Picture of the Day!

[Xanthenes The Unbalanced]

Those are excellent shots. But the second from the last is killer. I like how both guys are sitting there without any gear...

Jon.

Thanks, Jon.  I was out mudding in the truck in the B&W shot about 10 minutes before I shot it.  I literally took that shot covered from head to toe in mud & tar.  I'm guessing it was tar, because we were in Alberta and it was black, sticky, stinky, and was a complete pain to wash off.  It's my friend Rick's truck, and he's slowly been building it up over the last decade or so.

A little too much of this, in the same truck, is what killed my back:

[dbaldock]

In 1975 I bought a Kodak 110 Tele-Instamatic 608 Camera, and used it until 1977.  In the Spring of 1977 I bought a used Ricoh 500 Range-Finder 35mm Camera from my uncle, and this Easter Sunrise Service picture was one of the first I shot with it.  The Ricoh 500 is as old as I am (a 1961 model) and does not have a built-in Light Meter, so I was using a small, cheap external Light Meter.


1977 Easter Sunrise Service at Murry Park, alongside the Arkansas River in Little Rock, AR

[dbaldock]

Lunchtime!   

[Anna Iram]

dbaldock, that just goes to show you. If you have a good eye and an understanding of what your camera can do you can still make beautiful pictures, regardless of what you are shooting with. You've a very good eye. That's lovely.



As for the Kodak 110 Instamatic...I had one too! That was back in the day you bought pop in flash cubes...remember those?  

[Dustin]

We took an almost 4 hour drive this weekend to take the kids to see Thomas the Tank Engine and ride on the train.

[NoBill Lurker]

dbaldock, that just goes to show you. If you have a good eye and an understanding of what your camera can do you can still make beautiful pictures, regardless of what you are shooting with. You've a very good eye. That's lovely.



As for the Kodak 110 Instamatic...I had one too! That was back in the day you bought pop in flash cubes...remember those?  

OH! I sooo remember having one of those little 110 Instamatic's! 
And the flash cubes that went with them...even had the extender thingy that would raise the flash cubes up higher...

[dbaldock]

dbaldock, that just goes to show you. If you have a good eye and an understanding of what your camera can do you can still make beautiful pictures, regardless of what you are shooting with. You've a very good eye. That's lovely.



As for the Kodak 110 Instamatic...I had one too! That was back in the day you bought pop in flash cubes...remember those?  

Thanks!  It seems like my photographers eye seems to come and go.  I guess maybe I just need to stay in practice.


The Kodak 608, and its Flip-Flash looked like this.  The Flip-Flash mounted like this.


Here's a sunset from tonight.  Some friends and I went to the Oasis Restaurant in Austin for dinner.  (My friends are out of frame to the right, and are not in this shot.)


Sunset over Lake Travis in Austin, view from the Oasis Restaurant on 25-Sep-09.
(Shot with my Nikon D90 DSLR and Nikon 10 - 24mm Lens.)



EDIT: Added info about "Flip-Flash" and image info about the Sunset shot.

[Ambios]

dbaldock, that just goes to show you. If you have a good eye and an understanding of what your camera can do you can still make beautiful pictures, regardless of what you are shooting with. You've a very good eye. That's lovely.



As for the Kodak 110 Instamatic...I had one too! That was back in the day you bought pop in flash cubes...remember those?  

Most of Lady Maud's (and my, of course) honeymoon pictures were taken with a 110....and YES, loved the little square flash cubes!

[renfairephotog]

[Rani Zemirah]

Dustin, great shots of the little guy!  You just can't pose that kind of enthusiasm, or unadulterated joy!!!  Nice catch with the window shot, also...  They'll remember that day for the rest of their lives!

Lots of others for me to catch up on, also!!!

Great sunsets and sunrises, excellent neon (love to know what the whole sign looked like, btw), gorgeous nature (the different oranges against all that cool green is lovely), and some nice air shots, also!!!

Fav has got to be the Mud Bud, though...  LOL  Not a beer fan, but perfect lighting!!!

Oh!  Most memorable Instamatic 110 moment - when the flash cube caught FIRE!!!  It didn't actually damage the camera, but it did singe the curly perm I had at the time... 

[dbaldock]

Was this shot hand-held, or on a tripod?

[lady M]

Precious.

[renfairephotog]

It was shot free hand.

Holy crap RFP you must have Jedi skills to shoot that free hand.

Why yea I do. also it was at an indoor lawn and garden show. and I darkened the image in PS.

[Dustin]

[mary]

holy cow....took me awhile to catch up and now I am sitting here stunned, amazing talent here!

few fun shots from MNRF