The lens is mightier than the pen is mightier than the sword.

TLC
Technique: SSSEFL or 1/fl.
Again, here's a very good read:
Heavy Lenses, Steady Shots! by Joseph LaQuiere

Leverage and Carbohydrates:
means I have to eat more and learn how to wield this beast properly to get good results.
Nothing comes free anymore. I have to do my homework!

Bigma - this lens needs TLC
Technique
Leverage
and Carbohydrates!

Drove around with Bigma today

It was the winter solstice today at 1409H and I was stuck in the traffic :P

The monkeys showed up at SBMA

Birding fulfilled :P

Lucky shot?

Fiesta!

Bigma+low light+little luck

FF (w/PP) 100%crop

FF(w/PP) 100%crop

It is heavy
...but it's very promising!

Hiro was right.

Images are not borrowed.

Image borrowed from the-digital-picture

Hiro: My name is Hiro Nakamura and I have a message for dogears.
Tell him he will meet Bigma tomorrow.

Bigma @
fredmiranda|vividlight
the-digital-picture|lonestardigital|
dyxum
dpreview|photographyreview
creationview|wrotniak

Heavy Lenses, Steady Shots! @ creationview

Spiderboy requested me to take a pic of Hercules and I obliged...

ConvergenceMinolta Maxxum 7 with Super Takumar 28/3.5
The sky is wonderfully blue on Decembers :)

Early morning drizzle... could have been some snow :D
week50|7/7
done

Geminids Meteor Shower

It's like a lottery, 127 shots and I only got this very minor consolation prize :D

^just right there.......

week50mm6/7

The Early Morning Venus Show
week50prime 5/7

First time for me... two pics in one issue :))

Week50Prime 4/7

DPP 17 Reader's Gallery: Water

Decisions... headache... decisions...
Tamron 28-75/2.8
overall ratings: 4,59
sharpness rating: 4,63
color rating: 4,80
build rating: 4,27
distortion rating: 4,60
flare control: 4,67
total: 15 reviews
it was hard to let go of this fast constant aperture FF lens...
but I have to... in chess, it's called a sacrifice...
and you don't get a migraine from a chess sacrifice.
[week50prime 3/7]what should be gained from this gambit:
CZ 16-80/3.5-4.5DT
overall ratings: 4,68
sharpness rating: 4,90
color rating: 4,97
build rating: 4,26
distortion rating: 4,40
flare control: 4,89
total: 35 reviews

the future should look brighter...

Good thing my youngest son woke us up early today :)day2/7
week50

Week50Prime is onnoPP|noCrop|drat!:D

Helios 44M-5 58mm/f2 Zenit MC
[taken with MinAF24-50(O)]

On a recent trip to the local camera gear shops, a guy offered me Helios 44M-5 58/2 for only P500|USD12. After checking the glass, I said to myself - what the heck (yes, in English :D)

Sample|No PP

Just search [Google] for 'Comet Holmes' and you will be rewarded with info on how to spot it. It should be fairly "up" by 10pm.
here are some shots I took
It's on constellation Perseus and you can use Cassiopeia or Pleiades for guides:






It looks like a fuzzy ball comet and I believe the recent news is that it's growing a tail

News from Baltimore Sun

finishline...
'Rocking Chair'

'Thru the Rail'

I'm done! :P

Trick or Treat activity in the office and I brought the two boys here :) But I will not post their pics here anymore :D
Our office building

A neighbour bulding
both bldgs shot from the driver side in stealth mode.

Some people waiting for the lift|elevator

Can't really decide which one should be my official:

Guava Tree

Lock

Sure alternate :P
Was a Sunny Day

Was on the road again today...

'Bad Smoke'
Shooting while driving. This one was already behind me, took it with my right arm pointing outside from the passenger's side :p

'Waiting'
Tricycles waiting for passengers. Missed the top portion, another 'stealth shooting'.

'Candidate'
"Barangay" election tommorow and campaign period is over. That guy 'Manny' is my parents' neighbour. He's running for Barangay Captain.
Barangay=Town I think.

'One Prime Full Moon'

'Haircut Day'
Gave the kids a haircut today

Morning Window