Nothing in focus ......



Just a single red Trioplan bokeh ball from an LED torch about 9 metres away, with a small cutting from an unknown bush mounted on a tripod about one metre in front of the camera. I tried all sorts of focus variations on the leaves and this was my final choice.

Sony NEX-5T + Meyer-Optik Görlitz Trioplan 100/2.8 wide open with very minor crop for composition.

But there's some well synchronized thread creation going on. I think you and I started separate threads for the 5th at precisely the same minute, OzzRod. I'll add my entry here, and see about deleting the other.

Apologies Zach. You're right, there was no other thread started when I posted, but the Pentax clock puts you in first by one minute! Thanks for requesting a mod's fix.

Getting mine in early today, A little treat to myself in the form of some filters has just arrived in the post, and as luck would have it the logo is in red!


Pentax M 100mm f4 macro on K-S2.

At 10:30 pm I took the candle light picture for yesterday's challenge. Two hours later my wife woke me pointing to the red glare of a fire on the hills. in the three hours from 9:30 pm to 12:30 am, the small fire in the hills behind Santa Paula became an inferno racing 15-20 miles through the mountains and hills behind us. We are not in the path but are only 2 miles away from it. The santa ana winds are still blowing 30-40 mph so the flames are likely to find more homes to consume. More to come.

Pentax FA 100-300mm F/4.5-5.6

And a little broader sweep, though not the 200 degree panorama of hills and mountains along which you could see flames.

Sigma 10-20mm

Filler shot, time rush and then off to work. Trusty K-01 with 18-135

Raining all day today, no walk too, and shots from the house or indoors for today. The red peg looked good in the rain, shot from the window with the K200D and 70-300mm Sigma DG Lens

A red abstract sort of day.

Was trying to launch a racing sim but the PC decided it wasn't having it (event log simply says "kernel power", not very informative). But hey, at least there's some red in the picture, right?

also featuring dead pixel! Hadn't spotted that one yet...
Edit 2: 5! Is this the day my electronics fail? I hope not!

I have some mod powers to this group as well if you ever need me to (try to) do something.

From the fields with love..
Fujifilm X-E1 and Auto Mamiya Sekor 55mm f1.8

Pentax 645 + Pentax-A 645 45mm f/2.8.

skipped out on the red today; this was too tempting

More train show pics. I've still got another 15 shots or so to process from this morning's shoot. Several people expressed a wish to visit the show. I would say that if you can postpone your visit until after the New Year. The show runs to Jan 15th, and it MUCH less crowded after the New Year. I would sat to completely avoid Christmas week if at all possible, it's insanely crowded then. Weekends aren't much better. If you can't get there after the 1st and still want to go you best bet if at all possible is a week day after 2 pm, that way you will miss the hordes of school children. I have a gallery on my photo site that has been ongoing for about 10 years or so, so if you are interested in seeing more shots (and the show changes every year) that link is here: Train Show Gallery
More shots on my flickr stream and on my photo site gallery for the month here.



NaCl(there is a very valid reason this show is so popular)H2O