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An Early morning cruise through the old harbor.
In the background you can see the famous Church of St. Nicholas, a Roman Catholic church in the centre of city near main railway station.
We stopped half-way through our walk to grab a bite to eat. Drink up, Miss Daisy...it's a long walk back to the car! 😉
For photography.... Camera, lens, tri-pod, light box, flash lights, kitchen window :-) and props....The tulips represent new beginnings, and hope for a better future.
There's "essential" and then there's "ESSENTIAL!"
It's five o'clock somewhere.
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Just spent a pleasant couple of hours making two 10x8 macros with flowers from the garden.
This is the gear I used to to make them.
Chamonix 810V 10x8" view camera, with standard Chamonix film holder
Arca Swiss Cube GP geared tripod head
Gitzo 3540LS tripod fitted with Gitzo levelling base
Rodenstock Apo-Sironar S 240mm f/5.6
Sekonic 758D spot meter
(Other items missing: notebook, BTZS dark cloth, Silvestri 4x loupe).
Some notes on choice of gear here, esp. for macros.
Fast and excellent lens with relatively short (for 10x8) focal-length: needed for wide-open portrait-style macros; short focal length = relatively manageable bellows extension and working distance for setup.
Why a levelling base with the Arca Cube when it's got geared pan on top and pan on the bottom? Because if you level the base when setting up, this means that if you want to pan you can do so without totally messing up the composition.
Geared head is necessary for stable and accurate composition when the whole camera is tilted downwards - for these shots the camera was tilted down 65º from horizontal.
Mac & cheese and ranch dressing...what would we do without 'em? 😜
Shortly after Daisy agreed to go nearly full time (Exactly one month ago today...wow!), I decided she needed some kind of daily exposure to help her keep her eye on the ball so to speak. So I've been sending her to the store just about every day for little odds and ends that I might otherwise combine into one weekly or bi weekly trip. And that includes weekends as well. So even though these things weren't essential for dinner....they were essential for Daisy's continued development. In my not so humble opinion, anyway. 😉💖
Cava Manara. Pavia. Italy.
I live close to the downtown of a small city, and that’s not something that I really like. But, you know, you live where you can earn something to fill your stomach.
My brother in love lives in the open countryside, and when I go there I love to take the kids, my son and his two cousins, out, to make 'em ride their bikes on the dusty unpaved road running through the fields. I use to have a camera with me on those moments, to take photos of the young ones while they are having fun. Sometime, anyhow, I point the camera around. This was one of those times.
That old guy had to take all the three kids for a ride on his vintage tractor. My son, three years old, would have killed him to sit behind the wheel.
BTW. I have seen that when I do not post photos of great mountains, the number of faves/likes and comment fall down. Sorry there is no flatter ground than this one :)
It has been five months since I put my feet on a trail. I still got hundreds of photos to share from the hikes of the last year, but I prefer to live in the present: good or bad, this is where I spend my life.
Wish you all a great Sunday.
PS: For this one I would go with Lynyrd Skynyrd “Simple Man”.
Una scena essenziale, di vita agreste. Ero in giro per i campi, a portare al pascolo mio figlio e i miei due nipoti, sulle loro bici.
Ho notato che quando le mie foto scendono dai monti sono meno apprezzate. Beh, più piatta di questa non potevo trovarne.
Buona Domenica a tutti!!
My Daily essentials :)
511 Levi's Commuters
Some sort of beanie
Saks Fifth Avenue Cardigan
Uniqlo Laughing Shirt
Emporio Armani watch
Blackberry Bold 9900
Ipod Nano 4th Gen
Unkle SB
Distressed leather Janoski
Burberry Belt
Canonet QL17
Would have included my D600 but I used it to take the pic
110/365
Everybody stocks up on Milk, Eggs, and Bread when a snow is in the forecast. Even those people who don't normal eat these things run to the store an buy all they can get their hands on. I guess there will be alot of people sitting around making french toast. The real essentials of being snowed in(as we are) are flowers, a good bottle of wine and a movie. Hope you all enjoy your toast!
112 pictures in 2012 # 59 abstract
to find your way through a clouded mind, you should search your sunny side up
Today was my birthday so I got myself a little something. You can't not have a 50mm! I chose the f/1.8 over the f/1.4 obviously for the price difference but also for build reasons and somewhat for image quality. There's just something off about the f/1.4 to me.
But anyway, I had a fantastic and eventful birthday!