Pictures Taken By you...

[vheissu]

Lol! yeah, but they make you look cool and such a pro when you walk down the street with this massive SLR!

Actually, there is no point in spending a thousand or so for the latest model, which, granted, will be amazing but will not do you much good if you don't know what to do with it. So, another idea I was having was of getting a second-hand one, for say a couple of years, or at the very least the cheapest SLR, and improving the few techniques I've learned.

Still not focusing on my essays....I just got word that we have an extension for the one essay that everybody in my class has finished, but not for the ones for which we are worried about.

[1n50mn14]

Virgil: I just prefer the Nikon for my style of photography. The quality of the photos is preferable to me than that of Canon. Canon images are way too sharp looking for my taste. Also, I just love the way Nikon feels in my hands. I use a Canon Rebel when I do portrait photography because of the clarity of the image it produces. When I'm doing landscape or nature though, Canon just makes it look staged. (to me)

[Virgil]

Virgil: I just prefer the Nikon for my style of photography. The quality of the photos is preferable to me than that of Canon. Canon images are way too sharp looking for my taste. Also, I just love the way Nikon feels in my hands. I use a Canon Rebel when I do portrait photography because of the clarity of the image it produces. When I'm doing landscape or nature though, Canon just makes it look staged. (to me)

Hey thanks. That's good to know.

[ClaesGefvenberg]

Claes, this is wild! Last night, I posted a Blog entry about an igloo that has a lot of detail in it, almost like the pictures that you have posted above! Freaky!

Did you really? Yes, that is freaky... Or maybe great minds.... Nah.

Claes, what wonderful pictures. It looks erie in there, and very cold.

Not very cold. Just a couple of degrees below freezing.

Claes, that hotel is fabulous. Do people actually sleep there?

Oh yes, it's no big deal as long as you are properly insulated from the ice and the
furs take care of that. Winter sleeping bags will do very nicely. In fact, it is not
nearly as cold as sleeping in a tent in the winter (Done that during my military
service), and the sound insulation is way better

I asked Claes about it and he preferred Canon.

Yes, from what I was choosing between: I stayed in the high end compacts. I admit that I would have liked a SLR, instead, but this one I can bring along nigh on all the time. It's really up to your individual yardstick.

Further pictures:

Laponian central heating (In a lap cot).


And a couple of close ups:




An interesting fact: This sauna changing room was open to the elements...
Like in No glass in the window


We went skinnydipping btw: Not in the river (it would have taken too much effort to get through the ice), but in the snow. This tub came in handy afterwards.


Just a kerosene lamp...


And the odd snowmobile...


/Claes

[Niamh]

I cant believe i've missed all these amazing pics! You all have such a talent!

[B-Mental]

the reindeer antlers are cool, I have a nordic lodge in the mountains of Montana. Our door is a blanket, and we have a small smokeless fire inside it

[kiz_paws]

Claes, beautiful pictures -- that second fire one was my favorite -- how wonderfully you took that picture!

B -- let me guess, you are changing over to the Pirates?

[Madhuri]

From my blog, some pictures of The Taj

[bluevictim]

I brought my new camera to Yosemite last weekend.

El Capitan:


Glacier Point:


Yosemite Valley:


Enjoy!

[kiz_paws]

Those pictures are stunning!

[ClaesGefvenberg]

Maddie and bluevictim: I may never see those places "live", so I really enjoyed your great pictures... Well done, and keep them coming.

About El Capitan in Yosemite: Would I be correct in assuming that it attracts base jumpers?

/Claes

[Idril]

Oh Blue, those are beautiful! They almost make me want to leave the prairie.

I'm going to post a few of my dad's pictures again. The first one is of the lunar eclipse earlier this week. If you look really carefully to the north and southwest of the moon, you can see Jupiter and...Venus? Mars? I can't remember now but there's a couple planets there as well.



My dad just sent me these pictures. We were supposed to go there this weekend but my oldest boy came down wtih influenza so we had to stay home but my dad sent this picture this morning with the message, "Not to make you feel bad or anything but this is what we woke up to this morning". I replied that it did make me feel bad.

[kiz_paws]

Great photos, Idril! (That lunar eclipse came on Kurt Cobain's 'birthday', so I found that rather cool.) The photo looks like something you'd see on the cover of Scientific American!

And the winter scenes -- yeah!! But we'll be getting some of that dusting for the forest in due time (once the cold snap goes back to whence it came...). I believe this weekend will unveil some hoarfrost because the minus thirty to forty range is now done. [Maybe ....]

[jon1jt]

Breathtaking photos, Idril, wow.

So here's my photo looking out my front door, taken in late October, 6pm-ish. The photo is fuzzy and there's a strange light in the middle of it, looks like a swann, or duck, or flamingo. I dunno. Whatever it is, it's pretty cool.

[kiz_paws]

Jon, that is really cool! I'd venture to say that it was a duck ... but it is difficult to tell. Such colours, though, WOW!