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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dangerspouse" data-source="post: 789847" data-attributes="member: 46690">My 88 year old father was an accordion virtuoso back when that didn't  sound like the punchline to a joke. At 16 he won a national playing  competition sponsored by the Hohner instrument company and was presented  a custom orchestral model by Mr. Hohner himself, and he later played  Carnegie Hall as a member of a popular accordion orchestra. He's long  retired (research hematologist)  and has had to give up his other lifelong loves: motorcycle racing,  flying his 1946 Luscombe, restoring vintage cars. But he still has that  massive instrument, and keeps it in perfect working order. When I go  down to visit him I almost always badger  him to give us a tune. And despite some arthritis in the fingers, he  still makes magic when he does.My wife and I went for a visit this past weekend, and while we were there we took in a local motorcycle competition. At 88 my dad remains in remarkably good shape. He has a free weight gym in his basement and works out daily, and goes for jogs every day as well. Although he doesn't compete any more, he still owns several high performance motorcycles and rides them regularly. So he had no problems hiking the wooded trails at the local event. At home later, I got him to pull the Hohner out so I could take a pic or two with the setting sun coming in through the bay window. I placed him so the rays lit his hand, and took some detail shots. And after dinner he gave us another concert, and it was magic again.Not sure which of these treatments I like best. I entered one of the B&W's in the weekly "Instruments" challenge....[ATTACH=full]379205[/ATTACH].[ATTACH=full]379206[/ATTACH].[ATTACH=full]379207[/ATTACH].[ATTACH=full]379208[/ATTACH]I did grab a snapshot or two of him while we were at the race. Here's a pair of him admiring a beautifully restored Triumph, which actually competed in the event's "Vintage" class. Great to see these old bikes being used as intended, and not moldering away in a museum somewhere. [ATTACH=full]379209[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]379210[/ATTACH]I'll be posting some actual race pictures once I comb through them all. The problem I've found with upgrading to a D500: at 10 fps, I had hundreds and hundreds of images on the card before I knew it! I can only imagine what I would have come home with if I had a Z9. Of course, the upside is that I did it all on one battery charge - and that includes Live View playbacks so the family could see the day's shots.</blockquote>

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