appears mentioned in a bull of Celestine III in 1194. The temple maintained the category of parish until in 1534 it passed to depend on the one on Vilaplana. Nowadays about the church of San Salvador, built on the previous one of gothic style, it only left the four walls and the bell tower of 1859. As peculiar things of this town, it was named ranas to its inhabitants because when it rained a little, it formed a great pool in the only street of the town. Also from here it comes the Catalan saying “baixar de La Mussara” (to lower of La Mussara), equivalent to the Castilian “bajar de la higuera” or “bajar de la parra”.
The Mussara gave up exist officially in January 1960, and nobody knows so that of its depopulation. It is attributed mainly to the phylloxera plague, but that is not a zone in which the culture of the grapevine is important, reason why almost surely that the abandonment could have to the water shortage... or simply that the population was scattered and there they lacked the more basic things like a doctor, a rector, electricity or telephone. All this halo of mystery in the disappearance of the town and the place in which it has given cause to a series of histories and legend that borders the fantasy and the superstition, cataloguing La Mussara like a “damn town”.
Inside the church and in the cemetery black masses are celebrated. Proof of it is the esoteric symbols that sometimes appear painted in the walls. In many corners of the town also they are deposited branches of flowers. There is one who has heard helmets of horses in the neighborhood of the church, or even chimes of the same church (that does not have bell). There is people who say to feel a species of call that it impels to him to go to La Mussara. A friend mine, who is neighboring of the zone, commented me that some years ago a man raised in his car, stopped minutes next to the pool, and soon he went at full speed to the precipice of the viewpoint.
Some hikers who have themselves bold to spend the night there have seen luminous shades, or figures moving between the houses and losing themselves behind the trees. Even there are witnesses of UFO sightings. But in which they agree more most of phenomena it is in the cold fog that appears suddenly and that it disorients people immersed in her, in such a way that what for them can seem minutes, soon they discover in its clocks that have spent hours. The electrical apparatuses also are altered.
From remote times to well entered 20th century, that zone has been land of witches. It counts the legend that during the carlists wars soldiers went to the cemetery of La Mussara to unearth a carlist general called Cercós (really Isidre Pàmies i Borràs, named general for a reason or purpose posthumous by Carlos VII) to shoot it (or to hang it, according to other sources), although already was dead. The fog confused to them and unearthed and shot the body of a old witch (l'àvia Boronada). This caused that the fog thickened still more to his around and that the soldiers fled terrified when occurring account of the error. One tells that this unleashed a curse on them.
Another legend talks about a rock near, which who steps on it or it jumps it passes to a parallel dimension, “Vila del Sis” (Town of the Six). It is know the case of a pair of “boletaires” (pickers of mushrooms) that went by the zone looking for mushrooms in October 1991. They were speaking one with another one calmly, watching the ground, when one of them, Enrique Martinez Ortiz, it let respond, and until now it has not been known nothing else about him. He was neighboring of the place and he perfectly knew the land, reason why doubt that was had lost. Searches by the zone were organized during days, with the participation of soldiers of a close barracks, with unfruitful result.
It is all truth or lie, which is clear is that La Mussara is a place surrounded by natural beauty by its landscape, and of mystery by its undocumented history.
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CASTELLANO
La Mussara es un pueblo de Tarragona que lleva unos 50 años abandonado. Está al borde de una cornisa de las Muntanyes de Prades, a unos 990m. de altura, y desde allí hay unas vistas espectaculares de toda Tarragona.
Aparece citado en documentos de 1173 donde consta que el pueblo estaba ya habitado. La iglesia de La Mussara aparece citada en un bula de Celestino III de 1194. El templo mantuvo la categoría de parroquia hasta que en 1534 pasó a depender de la de Vilaplana. Hoy en día de la iglesia de San Salvador, construída sobre la anterior de estilo gótico, sólo quedan las cuatro paredes y el campanario de 1859. Como cosas curiosa de este pueblo, a sus habitantes se les llamaba ranas porque cuando llovía un poco se formaba una gran charca en la única calle del pueblo. También de aquí proviene el dicho catalán "baixar de la Mussara" (bajar de la Mussara), equivalente al castellano "bajar de la higuera" o "bajar de la parra".
