Cloud Play №7
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Nikon D300; 1/60 sec @ f11, ISO 560 (handheld);
18-200 mm f/3.5–5.6 @ 18mm (27mm EFL)
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Cloud Play №6
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Nikon D300; 1/250 sec @ f9.5, ISO 200 (handheld);
70-300 mm f/4.5–5.6 @ 70mm (105mm EFL)
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At this time of year in Chicago, we get to experience amazing cloudscapes along Lake Michigan.
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On an overcast morning after heavy rain, this fall of red crab apples was vivid!
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Nikon D300; 1/30 sec @ f11, ISO 3200 (handheld);
18-200 mm f/3.5–5.6 @ 42mm (63mm EFL); focus distance 3.16m
Harbor Reflection (v1)
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Nikon D300; 1/250 sec @ f16, ISO 1400 (handheld);
70-300 mm f/4.5–5.6 @ 180mm (450mm EFL); focus distance 11.9m
Harbor Reflection (v2)
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Nikon D300; 1/250 sec @ f16, ISO 1100 (handheld);
70-300 mm f/4.5–5.6 @ 180mm (360mm EFL); focus distance 11.9m
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Version 1 first caught my eye in the harbor, but I couldn’t resist also trying to capture version 2 as perhaps “more interesting”. Second thought.
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Chicago is famous for its neighborhoods, and this reflection was photographed during the annual art fair held in ours last weekend. The event was definitely a “riotous mixture” of arts and crafts, food ranging from pizza through Ethiopian stew, and dancing in the streets to three (loud!) sound stages performing different styles of music all at once.
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Nikon D300; 1/90 sec @ f5.6, ISO 200 (handheld);
70-300 mm f/4.5–5.6 @ 145mm (217mm EFL); focus distance 3m
One Feather
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Nikon D300; 1/60 sec @ f8, ISO 1250 (handheld);
18-200 mm f/3.5–5.6 @ 200mm (300mm EFL); focus distance .89m
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Three Feathers
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Nikon D300; 1/60 sec @ f8, ISO 1100 (handheld);
18-200 mm f/3.5–5.6 @ 200mm (300mm EFL); focus distance .89m
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Four Feathers
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Nikon D300; 1/60 sec @ f8, ISO 1250 (handheld);
18-200 mm f/3.5–5.6 @ 135mm (202mm EFL); focus distance 1.33m
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It was raining the other morning when I went to our local park, and sea gulls had flocked to the basketball court. They flew off when I approached, but left behind these tokens of their presence.
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Sunlight breaking through clouds added beautiful dimension to reflections on water at Montrose Harbor this morning.
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Nikon D300; 1/250 sec @ f11, ISO 1100 (handheld);
70-300 mm f/4.5–5.6 @ 125mm (187mm EFL); focus distance 7.5m
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Nikon D300; 1/125 sec @ f11, ISO 2000 (handheld);
70-300 mm f/4.5–5.6 @ 210mm (315mm EFL); focus distance 11.2m
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…from my normal work. 🙂
Photographed during the Miksang Institute Summer Program session titled “Cutting Loose”.
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Nikon D300; 1/90 sec @ f11, ISO 200 (handheld);
18-200 mm f/3.5–5.6 @ 105mm (157mm EFL); focus distance 2.24m
Translucent №1
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Nikon D300; 1/60 sec @ f8, ISO 400 (handheld);
18-200 mm f/3.5–5.6 @ 26mm (39mm EFL); focus distance 1.5m
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Translucent №2
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Nikon D300; 1/60 sec @ f5.6 ISO 1000 (handheld);
18-200 mm f/3.5–5.6 @ 62mm (93mm EFL); focus distance 2m
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One of our assignments during the Miksang Institute Summer Program was titled “Simplicity—the Relationship of Form and Space”. Out of ten images submitted for review, only one of mine hit the mark! These were photographed a couple of days later, and might have been judged acceptable…or maybe not.
I’ll keep working on it.
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Before returning home from the Miksang workshop in Boulder, Colorado, I decided to take one last walk along Pearl Street. Despite having spent hours and hours prowling that area to fulfill our assignments in the past two weeks, I still discovered something I’d never seen before. That’s a heartening lesson to take back to my oh-so-familiar neighborhood in Chicago!
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Nikon D300; 1/250 sec @ f11, ISO 200 (handheld);
70-300 mm f/4.5–5.6 @ 180mm (270mm EFL); focus distance 11.89m