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Jackie taking a customer's order at Scottie's Eat-mor on Main Street in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin. The best little 18 stool small Cafe in the state of Wisconsin.
Capturing one of the Garmin-Sharp team riders as the peloton charges along the start-finish straight.
Just opposite of the Lodge, and across the lake sits the other Peak of Otter, Sharp Top, which got it's name because of the rockiness and shape of its summit compared to Round Top.
You can hike all the way up, or take the bus (seasonal) most of the way up for a short jaunt at the end to enjoy the 360° view.
The 90mm Elmar-C and Leica CL make a good combination for shake-free shots like this.
Simply love this. Got the Bearcat sharp and through postprocessing made the photo around the Bearcat's era. Furthermore just looks retro fast, eh?
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Here is a photo from Heritage Flight Museum's 20 September 2014 fly day. Held in conjunction with the Port of Skagit's Skagit Regional Airport Community Day. Much appreciate not just as a Skagitonian taxpayer but also as a Heritage Flight Museum Visual Docent the port's assistance. Hope it's part of a new normal having the Port provide staff and desperately necessary logistical support.
My flag looked so glorious the other day in the sunlight; it brought tears to my eyes.
For my Flickr groups…
Since 1940, when Waitstill and Martha Sharp began rescuing refugees fleeing the Nazis in Europe, UUSC has been working on behalf of people whose rights are most at risk. To celebrate 75 years of advancing human rights through grassroots collaboration, UUSC hosted a special evening celebration at the Westin Waltham-Boston on April 30, 2015, featuring a keynote presentation by the award-winning New York Times columnist and author Nicholas Kristof. Special guests included several people rescued by the Sharps as well as video greeting from Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA). The event also featured the premiere of a specially commissioned choral piece by the renowned UU composer T.J. Anderson, with lyrics written by former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky, performed by the choir from First Parish in Concord, Mass.
Photographer: Mike Ritter
Sharpes D51LWW is seen on Blackpool Seafront as part of the coach rally. D51LWW is a Volvo B10M with VanHool Alizee T8 bodywork.
It was a delight to find this spring ephemeral in bloom. Most of the hepaticas I find in my area are the Round-lobed variety.
Submitted to Flickr Monthly Scavenger Hunt for November 2007 under Sharp
This isn't Vince Noir of the Mighty Boosh.
I don't know who it is, except that he's what some might call a local character of Plymouth. Others probably have different terms for him, but we shun them as oiks. This picture was taken just after he'd had to shout at some teenagers who were proving themselves to be such oiks.
But what do they do to make the world a brighter place, eh?
The Sundial, Plymouth City Centre
As some of you know, I love shooting wildlife with my trusty, light, gorgeously-sharp Nikon 300mm f/4D IF-ED AF-S and Nikon 1.4TCII. Although I love this combo for all that it offers on a budget, I was itching for a little more reach and possibly VR.
Tamron and Sigma were offering a lot of reach for a great price, but as good as these lenses seemed to perform according to users, I just wasn't terribly tempted. I wasn't in love with the bokeh on the Sigmas, nor the weight, nor the questionable reliability I've experienced in the past with Sigma super-zooms. I know that times are changing and Sigma has been on fire as of late, but I still see people having AF issues with their "Art" series lenses here and there. What hope does a super-telephoto lens have if some copies of primes front/back-focus? Tamron's first generation 150-600mm super-zoom was impressive when it was announced and the price was right, but,... after giving it a try, I didn't think it would make me happier than the 300mm f/4D and TC did, so I held out.
A couple months ago Tamron announced the new and improved 150-600mm G2. Tamron made many improvements with this lens and that's when I thought that just maybe I was ready to buy. I think I may have added that lens to my B&H cart like five times in a span of two weeks. I even entered my card info and was about to hit "Subit Order", but stopped myself at the last second and hit "X". :P I still wasn't sure whether to go with the shorter Nikon 200-500mm f/5.6E ED VR, or the Tamron G2.
The Tamron offered more reach; 50mm less at the wide end and 100mm more at the long end. They also added customizable features as far as AF tuning and VR go. The Nikon offered a constant aperture of f/5.6 all the way to 500mm, I liked the bokeh a little more, it had 4.5 stops of VR (Tamron rates the G2 at 4.5 stops as well) and it was Nikon-brand, which meant that future compatibility was a no-brainer. They both cost about the same, so price was not a consideration.
On paper the Tamron made far more sense. How can you go wrong with more reach, more options, similar optical quality and same price??? Yet I still couldn't buy it, not knowing how it felt in my hands compared to the Nikon. I decided to go down to Sammy's Camera and try them both out with my D750.
Of course it was raining, so going outside with them wasn't an option. I aimed both lenses at stationary cars outside, aimed them at stuff inside the store, well-lit corners, dim corners, etc. The Tamron was quite good, nothing to complain about considering I was shooting both at 1/125s hand-held, but when I pulled up the Nikon images on my play-back screen, I was kind of blown away. I wasn't expecting that from a super-zoom. The images were sharp, detailed and nailed focus. Although the Tamron was quicker to acquire focus, it did seem to miss a couple of times in bad light. I don't think it needed AF fine tuning, because in good light it seemed to nail focus despite some camera-shake from me.
To be fair, I was shooting the Tamron at 600mm wide open and the Nikon at 500mm wide open. The Tamron was at f/6.3 and Nikon was at f/5.6, so it was getting less reach and more light than the Tamron. I know some might say I should have shot both the Tamron and Nikon at 500mm, but in my mind if 600mm on the Tamron didn't perform to my expectations, what's the point in buying the extra reach if I'm not going to be happy with it? I simply used both lenses the way I planned to use them all the time, which was at their maximum focal length and wide open.
