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Random Photo thread

Great photos as usual from you guys. Out in southern Alberta these days trying out how the new trailer does in the cold with no shore power. Below freezing at night and the solar, batteries and furnace are doing great...yay.


2022-09-20_09-04-10 by soates50, on Flickr
 
Saw this at my mothers today. All I could think of was, this bird needs a biger house!

Right after the picture, it swooped down and grabbed a field mouse and flew away!

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P1330364c by Dave Redman, on Flickr

Meijer Garden And Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids MI.
American Horse and two grandkids. View from up on a nearby hill.
Is a few miles from g/kids house where we stay with the g/kids 1 or 1 1/2 days a week. So we go to Meijer Garden about twice a month (they got us season pass). THis day was overcast so I took camera camera.

In this shot, I liked the way the kids legs mimicked the horses legs.

I debated if to attempt to edit over that landscapers cart. I still may.
But then again, I will be back there again.
 
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New photo endeavor.
Ships in the channel at night.

P1320730 by Dave Redman, on Flickr

The Calumet, 639ft.

A big thing like that, up that close, even moving slow like 1.5mph, can have some motion blur at large fraction of a second.
So, crank up the ISO, so can have small fraction of a second shutter speed,
0.4 second here, and still some motion blur.

>> Later Note: And some miss focus here, now I see that I look some more. Something to work on.
 
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For better or worse, I'm stuck at the same job for possibly the next two months. For an antsy type like me who visits multiple sites in a week its a bit of a shock. There are some good things though, work related and otherwise. In the otherwise category, there are a bunch of parks nearby.
This was Friday after work. I love how the water was curling around the leaf.
Stony Brook detail by Glen Brenner, on Flickr
 
I hadn't noticed that until looking at it later. Its a fairly decently cropped image. Luckily I was pretty good with the focus. Pic was taken with the manual lens.
 
Interstring how the reflection is only in the shadows..... and I think the shadow are of the tree trunks that see in reflection ! !

Great.

Ha
Reflection shots are usally seen looking away from the sun, so sun is on the objects not the reflective surface.
 
Thanks all. With the drought going on over here the brook I've been walking is low enough to walk up either side and in some cases across. The low water has made it possible to try for shots of things below, on, and above the surface all in one shot. Its a fun subject for me. It will be interesting to see how things look if / how much rain we get from the hurricane down South. Apparently I'm being sent to some of my regular sites next week so I may have to wait to find out.
 
Redman said:
Interstring how the reflection is only in the shadows..... and I think the shadow are of the tree trunks that see in reflection ! !

Great.

Ha
Reflection shots are usally seen looking away from the sun, so sun is on the objects not the reflective surface.
Click to expand...

Definitely interesting. I've noticed that if the sun shines directly on the surface of still water it kills off any reflection, and illuminates the bottom, but areas in shade will reflect whats around. The set of two pics I recently put up on IG and FB are a perfect example of each scenario, in the same composition.
 
Riding by that bike would kill me. You know that most gsr members could make that buried bike run.
 
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