[Douglas_of_Sweden]

Javier-you're killing me with this stuff all good but 1,3 and 4 especially LMAO. Keep it up.

I love this picture for the light.

[deadwolfbones]

Many thanks, Douglas and Fractal!

[jgredline]

Don't get me wrong, I don't mind the cold, but if you have long coats then you don't have endless amounts of girls in bikinis strutting around. And there seem to be quite a few in LA..

Seriously though, that gets real old real fast...In the area where I live which is basically Hollywood, what I show u is really what it is like...We have no real winter here and I do not even own a jacket any longer...Oh and forget about the ''actual beach'' If ever in L.A. look me up we will have a blast..

[jgredline]

My first street shots with the K-7. Still love the DA15ltd so much that it spend much time on the K-7.

The K-7 turns out to be an outstanding street camera. I'm not hiding when I'm shooting, but since I want people to act normal, I want to be discrete. I want the shot before they realise that I take it. (another style is to present myself, talk with them, explain what I'm doing, to prepare more like a street portrait, and then it wouldn't matter if I even used a Pentax 67)
For the discrete shots the K-7 with ltd lenses is perfect. Small and so extremely silent. Fast.

To me, this is a wonderful capture...But where I live, it would be very hard to find people dressed like this...People around here walk around half naked....eeek...

[fractal]

If ever in L.A. look me up we will have a blast..

That we would mate! L.A. looks to be an amazing place to photograph and I would love to make it there one day. Also, NYC would be a dream for me to photograph.

People around here walk around half naked....eeek...

Geeze, your not kidding!

[fractal]

Shot this morning.

[jgredline]

[bbluesman]

I love this picture for the light.

Thx Douglas -I quite love the early AM light here in Taiwan.

[bbluesman]

A few from Lukang one of the early commercial centers in Taiwan. Many temples and craftsmen around there.

[fractal]

Thanks Javier.

First time I think I have recieved the 'Fantastico'.. haha

bbluesman, I have heard the Taiwan light can take on a pretty heavy yellow tinge. Well, Taipei anway. Polluted no?

[bbluesman]

Thanks Javier.


bbluesman, I have heard the Taiwan light can take on a pretty heavy yellow tinge. Well, Taipei anway. Polluted no?

I think it's dust from the Gobi desert in western China.

[fractal]

The Gobi desert is very VERY far away from Tapei. I'd put my money on the sheer amount of people in the city and the pollution that makes its way from mainland China.

[Douglas_of_Sweden]

The Gobi desert is very VERY far away from Tapei. I'd put my money on the sheer amount of people in the city and the pollution that makes its way from mainland China.

Both are true depending on the winds. The Gobi dessert dust plumes are gigantic and reach far out into the Pacific, but combustion emissions of aerosol particles from traffic and other fossil fuel use are also large and increasing both in mainland China and locally on Taiwan. This is my research field, trust me. And I've been both in Taiwan and mainland China.

BTW, the Gobi dessert dust is the reason why China does not (yet) have that hard accidification problems from the downfall of sulfphuric acid particles from fossil fuel combustion. The dessert dust is alkaline and buffer for the acid particles and acid rain.

[bbluesman]

Both are true depending on the winds. The Gobi dessert dust plumes are gigantic and reach far out into the Pacific, but combustion emissions of aerosol particles from traffic and other fossil fuel use are also large and increasing both in mainland China and locally on Taiwan. This is my research field, trust me. And I've been both in Taiwan and mainland China.

BTW, the Gobi dessert dust is the reason why China does not (yet) have that hard accidification problems from the downfall of sulfphuric acid particles from fossil fuel combustion. The dessert dust is alkaline and buffer for the acid particles and acid rain.

Ahh an expert chimes in Interesting notes Douglas

[Douglas_of_Sweden]

Ahh an expert chimes in Interesting notes Douglas

Glad I could enlight you!

Dust are important for photographs!
Sometimes an enemy: on the sensor or film slides/negatives. When the Mie-light-scattering of particles in the air turn the sky greyish without a single cloud.
Sometimes an allied: when the particles makes a sunrise or sunset more spectacular.
You might not realise what an effort any lens maker, electronic manufacturer, CCD/CMOS producer etc does to keep dust particles away from their products. They buy loads more particle counters than we researchers do.
In a city you breath between 10,000 and several 100,000 particles per ccm (now considering this is a street shooting thread...the risk is that non of you will dare to change lenses any longer...). This is not good levels to breath all the time. On a 9 million population of Sweden (with half the population living in cities) estimates range between 500 and 5,000 deaths per year due to these particles. More than are killed in traffic. You can scale the numbers to your own city. It will roughly apply everywhere.
In rural areas you have a few 1,000 per ccm. In remote areas, say Northern Canada or Sweden, Amazonas, remote oceans, you have a few 100 per ccm.
When I was on the North Pole, I saw the particle counters go down to 1 per ccm. The air had no smell at all. Cleaner than a clean-room in Pentax lens factories.

Now I will stop. Sorry for going off topic. Don't want to get another infraction.