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Forum: Post Your Photos!
4 Hours Ago
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Nice image. And you got it before the sky was full of the morning vapour trails coming out out of LA.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
1 Day Ago
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Good shots. You certainly captured the look of the bird. I like images of wildlife like this - just a bit out of the cordinary.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
4 Days Ago
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Interesting pics. The Dart would never have set a land speed record but it was a neat design.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
4 Days Ago
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Good shot but more of that weather on the way, I think.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
6 Days Ago
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Great shot. You can see why it is so special.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
04-17-2024, 11:39 PM
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Great shots of this impressive bird.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
04-17-2024, 02:56 PM
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Great shots. I believe it can be see in the Southern Hemisphere now but we have had too much cloud where I am.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
04-16-2024, 01:01 AM
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We visited Warwick the other day. They have a couple of miles of wheel chair accessible paths along the Condamine River. I have a lightweight electric wheel chair for going out now. (Still working on getting a decent walk going. I managed to cover about 45 metres today with no wheel chair and no stick. It wasn't very pretty though.) Anyway, back to the thread. I used my wife's Panasonic Lumix FZ200 for these. It is very light and I can use it one-handed. My left arm is pretty useless since the stroke.
The river walk is very nice. Some beautiful old gum trees with good nesting hollows. Lots of Little Corellas in the trees, mainly in pairs. Here are some pics from the day:
Little Corellas (Cacatua galerita) getting friendly. Despite the name, Little Corellas overlap in size with other Corella Species.
But this is what happens if you get too friendly. Australian Wood Ducks (Chenonetta jubata) with seven ducklings . The Wood Duck is sometimes called the Maned Goose. They graze on grasses rather than feeding in the water like other ducks. In this pic the male is at the back. You can just make out the line of dark feathers (the mane) on the back of the female's neck. These birds nest in hollow trees, sometimes quite high up. When the babies hatch the parents call to them from the ground and the babies just jump and free fall down.
Water Dragon (Physignathus lesueurii) - very well named.
Note the bit of red visible on the front edge of the shoulder. Breeding males like this one (at least 5 years old) develop a red front. They display this to establish dominance.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
04-15-2024, 03:10 PM
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
04-13-2024, 02:27 PM
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Very nice, Rob. The focus must have been a nightmare. I hear one or two calling around here in spring or early summer It's nice to go to sleep listening to them. When I was out in the bush there would be five or six competing with each other all at once,
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
04-11-2024, 07:21 PM
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Nice shot, Richard. Brings back memories .
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
04-07-2024, 02:12 AM
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Nice shot. Not a bird I am very familiar with. But it is good that you managed to gret out. Rain has been pretty relentless amd not brilliant for photography. Not that much up here in Toowoomba - just days of fog and verry fine drizzle.
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Forum: Welcomes and Introductions
04-06-2024, 03:20 PM
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Thanks for that info. I have no intention of leaving Pentax but I have considered playing with m43.
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Forum: Welcomes and Introductions
04-05-2024, 11:49 PM
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Hi, Gina. Welcome to the Forums from up the road a bit, in Toowoomba. That new grandchild will give you a reason to give your cameras a workout. Mine are at an age where they ask me for cameras now. And of course I am happy to oblige.
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Forum: Welcomes and Introductions
04-05-2024, 11:37 PM
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Thanks for that post. I can understand where you are coming from - or try too. I am 74 and I had a left-side stroke 16 months ago. It slowed me down. Walking with a stick and still slowly improving. My left arm is pretty useless though. And I was fit and strong and out walking with my wife when I had the stroke. But back to service stuff - I am ex-Army but no one ever considered me worth shooting at. I flew a desk most of the time.:) What you say is interesting. Dad was a WWII veteran (New Guinea). He had it a bit rough from time to time and it affacted his health. But his outfit (Papuan Infantry) were hell-raisers when they needed to be. Mum always said they were the best years of his life. I write a bit of military history (for the Papuan Infantry website) drawing on conversations I had with Dad. So you can appreciate that he still speaks to me, loud and clear.
I can still hold the K-3 with one hand but zooming the PLM 55-300, for example, is very difficult. While I am still working on that I have taken on a Panasonic Lumix FZ2500 bridge camera with a Leica 24-480 equivalent lens. The power zoom falls easily to my index finger. It gives a very nice image too (1 inch sensor). I won't be stepping away from Pentax any time soon though. I have a 16 year-old grandson who asked me recently if I had a decent (but not too big) camera he could use for airshows. I obliged him. He has realised that the phone just doesn't cut it.
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Forum: Welcomes and Introductions
04-03-2024, 09:19 PM
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Not at all. There are odds and ends I have that talk to me too, particularly my father's tools that we used when we were doing jobs out in the bush together.
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Forum: General Talk
04-02-2024, 12:25 AM
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It's a brilliant April Fools thing - just because it is so way out there it makes you want to believe.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
04-01-2024, 11:41 PM
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Now that's what I call a sharp image. Very nice.
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
03-29-2024, 09:46 PM
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Yes. How long before we need a home super computer?
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
03-27-2024, 09:39 PM
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And I hate to think what processing power would be needed to develop a RAW image.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
03-27-2024, 09:36 PM
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I know and I have been tempted. But when it first came out I couldn't splash out immediatelly. Now I have a lot more flexibility. The K-3iii was a big upgrade and I thought you could identify images taken with it just by sight in the early days. That may have made my expectations unrealistic, but I imagine what comes next will be a quantum leap forward.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
03-26-2024, 10:56 PM
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Love my K-3 but have been promising myself an upgrade when the K-3 Super (or whatever it is ) arrives. I will wait until the dust settles before I jump though.
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
03-26-2024, 07:28 PM
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I can see the macro applications - cropping in on individual molecules. :) On a more serious note, maybe it could be used for shots taken in space. Detailed examination of the lunar surface, for example. But I think it will be beyond my needs.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
03-25-2024, 04:11 PM
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
03-25-2024, 04:09 PM
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Great to get a shot like that. You captured him nicely. Would he/she be wandering around in search of a mate?
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