May 2021

[Birna Rørslett]

Post your "blog" contributions here  No theme (other than what the passage of time creates), no contest implied, a maximum of one picture per day in the actual month and no more than 4 images per month for NG members, up to 31 for Supporters. You can distribute the contributions as once per week if you so prefer. Enjoy!

[Akira]

Taday's walk was interrupted by sudden rain.

[Fons Baerken]

Taday's walk was interrupted by sudden rain.

Nice temple, maybe you like to explain about the site, Akira.

[Akira]

Nice temple, maybe you like to explain about the site, Akira.

Thank you, Fons.  This is a Shingon temple called Kanzo-in which is considered to be founded at least before 1332.  Its principal image is Dainichi-nyorai (Mahavairocana).

There are quite a bit of temples of different scales around the area in which I live, and it took only 7-8 minutes on foot to get to the temple.

[Fons Baerken]

Thank you, Fons.  This is a Shingon temple called Kanzo-in which is considered to be founded at least before 1332.  Its principal image is Dainichi-nyorai (Mahavairocana).

There are quite a bit of temples of different scales around the area in which I live, and it took only 7-8 minutes on foot to get to the temple.

Thank you Akira for the explanation.

https://www.encyclopedia.com/environment/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/mahavairocana

[Fons Baerken]

May 1

Echium vulgare

Z6, 14-24mm f/2.8

[Imagelover]

Seen 28. of april from a distance a part of an older place in the town of Kristiansund N. Nikon Df with the Nikkor 800mm f/5.6 ED-IF AIS.

[John Geerts]

May first.  Labor Day    The late evening sun disappeared from the streets but  can still be seen in the tree tops

Z7  58/1.4g

[golunvolo]

Strong starting page!

  Another attempt to streetphotography. A small conversation
  Z6, 50mm 1.8s

[Tom Hook]

An early fall snowstorm this past autumn found this maple fully leaved. One lower limb snapped from the added weight. Thankfully this spring, the tree is sending out new leaves near the base of the healing wound. Life goes on.

[Fons Baerken]

May 2

Tulips terminal
D850, Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5

[Akira]

Red alert.

The atmosphere around Japan has been very unstable today.

[Fons Baerken]

Red alert.

The atmosphere around Japan has been very unstable today.

Earthquakes on Hokkaido?

[Birna Rørslett]

Anemone nemorosa Wood Anemone are slowly coming into bloom these days. So I guess it's spring although the temperature doesn't feel appropriate for that season. Oh well.

Nikon Z6, Nikkor-O CRT 55mm f/1.2. Set to f/1.2 obviously. This lens will, by the way, focus to infinity on the Z, but then only a small centre area has any kind of sharpness. For close-ups this issue is moot. The lens performs very well around 1:4-1:5 magnification.

[Akira]

Earthquakes on Hokkaido?

There was a big earthquake in the Tohoku district yesterday (on May 1st), which is considered to be yet another afterquake of the disastrous one that attacked the same district in 2011.