Farewell to Summer - Open Thread

[sury]

Now that summer is fading, I invite you all to post your good bye to summer photos.
Anything that you see fit (or even not!!! ) go in here....

[ValeryD]

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[bakubo]

Good idea for a photo thread. Nice flowers, Sury.

Fish hanging out, just waiting for the bars to open. Olympus E-M5



Caught in a heavy downpour. Canon G16



Children going home from school in a heavy downpour. Canon G16

[sury]

Valery, thank you. I flexed it now. Please let me know.
Henry, nice shots.

[ValeryD]

Valery, thank you. I flexed it now. Please let me know.
Henry, nice shots.

Way better! I can see the picture.

Henry, second and last one - nice shots.

[sury]

Few more from tonight at home. We had a dinner on Friday night and thus had few bouquets "lying" around.
With 135/f1.8. That lens has become an enigma to me and as JB predicted, forces me to think differently.
If I had not been familiar with macro photography, I would have struggled a lot with such slim DoF.
These were taken with camera on tripod, focus stacking done using Zerene Stacker. At one point, I was tempted
to put the camera/lens on a macro slider but trying to move the focus ring by less than a mm, gave me a more
intimate feel for the lens behavior.
Also tried to be less ham fisted with PP, trying hard to keep the creaminess of the bokeh which could be lost due to stacking.
This is my first attempt at PP which kept lens characterisitc in mind rather than the image per se.
Any suggestions or tips to improve are (as) always welcome.

Sury

[Mark K]

Well, this is it. Woke up early in the morning and started my late summer and early fall trail walk

[RareTA]

Sury you have the best flower garden. The photos are great!

[RareTA]

Henry that fish photo is great! You can almost smell them.

[RareTA]

This shot doesn't have a lot of fall colors but it still shows its coming.

[RareTA]

This one has some more fall color to it.

[Birma]

Great idea for the thread, Sury. Love all of the flowers and end of summer days - especially the rain in Japan; there have been a few days like that here this week.

It is dark on the way to work, and dark on the way home, which means autumn must be well on the way now. The bonus is that sunrise is at a more reasonable hour, and there is more chance of mist in the morning as well.

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A99 with SAL 28-75.

[sury]

Wow. What a way to bid farewell to Summer. Excellent shot Andy.

Ken, Very nice shots and especially the second one is vibrant.

[Birma]

Thanks Sury

[RareTA]

Thanks Sury but I have to say the knock out photo is the foggy one from Birma! It's just sweet!