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Site & Board Matters => About This Site => Topic started by: uaiomex on February 01, 2011, 10:29:20 pm

Title: Current front page picture is epic!
Post by: uaiomex on February 01, 2011, 10:29:20 pm

What a lucky moment was to be there with the right eye. This bird in flight beats all BIF pics I've seen anywhere.  :D
The perfect moment for the best capture on earth!
Mouth watering if I just take a moment to imagine the print.
My sincere congratulations.
Eduardo

Title: Re: Current front page picture is epic!
Post by: Peter van den Hamer on February 03, 2011, 05:16:53 am

Agree. It goes to show that the Aztec gods are favorable to those who carry an 80 MPixel digital Phase One back and lug a tripod around :)

Title: Re: Current front page picture is epic!
Post by: Josh-H on February 03, 2011, 06:00:19 am

Agreed - wonderful timing. Like a Phoenix. ;D

Title: Re: Current front page picture is epic!
Post by: Rajan Parrikar on February 03, 2011, 07:34:37 am

Muito magnífico !

Title: Re: Current front page picture is epic!
Post by: michael on February 03, 2011, 09:24:41 am

Thank you everyone.

All I can say is – f/8 and be there, with strong emphasis on the be there part.

Michael

Title: Re: Current front page picture is epic!
Post by: fredjeang on February 03, 2011, 01:23:28 pm

OP fooled me on this one. When I saw the title I thought Michael had shoot the editorial with a Red Epic... ::)

Title: Re: Current front page picture is epic!
Post by: uaiomex on February 04, 2011, 11:52:53 am

Sorry Fred, not my intention but your response made me laugh.  :D One tends to believe what one desires. ;)
This particular picture could well be once in a lifetime.
Eduardo

Quote from: fredjeang on February 03, 2011, 01:23:28 pm

OP fooled me on this one. When I saw the title I thought Michael had shoot the editorial with a Red Epic... ::)

Title: Re: Current front page picture is epic!
Post by: Rob C on February 04, 2011, 02:39:26 pm

Quote from: uaiomex on February 04, 2011, 11:52:53 am

Sorry Fred, not my intention but your response made me laugh.  :D One tends to believe what one desires. ;)
This particular picture could well be once in a lifetime.
Eduardo

Nope, Eduardo, Fred's right: this thread/pic should have been called Snowbird. All northern Americans/Canadians will understand as, clearly, do some Europeans who also vote with their feet or wings!

;-)

Rob C

Title: Re: Current front page picture is epic!
Post by: viewfinder on February 05, 2011, 05:17:37 am

Was it Edward Weston who said that most "lucky shots" were usually made by "great photographers".....?

HCB eat your heart out!.........like 'family on the banks of the Marne'...but from the front!

Title: Re: Current front page picture is epic!
Post by: Jeremy Roussak on February 05, 2011, 07:24:50 am

Quote from: viewfinder on February 05, 2011, 05:17:37 am

Was it Edward Weston who said that most "lucky shots" were usually made by "great photographers".....?

Could have been. Reminiscent of Gary Player's1 remark when someone suggested he was lucky: "Yes; and the more I practice, the luckier I get".

Jeremy

1or Arnold Palmer's, or Tom Watson's, or...

Title: Re: Current front page picture is epic!
Post by: uaiomex on February 05, 2011, 07:07:49 pm

Yeah right!  :D
What startles me the most is that if this back challenges 8X10", this picture was not possible then because by the time you completely settled up a view camera to make the shot, the cloud formation was just a brain memory to take home. Ansel Adams almost missed "Moon over Hernandez" for just a couple of seconds.
Eduardo

Quote from: Rob C on February 04, 2011, 02:39:26 pm

Nope, Eduardo, Fred's right: this thread/pic should have been called Snowbird. All northern Americans/Canadians will understand as, clearly, do some Europeans who also vote with their feet or wings!

;-)

Rob C