Your R System Images - September 2026

[klaspavel]

Where the River Once Was

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[Only RF]

I was hunting a few Kingfishers. On my list and I don't have a good shot of those very skittish birds yet. I was close. I had to settle for this.

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[Only RF]

Marsh and sky

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[Grumps]

I was hunting a few Kingfishers. On my list and I don't have a good shot of those very skittish birds yet. I was close. I had to settle for this.

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Looks remarkably like Sorbus aucuparia. If it is then it must've been an introduction (S. aucuparia is eurasian in distribution).

 

[MSH411]

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[Bucolic Old Sir Henry]

Two fat (native) pigeons discussing recipes for their next TV series...

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Kererū - New Zealand pigeon - Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae.

This pair have been with us for a few years, and their favourite evening spot is eating the young foliage on an old almond tree on our clifftop. In summer, when the wild plums in our valley are covered in fruit, they will gorge themselves almost to the point of being unable to fly.

 

[Only RF]

About 2 hours north of our city is Hecla Island. People from Iceland settled there. Actually on the way up there is town called Gimli where Icelanders also settled. Both on Lake Winnipeg. Parts of the old ferry dock still stand. I faintly remember going over on the ferry in a car with my parents. I was probably about 5-7 years old. In 1973 they built a causeway to connect to the island.

Post #93 is just to the right of the dock.

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Bit of a bigger area.

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[Archibald]

Yellow-rumped Warbler in non-breeding plumage.

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[Archibald]

Coral Fungus.

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[David Berry]

Rainbow and the Moon…

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Bloom : Xanthorrhoea (Grass Tree)
Parrot : Rainbow Lorikeet​

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[ACEkin]

I took the original photograph at Conimicut Point Park in Warwick, RI. It was a hurried shot. I thought the bird would look better against the water, so I created the second version. I am not a bird photographer by any stretch of imagination. Does the modified background work better for the bird (I think it's a seagull)? The main purpose of the experiment was to explore editing the image background.

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[PKM-UK]

Hi Cemal,

I (much) prefer #2.

(And what a little cutie!).

Phil

 

[SwampGrizz]

#2 as well.

 

[Only RF]

#2 for me as well

 

[MikeZ]

Nice job on photo #2. Well done.

 

[THXGEEK]

Vote #5 for pic #2!

(I think I counted that correctly... Guys are usually safe in counting up to the number 21 before they run out of digits..... )

 

[SwampGrizz]

Vote #5 for pic #2!

(I think I counted that correctly... Guys are usually safe in counting up to the number 21 before they run out of digits..... )

I can count up to 20, but I would have to take off my shoes. Nobody wants that.

 

[Only RF]

Generative Remove with app I'm using is amazing. They all are. Something I would attempt that took forever and I'd usually gave on now takes seconds.

 

[Grumps]

I took the original photograph at Conimicut Point Park in Warwick, RI. It was a hurried shot. I thought the bird would look better against the water, so I created the second version. I am not a bird photographer by any stretch of imagination. Does the modified background work better for the bird (I think it's a seagull)? The main purpose of the experiment was to explore editing the image background.

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#2 for me as well.

Species? (Quite) Possibly Ring-billed gull (Larus delawarensis).

The pedant in me says they are gulls, not seagulls. From memory, most gulls are not pelagic (in the UK we have one species of gull which is considered pelagic - the Kittiwake - which only really returns to land for breeding)

 

[ACEkin]

Thank you all for your feedback. I used a simple Photoshop layered process. Select the subject, add the stump, make a layer... Very simple indeed.

 

[ShipleyNW]

Some B&W from the southern Oregon coast.

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[SwampGrizz]

Shipley,
Very well done! Great photos of a beautiful place.

 

[THXGEEK]

Sunset in Virginia...

...with my newly cleaned R5II (Thank you CPS!!!)...

... and my new RF45 f/1.2

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[Bucolic Old Sir Henry]

Blossom season in NZ, but here's a flower you may not have seen before...

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Tagasaste/tree lucerne - Chamaecytisus proliferus var palmensis

It's a smallish tree, introduced to NZ over 100 years ago, and usually planted in drought prone areas to provide fodder for stock. It's a legume (see the pea pods up top?), so fixes nitrogen and can be used as a nurse crop for larger trees. It flowers early, and is loved by bees and birds.

 

[SwampGrizz]

Sir Henry,
That’s a fine photo. Well done.
Please allow me to put my ignorance on full display here. How did you get the black background? Was it a camera technique, or done in post processing? Thanks in advance for sharing your expertise.

 

[Bucolic Old Sir Henry]

Sir Henry,
That’s a fine photo. Well done.
Please allow me to put my ignorance on full display here. How did you get the black background? Was it a camera technique, or done in post processing? Thanks in advance for sharing your expertise.

Hi Dale, glad you enjoyed it. There was no jiggery-pokery involved, bar a little bit of generative remove to get rid of a stray branch tip on the left hand side (where the green "sausage" is). There was no set-up involved. I was giving daughter's dog a bit of a run round our vineyard, and saw that the late afternoon sun was picking out the tagasaste flowers. The black background is just the shadowed side of a gully behind the tree, and of course, because I had the long lens on in hope of seeing a bird, it made any background detail disappear.

 

[SwampGrizz]

Hi Dale, glad you enjoyed it. There was no jiggery-pokery involved, bar a little bit of generative remove to get rid of a stray branch tip on the left hand side (where the green "sausage" is). There was no set-up involved. I was giving daughter's dog a bit of a run round our vineyard, and saw that the late afternoon sun was picking out the tagasaste flowers. The black background is just the shadowed side of a gully behind the tree, and of course, because I had the long lens on in hope of seeing a bird, it made any background detail disappear.

So it’s a function of a long lens, and shadows on the gully behind the tree. I don’t know much about using long lenses, as I don’t have one, so I’ve learned something today. Thanks.

 

[JackC]

From my walk yesterday morning. Fall is definitely here.

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[SwampGrizz]

Beautiful!

 

[Grumps]

Two fat (native) pigeons discussing recipes for their next TV series...

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Kererū - New Zealand pigeon - Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae.

This pair have been with us for a few years, and their favourite evening spot is eating the young foliage on an old almond tree on our clifftop. In summer, when the wild plums in our valley are covered in fruit, they will gorge themselves almost to the point of being unable to fly.

Blossom season in NZ, but here's a flower you may not have seen before...

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Tagasaste/tree lucerne - Chamaecytisus proliferus var palmensis

It's a smallish tree, introduced to NZ over 100 years ago, and usually planted in drought prone areas to provide fodder for stock. It's a legume (see the pea pods up top?), so fixes nitrogen and can be used as a nurse crop for larger trees. It flowers early, and is loved by bees and birds.

I took a quick look at the seed pods and I thought "pea" (or legume or bean). A search for Chamaecytisus proliferus confirmed that.

Cytisus sp. (commonly known as broom in the UK). A common one is Cytisus × praecox (and its various types).