May 2025

[Bruno Schroder]

In case of shipwreck, no problem, corks float.

Nice effort from your grandson. 
I worry about the corks however;  is the captain of the ship a heavy drinker? 

I would guess the drinking habit of the captain comes with its own countermeasure

[Birna Rørslett]

Vanishing Blue  (TD 1996)

Kyoei W.Acall 35mm f/3.5, GF1, IR

[Akira]

Vanishing Blue  (TD 1996)

Kyoei W.Acall 35mm f/3.5, GF1, IR

Love the color and the whitened shadow of the power lines give nice touch to it.

I wonder if the AOV looks too wide for an equivalent of 70mm?

[Birna Rørslett]

Love the color and the whitened shadow of the power lines give nice touch to it.

I wonder if the AOV looks too wide for an equivalent of 70mm?

It's an image in portrait mode and lots of vanishing lines. So appears perhaps wider than expected? The 35mm Kyoei behaves like any 35mm and covers nicely FX. It was designed and made in an era without the horrible illusion of "crop factors", thankfully. When I used 8x10" camera back then, the 120mm was superwide !! On my 4x5" view camera, the Schneider 58mm lens acted in a similar fashion and its very short draw necessitated a sunken lens board and special bellows for wide-angle. The 65mm f/4 Nikkor was just barely tolerable (in terms of operation, pictorial results were excellent),

By the way, I was listening to "Vanishing Blue" before posting and hence decided the image should have an appropriate colour scheme (originally, it was red, black, and yellow).

[Ian Watson]

Beautiful capture!  Love the abstraction.

Thank you, Akira.

[Akira]

It's an image in portrait mode and lots of vanishing lines. So appears perhaps wider than expected? The 35mm Kyoei behaves like any 35mm and covers nicely FX. It was designed and made in an era without the horrible illusion of "crop factors", thankfully. When I used 8x10" camera back then, the 120mm was superwide !! On my 4x5" view camera, the Schneider 58mm lens acted in a similar fashion and its very short draw necessitated a sunken lens board and special bellows for wide-angle. The 65mm f/4 Nikkor was just barely tolerable (in terms of operation, pictorial results were excellent),

By the way, I was listening to "Vanishing Blue" before posting and hence decided the image should have an appropriate colour scheme (originally, it was red, black, and yellow).

Thank you for the details.  The pseudo-wideangle effect would be the part of the optical illusion.   

[Fons Baerken]

May 7

Onions

Z7_2  -  TTArtisan 90mm f/1.25

[Birna Rørslett]

The EL-Nikkor 50mm f/2.8 can also do close-up ... hand-hold captures can be quite satisfactory in terms of composition. perhaps not so much in traditional terms of image sharpness etc. However, who cares? The maxim "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept” trumps all other criteria any time.

[Frank Fremerey]

***morning sun***

[Frank Fremerey]

4 hectars, an hour away with the car

How do I * Frank permanently get rid of bracken?

Repeated removal of new stems and sections of rhizome will weaken and eventually eradicate bracken. Position your fork at the base of the stems to minimise soil disturbance. Cut or crush stems – damage fronds by cutting them back or crushing them while shoots are still young and tender.

*I  happen to like Bracken in all its subspecific variability

[ARTUROARTISTA]

Micro-NIKKOR Auto 3.5, f/55

[Birna Rørslett]

Triple lens approach when a tandem pair won't do....

Burnt-out filament of a quartz halogen bulb. Imaged at m=1.16 with the Z fc, Kowa 55mm f/0.8, Noct-Nikkor 58mm f/1.2, and Nikkor 50mm f/1.4. No animals were harmed (I did burn my fingers though).

[golunvolo]

Triple lens approach when a tandem pair won't do....

Burnt-out filament of a quartz halogen bulb. Imaged at m=1.16 with the Z fc, Kowa 55mm f/0.8, Noct-Nikkor 58mm f/1.2, and Nikkor 50mm f/1.4. No animals were harmed (I did burn my fingers though).

  Oleee (the image, not the burn!)

[Ian Watson]

Down in the weeds.

Nikon Zf, 24mm f/2.8 AI and a K1 extension ring.

[Bruno Schroder]

4 hectars, an hour away with the car

It looks like you need to learn to drive a tractor …

https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1365-2664.2003.00818.x
Synthesis and applications: In order to develop a national control strategy the following must be considered: rhizome mass differs between sites and in response to control treatments; cutting twice per year is generally most effective; …