Some Carolina Ruellia or Wild Petunia from yesterdays walk at Lake Pine.
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Photo Of The Day - June 2022
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Just like the Outback in Australia, we are seeing the inner parts of the country dry up. Gosh, I wonder if there is a connection. Nah, couldn't be...
EDIT: Ten years ago, I was doing one of my most expensive bucket list items: Vacation in Australia and New Zealand.
It was winter here, and summer, towards late summer there. It happened to be a cruise, and we boarded in Sydney, and did some of the south of Oz, and the south and east side towns of NZ. I was watching weather from the area and the day before we left, there was 'fire storms' and 100 degree temps on the west of Sydney. The firestorms were actually on the outskirts of Sydney, and the flames were as high as 60 feet!(18.3m). Housing developments in the area were burned to the ground. The destruction/devastation was epic. I was getting concerned on the effects on the trip, but two days prior, the temps dropped to 'normal', and the fires were out. But Sydney, I discovered, is so HUGE. I asked the guy leading the tour of the Sydney Opera House about going to the outback. His response was 'Why? No one goes to the outback, unless they absolutely have to! Why don't you go to the zoo?'. I asked a few other people about getting to the outback, and found out that to get to the actual outback from Sydney, you have to drive for about 4 to 5 hours. One way! I asked about Ayers rock, and it's a multi hour flight. LONG flight, like requires an overnight stay flight. Australia is HUGE, so if the outback is burning, it's burning a heck of a lot of acreage! And having firestorms raging across the area with 120 foot tall waves of flames is just unfathomable. 12 story building walls of flames? I don't know if people can comprehend that. Wow...
But the trip was AMAZING, and the people there were phenomenal. I fell in love with their accents, and one woman in particular fell in love with mine. (We kept having each other repeat certain words, which started out awkward, but grew in 'importance')
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Some Carolina Ruellia or Wild Petunia from yesterdays walk at Lake Pine.
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Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center - The University of Texas at Austin
I wonder what that looks like in ultraviolet light. It's amazing to see what some flowers might look like to insects. The effect is sometimes so striking. They can tell species apart apparently through the way they look to them. We see on such a short span of wavelengths. It's amazing that other species of animals and insects could/are able to see wavelengths humans (usually) can't. Fascinating...
Still testing the repair/cleaning of the 400mm lens. This, clear across lake (about 3/4 mile or 1.2Km), infinity focus at f11. On enlarged view, just not sharp enough. Think I need a more modern and/or quality lens. Sharp enough from minimum focus to about 50' but then drops off. But then what do you expect from a 1970's lens with no manufacturer's brand name, aggressively advertised selling for around $50 back then. Vignetting (and perhaps focus) probably caused by the Nikon F to Sony FE adapter. May try in a film camera with native mount in either B&W or color film to see if resolved those issues and is the adapter.
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Another try at the little blue flowers.
Lumix ZS200 camera.
Lumix ZS200 camera.
How could I possibly have forgotten????
Thanks Molly!
Organic circuit board.
Played around on yesterdays' photo with photoshop
and came up with this.
Can't remember exactly what I did - this was back in 2008 using CS2 on a g5 iMac.
A bright / clear moment over Burnaby yesterday - as taken from our location near Lougheed, looking towards 'Metrotown' (Burnaby's "downtown") - at this height, lots of green inbetween.
Death Valley floor as seen from Dante's View
It must be World Forget-Me-Not day (remember?)
Sony NEX-6, Helios 44-2 lens, 58mm, 1/1600 @ f/2
Cheers
Hugh
On this date, six years ago.
Canon 5D MkIII, Canon 70-200L, 1/200 @ 5.6, ISO 200
My neighbor Bill, who is two houses down from my house shouted take a picture of me as he was holding a bag, so I did as he gave me permission to do so. Bill's real first name is Wilson and I find this picture even funnier as that's the same name of a character in "Home Improvement. 😂 I'm impressed as it looks like I am standing next door to him taking the picture instead of two houses down.
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oh it’s like a ladybug! so cute! hope you love it.
I certainly do. It's going to be loved and looked after for a longtime to come. Or Mrs AFB will throttle me!