To all my TN-friends

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• RAP (7405)
• [2006-10-21 9:31]

Gracias por volver amigo mío.
Y lo haces con una maravillosa macro con excelente POV, perfecto fondo difuso, al igual que el colorido, agudeza y DOF.
Muy atinado encuadre con la percha suavemente inclinada.
Una bella presentación... y una gran alegría tenerte entre nosotros.
Mis mejores deseos... Ricardo

Thank you to return my friend.
And you make it with a wonderful macro with excellent POV, perfect diffuse bottom, the same as the colors, sharpness and DOF.
Very accurate framing with the smoothly inclined hanger.
A beautiful presentation... and a great happiness to have you among us.
My best wishes... Ricardo

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• uleko (23564)
• [2006-10-21 9:40]

Hej Ellis,
Great to see you back again! And with an excellent shot of the Ruddy Darter. Fantastic focus on head and abdomen - I think he's moving his eye a bit like they do all the time! I love the colours and the composition!
Thanks and best wishes, Ulla

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• lizbrown (114)
• [2006-10-21 9:41]
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• wishnugaruda (13860)
• [2006-10-21 9:42]

Hi Gert,
thanks for this razor-sharp dragonfly with the brilliant colours and this beautiful pose. 1/30sec. - that only can be sharp with a tripod - but I always wonder how you place the tripod so quick and the insect doesn't fly away. Wonderful, thanks for sharing, bye
Sabine - wishnugaruda

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• peter_stoeckl (9369)
• [2006-10-21 9:50]

Hi Gert,
exquisite colours, crisp and clear details, and a very inspiring composition of great subtlety and quintessential reduction.
Good to see a posting from you again, Gert.
Thank you! Best regards,
Peter

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• batu (11038)
• [2006-10-21 10:19]

Hello Gert,
beautiful colours and sharpness. The body of the dragonfly contrasts so clearly and sharply against the background. The focus plane is just right ranging from the head up to the end of the body. An excellent and well composed 'come-back' picture.
Best wishes, Peter

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• thor68 (4597)
• [2006-10-21 10:21]

what a return, gert! :-)
great to see you back, hope you´re ok!
terrific macro-shot of the beautiful dragonfly -
we would really have missed such a masterpiece here without you.
perfect composition, perfect sharpness, perfect pose, wonderful colors.
thanks & have a great weekend, thorsten.

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• cataclysta (4495)
• [2006-10-21 10:32]

Hellow
Thank you for these great photo. Beautifull dragonfly
Thanks
Welcome back
Krzysztof

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• extramundi (12692)
• [2006-10-21 10:35]

Nice to see you back, MF.
Impecable! As always a superb work. What else can I say?
I read Luc has returned? Thanks for the advice!
Our best regards for you Gert.
F&C.

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• fartash (10175)
• [2006-10-21 10:42]

Hello Gert
Welcome back to TN,
Beautiful odonata,good focusing
Perfect lighting,Excellent

Regards
Fartash

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• viv (3122)
• [2006-10-21 11:10]

Hi Gert,
Great posting of this Rubby darter.
Welcome back. The composition is great, on the pink coloured branch. So sharp and detailed.
Have a good weekend.
Vivian

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• jcoowanitwong (11461)
• [2006-10-21 11:20]

Hello Gert,
A perfect picture. Very well done and seen. Nice to see your beautiful post again.
JC

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• pvs (11565)
• [2006-10-21 11:29]

Hi Gert,

A very nice posting again you captured it very well with great DOF and that without flash,the BG contrasts very well against the dragonfly,well done and TFS,

Paul

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• hester (10944)
• [2006-10-21 11:35]

Welcome back and with a great shot. Lovely POV and gorgeous sharp details from head to tail. The colours are lovely - almost golden.

TFS

Karan

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• jmp (8400)
• [2006-10-21 12:11]

Hi Hert,
I'm pleased to hear from you and to see this wonderful capture. Perfect pose, composition, sharpness, blurred background, and lovely golden colors make a fine portrait.
TFS, José M.

