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We headed out to Manassas Battlefield with the camera and the dogs - fall views and a great place to walk Teddy and Echo without too many distractions. Midweek we pretty much had the whole place to ourselves.
I haven't had much time or inclination to photograph lately, but I saw this little ball of Milkweed fluff out of the corner of my eye as I was leaving the house. Some very light processing and some cropping later I felt I had an image good enough to "feed the social media beast".
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Shot with a vintage Nikkor H-C Auto f 1:1.8 85mm manual prime and then cropped to eliminate some extraneous stuff.
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On the way to Taos along the Rio Grande river you will find this museum of car memorabilia. When we stopped at his place the owner was working outside on one of the gas pumps that he had acquired to bring its mechanism back to functionality. The museum is mostly focused on gas station items like gas pumps which he restores, gas station signs, gas pump medallions, oil cans, historical photos etc, as well as other items from the early period of the automobile. Being the very nice person that he is, he opened up the indoor exhibit of restored items for us even though he wasn't officially open.
He even rents out restored vintage gas pumps to the movie industry, if they have a need to create a set that requires an old gas station.
A short hike in the Abiquiu area revealed this interesting pattern the lichen had decorated the rock with. When the grand landscapes are not appealing, look down by your feet. I'm tempted to call this one "fishface".
A shot taken towards the winter sun using a Steinheil Auto-Quinar 100mm f:3.5 Exakta mount lens on a Sony a7C - my choice of camera for lenses that I can't mount on a Pentax...
We had a mini break - four days exploring some of the Charlottesville area wineries plus a day of helping a good friend celebrate her birthday. The views at Pippin Hill Winery were simply stunning and their vines were beautifully tended. All around superb place to spend the afternoon.
Hoshakuzan Kozenji temple, in Komagane, Japan.
Sony FE 24-105mm F4 G OSS
105mm; 1/125 sec; f/5.6; ISO 6400
The facade of one of many restored and preserved old buildings in the town of Tsumago-juku, Japan.
Tsumago-juku and Magome-juku are among a handful of well-preserved "post towns" along the old Nakasendo route which connected Kyoto and Edo (Tokyo) during the Edo period.
These days, many tourists walk parts of the old route. The section between Magome-juku and Tsumago-juku is particularly popular, and has been declared a National Historic Site of Japan.
Sony FE 24-105mm F4 G OSS
44mm; 1/50 sec; f/6.3; ISO 200
Ruthven Barracks near Kingussie in the Cairngorms National Park was built in 1719 after the 1715 Jacobite rising.
It's not often we get fog here in suburban Melbourne, so when it does appear it's worth trying to get a photo or two. This was taken at the Darebin Parklands.
Sony FE 24-105mm F4 G OSS
86mm; 1/200 sec; f/5.6; ISO 640
"The Devil has the best tunes!"
For Macro Mondays' Theme: "Four"
Bubbles courtesy of a Meyer Trioplan 100mm f:2.8
Sony a7C
HMM!
A cafe in the small town of Loch, Victoria, Australia.
Sony FE 24-105mm F4 G OSS
24mm; 1/60 sec; f/4; ISO 2500
The Highland Hotel is situated in the Victorian spa village of Strathpeffer, Ross-Shire
The 131 bedroom hotel boasts stunning original features and has its own attractive gardens.
Handheld pic of a young male Ruby-throated hummingbird. I was able to sit quite close to the feeder on our deck and patience paid off with a bit of posing for the camera. This juvenile male doesn't have his bright ruby red throat just yet, but he has a few speckled bright orange spots starting to show.
As the garden slowly falls into hibernation, a last rose blossoms as a memory of summer.
Sony a7C
Meyer Optik Görlitz Domiplan
50mm f:2.8
Asahi Pentax Close-Up Lens No.1
The humble Domiplan can be very sharp, as you can see in the details of the flower. In the right circumstances its bokeh can be quite spectacular, though not so here. A drawback is its rather long minimum focussing distance: 75 cm. Even with a close-up lens I wasn't able to get as close as I could have done with a Pentacon 50/1.8 or a Flektogon 35/2.8 .
We were there to shoot the Milky Way over the lake and the distant mountains, but again the clouds and the moon thwarted our efforts. I had figured that there would be a long enough period of darkness between the end of astronomical twilight and the moon rise, but that wasn't not so. The moon washed out the sky way before it crept over the horizon. So the best shot of the evening turned out to be this one, taken at early nautical twilight.
To the eye it seemed much darker, but, as you know, the camera records so much more light.
Shot during another outing with my new old Japanese Dukane projector lens. I have it rigged so it functions as a close-up lens. I'm trying to determine if it was worth the effort to rig it so It would fit on my Sony camera.
The fruit trees and ornamental fruit trees are the only thing blooming right now here in bone-dry Santa Fe. It has not snowed any significant amount all winter and has not rained either since the calendar turned to spring. I think all the plants are struggling right now. Here and there you can find some Daffodils but that is about it.
Happy Bokeh Wednesday
This plant was still flowering in Octobre, I think it is Monkshood, but I'am not sure.
I'am not totally content about this photo, because of the white spot, but I don't know how to improve it. Not enough skills with PS! I still wanted to upload this to find out what you think about it.
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A still life arrangement found in a Melbourne café.
Sony FE 85mm F1.8
85mm; 1/125 sec; f/2.8; ISO 200
The so-called Haas-Haus occupies a key building-site in the centre of Vienna on the "Stock-im-Eisen Platz" adjoining St Stephan's Square. Designed by Austrian star-architect Hans Hollein and opened in 1990, it was the subject of strong controversy both before and after it was built.
Here we see the surrounding historical buildings as distorted reflections in the windows of the rounded facade. The tallest reflection on the extreme right is that of St Stephan's Cathedral with its South Tower.
Steinheil München Auto-Quinar 100mm f:3.5 (Exakta mount)
Sony a7C
View large and zoom in to get the best of the reflections!
The Point Lonsdale lighthouse, Victoria, Australia.
Sony FE 24-105mm F4 G OSS
36mm; 1/250 sec; f/5.6; ISO 1250
Walkers on a section of the Nakasendo path near Magome-juku. Magome-juku is one of a handful of well-preserved "post towns" along the old Nakasendo route which connected Kyoto and Edo (Tokyo) during the Edo period.
These days, many tourists walk parts of the old route. The section between the towns of Magome-juku and Tsumago-juku is particularly popular, and has been declared a National Historic Site of Japan.
Sony FE 24-105mm F4 G OSS
65mm; 1/80 sec; f/5.6; ISO 320
Suddenly I heard and saw a lot of old American cars all going to the gas station. I should have made a film!
This one was touching the concrete with the back of the car all the time during driving! I wondered how that felt on the road.
Our last holiday together
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Cherry blossoms in the Korean Garden at Meadowlark Gardens today. Glad they weren’t destroyed in the rains last night