Lily I love a California Christmas...I've had one every year since I was born...but this year mom and dad moved to Texas. I was actually hoping to have a white Christmas, well that didn't happen...but it has been butt cold!!! My sister is jealous that I get to return to weather in the low seventies!!!
I love all those white Christmas pictures.
"So heaven meets earth like a sloppy wet kiss, and my heart turns violently inside of my chest, I don't have time to maintain these regrets, when I think about, the way....He loves us..."
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That is one impressive macro feature! Imagine all the little tiny things you can take beautiful pictures of with that ability. I'm positively jealous.Originally Posted by ClaesGefvenberg
Hey, that's greatCongratulations!
I decided to give my new camera a test run. It was pitch black outside,
so I stayed at home just playing around with it. Behold the final proof:
I needed something to try the macro ability on, so... well...
/Claes
the luminous grass of the prairie hides
feet lovely and still as sleeping doves,
porcelain bones strong enough to carry a life,
but weighty and unmovable
As black Dakota hills. ~ Riesa
I'm so thrilled you liked the pictures! I'm quite proud of the house one, I think it was more luck than skill but it did turn out quite nice. I have many of the same thoughts about those old houses, Lady, I think of all the stories it has to tell, all the events that went on there and now it's just a shell. The country side is littered with them around here but a lot of them are really just homesteading shacks, this one was a little more substantial.
I have a few more pictures to share and then I should be done.We made it out to the lake today which is always fascinating, it freezes a little different every year and every year there are new and bizarre 'ice scupltures'.
This year, there is a significant pressure ridge in the bay which was a source for all kinds of oddities, this was the first one we encountered.
This was the second, this one truly looks like a sculpture.
This is a picture of the same feature, just from a different perspective and here you can see a good length of the pressure ridge.
This is one my dad took. That's me, messing with my camera settings.
And this was a scene on our walk back home, this is one the beach, I just love the red of the willow.
holy misprounounced tolkien! these are absolutely incredible, Idril.
"Don't matter who they are, anybody sets foot in this house, they are company and don't let me catch you remarking on their ways like you were so high and mighty."
Aw, I'm sorry!But you are coming back, so...
Me, too. Those ones Idril took are really wacky!
Tomorrow always holds the promise of something new and exciting. I am the Jetsons meet the Flintstones.
Further trials with the new camera:
Close-up of a popcorn.
Some tiny mushrooms I found in the forest today (On New Years Eve, no less!)
In case you're wondering, we had snow but it disappeared...
The sad remains of a nice tree.
And another one.
My car on the other side of a small tunnel.
(Note how the zoom contracts the view).
/Claes
Hanlon's Razor: "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."
You mean on Mars? :PThey're all so pretty! I wish it snowed here!
"Everytime I look in your eyes, everyday I'm watching you die."
But they don't have nearly the personality of the tree pictures, do they?
And Claes, that camera is amazing. I especially like the picture of the mushrooms, the colors are so rich and the detail is so precise. I love the shadows on the popcorn too.
the luminous grass of the prairie hides
feet lovely and still as sleeping doves,
porcelain bones strong enough to carry a life,
but weighty and unmovable
As black Dakota hills. ~ Riesa
Very nice pictures Claes. I meant to ask you. You chose Canon over Nikon. Was there any criteria you went by? I'm looking to buy a digital SLR in the near future. I traditionally have gone with Nikon in the past. Was it a conscious thing on your part to go with Canon?
LET THERE BE LIGHT
"Love follows knowledge." – St. Catherine of Siena
My literature blog: http://ashesfromburntroses.blogspot.com/
In a way, yes. There was in fact a Nikon in my sights for a while, but I soon realized that the Canon (N.B: In this particular case, using my particular criteria) provided a much bigger bang for the €. It actually outshone the other cameras I tried in performance as well as price.
I have a feeling that Canon produced a winner with this one.
Criteria? I obviously wanted good optics and this one has a great 10x zoom lens with good macro ability to boot. I also wanted to be able to abandon auto, and fiddle with the settings myself (I do that a lot). It uses std AA batteries which is a great advantage over all those custom made things. Once I decided, it became a matter of trying it out and getting used to it which I'm working on at the moment.
I'm pretty satisfied thus far, but it will take a while yet until I'm really familiar with it. By that I mean being able to set it up fast and correct without much thought, and basically without looking. That takes time.
P.s. I almost forgot: Happy New Year, all. It's 2008 here by now, and all of a sudden we have snow again.
/Claes
Last edited by ClaesGefvenberg; 12-31-2007 at 08:24 PM.
Hanlon's Razor: "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."
Claes,Amazing pictures; I love closeups and I love woodland photos, such as your mushrooms and that neat tree trunk. Your new camera seems to be delivering and doing a wonderful job. The photos are so clear and crisp!That last shot, with the can as the tunnel, looking towards your car, is incredibly creative. Keep up the good work!
I love Idril's too - where exactly is that - is it a beach?...Those formations in the ice are amazing! Good job, Idril! It looks mighty cold there, but awesomely beautiful. The snow is so white.
Yes, HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE!
LET US HOPE AND PRAY FOR A PEACEFUL 2008!
"It's so mysterious, the land of tears."
Chapter 7, The Little Prince ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The last picture is on a beach but the rest are on the middle of a frozen lake. Every year it's a great adventure to get out on the ice for the first time and see what odd things the lake has done. And it was cold there, very cold... and windy, which just adds to the fun.
the luminous grass of the prairie hides
feet lovely and still as sleeping doves,
porcelain bones strong enough to carry a life,
but weighty and unmovable
As black Dakota hills. ~ Riesa
Thank you Claes. I have seen that Canon in certain evaluations has edged Nikon in the digital SLR. I will personally evaluate both. But I do have a certain loyalty to Nikon, so if it's close I will probably stay with Nikon.
LET THERE BE LIGHT
"Love follows knowledge." – St. Catherine of Siena
My literature blog: http://ashesfromburntroses.blogspot.com/
That camera is amazing Claes! I really like the picture of the mushrooms.
"Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
W.B.Yeats
"If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
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Claes, your pictures are awesome. My favorite was the popcorn, but they were all well done. Hope you will continue to give us samples of your work! And a Happy New Year to you, too (and to everyone else, YAY!)
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty
~Albert Einstein
I was reorganizing my 2007 pictures before I burned them onto disc and I found this one I wanted to share. Every summer we go to the local Pow Wow (local to my parents and local to where I grew up, not to where I live now) and I get tons of pictures but my camera isn't really up for that job. It doesn't have a quick enough shutter to pick up the the action of the dancing and it doesn't have a strong enough zoom to capture all the wonderful detail of the costumes but I snap away nonetheless. This picture may not be a great action shot but I love it and I think it captures the experience well. I wish those shadows at the bottom weren't there but to take those away is to wash out everything else so I have learned to live with them.
the luminous grass of the prairie hides
feet lovely and still as sleeping doves,
porcelain bones strong enough to carry a life,
but weighty and unmovable
As black Dakota hills. ~ Riesa
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