Kathy, those are excellent and beautiful shots of the flowers. I find them all beautiful but for some reasons I really like the last one. Perhaps it is the lighting but the rose has something special about it. It could be its tri dimensional rendition, I do not really know but it caught my eye.
Very nice job.

I spent many years using those legacy lenses, that I still use today. My 105mm f2.5, single coated, was bought in Japan in 1967. I used it to photograph professors and students at the University of Miami on assignment. It is an excellent optic for portraits and doubles as a medium tele.
I still use periodically the 80-200mm f4.5 zoom of the early 70's, most probably one of the sharpest Nikon lenses I ever used. I have the 24mm f2.8 that Galen Rowell always took with him when hiking. I bought the 35mm f2 at a bargain price to shoot a wedding. I regret I have neglected the lens for so long but I will use it more from now on. I like the field of view of the lens.

Modern lenses have lots of technologies and excellent coatings. They are also better corrected optically. I have always been satisfied with the performance of my Nikon lenses, when I did my part the lens performed flawlessly.
Once again, I want to thank you all for your nice and interesting comments.

Thank you ladies and gentlemen for your interesting comments. Paul, I appreciate that you stopped by to take a look at those images. I appreciate your comments on mirrorless and although I have mentioned them before I will once again. I have Olympus mirrorless cameras; right now I have the EM-10 Mk II, the OM 5 Mk III and the Pen EP-5. I am happy with the three of them and I believe I will stay with Olympus for the time being. I am only using Zuiko lenses with my cameras, except for a Sigma 60mm f2.8 Art which is AF. Great lens! I do not intend to use lenses from Nikon, which I am presently using, to adapt them to those cameras.

Thank you once again for your comments.

Gentlemen, thank you for taking the time to give me your evaluations of ON-1. As I said, my only experience with ON-1 is their Sky Swap application that I have found very useful. I am still learning how to use it.
ON-1 RAW 2024 version has incorporated some very useful features like AI, noise reduction, Sky Swap and something that has been for me a nightmare which is using gradients and masking. I do not "cook" my files during editing and you will find me most of the time using basic adjustments.

AI is something that will find its way into all editing programs. For me it is just another tool although it requires moderation when using it. It is not my intention to use it as my RAW editor, I prefer to use proprietary software, NX Studio for Nikon and OM Workspace for Olympus.
I want to thank you for the courtesies in taking some time to give me your opinions. I do appreciate it very much.

In the first place, they are all beautiful images. Under cloudy skies there is a tendency to get saturated colors and handling WB is not always an easy task.
In some of the images a little bit more of light should improve the flowers' beauty. All in all I think you did a great job.

I have been photographing for more than 50 years. When I started I was perhaps 20 or 21 years old and what motivated me was a university assistant professor who invited me to see him working in the darkroom.
I cannot remember all of the details, but I think he was using a Kodak Retina or another German camera which were popular at the time, and I am talking about the mid 50’s. Exacta had a primitive SLR but that was not the camera he was using.

Every film at the time, at least where I was living, was monochrome.
Cameras did not have any electronics; they were all manual. Lenses were only single focal length, no zooms and obviously no AF. Yes, only handheld exposure meters and the Gossen and Weston Master with Selenium cells were the exposure meters we were using. The Pentax 1 degree spot meter was not available at the time, it was introduced around 1964 and had a Cadmium Sulfide cell.

Japanese cameras were not very popular then. I began using a Petri rangefinder, a type of camera we would be calling mirrorless today. It had a fixed lens and with it I had a second hand Weston Master that actually I did not know very well how to use it. No Internet at the time to learn how to use it. A horrible meter to use in low light. Readings, except in bright light were not very accurate.

I bought a Nikon 35mm f2 AIS in the early 80’s that has seen little use. I decided to give it a spin using my dSLR, a Nikon D610 in the manual mode. I was remembering the old times except for using the in camera meter. Let’s not talk about flash, they were manual, most had an electric bulb and using them was a nightmare. I shot the gallinule using fill-in flash a rather impossible shot at the time.

I went late in the evening to a local park to shoot once again like I did in the 50’s and it was a lesson in discipline and a great experience. Once again selecting apertures manually and once again using manual focus. I zoomed in and out with my legs. All that brought back many memories.
These are some of the images I made. I am sure that some of the old timers here will feel some of the nostalgia I felt. I hope you like these images.

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I have been thinking of buying this application. If anyone here is using it I would like to get some feedback.
I recently bought their Sky Swap and I have been very happy with the results.

I own the first version of the lens. In my humble opinion the lens is sharp and very versatile. Because it is a variable aperture lens my recommendation is that you stay, except for the 18mm focal length, at around f8 and beyond 200mm stay at around f11 for its best optical qualities.
I do not mean you cannot use the lens at other apertures, but those apertures will give you the best results.

When fully extended to 200mm better use or a high ISO setting or a high shutter speed to minimize shake and make the images sharp. If I had to buy the lens again, I will not hesitate a second, that good it has been to my photography.

Absolutely beautiful. Excellent job.

Thank you.

It is a common fair that takes place each year by late March lasting till mid April. To my surprise cameras were not allowed but it all seems to indicate to me it was my lucky evening because they presented no objection to using my Olympus EM-5 Mk II. Tripods were not allowed so I had to rely on the high ISO of the camera that for the most part was ISO 800 and the IBIS (in body image stabilization.)

There are several shows, all free with paid entrance. There is plenty of food of all varieties and all kind of entertainment for young children and adults. It is a fair programmed to entertain and as such my family and I did not spend a single minute in there that we did not enjoy.
I made some images and I did not use denoise in any of them. Because of the night illumination I went with Auto WB. Perhaps I corrected the color balance in a couple of them but in general Auto WB did a good job. The last image speaks by itself.
I use the Olympus Zuiko 12-40 f2.8 Pro for all these shots.

I hope you like the images.

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Thank you gentlemen for the kind comments on these images.

Thank you gentlemen.

It is celebrated here in the city of Homestead every year on April 14. I went yesterday to visit their temple, a few miles from where I live in Miami and take a few shots of the celebration although that celebration began near noon when the sun was strong and unacceptable for good images.
During the celebration it seems to be customary to give away presents to the Buddhist monks. It also seems customary to pour water to small Buddhist statues which significance I do not really know.

Out of curiosity I entered the temple. It requires to remove any shoes. Photography was allowed anywhere I went but what is not allowed is to touch the monks. There was plenty of food and in order to keep the place safe I saw two police cars but there were no incidents. It was a peaceful place and I learned that people go there often to meditate. Being a religion I am not familiar with I showed the utmost respect following the rules and when necessary asking for permission to photograph. I always had very pleasant answers. They even allowed tripods although all of my images were made handheld.

It is a beautiful temple and as I said I made the images at around noon, a no-no in photography but I did what I could. I hope you enjoy looking at them.
Camera: Olympus EM-10 Mk II. Program mode. Center weighted metering.
Lens: Zuiko 12-40 f2.8 Pro

Beautiful images Linda. I really like the first one with the pattern of repetition and the warm colors.