It has been a while since I’ve posted one of these updates, but I’ve just updated the DEALS page on this site to include some holiday offers at site-sponsor B&H, including deep discounts on a large group of Canon lenses and speedlites, Canon DSLR/lens bundles for six of their cameras, a Nikon D600 offer, a deal on the Sony Alpha and lenses, specials from tripod manufacture Manfrotto
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B&H has the Canon 5D Mark II body on sale for $1799 right now. If you have been holding out for a full frame body, this seems like a great opportunity. While the newer Canon EOS 5D Mark III offers some improved features that can make a difference to some photographers, for others the 5DII can perform essentially equally well. For example, those photographing subjects like landscape or architecture and so on will find that the 5DII produces image quality that essentially equals that of the 5DIII, and that they likely won’t miss the newer features. (I considered upgrading from my 5DII, but I decided that the 5DIII – as fine as it is – won’t provide compelling advantages for my photography.)
It is also worth noting that this makes the price of the 5DII barely more than 50% of that of the 5DIII!
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer whose subjects include the Pacific coast, redwood forests, central California oak/grasslands, the Sierra Nevada, California deserts, urban landscapes, night photography, and more. Blog | About | Flickr | Twitter | Facebook | Google+ | 500px.com | LinkedIn | Email
This is the second photograph in my sequence showing the Space Shutter Endeavour, mounted atop its transport aircraft, as it did a slow and low flyover of the NASA/Ames Moffett Field facility in the San Francisco Bay Area on September 21, 2012. I posted the first shot yesterday, made as the craft(s) came over the top of the historic Hangar One facility, still approaching my camera position.
This photograph was made a few seconds later, after it had cleared the old hangar and was almost perpendicular to my position and just about as close as it came to me. The slow passage of the lumbering modified 747 carrying the Endeavour was a stunning and beautiful and magical sight. After three hours of waiting in a crowd along the edge of the runway, the first sight of Endeavor approaching from the distance over San Francisco Bay was exciting. Then the approach seemed to accelerate (though I know it didn’t) as the craft passed over the top of the old hangar and emerged in full view very close by. In a moment it was on its departing path, and within another minute or so it was all over.
Because this image from the sequence shows the shuttle the most clearly, I decided to crop a bit differently to eliminate much extraneous material – which here would have been mostly sky. At some point I’d like to make a large print of this or one of the other images. In this one the details of the shuttle (and the transport craft) are extremely clear in the full size image. In fact, I can see the face of one of the people in the cockpit of the 747. He is looking our way, and I swear there is a smile on his face! :-)
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer whose subjects include the Pacific coast, redwood forests, central California oak/grasslands, the Sierra Nevada, California deserts, urban landscapes, night photography, and more. Blog | About | Flickr | Twitter | Facebook | Google+ | 500px.com | LinkedIn | Email
Hostas leaves growing in a Portland, Oregon garden.
I made this small series of photographs of the leaves of hostas plants while wandering around the extensive rose gardens at Portland, Oregon’s Washington Park. I’m not a big fan of photographing roses – though I’m fascinated by looking at them – so I had not made any photographs while visiting that primary area of the garden, but once we began to poke around in some of the peripheral gardens that featured other kinds of plants I started to see things that attracted my own photographic interest more strongly. This set of leaves was in a large bed of hostas plants along a walkway and in the shade, and I thought that the colors and textures of their overlapping leaves created some very interesting patterns.
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer whose subjects include the Pacific coast, redwood forests, central California oak/grasslands, the Sierra Nevada, California deserts, urban landscapes, night photography, and more. Blog | About | Flickr | Twitter | Facebook | Google+ | 500px.com | LinkedIn | Email
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G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer whose subjects include the Pacific coast, redwood forests, central California oak/grasslands, the Sierra Nevada, California deserts, urban landscapes, night photography, and more.
