Your R System Images - August 2025

[TwoWheeler]

Nice, I tried something similar a few years back but the farm building (milking shed?) was concrete block and it just didn’t work.

 

[TwoWheeler]

"Inspired" by @PKM-UK ....I decided to post my very own historical travel log to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the canal.

With tongue firmly planted in cheek, I give you: "The Erie Canal - A Skanky Ditch Full of Dirty Water"

(Lest you think I'm being too harsh, no less a literary luminary than Nathaniel Hawthorne contemporaneously described it as: "An interminable mud puddle, with waters as dark and as turbid as if every kennel in the land had paid contribution to it").

Exhibit A- the Improved Erie:

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...and if you're thinking "Improved? My God! What was it like before???" the answer is "about half this size". Almost as soon as they opened it, they realized it was too small for the demand. In 1836, they started a ten year program to enlarge the canal from 40' wide and 4' deep to 70' x 7' and doubled all the locks.

....and Exhibit B:
And that's probably better than back in the day when the canal was actually in use; at its peak, as many as 500 boats a day came through. The toilet on a canal boat was a bucket, that you "flushed" over the side. A typical canal boat had a crew of four. You do the math.... There's a reason every canal boat had a cask of fresh water on the deck...

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Yum!

When the canal closed in the early 1920's the sleek vessels that once plied the waters were treated with all the respect and solemnity they deserved....well, no. Actually, the boats -which amounted to floating packing crates - were stripped of anything useful and left to rot - as this boat skeleton will attest:

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I wonder how many outhouses you can build out of a canal boat?

At least someone is still using the remnants of the boat (albeit as a buffet...)

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Today, the canal is home to plants and wildlife - like this lovely nonnative, invasive Purple Loosestrife:

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Despite living in an environment that probably produced mutant ninja turtles, this Green Heron doesn't appear have any extra limbs or anything:

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No longer a main thoroughfare of commerce, it's primary function is recreational:

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(I measure my mileage on the canal not by miles traveled but by how much goose poop is on my downtube).

And hey, I found this today, in a place I've been to about nine million times and never noticed it before, so there is that:

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[Only RF]

Not one if my favourite shots. Model Airplane meet and socked in with heavy overcast. I got about 15 minutes with an opening and then it socked in again. These are fast.

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[MSH411]

Nice, I tried something similar a few years back but the farm building (milking shed?) was concrete block and it just didn’t work.

Weathered wood and ivy are tough to beat, the contrast in the wood really helps the shot.

 

[Hali]

Puffin Portrait

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[ShipleyNW]

I was out with my long lens shooting the elk in the meadow that I posted here on the first page. My wife was with me shooting with my (her?) little R10 and an EF-S 15-85. I saw the sun peeking around Mt Si and asked if I could borrow her camera.

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[Only RF]

These things change engine speed so often it's hard to adjust. 1/160 and no prop blur. Oh well.

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[TwoWheeler]

These things change engine speed so often it's hard to adjust. 1/160 and no prop blur. Oh well.

If my experience is any indication, the engine speed goes from 100 to 0 very quickly. (When I augered into the ground).

Photography may not be a cheap hobby, but my cameras last longer than my planes ever did.

 

[Only RF]

If my experience is any indication, the engine speed goes from 100 to 0 very quickly. (When I augered into the ground).

Photography may not be a cheap hobby, but my cameras last longer than my planes ever did.

True. Many years ago my friend put his plane into the ground on its maiden flight. He worked on it all winter.

 

[klaspavel]

Lac Léman

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[Wings and Things]

Thank goodness - someone who calls it by its proper name and not Lake Geneva

Subtle but very effective image.

I really want to go back to Switzerland but will have to make do with Normandy at the in-laws next week.

 

[THXGEEK]

Lac Léman

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Holy cow & WOW! What an amazing example of framing and perspective!

I think this is very well done.

 

[Only RF]

Lac Léman

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Shots like that go for big money. Hope you get lucky.

 

[Bucolic Old Sir Henry]

It's the beginning of the "everything is lovely in the garden" season...

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As an aside, I have been trying LRC's adaptive profile on a lot of recent shots, and find it doesn't really help much with something like this - brings the background exposure way too high...

 

[Mikey]

During the summer Mississippi Kites are a very common sight here in central Oklahoma where I live. The (relatively) new R6 MKII really tracks well and is a joy to use.

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[TwoWheeler]

Blame @Dean Wilson for this one. My attempt at getting all artsy-fartsy is a resounding "MEH".

Acrylic plastic HATES isopropyl alcohol. I had to make something from a transparent plastic at work. I was concerned that the end users might clean it with alcohol, so I knew I needed polycarbonate not acrylic. Helpfully, none of our stock is labeled, so I grabbed a piece, stuffed a hole in it and hosed it with IPA. It crackled and crazed all over the place and actually split at the bottom of the hole.

