Impressive sunrise Nathan and good to hear you are enjoying the new toys.
Ensure you try a few backlit portraits with the 85/2 making use of the
highlight button.
...Wayne
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> Sent: Tuesday, 28 December 2021 11:01 PM
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> Subject: [OM] Nathan's PAD 26/12/2021: bright lights of different kinds
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> The second full day of my visit to New Jersey gave me some great light, in
> more ways than one.
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> Boxing Day started with a beatiful sunrise over Manhattan:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-3dpgfzg/A
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> In the afternoon, we visited some relatives of my wife in the Malba area of
> northern Queens (every Puerto Rican has relatives in New York!). Many
> houses in the neighbourhood were decorated for Christmas, some decidedly
> over-the-top:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-V5Rgjr2/A
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> We drove to a spot from where there was a nice view of one of the lesser-
> known among New York’s many bridges, the Whiteston Bridge which links
> Queens and the Bronx across the East River:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-kVvf8d7/A
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> Afterwards, we drove back to New Jersey and spent the evening with our
> son, daughter-in-law and the grand-pets. Around midnight, walking back to
> my hotel, I enjoyed a great view of Midtown Manhattan:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-xKCDx4K/A
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> These were all made with my Fuji X-E3. But I have also been shooting film
> with the gorgeous Olympus OM4T that I bought from Bill Barber in Texas who
> shipped it to my son last week, along with two Zuiko lenses, a 50mm and an
> 85mm. It is a truly beautiful piece of equipment, for me the pinnacle of late
> 1980s film SLRs. I am still on the toe of the learning curve of course, but I
> am
> really enjoying it.
>
> Cheers,
> Nathan
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> Nathan Wajsman
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