La Mussara dejó de existir oficialmente en enero de 1960, y nadie sabe el por qué de su despoblación. Se atribuye principalmente a la plaga de filoxera, pero aquella no es una zona en que el cultivo de la vid sea importante, por lo que casi seguro que el abandono se pudo deber a la escasez de agua... o simplemente que la población ya estaba muy diseminada y allí faltaban las cosas más básicas, como médico, rector, electricidad o teléfono. Todo este halo de misterio en la desaparición del pueblo y el lugar en que se encuentra han dado pie una serie de historias y leyendas que rozan la fantasía y la superstición, catalogando La Mussara como "pueblo maldito".
En el interior de la iglesia y en el cementerio se celebran misas negras. Prueba de ello son los símbolos esotéricos que a veces aparecen pintados por las paredes. En muchos rincones del pueblo también se encuentran depositados ramos de flores. Hay quien ha oído cascos de caballos en los alrededores de la iglesia, o incluso campanadas de la misma iglesia (que no tiene campana). Hay gente que dice sentir una especie de llamada que le impulsa a ir a La Mussara. Un amigo mío, que es vecino de la zona, me comentó que no hace muchos años un hombre subió en su coche, se detuvo unos minutos al lado de la charca, y luego se dirigió a toda velocidad al barranco del mirador.
Algunos excursionistas que se han atrevido a pasar la noche allí han visto sombras, o figuras luminosas moviéndose entre las casas y perdiéndose tras los árboles. Incluso hay testigos de avistamientos OVNI. Pero en lo que más coinciden la mayoría de fenómenos es en la fría niebla que aparece de repente y que desorienta a los que se ven inmersos en ella, de tal modo que lo que para ellos pueden parecer minutos, luego descubren en sus relojes que han pasado horas. Los aparatos eléctricos también se ven alterados.
Desde tiempos remotos hasta bien entrado el siglo XX, aquella zona ha sido tierra de brujas. Cuenta la leyenda que durante las guerras carlistas unos soldados fueron al cementerio de La Mussara a desenterrar a un general carlista llamado Cercós (realmente Isidre Pàmies i Borràs nombrado general a título póstumo por Carlos VII) para fusilarlo (o colgarlo, según otras fuentes), aunque ya estuviera muerto. La niebla les confundió y desenterraron y fusilaron el cuerpo de una anciana bruja (l'àvia Boronada). Esto provocó que la niebla se espesara aún más a su alrededor y que los soldados huyeran despavoridos al darse cuenta del error. Se cuenta que esto desató una maldición sobre ellos.
Otra leyenda habla de una roca cercana, que quien la pisa o la salta pasa a una dimensión paralela, a la "Vila del Sis" (Villa del Seis). Se conoce el caso de una pareja de "boletaires" (recolectores de setas) que iban por la zona buscando setas en octubre de 1991. Iban hablando uno con otro tranquilamente, mirando al suelo, cuando uno de ellos, Enrique Martínez Ortiz, dejó de responder, y hasta ahora no se ha sabido nada más de él. Era vecino del lugar y se conocía perfectamente el terreno, por lo que se duda que se hubiera perdido. Se organizaron batidas por la zona durante días, con la participación de soldados de un cuartel próximo, con resultado infructuoso.
Sea todo ello verdad o mentira, lo que está claro es que La Mussara es un lugar rodeado de belleza natural por su paisaje, y de misterio por su historia indocumentada.
Más info: ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Mussara, www.franrecio.com/investigaciones/la_mussara_pueblo_maldi...
Strobist: AB1600 with gridded 60 X30 softbox camera right. Reflector camera left. Triggered by Cybersync.
Program:Manual
Lens:24-70mm f/2.8 G VR
F:10.0
Speed:13
ISO:100
Focal Length:24.0 mm (35 mm equivalent 36.0 mm)
Focus Mode:AF-S
AF Area:Contrast-detect (normal area)
Shooting Mode:IR Control
VR:Off
EV:-2/3
Metering Mode:Multi-segment
WB:Auto1
Focus Distance:11.89 m
Dof:inf (2.32 m - inf)
HyperFocal:2.88 m
AF Fine Tune:+18
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Got a blue magic water,
I've got a blue magic water....
Program:Manual
Lens:12-28mm f/4 G
F:5.0
Speed:1/25
ISO:800
Focal Length:12.0 mm (35 mm equivalent 18.0 mm)
Focus Mode:AF-C
AF Area:Single Area
Shooting Mode:Single-Frame
VR:Off
Metering Mode:Spot
WB:Auto1
Focus Distance:3.98 m
Dof:inf (1.06 m - inf)
HyperFocal:1.44 m
The Tarantula Nebula or 30 Doradus, is located in a nearby satellite galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). This region is an active H II area, extremely luminescent, and is located around 160,000 light-years from Earth. To give a little perspective, if this object were to be relocated at an equivalent distance as the Orion Nebula, it would cast visible shadows. (Time to call out the Volgon Constructor Fleet). The Tarantula Nebula is more than 1000 light-years in diameter and is the brightest and most energetic star-forming region in the Local Group of galaxies.
