Random back yard photographs

 

Winter morning Sun-star / Just After Sunrise / over Miller's Mountain, Arkansas

 

One more winter sky / Leica M Monochrom I / 35mm f2.5 Iberit / F16

 

Winter Sky Scene / Sigma DP1 Quattro

 

X marks the spot

 

Christmas EveEve sky

 

The sky is confused

Firebird in the noon-time sky

Dogs go out at sunrise / BW clouds at human getup time

Yukon Territory Canada

Leica M9 / Summicron Rigid / Cloudy Sky / Merged

Another winter sky shot / Fuji X-T1 / 12mm Samyang / HDR

Leica X typ 113 / 2018 fall / Valley View / Miller's Mountain / Kessler's Mountain / Sky /G Course

The flare/photo site light up is a result of shooting at the sun, eh?

April in Paris / Pont d'Austerlitz

The sign on the bridge in the foreground (Metz, Nancy, with lane advice) is for vehicular traffic which flows next to the Seine and under the first arch just below this photo. The view across the bridge is of the left bank with the Austerlitz train station's dome in the middle. It is a very large station with a nice park adjacent to the right (from this perspective). That's where we were headed when I took this shot. We were going to ride the train from there to the Eiffel Tower but of course this day the transit worker's strike had shut it down. We were told it didn't exist by transit workers but with all the signage, etc. it was just shut down for the day. We took alternate metro lines and got there anyway with no particular help from the transit officials on site but Paris is a big and something of a hard city. It is a also a great city and obviously has been hardened against terrorism, etc. with barricades, bomb threats, ongoing strikes and so on.

Leica M8 / 40mm F2 M Rokkor @ F8 / 4 shots merged in Photoshop / Post with a touch of Topaz

Managed to pick up an M8 on ebay at a really good price. It has @ 22,000 actuations and the requisite dust particles on the sensor (will clean off one day). The M Rokkor 40 is pretty much a Summicron clone and works well on the camera, at just over 50mm, adjusted. I shot it at F8 toward the sky to view the dust (which I knew would be there) and put together four shots in a block to pretend I have a medium format shooter. Since you can see distortion in the fence, you know it ain't medium format, but what the heck. Anyway, Happy Father's Day to all fathers, tomorrow. It may be a little hot but it's another beautiful day to be alive.

 

Clouds before and after big rain / Fujifilm X100s

Low Ceiling on Miller's Mountain / Fuji X100s

Early morning backyard shot

Virtual sky writing / Sony RX1