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Looks like he's wearing an early cut of Durango boots- which rapidly gained strides with the horsey set. I still have an old pair of 70's Durango's by the front door, which probably should be thrown out. Linings are gone, and the leather is super dried out.
Wrangler boot cut jeans still rock!

Regards,

Doc Sharptail

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"Ain't no Half-Way" -S.R.V.

"Oh Yeah!.....All Right!" -Paul Simon

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Truck hasn't always been parked in the driveway


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various cameras were used
I haven't always tried to keep track.

Another buck down at Sturgeon Creek.
There was a doe in there with him that would not come out of the shoulder high grass and weeds.



100% center crop of image above.

Nikkor 200mm f4 A/I-s at f 5.6 and ISO 400, D-810.

Regards,

Doc Sharptail

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"Ain't no Half-Way" -S.R.V.

"Oh Yeah!.....All Right!" -Paul Simon

2 bucks this morning in the yard
full or max mag with a Pixel 3XL

resized to fit here


first couple of bucks I have seen together in the yard in a year or 3, in the morning usually we get a double handful of does and fawns, during the day, and the bucks roam thru after dark

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I need to put the Nikon around my neck when I leave the house,

got home this afternoon, and 4 deer in the yard,

same to Bucks, and a 3rd, + a young doe,

stepped outside the shop this afternoon and a doe staring at me in the driveway
she was maybe 25 feet from me, and starting to shed the summer coat and getting new darker fur for winter

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Amazing how close I can get without moving...



I sight tracked/stalked this grey bushy tail downtown for a good half hour before raising the camera.
Manual focus film era Nikkor 200mm f4 at f5.6 and 1/320 sec, ISO 1600.
Shot on monochrome, which I'm starting to like.
Tonal range is not quite TX 320 film, but close.
I need to work with this a bit more at lower ISO's and good daylight.

Here's another: a very lucky shot for me under dull heavy over-cast skies...



Bald eagle came zooming through as I was changing lenses for a different subject.
About a 90% crop.

Same lens as above at f8, 1/500 sec. and ISO 400.
I didn't think I'd be quick enough to get it in focus, and bracket shot a bit.
Very lucky frame for me, given the taking situation.

Regards,

Doc Sharptail

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"Ain't no Half-Way" -S.R.V.

"Oh Yeah!.....All Right!" -Paul Simon

Luck, to a degree but you'll have to take credit for some measure of skill and timing.
You were ready for that one.

Winter arrived last night. Time to fire up the snow blower! SW

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Sunset yesterday. We've actually had snow on the ground for about 3 weeks now.



Crop of frame above.
I love this lighting.
At this time of year, the usable time window is incredibly short- less than 10 minutes.
I "lucked out" here with being in the right place, at the right time.
Kildonan Park on the North edge of the city. Sun is setting in this frame almost due south...

Nikon D-810 at ISO 400, nikkor 50mm f2 A/I at f 5.6.

Regards,

Doc Sharptail

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"Ain't no Half-Way" -S.R.V.

"Oh Yeah!.....All Right!" -Paul Simon

Took a quick snap of this before the wind could fill it in.
Deer track out my back door this a.m.
I used the phone- there was little time with the wind starting to kick.
We are about a mile from city center- downtown here, but only 1/4 mile (if that) from the Assiniboine river here.
They do move along the river corridors, where there isn't much to disturb them.
Still, this is the first time for me of seeing evidence of white tails this close to downtown...

Regards,

Doc Sharptail

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"Ain't no Half-Way" -S.R.V.

"Oh Yeah!.....All Right!" -Paul Simon

I tried to pick images I'm pretty sure were taken with the box camera. Ranch life back in the day. SW

Feeding cattle using a surplus half track. I know of ranches that used these into the 80s when spares were pretty much unobtainium. Fingers were on the original print.

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Stacking hay with a "beaver slide" stacker. A team pulled the cable. They were trained to respond to whistle commands - "ahead, back, stop" and so forth.

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More of the same.

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Camping out. The ranch where Dad worked leased a bunch of ground in the Pine Ridge area for grazing. After cattle getting fat all summer, cowpokes went up and scoured the ravines, bringing them to a central corral where they were loaded on trucks for their final ride. Since the cattle were so widely scattered, the operation could take a week to 10 days.

