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Re: [OM] What I did for Earth Day

Subject: Re: [OM] What I did for Earth Day
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 03 May 2009 13:17:50 -0400
I like 525 and the soft bokeh.  The ciprés calvo seem to have so much 
foliage detail that I think a large print is probably necessary to 
really appreciate them.

Chuck Norcutt

Fernando Gonzalez Gentile wrote:
> Lovely pictures, lovely arboretum, lovely idea to honor the Earth.
> 
> Hard or impossible to pick my favorite. Rather, I did feel as if walking 
> alongside with you.
> Here we have a nice arboretum, the Arboretum Lussich in Maldonado - but 
> it was severely damaged during a wind-storm during winter 2005 and 
> hadn't visited it since. I have too many opportunities to feel sad, and 
> adding one is no good business.
> 
> You managed to make me miss spring .... so I scanned two sakura [cherry 
> blossom] shots, each with different gear and different springs and 
> different light, just in case you may want to look at them (hope they 
> are cherry blossoms, learned that yesterday thanks to Nicoletta Da Ros):
> 
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/fernando_gonzalez_gentile/3494938304/ 
> -->link to 1280 and link to view on black.
> 
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/fernando_gonzalez_gentile/3494602525/ 
> -->same links
> 
> But it's autumn here, yellow leaves and the 'ciprés calvo' has turned red.
> Had a hard time nailing on that red, it's more red than it seems if you 
> watch it carefully under early afternoon strong sunlight, and more 
> translucent too, which makes shadows inside the folliage not too deep.
> Of course, foliage looks not at all as sharp as it does in the Provia, 
> so I'm about to go back to your thread about foliage ... too many 
> things, but in the meanwhile, I discovered a most obvious reason to 
> explain why it was so difficult for me to use the 4000ED. In short, I 
> was not using it properly.
> 
> Autumn foliage then, two versions using Highlight/Shadow control:
> 
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/fernando_gonzalez_gentile/3478344474/ 
> -->better, same links
> 
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/fernando_gonzalez_gentile/3475294532/ 
> -->so-so, same links.
> 
> Both the sakura and the ciprés calvo were shot at two different small 
> Arboretum we have here in Mvd, the sakura at the 'Parque de los Aliados' 
> (crossing the street where the USA and British Embassies are), and the 
> ciprés at the 'Parque Rodó'.
> 
> Fernando.
> 
> 
> Moose wrote:
>> We did honor the Earth by visiting the SF Arboretum in Golden Gate Park. 
>> We wandered about enjoying and honoring the many examples of the flora 
>> of the Earth, and a few of her creatures.
>>
>>
>> <http://galleries.moosemystic.net/StrybingArboretum/index.htm>
>>
>>  A good day!
>>
>> Moose
>>   
> 
> 
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