Your R System Images - October 2026

[Grumps]

I did some additional reading trying to determine if it was an employee or a visitor. I read this on another news feed.

In videos shared to social media, one tiger could be seen biting a man in a black hoodie on the back of the neck

If it was a visitor I don't know. When I see people walking up to a buffalo in Yellowstone for a selfie when warned not to and it does not go well. I cheer for buffalo. Forrest Gump had a perfect answer for that.

Big cats may look cute. I think of them as beautiful and dangerous.

The term used within my family for big cats (lion, tiger, leopard, puma, jaguar). is "danger cats". Cheetahs purr .

(my daughter and her hubbie honeymooned in South Africa - without guns I add).

 

[PKM-UK]

Cute, cuter and cutist?

Perhaps not for someone.

Man seriously injured in tiger attack at Yorkshire Wildlife Park

The attraction near Doncaster says emergency response procedures were "immediately activated".

www.bbc.co.uk

Our thoughts are with those touched by this dreadful incident - including the wonderful male Amur Tiger (Altai), who was peacefully minding his own business when his home was invaded.

P&K

From the official Yorkshire Wildlife Park Facebook site…

 

[THXGEEK]

Rainy day in Virginia... Haven't seen a hummingbird in days...

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[THXGEEK]

Same scene, but with a different camera (Leica MEV1) and lens (Kase 200mm)...

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[Only RF]

Same scene, but with a different camera (Leica MEV1) and lens (Kase 200mm)...

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That is quite a difference.

 

[funjp]

Shooting with a model in the Asakusa area , Tokyo .
Model : Rina @bloo_moons

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[funjp]

Quote from Wikipedia :
"Yabusame (流鏑馬) is a type of mounted archery in traditional Japanese archery. An archer on a running horse shoots three special "turnip-headed" arrows (Kabura-ya) successively at three wooden targets."
First time location . Rented the RF 200-800 which proved to be too much , as I only really used around 250 to 300 . Shot at a park near Tokyo's Waseda University's campus and Anahachi Mangu shrine , Tokyo .

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[Archibald]

It's autumn. Here is a semi-abstract pic of a dead leaf.

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[THXGEEK]

Quote from Wikipedia :
"Yabusame (流鏑馬) is a type of mounted archery in traditional Japanese archery. An archer on a running horse shoots three special "turnip-headed" arrows (Kabura-ya) successively at three wooden targets."
First time location . Rented the RF 200-800 which proved to be too much , as I only really used around 250 to 300 . Shot at a park near Tokyo's Waseda University's campus and Anahachi Mangu shrine , Tokyo .
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Nice! You caught the arrow mid-flight in #4.

 

[THXGEEK]

Shooting with a model in the Asakusa area , Tokyo .
Model : Rina @bloo_moons

Are models starting too young or am I simply getting too old?

... I know at least one of those things is probably true.

 

[SwampGrizz]

Quote from Wikipedia :
"Yabusame (流鏑馬) is a type of mounted archery in traditional Japanese archery. An archer on a running horse shoots three special "turnip-headed" arrows (Kabura-ya) successively at three wooden targets."
First time location . Rented the RF 200-800 which proved to be too much , as I only really used around 250 to 300 . Shot at a park near Tokyo's Waseda University's campus and Anahachi Mangu shrine , Tokyo .
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Funjp,
Fine photos. Thanks for sharing your culture with us. That looks difficult to do.

 

[Only RF]

It's autumn. Here is a semi-abstract pic of a dead leaf.

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Good eye on this one.

 

[Archibald]

Good eye on this one.

Thank you.

 

[Grumps]

Same scene, but with a different camera (Leica MEV1) and lens (Kase 200mm)...

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I saw the doughnuts.
Then I had to go check.
Kase 200mm? One of those fixed aperture reflex mirrory things, innit?

 

[Grumps]

Quote from Wikipedia :
"Yabusame (流鏑馬) is a type of mounted archery in traditional Japanese archery. An archer on a running horse shoots three special "turnip-headed" arrows (Kabura-ya) successively at three wooden targets."
First time location . Rented the RF 200-800 which proved to be too much , as I only really used around 250 to 300 . Shot at a park near Tokyo's Waseda University's campus and Anahachi Mangu shrine , Tokyo .
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If you have any greater interest in horseback archery...

Parthian shot - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

(If anyone wonders how I came to knowing about the parthian shot, it is because I used to climb some gritstone. But not as extreme as this https://www.ukclimbing.com/articles/features/parthian_shot_-_the_saga-3828)

 

[THXGEEK]

Lady Cardinal.

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[THXGEEK]

I saw the doughnuts.
Then I had to go check.
Kase 200mm? One of those fixed aperture reflex mirrory things, innit?

Yup.

I think the technical term is 'Catadioptric lens', but may be wrong.

 

[PKM-UK]

Ahead of a predicted drenching this coming weekend - a mini Frank-Fest featuring fun gravel cycling (GoPro camera tech only) - the final images from our visit to the National Botanic Garden of Wales, Llanarthney, Carmarthenshire, Wales.

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

You can find out more about The National Botanic Garden of Wales by clicking Here.

Phil and Karen (In, as you say, the mud… )

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[ShipleyNW]

Umtanum Foot Bridge, First Light, Yakima River

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Umtanum Foot Bridge, First Light, Yakima River
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Leading lines tutorial.

 

[Grumps]

Ahead of a predicted drenching this coming weekend - a mini Frank-Fest featuring fun gravel cycling (GoPro camera tech only) - the final images from our visit to the National Botanic Garden of Wales, Llanarthney, Carmarthenshire, Wales.

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

You can find out more about The National Botanic Garden of Wales by clicking Here.

Phil and Karen (In, as you say, the mud… )


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I can see rhodedenron, allium, enkianthus, welsh poppy, polyanthus, straw flowers, (possible) clematis seed head, primula, (possible) seed head of a toad lily, a flower from South Africa (I then remembered "cape daisy", and then osteospermum)

The very last image is currently evading recall of a binomial or a vernacular or region. The flower structure is familiar, but I don't remember having ever grown it.