Canon EF 70-200mm f/4L IS USM

Ricardo222 wrote in post #15607641
Some great shots recently.

This from a recent trip to our far north...this is still my favorite landscape lens!

Lovely shot Ricardo. Would it be an idea to get the waterline horizontal? Artistic choise I guess.

Steven_nl wrote in post #15608498
Lovely shot Ricardo. Would it be an idea to get the waterline horizontal? Artistic choise I guess.

You may well be correct, but not accurate. It's not that way by "artistic choice". Sometimes when you are looking down on a scene like this the perspective dictates how the lines work. That is a receding shoreline, not a horizon line, therefore it obeys the laws of perspective and runs towards what would be the appropriate vanishing point. Still, if it causes confusion it may well be better to change it.

Beautiful, I wouldn't change a thing.

2cruise wrote in post #15608967
Beautiful, I wouldn't change a thing.

Thank you very much.

I did change it a fraction as once the visual anomally had been pointed out I realised that what is correct is what LOOKS correct, and Steven was right in pointing it out. Had there been a strong vertical in the frame it would have anchored the perspective and the slightly receding shoreline would have looked natural.

^^^

Greedy!

(Fruit bat I presume!)

pawelkolarus... cool, didnt know you are Ozzy´s friend

Passing Time, A Village Elder in Kandahar, Afghanistanpasses time, waiting for the evening call to prayer.

This is an elder from a small village south of Kandahar City. While walking through this village, I saw him sitting on street corner in the distance. As we got closer he never moved

Not wanting to disturb him, I set up my settings, and put the camera in live view, and pretended to be fiddling with my sling at my hip as I took the shot.

He continued to sit there motionless for over an hour.

Finally, call to prayer came over the village loudspeakers. (despite not having any electricity, the villagers find car batteries to wire speakers to for call to prayer....and to wire cell phone chargers as well)

He slowly and painfully got up and walked to the mosque.

I never saw him again after that particular day in the village.

I like to picture him having lived in the village his whole life. Most likely he has. He has gone to pray every night at that time for decades. He has watched his whole, tiny world pass by that street since as long as he could remember. Most of all, I wonder, even as old as he is, if he actually remembers a time when violent fighting wasn't considered a part of normal life.

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NatDeroxL7 wrote in post #15612464
Passing Time, A Village Elder in Kandahar, Afghanistanpasses time, waiting for the evening call to prayer.

This is an elder from a small village south of Kandahar City. While walking through this village, I saw him sitting on street corner in the distance. As we got closer he never moved

Not wanting to disturb him, I set up my settings, and put the camera in live view, and pretended to be fiddling with my sling at my hip as I took the shot.

He continued to sit there motionless for over an hour.

Finally, call to prayer came over the village loudspeakers. (despite not having any electricity, the villagers find car batteries to wire speakers to for call to prayer....and to wire cell phone chargers as well)

He slowly and painfully got up and walked to the mosque.

I never saw him again after that particular day in the village.

I like to picture him having lived in the village his whole life. Most likely he has. He has gone to pray every night at that time for decades. He has watched his whole, tiny world pass by that street since as long as he could remember. Most of all, I wonder, even as old as he is, if he actually remembers a time when violent fighting wasn't considered a part of normal life.

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love this! great shot, nice moment in time

gregr2 wrote in post #15606739

IMAGE LINK: http://www.flickr.com …regandmellina/8​471036848/
Lone seagull by Greg and Mellina, on Flickr

Absolutely in love with this shot.

imbillkamal wrote in post #15612808
Absolutely in love with this shot.

Thanks!!!!!!!!

you guys ... damn here it's rainy, cold, wet, ... and you all show me nice weather pictures damned stop it!