I LOVE Can(n)on!

[YEKCIM]

A few from Chickamauga National Military Park, outside Chattanooga, TN:

~YEKCIM

 

[wdwmom2]

Great pics. I live about 1/2 hour away from Gettysburg Battlefield. I guess I should really take advantage of that photographic opportunity !

 

[YEKCIM]

Great pics. I live about 1/2 hour away from Gettysburg Battlefield. I guess I should really take advantage of that photographic opportunity !

Oh, wow! If I lived that close to Gettysburg, I'd be there every weekend. Great place to "shoot", and the epicenter of all Civil War related stuff. I've visited there several times, and hiked it twice. It should be very lovely about now, with redbuds in bloom...

Be sure to post some pix here, if you do happen to visit. How is the new Visitor's Center coming along, by the way?

~YEKCIM

 

[photo_chick]

When I was in Mississippi I took my very first college photography calss at the community college I was attending in Jackson. I went and shot several projects at the Vicksburg National Military Park. It always seemed kind of eerie to me. Some places felt like you could still hear the battle.

Your images make me wish my projects had been in color now!

 

[MarkBarbieri]

Here are a couple of shots of a cannon at a re-enactment.

 

[YEKCIM]

Here are a couple of shots of a cannon at a re-enactment.

Mark,

Shutter held down in burst mode, excellent timing, or both? I have both participated in, and photographed reenactments (enjoy the latter way more than the former) and tried so hard to get that perfect split second cannon discharge, but never got one as perfect as yours. Kudos from one Cannon lover to another .

(BTW, suggest you invest in a Power Line filter...)

~YEKCIM

 

[jann1033]

nice shots although I have to admit Gettysburg kind of bothers me ( that amount of sadness/loss of loved ones bothers me anywhere but maybe cause i visited by myself while husband was at a class it just really bothered me)..some of the state monuments are spectacular though, one in particular of a dead soldier was so detailed i remember the bottom of his shoe had a hole in it.

 

[MarkBarbieri]

Shutter held down in burst mode, excellent timing, or both

8 fps burst mode...I don't use it often, but it occasionally comes in very handy. The thing that frustrated me that day was that it took a darn long time between when they lit the fuse and when it went off. It seemed like a 5 second "window". At 8 fps, that goes through memory really darn fast.

 

[DVC Jen]

Fantastic photos!

 

[Shifletjl]

ditto...beautiful photos. I especially like the last shot posted.

 

[Groucho]

Wow, Mark may want to place an order for this one... an "L"-series cannon!

 

[YEKCIM]

Wow, Mark may want to place an order for this one... an "L"-series cannon!

I heard a rumor that Pentax is coming out with a projectile-stabilized 155mm howitzer next quarter...

~YEKCIM

 

[Groucho]

I heard a rumor that Pentax is coming out with a projectile-stabilized 155mm howitzer next quarter...

~YEKCIM

That brings a new meaning to "more BANG for your buck"!

 

[Master Mason]

I heard a rumor that Pentax is coming out with a projectile-stabilized 155mm howitzer next quarter...

~YEKCIM

If it is being made by pentax, projectile wouldn't matter, it would be the howitzer that would need to be stablized That way any projectile fired by it would be stablized