The last couple years the neighborhood fireworks have been pretty spectacular for an amateur backyard show. I decided to capture them this year and was very pleased with my camera. I used the bulb setting and manual focusing. I hope you enjoy some of the show!

Manual focus. Some of the older chive blossoms seem to lose pigment. But so many bees!

Too many swear words

When autofocus freezes

And I miss the shot

I found this colorful lily a couple of weeks ago after a walk around a local park : )

Took on my new meyer-optik görlitz domiplan 50mm f/2.8 !!

Tamron SP 500mm f/8 mirror.

Dwarf Bell | Galerina pumila | Hymenogastraceae

Samsung NX1 & Carl Zeiss Jena 'Pancolar' 50mm f/1.8

10mm Macro Tube | Wide Open | Manual Focus | Available Light | Handheld

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Leica R 2,8/135mm

Helios 2,0/58mm

taken in the cactus room at Planting Fields arboretum...

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Macro Mondays - Hot or Cold

Not very original... I had brain freeze this week!!

from my garden...

thank you for visiting!

Samsung NX1 & Super-Takumar - 50mm f/1.4

8 Elements | Wide Open | Manual Focus | Available Light | Handheld

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Manual focus

Manual Focus - Minolta 50mm f/1.7 prime

Sleepy yes but so very very still - Perfect

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Minolta 135/3.5 Tele Rokkor MC

Fleecy Jumper | Pseudeuophrys lanigera | Salticidae

Samsung NX1 & Kiron 105mm f/2.8 Macro

Wide Open | Manual Focus | Available Light | Handheld

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Helios 2,0 / 58mm

Samsung NX1 & Carl Zeiss Jena 'Pancolar' 50mm f/1.8

Wide Open | Manual Focus | Available Light | Handheld

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Samsung NX1 & Steinheil Munchen 'Cassar S' - 50mm f/2.8

10mm Macro Tube | 12 Aperture Blades | f/4 | Manual Focus | Available Light | Handheld

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Vivitar 55mm F2.8 Macro.

I can't logically justify shooting with this old manual focus lens instead of my outstanding Fuji 50mm F2, other than to say that I really enjoy it.

Sort of like driving an antique automobile, it is a deliberate decision to be deliberate, to enjoy spending time doing something that I enjoy, and for once, not to do everything in the absolute fastest way possible, in a world that is increasingly in a hurry.

Thank you for visiting, and for your kind comments and favorites. They are greatly appreciated!

Manual focus. I took 950 pictures this morning - 650 went straight in the bin and this is the best of the rest. Pretty low strike rate, but very satisfying when it all works.

Nikon, 50mm, f/2, H, manual, focus, lens

shot with an olympus om-d e-m10 mark iii and a 7artisans 35mm f/1.2 lens.

Samsung NX1 & Carl Zeiss Jena 'Pancolar' 50mm f/1.8

10mm Macro Tube | Wide Open | Manual Focus | Available Light | Handheld

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Il ciclamino (nome scientifico Cyclamen L. 1753) è un genere di piante spermatofite dicotiledoni appartenenti alla famiglia delle Primulaceae, dall'aspetto di piccole erbacee tuberose e dai delicati fiori rosati.

Il nome del genere (Cyclamen) deriva dalla parola greca kyklos (= cerchio), forse in riferimento alle radici tuberose rotonde. Questo genere di piante era conosciuto fin dall'antichità. Plinio nei suoi scritti lo indica con diversi nomi volgari: “Rapo”, “Tubero” e “Umbilico della terra”.

I fiori sono zigomorfi, pentameri (calice e corolla con 5 elementi) e tetraciclici (formati da quattro elementi: calice – corolla – androceo - gineceo). Del fiore la parte persistente è il calice a sostegno del frutto.

Formula fiorale:

K (5), C (5), A 5, G (5)

Calice: il calice è gamosepalo ed è formato da 5 lacinie triangolari.