Recently I processed an object NGC1968, which is located in the LMC as well. (This data set was made available for The Astro Imaging Channel workshop) I couldn't help but notice the many similar properties between these two objects — specifically the large about of bright blue stars located within the fields of both images. Their colouring was similar in the RGB component of the images. Both contain an extremely tight luminescent core. I created four different renditions for The Astro Imaging Channel as an experiment to see what each combination of filters would yield. This exercise helped developed a few ideas in how I might approach this data set and attempt to create an interesting rendition of the Tarantula Nebula. Hopefully, I didn't go too far.
The nebula is situated on the leading edge of the LMC where ram pressure is stripping, and compression with the interstellar medium is creating an incredibly twisted and contorted object with incredible dynamic range.
My goals were to create an image that hopefully retains the traditional RGB colour look about it, and reveal that wonderful contrast of small details found in narrowband images. The image is a combination of “Traditional RGB” and “Narrowband Imaging”. I do like stars, and this is definitely a dense starfield. I wanted to retain the amazing array of stars and their colours in the field. Hopefully, the result is not too distracting. The dense concentration of so many blue stars was another feature I wanted to retain.
The bottom left is interesting. There is a nice transition into subtle Dark Nebula, and the stars begin to look like something we see when imaging near our own galactic centre with that reddish hue starting to appear.
The most difficult part of the image was the white columns. No matter what I did in the RGB space, they just didn't seem to have much colour. The ADU values indicated that they were not saturated at all. In fact, they ranged for the most part around 6000-15000 ADU. This would suggest if colour were present, it should present itself with these values fairly easily. So I followed the numbers and went with that. The OIII component was introduced into the blue channel, while the Ha and SII were introduced into the green and red channels. Together, the total exposure is just over 72 hours, both colour and narrowband combined.
Thanks for looking.
Terry
Equipment Details:
•10 Inch RCOS fl 9.1
•Astro Physics AP-900 Mount
•SBIG STL 11000m
•FLI Filter Wheel
•Astrodon LRGB Filters
•Baader Planetarium H-alpha 7nm Narrowband-Filter
•Baader Planetarium OIII 8.5nm Narrowband-Filter
•Baader Planetarium SII 8.0nm Narrowband-Filter
Exposure Details
•Red56X450 2X2
•Green35X450 2X2
•Blue25X450 2X2
•Lum48X900
•Lum65X100
•Ha39X900
•SII72X900
•OIII66X900
Program:Manual
Lens:24-70mm f/2.8 G VR
F:7.1
Speed:1/60
ISO:100
Focal Length:24.0 mm (35 mm equivalent 36.0 mm)
Focus Mode:AF-C
AF Area:Dynamic Area (3D-tracking)
Shooting Mode:Single-Frame
VR:On
Metering Mode:Spot
WB:Auto1
Focus Distance:11.89 m
Dof:inf (3.03 m - inf)
HyperFocal:4.05 m
AF Fine Tune:+11
Aureille, France. J'ai pu photographier 3 espèces de fauvette en France. Elles sont l'équivalent des parulines que l'on retrouve en Amérique mais en plus timides.
Looking at an old dock across a mill pond from the Falling Waters Trail in Concord, MI. Fall colors in all their glory.
Camera: D7000
Exposure: 1/40 sec
Aperture: f/5.6
35 mm Equivalent Focal Length: 150 mm
ISO Speed: 200
EXPLORE #249 on October 17, 2014
Program:Manual
Lens:100mm f/2.8 D
F:3.0
Speed:1/1000
ISO:1250
Focal Length:100.0 mm (35 mm equivalent 100.0 mm)
Focus Mode:AF-C
AF Area:Dynamic Area (3D-tracking)
Shooting Mode:Continuous, Auto ISO
VR:Off
WB:Auto0
Picture Control:Neutral
Focus Distance:1.68 m
Dof:0.05 m (1.66 - 1.70)
HyperFocal:110.94 m
A very rough experiment to see if my Flickr followers like the 50mm equivalent perspective better or the 35mm equivalent.
