Picture Of The Day

Bob2 · « **Reply #3620 on:** 21 Nov 2014, 05:53 pm »

Quote from: milford3 on 21 Nov 2014, 04:31 pm

FDNY off to western New York. You got to love those guys!

Roger that!

bside123 · « **Reply #3621 on:** 21 Nov 2014, 11:10 pm »

I recently inherited a bag full of old SMC Pentax-M Prime Lenses and a couple of vintage, aftermarket, K-mount, telephoto zooms. All circa mid-1970s and all fully manual. So, I found a great deal on a lightly used Pentax K-5, digital body, and started shooting. These old lenses are well built, elegant, sharp and take great pics... real nice for 40 year old glass, and besides, it's a great exercise to shoot all manually again.

Here's a couple from today to show you the image quality of the SMC Pentax-M, 135mm Prime. Accounting for the ASP-C crop sensor, this prime lens is effectively 200mm. Not bad for rescuing it from a closest and digging it out of a bag!

Illinois Central Rails

Autumn Wisteria Pods

Maritan · « **Reply #3622 on:** 21 Nov 2014, 11:20 pm »

BSide and Bob2 - Thanks for the feedback.

BSide - Nice pictures with the manual glass. Really high quality pictures.

FireGuy · « **Reply #3623 on:** 23 Nov 2014, 03:43 pm »

Quote from: milford3 on 21 Nov 2014, 04:31 pm

FDNY off to western New York. You got to love those guys!

Situation is increasingly better. 60 degrees tomorrow...could not have come at a better time. Here are some images to best explain this past week. And yes, FDNY in town with some special units. Our Brothers are here (from all areas).

WireNut · « **Reply #3624 on:** 23 Nov 2014, 03:45 pm »

Wow, unbelievable

Phil A · « **Reply #3625 on:** 23 Nov 2014, 04:31 pm »

Quote from: WireNut on 23 Nov 2014, 03:45 pm

Wow, unbelievable

+1 - when I lived up north (not that far up though), over a course of about a dozen years we had two 30+ inch storms, and, the last one at the beginning of 2010 was one of the many factors that pushed me further south. I did the 55 foot long driveway by hand (got a snowblower the year after that but only used it once for about 6 inches of snow). On the prior 30+ inch storm I did the driveway, most the upper and lower deck (so I could use the hot tub on the lower deck vs. letting the stuff slowly melt in shade and not using it for a couple of months) and enough the street so I could get the SUV out there and flatten enough of the cul-de-sac so that when they eventually plowed it was easier. Could not stand being stuck in four years back for about 2 days until they got to plowing it. Can't image getting through the recent storms way up north at this point.

FireGuy · « **Reply #3626 on:** 23 Nov 2014, 10:37 pm »

My last snow pic. Good to see some creativity in light of a rather bad situation.

WireNut · « **Reply #3627 on:** 23 Nov 2014, 10:39 pm »

That's kewl as shit...

Bob in St. Louis · « **Reply #3628 on:** 24 Nov 2014, 12:09 am »

I love the humor, given the current situation. That's fantastic!

Don_S · « **Reply #3629 on:** 24 Nov 2014, 12:12 am »

The picture can be taken both literally and figuratively.

JerryM · « **Reply #3630 on:** 24 Nov 2014, 12:13 am »

Quote from: WireNut on 23 Nov 2014, 10:39 pm

That's kewl as shit...

And freakin' awesome. Here ya' go

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Bob in St. Louis · « **Reply #3631 on:** 25 Nov 2014, 06:18 pm »

That's fantastic!

Maritan · « **Reply #3632 on:** 26 Nov 2014, 02:49 pm »

Views that I had during my trek on a

1. Clear-ish Day:

2. Clear evenings:

3. Clear nights:

Pictures themselves can be clicked for larger version.

PeteG · « **Reply #3633 on:** 26 Nov 2014, 04:53 pm »

^^Very nice.

Bob in St. Louis · « **Reply #3634 on:** 26 Nov 2014, 08:51 pm »

Wow, that's extremely impressive!

WireNut · « **Reply #3635 on:** 26 Nov 2014, 08:54 pm »

Beautiful mountains. Would love to see that in person

brooklyn · « **Reply #3636 on:** 26 Nov 2014, 09:34 pm »

Love the pictures….. Excellent work..

Guy 13 · « **Reply #3637 on:** 26 Nov 2014, 10:33 pm »

Nice pictures.

PeteG · « **Reply #3638 on:** 27 Nov 2014, 02:06 am »

Maritan, your "Clear Nights" shot reminded me of some I took a few weeks back.

Maritan · « **Reply #3639 on:** 27 Nov 2014, 02:38 pm »

Thanks all!

PeteG - love the pictures, especially the first one. Where was this taken?

Happy holidays/ Thanksgiving everyone!