[tuco]

Tuco....Come Back! You don't need to be carrying around a big heavy machine when a smaller one will work wonders for you...just like it used to...remember?
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Perhaps one of these days, Rupert, and thanks for those encouraging words. Remember I'm use to large gear. I still haul around my Pentax 6x7 and Hassy 500C/M and shoot those.

[v5planet]

Lake Tekapo

I love the processing and stark tones in this first landscape.

I can't let Miguel have all the Lacrosse fun. Everett vs Snohomish.

Both excellent photos, tuco. Is the second shot all natural motion blur? It's quite a stunning image.

[itshimitis]

Here are some more from New Zealand that I have processed:

This is a place called Paradise. It is just beyond Glen Orchy at the head of Lake Wakitipu about 50km from Queenstown

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Wakitipu:

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Milford Sound

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and my favourite one

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[tuco]

Both excellent photos, tuco. Is the second shot all natural motion blur? It's quite a stunning image.

Thanks. Yes, just panning. I pan with a monopod and only a small percentage turn out.

Here are some more from New Zealand that I have processed:

This is a place called Paradise. It is just beyond Glen Orchy at the head of Lake Wakitipu about 50km from Queenstown
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and my favourite one

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Really nice series and #9 is my favorite too.

[itshimitis]

Really nice series and #9 is my favorite too.

Thanks - it looked too dark on the LCD screen on location and I was running out of space on the SD card - good decision not to delete it. I suspected it had good amount of contrast, and being the D800E, I knew that there would be plenty of detail, and only had to pull it one stop brighter. I did look at it in BW but this is one long exposure that works best in colour - I like the green in the water a lot.

[tuco]

Some soccer...

[mark lj]

A tad jealous of everyones locations. Not really getting out much to do my own thing. This is an old one from last June. Didn't do owt with it as I thought it was a tad formulaic but looked at it again in a slightly cheerier mood and decided it was ok.

[deadwolfbones]

A few with the D700 + 135/2 Ai:















First time I've picked up the camera since September.

[tuco]

A few with the D700 + 135/2 Ai:

Some intimate shots of that car. Did you just get it or something?

[Frogfish]

Doing far more birding than scenic/city photography of late. It's tough to carry 8kg birding kit plus 8kg backpack on daily 10-16kms hikes in mountains or rainforests, never mind an extra landscape lens too !

All D3s.

Early morning at Fraser Hill, Malaysia. 300/2.8


The road from Gaoligongshan to Tengchong in Yunnan, China. Unfortunately I simply couldn't get any closer to the edge of the 200m drop-off to exclude the reeds. Sigma 24-105/4 @ 24mm


5 mins before an amazing storm that turned day into night (25C but still hail-stones the size of golf-balls - they hurt) ! mm strangely missing from the EXIF but I think this is the Sigma 24-105/4 again.


The best way in and out of the Taman Nagara National Park is via the Tembeling river up to Kuala Tahan. 600mm / f5.6 / 1/2000


The village I stayed in, Baihualin on Gaoligongshan Mountain in Yunnan, China. Sigma 24-105/4 @ 58mm

[deadwolfbones]

Some intimate shots of that car. Did you just get it or something?

In November.

[v5planet]

Excellent set, Frogfish. I especially like the low angle photo of the riverboat.

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Every Tuesday evening in Seattle during the fair weather months, there are a number of sailboats that gather on Lake Union, in the middle of the city. After meaning to shoot this for a long time, I finally got around to doing it today:

Tuesday Evening

[v5planet]

A tad jealous of everyones locations. Not really getting out much to do my own thing. This is an old one from last June. Didn't do owt with it as I thought it was a tad formulaic but looked at it again in a slightly cheerier mood and decided it was ok.

A nice late-Spring image. I'm not sure I would agree with 'formulaic', at least not by the Littlejohn formula -- when water appears in your images it tends to dominate the scene ;-)

I rather like its subtle use as a background element hidden in fog while the flowers take center stage here.

[jsherman999]

A tad jealous of everyones locations. Not really getting out much to do my own thing. This is an old one from last June. Didn't do owt with it as I thought it was a tad formulaic but looked at it again in a slightly cheerier mood and decided it was ok.

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This is more than just 'OK', the colors here inject pleasure directly into the brain. The purple is very, very present but not overpowering. This is a near-perfect nature-color shot, IMO.

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Excellent set, Frogfish. I especially like the low angle photo of the riverboat.

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Every Tuesday evening in Seattle during the fair weather months, there are a number of sailboats that gather on Lake Union, in the middle of the city. After meaning to shoot this for a long time, I finally got around to doing it today:

Tuesday Evening

Love that, nice work.

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[mark lj]

Cheers - I think it will likely make a nice print.

A slightly more miserable one which I have to say I like a lot. I'll be printing it on some nice paper next week.