http://flic.kr/p/anaTJP
http://flic.kr/p/anomJh
http://flic.kr/p/anomEJ

I don’t think the year is important as long as they were taken in the summer/capture summer.

Hmm, that makes things more difficult.
Thanks anyway!

Though not as big as the ones in Gotham.

However, weird, huge-eyed, school-girl-uniform-clad figures they do have.

Let’s put it this way. From what I’ve seen, this lens is so good, I’m considering getting it and adapting it to Nikon.

Yeah, I would love that, but it’s pretty much out of my price range right now. Or, to put it another way, I could buy it, but I would have to keep its existence secret from the wife for all eternity.

caradoc
The Tamron one is…Read more

Actually, I think all the external friend-site links went bye-bye.

I think you’re right about that; Farktography was the only one I really used, which is why I noticed its absence.

LeicaLens, it’s good to see you posting again. Funnily enough, I was just thinking today that I hadn’t seen you post in a while, wondering if all was OK there…

Thanks.
I have been busy of late both with work and play, and not really got my act together to post anything in the competitions. I forget to get people’s permission to post their…Read more

Hell, why not swab everyone’s clothes, skin, bags, jewellery etc.?

Travelers have been reporting for several months now that TSA employees have been randomly demanding to swab people’s drinks inside the “secure area” at several airports.

Yes, the TSA is collectively stupid enough to believe that someone might actually be drinking liquid…

Read more

Congrats to U-Man this week![/quote

Fess up- that’s a keyboard macro by now, right?]

Heh.

When I traveled a good bit for field work, I would get my stuff searched following the swabbing every time. I work on contaminated ammunition plant sites so naturally my dirty boots and clothes were going to set off alarms.

Your job sounds a lot more interesting than mine 😥

The security guy took the camera and all my lenses out of the bag, and swabbed them to check for explosive residue. He said it might prove I had been photographing around arms dumps or something.

At ATL I saw a photographer being hassled for “residue” when he had been shooting a fireworks display the night before. This was when they were still…

Read more

some bees:
http://flic.kr/p/9kCmZ3 (Old man in winter)
http://flic.kr/p/9kCn8G
http://flic.kr/p/9kzjHF
http://flic.kr/p/9kzjR6 (this is the one I was most torn about entering or not)
http://flic.kr/p/9kCnaE

I notice there are a few pictures of dogs in the snow, but NONE OF CATS!! That…Read more

/off to finish selecting my shots for this week’s contest…

I may be able to use one or two of those shots if they get developed in time.

i chuckled.

can i infer from your user name why you are still shooting film?

I wish that were the reason! My user name is kind of an in-joke; I have a “fake” Leica lens for my Olympus DSLR. It’s made by Panasonic under licence from Leica. It has the Leica name on the…Read more

From the picture, I take it that the play’s title is referencing the fact there are a lot of tentacles on show?

And, hey, two out of three isn’t that bad

LeicaLens, I won’t presume to answer for orionid, but I believe he’s referencing the famous National Lampoon magazine cover, “If You Don’t Buy This Magazine, We’ll Kill This Dog”.

That’s it!!! That’s exactly was I was trying to think of. Thank you!
I feel like I’ve just had an persistent itch scratched 😀

/I didn’t get the Monty Python reference…Read more

http://www.schneeworld.com/fsm/static-reports/highestvotegettersrecently.html

Ouch. Strong work orionid.

Crap! My name is on that list! Color me shocked and highly pleased!

Oh, and yeah, something, something, nice work orionid, something…

/Sorry, I am very self involved 🙂

Doubly so, it seems 😉

And orionid, I really have to ask:…Read more

That does look to me more like mirror tricks. I was also misleading, sort-of. Morhp-plates is what I was calling it because of some enginerding changes I made, the basic concept is more well known as double slit photography.

There’s a short, but good write-up here.

I called mine morph-plates because I made slots at two different focal lengths…

Read more

It’s kinda like a pinhole, but you use two different (changeable) plates with lines or squiggles on them to completely morph the image in camera. I made a device from a cigar box that attaches to my dslr and has changeable plates, I’m just having trouble fine tuning it. It seems black printer ink is not as opaque as one would like.

I’m still…Read more

I will be interested to see how the cute children pictures fare, given that there is a pretty strong “anti crotchfruit” element on Fark. Not sure that those farkers populate the farktography thread, though.

I wondered about the same thing, which is why I mostly went with animal pics. Your baby monkeys are really cute, BTW.

Bees here. Had a hard…

Read more

Cue the McGuyver theme…. 😉

(I have no idea what a morph-plate is)

isn’t it what they made the little plasticine guy on?

That was actually my first thought. What was the name of Morph’s slightly evil twin/friend? He was made of a lighter coloured plastacine.

I have have one half constructed on the to-finish-soon-ish shelf. I was hoping a) to have it done before this contest, b) to find something worthwhile to shoot with it.

I bought a ten pack of 12×12 mirrored tiles. I cut them into 3.5×12-inch strips. Even with a leveled rig, and a diamond wheel designed for glass, I went through half the box to…

Read more

“Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo?”
“I’m reet here, yer stupid wumman, battering the fook out of Tybalt”

/best read in a Scottish accent

Congratulations–I can only imagine your shock (and delight).

Thanks to LeicaLens for the kind words as well! I was guessing a parachute for your wind b-side, but an awning makes a lot more sense. Let me turn the tables and say that your glider on a mountain shot should be getting way more votes IMO. Love it.

Thanks! Wish there were more voters like you 🙁

There’s some really nice entries this week (I just love weather pictures.) I’m kinda dissappointed that a couple that I REALLY like only have one vote thus far (but I haven’t voted–and it’s way early yet.) They include Zero‘s ‘Let it snow’ (effective use of blur), mason‘s raindrops on a window at 500mph (great color), Uranus‘s kid in the snow…

Read more

LeicaLens, re – Wind: http://flic.kr/p/9draXp – that’s an interesting …

… what the heck IS that thing?

You mean the big green thing flapping around? It was an awning they put up to keep the sun off them. The ladies were there to watch the gliders (a shot of which went into my “A’s”.
We were up near Mt. Aso…Read more

A couple of Bees:
Rain: http://flic.kr/p/9dufqE
Wind: http://flic.kr/p/9draXp

Yeah, I’m going to have to fall back on the archives for this one as well. All of the interesting stuff will be coming up in a few months. Right now it’s nothing but gray.

Same goes for me, pretty much. On top of that, I haven’t had time to get out and shoot recently.
Still, I have a couple of decent ones in the archives that might do okay.…Read more

Wait till I make the slow transition from Canon to Hasselblad…

In my wettest wettest dreams

Can I come too?

well, I guess. As long as you do it do on the other side of the bed… 😯

/just started a slow transition to Canon

And the battle rages on… 😆

Wait till I make the slow transition from Canon to Hasselblad…

In my wettest wettest dreams

/just started a slow transition to Canon