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Welcome back!
Can't wait to hear and see more about the trip!
 
Hello Phil,
I must thank you for the beauty of your art, sharing and comments. I really like your photos, which always make me happy and I always look forward to new ones. With permission, I will allow myself to comment on this photo. I cannot express what fascinates me so much about it and what keeps attracting my attention. Perhaps the combination of plan, tonality, color, a certain spatiality and the disruption of symmetry by the person in the foreground. Maybe it is something else entirely.
Nevertheless, please accept my tribute and admiration for this piece.
I have the impression that the photo has written itself in my head and I will never forget it. I still don't know why, but I feel that way. I will remember it in 5, 10 or 30 years. It is really not only beautiful to me, but you can feel some energy from it.
Let me also thank you for your beautiful comments. For a non-native English speaker, they are an inspiration for me to better understand English. I often discuss your comments with my English teacher, and we both enjoy the beauty of the language and the formulation of your sentences. Thank you.
Hi Pavel,

Thank you very much for these beautifully expressed comments. We are both deeply moved and incredibly humbled to read them.

As you may have gathered, I am the 'photobomber' in question, though Karen used my presence to great effect when composing her shot. Ironically, the historic house in question is noted for being asymmetrical (in the wider context of the entire building frontage) - you will be seeing more of this in a while.

On viewing the raw file it immediately struck me as being something special and an intriguing processing opportunity. The (much) closer crop was a deliberate choice, with myself kept as per the original edit and the background treated to colour grading (based on my top and shorts!), a very subtle blur treatment (lending it a pleasing dreamy quality) finished with - if I recall it correctly - a very minor light vignette (colour co-ordinated with the background).

When I showed the final result I had achieved with her shot to Karen it made her grin wildly - so as far as I was concerned, that was 'job done'.

To discover the image has had such a profound impact on you is simply wonderful - things like this help to make everything we do worthwhile.


I appreciate images uploaded here are reduced/ compressed, so should you wish to have it, a full jpg copy can be downloaded via This Link. :)

Phil

(PS. Let me know if you have any problems with the link, Dropbox is not my strongpoint).
 
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Welcome back!
Can't wait to hear and see more about the trip!
Hi Mike,

It's good to be back (we need the rest!) - I'm very hopeful some interesting images will be emerging (I'm around a third of the way through the raw files).

:)

Phil
 
Australian Pelican + Little Black Cormorant
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Canon R5m2 | RF 200–800
570mm | ƒ/9 | 1/2500s | ISO 1000
30 frames/second | pre-continuous raw | 42.5 metres
DxO PR5 | LrC | Ps


Australian Pelican : Pelecanus conspicillatus
Little Black Cormorant : Phalacrocorax sulcirostris
Moreton Bay, Brisbane, Australia



Might is 'right'…

Fish were sighted and these two took flight, the massive white bird 'running' (almost literally) over the smaller species. Both were members of large flocks ('flotillas'?) preying on small fish in Moreton Bay.

In all there were about fifty Australian Pelicans and two hundred Little Black Cormorants — no you wouldn't want to be a little fish caught in the tidal shallows with mobs like that around!

Moreton Bay is Queensland's equivalent of Tampa Bay, Florida: both are the same distance from the equator (~27º S or N), so related or convergent species are encountered – not just pelicans and cormorants, but also sirenians (dugongs and manatees).

Pelicans — The Full Set (courtesy of Birds of the World)
  1. American White Pelican
  2. Australian Pelican
  3. Brown Pelican
  4. Dalmatian Pelican
  5. Great White Pelican
  6. Peruvian Pelican
  7. Pink-backed Pelican
  8. Spot-billed Pelican
I hope that I'm correct in claiming this as the 'full set'!

… David

 
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This is my neighborhood, my valley. It's in the shadow of Mt Si (pronounced Mt. Sigh.) Out here in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains, we get weather, and when conditions come together, the weather and the landscape and the light make for wonderful photographs. It doesn't happen all the time, but a few times a month, in all seasons, you'll get those days, or maybe just a few hours, when everything works out right.

I can see Mt Si from my house and I keep an eye on the light and the clouds. Last night we were between storms, so the rain cleared and the sun started sneaking through the broken clouds. I spent the last hour of daylight visiting a few places that I know take the evening sun well.


These are wonderful.

You are truly fortunate to live in such a beautiful part of the world.
 
