A one-day test for the new Sigma APO 150-500mm f/5-6.3 DG OS HSM

Bye great Man

I’ve been following Steve’s vicissitudes since 98% of the people i know didn’t even know what Apple was.

Today a cycle, a phase of my life ended. IT and the Internet are not that great frontier anymore, that something esoteric, but a sort of household appliance. Also thanks to Steve, also because of Steve.

I remember i damn wanted a Mac, but my budget allowed me to buy a Commodore 64 instead (but i’ll have loved it anyway!). I still can see that shopping windows with that 512k making a fine show of itself.

And then, suddenly, came my first Powerbook and Ipod (2003 at last!) and so on.

I already wrote about Steve’s vision of Life and today thousands of people are copying+pasting his words into their e-walls, so there’s nothing much more to say except for “Goodby Steve, great man”.

The site has a public section with the Company infos and a private section with access to documents for partners. Have a look at www.petrolmar.it

But for training, for closer images, you better install yourself and your equipment into a protected oasis.

See the set on Flickr

Like Oasi di S. Alessio near Pavia.

• ERTMS (European Rail Traffic Management System)
• RIS (River Information Services)
• MoS (Motorways of the Sea)

The Ten-T 2011 InfoDay: very crowded!

Along with raptors...

If you wanna know more about the Camp have a look here.
Below is a video captured with a trail camera.

Thanks to CSDL team (Giuseppe Paris), Paolo “Mezuluvu” Rossi, and the Beigua Park Staff.

Among the (many) things i learned:

• how to shoot (“for real” , shots, exposures, field depth, etc.) at flowers and insects;
• how to get an interesting panorama with a wide angle lens (i did not like them very much, i prefer higher focal lenghts > 135 mm though);
• my Canon EF-S 18-55 lens has interesting macro capabilities;
• keep an eye at ticks;
• scorpions glow in the dark (!)

Set I: Nature images

Set II: behind the scenes

Thanks to all the teachers which gave me very very much troughout these two days: Emanuele Biggi - Naturalist & Wildlife photographer (anura.it) Francesco Tomasinelli – Science Nature & Travel Photographer (isopoda.net), Roberto Malacrida – Nature photographer (robertomalacrida.com).

And of course to the Workshop deus ex machina Michele Pregliasco (digilands.it) and all the park staff which gave us many and very interesting informations about geology, flora and fauna.

Thanks Pixeljuice, Marco Garrè, Antonio Marasà, for the support.