POTW - December 6, 2011

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POTW - December 6, 2011

Postby gstark on Tue Dec 06, 2011 10:00 am

My, how time flies when you're having fun.

One minute it's New Year's Eve, and the next time you look, it's less than three weeks till Christmas.

And I suspect that's a little how Peter (Stubbsy) must be feeling following his epic trip to the Antarctic, plus a few other destinations, last year. Was that really a year ago? Yep, sure was.

Since that trip, Peter has been busy processing the multitude of images he shot on that trip, he's created three remarkable photo books documenting the trip, and he's posted more than a few wonderful images that he shot, right here, on DSLRUsers.com.

Included amongst them is this gem, a 20 shot pano, made in Iguazu Argentina, with the Nikkor 70-200mm lens.

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This is an image - a scene - where it is truly not possible to accurately convey to a viewer the true scale of what you are seeing at this location. But I suspect that a 20 image pano, printed big, might help with that "problem".

Great shot, Peter. Thank you for sharing this with us.
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Re: POTW - December 6, 2011

Postby surenj on Tue Dec 06, 2011 12:01 pm

Epic shot Peter! Nice choice Gary.
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Re: POTW - December 6, 2011

Postby aim54x on Tue Dec 06, 2011 12:51 pm

Great image Peter, nice pick Gary...i would love to see this printed HUGE!
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Re: POTW - December 6, 2011

Postby Reschsmooth on Tue Dec 06, 2011 1:02 pm

Great photo - I would love to see this in real life. But that means going to Argentina - not a shade on Chile :)
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Re: POTW - December 6, 2011

Postby colin_12 on Tue Dec 06, 2011 8:38 pm

Great choice. Top stuff coming in here Peter.
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Re: POTW - December 6, 2011

Postby PiroStitch on Wed Dec 07, 2011 12:31 am

Congratulations and top pick! Looks like it was a well worth trip.
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Re: POTW - December 6, 2011

Postby stubbsy on Thu Dec 08, 2011 7:05 pm

Been a while since I was good enought to beat the competition for POTW. Thanks for selecting my image. Now I just need to work out how big it needs to be printed to (a) fit in my house and (b) do the image justice.
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Re: POTW - December 6, 2011

Postby biggerry on Thu Dec 08, 2011 8:24 pm

too easy stubbsy...great picture and well deserved.
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Re: POTW - December 6, 2011

Postby Mr Darcy on Thu Dec 08, 2011 9:01 pm

>how big it needs to be printed to (a) fit in my house and (b) do the image justice.
Sorry Peter. These are mutually exclusive goals.
Well done by the way. An awesome photo of an awesome location. Though It doesn't do them justice. I doubt anything would. I think they measure the flow in SydHarbs per second.
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