Photo of the Day - February 2010

pdxflint said:

Okay...I'll start it off this month.

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Nice start to a new month, pdxflint.

Here's my submission. I was a little torn about what to do with the snowflakes. They end up looking like I sprayed my sensor with dust, but there is so much it would take too long to get rid of them. Although, I see that the compressed web version hides them pretty well.

Nikon D90
35 mm
ISO 100
0.017 sec (1/60)
f/22.0

Buttermere at dawn...

Doylem said:

Buttermere at dawn...

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Really nice. I can even see some mist rising off the water.

Doylem said:

Buttermere at dawn...

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That's gorgeous. Beautiful light and tonality.




This was another attempt at freezing snow with an off camera flash. I've been reading the strobist blog and I'm trying to move beyond using just available light when a flash might add something. It's fun to experiment.

shadow of the day...noo photoshop or any type of PP..lol.

Ballyedmonduff Wedge Tomb, Dublin Mountains:



This is a wedge-shaped gallery grave – a type of communal burial place built in the second millenium B. C. The three compartments of the central chamber which housed the burials were surrounded by a horseshoe-shaped setting of stones and covered by a cairn. When excavated in 1945 the tomb produced Beaker pottery and flint implements.

This is a portrait of a friend of mine.

Tai Chi on snowshoes



Given there were heavy flurries at the time, I decided to ask my buds to stay real still and took three quick shots with + - and correct exposures and used Aperture and photomartix for this HDR treatment. Lighting conditions were not great and when I used the flash, the snow just reflected back into the lens. Sony DSC F717. ( like those stone tablets )

My favorite photo from a downtown Seattle adventure yesterday.

Frozen Dragon

Can any local birders ID this one?

In keeping with the birds and dawn theme...

Lens
Nikkor * ED 300mm 1:4.5 with a Nikon TC-301 2x Teleconverter

1/100 sec F? ISO 400

I finally managed to get out and shoot photos again.

Sunset

along the atlantic shore line.

Still playing about with my new lens (50mm F/1.8)
Spiders web in my garden

BarryJ said:

Given there were heavy flurries at the time, I decided to ask my buds to stay real still and took three quick shots with + - and correct exposures and used Aperture and photomartix for this HDR treatment. Lighting conditions were not great and when I used the flash, the snow just reflected back into the lens. Sony DSC F717. ( like those stone tablets )

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well conditions may not have been the best, but you did a great job composing the shot and given the conditions, I'd say it's great.

Hey Thanks

Keebler said:

well conditions may not have been the best, but you did a great job composing the shot and given the conditions, I'd say it's great.

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It was just the luck of the draw... we wanted winter conditions and we got too much winter!

Cataracts

Just before she went blind.

TheReef said:

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Beauty shot!