"Ooh, Baby, Baby, it's a wide wood...."

Mike B in OKlahoma · Post by **Mike B in OKlahoma** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 6:44 pm

"And it's hard to get by, just upon a stump...."

(with apologies to Cat Stevens)

I have an old Sigma 14mm lens I bought to serve as an ultrawide lens on my original Canon D60 camera. I don't use it much these days, it is just too wide on my 1Ds, and image quality ain't the greatest. But I pulled it out and took it along when I went to Arizona earlier this month, and grabbed this closeup shot of one end of a petrified wood log. Light wasn't the best, which is why I was fooling around with this combination, but the log was colorful enough to hold up anyway.

beetleman · Post by **beetleman** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 8:53 pm

You guys are to picky on yourselves "Light wasn't the best"

That is one fine specimen of petrified wood Mike, much more colorful that the first pic you posted

( I think the lighting is great, but what do I know)

Danny · Post by **Danny** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 2:55 am

Heck it looks like stone Mike, amazing. Oh I love the wide look in this. I had a Sigma 16mm years ago, but again, it didn't get enough use on 35mm. But they do give a unique perspective as in this. How else would you get M8t. Excellent colours and yep, reminds me of rock for sure.

All the best Mike, no nits in this one mate.

Danny.

DaveW · Post by **DaveW** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 5:10 am

I presume this is in the "Painted Desert", Arizona Mike with its fossilised trees?

DaveW

Mike B in OKlahoma · Post by **Mike B in OKlahoma** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 8:35 am

Hi Dave, yep, I should have explained that this is petrified wood in Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona (A piece of the Painted Desert is in the same park).

Erland R.N. · Post by **Erland R.N.** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 4:40 pm

Lovely picture, which I could some day visit that place in Arizona. I use my 14 mm sigma quite some on my 5D, sometimes cornes are bad, sometimes good :-)

Erland