Your R System Images - May 2023

[Chris Summers]

Went on a photo walk with friends from our local photography club. Downtown Houston is pretty quiet on weekends, the majority of companies downtown are oil and gas, banking and real estate so it's mostly busy on weekdays.

Like a lot of cities they encourage local artists to paint murals on the sides of older buildings.

 

[JustUs7]

Backyard guest at our little pond. Absolutely huge frog for this area. Must be four or five inches nose to caboose.

 

[Chris Summers]

Memorial Day weekend for our family usually means the first pool party of the summer season but this year it was also a party to celebrate our grandson graduating from high school. On occasions like this I usually set up a "photo booth" for portraits of our kids and grandkids and now great grandkids, the star in these photos was the graduate. I keep it simple enough, a clean white backdrop and a couple of strobes on either side of the camera with soft boxes to keep the light fairly soft and shadow free. I never know if I will shoot one person or a big family group, people come and go as the party goes on. It's all about fun so everyone gets to clown around but these are the kind of portraits they will remember more than serious ones.

So I was going to shoot with my Comet monolight studio strobes I still use from time to time but for the life of me couldn't find the remote triggers to fire the flash as I shot so I just used the tungsten modeling lights and corrected the white balance later in Lightroom. Canon R and the RF 24-105mm worked fine.

 

[Only RF]

Moon at sunset

 

[Tui]

Watching for whales at Kurnell, Sydney yesterday

 

[Hali]

Exhibition Announcement

I am pleased to announce that one of my photographs (Horseback Riding in Bandon) has been selected for the upcoming "Where Are We Now" exhibition at the North View Gallery in Portland, Oregon.

As a Serious Hobbyist Photographer this is the first for me.


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Congratulations! That's wonderful

 

[Hali]

Watching for whales at Kurnell, Sydney yesterday
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Nice images, I especially love the last one with the reflections of the sky in the puddles.

 

[Hali]

Start of a new project working on frozen flowers. This is the first (and so far only) peony in my garden. It's an interesting learning curve, which would probably be made easier if I'd look up information on doing it on the interwebs. 62 image stack put together in Helicon Focus.

 

[Only RF]

Exhibition Announcement

I am pleased to announce that one of my photographs (Horseback Riding in Bandon) has been selected for the upcoming "Where Are We Now" exhibition at the North View Gallery in Portland, Oregon.

As a Serious Hobbyist Photographer this is the first for me.


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Congrats. It’s a very nice shot.

 

[Bucolic Old Sir Henry]

Just back from Australia, visiting family and friends for the first time since the lurgy struck. Took the R6 with 14-35 and 70-200, and there was only one place where I really, really wished I'd brought the 100-500 - which will be obvious... ;-)

We started in Brisbane, where you don't have to go to see the animals, they come to you:

This little guy (Bush Stone-Curlew, Burhinus graccarius) was in a flower bed behind an ice cream shop on the city's Southbank, undisturbed by what seemed like half the inhabitants of SE Queensland out for a Sunday stroll.

This Kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae) was one of a family of three ruling the roost in the garden of our apartment in Burleigh Heads:

But you don't go to Burleigh Heads for the birds - or perhaps you do... ;-) - you go for the surfing:

The Heads has a perfect point break, warm water and loads of young (and old) keen to exploit them. The skyscrapers on the horizon are Surfers Paradise to the north.

The best that I could do with the 70-200. I was so caught up in trying to capture the action at various settings for frames per second that I neglected to set shutter speed where it should ideally have been. I enhanced detail in LR Classic before doing any other adjustments, and allowed myself a gentle crop. With the 100-500 and 1/1000th+ I reckon you could have counted his nostril hairs...

Then we went south to Sydney:

Looking towards the CBD from above Watson's Bay.

Ditto, from the beach at Camp Cove. There's a reason Sydney waterside property is so expensive...

Sydney's Vivid festival of lights started while we were there. They usually put on a fireworks display when we visit, but this year they really did themselves proud...

This and the two following were from the Lightscape show in the Botanic Gardens. An amazing experience. These were all denoised in LRC before any adjustments. I was guessing exposure, and relying on the R6's IBIS - which I reckon did an amazing job at 1/5th second.

At that point the only battery I had with me ran out of charge. The spare was back at the hotel... As they say in NZ, bugger.

And yes, the sun always shines in Australia.

 

[Tom45]

From a recent visit to Fernhill

 

[AOC]

Had to contend with some strong backlighting and a bit of distance in this shot of a Blu-gray Gnatcatcher pestering a Red-shouldered Hawk in a Wetland in Virginia.

 

[MikeZ]

WOW! A truly amazing shot.

 

[PKM-UK]

Had to contend with some strong backlighting and a bit of distance in this shot of a Blu-gray Gnatcatcher pestering a Red-shouldered Hawk in a Wetland in Virginia.
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Hi Art,

Absolutely amazing - what a terrific capture! Many thanks for sharing...

