Playing with the camera

So today Roy and I did some playing with the camera. Yesterday Roy came up with a plan how to take pictures of cards flying. Today we improved the idea by learning how to have the camera remotely activate the flash (nifty feature we didn't know about). Here are some results (after 2 hours of photos).

In the afternoon Roy decided to try for macro pictures. He mounted +4 and +2 diapters on the 50mm lens. The result was a lens with very little range of focus --- here are few attempts where the focus was done by moving the camera forward/backward until satisfactory solution.

Our conclusion is that we need a real macro lens....

Two days in Eilat

After a long time I didn't go to Eilat for fun, Matan and I went down for two days. Both of us were in a tired mode, and so we went easy on the dives and managed only four dives. The camera case had all kinds of problems, and so I had pictures only from the first day, and in these the flash/controls did act up and so for most of the dive I had no flash and the controls were locked in a particular mode...

The old "amphebian" site

Impressionistic view of the "Pyramid"

A big fish inside the pyramid

A large spotted ray Matan found on the way back from the Pyramid

A nice beleny that waited patiently while I struggled with the camera

Trip in Mishkanot Sha'ananim

I had a meeting today in Mishkanot Sha'ananim, the first jewish neighborhood outside the old city. As part of the meeting we had a guided tour through the area and I got a chance to take some pictures.

The Citadel of David

The Reconstructed Wind Mill

Old Street Sign (early British mandate era)

The Scottish Church

Armenic Signs at the Scottish Church (w/ Moran)

Wind Mill Close Up

"Hope st"

Visit to the beach

On a beautiful sunny winter Saturday we all went to stroll on the beach between Hertzelia and Tel Aviv. Few pictures toward sunset.

Nahal Halilim

Roy and I went on a photo session in the wadi outside Mevaseret on a beautiful autumn day.

Sde Boker

We had a group retreat in Sde Boker, in the middle of the Negev. Most of the time we spent on scientific talks, but we did get to do a bit of hiking.

Evening sky on our first day

Local mountain goats

Jump!

And another one...

Now that it was behind the fence it was willing to pose

Big sky

Naomi

Ofer pointing the way

Ido and Moran enjoying the views

Whose there?

Sunset

Visit to Jerusalem Old City

On the occasion of a conference in Israel that had my collaborator Ollie as an invited speaker, I went with the speakers to a tour of the old city.

A street performer outside Jaffa Gate

Walking through the market

Inside the Church of the Sceptere

Late in the day at the Western Wall

Inside the Western Wall tunnel, Ollie studying old maps

Western Wall tunnel