The Nikon VR was very effective. Tamron had three or four VR options, I made sure to try at least two of them, but wasn't as impressed by their effectiveness at 600mm and 1/125s. Maybe if the Nikon had gone to 600mm, it also wouldn't have done so well, but,... there was just something about the Nikon that made me go "wow". It wowed me so much in fact, that although I planned on buying it through B&H, I decided that I had to have this particular copy of it then and there. It just performed so well with zero AF fine tuning! It was spot-on at every focal length. Hearing about copy variation struck fear in me that if I had bought it online, maybe a different copy wouldn't perform the same way optically.
I'd like to say that the Tamron G2 is quite impressive for the price and what it offers. It seems like a really great lens, and I'm sure it would have performed better if I had been shooting it at 1/2000s in good light. Then again, so would the Nikon under the same circumstances! Whether you go with one or the other, I don't think you can make a bad decision. They're both awesome offerings. 2016 was a very good year for wildlife photogs on a budget. I never in a million years thought I'd love a super-zoom for under $1,400.00 this much!
You're probably wondering how it compares to the 300mm f/4D and 1.4TCII. Prepare to be shocked...... the Nikon 200-500mm matches (if not surpasses by a tiny margin) the 300mm f/4D and TC at 420mm, especially in center sharpness and detail. Well, what about the 300mm f/4D at 300mm without the TC vs. 200-500mm at 300mm? Guys,..... from my non-scientific (but fairly tedious) tests, both lenses are equally sharp in the center. It's insane. I did a comparison test on a tripod both indoors and outdoors using slow and fast shutter speeds, wide open, closed down, and no matter how I tried, the Nikon 200-500mm just kept hitting the target with prime-like sharpness and resolution. It also benefits from being heavier on the tripod. When you use the "Sports" VR on tripod with slow shutter speeds like 1/13s, it actually helps a lot. I couldn't get the 300mm f/4D to take a pin-sharp picture even on a tripod and using the timer at 1/13s, but the 200-500mm did just fine.
I recently went to the wetlands to shoot with the Nikon 200-500mm f/5.6E ED VR. I also brought my Nikon 1.4TCII, just in case. Mobile or still, anything I touched with this lens ended up in focus. Images came out sharp, detailed, clear and contrasty. Although the lens can be slow to acquire focus at first, once it does grab focus, it holds on very well. I shot some incoming ducks far away, very small in the frame, and they were in focus. If something ended up being out of focus, that's because I was still getting used to weilding this beast of a lens. It's larger and heavier than my 300mm f/4D and TC combo, so waving it around to follow fast-moving subjects is still new to me.
If you're looking to buy a telephoto lens for wildlife and you're wondering if you should go the 300mm f/4D or PF route with 1.4TC II or III,... again...in my opinion unless you have trouble hand-holding the 200-500mm due to it's size and weight (which is understandable!), go with the 200-500mm, or go test the Tamron 150-600mm G2 alongside the Nikon. It just makes no sense to spend $2,000.00 on the 300mm f/4PF (or $1,400.00 on the 300mm f/4D version) and $500 on a TC III for a combined cost of $2,500.00, when you could pay $1,400.00 for a sharp zoom that gives you about equal sharpness/detail, more reach, the ability to zoom out to 200mm when you need it and 4.5 stops of VR. It even works with a 1.4TC! You could easily buy the 1.4TC III and get 700mm at f/8 with very acceptable results for a little less than $2,000.00! I don't know how you could beat that for the price.
So you're probably wondering; "But how sharp is this lens really?" You be the judge. Check out the 100% crop here: www.flickr.com/photos/jpivkova/31748909950/in/photostream/
Picture taken at the crossroads of Avenida Máximo Gómez and George Washington in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Device:Nikon D3100
Lens:VR 55-300mm F/4.5-5.6G
Focal Length:150mm
Focus Mode:Manual
AF-Area Mode:Single
VR:ON
AF Fine Tune:
Exposure
Aperture:F/4.8
Shutter Speed:1/60s
Exposure Mode:Programmed Auto
Exposure Comp.:0EV
Metering:Matrix
ISO Sensitivity:ISO 100
a friend showed me an article in Somerset on making your own art tapes. The thin ones are masking tape, the thick ones are white duct tape. I stuck them to parchment paper and painted them with acrylic inks and marked with stamps and Stazon or waterproof markers. More fun to make your own than to go and buy a whole roll of something for a specific project.
For 31 Days of May 2013
No.29 Sharp
Well, there were only three ways of doing this, I think - and I haven't looked to see what else has been uploaded for this theme, so I haven't cheated and copied!!!
'Sharp' as in music; 'sharp' as in pointy and 'sharp' as in sour or acid. So we have.... ta dahhhh..... a lemon!!
I am soft... I shoot soft, I edit soft.
I am lazy
I am average
I am easily distracted
I stick to a routine, like pavlov's dog, (the bell is ringing right now, can't you hear it)
I am obsessive compulsive
I curse and love the routine
I profess to be driven towards perfection, but I accept imperfection
I have strong ambition and desire, but lack the talent and commitment to achieve these goals
I never, ever, ever see the gradual accomplishment of process. I see the monumental task.
All this has to change for me to achieve my goals.
Today, I will embrace the sharpness, shoot smart, shoot with the light. Win each shot, the change starts now.
Thank you for letting me express these thoughts.
-Corey