Bueno aquí va la última de esta serie correspondiente a Soledad. No quiero daros mas la chapa.
Esta sacada en La Fuentona en Ruente cuando justo empezaba con esta afición, y ella no sabia que la estaba afotando. Yo estaba en la otra orilla muy lejos y detrás de un árbol (todo el zoom equivalente a cerca de un 500 y a mano). No había nadie mas.
El que haya estado allí alguna vez habrá podido comprobar la falta de ruido a no ser el discurrir del rió. Luego al preguntarle que tal, me dijo exactamente las dos palabras del título.
Program:Manual
Lens:70-300mm f/4-5.6 G VR
F:8.0
Speed:1/1000
ISO:100
Focal Length:86.0 mm (35 mm equivalent 129.0 mm)
Focus Mode:AF-C
AF Area:Dynamic Area (3D-tracking)
Shooting Mode:Single-Frame
VR:On
WB:Auto1
Picture Control:Standard
Focus Distance:28.18 m
Dof:54.52 m (17.52 - 72.04)
HyperFocal:46.15 m
n 1888 Queen Victoria granted Belfast the status of the city and it was agreed that a grand and magnificent building was required to reflect this new status. City Hall opened its doors on the first of August 1906, at a time of unprecedented prosperity and industrial might for the city.
The new City Hall was designed by Alfred Brumwell Thomas in the Baroque Revival style and constructed in Portland stone. The incredible building cost £369,000 to complete, the equivalent around 128 million pounds today but remains an extraordinary beacon of success and civic pride for Belfast.
City Hall has many connections with the famous ocean liner Titanic. Viscount William Pirrie who was Lord Mayor in 1896-1897 just before City Hall’s construction, was also managing director of Harland & Wolff Shipyard. He is the man credited as having the idea for both ambitious builds. He used many of his skilled workmen in the fit-out of City Hall which is why the interiors today are considered an incredible insight into the finish of Titanic’s lounges and suites, the ship’s carving panelling being very similar.
Cheilosia have been described as the hoverfly equivalent to the birders' 'little brown job'. With the exception of C. illustrata they are 'little black jobs' with small features of detail distinguishing them. In this case ID comes down to whether the hairs that can be seen around the rim of the eyes are 'projecting facial hairs'.
Photo ID requires ultimate quality (much sharper than this shot) from different angles. On the rare occasions when one of these flies sit relatively still I'm trying to do this but have yet to produce shots that convince the experts of a species-level ID.
Photographed at Goathland in the North Yorkshire Moors.
Program:Manual
Lens:24-70mm f/2.8 G VR
F:16.0
Speed:13
ISO:100
Focal Length:36.0 mm (35 mm equivalent 54.0 mm)
Focus Mode:AF-S
AF Area:Contrast-detect (normal area)
Shooting Mode:Continuous, IR Control
VR:Off
EV:-1/3
Metering Mode:Multi-segment
WB:Auto1
Focus Distance:17.78 m
Dof:inf (3.30 m - inf)
HyperFocal:4.04 m
AF Fine Tune:+11
Optics : TEC 140 APO (980 mm F 7.0)
Filter : Baader Planetarium D-ERF 160 mm
Beloptik Telecentric 5x
Filter H alfa : Coronado PST
Filter H alfa : Solar Spectrum S.O. 1.5 0.5A
Camera : ZWO ASI 174 MM;
Equivalent Focal lenght : 4900 mm.
Mount : Ioptron CEM70G & Ioptron TriPier;
Software : FireCapture, AutoStakkert3, ImPPG, Adobe Photoshop
Casalecchio di Reno - Italia
44° 29’ 29” N
11° 14’ 58” E
They are the smallest and lightest birds in Europe. Their weight is roughly equivalent to a DIN A4 page!
Ever since I saw a really great picture of this little punk by Werner Lippert years ago, I've never been able to get it out of my head. Two years ago I started researching it, then I went to the relevant hunting grounds more often. And at the end of last year I finally saw them for the first time. They really aren't easy to photograph: they usually stay right up in the treetops, are super lively and very small.
Wintergoldhähnchen sind die kleinsten und leichtesten Vögel Europas. Ihr Gewicht entspricht in etwa einer DIN-A 4 Seite!
