Your R System Images - September 2025

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A little lady hummingbird action

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Another angle

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a young male ruby-throated hummingbird

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[THXGEEK]

a young male ruby-throated hummingbird

Art, do you ever take a bad picture?

Simply amazing.

 

[Bucolic Old Sir Henry]

Art, do you ever take a bad picture?

Simply amazing.

There was an old John West canned salmon TV ad in the UK which had the punchline “it’s the cans John West rejects that makes John West the best”.

Art has mastered the art (sorry/not sorry) of quality control…

 

[PKM-UK]

Just a shot of a Wheatear.

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Hi Phil,

What a little cutie - well seen and caught,

Thank you for sharing...

P&K

 

[PKM-UK]

Just a Stonechat.

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Not been around here for some time. Been travelling and using a Sony RX10M4, so not relevant on the is forum. My Canon kit is a bit much to take along on some of our trips.

But still shooting birds!

Condors

Hi Phil,

Another nailed on shot of an absolute little cutie - love the sharp detail and eye-pop!

Thank you for sharing...

P&K

(PS. You're not going to go far wrong with the RX10IV for travel - or anything else - a regular companion for us. Pity Sony seem disinclined to do a mkV).

 

[PKM-UK]

Hungarian Railway Museum (Budapest): View attachment 39732View attachment 39734View attachment 39736View attachment 39737View attachment 39738

Hi Feri,

A fabulous set of eye-catching images - each one beautifully captured and presented.

This venue looks like an absolute treat for any photographer (or avid train-spotter!).


The striking loco in image #4 looks like it's just emerged from an Orwellian sci-fi film.

Thank you for sharing...

P&K

 

[PKM-UK]

Spring is here. Struggling against incursions of cold air from the Deep South, but here all the same.

So: I thought I'd get myself a drone...

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...fly, that is. Eristalis tenax on Daphne.

Things I learned today? They are called drone flies because they look and behave like bees, which is what I thought they were until I went down a rabbit hole researching NZ flying insects. In the end iNaturalist came to my rescue.

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Life's a peach. In this case, the flowers of a peche du vigne, or vineyard peach, luscious purple things that explode with juice and flavour come March. They're more commonly called blackboy peaches, which is a bit too casual racist for me. The image is also a bit too chocolate box for my usual taste, but you take what you see, n'est-ce-pas?

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It's usually said that only citrus trees will fruit and flower at the same time, but here's an almond proving it can stand up to anything a grapefruit can do.

Anyway, enough with photography. Time to go to the pub. ;-)

Hi Gareth,

Ah, the joys of spring - a distant memory here as we await the pleasures of an unpleasant sounding storm that's due to roll over us through the morning.

(The pub concept is sounding absolutely ideal, but it's way too early - so a hot beverage will have to suffice!).


Anyway, enough grimness - a set of images to warm the souls of any wind-battered Brit, with beautifully detailed subjects set against creamy backdrops.

Thank you for sharing - we trust the rest of your day went well...

P&K

 

[PKM-UK]

A little lady hummingbird actionView attachment 39758

Hi Art,

An absolutely sublime image - simply wonderful.

Well done indeed - and thank you for sharing...

P&K

 

[PKM-UK]

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Hi Art,

A joy to behold.

Masterful.

Thank you for sharing...

P&K

 

[PKM-UK]

a young male ruby-throated hummingbirdView attachment 39766

Hi Art,

Our favourite of the 3 posts!

Stunning.

Thank you for sharing...

P&K

 

[PKM-UK]

Service Announcement: Please note we are now away until the end of the month on the final extended Frank-Fest of the year (which looks like being of the intensely soggy variety - mud, glorious mud, awaits!). As a consequence we will not be providing any feedback until after we return (and towel off... ).

In the meantime, another Postcard from America. For this short visit to Salem, Massachusetts, we arranged to follow our ‘local guides’ into town as they knew the best way, while we were at the mercy of Apple CarPlay Maps. As it happens, much to our bemusement they mistakenly took a wrong turn - so we actually arrived at the pre-arranged parking place well before them, allowing us to deliver the classic line ‘OK, so next time - you follow us…’.

(Shot raw and processed using: DxO PL Elite/ ViewPoint and Adobe LrC/ PS with Tony Kuyper TK-9 Panels. Karen used our Sony RX10 IV on this trip - so you’re stuck with Phil’s images. Well, officially - some insets may occasionally veer a little off-piste. Don't tell Tim... ).

Phil and Karen


1. Salem, the birthplace of the US National Guard, is most widely noted for the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 which has developed into something of a theme...

