Photo-A-Day -- August 2013

pippigurl

Nikon D800 | Nikkor 105 2.8 | 1/200 @ f/13 | ISO 400

dissent

Vipmediastar_JZ

jimo

D600 | Nikkor 24-120 @ 120mm | f11 | 1/160th | ISO 640

Rx4Photo

D800; N24-70/2.8 @ 70mm ; f/6.3; 1/125; ISO 250

proudgeek

D90 | 70-200 | 70mm | f/6.3 | 20s | ISO 400 | 10-stop ND filter

itsnotmeyouknow

Another from Figueres:

autofocus

Back to motocross we go. Shot the Lucas Oil Pro Motocross Nationals at Unadilla Saturday. The track is located in upstate New York sixty or so miles West of Albany. Beautiful track and a spectacular day for racing and photography.

aodwoz

Today is Qixi Festival - Chinese Valentine's Day. I think it is time to do something I wanted to accomplish long time ago - shooting milky way.

Last night, I did a little research for how to shoot Milky Way, and download an app called PLANETS, which helps me to track down galaxy. About 10:30PM, I loaded up my gears and drove over an hour all the way to west into Everglades National Park, in order to avoid the city light. Its pretty cool that stars are becoming more and more visible as I am getting away from the city. Finally I found a great spot right after I passed the county line. Ant then it is almost midnight. I stayed for about 20 mins. When I got home. the time is 1:30AM. Believe or not, I only have 8 shots. And I pick out last 2 shots as my compositions. After I got home, I couldnt wait for the morning when I wake up to process the pictures. So I spent about 40 minutes on editing this picture I am showing here. the other one only takes 5 mins or so. lol

The Reason I went on Qixi Festival is because the tale. Here is the general story from Wikipedia.

the link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qixi_Festival

The general tale is about a love story between Zhinu (the weaver girl, symbolizing Vega) and Niulang (the cowherd, symbolizing Altair).[1] Their love was not allowed, thus they were banished to opposite sides of the Silver River (symbolizing the Milky Way).[1][9] Once a year, on the 7th day of the 7th lunar month, a flock of magpies would form a bridge to reunite the lovers for one day.[1] There are many variations of the story.[1] A variation follows:

A young cowherd, hence Niulang (Chinese: 牛郎; literally "cowherd"), came across a beautiful girl--Zhinü (simplified Chinese: 织女; traditional Chinese: 織女; literally "weavergirl"), the seventh daughter of the Goddess, who had just escaped from boring heaven to look for fun. Zhinü soon fell in love with Niulang, and they got married without the knowledge of the Goddess. Zhinü proved to be a wonderful wife, and Niulang to be a good husband. They lived happily and had two children. But the Goddess of Heaven (or in some versions, Zhinü's mother) found out that Zhinü, a fairy girl, had married a mere mortal. The Goddess was furious and ordered Zhinü to return to heaven. (Alternatively, the Goddess forced the fairy back to her former duty of weaving colorful clouds, a task she neglected while living on earth with a mortal.) On Earth, Niulang was very upset that his wife had disappeared. Suddenly, his ox began to talk, telling him that if he killed it and put on its hide, he would be able to go up to Heaven to find his wife. Crying bitterly, he killed the ox, put on the skin, and carried his two beloved children off to Heaven to find Zhinü. The Goddess discovered this and was very angry. Taking out her hairpin, the Goddess scratched a wide river in the sky to separate the two lovers forever, thus forming the Milky Way between Altair and Vega. Zhinü must sit forever on one side of the river, sadly weaving on her loom, while Niulang watches her from afar while taking care of their two children (his flanking stars β and γ Aquilae or by their Chinese names Hè Gu 1 and Hè Gu 3). But once a year all the magpies in the world would take pity on them and fly up into heaven to form a bridge (鹊桥, "the bridge of magpies", Que Qiao) over the star Deneb in the Cygnus constellation so the lovers may be together for a single night, which is the seventh night of the seventh moon.

flight3

Nice one aodwoz! Here's my star shot from earrrrly this morning. This was actually just a test shot at ISO 400, but it turned out well and I was able to remove most of the noise.



D3100 | 18-55mm | ISO400 | F4.5 | 18mm | 13 sec

Capt_Bane

@TheGipper: Amazing freezes ...... I didn't know falconers kept vultures as well ....
@autofocus .... the photo of the high-rise is great !

Here's another bird, a Rufescent Prinia in non-breeding plumage; this was the first time I ever saw this bird, and surprisingly, couldn't find many snaps of this plumage on the 'net either .....



Regars, AM

aviachar

View of Florence from the Duomo

Nikon D40 | 18-55

Peter

Ornament
Nikon D800E, Zeiss Makro-Planar 50mm f/2

SquamishPhoto

D800 • 200mm f2 @ f2 • 1/200 • ISO 100

ttsisgood

The Lighthouse on Baker Island, Acadia National Park, Maine.

TheGipper

adamz

D800 + N300/4 + TC14 - Wild Animal Sanctuary, Denver, CO

proudgeek

Nice one Peter (and others). I have a soft spot for minimalist work like that.

This is just a little late afternoon light and a little Silver Efex.


D90 | 70-200 | 70mm | f/2.8 | 1/60s | ISO 400

Msmoto

Another animal...

[Deleted User]

Heron caught today.

pippigurl

Nikon D800 | Nikkor 24-70 2.8 | 1/40@f14 | ISO 400

Yetibuddha

Finally have some time to practice my photography after being overwhelmed with work since April. Missed everybody.
Storm brewing over the Lower Falls, Yellowstone:

Golf007sd

D4 10.5 2.8 Fisheye 1/320 ISO 100 @ f/10
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jimo

I was at the Marymoor Park near Seattle and found these two dogs playing in the water.



D600 | Nikkor 80-400 @ 400mm | f7.1 | 1/1250th | ISO 400

SquamishPhoto

Welcome back, Yeti. Its nice to see your landscapes again. :]