Happy Thxgivin', Hosers !

[PetKal]

To all of yous moose n' deer poachers, dynamite stick anglers, Labatt's sudds swillers, touque and beaver fur hat wearers, Sarnia IS Method practitioners, Tim Horton's dishwater addicts.....

.....here, have some colours while they last, ya know what's already lurking from around the corner, eh ?

And just to show you what kinda charittable christian man and a patriot I am, if I catch you doing photography in my marsh or by my river or on my shores of lake Ontarion this winter, I'm gonna exact a users fee out of ya in the amount of $20 US/day.

[condyk]

Nice bloke-eh in them there shoots Pete. Leaves are the Autumn Duck.

[PetKal]

Nice bloke-eh in them there shoots Pete. Leaves are the Autumn Duck.

Yes sir, mint fresh out of my marsh, captured 2 hrs ago. (Took me a while to find the right bouqet......because the leaves are strictly incidental to those shots, as my boquet mentor Ronald Sr.Jr. likes to say):lol:

[JAZZ D.P.G.]

Happy Canadian Thankgiving to all :-)

I get these colours out my back window.

I was up in Niagara this week, did not see this much colour. You must be somewhat north of Toronto proper.

Man, Too much turkey today. Oooooohhhhhhhh uuuuugggggghhhhhh. burb.

Decent single malt helps. :-)

[JubeJube]

Happy Turkey Day!! This is accutally my first CDN thanksgiving I've had off since college (besides when I was on mat. leave!) I've worked for American companies so I would get their holidays instead!

[JAZZ D.P.G.]

Happy Turkey Day!! This is accutally my first CDN thanksgiving I've had off since college (besides when I was on mat. leave!) I've worked for American companies so I would get their holidays instead!

I can sympathize, I worked the World Series for 8 years, never spent Thanksgiving at home, and never got the US one in return as the series was usually over. Same with my time with NASCAR.

Now is better, I think.

[Ronald S. Jr.]

I'm gonna guess, strictly from the bokeh, that the first is from the brick, and the second from the keg. Am I right? Looks like keg bokeh, though. Now that I examine the highlights, the second may be brick as well, but a fine example.

[PetKal]

I'm gonna guess, strictly from the bokeh, that the first is from the brick, and the second from the keg. Am I right? Looks like keg bokeh, though. Now that I examine the highlights, the second may be brick as well, but a fine example.

Son, the reasoning is good, but the resulting ID is off. Both images were shot with the 300 f/4 IS wide open or close to it.
Again, no cropping, postprocessing of any sort, 20D camera used.

[Ronald S. Jr.]

Oh see, I've never used that lens. Don't recognize the blur. Looks like brick blur, no?

[PetKal]

Oh see, I've never used that lens. Don't recognize the blur. Looks like brick blur, no?

Well, it could be several lenses, and I agree, one of them being the brick.

The 300 f/4 is my kinda walkabout lens which I can still carry around for up to couple of hours. Its very short MFD is a splendid upgrade wrt the previous non-IS version. (Thank you Canon, excellent work there !)

I have been tempted twice with the f/2.8 version.:cry: Unfortunately, despite all determination, I can not shoot with that heavy lens any more, especially considering that both copies I had in my posession were not noticeably sharper than my f/4, and they consumed a goodly pile of $. That sort of money I can (and did;) ) spend more effectively on tractable gear which would be clearly superior to what I had already, or open up a new photo avanue for me , such as T/S lenses.

Again, the 300 f/2.8L....a very nice lens in several ways....but the incremental "niceties" for me ain't worth the physical exertion nor the $ which could be spent getting all three of these lenses: 24TS +180L + 50 f/1.2, or a similar triplet.