I know it's lunch time Sunday there now but your Saturday evening is my 3:00 AM Friday night and I'm not gonna post s*** then. So I do the best I can.
I know it's not a competition, but if it was you would have my vote for best photographs. Just awesome. I want that Don quijote coin. What is it and where from? More importantly how much?
The Don Quijote is Mexican, from the Casa de Moneta de Mexico (literally, the House of Mexican Coins), the Mexican National Mint. I've got a few and paid about $35 each a couple of years ago. It's a silver proof version of a circulating coin. Not real common, just have to search for them, I had a contact but it temporarily dried up. If you want to see the most spectacular Mexican coin ever, here it is below. It is a representation of the Aztec Calendar, the coin is called Aztec Calendario. This is a 2 oz coin, it comes in up to 1 kilo. Can you believe the detail?
Sure did. Thought I'd sent the shots to you. The Normandy invasion is a little important to me since I owe my existence to it. My father was a 1st Lieutenant platoon commander with the US 101st Airborne, one of the divisions that parachuted into France the night before the beach landings. Three weeks later he was the senior officer left in his entire battalion but that was right before he was hit multiples of times by a German machine gun. It was the 3rd time he was shot but this one did it. He spent 3 years in various hospitals at one of which he met my mother. If you've ever seen "Band of Brothers", that was my father's outfit. Also the movie Saving Pvt Ryan was about the 101st.
i love the 99 Brit too and that is a fantastic photo with gorgeous colour. is the coin a proof? this has probably been asked before but what kind of macro lens do you use?
