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09-19-2018, 12:02 AM
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Yes, it is amazing isn’t it. I could hardly believe it myself. A Superb Fruit Dove, native to Australia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. According to the caption in the enclosure. I was in London zoo and they have a walk-through aviary in a building containing some smaller birds from the tropics.
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05-05-2018, 02:31 PM
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Thanks :) it’s been a very long winter ...
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
05-04-2018, 12:21 PM
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Spring at last in the UK with the bluebell woods in flower. It’s always one of the sights of the year. We’ll be visiting a couple more over the weekend. Oly 12-40mm f2.8.
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
03-27-2018, 10:02 AM
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A few from me. The first is of an Arctic wolf and using the Oly 40-150mm f2.8 (and @150mm and f2.8). Fab lens. The other two are in London and using the trusty Oly 12-40 f2.8. The third is of a development by an architect whose work I really like, Renzo Piano:
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
02-05-2018, 08:34 AM
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That's a fine image, and thanks for the info ...
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
02-03-2018, 03:54 AM
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Very good to see these images. I first came across Klamath in a book of short stories by the late Raymond Carver (who eventually lived in Port Angeles, WA) and have always wondered what it was like.
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
01-23-2018, 07:45 AM
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A wolfish tendency. Oly E-M1 and 40-150mm f2.8 plus in the first image the MC-14 teleconverter which takes the lens out to 210mm (i.e. to 420mm in FF-speak). All taken in a wolf conservation centre here in the UK. This might be a bit too close for comfort in the wild!
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
11-05-2017, 04:31 PM
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You might also like some of the less costly prime lenses like the Olympus 17mm, 25mm or 45mm, all f1.8. They are in keeping with the "keep it small" philosophy and none is particularly expensive. The 45mm is generally thought a bit of a bargain. Panasonic make some equally fine (and some think better) equivalents though I don't own any, just the Oly ones. Another reason is that a fast prime can be used at a wider aperture compared to a zoom and so help overcome the higher ISO come low-light disadvantages of smaller sensors. Robin Wong's blog shows what some of these smaller primes are capable of.
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
10-15-2017, 01:32 PM
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Lovely colours on your images. And the Olympus 75mm looks to be a super lens.
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09-12-2017, 01:46 AM
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Worth a visit? It's not far from here and on our list.
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
09-04-2017, 09:46 AM
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From a visit over the weekend to Rousham House and garden, an absolutely lovely place with an historic garden part of which was designed by the architect and designer William Kent in the first half of the eighteenth century and which is still much as he left it. The grounds are spacious and as autumn arrives the whole place is becoming very atmospheric. You can bring a picnic and spend all day there. We visit often. I was using my Oly 12-40mm f2.8.
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
08-21-2017, 10:08 AM
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A few from me, all with the Olympus E-M5 Mark II and the Oly 12-40mm f2.8:
The Banbury and County Vintage Tractor Ploughing Competition - really, this is the hot ticket round here!
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Bateman's, the home of the writer Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936). It's reportedly much as he left it, with all his books, paintings, furniture and possessions. The second image is of his study. It's in a lovely part of the world, a secluded valley in East Sussex.
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08-08-2017, 01:39 PM
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My home town! Great view of it too ...
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08-08-2017, 02:03 AM
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Good to see. I am enjoying the high-res mode on my E-M5 Mark II though I do find it a bit fiddly and it really only works well either indoors or when conditions are right (not windy, no waves on water, etc) though I guess there may be workarounds for all that. But a helpful feature to have on board, imho.
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
07-05-2017, 02:09 AM
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A few from me. The first image is with a borrowed Oly 40-150mm f2.8, taken at f2.8 so top quality wide open. What a fabulous lens. The other two are with the trusty Oly 17mm f1.8
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
05-30-2017, 12:51 PM
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The Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University in the UK. It's actually a spectacular modern building which was designed by the architects Herzog & de Meuron and opened in May 2016. I hadn't been inside it before. Oly E-M5 Mark II and Oly 12-40mm f2.8. This lens is good at 12mm, I think.
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
05-10-2017, 12:44 PM
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You will be missed! Though I admit the same ideas are in my mind.
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