My train station. It’s my portal. This was my first attempt at doing 1 photograph a day, and I lasted maybe a week.
Not as sharp as I wanted, even with the built in shake reduction in Pentax bodies, my shutter was too slow, although maybe I could’ve shot it at f/16 instead of f/22. I could’ve upped my ISO too. I can’t figure out why I didn’t
Pentax K10D
Pentax FE DA 10-17mm
1″
f/22
10 mm
ISO 400
A few first’s for this RFPD. It’s the first entry that I shot this year, first that is also the most viewed from my Flickr Photostream, and the first flower shot with my new to me Nikkor 50mm f/1.4. (picked it up this past Friday).
This was shot at Cheesecake’s house, in their backyard. Not that crazy about it, but I really was just playing around with my new to me lens. I have shot with the fast fifty before, but, this one, I call my own, and it just feels different. It’s one of my favorite lenses really, and I am so glad to have it finally in my bag. Hopefully I can get to shoot more with it soon.
Nikon D700
Nikkor 50mm f/1.4
1/800 sec.
f/1.4
ISO 200
I might do some more post-editing on this one. I’ll make sure to post it up when I do.
Today’s photo of the day is brought to you by me, for your amusement, of course.
Andy the Android shows his dominance over Apple, and with the recent release of the iPhone 5, he is still showing some luster. Androids go!
Via Flickr:
Andy the Android is showing his dominance. He ravaged an apple and I couldn’t be any more proud.
And today’s most viewed photographs on my Flickr photostream with a whopping 4 (each) views is….(there is a 4 way tie)
2 Tornado Red VW GTI MK6
VW MK6 Golf .:R LED Tail Light
APR Tuned VW GTI MK6 Stage 3 Tuned Engine bay
Tornado Red VW GTI MK6
These were shot from various VW GTI MK6 Car meets.
This is another personal favorite from 2009. I was on my way to meet a buddy at Hooters in NYC coming in from a photo shoot in Connecticut. I was stuck at a light about 2 blocks away, and in NYC, that’s pretty much a traffic jam anywhere else.
Anyway, as I crept up, I saw a crowd forming maybe 3 car lenghts, and they were all taking photos. When I finally crawled my way around them, I saw this beautiful formation of clouds, which I later learned was Mammatus. The sun was setting also, so it gave this nice orange hue to it.
I had my camera packed, no lens attached. Luckily it was in the front passenger seat, so I quickly opened my bag, grabbed my D700 body, and screwed in my Nikkor 24mm. I quickly set my camera to what may be a good exporsure, metered real quickly, I was off by +1 stop, so I quickly adjust, and snapped off a few frames. I re-set to -1.5 stops and fired a few more.
When I finally got to my destination, I quickly reviewed my shots, and was satisfied with them. Later on, in Lightroom, the best shot turned out to be the very first frame I took.
This was one of those moments where your experience just really kicks in. I had no time really to get a shot off properly, as just after firing my first set of shots, the light turned green, and soon there after we were moving. I came walked back after I parked my car, but the sun already set too low, and the colours were not as vivid as it was no more than 5 minutes prior.
Nikon D700
Nikkor 24mm
Cheesecake is probably my single most favorite piece of dessert, EVER. I need to have different cheesecakes at different places whenever possible. I’ve had hundreds of slices all over, and while some are better than others, nothing really stood out. None was perfect, until that faithful weekend in May of 2009. It was during a trip to Philadelphia, to eat at Morimoto’s restaurant, we had some hours to kill before our scheduled reservations for dinner that night, so my friend and I took a tour around Philly. We stumbled upon Darling’s Famous Homemade cheesecakes, and I just needed to try this place. They had a variety of flavours, but I ended up picking the Banana’s Foster Cheesecake. I also have a thing for Banana flavoured foods.
That first bite was just magical, I have found at the time the perfect cheesecake. It’s funny too, that I found it in Philly, and not in NYC. Each silky smooth creamy bite easily glided down my throat, that hint of banana flavour tickling my taste buds, just utter epic-ness. Dare I say, I had a mini-crisis while eating this perfection. I must admit, it wasn’t much too look at, but like a book, never judge it by it’s cover.
Pure Epic-ness
Nikon D700
Nikkor 24mm
1/200 sec.
f/2.8
ISO 1600
Sadly, this was unseated earlier this year as the best cheesecake. That throne now belongs to a place up in Vancouver. Maybe another time, i’ll tell you about it.
Funny article I came across from one of the Bloggers that liked my post. I happen to agree with all of them.
Continuing with our Earworm Cartoon’s Tehem’s Edition, we start off with M.A.S.K. or Mobile Armored Strike Kommand. They went against the evil criminal organization called V.E.N.O.M or Vicious Evil Network of Mayhem.
What’s cool about this cartoon was that the vehicles can turn into other vehicles, like M.A.S.K.’s leader Matt Trakker’s Camaro can transform into a plane. The drivers, also wore Masks with special abilities. I can’t remember much, but it was quite entertaining, and the toy’s were super cool too.
[youtube http://youtu.be/M0BzBFWt8V8]
Next up is Silver Hawks. Basically space cops fighting space mob’s. They were partly metal and partly real. The theme to this was catchy, really catchy, and I think ranks 2nd in my list of cartoon theme’s (Bionic Six ranks 1st).
The cartoon was also essentially a space version of Thunder Cats.
[youtube http://youtu.be/jyukifAmPNo]
Next up is Bravestarr. A futuristic cowboy with the strength of a bear, eyes of the hawk, speed of a puma, ears of a wolf and the kicker, a kick ass horse for a partner, as a kid, sounds like a winner. The theme is not as catchy as the above, but hey, still gives me nostalgic chills whenever I hear it.
[youtube http://youtu.be/UaMo4k7iG7s]
And lastly, Defenders of the Earth. Basically a team featuring characters from Kings Features Syndicate comics. I never got to see this in it’s original run, but thank goodness for syndication, re-runs were showed in the 90’s and even though I was older, I still enjoyed watching it. The theme is pretty kick ass too.
[youtube http://youtu.be/-Nm_jJBkHtU]
This theme song is one of the very best. Like no one’s ever was. It caught all fans. Sorry. Getting too corny here. Pokémon is hands down one of my all time favorite shows. This theme song is insanely catchy. Prepare to be Earwormed. (Although I couldn’t quote exactly find the real video to accompany this wonderful example of my childhood, this should suffice.)
[Edit: added video – Big Cheese]
And the full version.
And today’s most viewed photograph on my Flickr photostream with a whopping 9 views is….
2012 Volkswagen Golf .:R
Rising Blue
Nikon D700
Micro Nikkor 60mm
1/5000 sec.
f/5.0
This was shot during a Euro Car meet sometime in February. It’s an acquaintances Brand New Golf .:R, one of the first to be delivered in NY in fact. It’s a thing of beauty, and while some might say it’s an overpriced GTI, and I sort of agree, but, you have to be a Dubber to understand.
I think I do need to re-process this shot. It looks too BLUE!
I just wrote a blog 