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Photo of the day: November 2011

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It's a bit wet today!

Nikon D3S, AF-S VR 200-400mm F/4.0G IF-ED, ThinkTankPhoto Hydrophobia 300-600 rain cover.



Sydney umbrella weather strikes again - on the day I'm waiting to photograph the sleek carbon-fibre Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner experimental plane ZA001. ;)

This B767-338/ER is kicking up huge amounts of water with its reverse thrust. This is one of the nice things about this kind of photography in the rain. Makes it worth getting a bit wet.
 
fcortese said:
The "giant smokestack" is the smelter for all of the ore pulled out of the ground. It is said that you could drive a car around the diameter of the smelter stack opening at the top-the stack was that thick. At one time, 1/4th of all of the world's cooper came from the mines of Butte.
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I thought I posted a couple days ago, but I guess I didn't. Damn you "preview Post" button!

Anyways, one tidbit I found said that you can fit the entire Washington Monument inside the smokestack. :eek: At 585ft vs. 555ft I guess it is just a matter of inside diameter.

Mine for today, the moonrise over the John Day Dam on the Columbia River last night:

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Moonrise
 
rymack said:
Great shot. I love taking pictures in Grand Marais along the break wall. Last time I was there in the early evening there were some great photo oportunities. Unfortunately I was in the process of having my stolen camera replaced...
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Thank you so much. It is easy to shoot nice shots with such a great subject!
 
Sunrise at the Iwo Jima Memorial

Unfortunately the morning sky was relatively cloudless and we were leaving the area that day so no opportunity to go back for a second try. :( I did crop part of a tree from the left-hand side of the shot-it really didn't serve to "frame" the subject. Note the Washington Monument in the background.

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Doylem said:
^^^

There can't be many sculptures that were actually created from a photograph
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Thanks for the link. I knew the history of the flag raising and that this iconic and historic image was of the second flag raised not the first, the actual photographer's info is extremely interesting:


Rosenthal's trio reached the summit as the Marines were attaching the flag to an old Japanese water pipe. Rosenthal put down his Speed Graphic camera (which was set to 1/400th of a second shutter speed, with the f-stop between 8 and 16) on the ground so he could pile rocks to stand on for a better vantage point. In doing so, he nearly missed the shot. Along with Navy Pharmacist's Mate Second Class John H. Bradley, the five Marines began raising the U. S. flag. Realizing he was about to miss it, Rosenthal quickly swung his camera up and snapped the photograph without using the viewfinder.[18] Ten years after the flag-raising, Rosenthal wrote:
Out of the corner of my eye, I had seen the men start the flag up. I swung my camera and shot the scene. That is how the picture was taken, and when you take a picture like that, you don't come away saying you got a great shot. You don't know.

I'm sure we've all experienced nearly missing a shot and quickly taking it and hoping for the best! Digital gives us he opportunity to chimp it and get instant feedback, but not so with film, obviously.
 
I finally had time to go through my daughter's dance recital photos last night and do the cropping and other post-processing to them. She's not in this dance, though.

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Caused a lockdown of East Carolina University yesterday. Officials thought it was a rifle, turned out to be an umbrella. The lockdown lasted 3 hours.
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Here's another from the dance recital. I mostly shot at 1/200 shutter at f/2.8 and ISO 6400 because the lighting was so low. I shot in jpeg mode for most of it because I didn't have enough card space for all RAW images (need to get me some 16GB instead of 8GB). The very high ISO hurt getting good detail, unfortunately. Oh, and my daughter is not in this one, either. I only got one good shot of her in a dance. Most of the time she was in the back and too obscured to get a good shot... :(

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