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2. A few special episodes of the TV series ‘Bewitched’ (1964-72) were filmed here. This statue (of actress Elizabeth Montgomery, who played the witch ‘Samantha’) was erected here in 2005 - apparently to a mixed reception from locals (though it offered a selfie opportunity we simply couldn’t pass up).

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3. Watching the world go by from a pavement cafe as we enjoyed a 'light breakfast' - which could have fed us for a week. (It was rather nice though!).

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4. With 40 minutes to spare, we explored the locality looking for the harbour which was 'just down there - you can't miss it'. (We're still looking... ).

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5. As you do - when in Salem...

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6. Not forgetting...

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Pipevine Swallowtail on Porter Weed

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This young male Ruby-throated hummingbird is zeroed in on some Porter Weed

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[Only RF]

Nothing to write mom about but took a drive through the prairies and the western edge of the Canadian Shield. The colours are just starting so we were a bit early but at this time of year the sky becomes pale blue. Sometimes there is a an eagle around those small falls but not today. Usually the water is right across that rock.

There was some haze in the sky for a bit.

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I got that bear shot around here last month.

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[ACEkin]

I am not sure if stitched images are allowed here, but I am sharing one. This is one of the murals we photographed and will soon be published on my website. The mural, being on a narrow street, makes it a bit harder to capture the whole thing without some distortion. I captured the parts of this panorama by walking sideways rather than rotating the camera on the nodal axis of the focal length of the lens. Since it has no significant perspective, parallax was not an issue. I manually aligned the images in Photoshop with minimal dimensional corrections. BTW, the little bump on the edges of some panels is not caused by this process; they were there.

 

[Dean Wilson]

Hi @ACEkin yes the only restriction is an R-series body. Subject matter is another story. Anything goes in editing.

Here is a mural I photographed last July and is about 45-50 ft in length. The photo is an 11 shot vertical stitched.

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Here is another one from the trip that only required 5 vertical photos to stitch.

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Here is my friend taking his turn

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This is just a single shot, but the geometry took a bit editing.

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My POV

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[David Berry]

Bird on a Wire

Female Superb Fairywren (Malurus cyaneus): about 25 minutes before the sun disappeared for the day! The camera-to-subject was nearly nine metres, so the bird occupied only a small part of the image. Tomorrow, I'll be bolder and approach closer: these tiny birds don't seem to regard humans as threats but they do flit around with extraordinary rapidity.

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[David Berry]

A strange way to fly…

A Rainbow Bee-eater (Merops ornatus) 'gets airborne' by dropping from a high powerline.

The subject is far too small in the frame (57 metres distant according to the metadata), but I thought I'd present the image as it's somewhat unusual.

Let's clarify:

• wings are in the downstroke position
• head is looking 'upward'
• legs (obscured) are on the left; back is on the right.

Thanks for looking. Fly safe!

… David​

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Ipswich, Queensland, AU​

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[MikeZ]

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Crane in a tree (heavy crop).

 

[Bucolic Old Sir Henry]

I go out looking for birds, and all I find are...

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...flowers.

 

[JackC]

Sunrise Pincher Creek, Alberta and a shot from atop the hill that the Prince of Wales hotel sits on. Spent a couple of days in and around Waterton Lakes National Park.

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Some times I play with my images during processing, adding some eye catching elements

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[David Berry]

Clear intentions…

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Superb Fairywrens ♀ & ♂
Ipswich, QLD, Australia​

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[ACEkin]

Some times I play with my images during processing, adding some eye catching elements

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They are budding eye openers!

 

[ACEkin]

Another sunflower in our front yard, taken today.

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[dgphoto8]

We visited our local Audubon Wildlife Sanctuary on a very nice summer day. I took several IR landscape photos on my modified 7D that I can't show here, but also brought my birding cameras and lenses and was rewarded with some cooperative wildlife.

One of the resident mallards perched on one leg near the main boardwalk, tolerating the people and families trooping by.

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A couple of painted turtles were sunning themselves in the marsh.

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Finally, several photos of a great blue heron, which put on an hour-long show, first preening, then hunting fish and crayfish. It ignored the 3-4 people with us and passers-by, moving so close that I needed to backup to get the bird in the frame.

The first photo is the heron preening and removing molting feathers.

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A couple of portraits that the bird nicely posed for:

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Once the heron was done preening, it started hunting, positioning itself near the main stream through the marsh. After a couple of failed attempts at lunging at fish, an unlucky crayfish appeared at its feet, and dinner was served.

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[Shotbycurtin]

A few from Knockhill yesterday. Struggled to get into the moment, then went down a few rabbit holes fiddling with settings. Still need to get comfortable with vehicle tracking or switch it off as it sometimes struggles to lock on quick enough for me.

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[jcass]

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