A late starting 365 :-(

28th August
I tried to get a few shots of Tanja bathing Jacob - not a great success. Here is evidence:

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29th August
Macro week ...
After family week last week I have decided to try a macro week this week. Here is the start - a hover fly on some flowering oregano in the garden.
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30th August
Out walking with Ticky at the crack of dawn this morning I took this:
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but also this one which I like a lot more but is not a macro so it doesn't count according to my new rules about theme weeks :)
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31st August
I made some cuttings (well stole off the neighbour's compost heap actually) of some geraniums a month or so ago and I have already got some flowers.

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I have noticed that the magnifying filter magnifies more the further that you move it from the object - should be obvious of course but I forgot / didn't think about it so I only noticed it this evening. I also played about with a mirror and the evening sun. This was the last one I got before the sun disappeared behind the mountains.
 
Nice shallow DoF, but looks like you have dirt on your lens/sensor and it's strange to see it at that wide aperture. Would clean it!
 
ShrubMonkey said:
Nice shallow DoF, but looks like you have dirt on your lens/sensor and it's strange to see it at that wide aperture. Would clean it!
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I have no F*****ing clue what that is. It is in the lens since it is not in any of the photos taken with another lenses, I have cleaned the front but that made no difference. I fear that it is inside the lens so I will have to send it back to Sigma to get it done I think :(
 
5th September
we were out on a bike ride all together today. Benedict and Christopher managed the whole 7km on their own (with only a couple of accidents). I had the gorillapod with me and so I took this one of us all - the focus is slightly out which is annoying but here we are:

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6th September
I was out with the boys getting bread and there were bees on loads of the flowers in a kind of torpor as it had got so cold overnight - no macro lens with me unfortunately only the 35mm - nevertheless I like this one...

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7th September
Time is short at the moment and so I am mostly relying on grab shots during the week. This is Tanja working on her laptop - I love my new 35mm 1.8. It lets me take shots in such dark places without a flash.

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8th September
We are getting into the autumn sunrises now - this is my first go at taking one. Not that great but we will see what I can come up with. Do I get extra points for it being taken one handed with a baby on the other arm? :)

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nicnok said:
6th September
I was out with the boys getting bread and there were bees on loads of the flowers in a kind of torpor as it had got so cold overnight - no macro lens with me unfortunately only the 35mm - nevertheless I like this one...
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I Like the slightly offset composition on this shot nic (y)
 
9th September
Here we are a self portrait - waiting for the football. The only question is what to watch; England - Croatia, Germany - Azerbaijan, Switzerland - Lithuania, Austria - someone. Too many TV channels here!

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The right choice was to watch England - Croatia. :D
Which shows England matches? I´m still looking for that channel. I "had" to watch Germany vs Azerbaidschan. That was a cruel first half, at least the showed Berti Vogst a few times.

Actually, what´s going on in England? Winning 5:1 against Croatia, winning 8 out of 8 matches...and even scoring from the spot :thinking:
I have to explain that, although I´m german, I´m an England supporter for over 20 years now. My favourit England match was the 5:1 win over Germany in Munich. (y)
 
10th September
International Space Station. Probably not going to win any prizes for this one but there we go. I really like watching the space station go over - I love the idea that there are people looking down. Anyway here we go:

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78seconds said:
The right choice was to watch England - Croatia. :D
Which shows England matches? I´m still looking for that channel.
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I spent most of the time watching that one of course - I was not popular in work this morning as we have several Croatians working for us. I live in Switzerland and have the equivalent of T-Home (internet TV) and we have BBC / ITV / Channel 4 as well as German, French, Austrian, Italian...

Lots of choice (still not that much on though) :)
 
When the page opened I thought you had a damaged lens.

But interesting that it's the space station, what did you use to capture this shot?
 
ShrubMonkey said:
When the page opened I thought you had a damaged lens.

But interesting that it's the space station, what did you use to capture this shot?
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Not all that much - the Sigma 18-200 on a tripod at 155mm f6 11 seconds exposure

The ISS is pretty easy to see - you just have to know when and where to look you can check out when it is visible here:

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Well it does appear that I forgot more days than I thought.

11th September
Ticky sometimes falls out of bed which is why he sleeps more or less on the floor. Occasionally he doesn´t wake up and then this happens:
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16th I missed. I was back in Munich for work overnight and Wednesday was just too busy.

17th September
the train on the way home and this is a shot out of the window looking at a rainy lake Constance. Not a good shot but it captures the feeling somehow.

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20th September
I finally got around to going out in the garden with a tripod and the close up filter. We (like JD) have lots and lots of spiders out there and I managed to get this one spinning a new web. It was really great to watch how she went about it.

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