Seitdem ich vor Jahren mal ein ganz tolles Bild dieses kleinen Punkers von Werner Lippert gesehen habe, will er mir nicht mehr aus dem Kopf gehen. Vor 2 Jahren habe ich dann angefangen zunächst zu recherchieren, dann bin ich öfter in entsprechende Reviere gefahren. Und Ende letzten Jahres habe ich sie dann endlich das erste mal gesehen. Sie sind wirklich nicht einfach zu fotografieren: normalerweise halten sie sich ganz oben in den Baumwipfeln auf, sind super quirlig und sehr klein.
Ethics statement
- Free living animals
- Freilebende Tiere
Program:Aperture-priority AE
Lens:18-105mm f/3.5-5.6 G VR
F:11.0
Speed:1/125
ISO:200
Focal Length:18.0 mm (35 mm equivalent 27.0 mm)
EV:-1/2
Metering Mode:Multi-segment
WB:Auto
HyperFocal:1.47 m
Program:Manual
Lens:50mm f/1.8 G
F:2.2
Speed:1/400
ISO:100
Focal Length:50.0 mm (35 mm equivalent 75.0 mm)
Focus Mode:AF-C
AF Area:Dynamic Area (3D-tracking)
Shooting Mode:Single-Frame, Auto ISO
VR:Off
EV:-1/3
Metering Mode:Multi-segment
WB:Auto1
Focus Distance:0.50 m
Dof:0.008 m (0.497 - 0.505)
HyperFocal:56.73 m
AF Fine Tune:+5
Explored January 7th, 2014 at No. 5
Took this photo last night off my balcony as the fog rolled in.
Here is a photo tip for you guys. If the temperature is a bit chilly, like it was last night (-31C with windchill equivalent of -37C), don't touch your tripod with bare hands. My finger froze to the metal and it took a bit of a tug to pull it free. Ouch, won't do that a third time :~)
Now are mountain cairns the equivalent to driftwood stacks on the beach? There's something that hoomans seem to always need to do and stack stuff into a formation or make a signal marker. I'm not a phycologist and want to begin to work it all out but will still photograph them although do know a few photogs who just hate them. Either way they do seem to appear all over the place...bit like that old meme - 'Leroy was here' maybe. Ponderous.
© Billy Wilson 2011
This is the Canada Permanent Trust Building located at 320 Bay Street in the Financial District of Toronto. It was built between 1928-1930 by the architect F. Hilton Wilkes. This building is a good example of Art Deco Architecture.
The Toronto Project:
Hi Flickr, I have been busy finishing my degree, and now I'm done!! I have finally completed my bachelor's in biology and chemistry. I just returned from a trip to Toronto. I have taken a fascination with the city in many ways and I had a list of things to do and experience there. In my three full days of staying there and shooting I experienced a lot and took 4927 photos, I walked dozons of kilometers, and visited many interesting areas. Some of the highlights include; the PATH system, Hockey Hall of Fame, Union Station, all of the major financial building complexes, CN Tower, Old City Hall, Osgoode Hall, Art Gallery of Ontario, Kensington Market, Chinatown, Sunnybrook Park, Cabbagetown, Necropolis, Euclid Hall, Gooderham Houses, Queen's Park Legislative Buildings, All of the old colleges of the University of Toronto, Royal Conservatory of Music, Annex style houses, Yorkville Houses and firehall, Casa Loma, Spadina Museum, the Royal Ontario Museum, Allen Gardens, Mackenzie House, St Michael's Church, Metropolitan United Church, Flatiron Building, St Lawrence Market, Toronto's first post office, St. Lawrence Hall, Sculpture Garden, St. James Church, Gooderham and Worts Distillary, Cherry Street Hotel, and Little Trinity Church and the surrounding neighborhood of Corktown.
This is just an image of a large series that I'm doing. The primary goal of this project is to document the diverse types of architecture that one can find in Toronto. Much of it has a British influence or American such as Richardsonian Romanesque when it comes to older buildings. But since Toronto is also a modern alpha global city and a global financial city it has a diverse and impressive amount of modern skyscrapers and post modern architecture. Its diversity is also shown in its people in that atleast 50% of the people living in Toronto weren't even born in Canada, making Toronto the world's most ethnically diverse city. It is extremely colourful and every corner has a new surprise. One can pass down the same street multiple times and stil find surprises like little shops you didn't even notice. I can't wait to return, but I need work in order to get down there again.
Technical Information:
*Camera: Canon EOS Digital Rebel XS *Lens: EF-S 18-55mm ƒ/3.5-5.6 *Shutter Speed: 1/40 Sec. *Aperture Value: ƒ/5.6 *ISO: 800 *Focal Length: 51mm (81.6mm Equivalent on 35mm Film)
Please press "L" on your keyboard to see the image on black!!