Corolla: la corolla è simpetala (o gamopetala); i 5 lobi della corolla sono lunghi quanto il fiore e sono ripiegati all'indietro o comunque ritornano in direzione del peduncolo e in alcune specie possono essere auricolati. I colori della corolla possono essere lilla chiaro, violetto purpureo, bianco rosato o semplicemente bianco. Nelle specie coltivate spesso si possono avere dei fiori doppi (a doppi petali) con margini increspati, dentellati o crenulati di notevole effetto estetico.

Androceo: gli stami sono 5 a disposizione opposta ai petali della corolla.

Gineceo: l'ovario è supero formato da 5 carpelli saldati tra di loro; lo stilo è unico con uno stimma semplice e sporge dalla corolla.

Tratto da Wikipedia Cyclamen

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Steinheil Munchen Culminar 135mm f4.5

Samsung NX1 & Helios 44-2 - 58mm f/2

10mm Macro Tube | Wide Open | Manual Focus | Available Light | Handheld

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Helios-44M-4 2,0/58mm

Früchte der weißen Hainsimse.

Luzula luzuloides, weiße Hainsimse

ist die Charakterart des "Hainsimsen Buchenwaldes"

Puffball | Lycoperdon perlatum | Agaricaceae

Samsung NX1 & Carl Zeiss Jena 'Pancolar' 50mm f/1.8

10mm Macro Tube | Wide Open | Manual Focus | Available Light | Handheld

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Lübeck: Castle Monastery

Einen Teil des Klosters in der Außenansicht.

Objektivtest

Zeiss Flektogon 20mmf/4

Erste Version

Samsung NX1 & Helios 44M - 58mm f/2

Wide Open | Manual Focus | Available Light | Handheld

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Vintage Lens: Porst Weitwinkel 35mm f/3.5

This Texas-style farmhouse was constructed for George and Florence Wood-Sutton in 1912. The two-story wooden house was built for $800.00, which included a smokehouse and an outdoor privy. Large porches encircle the front and north sides of the house, while the rear porch provides access to one of the three exit doors. The downstairs features a receiving room with a fireplace, three bedrooms (one of which also has a fireplace), a large dining room, a kitchen, and a hallway. As the family expanded, the second floor was added and converted into the boys’ bedroom.

In 1899, George Wood-Sutton had four children when he married Florence.

First wife, Mattie E. Hill, passed away in 1896. They had four children: Clarance, Mollie, Lillie, and Italy. Florence raised his and Mattie’s four children along with their own: Odie, Jess, Vernie, Homer, Dollie, Georgia, Clifford, Mattie, Lloyd, Odeal, Elli Hue ‘E.H.”, G.W., Jack, and Betty Florence. Mattie and the children following her were born in this very house. Other family members also resided in this house at various times.

The house was originally located on the Luckett Farm on Highway 276, three miles west of Emory. A portion of the farm was then sold to Kenneth and Betty Smith of Dallas, who donated the house to the Rainy County Historical Society in 1993. The restoration of this house was performed under the direction of G.W. Luckett and Ellie Hue ‘E.H.” Luckett, with additional major funding provided by Mattie Luckett IVie, Luckett family members, and the Rainy County Historical Society.

Explored on 29th November 2020 #491

Samsung NX1 & Helios 44-2 58mm f/2

10mm Macro Tube | Wide Open | Manual Focus | Available Light | Handheld

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Nikon D3300 with 70-300 1:4.5 5.6 G ED at 300mm. Manual focus and handheld.

150% cropped and edited in Lightroom 2015 and Photoshop CS.

Large Skipper | Ochlodes sylvanus | Hesperiidae

Samsung NX1 & Helios 44-2 - 58mm f/2

10mm Macro Tube | f/3.2 | Manual Focus | Available Light | Handheld

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Manual focus. Cropped. Decidídamente es difícil fotografiar mariposas con enfoque manual...

"See how nature comes alive even as her falling leaves dance joyful goodbyes."

A fallen leaf dancing on the forest floor on a windy autumn morning. Hope you like it!

Shot using the Helios 44M...I'm not sure what the sea of tall yellow wildflowers were but the marshy fields were full of them.

Thanks for your welcome comments and appreciations!