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Mine is one of the very first photos I made with a RF. I started out with the 15mm Heliar on a FED2. Learned from this one that at f4,5 the lens shows quite some vignetting and stretching. You can put that to use.
Nowadays I have a little spirit level on the side of my finder to show when perfectly vertical. That is almost impossible to see.
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Rob.
 
Mine is a magicube. I genuinely feel flash/magicubes are one of the most significant yet underrated developments in photography in the last 50 years.

'Bring the sun inside'!
 
Mines just one of the two local coffee shops in Totnes that is frequented by artists (and alas grockles (tourists)). It was one of the first street shots I was reasonably happy with. The female in the picture has become a family friend as do several of the locals I shoot, as is also usual I didn't know either of them before I captured them. They were great as I asked them if I could get some shots and after agreeing they carried on as they had been before I arrived.

Btw. We do have several coffee shops here just like most places in the South West as visitors to Devon will know, but the others are just typical ones 🙁
 
Horror-Shot digitally on a Canon 10D 😱 Just a Leopard by the side of the road in Zambia.Wildlife is one of my photographic passions especially in Africa. Not very suited to RF I fear.
 
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This is Freddie who's very sharp in each corner, originally a test shot for a used basic Metz flash. When I joined I couldn't think of a original name so when I saw my cat Fred wander by stopping only to pick the carpet (again) I thought why not.
 
Halloween, 2002. The really neat thing about Mr. T is that it doesn't matter that I'm a 5'7" scrawny white guy. Mr. T is all about the accessories.

And Shaaktiman is a well known Indian superhero. Well known in India anyway. He's cool, but I don't know much about him. Mostly I'm a fan of Indian stuff in general and he sort of embodies that interest for me.
 
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Ok, here's Ruff! 🙂 Even as a baby in this shot, it's clear he has long legs. Now he's long and lean and has a big mane/ruff
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AAaaawwwww, he looks just like one I used to have, who passed away in 2000. <sniff> Right down to the white paws and all. Mine developed quite a mane too, particularly in winter.

Do you know his breed(s)? Mine was a mix Norwegian Forest Cat and plain old Tabby.
 
Mine is a shadow portrait taken somewhere in Buenos Aires Centro.
Was walking around looking for some new photos for my webpage, and ended up with this instead.
And as quite often I´m wearing my Sennheiser HD 25-1 headphones, probably listening to some jazz, Chet Baker I think as well. . .

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Listening to Chet Baker in Argentina. Obviously absolutely true, but I couldn't have dreamed it up.

Wow. What about Cal Tjader or George Shearing or Dave Brubeck? Same period, same cool, laid-back music....

Ted
 
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I don't, though he resembles a Main Coon somewhat, but I expect he's pretty mixed... Here he is in front snoozing with his two sisters....
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Awwwww ... again. 🙂 That white one is cute too. 🙂

I have one stark white one, blue eyes, normal hearing, and I could easily fill a gallery album with cat photos, but I've found out that when you show photos of your cats, unless the people you're showing them to are really into cats, they really don't care. 🙂

Maine Coon and Norwegian Forest cats have similar markings. I'm not an expert on cat breeds, but I do know that Maine Coon cats tend to be VERY large, as in gargantuan, and they also tend to like water. If he voluntarily jumps in a filled bathtub or sink, he probably has Maine Coon blood. 🙂
 
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Listening to Chet Baker in Argentina. Obviously absolutely true, but I couldn't have dreamed it up.

Wow. What about Cal Tjader or George Shearing or Dave Brubeck? Same period, same cool, laid-back music....

Ted
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well, once upon a time the idea was to buy some jazz music, come about to Chet Baker, and I`v been there since. "'round Midnight" for instance is always to recommend. Think I´ll have to test it with som night photography once. . . 😀

Think I have some tango on my Ipod somewhere, but . . . . . would be like bringing take away coffee to your cafe on the corner.

Else its nice to have a brake sometimes from all the traffic noise.
 
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