Stop what you're doing right now and take a photo

[I am Penguin]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ldmelsa/3865626064/
The ring that appears around the moon arises from light passing through six-sided ice crystals high in the atmosphere. These ice crystals refract, or bend, light in the same manner that a camera lens bends light. The ring has a diameter of 22° , and sometimes, if you are lucky, it is also possible to detect a second ring, 44° diameter. Thin high cirrus clouds lofting at 20,000 feet or more contain tiny ice crystals that originate from the freezing of super cooled water droplets. These crystals behave like jewels refracting and reflecting in different directions.
http://home.hiwaay.net/~krcool/Astro/moon/moonring/

That a very nice picture. You took it?

 

[SubliminalThought]

Nice moon halo ldmelsa!

 

[ldmelsa]

How can you ask me such a thing?

Thanks ST, Penguin

 

[dappled]

Taken about half an hour ago. Cellphone camera hand held to eyepiece of 8" telescope.

 

[I am Penguin]

Taken about half an hour ago. Cellphone camera hand held to eyepiece of 8" telescope.

I can see the NA flag! LOL. Nice.

 

[ldmelsa]

Taken about half an hour ago. Cellphone camera hand held to eyepiece of 8" telescope.

Rouxenator will love that

 

[Rouxenator]

Rouxenator will love that

Now that I have seen that my next N-Series phone will have to come with a built in telescope for sure

My wife takes lots of cool pictures through a microscope (for sciencey stuff). Sometimes with her N82 but mostly with an Canon A460 because the lens is a perfect fit on the eyepiece.

 

[Rouxenator]

ISO 80 | F/7 | 1/50s | Kodak Z1015 | Tone mapped EV-1/0/+1​

 

[ldmelsa]

oops sorry bwana
What did I do?
LOL

 

[ldmelsa]

 

[ldmelsa]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ldmelsa/3868387838/
Nikon D90 NEF, Processed In ACR 4.6
Wire Removal In PS CS3

 

[Tosser]

wow - I absolutely love this pic - nice shot ldmelsa!

 

[I am Penguin]

Sice you got that new lens these photos rock or is it post processed?

 

[ldmelsa]

Thanks guys.
Those are from my Nikon. The "new" lens is for my Canon.
Post processed? Everything except a slide is post processed, if you think about it.

If you want to see the tree in that shot, it's the one on the right:
http://mybroadband.co.za/photos/data/846/028_9.jpg
Neighbour braai

 

[Krypty]

Also playing around with new lens that I got over the weekend.

This shot is at f1.4

 

[koffiejunkie]

Also playing around with new lens that I got over the weekend.

This shot is at f1.4

Hehe, cool! I'm thinking of replacing my f/1.8 with the f/1.4. Not so much for the aperture, but I find the AF performance in bad light pretty piss poor on the f/1.8. I got much more reliable AF out of my 24-105L f/4 in much darker conditions than I can use the 50mm f/1.8 at all.

Not to take anything away from the 50mm f/1.8 - it's fantastic lens, even if it was 50% more expensive.

 

[koffiejunkie]

The best camera is the one you happen to have with you. That was certainly true today:

 

[ldmelsa]

cool rim light

 

[Mephisto_Helix]

 

[ldmelsa]

nice detail shot