"Oh well, guess that's acrylic...but hey, it looks kinda neat....wonder what kind of macro shot it would make....?"

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...and the answer is "...not a very good one".

 

[AOC]

Puffin taking off from a Rocky outcrop in Newfoundland Canada

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[Only RF]

Sorry to post something less spirited but this is a reference to Hali's post.

Post in thread 'Your R System Images - July 2025'

Jul 23, 2025

Some Infrared (including a rare, pseudo false color one from me

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) from Newfoundland.

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Like I said it reminded me of our drives which I called my back yard. 50 mile of back country travel in Nopiming Provincial park that we did for nearly 50 years. Many winter Friday nights driving up in -35 Celsius temps. This not an infrared but just one of my summer B&W conversations. This is Moose River. I'm not sure how many years ago I took but as I write and post I'm wait to see if there is any metadata.

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They finally opened that park up a few weeks ago. My friend went with is family about a week ago and him and I went with him yesterday. 100,000 hectares were on fire in May. I'm not sure of the current total loss. At every turn this was the scenes. I saw all types of rocks in the Canadian Shield hidden by forest now exposed. It had a bit of an eerie beauty to it. I did not put any work into these shots.

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Charred trees at every turn.

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This used to be his cottage which I helped him build 50 years ago. It slopes down so it does not show it all. That chop saw stand to the left was in the shed. The saw itself is melted. I gave that to him when we sold our cottage and house. It is stunning how fire hops to random buildings and trees survive. His neighbour to the right is OK but the next four are complete losses. His neighbours to the left also lost their place. Our cottage which we sold 5 years ago survived. Total. 20 cottages out of 70 were lost.

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[AOC]

A few images captured at Green Spring Gardens in Fairfax VA

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[AOC]

Huntley Meadows Wetland captures

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[funjp]

Photo walk at Tokyo's Akihabara Electric Town . Grain added on purpose .

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[Only RF]

Photo walk at Tokyo's Akihabara Electric Town . Grain added on purpose . View attachment 39216View attachment 39217View attachment 39218View attachment 39219

I liked the grain before reading the text. Looks great and is so refreshing with what at times has become a pixel peeping obsession with eliminating all noise. Both have their place.

 

[PKM-UK]

Images from our recent(ish) - well, kind-of - visit to Parcevall Hall, Skyreholme, Wharfdale, North Yorkshire, England.

Parcevall Hall is not open to the public, but the exterior of the building can be viewed from the surrounding gardens.

(Shot raw and processed using: DxO PL Elite/ ViewPoint and Adobe LrC/ PS with Tony Kuyper TK-9 Panels. Karen used her iPhone and GoPro at this venue so she could carry a bunch of other stuff. Consequently, these images are all by Phil).

You can find out more about Parcevall Hall Gardens by clicking Here.

Phil and Karen

(Note: The processing of raw files from our more recent trips continues apace - the sound you may be able to hear is Phil's brain melting down... ).


1. The 24 acres of gardens were created by Sir William Milner, 8th Baronet of Nun Appleton, from 1927 onwards.

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2. The gardens began to fall into decline after his death in 1960.

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3. In the mid 1980’s the gardens began to be restored - a process spanning 25 years.

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4. The gardens are planted with specimens from around the world, many collected from Western China and the Himalayas.

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5. Parcevall Hall is now the retreat house of the Anglican Diocese of Leeds.

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6. Postscript: Karen tackling Skyreholme Bank (a Category 4 climb) - which features a mixed paved/ gravel ascent of 378 feet over 1.1km (maximum gradient 14.9%) - before the fun (and faster) descent to take appropriate refreshments at the nearby Craven Arms public house.

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(Sources: Parceval Hall, Wikipedia).

 

[ACEkin]

One of the sunflowers in our front yard. They are a little smaller and shorter this year.

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[MSH411]

Why jump off of a perfectly good cliff

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[Bucolic Old Sir Henry]

6. Postscript: Karen tackling Skyreholme Bank (a Category 4 climb) - which features a mixed paved/ gravel ascent of 378 feet over 1.1km (maximum gradient 14.9%) - before the fun (and faster) descent to take appropriate refreshments at the nearby Craven Arms public house.

Go Karen!

 

[Ferenc MÓGOR]

While in the countryside last week I took the time to take some infrared photos on a bright sunny day at my friend's house. My R6 MK1 is an out-of-factory camera with no IR conversion. Just attached a HOYA R72 (720 nm) filter in front of the lens. Here's what I got. All pix were taken at 1/4 sec handheld, IS and IBIS engaged, ISO varied between 10000 and 20000. Ran each RAW pic through Photoshop's ACR Denoise AI.

Canon EOS R6 MK1 + Canon RF 14-35 mm F4 IS USM

P.s.: My French-made Citroen car is originally ruby red!

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[MSH411]

Really like that third capture Ferenc

 

[David Berry]

No hidden nestling safe from the silent Black Kite.

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[Only RF]

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