Random Summer Fun
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Silly Play of some kind or another -- Rootstown, OH, USA -- Copyright 2010 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/
Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/200 sec, f/2.5, ISO 6400 — map & image datanearby photos
Silly Play
of some kind or another

It's another busy summer of play, with way too many things that I want to post about, so I'll try to catch up a little with some random summer-fun pics of Anthony and his cousins Josh and Jena...

Frog -- Rootstown, OH, USA -- Copyright 2010 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/
Nikon D700 + Sigma “Bigma” 50-500mm OS @ 116 mm — 1/500 sec, f/11, ISO 1800 — map & image datanearby photos
Frog

There are lots of little frogs around in the grass. He found this one while clearing away a fallen tree, just like he found one when we first started the cleanup of a tree that had fallen.

Josh found one the other day as well...

Josh's Frog -- Rootstown, OH, USA -- Copyright 2010 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/
Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/1600 sec, f/5.6, ISO 200 — map & image datanearby photos
Josh's Frog

Josh just loves dinosaurs (and knows, at 4 years old, more about them than anyone I've ever met) and Anthony has started to become interested as well, especially from a play perspective...

f/2.5 — 1 / 13 sec handheld , f/4, ISO 6400 — map & image data — nearby photos Crane Dino Wrangling -- Rootstown, OH, USA -- Copyright 2010 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/
Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/13 sec handheld, f/4, ISO 6400 — map & image datanearby photos
Crane Dino Wrangling
Two Boys Hiding -- Rootstown, OH, USA -- Copyright 2010 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/
Nikon D700 + Nikkor 85mm f/1.4 — 1/160 sec, f/3.2, ISO 4500 — map & image datanearby photos
Two Boys Hiding
Out for a Spin 22-month-old Jena -- Rootstown, OH, USA -- Copyright 2010 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/
Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/500 sec, f/2.5, ISO 200 — map & image datanearby photos
Out for a Spin
22-month-old Jena

My sister took a similar photo of Jena last year...

Last year 10-Month-Old Jena Out for a Spin Photo by Marci Kreta -- Rootstown, Ohio, USA -- Copyright 2009 Phyllis Friedl
Last year
10-Month-Old Jena Out for a Spin
Photo by Marci Kreta
Dragonfly Up Close and Personal -- Rootstown, OH, USA -- Copyright 2010 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/
Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/1250 sec, f/2.5, ISO 200 — map & image datanearby photos
Dragonfly Up Close and Personal
Hyper Active any reason to move is a reason to run -- Rootstown, OH, USA -- Copyright 2010 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/
Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/1000 sec, f/2.5, ISO 200 — map & image datanearby photos
Hyper Active
any reason to move is a reason to run
Random Playroom Play -- Rootstown, OH, USA -- Copyright 2010 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/
Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/250 sec, f/2.5, ISO 6400 — map & image datanearby photos
Random Playroom Play
Goose Feather -- Rootstown, OH, USA -- Copyright 2010 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/
Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/320 sec, f/2.5, ISO 1100 — map & image datanearby photos
Goose Feather

We found this while taking a tractor ride around the lake, and it reminded me of this photo of Anthony holding a dragonfly wing I took during a similar situation last year. I use that photo on a post about Aperture 3 being released, and coincidentally Adobe released a Lightroom 3.2 Release Candidate a few minutes ago. I didn't realize the coincidence until looking around for the old dragonfly photo just now.

Rootstown, OH, USA -- Copyright 2010 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/
Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/500 sec, f/2.5, ISO 200 — map & image datanearby photos
Rootstown, OH, USA -- Copyright 2010 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/
Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/500 sec, f/2.5, ISO 800 — map & image datanearby photos

One comment so far...

Very nice pictures Jeffrey. One question though. The 125mm is a manual Focus lense right? How are you getting the kids in-focus that fast? I doubt that they will just sit there and wait until you properly focussed on them. Is it just training, training, training,….?

Training, luck, and somewhat of a carpet-bombing approach to the occasion. —Jeffrey

— comment by Michael Guntsche on August 10th, 2010 at 3:06pm JST (13 years, 8 months ago) comment permalink
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