Post your best current shots

I have been at it again, with a Sunday night hit out with some of my wine nerd mates. Six of us lined up for 15 bottles of wine and seven courses of food.


This is one course that was teamed with some Grand Cru Chablis. We ate: Grilled redband snapper on kipfler potatoes, onion & beans and a side of pan fried scallops on pumpkin mash.


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Here are some of the wines


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A few more


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Vintages ranges from 1993 Baroloto a youthful 2007 German Riesling. This does appear excessive, but it started at 4.00pm and finished at 2.30am. I was well and truly buggered by the end, but I was breathtested and blew a very low .04, which meant I could have driven home, but cabbed it anyway.


All shots were at 35mm 2500ISO and available lighting and hand held at about 1/80sec.


Somebody has to do it, right?


Steve

A couple recent shots over the weekend...brought the camera out since the weather cancelled my photo shoot at the beach(raining...again!!)


comments are always welcome!! Hope everyone had a fantastic Easter!!


1D4 and 50 1.2...


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and a shot with the 70-200 2.8ll at 200mm @f16


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Nice shots gregg, I like the second B&W, there is a flattering softness to it, a nice blur and great light.


And Mason and the dog are as cute as ever, but Mason

Denise, That Bird Portrait looks like it belongs on a stamp!


Steve, Love the composition of the 2nd shot!


Gregg, Nice Series, I especially love the soft lighting in the 1st and 3rd shots!


Rich

Steve and Richard...thank you for the comments. I have had several people whom I've showed that shot of Mason to, who have said I should enter that into the local county fair this year. funny, we had just finished mowing the lawn, and I thought I would bring the camera out for some quick snaps. Gotta love digital!! The picture of my wife, Eowyn, well....I actually got her to smile for me!! she sees the camera come out, and gives me some serious stink eye!!


Thank you for looking.

PROM 2011


My son and his GF, we went to the train station to get a few pictures before the Prom. Just as we were getting out of the vehicle we heard the train about a mile away. We had a just a few minutes to set up, the train was moving pretty slow, 20mph or so. I really wasn't planing a train shot, but I wasn't opposed to improvising.


This is my first real attempt at portraits using off camera flash with the pocket wizards.


5D Mark II, 35mm F1.4L, ISO 400, F9.0, 1/200


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Inside the station


F3.2, ISO 400, 1/60. I should have gotten the soft box out of the window reflection.


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A few pics from a GBH rookery.


Canon 7D, 100-400L @ 100 mm, 1/400, f/4.5 ISO 800


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7D, 100-400L @ 400 mm, 1/800, f/5.6, ISO 800


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Brant, Nice capture of the GBH returning to the nest!


Rich

I posted another shot of this young fella in the "Post your Best Portraits" thread, but I thought I'd throw a different one up in here.


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Sean...Really nice picture. But I'd be careful with your new protege, he seems to not like bright lights. [:P]


Rich...thanks for the comments. I've now found two rookeries that are fairly easy for me to get to, so hopefully I get a few good shots once the eggs hatch.