Photo of the Day - October 2022

[Matsamoto]

Photo taken in a garden on Malta late September 2007.
I don’t know the name of the flower. Is there anyone who knows?
(I wish only that the background would just be a more green and blurry)🙂

Nikon D40X, Nikkor 55-200mm f/4-5.6G
180 mm, f/4.8, iso 100, 1/80s

 

[Steven-iphone]

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Photo taken in a garden on Malta late September 2007.
I don’t know the name of the flower. Is there anyone who knows?
(I wish only that the background would just be a more green and blurry)

Nikon D40X, Nikkor 55-200mm f/4-5.6G
180 mm, f/4.8, iso 100, 1/80s

Looks like a Bird of Paradise.

 

[Hughmac]

I'm going to check that out next week...might be way too enticing for the simpleness of choosing. Just some low spec'd old DSLR would be enough for me.

Old and low spec is best, as modern DSLRs have inbuilt filters to cut out infrared light, which doesn’t help at all.

Cheers

Hugh

 

[stillcrazyman]

Green

 

[arkitect]

Loved Bath, a beautiful city.

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Glad you enjoyed it. Its a great city (smallish but just the right size) to live in…

I see you grabbed the not often photographed north side of the Pulteney Bridge. 👍👍👍 Difficult to thin that the famous south side was pretty much in that state until the Victorian era.

 

[Steven-iphone]

Added photo to studio yesterday.

 

[sparksd]

Glad you enjoyed it. Its a great city (smallish but just the right size) to live in…

I see you grabbed the not often photographed north side of the Pulteney Bridge. 👍👍👍 Difficult to thin that the famous south side was pretty much in that state until the Victorian era.

Got the other side, too . At the Abbey, I got to talking with the keeper and he mentioned being an officer in the British Army in Burma in WWII. He was surprised and delighted that I (an American!) knew all about Ord Wingate and the Chindits and the battles in that theater. He had some great stories and then gave my wife and I a personal tour of the Abbey. We had a wonderful day there that I'll never forget.

 

[mollyc]

yashica mat 124 + ilford hp5+

 

[Matsamoto]

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yashica mat 124 + ilford hp5+

Beautiful photo!

 

[Apple fanboy]

Looks blissful

Thank you. It was a lovely quiet spot in the lake district.

 

[VampyricGentleman]

Thank you. It was a lovely quiet spot in the lake district.

I guessed that’s where it might be, thanks for clarifying

 

[Apple fanboy]

September before the snow fell and winter set in:

Beautiful.

 

[Apple fanboy]

I guessed that’s where it might be, thanks for clarifying

Cockermouth Wythop to be exact.

 

[Lowgun84]

A quick little road trip to see the fall colors, outside of Telluride, CO.

 

[tizeye]

The color version of yesterdays. While not intended as a formal test, it illustrates something to test that took for granted decades ago - the softness of the vintage lens. It could be my vision and need to focus, but split matching focusing shouldn't be vision dependent. I am consistently seeing softness, in this case with the Canon 50mm f1.8, compared to todays lens, in this case the 35mm Sony/Zeiss f2.8. While no EFIX on film, adjusting ISO (400 vs 200) and known shutter speed on Canon, estimating aperture was f2,8 or 4, where the 35mm lens was at f8. Understandable that the background and gator foreground would be out of focus in the B&W, but the well focused print on shirt would be on the same plane as the head that was relatively soft. Time to do a controlled experiment with closely matching focal lengths. Also now making sense of why many of the slides from back in the day are soft compared to current, and not solely a 'deterioration' excuse.

 

[lkalliance]

Williams, Arizona in 2012:

This would have been a less interesting picture if Bobby Troup had stuck with his original song idea, “Feelin’ Sporty on U.S. Forty”.

Shot with my Canon Digital Rebel T4i.

 

[OldMacs4Me]

Late afternoon north of Waterton National Park from Alberta Highway 6.
Lumix ZS200

 

[lkalliance]

The color version of yesterdays. While not intended as a formal test, it illustrates something to test that took for granted decades ago - the softness of the vintage lens. It could be my vision and need to focus, but split matching focusing shouldn't be vision dependent. I am consistently seeing softness, in this case with the Canon 50mm f1.8, compared to todays lens, in this case the 35mm Sony/Zeiss f2.8. While no EFIX on film, adjusting ISO (400 vs 200) and known shutter speed on Canon, estimating aperture was f2,8 or 4, where the 35mm lens was at f8. Understandable that the background and gator foreground would be out of focus in the B&W, but the well focused print on shirt would be on the same plane as the head that was relatively soft. Time to do a controlled experiment with closely matching focal lengths. Also now making sense of why many of the slides from back in the day are soft compared to current, and not solely a 'deterioration' excuse.View attachment 2104427

I cite my deterioration as an excuse all the time.

 

[GuruZac]

I honestly think this photo community is one of the best things on the internet! Love the photos, stories, etc.

On topic, this is one of my attending physicians’ home. He had a Fall get together for us. It’s in Jonesborough, TN which is the oldest town in TN, and this is the oldest brick house in TN on top of that. Really neat history.

 

[Janichsan]

 

[citysnaps]

San Francisco.

 

[NameRequired]

This is one of my favorites and I don’t know which version I prefer, so here’s both!

 

[PhillyGuy72]

OMG i can't believe this photo. Spent many glorious days at Seaside Heights (winning cigarettes!!)
Sandy was a beast, had no power for over a week in NYC, but many had it so much worse and lost everything. oh my...

It was very surreal seeing this! the total devastation of that town, boardwalk completely wiped out. (Lavallette, NJ just a few miles north of Seaside Heights, tried to get there but it was off limits still...bridge wiped out, homes flattened)

I am just north of Philadelphia, the winds really kicked up around 5:30, 6pm...then - poof, power finally went out - and stayed out for 6 days. BUT..house still standing, no damage...could have been worse! INTENSE... I didn't have great internet the next few days, trying to watch choppy streaming news coverage in my car on my iPhone sitting in a Target parking lot and saw NYC...the fires in Queens, Brooklyn(?) Total blackout downtown. Unreal.

 

[PhillyGuy72]

Expect the Unexpected!

✨🌟 The Wilshire Grand Center ~ DTLA ~ Downtown L.A. ~ Los Angeles, California. ✨🌟

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Cross-reference:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/photo-of-the-day-august-2022.2353284/page-38?post=31372238#post-31372238

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/photo-of-the-day-august-2022.2353284/page-15?post=31328465#post-31328465

I absolutely love this shot!

 

[Hughmac]

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This is one of my favorites and I don’t know which version I prefer, so here’s both!

B&W for me

Cheers

Hugh