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Dad (R) and another cowpoke on the "Half Diamond E" ranch.

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Putting up hay in the late 40s. No tractors were involved.

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Ranch life is either in your blood or it isn't. In my case, it wasn't. Came back from Viet Nam in Nov. '70 to find nobody had gotten around to inventing a heater for saddles. That was the end of my cowboy days.

But in HS, I wore the big hat and came to school with "organic substance" on my boots. A regular Rowdy Yates, I was! SW

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First pic looks like a track converted WW ll Dodge 3 ton.

I was gonna comment on the hay baler being horse driven.
Must have been a lot to work with a baling machine like that.

I'm not much of a horse rider at all.
The only riding I did was bare back on half wild, half Clydesdales~ who didn't quite see the fun in a teen riding bare back. They became quite ill tempered...

Just as an aside- do NOT let a full Clydesdale step on ya foot~ especially if it's shod.

Regards,

Doc Sharptail

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"Ain't no Half-Way" -S.R.V.

"Oh Yeah!.....All Right!" -Paul Simon

Nikkor 200mm f4 A/I-s, D-810, ISO 1600 wide open at f-4.

Crescent Drive Park on Sunday.
There was a huge buck in there too that I couldn't get a pic of- I was too far away from the camera while I was driving.
I think sis may have got a phone pic of that big buck.




Both Nikkor 35-105 f3.5-4.5
ISO 400 at f 3.5 and 35mm setting.

Christmas lights downtown.

I'm going to get some residential Christmas lighting pics.
Their look is a lot less garish than the "commercial" stuff shown...

Regards,

Doc Sharptail

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"Ain't no Half-Way" -S.R.V.

"Oh Yeah!.....All Right!" -Paul Simon

Nikkor 50mm f2 A/I at f5.6 and ISO 200. Nikon D-810.

Westminister United in a snow storm.

This is the lens that sees the most use from me- mostly for it's accurate contrast rendering.
Slight contrast and sharpening added in post.
Crops actually show the blurred snowflakes crossing the image area.

Regards,

Doc Sharptail

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"Ain't no Half-Way" -S.R.V.

"Oh Yeah!.....All Right!" -Paul Simon

Our tree this year, just after set-up.



100 % crop of image center showing effects of long exposure.

5 seconds at ISO 64, f 5.6, Nikkor 50mm f2.
Couple of firsts for this camera.

On the big manfrotto tripod, with the electronic shutter release from the F-3 HP film camera.
Nikon stayed with the same 12 pin socket for their electronic releases all these years.
Sun-stars off the L.E.D. Christmas lights were a welcome surprise...

Edit to add that this is the first frame I've done manually focusing with :"Live View".

Regards,

Doc Sharptail

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"Ain't no Half-Way" -S.R.V.

"Oh Yeah!.....All Right!" -Paul Simon

I was out trying to get pix of the heavy hoar frost we got overnight.



This little gal was willing to pose a bit

Nikkor 200mm f4 at f4 and ISO 200.



There's the afore-mentioned hoar frost, in an older section of the city.
Most of these old homes were built at the turn of the last century, and were quite well done.

Nikkor 50mm f2 at f 5.6 and ISO 200.

Regards,

Doc Sharptail

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"Ain't no Half-Way" -S.R.V.

"Oh Yeah!.....All Right!" -Paul Simon

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"Free-oh-free Bwitish": Putting round holes in square heads since 1895

This little birdy thing was willing to pose~ for about 5 seconds .

Vivitar Series 1 70-210 mm at f5.6 and ISO 64. Twenty feet away from me, if that.



Red Fox Squirrel showing signs of a long winter.
At the gates to the air force base.
Tamron SP (103-A) 80-210mm at 210mm and f8 at ISO 64.
Hefty crop from about 25 yards.





Downtown Church tower.
Monochrome with Nikon series E 100 mm f2.8 at ISO 64 and f8.
I wonder where all the original stained glass has gone.
I rarely see the old thin stained glass that was abundant when I was a kid.
Still look for it now, just for photographic purposes...

Regards,

Doc Sharptail

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"Ain't no Half-Way" -S.R.V.

"Oh Yeah!.....All Right!" -Paul Simon