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My ancient 50mm ƒ/1.4 Nikkor mounted to my D3200. ISO 100, ƒ/11, 1/1.6 of a second. At least two different meanings of “round” in this image. The round of ammunition shown here has a round cross section. The rifle itself also has some parts that are decidedly round.

I didn't really have anything in mid for this challenge, and was probably not going to have an entry. But out for a walk today, in a park, and generally not feeling well and wishing, on the whole, that I'd stayed home, I was suddenly struck by the view of these trees, silhouetted against the...

Depending on the composition, glass freezes at anywhere from around 900°F. to over 4000°F. Asphalt freezes at anywhere from around 86°F. to over 300°F. At a measured temperature of about 60.7°F., taken with my infrared non-contact thermometer, I think it is safe to say that both this...

Re: February Assignment: Light and its SHADOW Third entry… A room filled with artificial fog by my fog machine, a magnetron with a light some distance behind it, casting shadows into the fog. Stock 18-55mm lens on my D3200, focal length 34mm, ISO 100, aperture ƒ/16, shutter speeds of 2...

Re: February Assignment: Light and its SHADOW Second entry… I had it in my head that in fog, this lamp might produce some interesting shadow patterns. I took some pictures while I was waiting for the fog machine to warm up. It turns out that no, this lamp really didn't do anything...

An odd curiosity. At some point, I came across an old picture of Brigitte Bardot, holding an SLR. Though the Japanese have long dominated the market for cameras of this type, I have sense that this one is not Japanese, but probably some European make. I guess the Japanese didn't really take...

I'm old, but not that old. My first car was a 1969 Falcon, a hand-me-down from my parents. This picture was taken just before we finally hauled it to the junkyard. MY wife said, “You wouldn't cry that much over me!” I guess there are some things that women just don't get.

I was thinking more of the current monthly “Light and its shadow” challenge as I created this, but in the end, I think it suits this “Smoke/Steam” theme better. I suppose there's no reason I cannot use the same image in both challenges, and perhaps, as the month runs out, if I haven't yet...

The times I've become ornery, or close to it, have been times when I thought a theme was being interpreted too strictly. Most prominent, the “Nifty Fifty” challenge, where I was arguing that I thought I should be able to use my 28mm lens on my D3200. I think that's the only one I ever actually...

A question, primarily for @Blacktop or @Lawrence, but I welcome insight from anyone else as well. Genuine instances of smoke and steam, in any photogenic form, are pretty rare in my life. To stick to the true spirit of this theme, as I understand it, I'd probably have to sit this one out...

I wasn't happy to see this topic come up. Alas, it's beginning to feel too much like an overused cliché, using my flash to catch splashes of water. I didn't figure I was going to try to come up with anything for yet another exercise in stopping motion. So, it's a gloomy, rainy day, and I'm...

A bit of moss, and a botany lesson. Notice that there are two form of this plant. The low-leafy plants are gametophytes. These plants are haploid, meaning that each cell nucleus has only one set of chromosomes. In the human life cycle, the only haploid cells are gametes—sperm and egg...

Re: February Assignment: Light and its SHADOW First entry. A glass of water with a light source behind it. HDRed with Geodesic HDR to get the light source itself, as well as the glass and the light-shadow patterns cast thereby.

My 2005-vintage Palm T|X PDA—the last of its line. Palm PDAs used a handwriting system called Graffiti. Due to a patent lawsuit, Palm was forced to redesign the Graffiti system, creating Graffiti 2, which the T|X uses. So here is my T|X, displaying the page that shows how to write letters...