I took this photo with an old friend I re-aquired tonight, the Canon EF 300mm f/4L IS. I bartered my GF1 m43 system for the lens, after only about a month of use. The m43 camera was great fun to use the first few days but then later the "pure digital" feeling of using a mirrorless camera got to me, I felt no joy snapping photos with it in the end, so there is no regret. Let me remind you that I am equally a gearslut and a photographer 8-)

I just realized it's more than a month now between photo-uploads, but risking sounding like a broken record: work is killing me. I'm thinking my next new years resolution should say, less work, more photo.

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I love the way that sounds. But I think this video clip can hardly go for a real timelapse . It's lack of foreground strips the authenticity of it and looks as if I've animated a still-photo across the frame. The only little proof of authenticity I have is the flicker caused by nearby cars. I didn't have any time to do anything proper, I ran outside my house at 7:50 this morning and only had a few minutes to spare - my little baby girl needed taking care of. In a perfect world I would have had a telescope-tracking dolly prepared with a much, much longer lens, and a few hours to spare. But as usual, music makes all the difference in the world. The sound is from Biosphere's Substrata - one of my top-ten most favourite ambient albums of all time (yes, I have a top-ten of ambient albums). It's also the first ever internet purchase I've ever made -back in 1997, even Amazon.com was in it's infancy back then.

Video was shot with the Carl Zeiss Makro-Planar T* 2/100 ZE, which is, unfortunately for this scenario, the longest lens I have. The first shot of this clip is 1920x1080px crop from the 21-megapixel original, the second clip is uncropped 21megapixels scaled down 65% to fit 1920x1080.

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Best Viewed Large On Black!
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An Icelandic sunset in the middle of an Icelandic winter evening (night really).

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I could have taken panoramas all day long and never grow tired.

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