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[Rive]

Ps.: lesson: never leave your gear at home - otherwise all you will have for a good theme is just your phone

And just did it again

Yesterday was the mating 'season' (~ a single night) for river mayfly.

 

[DennisN]

Some test shots of nature's own weird little lenses, raindrops.

(by the way, notice how tiny the depth of field is here, since just one drop in each photo is in focus. I estimate the depth of field to be less than a cm .)

(taken with Canon nFD 50mm Macro)

 

[Point Conception]

 

[Point Conception]

Removing lint from her dress with the masking tape around the hand trick. From my dress blues days US Coast Guard.

 

[pinball1970]

Some test shots of nature's own weird little lenses, raindrops.

(by the way, notice how tiny the depth of field is here, since just one drop in each photo is in focus. I estimate the depth of field to be less than a cm .)

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(taken with Canon nFD 50mm Macro)

Beautiful Dennis, lensing is important, short distance and longer!

 

[Point Conception]

1600 afternoon sun on this nice ornamental balcony

 

[Swamp Thing]

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Yaowarat Rd. the main street in Bangkok Chinatown. Quite a polarized population here: The wealthy educated Chinese Thais centered in Bangkok: doctors ... And then the upcountry Lao Thais in the farming populations.

Is 1989 CE equal to 2532 in the Thai (Chinese?) calendar?

 

[DennisN]

Spider, spider in the web, tell me what will keep you fed...

 

[Andy Resnick]

Just got back from vacation, I took along my 55mm micro nikkor to see what it could do. A lot, as it happens- this lens is something special- this guy gets it. Here's 1:1 reproduction ratio (100% crops)images of sand and a robber fly, and a 200% crop of beach grass (also 1:1 reproduction ratio).

And it's great as a regular ol' normal lens:

Took some great astrophotography images as well, but those are for a different thread...

 

[DennisN]

Just got back from vacation, I took along my 55mm micro nikkor to see what it could do.

All cool photos, but the eye of the fly is remarkably cool, I think!

 

[DennisN]

Here are three recent close-ups of a Eurasian jackdaw. There's a man I've met in the park before who has been feeding them for a long time, so they are very used to him. Because of this, they are very calm and I can get quite close to them.

(though I think the photos are not as sharp as they could be; when I got home and examined them, I think I got a little bit too close with my Sony 55-210mm which has a minimum focus distance of ca 1 m. I probably got too excited and forgot about that when I was shooting . Well, a lesson learned.)

And here's a night scene from a nice location in the city.

(a stitched panorama of photos taken with a Canon nFD 50mm f/1.4)

 

[Jonathan Scott]

And here's a night scene from a nice location in the city.

Hovrättstorget. I wish we had scenes like that around here!

 

[DennisN]

Hovrättstorget.

Correct!

 

[Point Conception]

Sideshow

 

[Ibix]

Four weeks ago the council laid new tarmac on a path near our house.

 

[Point Conception]

1825, 13 N, 100 E.

 

[Point Conception]

The hall effect

 

[Point Conception]

What a difference half a day made

 

[Point Conception]

From about 20 degrees phone rotation

 

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And about twenty minutes later

 

[pinball1970]

Bridgewater Hall.

A large piece of art in the shape of a pebble outside.

Ishinki Touchstone by Japanese sculpture Kan Yasuda.

 

[Point Conception]

And sunrise from the front.

 

[DennisN]

A nice place at one of the canals in the city:

(stitched panorama, lens: Canon nFD 50mm f/3.5 Macro)

 

[pinball1970]

A nice place at one of the canals in the city:

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(stitched panorama, lens: Canon nFD 50mm f/3.5 Macro)

That's a lot of green! Amazing.

 

[BillTre]

Here is one from National Geographic:

 

[Point Conception]

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[DennisN]

And I'll give you some Copenhagen too.

I'm actually thinking of going back to Copenhagen soon, and bring a bike with me on the train and then bike around in the city to places I haven't been to.

I was in Copenhagen a couple of days ago and had a great photo tour, it was very fun!
I've decided I will soon return to the city since there are many more places there I'd like to visit.

I didn't bring my bike, I used their subway instead. I hadn't been on it before, and it was simply darn excellent (the best I've ever been on)! Quite good prices with their "Citypass", no human drivers, the trains are quite comfortable and they go every five minutes or so. Also, the passengers on the stations are completely closed off from the rails; there are big plastic (?) walls between the platforms and rails, which have small doors which open when the train has arrived and is stationary.

However, I did not go to the Little Mermaid (I had bigger fish to fry ).
Actually the reason was that it was late (almost midnight) and the park pathway to it was darn dark, and I did not feel like going into that dark park with my camera gear.

Here are some photos from my recent tour (including a nice science surprise at the end ):

The very nice 17th-century waterfront Nyhavn:

Another shot:

And I went back to Nyhavn later when it was dark:

And here's a place I hadn't been to before , the "Marble Church", a beautiful rococo church:

After that I went to the Niels Bohr Institute, which has both a historical and scientific significance:

The institute was founded in 1921, as the Institute for Theoretical Physics of the University of Copenhagen, by the Danish theoretical physicist Niels Bohr, who had been on the staff of the University of Copenhagen since 1914, and who had been lobbying for its creation since his appointment as professor in 1916.

Since this is Physics Forums I suppose most readers in this thread know who this Bohr guy was.
(if not, you can go e.g. here)

And last, here's the nice science surprise...

After I shot the institute I had dinner at a very nice Italian restaurant right across the street.
When I was done eating I went out again and noticed that it had gotten darker, and that there was some kind of light show being projected onto the Niels Bohr Institute.

Just for fun I shot a video clip of it, and later I read this sign at the institute:

I don't know if the info text is readable on your screens, but the light show installation is called "NBI Colliderscope" and it is directly connected to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. The lights that are projected are reproduced from the latest data from particle collisions.
That's a pretty cool and unusual idea, I think.

Here's the short video clip I shot of the NBI Colliderscope:


I will post some more photos from Copenhagen later in this thread.

(for instance, I did a special shoot at the 17th-century observatory Rundetaarn at night with stars in the sky in the background, but I have to process/edit it first )

 

[Point Conception]

Amazing crystal clear resolution in top photo of Nyhavn

 

[DennisN]

Amazing crystal clear resolution in top photo of Nyhavn

I used a polarizing filter (CPL) in front of the lens which can help bring out details, particularly on scenes like that one. If I didn't use the filter e.g. the sky (and probably the water, I think) would have less detail.

It's also a stitched photo of 15 individual 24 megapixel photos taken at different angles, and in the stitching process it could be rendered into max ca 72 megapixels (10814 x 6731). But I resized it and uploaded it as ca 14 megapixel. Also photos posted on the forum get a bit blurrier (due to forum software resizing perhaps?). Here's a less blurry version on my flickr.