Wow, great shots this week! Hopefully the rainproblems in Australia stop any time soon though, my best wishes to them.


I have never submitted before in what you shot this week post...mainly because I'm always late with sorting and quick-editing [A] Months behind here...


Tuesday the 4th we had a partial solar eclipse here in the Netherlands. Unfortunately it was too cloudy and there was only one very small area of free view. This area was a lot higher, so the sun was already a lot brighter than it would have been when closer to the horizon. Nonetheless it was very beautiful to watch. Better than the photo's []





5D2 ~ 70-200 F4L IS @ 200mm F5.6 1/8000 ISO400


And last saturday I shot a Ice figureskating "show". It was actually a club-championship for the younger members. I haven't sorted them yet, but quickly snatched 2, so no post-processing of any kind. The sun wasn't up yet when it started and it graduately became brighter, but it was still way dark for me to get good settings, so I'm afraid my keeper-rate is low on this one.





5D2 ~ 70-200 F4L IS @ 200mm F4 1/500 ISO1600


This girl was one of the last and was shot with the "best" settings that I could get that day:





5D2 ~ 70-200 F4L IS @ 200mm F4 1/1250 ISO1600