[Durango Dude]

Originally Posted by C300

Beautiful shot Amol! Did you shoot any birds there?



Congratulations Ravi.

Heres one from the local church.

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Thanks, C300 and a beautiful church you have there, looks great through your camera.

[AlphaKilo]

After a lot of thoughts and hesitation, posting some of my newbie contributions:
Smiling Alfa:


Raining Window:


Worldly Red:


Sky says my name - sky is yours!!


coming up: images from Bavaria:
Bavarian Alps






Neuschwanstein Castle:


Hohenschwangau Castle:


Hohenschwangau Castle and Alpen lake:

[bluevolt]

The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea - Isak Dinesen

[bablue]

Here is one from my end for the landscape.

[bblost]

Riding back home on roads filled with gold.

[gopinathann]

Photos of Bees are great and excellent landscapes.

I took some photos of Water droplets

[sachinj12]

En route to Goa:

[amolpol]

Originally Posted by C300

Beautiful shot Amol! Did you shoot any birds there?

I intended to do some birding but didn't really get a chance. It gets a bit difficult to find time when you're running with a packed schedule.

There was a flock of bar headed geese at Tso Moriri which was interesting but they decided to swim further out or fly away each time I tried to approach. Other than that I didn't really go looking for the feathered kinds.

[geeash]

Just got a HOYA CPL and couple of other stuffs.

First click with CPL on 18-55 from my balcony

[clevermax]

Originally Posted by AlphaKilo

After a lot of thoughts and hesitation, posting some of my newbie contributions:

Nice clicks! I had been to the castle, but didn't have a good camera then :(

Originally Posted by bablue

Here is one from my end for the landscape.

Nice clicks. Second one begs to get straightened up.

Originally Posted by gopinathann

Photos of Bees are great and excellent landscapes.
I took some photos of Water droplets
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Thanks gopinathann

Originally Posted by geeash

Just got a HOYA CPL and couple of other stuffs.
First click with CPL on 18-55 from my balcony
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I think you could still get a deeper blue and contrasting clouds with the CPL...

This is my most dreaded click ever Male hunter spider portrait..! (These ones are around 10cm diameter)

Sony A35 + Minolta AF 70-210mm f/4 + DCR 250
1/50s, ISO400, f/32, 120mm. I had dismantled and reassembled the lens 2 days back for yet another fungus removal. This is a shot taken after that. Humid Kerala weather is taking a toll on my old lenses. Looks like the lens just don't want to under-perform even with some fungus in it, I am loving its sharpness!!

[geeash]

Originally Posted by clevermax

I think you could still get a deeper blue with the CPL...

Tell me how. This is the maximum i could get. Is there a technique behind it?

[clevermax]

Originally Posted by geeash

Tell me how. This is the maximum i could get. Is there a technique behind it?

Can I assume that you rotated the CPL ring and found the angle at which it have the maximum deep blue sky effect? I guess that's the only thing to do...

Moreover, the effect is maximized when you shoot skies when sun is at any of the sides with respect to your camera.

[AlphaKilo]

Originally Posted by clevermax

Nice clicks! I had been to the castle, but didn't have a good camera then :(

Thankyou sir. Fantastic spider. Well even I dont have a top camera, but just a good one.

here goes some more from my side: (Taken today at Dachau Concentration camp memorial site, Dachau, Munich, Germany):

[clevermax]

Originally Posted by AlphaKilo

Thankyou sir. Fantastic spider. Well even I dont have a top camera, but just a good one.
here goes some more from my side: (Taken today at Dachau Concentration camp memorial site, Dachau, Munich, Germany):

After watching movies like "Escape From Sobibor" & "The Boy in Striped Pyjamas", it is horrifying to see the pictures of such concentration camps - if you think about what used to happen to people whom the SS brought there. I'll surely get chills if I enter one of them for a tourist visit. Thanks for sharing.

[Rudra Sen]

Last evening Mumbai coastline after rain.