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• wallhalla15 (13787)
• [2006-10-21 15:52]

Hello Gert,
I´m happy to see a new picture from you.
This is an fantastic dragonfly shot! Excellent sharpness, framing and POV. Brilliant colours and great bg. This is a wonderful composition. Thank you for posting. Have a great weekend my friend.
Gr.
Heinz

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• red45 (26861)
• [2006-10-21 15:55]

Hello Gert!

Wise decision :-) I missed your perfect post from cold Sweden :-)

Flawless capture my friend! Sharpness, details, composition, pose of insect, POV - everything is superb.

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• Pentaxfriend (5495)
• [2006-10-21 16:10]

Hi Gert,

Good to have you back.
Great shot with superb colours and sharpness
Great POV, DOF and a nice blurry BG

TFS Thijs

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• dew77 (13069)
• [2006-10-21 17:33]

Hello Gert,
Nice to see a new post from you after Luc.It's a crisp clear and razorsharp macro.POV,colors,lighting,framing and composition are eexcellent.
TFS...:-)

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• jossim (11878)
• [2006-10-21 17:43]

Excellente photo,tout est parfait,une image de belle qualité.
Merci!
joseph

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• Janice (17468)
• [2006-10-21 18:12]

Kia ora Gert. You have been in my thoughts, and I hope all is going well for you. Good to see you again.
What an excellent macro - your darter is so sharp, and her colours are so pretty too. I like the POV and her pose. Well captured,
Janice

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• fyapici (6126)
• [2006-10-21 18:32]

Hello again dear friend Gert.
I'm very glad to see you again here.
About this shot... Perfect!As always a perfect work. What else can I say? Thanks for all and welcome again. Sincere greetings.
Fevzi

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• eruyanik (4648)
• [2006-10-21 18:42]

Great shot Gert! Welcome back:-) i think that if we get tired about the posting and critiquing, we can still post from time to time. So our friends getting happy to see them:-)
Greetings,
Ersin

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• horia (12474)
• [2006-10-22 4:20]

Hellooooooo again, Gert!!
So nice to see you back and posting!
Indeed, i hope you backbone members all inspire eachother and get back to this really beautiful site!

The shot is simply impecable!
The focus is spot on, the DOF is excellent with the darter presenting really nice sharp and crispy details and leaving a very nice blurry BG.
Very good lighting and framing, too!

I honestly hope all is well with you and that you will come back "full-time" soon :)

Bravo, TFS and have a great weekend!
Horia

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• Juyona (13275)
• [2006-10-22 4:45]

Que hermoso disparo, perfectos colores y nitidez excelente... GENIAL, saludos

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• vanderschelden (26614)
• [2006-10-22 5:39]

Gert..hi
Technically spoken a great work IMO.
Do you post-process something in RAW before you convert to JPEG?
Further on...a beauty too.
TFS
Annick

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• Alex99 (14629)
• [2006-10-22 11:54]

Hi Gert.
It is the nice answer to our hopes, expectations and prays. TN without you is not TN. Welcome, our dear friend and Teacher.

It is the exemplary picture showing as it is necessary to achieve excellent accuracy, to work with light and paints and to build an amazing composition. I like its details and sharpness of the main subjects, great impressive and colourful BG. Bravo and my best regards.

Alexei.

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• marhowie (34555)
• [2006-10-22 20:16]

Hello Gert,
Nice to see this excellent post from you.
I knew you would post before too long :) I just dropped by this Sunday to say a quick hello..
Keep Well mf,
Howard

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• coasties (27512)
• [2006-10-23 4:00]

Hi Gert

Welcome back! Awesome shot. Congrats ! It has all the usual qualities of an 'Ellis49' shot. You have been missed Gert. I hope you are back for good!

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• massougareux (824)
• [2006-10-23 12:22]

Hello Gert,
taking haughtiness!
Exellents details, and of very beautiful colors.
TFS,
Arnaud.

