Tell us what pictures you have taken recently (that are interesting)

Giles_Habibula · June 19, 2016, 7:41am

Kadath, those are amazing!

Giles_Habibula · June 19, 2016, 7:53am

About 20 years ago, I had never before seen that painting.
The girlfriend and I were at a Fargo mall, where all the local grade schools were displaying paintings done by their children.
Most of the paintings were appropriately amateurish, but still fun to view and admire in many cases.
But one caught my eye. Some kid had done a painstaking re-creation of Andrew Wyeth’s “Christina’s World”, only I didn’t know it was a copy. I thought the kid had come up with it himself. The execution was of course amateurish, but I thought the composition and everything else about it was simply amazing for a fifth grader. I must have stood there and stared at it for a good half hour, just blown away, when my girlfriend found me. I said, “Honey, look at this! Some fifth grader painted this!”

And since the mall was about to close, we left.
But I couldn’t leave. It was really bothering me. I had decided that I MUST buy that painting, whatever it took. I told my girlfriend, “Trust me; This kid’s gonna go places, and I must own that painting!”

I returned to the painting to view it again before going to find someone in charge in order to locate the artist.
It was while examining the painting again that I noticed the child’s name in the corner of the painting. And below it, the name of Wyeth.
My hopes of sponsoring a future artistic genius were crushed. That kid really had me going.

Kadath · June 19, 2016, 5:36pm

Thankya! Going through the other 2800 shots from yesterday is exhausting but more to follow.

Kadath · June 21, 2016, 7:34pm

Full set now up. Lot of work to cull and edit, I think a lot of em are a bit too blue, will see when printed. Think I get rid of most of the fuzz tho.
16-OC Air Show

16-OC-AirShow-0291 by Sam Posten III, on Flickr

16-OC-AirShow-1306 by Sam Posten III, on Flickr

16-OC-AirShow-1499 by Sam Posten III, on Flickr

16-OC-AirShow-1729 by Sam Posten III, on Flickr

16-OC-AirShow-1893 by Sam Posten III, on Flickr

16-OC-AirShow-2107 by Sam Posten III, on Flickr

16-OC-AirShow-2231 by Sam Posten III, on Flickr

16-OC-AirShow-2517 by Sam Posten III, on Flickr

16-OC-AirShow-2585 by Sam Posten III, on Flickr

16-OC-AirShow-2588 by Sam Posten III, on Flickr

Kadath · June 21, 2016, 7:34pm

16-OC-AirShow-2927 by Sam Posten III, on Flickr

16-OC-AirShow-3168 by Sam Posten III, on Flickr

16-OC-AirShow-3458 by Sam Posten III, on Flickr

16-OC-AirShow-3649 by Sam Posten III, on Flickr

Alan_Dunkin · June 22, 2016, 10:06am

The other day, on an iPhone 6S+:

Previously…

— Alan

Enidigm · June 22, 2016, 10:28am

Nice.

ineffablebob · June 22, 2016, 12:21pm

Those are some great air show shots, Kadath! I particularly like the one with the Coast Guard chopper and the person hanging off the side.

Kadath · June 22, 2016, 8:40pm

Thanks! There’s a whole series of those with them out the door down to hitting the water if you flip to that link above.

Kadath · July 6, 2016, 1:42am

I only brought my beat up Alpha 6000 to Animal Kingdom. Trying to get sharp and well lit pics on that safari bus hitting 30mph is fricking impossible. Really wish I brought my D500 and 70-300 instead. But… The best camera is what you have with you, made the best of it.

16-Florida-03615 by Sam Posten III, on Flickr

16-Florida-03635 by Sam Posten III, on Flickr

16-Florida-03653 by Sam Posten III, on Flickr

16-Florida-03702 by Sam Posten III, on Flickr

16-Florida-03749 by Sam Posten III, on Flickr

I’m #1!

16-Florida-03680-2 by Sam Posten III, on Flickr

Kadath · August 29, 2016, 12:46am

Yeah, pretty happy with the combo of Nikon D500 and 70-300 VR, all shots from the ‘club’ level. Security doesn’t blink an eye bringing this combo in and it shoots under the lights at 1/640th a second at 3200 ISO like it was daylight. Can’t wait to try it during a real daytime game and see how little noise there will be in those shots.

16-RavensLions-4016 by Sam Posten III, on Flickr

16-RavensLions-4021 by Sam Posten III, on Flickr

16-RavensLions-4030 by Sam Posten III, on Flickr

16-RavensLions-4054 by Sam Posten III, on Flickr

16-RavensLions-3967 by Sam Posten III, on Flickr

16-RavensLions-4111 by Sam Posten III, on Flickr

16-RavensLions-4115 by Sam Posten III, on Flickr

16-RavensLions-4147 by Sam Posten III, on Flickr

16-RavensLions-4197 by Sam Posten III, on Flickr

I really dug the Flicker reduction thing too. Lots more consistent shot to shot.
Full set:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/kadath/albums/72157672077772602

The 70-300 does great panos too =)

16-RavensLions-3947-Pano by Sam Posten III, on Flickr

countzero · September 12, 2016, 1:09pm

From my vacation at the North Sea in Büsum, Germany.

Editer · September 14, 2016, 2:14am

Beautiful!

ineffablebob · October 2, 2016, 11:08pm

It’s ArtPrize time again here in Grand Rapids. Spent a couple of afternoons looking at some of the hundreds of entries. Probably 70-80% of it just kinda bounces off me, but that other 20-30% is amazing. (And I’m sure other people’s 20-30% is different than mine!) I took some pictures which are mostly terrible due to a combination of my (lack of) skill and use of a camera phone, but they can still give you an idea of what’s out there.

Google Photos album
Blog posts with some comments on various pieces: Part 1, Part 2

Here’s a couple of my favorites (bigger versions in that album link above):