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Another nice mooch around this place with my good mate Lensflaredave and my eldest son TDSmith95. I followed lensflaredaves example and ditched my tripod, swapped my lens for the fast fifty and took a few detail shots. I am not very good at this normally and tend to stick with the wide Sigma on a tripod but I really enjoyed the change apart from obviously 'seeing' lots of 'wide' shots after changing lenses!
Pentax K-x
Pentax SMC-M 50mm f1.7 @ f2.8
Mobile (/moʊˈbiːl/ moh-BEEL; French pronunciation: [mɔ.bil]) is the county seat of Mobile County, Alabama, United States. The population within the city limits was 195,111 as of the 2010 United States Census, making it the third most populous city in Alabama, the most populous in Mobile County, and the largest municipality on the Gulf Coast between New Orleans, Louisiana, and St. Petersburg, Florida.
Alabama's only saltwater port, Mobile is located on the Mobile River at the head of the Mobile Bay and the north-central Gulf Coast.[11] The Port of Mobile has always played a key role in the economic health of the city, beginning with the settlement as an important trading center between the French colonists and Native Americans, down to its current role as the 12th-largest port in the United States.
Mobile is the principal municipality of the Mobile metropolitan area. This region of 412,992 residents is composed solely of Mobile County; it is the third-largest metropolitan statistical area in the state. Mobile is the largest city in the Mobile-Daphne−Fairhope CSA, with a total population of 604,726, the second largest in the state. As of 2011, the population within a 60-mile (100 km) radius of Mobile is 1,262,907.
Mobile was established in 1702 by the French as the first capital of colonial La Louisiane (New France). During its first 100 years, Mobile was a colony of France, then Britain, and lastly Spain. Mobile first became a part of the United States of America in 1813, with the annexation by President James Madison of West Florida from Spain. In 1861, Alabama joined the Confederate States of America, which surrendered in 1865.
Considered one of the Gulf Coast's cultural centers, Mobile has several art museums, a symphony orchestra, professional opera, professional ballet company, and a large concentration of historic architecture. Mobile is known for having the oldest organized Carnival or Mardi Gras celebrations in the United States. Its French Catholic colonial settlers celebrated this festival from the first decade of the 18th century. Beginning in 1830, Mobile was host to the first formally organized Carnival mystic society to celebrate with a parade in the United States. (In New Orleans such a group is called a krewe.)
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6901 Mobile Lab (1980), another set I would have liked. A unique combination of the rover wheelset and landing strut pieces. But having a windscreen that doesn't enclose the interior seems like a considerable design flaw!
This is Max, the 800-lb Alaskan brown bear "cub" (born in 2019) at Bozeman's beautiful Montana Grizzly Encounter Rescue & Education Sanctuary. He's playful like a puppy and as cute as a bear could be. He, like even the older bears at Montana Grizzly Encounter, loves to play in the pond in his outside enclosure.
But the main point of this photo session was for me, a Nikon shooter from the 1970's film days through the 2021 DSLR days, to try out a Sony α9 (aka, a9, alpha 9, ICLE-9) mirrorless body with Sony's beautiful 200-600 mm E-mount lens. I subsequently purchased both, though at the moment I am still climbing a somewhat steep learning curve with the new body. (Almost) all the buttons and functions are there, but my "finger memory" and "menu memory" are most decidedly confused.
Still working on it, but until I get better at the new bells and whistles, please enjoy these many workable photos of Mr. Max.