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• Hil (4839)
• [2006-10-23 15:45]

Hi Gert

Beautiful shot, a perfect POV and a nicely presented composition with a excellent pose, suberb focus on the abdomen and the head, the colours are just perfect with nice lighting on the body, the BG is very nicely done too. Nice to see you posting another shot, take care.

TFS Hilary :o)

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• claudine (9875)
• [2006-10-24 5:37]

Hi Gert,
Nice to see a post from you and this is a beautiful one. I like those details very much and these nice colors. This stick looks to be meant to fit with this dragonlfy :) You had a very great POV and a nice pose from the insect. Thanks,
Claudine

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• gerhardt (11529)
• [2006-10-25 4:44]
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Hi Gert,

Good to see you drop in. :) The photo is very nice. I like the light you have on the critter. Very sharp details as usual.

How is the Sony treating you? Don't you miss the Canon?? Did you have problems to get lenses for it??

Sorry for the questions but I am curious. :)

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• sandpiper2 (11475)
• [2006-10-25 17:31]

Good to see you posting again, so many of the long-time members have given up.

Brilliant sharpness, great composition and background. Very nice.

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• SelenE (12200)
• [2006-10-26 7:10]
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Hello Gert,
Nice to see you back. Great details, focus and sharpness with beautiful colors. TFS
Selen

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• Naturewalk (1111)
• [2006-10-26 12:29]

Hello Gert,

A lot has been said about you these last weeks. We have never had the chance to exange critiques in the past since I am relativly a newcomer on Trek. I read about your situation and feelings on your 500th post and I intirely agree with you. First of all, I hope you are feeling better with your arthrosis and carpal tunnel syndrome. Second, since I am a member of Trek, I did notice that many people don't write notes and don't write decent and appropriate critiques. Is it not the goal of Trek to have constructive and honest critiques for all of us to better are self with photography! Personnaly, I try to encourage new commers to achieve that objective and I also concentrate my critiques to deserving one's that follow that goal. I realy hope that many of us will understand that and will take the proper course of action in the future when posting pictures or writing comments.
Now, as for this picture, you have a nice composition here with the angle branch and your main subject (the dragonfly) is overall well balanced in the frame. As usual good details and sharpness, except for the tip of the wings. Could it be caused by the 1/30 second exposure or limited DOF? You did a fine job in PP as I can see in your notes. The blurry BG (common with macro lens) is realy nice and bring are attention to the subject. Good work!
Hope to see you posting a picture from time to time as you feel up to it.

Regards,

PC :)

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• osse (7745)
• [2006-10-28 13:13]

Hej Gert
Kul att se dig här igen. Grym bild kvalite igen. Perfekt färg, skärpa. djup, bakgrund, ljus och kompisition.
Excellent Gert

osse

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• GLEM (5739)
• [2006-10-29 12:48]

bonjour Gert,

vous êtes toujours aussi brillant. Cette image est à couper le souffle, tout simplment génial.

PS/ je vois que vous utilisez un 180mm Sigma, ce que je souhaite acquérir bientôt. Utilisez-vous un doubleur de focale en plus ?

MERCI

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• carper (8208)
• [2006-10-31 2:19]

Nice to see you back my friend.
with your signature from good photography, macro's spealist nr.1 I think, and flying duck specialist nr. 1. Enough Honour Gert, I am happy to see you back.
gr. jaap

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• flagman (2381)
• [2006-11-01 3:59]

Lovely pose. Super sharp. Excellent composition. Lovely blurred background. As good as we have come to expect from you, Gert.

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• xuaxo (112)
• [2006-11-05 12:10]

Details and colours! That's a photo!
F

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• shirgold (2654)
• [2006-11-24 8:36]

Hi Gert,
The sharpness of the image is great.
I really like the combination of colors. The pink branch and the soft brown background are a great combination of the details of the wings and the insect.
TFS - Shir

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• zahoor_salmi (1109)
• [2008-09-03 4:49]

beautiful colours and sharpness.