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hydrobond
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I think I see 9 cats in that picture...
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DJ Orion
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Speaking of cats:  Took this with my friend's EF 50mm f/1.8. For a 90 dollar prime, that little lens is SWEET. Image quality is superb. Getting it soon.
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Clueless,Ohio
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Today ( is) was such a cloudy, overcast day in Cleveland... here's last Sunday's sunrise 
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C-Dawg Njaim
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excellent view of Cleveland, Clueless Ohio. Cool train graphic too, Rob.
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DJ Orion
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Rob that is sweet! Did you use Flash for that?
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Robert Pence
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^No; I used Advanced GIF Animator. It's really easy to get started with the software's wizard. I set the camera on a tripod and waited until I heard the train, and then started pushing the shutter manually. After a couple of introductory attempts, I need to read up on my camera's interval timer and set up some time-lapse sequences with the exposure and focus set to manual to keep them from shifting. I kicked up the pace on the rendering to at least twice what actually happened. A nice thing happened; just as events were about to unfold, someone in a car pulled up to the crossing gates. Then, he saw my camera and backed up out of the field of view. Totally unexpected, and appreciated. I shot a couple more sequences. Here's one. 
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Sherman Cahal
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 Clifty Falls surrounded by colorful trees in autumn. It was only 20 minutes till dusk when I took this, so I was scrambling all over the park for the last images.
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Living in Gin
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Great shot... I remember going to Clifty Falls State Park as a kid. At that time, there was a fairly easy hike down to the bottom of Big Clifty Falls from the canyon rim, but that trail has since been closed due to erosion. Clifty Creek must have a fairly small watershed, as its flow really varies depending on the weather... Last time I was there, the waterfall was barely a trickle, but I've seen it as a raging muddy torrent other times. Looks like you caught it at a good time.
I'll have to upload some of my Oregon waterfall photos to UO when I have a chance.
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C-Dawg Njaim
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It's harvest season! What that means is it's the busiest time of year for grain shipping on the Great Lakes. Late October through November is about as good as it gets in Toledo for ship nerds. Here is Canadian Provider emerging under the High Level Bridge. It's a Seaway Max, 730-foot long straight decker fully loaded with grain from the Andersons terminal upriver: 
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Robert Pence
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^Neat stuff! I'd probably be a ship nerd if I had grown up closer to navigable waterways; those have always fascinated me.
One of my favorite books is End of an Era - The Last of the Great Lakes Steamboats, by David Plowden. He documented those ships, inside and out, and the men who worked them, when most Great Lakes shipping still was powered by coal-fired reciprocating steam. 150 pages of gorgeous black-and-white.
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jmecklenborg
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My friend from school who writes for Navy Times was on that when that photo was taken. I know because he likes to announce whatever submarine or ship he's on to all of his Facebook friends.
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taestell
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Hughes High School  This is the McMillan side of the building, where construction has wrapped up.
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jmecklenborg
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>EF 50mm f/1.8. For a 90 dollar prime, that little lens is SWEET The 50mm f/1.8's are usually the best performing lenses in a camera maker's lineup. The reason is that they're the simplest to make, and because they're the simplest, they have the best contrast and zero curvilinear distortion. This is a photo I took last night of Cincinnati mayor Mark Mallory & his date: 
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Sherman Cahal
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The 50 f/1.8 is a fine lens. I purchased it as part of my equipment replacement (when it was all stolen), and it is fast. I almost opted for the f/1.4, but it was considerably more expensive and I can always bump up the ISO on the D700/D3 with little consequence (until it goes past 3200). The 20 f/2.8 is also in my bag and is a really great lens. Too bad the -D version is the only one Nikon produces. It is $350 more expensive than the non-D lens, which was retired last year. I purchased my non-D lens only a year-and-a-half ago and it was $250 from Midwest Photo Exchange. In comparison, the D lens, which is really no different, commands over $600. 
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Living in Gin
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Nice night for Mallory. He wins re-election, Issue 9 goes down, and he's got a hot date for the occasion.
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MyTwoSense
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Nice night for Mallory. He wins re-election, Issue 9 goes down, and he's got a hot date for the occasion.
"hot" is subjective. But at least he's Cinci's Mayor.
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jmecklenborg
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She has nice teeth. You're looking at an expensive mouth.
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X
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Mmmm....tomato basil soup.
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jmecklenborg
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Touching the buttons on that belt buckle activates her super powers.
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MyTwoSense
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Touching the buttons on that belt buckle activates her super powers.
A Casual Corner tragedy in the making!
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Sherman Cahal
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 Sunrise from Mt. Echo Park in Cincinnati, Ohio, November 4, 2009
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jmecklenborg
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What's great is knowing that photo is going to start to pop up on local blogs. I always get a kick out of how blogs rerun the same photos again and again.
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