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I wanted to bring this off topic, so here it is. Should an American support American innovation by not buying the Chinese brands? Is it still American if Chinese made? Should you look at the tax optimisation of the company you buy from? I do believe in the free market (political statement) and...

It is frosty here: Trying some details, but struggling with the cold and have the right focus and DOF:

No snow here, but it has been like this for the last days:

Loved these autumn colours:

Somehow I do not get it where I had hoped it would end up. I was testing the combination of my 85mm f1.8 with the Canon 500D Close up lens. The flower was tiny and the drops lovely. You can notice the DOF is tiny and the bokeh is way out. What did not work out is the colours for me, there is...

An early bird:

Some autumn signs, I believe tripod and remote might have been needed:

This is a pro at work, the one on the ground: This was the rest of the team, the guy in the red hat was a camera man, the blonde with poney tail the lighting specialist, the girl with the bonnet, less clear. I was wondering if the tramp was a professional actor. The ladies in the back were...

Sometimes (mostly with the Sony) I wonder why I took the picture when I see it first in Lightroom: Sometimes I remeber and persist in Post Processing (PP) to get what I remebered:

I was setting up a walk before daylight. A reasonable cost set up D7000 + Kenko 1.4TC + Sigma 300mm f4 APO, was ready when about 15m from me this bird showed up. This is shadows +95 in lightroom (it was before the sun hit the valley) Pushing it:

Why a tripod that is that big? I`m quite tall (just taller then the tripod) and in this position: I could confortably (no extreme bending over as before) take the next picture of some birds on the top of a tall tree:

A bit busy period: in a rented home

Visit to the family. When WWII ended most of the houses on the French coast were destroyed (mainly Allied bombings), to find shelter fast people turned around boats and closed them off. This is still available as an original holiday home: quilles-en-l'air

I have been concentrating on going out and taking pictures, this one is from my trip to the French Vosges. I actually went out every morning and evening to shoot wildlife and even if I saw it, I did not get pictures, but enjoyed going around and working with the material to get close to a...

Through e-bay finally got the Sirui R-4203L. Here with the Nikon 600mm f4, Kenko TC1.4 and Nikon D7000. Here compared to the Manfrotto 055CXPRO4. The legs thickness might explain why it is rated higher in load. It is also tall enough for me (actually a little more then I need, where the...

I also wanted to take these in the golden hour, but found they were hidden from the sun: the 85mm f1.8 does not focus close enough for these, I changed to the Tamron 90mm f2.8 Macro.

The other point of this weekend. I have been trying to use my Hexanon AR 85mm f1.8 more, which I have not used a lot since I bought it. A rewarding subject: The better focus, but backlit did not work charm on the colours: I think the focus is too much to the front, but the other angle does...

OK first activity this weekend was the SpaSixHours race of the old glories:

A little story. It was 7h25 when I left the holiday home, a bit upset since I was running into the morninglight and wanted to beat it. I ran into the owner of the house we rented, while I was dressed in full camouflage, he understood what I was doing (we shortly discussed photography before). He...

A holiday picture: