Picture Of The Day

Browntrout · « **Reply #740 on:** 11 Feb 2009, 01:09 pm »

Hello everyone, I recently moved after changing my job. I now live on Portland in Dorset England. Here is a couple of pictures I took yesterday after going for a jog. Being a small island, only three miles by six, the clifftops that the pictures look out from are only a five minute walk from my house. It will be the home of the yachting for the Olympics in 2012. I hope you enjoy as much as I did.
Looking back towards Dorset

And looking out Southeast and towards France

For someone who likes to fish it's about as good as it gets I suppose

nathanm · « **Reply #741 on:** 20 Feb 2009, 05:27 pm »

Philistine · « **Reply #742 on:** 21 Feb 2009, 02:02 pm »

Quote from: Browntrout on 11 Feb 2009, 01:09 pm

Hello everyone, I recently moved after changing my job. I now live on Portland in Dorset England. Here is a couple of pictures I took yesterday after going for a jog. Being a small island, only three miles by six, the clifftops that the pictures look out from are only a five minute walk from my house. It will be the home of the yachting for the Olympics in 2012. I hope you enjoy as much as I did.
Looking back towards Dorset

And looking out Southeast and towards France

For someone who likes to fish it's about as good as it gets I suppose

Thanks for posting these - it brings back memories of Dorset, my favourite County, as I lived in Weymouth briefly in the mid-70's. My kids have seen pictures of Durdle Door and think it's Halo 3! Anyway you have great photo opportunities close by - Chesil Beach, Maiden Castle, Bridport...please keep them coming, it brings back the memories.
You're very fortunate to live in Portland.

WerTicus · « **Reply #743 on:** 27 Feb 2009, 08:08 am »

i ordered this lens today:

50mm f1.4, who's excited!?

Browntrout · « **Reply #744 on:** 1 Mar 2009, 02:20 pm »

Cheers, will do.

jqp · « **Reply #745 on:** 2 Mar 2009, 02:15 am »

cropped

available light from streetlight - this is snow falling over time

Device:   Nikon D40
Lens:   VR 18-200mm F/3.5-5.6G
Focal Length:   24mm
Focus Mode:   AF-A
AF-Area Mode:   Closest Subject
VR:   ON
AF Fine Tune:
Exposure
Aperture:   F/3.8
Shutter Speed:   2.2s
Exposure Mode:   Programmed Auto
Exposure Comp.:   -0.7EV
Exposure Tuning:
Metering:   Matrix
ISO Sensitivity:   ISO 400

Optimize Image:   Vivid
Color Mode:   Mode IIIa (sRGB)
Tone Comp.:   Normal
Hue Adjustment:   0°
Saturation:   Enhanced
Sharpening:   Medium high

jqp · « **Reply #746 on:** 2 Mar 2009, 04:21 am »

Original photo info

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VR:   ON
AF Fine Tune:
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Browntrout · « **Reply #747 on:** 2 Mar 2009, 02:35 pm »

As requested......

Chesil Beach was used during the second war as a place to develope, test and practice deployment of the bouncing bomb, the remains of a crashed bomber can be dived here, just the rubber fuel tanks remain though.

'In Memory Of Our Glorious Dead 1914-1918'

Below is Underhill, where I live is Tophill for obvious reasons.

.....and as a very poor finish......'Music, Wine and Feet'

nathanm · « **Reply #748 on:** 2 Mar 2009, 04:54 pm »

JQP, that streetlight\snowfall one is a real beaut!

I've been really lazy lately, taken to revisiting old work.

I really gotta dust off the gear one of these days.

jqp · « **Reply #749 on:** 2 Mar 2009, 08:10 pm »

Quote from: nathanm on 2 Mar 2009, 04:54 pm

JQP, that streetlight\snowfall one is a real beaut!

Thanks, loving my new tripod!

BradJudy · « **Reply #750 on:** 5 Mar 2009, 06:09 pm »

Nothing fancy, but a fun shot from a recent trip to LA (this was taken in Santa Monica)

JakeJ · « **Reply #751 on:** 11 Mar 2009, 03:02 pm »

First shot is with my new(ish) Panasonic LumixDMC-FZ18. lens by Leica

Just this morning from my front stoop.

This was taken with my old Sony DSC-70, lens by Carl Zeiss. I miss some of this cameras features.

Macro of a Rhododendron blossom with a friend.

Just playin' around

Jake

WerTicus · « **Reply #752 on:** 14 Mar 2009, 08:11 pm »

from my new fa 50mm 1.4 above:

If you don't yet have a fast 50 prime, you need one, fantastic lens. (cheap too)

WerTicus · « **Reply #753 on:** 17 Mar 2009, 08:27 am »

PhilNYC · « **Reply #754 on:** 17 Mar 2009, 01:20 pm »

From the fish tanks at a Chinese restaurant in Flushing NY:

Shot with a point-and-shoot Pentax W60...

Browntrout · « **Reply #755 on:** 22 Mar 2009, 08:29 pm »

Went fishing from the bottom of the cliffs down from my house on a day off work. Here is the selected spot seen from the clifftops....

On the way down the cliffs saw the British Navy's new ship, I believe it is a mine hunter with composite hull and is almost invisible to radar though I know little of it. I think she was testing her systems in the bay but not sure....

Getting closer...

Appologies for the shake but at ten times zoom this was as good as I could get with my little camera...

My selected spot for my first fishing session of the year...

I did not catch any fish but with a sunrise like this I did not mind at all aa...

To top it all off on the way back home the newest Navy ship was joined by one of her older sisters...

All in all a fantastic morning and still all of the day left to enjoy, well worth the early rise

nathanm · « **Reply #756 on:** 6 Apr 2009, 04:33 am »

WerTicus · « **Reply #757 on:** 6 Apr 2009, 07:05 am »

Levi · « **Reply #758 on:** 6 Apr 2009, 11:44 am »

This probably is not the picture of the day. It is the catch of the day!

We caught @200 Caddock/Cod fish in the Stellwagen Bank, MA.

Let's do the math. 200 divided into 5 = lots of fresh fish to take home and share with friends and family.

WerTicus · « **Reply #759 on:** 7 Apr 2009, 06:20 pm »