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Nine year old competition shooter, Shyanne Roberts, from Franklinville, NJ. www.facebook.com/ShyanneRoberts04
Samyang / Rokinon 8mm f/3.5 fisheye lens.
The lens hood has been “shaved” to allow a nearly full circle image to be captured.
Here is what remains of Genghis Khar, my ever-faithful traveling companion (the passage of time casts a warm glow over unpleasant memories).
This classic 1983 Chevette Scooter is about to be put up on the auction block, so as a preliminary I was inspecting its teeth.
Lacking a buyer from the hallowed halls of eBay, the old red sled will meet it's fate in the jaws of a shredder, the remains thence to be shipped to China to be made into nuclear submarines for World War III, presumably with at least a Mongol or two on board each vessel.
Three-exposure HDR-processed image (EV0,EV-2,EV+2).
This wee critter was on a concrete slab by the hot tubs here in northeastern California (Lassen County). This grasshopper was well under an inch long. It was patient enough to let me poke a huge camera lens within an inch or less of his face for long enough to take a bunch of photos.
To make this image, I used my Nikon D50 DSLR with an old 50mm F/1.8 Nikkor prime lens, mounted on a stack of extension tubes to get such close focusing.
This method is a cheap and effective way to get extreme close-ups, but it's difficult to use. There is no autofocus or exposure metering. The lens aperture must be set to a very small F stop to get even the miserably shallow depth of field seen here. And because the camera has no control of the lens diaphragm when the lens is mounted out on my basic-model extension tubes, focusing is difficult (due to a very dark view through the prism with the lens diaphragm stopped down).
Focusing is not done with the lens's focusing ring, you move the camera closer or farther from the subject until the most important part of your subject looks sharp on the ground glass.
Exposure is done by "chimping", which is guessing at the correct setting, then viewing the result on the camera's LCD screen, then correcting for the next shot.
All this inconvenience is not worth the bother for regular macro use, since a real macro lens would allow autofocus, automatic exposure and even vibration reduction for sharper results. But a nice 105mm VR macro lens for my Nikon would cost nearly $1,000, and the basic extension tube set I used costs less than $10 on eBay...
Photographed in Big Valley, California.
I captured these images when the dragonflies landed on the tops of some pieces of steel rebar that stick way up from a partially demolished hot tub.
These were shot in full daylight. I darkened the background by stopping down to F/16 or so at 1/500th, and used an on-camera TTL hotshoe flash to light the subject.
I got as close to the subjects as I could. The lens was a cheap 70-300mm zoom. It's closest focusing distance is quite far, so these images were heavily cropped from a six megapixel RAW, despite being shot at 450mm equivalent focal length.
At the Ladies Holster/Concealed Carry Event, we were shown an assortment of offerings for concealed carry lingerie.
Guns on display at anti-Islam rally in Phoenix. Protesters brought plenty of firepower to a protest against Islamic terrorism and Islam itself on October 10. Police separated them a smaller group of counter-protesters. Held in front of the Islamic Community Center, the event was part of a broader "Global Rally for Humanity," with similar protests scheduled in other cities that day.
This scene was in the Ash Creek Wildlife Area in Big Valley, California.
In Lassen County, between Bieber and Adin.
Welcome to Texas bullet ridden sign circa 1993
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These wee pebbles were once buried in sand, and as the sand eroded in the rain, they were left as you see them here, resting on pillars, awaiting their inevitable collapse.
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Guns on display at anti-Islam rally in Phoenix. Protesters brought plenty of firepower to a protest against Islamic terrorism and Islam itself on October 10. Police separated them a smaller group of counter-protesters. Held in front of the Islamic Community Center, the event was part of a broader "Global Rally for Humanity," with similar protests scheduled in other cities that day.
The PCB's serpentine antenna trace can be seen on the left. There was already a hole in the PCB right in the antenna trace. And the hole was even metal-lined and conductive to the antenna trace, as if it was made for external antenna mounting. I think I'm at about 1/2 wave length with the existing trace added to the partly extended whip length.
See the previous and next photo in the set for more info.
Here's a few more signs that were displayed by the estimated 0.8 million rally-goers at the rally in Washington, D.C. on March 24, 2018. The "guns and roses" poster (lower left) was designed by Shepard Fairey, an artist who has work in the permanent collection of numerous art museums, and who also created the widely popular "HOPE" poster featuring Barack Obama during the 2008 U.S. presidential election.