Program:Manual
Lens:24-70mm f/2.8 G VR
F:3.2
Speed:1/250
ISO:3200
Focal Length:70.0 mm (35 mm equivalent 105.0 mm)
AF Fine Tune Adj:+11
Focus Mode:AF-C
AF Area:Dynamic Area (3D-tracking)
Shooting Mode:Single-Frame, [3], Auto ISO
VR:On
EV:-2/3
Metering Mode:Multi-segment
WB:Auto1
Picture Control:Standard
Focus Distance:1.41 m
Dof:0.05 m (1.39 - 1.44)
HyperFocal:76.44 m
On November 1st, I attended my third professional football game, with a photographer's press pass that let me get down on the field to photograph players, referees, cheerleaders, other photographers, fans in the stand, and anyone else who looked interesting. (My first such game was a pre-season contest between the New York Jets and Philadelphia Eagles, which you can see by clicking here, and the second game was between the New York Jets and the Buffalo Bills, which you can see by clicking here.)
I learned some lessons from photographing the first two games, and I showed up this time with even more equipment. I brought my Nikon D300 and D700 cameras, with an assortment of telephoto lenses; and I rented a hulking big 150-500mm zoom lens, which I mounted on my half-frame D300 camera to get the equivalent of a 300-750mm telephoto on a "standard" 35mm camera. Most of the time, I used the (full-frame) D700 with a 300mm zoom to get shots of fans in the stadium, and I used the long-lens 150-500mm zoom lens to get shots of the football players, as well as some closeups of the cheerleaders, as they waved their long hair in the air during the various "performances" with which they entertained the crowd.
Technical details aside, this game was very much like the last two: I was down on the field, surrounded by 77,000 roaring fans who made conversation virtually impossible. All I could do was try my best to follow the action, and shoot anything that looked interesting. It usually (though not always) started with a snap to the quarterback -- but it was sometimes on the other side of the field, or down at the other end of the field. Like the other photographers, I scurried back and forth from one end of the field to the other to be as close to the action as possible ... but in many cases, all I ended up with was a picture of a tangle of bodies, and no clear idea of what had just happened.
After watching the Flickr statistics associated with my previous Jets games, I was amused to see that the most popular photos -- by a huge margin were those of the cheerleaders ... so I included about two dozen closeup photos of the cheerleaders in this set. I also found the fans interesting and occasionally picturesque, so you'll find several fan-related pictures in this set.
Since I was on the field, once again, through the generosity and permission of the New York Jets, I naturally rooted for them to win. And though they played to a 3-3 tie at halftime, their special teams fell apart in the second half. Their rookie quarterback (Mark Sanchez, whose #6 jersey appears prominently in some of the photos) scored and passed well, but the Jets were down by 5 points with a minute left in the game, and while they were only about 20 yards from the goal line at that point, it was a fourth-down ... for which the traditional strategy is to attempt a field-goal. But what's the point of getting 3 points for a field goal, when you're down 5 points, and the clock has almost run out?
Well, perhaps this is all blindingly obvious to most football fans -- but football really isn't my sport at all, so I thought I was actually rather clever to anticipate what the Jets decided to do on that final play: pass for a 6-point touchdown, rather than waste their time with a field-goal kick. As it turned out, I was near the goal line myself, and when the play started, and it became obvious that Jets QB Sanchez was going to pass, I switched my attention to the end zone, and did my best to focus on wide receiver Jerricho Cotchery as he attempted to catch the "hail Mary" pass. As it turned out, the pass was a little too high, so they didn't score and the game was effectively over. But I did get a shot of that attempted pass reception; it's not perfect, but it's not too bad ... and you'll find it at the very end of this Flickr set (which will take several days to upload).
All in all, I took a little over 1,500 images and whittled it down to 150 "keepers" that I think you'll enjoy looking at -- i.e., 10% of the total, rather than the usual 5% that I uploaded from the last two games. Another 150 had to be deleted immediately because they were out of focus, or because a referee decided to run in front of my camera just as I was pushing the shutter button ... but I've still got roughly 1,200 images of jumbled piles of football players that will probably continue to sit on my computer until I run out of space on my hard disk. C'est la vie...
