Thanks! We kinda like having our own frog who's adopted us. This will be
our second season with him - we've watched him grow up.
On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 12:45 PM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> That's an impressive portrait of Kermit.
>
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
>
>
> On 5/18/2015 12:39 PM, Paul Braun wrote:
>
>> Kermit was in a more photogenic mood yesterday morning - I put the 12-50
>> into macro mode and got down on his level and about 2" away from him. Nice
>> detail and nice bokeh.
>>
>> http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=17230
>>
>> I was in Chicago yesterday for Robie House duty. On my way back, I decided
>> to stop and grab a few photos - first one is of a soccer game between
>> several families in the Midway Plaisance (one of the remnants of the 1893
>> World's Fair left in town). The energy and color caught my eye. I was
>> quite
>> a distance away, so I put the 75-300 on at f8 and held very still. EXIF
>> shows 179mm, so not too bad for a 360mm hand-held shot. I tried to be
>> inconspicuous and non-threatening since in this day and age, anybody
>> taking
>> photos of kids is automatically painted as a predator...
>>
>> http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=17234
>>
>> And this shot is of a statue in the Midway as well that I've been driving
>> by for years without knowing who it was. So, I stopped. Turns out it's of
>> Thomas Masaryk, the founder and first president of Czechoslovakia. Chicago
>> has a large Czech population (my friend Jim Peterik is of Czech heritage),
>> so once I looked him up, it made sense. The statue was erected in the
>> 1950's according to the plaque on the base.
>>
>> http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=17232
>>
>> I found one that I had forgotten about from our trip to Tunica/Memphis a
>> couple of months back, so I'm going to cheat and include it here. It's an
>> abandoned vacation development called "Cottage Inn Luxury Chalets". Every
>> time we've driven by it, I laugh since my concept of "Luxury Chalet" isn't
>> a shoddy building on a flat corner lot along a highway in Tunica, MS.
>> This
>> last time, I got a photo.
>>
>> http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=17096
>>
>> C&C encouraged. Enjoy!
>>
>
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