Ivanhoe Lake Provincial Park

[PS-RagE]

Every year my family and I travel to Red Pine Lodge on Ivanhoe Lake for my annual one week vacation. Usually, the week is spent either reading or fishing but this year was mostly hiking and photography.

All photos taken with Nikon D2X, lenses run the gamut from 12mm to 800mm. EXIF data is intact but I have also included the shooting info under each pic.

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The bridge this little worm is crossing is a pine needle.

Lens: Sigma 180mm F/3.5 Macro, 1/160, F/16, ISO 200, handheld with flash



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I stood knee-deep in a swamp to get this picture (my wife has a picture of that)

Lens: Tamron 90mm F/2.8 Macro, 1/60, F/11, ISO 100, tripod mounted



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Lens: Tamron 90mm F/2.8 Macro, 1/25, F/11, ISO 100, tripod mounted


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Lens: Sigma 180mm F/3.5 Macro, 1/60, F/16, ISO 200, tripod mounted with flash (-.7ev)



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Lens: Sigma 180mm F/3.5 Macro, 1/60, F/8, ISO 200, handheld with flash



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Lens: Sigma 180mm F/3.5 Macro, 1/60, F/8, ISO 200, handheld with flash



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This is a choke-cherry so you can imagine just how tiny this little worm is. This was handheld in a persistant breeze.

Lens: Tamron 90mm F/2.8 Macro, 1/60, F/16, ISO 100, handheld with flash



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I was really in "worm-mode" this day. This one had to be manually focused to keep the AF from trying to resolve the flower.

Lens: Tamron 90mm F/2.8 Macro, 1/60, F/22, ISO 100, tripod mounted with flash



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Lens: Sigma 180mm F/3.5 Macro, 1/60, F/8, ISO 200, handheld with flash



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I hauled my 800mm mounted on the tripod up and down the beach grabbing pics of these two loons one morning.

Lens: Sigma 300-800 F/5.6 @ 800mm, 1/640, F/5.6, ISO 100, tripod mounted



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Lens: Sigma 300-800 F/5.6 @ 800mm, 1/320, F/8, ISO 100, tripod mounted



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Lens: Sigma 300-800 F/5.6 @ 800mm, 1/500, F/5.6, ISO 100, tripod mounted



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Lens: Sigma 300-800 F/5.6 @ 800mm, 1/500, F/5.6, ISO 100, tripod mounted



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Lens: Sigma 300-800 F/5.6 @ 800mm, 1/400, F/5.6, ISO 100, tripod mounted



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Lens: Sigma 300-800 F/5.6 @ 800mm, 1/320, F/8, ISO 100, tripod mounted



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Lens: Nikkor 12-24 F/4 @ 12mm, 1/60, F/18, ISO 200, tripod mounted



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Lens: Nikkor 18-70 F/3.5-4.5 @ 31mm, 1/8, F/22, ISO 100, tripod mounted



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Lens: Nikkor 18-70 F/3.5-4.5 @ 70mm, 1/8, F/20, ISO 100, tripod mounted



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This is a crop from a much larger, less interesting picture.

Lens: Nikkor 18-70 F/3.5-4.5 @ 70mm, 1.3", F/22, ISO 100, tripod mounted



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Lens: Nikkor 18-70 F/3.5-4.5 @ 31mm, 10", F/22, ISO 100, tripod mounted



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A forest fire broke out very near to the campsite and these three water bombers were dispatched to put it out. The fire must have been very close as by the time the third plane had filled, the first one was back again. They circled around for about an hour.

Lens: Sigma 300-800 F/5.6 @ 500mm, 1/320, F/5.6, ISO 200, tripod mounted



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Lens: Sigma 300-800 F/5.6 @ 550mm, 1/180, F/5.6, ISO 200, tripod mounted



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Lens: Sigma 300-800 F/5.6 @ 800mm, 1/350, F/5.6, ISO 200, tripod mounted



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Lens: Tamron 90mm F/2.8 Macro, 1/60, F/16, ISO 100, handheld with flash



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I think every shithawk in Foleyet must nest at this rock. As we boated closer to it (so I could take pictures) they freaked and circled the boat screeching until we went away. Turns out there was a whole fleet of baby shithawks in the water on the other side of the rock.

