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Here’s Steve Simon‘s take on the other side… https://petapixel.com/2024/08/26/photographing-the-2024-democratic-national-convention/

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Another Deck Thai Curry

New The The single/EP

Villa-Lobos's concertos and chamber works played by the great cuban guitarist, Manuel Barrueco. Qobuz 24/96. What's not to love?

The Crow - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack It's exactly like I remember...

I still haven't done anything meaningful with the D200 and 300mm. As I have said before, 300s are not casual lenses. I did take a nice stroll with the 18-200mm a few evenings ago. So far my experience has been the opposite of what I_D described. I like the lens better at longer lengths than I do at the wide end. Of course this is based on a sample size of "strolling down my street in the afternoon" so it's a meaningless assessment. With that said, all of these were taken with the 18-200mm: Two deer finding something good to eat in the field behind the home where my cousin (once removed) and her husband lived for decades. 200mm F/8, 1/100, ISO 250. The back yard of the same property. The current owners use the house for vacations in the summer, so no one actually "lives" there (this is Vineyard 101, I'm afraid.) The flowers frame are hydrangeas, which are hugely popular round here. The colors they display are soil dependent, so some people get blue and others might get pink or purple. I like the gradual DoF the 18-200 provides here. 170mm, F/8, 1/90, ISO 200. One of the many small trees on the farm across the street from me. Bokeh is nothing interesting but again I like the DoF. 200mm, F/5.6 (which is to say, wide open), 1/125, ISO 200. The famous Sweetened Water Farm horse barn. There is an absolutely fugly McMansion behind it, and I had frame carefully to only get the barn in the shot. I posted this to the private MV group saying as much an a whole bunch of people got very bent out of shape at me calling the house in question ugly. 70mm, F/14, 1/60, ISO 250. Nothing says Edgartown like white picket fences. 70mm, F/7.1, 1/80, ISO 250. A section of fence I've photographed a great many times. 40mm, F/9, 1/320, ISO 200. The same view, more or less, some 20 years prior taken with a PowerShot S60. I'll win no awards for the composition on this one, but the light is pretty. 50mm, F/6.3, 1/60, ISO 200. Looking out one end of my driveway. This shot is fine, but it illustrates everything I don't like about wide angles on small sensors. The exaggerated distances drive me nuts. I think prevalence of cameraphones are most of my reason for this aversion. Slightly less fisheyed wide shot. 18mm, F/7.1, 1/200, ISO 200. TBH I should have stopped down a couple more stops. I still barely know how to wrangle the D200. Gidget the kitty enjoying her new digs. There's a long story here, but the short version is that the daughter of two friends of mine moved to MV full time and brought her two cats. 70mm, F/5.6, 1/640, ISO 400, meow.