POTD - Wide Open

50mm F1.7 - 1/80s f/1.7 at 50.0mm iso200:

 

I'm really enjoying all these Jeff

 

Coach light on the front of my house:



1/100s f/1.7 at 50.0mm iso1600

The coach lights were turned off, and this one was being backlit by the floodlight on the corner of my garage. ; Another one of those 12:30am spontaneous handhelds of the type you can do when you have a big aperture prime!...for no other reason than for fun.

 

Jeff these are all fantastic! ; Thanks for posting.

 

that is just awesome Jeff!

 

Mickey napping on the couch this afternoon, F1.7:

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Jeff, you do a great job capturing Florida Life.

Nice flower Gary, I "hand" zoomed my lemon slice yesterday since I was using the 50mm. the 18-200 was just too soft. But I was shooting at f16, not 1.4, so it cant go in this thread!

 

Cooleo...Do they still have sponsors of the various exhibits at the Audubon? ; Back when I was at Tulane, I sponsored one of the animals and had a plaque with my name at the exhibit - it stayed there for the 4 years I went to college, and was still there when I visited 8 years later for a friend's wedding! ; But now that was 11 years ago, and I didn't know if those were even still there.

I believe the way they did it was, you sponsored officially for 1 year, but if noone else came along and offered a new year of sponsorship, your plaque stayed up at that exhibit. ; Of course, I didn't have the money to sponsor tigers or chimps or white alligators, and those sponsors were changing constantly. ; So my trick was to pick a very obscure animal exhibit that noone would likely ever displace my sponsorship on...the Kangaroo Rat, which was in a glass terrarium exhibit in one of the buildings that has the rodents and such.

If they still have sponsorship plaques, and they still have a kangaroo rat, let me know next time you stop by if you still see my name there!