Author: circadianreflections

My name is Deborah Zajac. I'm a photographer living in Nevada at the base of the Eastern Sierras. I am a passionate nature, landscape, night/astro photographer. I shoot predominately in color and use Nikon Digital Cameras, and lenses. I hope you enjoy seeing some of the photos I've taken while on my travels. Please feel free to leave a comment I'd love to hear from you.

Black Phoebe

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Black Phoebe, originally uploaded by dmzajac2004-.

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Copyright © 2011 Deborah M. Zajac. All Rights Reserved.

I took this while out in Moss Landing, CA. It was making continuous sorties from this perch. It was entertaining to watch.

I have to thank Digital Art by Shari for the ID! Thank you!

Nikon D300s| Nikkor 70-300mm VR@300mm| f5.6| 1/200 sec| ISO 320| Manual Mode| Tripod

Polaroid introduces an instant camera for the Digital Age.

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Polaroid announced this week a new camera the Z340. The Z340 is a 14-megapixel digital camera with a Zink printer inside. You take a picture and the digital file is stored in the camera’s memory, as with any digital camera. But if you push the “print” button, the Zink printer spits out a four by three photograph in about 45 seconds.Read the whole thing here.

 

 

Moonset over San Francisco, CA

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This was the second attempt at getting a photograph of the Moon set over San Francisco for Andy and I. When I left the house at 5AM to make the hour drive the Moon was clear and bright, and in San Jose, CA there was no fog. That wasn’t the case by the sea. There was a thin layer of fog over the city, and the longer I waited for the moon to set the thicker the fog got so, by the time the Moon set the city was nearly invisible.
This is a composite of two frames blended. The city is the very first photo I took and 3 minutes later I exposed for the moon and that’s what I’ve blended here.

Nikon D700| Nikkor 70-300mmVR @ 270mm| 2f11| ISO 160| Manual Mode| Tripod| Release Cable| The city was an 8 second exposure, and the Moon was a 0.6 second exposure

Circles of Color

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Over at the Bistro a Nikon Users Group in the flickr community you’ll find lots of talented people. One of those people whom I admire is Linda Clower.  She’s not only a talented photographer, but a very creative artist too. Her creativity shines in this abstract titled

“Circles of Color” that I’ve selected to add to this week’s  Gallery.

Photograph by Linda Clower (Used with Permission)

To see all of the 2011 Bistro Galleries go here and scroll down to the Bistro Gallery topic.

Curating the Bistro Gallery

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I am deeply honored to have been asked to reprise my role as the Curator of the Bistro Gallery. The Gallery is a weekly feature of the The Bistro a Nikon photography group in the flickr community.  For one week I will select photographs that represent the “Best of the Bistro” taken by members of The Bistro. Like this wonderful photograph of a young Buck taken by John C.  aka jc-pics

Photograph by John C. (used with Permission)

 
To see all the selections I’ve chosen so far please visit the gallery here.

You’ll find all of the 2011 Bistro Galleries here.  Scroll down the front page to the galleries.

 

 

Nikon NEF Codec Update

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Nikon has updated the Codec to support Nikon NEF’s

Version 1.12.0

  • Supports NEF (RAW) images taken with the Nikon 1 J1, Nikon 1 V1.
  • Supports 64-bit versions of Windows Vista and Windows 7.
    If thumbnails for NEF files fail to display correctly in the Photo Gallery or Photo Viewer for 64-bit editions of Windows Vista and Windows 7, perform a disk clean-up as described below.
  1. Right-click the system drive in Computer and select Properties.
  2. Select Disk Cleanup in the “General” tab.
  3. Select Thumbnails in the “Disk Cleanup” tab “Files to delete” list and remove the checks from the other items.
  4. Click OK to start the disk cleanup. When the “Are you sure you want to permanently delete these files?” prompt is displayed, click Delete Files.

Download it here.

H/T Nikon Rumors