safe haven for tiny formats

[Michael Graves]

I recently stumbled across a converter that allows me to use my Hasselblad lenses on my Nikon cameras. My first impulse was, "But WHY???!!!???" Then again, it was so cheap, I decided to give it a try. That was six months ago. Last night I got bored, saw it laying in the Nikon case and decided to hook it up to the D750 and see what it could do. These are all with the D750, using a Sonnar 250mm f5.6.

That long winding road is my driveway. The telephone pole with the cross beams in the distance is at the corner where it dumps out onto the county road. Now you know why I stay home when it snows.

The dog is named Randy. What makes this shot so rare isn't the composition (which quite frankly, sucks). But rather that he held still long enough for me to get the shot with that monster rig. A couple of weeks ago when I went out to feed the dogs, He ran around the house at about 25 miles an hour. Couldn't call him in...he's deaf as a stone. On his way by, I tried to motion him in. He kept going. After EIGHT laps around the house, he finally came up to get his dinner. And when I say 25mph, it's no exaggeration. We clocked him, all the way up the driveway aforementioned, and he kept up with us all the way to the end, and during the smooth part, we hit 30mph...which is WAY to fast for that driveway.

The last is the same tomato vine I used to test the Bronica (which I still haven't given back, by the way...I better either pay him for it or take it back. Probably the latter.). Only the tomatoes are riper.

[Peter De Smidt]

That's quite a driveway!

[Peter De Smidt]

[jon.oman]

Nice one Peter! What is the story on that fleet of pontoon planes? I don't think I have ever seen so many together at one time.

[Peter De Smidt]

Thanks, Jon. It's because of the EAA Airventure in Oshkosh.

[Richard Wasserman]

Chicago—Yesterday

[Scott Davis]

What is perhaps the world's oldest extant No Parking sign, in Segovia, Spain. It says, in effect, "Carriages left in this plaza will be subject to a fine of 5 pesetas". I believe the sign is 18th century, which would make 5 pesetas a LOT of money.

Hasselblad 500c/m, 120 Makro-Planar (iirc- it's been 17 years since I shot the photo, so you'll forgive me if I don't remember which lens I used). Bergger 200 film souped in PMK Pyro.

[Scott Davis]

Self-portrait at the Iglesia de San Martin, from the intersection of Calle Juan Bravo and Calle Jose Canalejas. An architectural hodge-podge, with Romanesque design predominating and Mudejar elements visible, the church is unusual with three naves and the largest Romanesque arched door in Spain. It also is surrounded on three sides with an arcaded portico.

The church was built in 1117, but is far from the oldest thing in Segovia. That would probably be the aqueduct, which was built by the Romans in the 1st century AD, and was in use into the late 1970s when the town had grown sufficiently that the aqueduct could not supply enough water any more. The aqueduct is a true engineering marvel - the only mortar in the entire structure is in the water channel at the top. Cars could drive under it into the 1990s, when they closed the plaza and several streets feeding off it to traffic. Between the vibrations from the vehicles and the diesel exhaust, they were causing escalating damage to the aqueduct.

[austin granger]

Trumpet, Beaverton by Austin Granger, on Flickr

Portland by Austin Granger, on Flickr

[Corran]

Last night was finally clear and I worked on shooting the Andromeda Galaxy again from about 2am till dawn. I combined all the images from last night with additional ones from September last year and was able to make this image, which I'm quite happy with:



There's plenty of better M31 images but I'm getting better, I think. The multi-night stacking seems to really help. I will continue to "add data" to this stack as the year progresses.

On another note I did some preliminary tests shooting this on Fuji Instax. I should be able to get a good result but I need about 4 hours of imaging time. Hopefully that will happen soon.