Something I'd never seen before -- the usually perpetual motion machine-like Hooded Mergansers actually sitting still! This couple was relaxing on the ice and catching a few rays of sunshine before heading back into the water for more fishing.
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Photo Of The Day - January 2022
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Siesta on the mean streets of Arrecife, Lanzarote.
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Siesta by Jason Hindle, on Flickr
Taken April 2019 with a Pen F and 12-40 f2.8.
Siesta by Jason Hindle, on FlickrTaken April 2019 with a Pen F and 12-40 f2.8.
Lonely pigeon house in southwestern Spain. Shot from iPhone XR.
A reminder that images posted in this thread must be taken by the respective individuals. This isn't for sharing photos taken by others found on the internet. Unless you linked it from your own account, I believe it came from twitter somewhere? 🙂
eta: the OP said a friend of hers took this and she was unaware of the rules. she has amended her post to credit her friend. she also knows going forward to only post her own images! 🙂
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It's 15F (-9C ) so let's go out on a frozen lake , drill a hole in the ice , and go fishing .
G9 , 50-200+1.4 , f8@1/3200 , ISO 400
took some photos of my 85 1.2 that I'm thinking about selling, I love this lens but it so big and awkward on the little R body that it feels uncomfortable to hand hold, so I think I'm really going to let it go because I don't want to have to drag out the tripod every time I want to use the lens
Are you sure their paws weren't frozen and couldn't move!? ?
Such a beautiful photo: love the colors !
Thank you! The colors of the water surrounding them really adds something, doesn't it? Primarily due to reflections of the waterfront houses that are nearby. Yes, I'm rather chuffed that I was able to see these two sitting out there and to capture an image of them. This was the first time in the several years I've been watching Hooded Mergansers that I'd ever seen any of them just sitting quietly, never mind having the opportunity to catch a glimpse of their feet or legs, and it looks as though they have yellow legs and/or feet....
Both of these two are sitting pretty completely on their legs and feet, hiding them from view, but one can catch a glimpse of orangish-yellow something which is probably a leg..... Hooded Mergansers do fly, of course, and a few times I have seen them in flight but just as they do when they are in the water, they move very, very quickly so I haven't had a good look at the feet and legs.
You don’t make your own glass?! But sand is so cheap!View attachment 1950128
I made this photograph at Ocean Beach, in San Francisco. I cut mats and frame my own prints. And make my own frames from various hardwoods for color prints (or, from lengths of black gallery stock I cut/glue/clamp for B&W prints). I made this particular frame from Maple and Cherry woods. I still need to purchase glass from a store, though.
Psssh... Wires are so 20th century. I prefer fiber optic cabling from my router to my home office...Yeah, wired is the surest way to get a solid connection. One of the appeals of the unfinished basement office—what’s one more exposed wire/cable/pipe/tube?
I don't remember lens used, backlit in Stockholm Sweden
E: 85 f/1.2
E: 85 f/1.2
met up with an ex-colleague and friend yesterday afternoon. Beer was consumed.
Shooting with the Sunny 16 rule. On full manual - used the meter to check my guess at the exposure. At times spot on - most 2/3 - 1 stop off my guess-timate. Waiting at a traffic light, saw this fellow coming towards me off to my left. Stopped him and asked for a photograph.
Edit: this area in the photograph is not well-lit. Opened up the f/stop to compensate.
F/3.5 30.0mm 1/500s ISO-100
Edit: this area in the photograph is not well-lit. Opened up the f/stop to compensate.
F/3.5 30.0mm 1/500s ISO-100
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Family of green giants. Sylt, Germany
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This was my alternate choice for the weekly Photo Contest - That's Absurd. This store wasn't my intended destination, but two blocks from is and where turned off the highway. Later, upon return just had to stop and wander through some rather unique yard art.
Other skaters out on the lake.
Fuji XP90 camera.
Fuji XP90 camera.
In advance of 'Lunar New Year', decorations in local shopping mall -- tree, blossums, red lanterns (photo taken on 21 Jan/22).