P.S. One little nuance about professional football, which seems obvious but was still a surprise to me on this third game: unlike high-school football, cheerleaders don't cheer. They don't sing, they don't chant, they don't utter a word while they're prancing around in front of the roaring crowd in the stadium. Of course: how could they? Who would hear a thing they said? Still, it's a little weird to spend an afternoon on the field with these skimpily-dress beauties, with smiles frozen on their faces as they dance for the fans ... and who, for all practical purposes, never make a sound.
elescope: Takahashi Mewlon 210 mm
Equivalent focal lenght: 2.415 mm
CMOS: ZWO ASI 462 Color Filter: Optolong IR/CUT 50,8 mm
Focuser Primalucelab Esatto 2" Mount: iOptron CEM60
Data: October 11, 2022 Hours: 23:08 Local Time
Pose: 1.100 sommate su 10.000 riprese a 115 fotogrammi al secondo
Seeing 3 Antoniadi, transparency of the sky 7, turbulence, humidity 85%, horizon height 44°
shot with an olympus om-d e-m10 mark ii—720nm infrared converted—and an olympus 12mm f/2.0 wide angle lens
294 705 lifts a string of sliding-wall cars (essentially the equivalent to boxcars in America, just with a different opening mechanism) from Graeff Spedition along the Rhine River waterfront in Mannheim, Germany's Handelshafen. More than half a dozen of these large warehouses line the riverfront here, and three customers have kept the rails alive to serve some of them over the last few years with Graeff being the vast majority of the business. Graeff has been the main customer receiving the older two-axle sliding-wall cars at a warehouse beyond the bridge in the background generally a few times a week, but within the last year has added traffic in the larger four-axle cars which get spotted on the road-shared spur at the building pictured here. Schrott Wetzel occasionally loads out scrap beyond the bridge as well and Wetlog occasionally receives a car at the building right behind this one - as they did this day.
Here the crew can be seen returning from the Graeff warehouse beyond the bridge with four empty two-axle cars and four four-axle cars lifted from the building pictured. Interestingly, two of the two-axle empties were spotted at the Wetlog warehouse, which can be seen in the background, for loading immediately after having been pulled from the main customer Graeff. The crew will pull all the way out of the spur and shove loads for Graeff beyond the bridge down the front track, and re-spot four four-axle cars at the pictured location as well - having to switch tracks a few times to work around the two empties spotted at Wetlog in the background.
It's great to see more business come to an increasingly unique operation; however, with the increased traffic the small segment of cobblestone (not pictured here) that was still present in a portion of the road-shared spur was unfortunately removed during some track improvements. Mannheim Handelshafen, Germany
Edit: Apparently the four axle cars were for Wetlog and loaded with sugar, but the service was only temporary for about a month.
Program:Manual
Lens:24-70mm f/2.8 G VR
F:7.1
Speed:1/25
ISO:3200
Focal Length:24.0 mm (35 mm equivalent 36.0 mm)
Focus Mode:AF-S
AF Area:Single Area
Shooting Mode:Single-Frame, Auto ISO
VR:On
WB:Auto1
Focus Distance:11.89 m
Dof:inf (3.03 m - inf)
HyperFocal:4.05 m
AF Fine Tune:+16
This is the second part of two shot on a Sunday afternoon in rather threatening weather conditions that quickly turned to fine drizzle, then real rain.
Out of camera jpeg with no edits apart from some slight sharpening.
Olympus Pen E-P5 with an early 1950s C mount movie camera lens, the Kern Switar 25mm f/1.5 (approx 50mm equivalent on MFT). I was curious to see what it would make of the nature scenes and the conditions.
I still think it's one of the nicest lenses I have. But scarcely usable on APS-C (strong vignetting) and not at all on full frame.
La photo est un peu bruitée, la montée en iso n'est pas le point fort des réflex Olympus, mon réflex Pentax K-5 est bien meilleur, mais en téléobjectif Pentax je n'ai qu'une focale fixe de 300 mm, ce n'est pas assez puissant comme focale pour la chasse photo animalière, je l'utilise peu pour ce thème préférant la puissance de grossissement du télézoom Zuiko...mais il faut alors accepter le bruit...
Télézoom Zuiko 140-600 mm (équivalent full frame) - ISO 1600
Mt Fuji as viewed from downtown Tokyo with 300mm (equivalent to 450mm with APS-C type digital camera) lense
Another frame of the one and only time I pulled this off in 10 years living in The Last Frontier!
The Alaska State fair is always summer's last big hurrah in the Last Frontier. To help accommodate the 300,000 visitors over the two week period (equivalent to about half the state's total population) the ARR runs trains from Anchorage to Palmer up to three times a day on both weekends. This is a great way to travel and beat the traffic and the train drops you right at the gate as seen here.