Lens: Nikkor 70-200F/2.8 w/1.4x TC @ 185mm, 1/160, F/8, ISO 200, handheld



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Lens: Nikkor 70-200F/2.8 w/1.4x TC @ 280mm, 1/2000, F/4, ISO 200, handheld



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This ugly little brute caught himself a wasp and set up to eat it on my camera strap. I moved him to my chair and he stuck around long enough for me to grab and set up the tripod and flash. Hindsite always 20/20, I wish I would have set him down on a piece of wood or a rock or something.

Lens: Tamron 90mm F/2.8 Macro, 1/60, F/22, ISO 100, tripod mounted with flash


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100% crop

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On the last day, I set up the 800mm and tried my hand at birds (i.e. the little tweeters around the campsite). My respects go out to bird photogs - they are really difficult to capture.

Lens: Sigma 300-800 F/5.6 @ 800mm, 1/25, F/10, ISO 100, tripod mounted


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Lens: Sigma 300-800 F/5.6 @ 800mm, 1/90, F/5.6, ISO 100, tripod mounted


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Lens: Sigma 300-800 F/5.6 @ 800mm, 1/125, F/5.6, ISO 200, tripod mounted


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Lens: Sigma 300-800 F/5.6 @ 800mm, 1/200, F/5.6, ISO 200, tripod mounted


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[KtuluX]

Very nice photos. The one of the flower is completely worth standing knee deep in a swamp. Thanks for the great pictures.

 

[AtomicMoose]

Freaking awesome pics man!

 

[O'Doyle]

Awesome pictures , wow, just wow!. Very inspiring. I enjoyed all of them, I don't think I have any favorites, seriously... They just all look so damn great ....



Thanks for sharing!

 

[doh]

i am so not worthy!

 

[PS-RagE]

I'm glad y'all liked them I certainly enjoyed taking them

 

[moosenuts]

Youre a superbaddasssonofabitch. Put my equipment and skills to shame... but still SWEET! Carry on sir!

 

[Absentee]

sooo.......

care to explain why you didnt add the pic of you in the swamp?

mmm.....

great shots.
best: the waterlilly, which i still wanna see the you in the swamp shot
worst: 2nd bird shot. a little OOF

 

[Gondi]

Did you PS the backgrounds in the bird shots? The bokeh is distracting

Great shots otherwise

 

[PS-RagE]

sooo.......

care to explain why you didnt add the pic of you in the swamp?

mmm.....

great shots.
best: the waterlilly, which i still wanna see the you in the swamp shot
worst: 2nd bird shot. a little OOF

I dunno if I agree with you about the best, but I certainly agree about the worst. None of the "tweety bird" shots came out 100% sharp. I suspect it is due both to my less than stellar long lens technique (practice makes perfect) and that they are much smaller than the AF sensor.

 

[PS-RagE]

Did you PS the backgrounds in the bird shots? The bokeh is distracting

Great shots otherwise

F/5.6 at 800mm leaves very little DOF.

 

[Absentee]

woah...missed the fact that you used a tripod.

which did you use? and hows it now after getting wet like that?

 

[Met-AL]

Awesome photos.

 

[Tim_axe]

Another suprise on using the tripod in the water! I sure wouldn't do that with my tripod. Then again it is 10+ years old and sure to rust away if I did anything like that...plus the legs are telescoping so it would be waterlogged for weeks...

Anyways, the shot was worth the wade

 

[PS-RagE]

The tripod is a Gitzo 1340 with a Markins M10 ball head. It is aluminum and is not going to rust. I rinsed it off in the lake and it is fine. The fat black leg sections you see in the pic are OpTech leg wraps (cloth covered closed foam) and make the tripod more comfortable to carry over your shoulder and in the winter.

I almost always use a tripod BTW. The only exception being with total flash