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Buy the X100T plus a nice dress and some shoes for your girlfriend.

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Дедушка не любит влажные ноги by Christoph, auf Flickr
 
 
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Entlaufener Art Besucher by Christoph, auf Flickr  
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Thanks Jürgen! It's a bit backwards actually: first, Margaret started her "Daily Jump" challenge on Instagram, but despite being a professional photographer in her own right, promptly resorted to my help. I don't mind it at all – as a matter of fact, this is a great way to train for creating the poster shots for Bar Mitzvah kids… but my Daily blog is not entirely about Margaret's jumps 
 
As a matter of fact, back in my old Daily project, it was more about my backyard wildlife, so right now I have a crowd chanting "Birds! Birds!"…
 
But now it usually goes like this: "What did I shoot today worth posting? A few cityscapes, some street crap, a crow, a cloud reflecting in a puddle, and a beautiful girl jumping like there's no tomorrow, lit by the colored strobes…"
 
The latter usually wins 
 

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Solex by Christoph, auf Flickr
 
 
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XT-1 and Pentax 55mm f1.8
wide open this lens produces amazing bokeh but is not particularly sharp so the files benefit from a little more aggressive sharpening than usual and then become quite usable. This image processed from a raw file with only sharpening applied, no other adjustments.
 

RFC EX 2 has decent Fuji film simulations. I wrote a column comparing them. Since the DR function is automatically emulated, the look is mostly okay.
 
Lightroom doesn't emulate the DR function, so results may be way off, and there are differences with shadow contrast and orange/yellow tones that turn red. Also, the blue sky can be off.
 
The best Fuji simulations I know are the current v3.3 simulations for Iridient Developer. Plus, Iridient perfectly emulates the DR function, so the results will look quite similar. Colors may be a bit different, but that simply means that they may even be nicer. 
 
The Fuji sRGB simulations for Capture One Pro 8 are usable, too. 

I know we have a zoo thread but I think pandas deserve one of their own. So here are the first few shots of the pandas at the National Zoo in Washington DC I took recently. These are both of the two year old panda called Bao Bao. If they're a little soft it's because they were shot through a thick pane of toughened glass. This is also the source of the reflections in the first shot.  X-E2 with XF55-200.
 

 

Door man from Uganda,London 2015 
after 45min chat about cultural differences between European and  African culture and very intensive and  honest chat a did this portrait you can see proud father of 4 kids and 4 grand kids, he works in London and supporting them from here . Wealth redistribution...
 
Its jpeg straight from x100T nad i update from x100s i can say i see different speed  of controlling camera is much better ...waiting for some auto focus updated like xt1.
 

very cool stuff, KwyjiboVanDeKamp
i love it  :-)

Stormy Weather by Jörg Staudt, auf Flickr
 
with Samyang 12 f2.0

11) Especially in the village, a lot of our time was spent playing with the kids and teaching them American games.

 
 
12) Every PC site around the world has a 'Culture Day,' this is one event from ours

 
 
13) Most dogs are treated poorly here.  Our family got this little guy, hopefully he has a better life

 
 
14) This photo is from our Swearing-In day, these are official (USSR-looking) Peace Corps Kyrgyz Republic IDs

 
 
15)  The US Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan gave a speech during our Swearing-In Ceremony

Hello all!  I've been lurking on this forum for awhile now but finally registered once I realized I now visit it every day.  I've definitely been enjoying all the photos posted here and I wanted to share my own (I shared these elsewhere but no longer visit that place as much).  I used to shoot Nikon but before this adventure I sold my D700 and all my lenses, I now shoot with an X-E2 and a variety of lenses.
 
2 years ago my wife and I applied for the Peace Corps.  It took 18 months but in April, 2014 we finally were on a plane and headed to our new home, Kyrgyzstan.  The last two months have been a crazy whirlwind of travel, language learning, awkward moments and a lot of fun.  Now I'm at my permanent site and plan on updating this thread over the next two years with photos.  For more photos and stories, you can follow us on our blog at http://www.ericandtaylor.com.  On each photo I'll also link it to the blog post that tells more about what was going on at the time.
 
Some of these photos will be snapshots but hopefully help tell part of the story.  Others will hopefully be decent shots.  I'm hoping to have more free time here than I did in the states to really work on my skills.  With that said, here's a few shots of what's happened so far:
 
1) Leaving Portland, OR.  Part of what I loved so much about living in the Northwest are the volcanoes.  I love hiking, backpacking and climbing, these volcanoes shape the landscape of the PNW.  I expect this to be my last glimpse of these for at least two years.
 

 
 
 
2) Washington D.C.  It seemed fitting that our staging would be in our nation's capitol.  It had been a long time since I'd been here. I forgot how beautiful and impactful the city can be.  It's hard not to feel patriotic walking around.
 

 
 
3) Turkey.  This is a country I badly want to visit however we only got to stop over in the airport this time.  Good news is it's close and hopefully during our service we'll get to vacation here.  Next stop, Krgyzstan.
 

 
 
 
4) We arrived to Kyrgyzstan in the early hours of the morning, before the sun had risen.  After 3 hours in the bus we took a break from driving and had our first look at one of many mountain ranges in this small country.
 

 
 
 
5) Our first few days in country were spent at one of the nicer hotels on the shore of Issyk Kul lake.  Wanting to ease us into the country gradually, Peace Corps chose to let us stay at this nice hotel on the shore of a huge lake with snow-capped mountains on all sides.  Not a bad way to start.
 

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Watt-Variationen #003 by Christoph, auf Flickr
 
 
 
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Дедушка не любит влажные ноги by Christoph, auf Flickr
 
 
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Bokeh Blödelei ausm Brunnen by Christoph, auf Flickr
 
 
 
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Not a picture "of" windows, necessarily, but shot "through" a window.  This is from our new library (shortlisted for world building of the year!).  The letters on the window form leaves when viewed from a distance.

Group hug in the rain
 
X-T1
XF 50-140
 

 

 

Drill ducks are rare.
 

 
 

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Gestühl mit Blumen by Christoph, auf Flickr
 
 
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observations in the park #003 by Christoph, auf Flickr
 
 
 
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Early morning on way to work...

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Geist Sichtbarmachung by watcher24
 
 
 
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Дедушка не любит влажные ноги by Christoph, auf Flickr
 
 
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Дедушка не любит влажные ноги by Christoph, auf Flickr
 
 
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