*** June 2024 Image and Video Thread ***

[Travis Butler]

A few 'hidden' bits tucked in various spots on the National Mall, which weren't getting the attention the better-known landmarks were. All pics taken with the Sigma fp and Minolta MD 35-70/3.5 Macro.

Grotto on the Capitol grounds:


20240620-SDIM1473 by Travis Butler, on Flickr


20240620-SDIM1477 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

A couple of fixtures around the edges of the Capitol grounds:


20240620-SDIM1527 by Travis Butler, on Flickr


20240620-SDIM1536 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

Vietnam Women's Memorial, a short distance from the main Vietnam Memorial:


20240622-SDIM1618 by Travis Butler, on Flickr


20240622-SDIM1620 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

John Paul Jones Memorial:


20240622-SDIM1657 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

 

[Oíche]

Good images from that old Minolta but that doesn't look like John Paul Jones from Led Zeppelin. But with a Tony T1.2 lens you could have tonied out that background on the 2nd last one into Toni-eliminification for subject separation for only £1299 with a Sigma 35 T1.2 and I find the fact that background can be decifered as trees and sky to be highly insulting.

But the latest legacy fad is the Pentax 17 1/2 frame film camera where you get more grain, colour cast and blur than Santa left me for Christmas 1984 in a Halina 35mm camera. Which I used until 1998 or so

 

[Oíche]

Obviously a parody of Camera Conspiracies but that fad, hopefully R.I.P is recognised as just that. The background to me is as essential to the subject and not a swath of undetailed bokeh, it works well here but I do prefer it in modern lenses with, for example, Lumix 24-105 or 70-300 where you can dial how much you want in. This is the reason why I don't need f1.8 or faster primes.

That edgy bokeh worked better than most older legacy lenses in that photo though, many can be nasty and hence the still to this day you need fast 2.8 or faster lenses, but if you look at the 11 blade Lumix 70-300 images it just delivers beauty unlike the older or legacy versions....

But minds seem to take decades to change. Even the must have prime idea still exists from the reputation of that era, primes better, more creativity, zoom with your feet etc. I consider it a pile of crap nowadays or out-dated being PC

There are use cases for primes otherwise so don't get

 

[CharlesH]

A few 'hidden' bits tucked in various spots on the National Mall, which weren't getting the attention the better-known landmarks were.

Outstanding Travis, thanks for that.

 

[osogris]

Heavily cropped, but still salvageable. Smaller bird (black-necked stilt) is in the process of running the larger bird (American Avocet) out of his space.

 

[PJD]

A few DC landmarks...

Washington Cathedral:

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20240619-SDIM1094 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

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20240619-SDIM1086 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

Supreme Court:

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20240620-SDIM1328 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

The Capitol:

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20240620-SDIM1311 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

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20240620-SDIM1345 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

The weather was miserable for walking, but there were some gorgeous clouds.

Library of Congress, main building:

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20240620-SDIM1456 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

Lincoln Memorial:

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20240622-SDIM1626 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

Jefferson Memorial:

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20240622-SDIM1663 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

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20240622-SDIM1649 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

Washington Monument:

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20240622-SDIM1667 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

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20240622-SDIM1664 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

Travis: Love seeing your photos of Washington, D.C.! Although my parents lived their entire lives in northeastern N.J. (a few miles west of NYC), D.C. held a special place in their hearts. They were always patriotic, but not overly-so. In May 1944, a few months before my father shipped-out to England to fight in WWII in France & Germany, he & my mother had a romantic get-away (before they were married!) in D.C. Two of the attached low-quality snapshots are from from that trip, and were only recently found among my late parents' thousands of family photos. The fountain is the Senate Fountain. The photo of my parents standing together in front of west steps of the US Capitol was taken 2 years later, after my dad returned from Europe. They married in August 1946. As evidenced by their smiles, they (like the rest of the world) were very glad the war was over. In subsequent years, after my siblings & I were born, we made several family trips to visit these same D.C. locations. Good memories!

 

[RuleOfThirds]

Garden fun (@11GTCS , some more 24-105 fun )

• Panasonic - DC-S5M2
• LUMIX S 24-105/F4
• 75.0 mm
• ƒ/8
• 1/80 sec
• Pattern
• Auto exposure
• ISO 125

• Panasonic - DC-S5M2
• LUMIX S 24-105/F4
• 105.0 mm
• ƒ/11
• 1/250 sec
• Pattern
• Manual exposure
• ISO 640

Prumes are getting heavy for the branches

• Panasonic - DC-S5M2
• LUMIX S 24-105/F4
• 72.0 mm
• ƒ/8
• 1/80 sec
• Pattern
• Auto exposure
• ISO 200

 

[Travis Butler]

Travis: Love seeing your photos of Washington, D.C.! Although my parents lived their entire lives in northeastern N.J. (a few miles west of NYC), D.C. held a special place in their hearts. They were always patriotic, but not overly-so. In May 1944, a few months before my father shipped-out to England to fight in WWII in France & Germany, he & my mother had a romantic get-away (before they were married!) in D.C. Two of the attached low-quality snapshots are from from that trip, and were only recently found among my late parents' thousands of family photos. The fountain is the Senate Fountain. The photo of my parents standing together in front of west steps of the US Capitol was taken 2 years later, after my dad returned from Europe. They married in August 1946. As evidenced by their smiles, they (like the rest of the world) were very glad the war was over. In subsequent years, after my siblings & I were born, we made several family trips to visit these same D.C. locations. Good memories!

Thanks! Those pics remind me of some I digitized for my grandmother's memorial service a few years ago, when my father was a kid and they were living at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, shortly after WWII; my grandfather was a naval test pilot.

There's a lot more photos to show; I ended up with a bit more than 600 photos from the trip, and posted a little more than half of them to Flickr. Don't want to hog things by posting the whole thing, but I will try posting a few select ones, starting with the Capitol for you.