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Out of the last few solar eclipses, I think this is the first time anyone with better equipment, able to take better pictures, than I, got any better pictures. One thing I still have not acquired is a suitable neutral-density filter to let me take pictures of the Sun. A previous time or...

Somehow, I'd failed to even take notice of this challenge, until just now, with only about an hour and a half remaining. No time, in fact, to even take and process a useable picture for it. But I remember that there was recently a very heavy downpour of rain, with exceptionally large...

Is that middle line there in error?

First entry… Three things that I love, from back to front… My wife, @Seanette (married since 13 April 1995) Our older cat Allie (who joined us over the thanksgiving weekend of 2011, at a stated age of 13 months) Our newer cat, Buddy (a former stray for several years, who, in April of 2022...

My only direct relevant experience is using ancient lenses for my F2, on my D3200. The F2, and the lenses that I have for it, predate the FX/DX distinction by several decades of course. The F2 uses standard 135 film, with a 36×24mm image area, and so the lenses are made to cover that area. I...

So, I have this other image that I have also tinkered with as part of such compositions. If I had known, back when I took this one in 2016, that I might ever want to try to use it this way, I'd have taken some shots focused a bit farther back. This one, was focused on the dandelion closest to...

OK, so the current Weekly Challenge, to close in less than an hour from now, is “Curves”. To me, the most obvious concept of curves is the female form. Before this theme was even announced, I'd been experimenting, tinkering with a concept which when this theme was announced, seemed right in...

OK, here's my final entry. I had much better luck, than I expected, finding a suitable grassy setting near my apartment. Not nearly as good as in my original, but good enough. But now, both images that went into this composition were taken with the challenge time frame; @Seanette last night...

I got bit by the photography bug in my very early teens. I tended, throughout my youth, to haunt thrift stores, buying old cameras for a few dollars each, buying film for them at local camera stores, and developing it myself, and making contact -prints. Most of them took either 620 or 127...

All I had to reduce exposure was the same pinhole accessory described here, but there was still enough cover to reduce the light level to where I did not need that.

Am I really the first to post today's solar eclipse? This is from Sacramento, California. Cloud cover was heavy, and I seriously doubted that I would get anything, but at just the right moment, with the eclipse at its peak, it found a convenient gap in the clouds.

Based on feedback I've received from you regarding this and past pictures, I am beginning to suspect that you might have a fondness for cats in general, and this cat in particular.

B as in Buddy, my former stray cat, who last year decided to be @Seanette's and my cat. And what says warm better than a soft warm kitty, snuggled into a blanket?

Using the same rig that I described at https://nikonites.com/forum/posts/370128 I photographed the Sun today. Full, bright Summer Sun, high in the clear sky. All that light bouncing around in my ancient Vivitar 85-205mm ƒ/3.8 lens, exposed every bit of dust, every flaw in this old lens. But...

My wife, @Seanette, was just asking me about pending photo challenges. When I mentioned this one, she reminded me that a very long time ago, we had come across an interesting plaid shadow pattern, and suggested we go back out tonight, and see if we could find it again. Sure enough, it's still...

Yes, he does. Having used him as much as I have in recent challenges, I had seriously intended to try to find some actual wildlife for this one, rather than try to make the stretch that because he had spent several years as a stray, that he might qualify as ex-wildlife. But I got that...

I seriously intended to not use Buddy for this challenge, but to try to find an actual wild animal to photograph. But this picture was just too perfect. OK, so he wasn't ever truly wild, just an abandoned stray who, after many year of living as such, decided to be @Seanette's and my cat...

Final entry, this level all put back together. I ended up focus-stacking several shots using an old version of Franzis FOCUS Tools Pro, and I liked the result using its “Depth Fog” effect. It's not what I originally had in mind, but I rather like this sort of old, gloomy-looking result that I...

This is a triptych of the level mentioned in the previous post, in pieces. Top panel shows all the pieces, the big wood piece, and the two actual levels that mount in it. Alas, I didn't think of it until later, but the two metal pieces are reversed with regard to their positions in the wooden...