Online again

I’m back from a trip to Yosemite National Park, albeit one with no serious photographic opportunities as it was a family trip. Nonetheless, some satisfying images resulted.

I have some fresh experience with three Zeiss ZF lenses (see June 7 entry) on the Canon EOS 1D Mark III, via a Nikon-to-EOS lens adapter. I’ll have more to say on the Zeiss lenses in the future, but results so far suggest performance exceeding anything I’ve previously experienced when compared to Canon’s best. Of course, it’s manual focus and manual stop-down when working with them. I am particularly pleased with a portrait I made using the Zeiss 50mm f/2 Makro-Planar, regrettably one I won’t show here.

It took me 30 seconds or so to grasp the fact that a beautiful rainbow surrounded the rising full moon, and running for the tripod wasn’t fast enough to make the image I wanted before the moon actually rose, with rainbow peaking prior to its rising, then rapidly fading. Still, I obtained the image below, which shows the effect.

Rainbow Moon