These trains are the only regularly scheduled passenger trains on this normally freight only branch, and the only ones now that travel this far to MP A4.5. And on only one night each year they set of fireworks at 10 PM sharp. If the last train of the night arrives on time it is sitting at the station in a perfect position for just about the whole show. I had tried this shot the prior year only to be skunked by a train that arrived ten minutes late, but this time it all came together.
Palmer, Alaska
Saturday September 03, 2016
The Wood Duck drake is the duck equivalent to the run-way model of the fashion world. The rich mahogany breast feathers, lovely tan side feathers, and of course the immensely colorful head feathers. When it comes to flash, pizzazz, and looks this duck has it all! Please view large for best experience.
Thanks for stopping by~
Orden:Passeriformes
Familia:Icteridae
Género:Sturnella
Nombres comunes: Turpial oriental, carmelo, zacatero común, pradero común,Chirlobirlo, cantor de pradera
Nombre científico: Sturnella magna
Nombre en Ingles: Eastern Meadowlark
Lugar de captura: Dinner Island Wildlife Management area, Florida
Por : Cimarron mayor Panta.
Y ASI COMO LA CANTARINA CANTA EN LAS PRADERAS SIN PARAR TODO EL DIA, DEJO AQUI A MARIA DOLORES PRADERA JUNTO A JOAQUIN SABINA EN JUGAR POR JUGAR.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=irQ15cKVA5I
Sugiero que el más triste de los presos
tenga derecho a sábanas de seda;
bendita sea la boca que da besos
y no traga monedas.
Propongo corromper al puritano,
espiar en la ducha a las vecinas,
ir a quitarle al dios de los cristianos
su corona de espinas.
Nada de margaritas a los cuerdos,
hay que correr más que la policía
para bailar el vals de los recuerdos
llorando de alegría.
La vida no es un block cuadriculado
sino una golondrina en movimiento
que no vuelve a los nidos del pasado
porque no quiere el viento.
Se aconseja dormir a pierna suelta
lejos de tentaciones de diseño,
que no pase de largo por tu puerta
el hombre de tus sueños.
La rana esconde un príncipe encantado,
tu boca un agridulce de membrillo
¡qué ganas de un cursillo acelerado
de besos de tornillo!
Y jugar por jugar
sin tener que morir o matar,
y vivir al revés
que bailar es soñar con los pies.
Conviene entrar penúltimo en la meta
de la vuelta a la infancia en patinete
y fusilar al rey de los poetas
con balas de juguete.
Por qué no doctorarse en cremalleras
como hace la hormiguita por tu espalda
e hilvanar con jirones de banderas
braguitas rojigualdas.
Hacen falta cosquillas para serios,
pensar despacio para andar deprisa,
dar serenatas en los cementerio
muriéndose de risa.
Gran semana para todos amigos.
Cimarron Mayor Panta.
Tommorow this goes in for a EOS 550D, thanks to canons privilege program. Can't wait to get my hands on the video. After much reading I guess it's safe to say the quality of the video is equivalent to that of the 7D, so why not?
It's a cheaper alternative. well and because the 7D isn't available in the program :p
in other news. work sucks! lol
Strobist
580EXII in Lumiquest SBIII right
580EXII bare far left for fill.
triggered via plusII
Program:Manual
Lens:70-300mm f/4-5.6 G VR
F:5.6
Speed:1/320
ISO:1400
Focal Length:130.0 mm (35 mm equivalent 195.0 mm)
Focus Mode:AF-C
AF Area:Dynamic Area (3D-tracking)
Shooting Mode:Single-Frame, Auto ISO
VR:On
EV:-1/3
Metering Mode:Multi-segment
WB:Auto1
Picture Control:Standard
Focus Distance:4.47 m
Dof:0.26 m (4.34 - 4.60)
HyperFocal:150.66 m
Construction of the Shantang Canal (Chinese:山塘河) started in 825 AD, during the Tang Dynasty by Bai Juyi, a poet and the Cishi (modern-day equivalent of the prefectural governor) of Suzhou, to provide a link between Huqiu and the city. The sludge dug out from the construction formed a dam along the north bank of the canal known as Baigong Dam (Chinese:白公堤) in honor of Bai Juyi. A street was built on dam, which later became the modern-day Shantang Street.
Along with Pingjiang Road, the street was declared a Historical and cultural block of China (Chinese:中国历史文化街区) in 2015.