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My dad wants to get one of these for our backpacking trip in early August. I’ll be interested to hear how it works out-I’ve never known anybody with one.

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Yeah, I’m not seeing anything TOO out of the ordinary. Me=confused.

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This looks kinda awesome. Definitely something I could use.

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Awesome. Am I to understand from your comment that this deal is still available? If so, please direct me to where I might be able to take advantage of it.

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Hey, I just realized, my 3rd entry in this contest was my 100th farktography entry. Yay, a century of pictures!

EDIT:
Also, according to my calculations, I won’t have Ultra Farktographer status until Wednesday, May 15, 2013, and I won’t have Elite Farktographer status until Wednesday, June 2, 2021. And that’s only if I participate with three entries in every contest until then. Ouch. Stupid gap in my participation profile.

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Your instincts are right on there, U-man, I wanted a contest in which I could use that photo effectively. It doesn’t hurt that there’s some other spectacular entries this week, though. I love cloudscape photography.

EDIT: I love some of those Bees, Orionid, especially the first and last. Man, I can’t wait to live there. Just 3 more months.

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Thanks, Rav and U-man, I’ve been waiting since last summer to use that pic in a contest. Here’s to hoping the trekkies come out in force to vote this week.

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ARRRG. My internet here decided to suck massively for the past several hours (and counting), so I’m just posting now. So frustrating.

Anyway, here’s some bees:
https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/m59nI-hVz1H2U6FWnAdXYQ?feat=directlink
https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/tYirUHlUcba-dbzmAm7cSg?feat=directlink
https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/mTQy7YEtEKPrEHxTcZV0-A?feat=directlink
https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/MmHhMEhPMHN4N5xrZ_ThxA?feat=directlink
https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/ZzSg4IHw1ne-2KtSKNcI_w?feat=directlink

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justkat, I love that photo, but I think the primary focus is definitely the rider and not the clouds, which seem almost incidental to the photo. Sorry. At least you can save it for some other contest, though.

CauseISaidSo, I think those are okay for the theme. Really nice crepuscular rays too.

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Well, donut bokeh on the mirror lenses is to be expected-it’s more or less the same optical design as a telescope (basically looks like a cassegrain), and since the bokeh shape is basically just the aperture shape, it would have to be a donut.

So what I’m hearing so far is that the the 50mm, f/1.8 is probably the best bet , with possibly the 70-300 mm or a longer macro, or the Tokina 12-14mm if I can afford more than one lens. At this point I’m leaning towards going with the 50mm, macro rings (found a nice set on B&H) and possibly the Tokina, which I think would cover most of what I want to do. I like the idea of the 70-300mm, but I’m just not sure if it would give me that much extra capability over my beloved 55-200mm.

I think I might be able to fit this all in my budget! Horray!

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I was recently gifted a new Nikon for my birthday

Your gift-ers are smart people.

Oh, and welcome!

Agreed. Allow me to extend my own welcome, Yugoboy.

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Awesome, so now I’ve got somebody saying they like every one of my prospective entries. I guess that’s not a bad thing, from a certain point of view.

Els, I like “Mimi 2,” “Chatting with Deac0nB1ues,” and “Evil Twins’ Twins and Twins on Boob Quake Day.” I think the evil twins one will do especially well with the fark crowd.

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It really does. Thanks, guys, I think that helped me decide.

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No matter what the result is, I’m just glad we can have nice reasoned discussions about big issues like this and not explode into a wharrgarbl volcano. Kudos to the farktography community for being level-headed.

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Okay, third time’s the charm-hopefully this won’t post in triplicate.

My brother is a humorous subject-as such, I’ve got a couple of pics to decide between. Some help would be appreciated:

Option A: https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/hvSy7PKJci5m6KHlaCw_UQ?feat=directlink
My brother with sword on Mt Sunday (Edoras from the Lord of the Rings movies). This picture looks weird, because my GND filter was mis-rotated (we had gusting winds of ~70 mph up there, so I was more worried about staying upright). Still, I like the pose.

Option B: https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/e7mnY3whzejSFu2np8PaTg?feat=directlink
Needs no explanation

Option C: https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/H3mLpfE5gOOi3utXYbNzWw?feat=directlink
Again,very low light, he’s a little blurred. I like the cheeky pose, though.

Option D: https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/rhRIry9uhPPyvx_qH412tg?feat=directlink
My brother and the Queen. It’s pretty similar to the first one, so I’m leaning towards not using it.

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