LaFoto
03-07-2009, 02:57 AM
... in our region - and what surprised me most is that we're actually on the 53rd parallel (which is where there's Québec, for example) and hardly get any snow at all, while even further south, all Canada and the northern parts of the States (including those south right now!) get heaps of ice and snow and have COLD winters and all...
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3614/3289351475_9a364fd02b_o.jpg
Something tells me that in my original files, despite the contours softened by the fog, the first tree is clearer and sharper - or would this be wishful thinking? If I took this one with the 70-300mm zoom lens, then it could also have played its "tricks" on me (it's the el-cheapo Sigma lens for € 169,- which I bought shortly before we flew to the Meet-Up with Terri and Brad and others in Washington DC in April 2006). I'm afraid it is broken already and some glass inside got loose.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3614/3289351475_9a364fd02b_o.jpg
Something tells me that in my original files, despite the contours softened by the fog, the first tree is clearer and sharper - or would this be wishful thinking? If I took this one with the 70-300mm zoom lens, then it could also have played its "tricks" on me (it's the el-cheapo Sigma lens for € 169,- which I bought shortly before we flew to the Meet-Up with Terri and Brad and others in Washington DC in April 2006). I'm afraid it is broken already and some glass inside got loose.