On Jul 30, 2011, at 8:27 PM, John Francis wrote: > On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 04:19:46PM -0700, Jack Davis wrote: >> >> When were you there [in Yosemite], Larry? Have more stuff? >> >> Jack > > We were there yesterday. I called him up at the end of last week and > suggeated a quick trip to Yosemite, as the warm weather and the heavy > snowpack were combining to produce some pretty good waterfalls even > this late in the year. The best fit in our schedules was for us to > make it at the end of the week. I wanted to spread the 500+ miles of > driving over two days, so we drove out to the area on Thursday (with > a few stops in gold country), spent Friday in Yosemite itself, and > drove back on Friday night. > > I'm sure Larry has a whole load of additional images to show. I've > got one or two myself, as well :-)
I've got a few more. :-) Yosemite yesterday: http://www.flickriver.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157627193647399/ Gold Country the day before: http://www.flickriver.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157627319477970/ > > Here's almost my last shot of the trip: > > <http://www.jfwaf.com/Yosemite/image.php?name=Yosemite_00> > > [K-5, 1/400 at f6.3, ISO 125 - DA* 50-135 @ 63mm] Which looks somewhat similar to: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/5992232131/ K-5 1/2000 at f/5.6 ISO 100 with John's DA* 50-135 @90mm > > > A gallery of a few other images from the two days can be found here: > > <http://www.jfwaf.com/Yosemite/> Your rattlesnake shot is much better than any of mine. I did eventually end up getting some shots of the snake with fill flash, but by the time I got it figured out, it had started to wander off in the other direction. > > (it's a work-in-progress; I'm adding descriptive captions, navigation, > etc., and I'll probably add one or two more images to the ones there) > > As the eagle-eyed amongst you might have spotted, that does indeed > say "K-5" in the image details above. That was the nominal excuse > for a photo excursion (not that you really need an excuse to visit > Yosemite!). In preparation for my forthcoming vist to New England > my *ist-D and K10D now have a new friend to keep them company. And > to prevent my DA* 16-50 and 50-135 getting jealous, they got a new > friend as well - there's now a 60-250 in the camera bag. > > My first impressions are that all the good things I've heard about > both the body and the lens seem to be well and truly deserved. > -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