P&K

 

[dgphoto8]

Had to contend with some strong backlighting and a bit of distance in this shot of a Blu-gray Gnatcatcher pestering a Red-shouldered Hawk in a Wetland in Virginia.
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Great capture of the moment and both birds

 

[Tim Mayo]

Our garden birds are busy feeding their young right now. Here's a goldfinch and blue tit waiting on the fence for their turn on the feeders.

 

[Photofarmer]

found this one

 

[Tom45]

Some photos from the annual draft animal plowing contest held at our local museum. Normally held in April, it was rescheduled to May this year because the ground was too wet due to a very wet winter and spring.

A field is partitioned into sections and each contestant plows one section and is judged on various criteria. Here, the horses and plowman stop for a break to rest the horses and talk with the spectators. In spite of the ominous clouds, the rain held off until about the last 15 minutes of the 4 hour event.

This is Suzanne. She won the top prize last year and this year. The first person to win two years in a row in the history of the contest. The mules are real hams. They always look towards the camera.

Duane and his 7 year old grand daughter. He is very skilled in plowing with draft horses, so she is learning from one of the best. The white specks that show on the dark horses are rain drops falling. The rain held off until the end of the plowing.

One of the awards is a vote for people's choice by the spectators. It was essentially a tie for the two women as seen here.

 

[PKM-UK]

Some photos from the annual draft animal plowing contest held at our local museum. Normally held in April, it was rescheduled to May this year because the ground was too wet due to a very wet winter and spring.

A field is partitioned into sections and each contestant plows one section and is judged on various criteria. Here, the horses and plowman stop for a break to rest the horses and talk with the spectators. In spite of the ominous clouds, the rain held off until about the last 15 minutes of the 4 hour event.

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This is Suzanne. She won the top prize last year and this year. The first person to win two years in a row in the history of the contest. The mules are real hams. They always look towards the camera.

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Duane and his 7 year old grand daughter. He is very skilled in plowing with draft horses, so she is learning from one of the best. The white specks that show on the dark horses are rain drops falling. The rain held off until the end of the plowing.

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One of the awards is a vote for people's choice by the spectators. It was essentially a tie for the two women as seen here.

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Hi Tom,

A terrific set of images to showcase the event, the participants - and your talents! Our favourite is the first image - with the dramatic sky adding gravitas to those wonderful horses.

Thank you for sharing...

P&K

 

[Tom45]

Thanks Phil.

My biggest regret is that I didn't have a fill flash for the last photo. Took a lot of manipulation to overcome the strong backlight.

Tom

 

[Tom45]

To provide some context to the draft horse plowing images previously posted, here is a panorama from last year's event. Stitch of 6 images using Microsoft ICE. R5 ISO 100 1/800 F5.6. RF 70-200 F4L lens at 70mm.

 

[Hali]

Some photos from the annual draft animal plowing contest held at our local museum. Normally held in April, it was rescheduled to May this year because the ground was too wet due to a very wet winter and spring.

A field is partitioned into sections and each contestant plows one section and is judged on various criteria. Here, the horses and plowman stop for a break to rest the horses and talk with the spectators. In spite of the ominous clouds, the rain held off until about the last 15 minutes of the 4 hour event.

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This is Suzanne. She won the top prize last year and this year. The first person to win two years in a row in the history of the contest. The mules are real hams. They always look towards the camera.

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Duane and his 7 year old grand daughter. He is very skilled in plowing with draft horses, so she is learning from one of the best. The white specks that show on the dark horses are rain drops falling. The rain held off until the end of the plowing.

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One of the awards is a vote for people's choice by the spectators. It was essentially a tie for the two women as seen here.

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These are wonderful!! It looks like a great time.

 

[Hali]

A derelict house, Maryland, in 470nm (hypercolor) infrared.

 

[PKM-UK]

*** Your R System Images - May 2023 *** Thread Closed…

A wonderful collection of inspirational R System images this month - posted from people all around the world and viewed by people all around the world - we’ve really enjoyed seeing them. So far the the May thread has had 143 replies and 2k views (fantastic!). A HUGE ‘thank you’ to all of the contributors and commentators - your talents and time are appreciated!!

You can continue to post any comments here, but the June thread is now open for all new images (including any additional May material).

Phil and Karen

 

[ctitanic]

Almost the size of a hand.

 

[Dean Wilson]

Swallowtails have just started making a appearance in our gardens.

 

[PKM-UK]

Almost the size of a hand.
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Hi Frank,

A fantastic capture of a beautiful creature!

('Almost the size of a hand' sounds mildly alarming to me - Phil - though Karen would be completely enthralled... ).

Thank you for sharing...

P&K

 

[ctitanic]

Hi Frank,

A fantastic capture of a beautiful creature!

('Almost the size of a hand' sounds mildly alarming to me - Phil - though Karen would be completely enthralled... ).

Thank you for sharing...

P&K

Well, I may have exaggerated a little bit

 

[Dean Wilson]

Nah...you just neglected saying whose hand.

 

[PKM-UK]

Well, I may have exaggerated a little bit