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Photo of the Day | August 2024
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Tabac bar, Mitchell Lane, Glasgow
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Wonder what is in that Temple? And, who is the Priest? 😊
I thought maybe there's some anomaly in Sweden in August...😊
Thank you so very much, @chmania , @Darmok N Jalad , and @katbel ! Your well wishes and concern mean a lot to me. I am 72 miles from the middle of Durkee (it has a Post Office but no real census or population count. It is the home of Oregon's only cement plant which accounts for it's population) but the fire is much closer. To the chagrin of the truck drivers in this area (of which there are many), the fire WAS frequently jumping the freeway and closing it down. The weather was putting down some rain early this morning when I arose, so I hope that will help the MANY firefighters get a handle on containment. I am quite sure we are out of danger and fortunately, except to go next door to my daughters, I have no reason to go out and breathe the smoke.
From a walk this afternoon. First one in a while as it’s a big cooler today.
An old photo taken at badminton practice. Posting this to celebrate Taiwan's (i.e. Chinese Taipei) first gold medal at this year's Olympics, in badminton men's doubles. Lee Yang and Wang Chi-lin also made history by being the first men's doubles team to win back-to-back Olympic golds (unfortunately it's not them in this photo!). Shot with a Nikon F4 on Ilford HP5+ metered at ASA 1600.
We have a quite cold summer but not so cold😁
I only picked that image because I had no inspiration🙂
It looks like the fire fighters are winning. Durkee Fire containment reaches 80% as battle progresses Hope things get better!
Been playing with a sort of oddball lens-Medical-NIKKOR 120mm f/4 IF. This is a lens with a built-in ringlight that focuses from 1/15 lifesize to lifesize(and can go to 2x lifesize with an auxillary lens).
It's an interesting bit of late 70s technology, and actually works well if used as intended. You do not have direct control over the aperture, but it is coupled to the focusing ring. Interestingly enough, it stops down to minimum aperture at the closest focus, as this is when the flash is closest to the subject(flash only fires at full power) and is wide open at the furthest focus distance.
I also have the earlier version of the lens, the 200m f/5.6 Medical-NIKKOR, which has no focusing mechanism and is focused by means of a set of 6 auxillary lenses on the front(that officially cover 1/16x to 3x, unofficially you can stack all to get 4x but they stick out far enough to cause lighting problems). It does offer manual control over the aperture.
If you're a macro photographer(the argument has been made that these are the only true Nikon "Macro" lenses) they are fun and convenient, though, even though I'm not the biggest fan of ring lights.
A Parker "51" Fountain pen nib, 1:1, so f/45, ISO 100 on a D800E
It's an interesting bit of late 70s technology, and actually works well if used as intended. You do not have direct control over the aperture, but it is coupled to the focusing ring. Interestingly enough, it stops down to minimum aperture at the closest focus, as this is when the flash is closest to the subject(flash only fires at full power) and is wide open at the furthest focus distance.
I also have the earlier version of the lens, the 200m f/5.6 Medical-NIKKOR, which has no focusing mechanism and is focused by means of a set of 6 auxillary lenses on the front(that officially cover 1/16x to 3x, unofficially you can stack all to get 4x but they stick out far enough to cause lighting problems). It does offer manual control over the aperture.
If you're a macro photographer(the argument has been made that these are the only true Nikon "Macro" lenses) they are fun and convenient, though, even though I'm not the biggest fan of ring lights.
A Parker "51" Fountain pen nib, 1:1, so f/45, ISO 100 on a D800E
Table cloth 5x zoom, iPhone 11 at 10cm distance.
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"and I would walk 500 miles"🎶
busking on a Sunday afternoon