Posts for: Lance Pearson
Mar 29, 2018 10:29:50 #
My back yard has a third season flowering crab tree, I think from Manchester Nursery a Maru Royal variety tho I may have that wrong. It was from Home depot and one thin tall stick of dormant but it now is much taller, bushier and each spring throws out deep crimson leaves, reddish flowers with white stamens and pistols inside that add lots of pretty color...just getting started right now to open the flowers. I opened up my back yard and put this in so there is some spring color. the flowers are not huge, about 1.25" across each but pretty. shot with sony a7 and adapter for canon fd f 3.5 35-105mm very old lens the other day off a tripod. Not the greatest flower photos by a long shot and my back yard is very informal with a wood pile, stainless covered fire pit, etc. but it is the kind of casual I like....and it is finally warming up enough for grass seed to grow again! Hooray!
Mar 20, 2018 13:55:13 #
I tried a samsung nx2000 and just threw it out finally. It suffered from the same things phones did..good enough up close but 40' away it was not very friendly. I did not even try and sell it on ebay as I did not want to inflict it on anyone else. I have a samsung g7 smartphone with camera and a friend just took this photo with her g9 which they say is terrific. Can't argue with this image..again, up close tho. download from facebook so highly compressed. This is Sasha the Azawakh hound being a philosopher with the good g9 smartphone doing the photo work.
Feb 5, 2018 10:00:34 #
small town Virginia where time has moved on, a huge beaver lodge (20' long and ten' high maybe) and dam and a tree with such a shape in winter. I saw this big new Peterbilt truck parked and thought how perfect an invention it was for its purpose...and that it could likely pull a train it was so powerful. Many of these small towns in Virginia are really almost dead with what was once life as railroad intersection towns, farming towns, etc. but today are backwaters where not much thrives....and winter takes a toll. And, of course, a country fixer upper house..long abandoned it seems.
Jan 29, 2018 07:39:10 #
the extender moves the objective lens further forward by the length of the extender which allows the captured light to expand to a greater diameter where it now hits the sensor....I believe.
Jan 29, 2018 07:33:20 #
Looks pretty good to me! I just sold my honda ctx700 and moved down to a Yamaha big hybrid scooter 250 cc modern around towner called a Morphous that had 2800 miles on it and looks brand new and acts that way that can go 80 mph but is good on 55 mph roads with some luggage space and peppy enough that gets 72 mpg and takes me on local or hour long rides when the urge hits me. At 74 my long distance riding on Interstate days are definitely by choice over as well.
good photo of you.
good photo of you.
Jan 29, 2018 07:28:43 #
here he is a few days later. He has champion's lineage as far back as it goes and is a wonderful dog and companion.
far field remoulade.
far field remoulade.
Jan 22, 2018 04:14:45 #
a winter day shooting from about 30-50 yards away with nikon d4 and nikkor poro f2.8 80-200mm lens. Airborn!
Jan 19, 2018 19:43:37 #
I have done the opposite on my Nikon D4 fx camera. I use three f 2.8 nikkor pro fx lenses on it, 28-70, 70 or 80-200 and then an f1.4 50mm prime. Sometimes when I want 300mm since I gave the huge 600mm lens away as it was too much work I use my dx 300mm lens to reach out and get birds in flight further away and just crop the uncovered fx sensor outside of the dx image circle away from it. It works quite well since I usually don't need the whole sensor's area for a couple of ducks in flight. example post cropping below.
These birds were forty yards away going away from me...
My d4 with the 200mm lens on it weighs a whopping 7.7 pounds so it is no light weight tho it is a fantastic camera. My casual camera is a sony a7 shooting manually 35 year old canon fd lenses with an adapter so fx to fx in effect...sony is full frame 24 mp sensor and it gives me some very artistic shots and does not weigh so much. Just not a sports camera with the manual focus...
These birds were forty yards away going away from me...
My d4 with the 200mm lens on it weighs a whopping 7.7 pounds so it is no light weight tho it is a fantastic camera. My casual camera is a sony a7 shooting manually 35 year old canon fd lenses with an adapter so fx to fx in effect...sony is full frame 24 mp sensor and it gives me some very artistic shots and does not weigh so much. Just not a sports camera with the manual focus...
Jan 19, 2018 19:35:47 #
Jan 19, 2018 19:34:37 #
No expert but isn't it a kind of domesticated duck? I can't remember the name but look in a duck book
Jan 19, 2018 19:33:12 #
Thank you. He is about as good as borzoi get in North America and my favorite model as a result. Superb breeding and everything else plus he is a big sweetheart along with his step sister to me. Her name is Princess Liliana and his is Far Field Remoulade.
Jan 19, 2018 08:19:14 #
This is my big male of the two Borzoi I have that I shot a couple days ago while he was moving in the back yard focusing on the possibility of seeing or smelling where a squirrel had been digging up buried nuts inside the 6' fenced back yard. He is very full coated and tall at 32.5" at the withers and 88" long from tail tip to nose, incredibly athletic and very smart and loving...unless, of course, you are a squirrel, rabbit or a wolf! Then you are in deep stuff and considered a food group! Shot with Nikon D4 and a dx nikon zoom to 300 mm lens which has a lot of unused sensor around it but gives an interesting effect. His eyes and his fur show really well in this shot. He is a special guy here often referred to as The King, The Big Guy, The Train......and we all love him, fur and all.
Jan 16, 2018 07:10:31 #
Jan 13, 2018 13:04:06 #
when the wetlands thawed this week the ducks got very active and a few Gadwalls flew then some mallards and a couple of Northern Shovelers who are very colorful along with some ring necked ducks. They all seem to be pairing up about now. Shot with Nikon fx d4 and 300mm dx lens out the window of my suv by the observation areas next to part of it all at Dutch Gap Nature area. Just fun to shoot the color and variety. the wood ducks were 100 yards away and I did not have anywhere near enough lens for that. these all hand held. No great shakes but in flight these guys are so smooth and pretty..
Jan 13, 2018 12:40:52 #
You can see this big lodge easily this time of year in the center of the pond well back from their dam on Powell's creek e. and s. of richmond, va. Then you can see some of their work and a section of their undulating dam....the lodge must be 15' in diameter and 8' tall or more. shot with nikon d4
