Sunny Brunch

Today on a sunny verandah of a Cafe named below and located at the end of Middle Head Road opposite HMAS Penguin, some relo's and I had a very nice brunch of poached eggs, bacon, field mushrooms and tomato on a sour dough toast. Afterwards we wandered through the retail sections and browsed its wares.

Nikon D300, Nikkor 35mm f2 @ ISO 200, 35mm f8, 1/13 sec

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Nikon D300, Nikkor 35mm f2 @ ISO 200, 35mm f16, 1/60 sec

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Nikon D300, Nikkor 35mm f2 @ ISO 200, 35mm f2, 1/500 sec

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Nikon D300, Nikkor 35mm f2 @ ISO 200, 35mm f2, 1/80 sec

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Nikon D300, Nikkor 35mm f2 @ ISO 200, 35mm f2, 1/15 sec

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Nikon D300, Nikkor 35mm f2 @ ISO 200, 35mm f2, 1/160 sec

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Nikon D300, Nikkor 35mm f2 @ ISO 200, 35mm f2, 1/50 sec

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Nikon D300, Tokina 11-16 f2.8 @ ISO 200, 11mm f3.2, 1/2500 sec

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Birthday

Its my birthday, thanks to everyone for their best wishes and this beautiful card from Jacqui and Eladio. Happy birthday to my lovely daughter Jacqueline too as hers is on the same day. The events below happened in our birth years. Do you know which year and for whom they correspond?

• The Summer Olympics are held in Melbourne, Australia.
• The worlds first personal computer, the Commodore PET, is demonstrated at the Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago USA.
• The Hungarian Revolution starts.
• Portugal's traditional naming conventions change such that children's surnames can come from either the mother or the father, not just from the father.
• Television broadcasting commences in Australia.
• Star Wars opens in cinemas.
• The hard disk drive is invented by an IBM team led by Reynold B. Johnson.
• The first Apple II computers go on sale
• Elvis Presley dies.

Nikon D300, Nikkor 35mm f2 @ ISO 450, 35mm f2, 1/60 sec

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Christmas Lights

Out looking for this years Christmas lights to photograph I grabbed this shot of an almost full moon over a bay near my house.

Nikon D300, Nikkor 35mm f2 @ ISO 800, f2.5, 1/13 sec (Hand Held)

The lights are a little slow coming out this year or I'm a bit early. Anyway here is an abstract view of some Chrissy lights near home.

Nikon D300, Nikkor 35mm f2 @ ISO 800, f2.0, 1/200 sec

35mm f2D

I just got a new Nikkor 35mm f/2D lens for my Nikon D300 DSLR camera :-) You can get great bokeh with this lens that is perfect for environmental portraits, landscapes and photojournalism or walk around lens. It's compact, lightweight and very fast f/2 so great for hand held low light indoor situations. The 35mm f/2D AF it can focus very close to about 1/4 life size or closest focusing distance .25 metre and is a great feature of this lens.

For a DX sensor Nikon D90, D3000, D5000, etc its the equivalent of a 50mm prime lens on a Full Frame D3, D700 D3x etc. Its classed as a wide angle Nikkor because on a full frame camera the picture angle would be 62 Degrees but with the DX its 44 degrees. For comparison the standard normal prime for a full frame camera has a picture angle of 46 degrees. So on a DX this is a normal prime. For a great explanation and pictures to help go here.