It's that time of year when kids graduate from school here in the states. We got to see one of our granddaughters walk the stage last night. The senior class had around 1000 kids so they do it at NRG football stadium here in Houston. I left the rest of the family who had chosen seats where I didn't feel the photo view was good. Found a seat in the center front section. They are so strict now as far as security, only clear plastic carry bags and no camera with a lens over 8 inches! I can see that for an NFL football game but this is just a high school graduation.

So, I took my R7 with a Tamron 18-400mm lens and my phone and nothing else. Got some decent shots, a bit noisy due to the high ISO but noting Topaz Photo AI couldn't fix.

Hard to believe it wasn't long ago that this girl was a newborn and is now 18 and headed to college next fall. Her smiles made the long evening worth it. She is a "C" alphabetically so with 1000 kids we had a long evening!

Big pool party at our kids house today to celebrate. I set up a photo booth for picture of everyone with our grad.

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Congratulations to your granddaughter and all her classmates. Our granddaughter graduated this year, but they live too far for us to travel. We will have to be satisfied with the few photographs we will get.
 
We've had run of high pressure days, with cloudless skies and cool nights. Yesterday's golden hour in our neck of the woods was nice...

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Not far off the shortest day, so the sun is low, and has to work its way through the foothills of the Southern Alps.
 
There's a ford near us that is simply beautiful to see.
The creek:
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The ford:
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After the water leaves the ford:
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It is sometimes a bit worrisome to cross when the stream is flowing fast.
They close the road when the current is very fast, so onlookers won't be swept away.
 
Our final images for this month come once again from the Yorkshire Wildlife Park, Doncaster, England.

(Shot raw and processed using: DxO PL Elite, Adobe LrC/ PS with Tony Kuyper Panels and Topaz Labs PAI. Compilations feature Karen R7 and Phil R5).

Phil and Karen


1. Yes! At last - Zebras for stills... :D

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2. Not laughing, but well and truly spotted...

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3. We go forwards and then, we go backwards again...

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4. What a bunch of little cuties...

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5. When, after freezing your nuts off for over 50 minutes (a technical term involving biting winds and the wrong clothing), the waiting is finally rewarded...

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6. Lions, over and out...

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This is my neighborhood, my valley. It's in the shadow of Mt Si (pronounced Mt. Sigh.) Out here in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains, we get weather, and when conditions come together, the weather and the landscape and the light make for wonderful photographs. It doesn't happen all the time, but a few times a month, in all seasons, you'll get those days, or maybe just a few hours, when everything works out right.
Stunning images. What a place to live!
 
It's that time of year when kids graduate from school here in the states. We got to see one of our granddaughters walk the stage last night. The senior class had around 1000 kids so they do it at NRG football stadium here in Houston. I left the rest of the family who had chosen seats where I didn't feel the photo view was good. Found a seat in the center front section. They are so strict now as far as security, only clear plastic carry bags and no camera with a lens over 8 inches! I can see that for an NFL football game but this is just a high school graduation.
Lovely photos Chris to remember a very special occasion. It's nuts how quickly they grow. No grandchildren for us just yet though, ours are only just turning 5 and 3 next month.
 
I don't usually get up early enough to enjoy a sunrise, but at this time of year sunrise approaches my normal alarm time, and so - having taken a series of sunset pics of our local landscapes a week ago - I decided to rise a little early today and see what light on the other side of the hills looks like. Here are a few early process versions...

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The hills are called The Deans, and this is a shot of an airstrip (the field below the water tank) used by aerial top-dressing planes.

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Skyline cows.

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I've been discussing different Lightroom processing techniques with one of NZ's best landscape snappers (a Nikon guy, so you won't see him here), and I was surprised by just how different his approach was. Will have to spend some more time with these...
 
I don't usually get up early enough to enjoy a sunrise, but at this time of year sunrise approaches my normal alarm time, and so - having taken a series of sunset pics of our local landscapes a week ago - I decided to rise a little early today and see what light on the other side of the hills looks like. Here are a few early process versions...
Well good morning, Gareth. Mornings are the best. The light's great and there's nobody out.
 
*** Your R System Images - May 2025 *** Thread Closed…

A truly wonderful collection of inspirational R System images this month - posted by people all around the world and viewed by people all around the world - we’ve certainly enjoyed seeing them all (albeit we’re been unable to comment due to overwhelming commitments involving 'life stuff'). A HUGE ‘thank you’ to each of the contributors and commentators - your talents and time are very much appreciated!!

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

Phil and Karen 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
 
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