February 2018

[Bent Hjarbo]

A room with a view 

[tommiejeep]

Left my box 
From my office window.  I then left the house to go around and shoot from the front but not as interesting , just white and yellow with no afternoon sun coming through the petals .  a7rii 70-200 handheld from small step ladder.  tomorrow I will post one with the Batis 135 f2.8 

[John Geerts]

The main reason for my being off the loop the last months is manifested here. A corner of the living room of my new apartment, with endless forests and snow-capped trees as a backdrop. Oh well.

No idea where the photogear  is buried in the stacks of packing crates. I opened a small box at random and found a D500 and a Canon 35/2.8 TS in F-mount, used these to snap a picture of my current "living situation".

Good luck with 'unpacking'

[John Geerts]

Left my box 
From my office window.  I then left the house to go around and shoot from the front but not as interesting , just white and yellow with no afternoon sun coming through the petals .  a7rii 70-200 handheld from small step ladder.  tomorrow I will post one with the Batis 135 f2.8 

Beautiful image Tom. 

Never saw such a small Crocus, so late in the year.  Nearly March.  Anyway, during the day and the sun, they try to survive

Df  5.8cm/1.4

[tommiejeep]

Hi John, thanks.  I prefer yours    .  We do not have Crocus (at least I've never seen one in Goa).   

[Frank Fremerey]

#198 is very beautiful and makes me long for spring

[armando_m]

Left my box 
From my office window.  I then left the house to go around and shoot from the front but not as interesting , just white and yellow with no afternoon sun coming through the petals .  a7rii 70-200 handheld from small step ladder.  tomorrow I will post one with the Batis 135 f2.8 

Gorgeous image !

[Frank Fremerey]

The main reason for my being off the loop the last months is manifested here. A corner of the living room of my new apartment, with endless forests and snow-capped trees as a backdrop. Oh well.

No idea where the photogear  is buried in the stacks of packing crates. I opened a small box at random and found a D500 and a Canon 35/2.8 TS in F-mount, used these to snap a picture of my current "living situation".

boxing days?

[tommiejeep]

Thanks all  .   This one is with Batis 135 f2.8 at f4. More light and different PP.   This one has a bit more depth in the image but I prefer the PP in the first.  I'll try to get closer and try some shorter FL's.  John , I will try the 58 f1.4 on both the Df and a7rii.   I'll start with the APO Lanthar 90 f3.5 and the go wider.  My wife is complaining about the lack of flowers in the Jungle (our garden  )

[Fons Baerken]

Damage done. Local politicalities cut down the trees in mainstreet, make a flat village even flatter.
At least some 20 Quercus palustris were the chainsaws' victim.

D3 - 35mm f/1.4g

February 21

The number is wrong we are talking about 56!

[Hugh_3170]

Sadly there are now hydraulically operated machines available that can dig out whole trees out and transport them to new sites for transplanting.

Link:  https://www.youtube.com/embed/1IV10M1RbEA?rel=0

This was filmed near Melbourne in Australia.  The equipment is used by the local roading authority that my daughter works for - she is a projects engineer and director and this equipment has saved many trees from being destroyed.

Enjoy.

[Fons Baerken]

Sadly there are now hydraulically operated machines available that can dig out whole trees out and transport them to new sites for transplanting.

Link:  https://www.youtube.com/embed/1IV10M1RbEA?rel=0

This was filmed near Melbourne in Australia.  The equipment is used by the local roading authority that my daughter works for - she is a projects engineer and director and this equipment has saved many trees from being destroyed.

Enjoy.

This can be done here as well, but that would have costed some factors more.

[John Geerts]

The Dutch writer Frank van Pamelen at the presentation of his new book 'The Flying Dutchmen' or De Vliegende Hollander

D800E  85/1.4

[Frank Fremerey]

yesterday at the magic tree.

There was such a strong, almost electrical energy at this place. I tried to symbolize the current & flow in post production...

[Bjørn Rørslett]

A small leap forward in the moving process ... unpacking has commenced and being a nerd, no better place to start by pulling my old Nikons from an open box