Fun with MF images - ARCHIVED - FOR VIEWING ONLY

[B L]

Eu, France
Pentax 645 28-45

Michiel, you can turn anything into gold.

 

[armaniphoto]

Arches National Park, Phase one Mamiya 28mm

 

[gandolfi]

A recent image from a few days break on the Island of Jersey

La Corbiere Lighthouse, incoming high tide.

Pentax 645z, 35mm Nd Grad and CPL

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Great shot. Thanks for posting.

Recognised it straight away.

Spent many happy hours down there amongst the rock pools in the 1950s looking for shrimps and winkles and other alien creatures!

Knew one of the old lighthouse keepers who kept the light and the foghorn going in all sorts of weathers. All automated now of course.

You can walk out to the lighthouse along a causeway at low tide.

I live in England now and haven't been back to the Island for quite some time now.

 

[stngoldberg]

Just continue to be amazed at how good the Schneider 60mm is with the P1 100 mpx and the rm3di
Stanley

 

[Deltona]

Great shot. Thanks for posting.

Recognised it straight away.

Spent many happy hours down there amongst the rock pools in the 1950s looking for shrimps and winkles and other alien creatures!

Knew one of the old lighthouse keepers who kept the light and the foghorn going in all sorts of weathers. All automated now of course.

You can walk out to the lighthouse along a causeway at low tide.

I live in England now and haven't been back to the Island for quite some time now.

It's a fascinating place, I would love to be there when its blowing a hoolie, we went over the causeway I did get some very nice images of the place, problem was that low tide was around midday whatr with the bright blue sky and high contrast, it made picture making a lot more difficult. Would be nice to go back to co incide with a low tide and the setting sun. Jersey is going to be getting another visit thats for sure

 

[dave.gt]

It's a fascinating place, I would love to be there when its blowing a hoolie, we went over the causeway I did get some very nice images of the place, problem was that low tide was around midday whatr with the bright blue sky and high contrast, it made picture making a lot more difficult. Would be nice to go back to co incide with a low tide and the setting sun. Jersey is going to be getting another visit thats for sure

Nick,

Live your new web site!!!

 

[Deleted member 7792]

Juvenile northern cardinal. Crape/crepe myrtles in bloom in the background.

Joe

 

[dave.gt]

Beautiful, Joe!!!

As I type these words, our feeder is covered with Cardinals and other birds like the rude Brown Thrasher and tiny charming brown birds that apparently have no name.

I just filled the feeder last night with Song Bird seed that I picked up at Publix. They are going crazy... I guess they tired of just black oil sunflower seeds!

Wish I had a good image of the Cardinals like you have been posting...

 

[Deltona]

Marine Peilstand 1 tower (MP 1 Tower) at Noirmont Point on the Island of Jersey. The tower was built during the German occupation. It was used as an observation platform to direct the several large naval guns that were part of the Lothringen Battery, defending the coastline against attack by the Allies.

Pentaz 645z 45-85mm + CPL

 

[Sarnian]

Jersey is going to be getting another visit thats for sure

Don't overlook Guernsey!

 

[Michiel Schierbeek]

Michiel, you can turn anything into gold.

Thank you! Wished it was literally true.

Stella-Plage
Pentax 645Z 28-45

 

[MGrayson]

Found myself out in a different part of the world. Near Lake Louise in Banff National Park. First the view yesterday, when it was clear:

X1D, 90mm


And then in this afternoon when it turned rainy. I went to Silver Efex for extra drama!

X1D 45mm pano


Best,

Matt

 

[gcap]

Fuji GX680II, 250mm, P45, lens tilted down:



Same location, few years back, 200mm. Notice the difference in depth of field:

 

[D&A]

From a favorite vantage point of mine....

"Celebrating the 4th in the Nation's Capital"
Pentax 645D; FA200mm f4

Dave (D&A)

 

[stngoldberg]

Pascale Marthine Tayou’s site-specific installation for the Redwood, Remember Bimbia (2018) is a pile of painted paving stones that moor the American flag – American history and American futures – in the rubble of its repressed past. The artist’s call to memory, to remember Bimbia, is both a specific invocation of what was once the key slave market in Tayou’s native country of Cameroon— an¬d with it, an acknowledgement of the role that Africans also played in the slave trade— and a larger appeal for us all to accept slavery as “part of our communal history; it is a history that belongs to us all,” as Tayou explains. The slave trade powered the economies of the new world as much as the old. And it was central to the prosperity of the “lively experiment” of Rhode Island: to Newport as a city, and to the Redwood specifically.

This institution’s founder, Abraham Redwood, owed his wealth to the triangle trade and to his sugar plantation in Antigua, where he held nearly three hundred slaves. Even as he championed the Enlightenment ideals of reading and learning, he also represented the contradictory notions of equality that defined colonial America as a slave-owning “democracy” of and for white men. This institution acknowledges the contradictions and complexities of its past, and with this temporary installation, it invites Newport residents and visitors to remember the slave market of Bimbia and the thousands of West Africans who arrived in Newport enchained. At the same time, Remember Bimbia celebrates the contributions of people of all “colors,” evoking the revolutionary spirit of 1968 – fifty years ago this summer – through its “riotous” color and the paving stones flung in the name of liberty.

Stanley

 

[MGrayson]

Just upstream from this island are the large and dramatic Wapta Falls. The mist and light (and excessive processing) give it a magical feel.



Matt

 

[tsjanik]

Just upstream from this island are the large and dramatic Wapta Falls. The mist and light (and excessive processing) give it a magical feel.



Matt

Pretty cool Matt and well outside your usual posts; perhaps a new camera inspires new visions. Looks like an image from a dream.

Tom

 

[tsjanik]

New potatoes, dug within the hour. Note that simply washing has caused the peel to detach. The taste is remarkable, well worth growing your own or finding a source. 645Z, 120mm A

_IMG7517 by tsjanik47, on Flickr

 

[D&A]

New potatoes, dug within the hour. Note that simply washing has caused the peel to detach. The taste is remarkable, well worth growing your own or finding a source. 645Z, 120mm A]

To show what a City Slicker I was when growing up...when I first moved out to the suburbs/countryside as a young adult, I always wanted to plant edible food in my own garden. Potatoes was a love of mine, so I planted some. Come late Autumn, I was sorely disappointed as I only saw barely a trace of greenery and a few scraggly vines on the ground, but not much else. I relayed the story to a neighbor. He laughed and laughed and took the heal of his shoe to the area where I planted and dug away the earthen soil until he hit paydirt….potatoes, and a good number of them. Little did I know they grew underground! (OK, everyone can stop laughing now). Anyhow I agree with you Tom, those fresh potatoes were yummy, most notably because I grew them myself. Now don't get me started on why my eight single stalks of corn had no ears of corn on them (oh yea I also learned they need cross pollination). I'm learning!

Your potatoes look wonderful Tom and bet they are delicious.

Dave (D&A)

 

[MGrayson]

Pretty cool Matt and well outside your usual posts; perhaps a new camera inspires new visions. Looks like an image from a dream.

Tom

Thanks Tom,

I think it might have more to do with NYC vs. Alberta :ROTFL:. Such a beautiful place!

Sunset X1D, 21mm,


Best,

Matt