What did y'all shoot today?

Today, I ventured out with a couple local burlesque performers to do some shooting downtown.
Armed myself with a Nikon D700 and an M2 (with Tri-X).
 
A week-long trip to Costa Rica produced some nice images of the kind of "nature" we rarely see in Los Angeles (you mean the sky really isn't brown?) I left the RF at home, but still shot some B&W (to be developed) with my F100. Mostly, I shot macros / close-ups with my D700 and Kiron 105mm/2.8. Here's one...


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Actually got to take some photos with my XA in a restaurant this afternoon. Got my wife, the owner and the owner's wife, and a couple of other shots inside. Felt good to use the little thing. About six shots to finish the roll.
 
Things and such.

Things and such.

This weekend has seen a lot of shooting. I spent Thanksgiving with my girlfriend and her family in Marin (across the Golden Gate from SF), and did a lot of family portraits (mostly with my Canon EOS 50D). However, yesterday and today I have been shooting my M3 and 5cm collapsible Summicron with my remaining stock of Legacy Pro 400 : ( My primary subject, as usual, has been my lovely girlfrend Kim. I am looking to develop the couple rolls I have taken when I get home tomorrow.
 
Over the Thanksgiving holiday, I went to see the # 1 ranked Oregon Ducks play Arizona at Autzen Stadium in Eugene, OR. I had my M6 and my newly acquired 21mm Super Angulon lens with me. I took some shots of the players on the field and the spectators in front of me but I finally put it away because it was raining so much. Fortunately, Oregon beat Arizona and are still ranked # 1 in the nation!

It's interesting what a photographer notices when attending a game that is being nationally broadcast on ESPN. The first thing I noticed was that the camera on the sidelines was covered in an orange "raincoat" due to the rain. Of course, an opening was left so the camera lens could broadcast the action on the field. I also noticed a camera that seemed to hover shortly above the field and near the action all by itself until I noticed the wires that were supporting it. During halftime, the camera was brought to the sidelines next to the other camera where a man appeared to carefully wipe off the camera lens of all the water droplets that must've been on it. After this wiping down by one of the ESPN crew, the camera was returned to its usual spot above the field where it would show the action in the second half.

It was my first time attending a football game where the team was ranked # 1 in the nation. Fortunately, my daughter is currently a student at Oregon. In a weird way, I think it makes up for the time when I was in college and the team was the worst ranked team in the nation.

Ellen
 
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