Your Canon Photos No. 3: 21st to 27th May 2023

Superb photos all Digirame, the squirrel is my favourite.

Hi again, Mr. Tiger.
Tyger, tyger, burning bright, in the forests of the night...

Excellent photos mocha.

Cool photos David.

Nice. 😀

David,

I hope they return that statue soon, if I understood correctly what happened. I'll never get over how wonderful the architecture is, that you show. The red rose looks beautiful. I can't find anything negative about it; it's such a nice photo. There can be variations on the types of roses etc., so that one could be better than the other subjectively (based on a person's likes or dislikes). But beauty is beauty and you captured it perfectly.

Steve,

That's great you joined us with a nice photo of a flower. That's wonderful that you had sunny weather also.

David,

A lot of those flowers were taken in the shadow of trees. You can tell which ones were in the shadows by looking at the shutter speeds. The large flowers are Rhododendron. I'm not sure, but I think sometime in the late 1970's all cables were installed underground. But there's still some that are above our streets.

Dunlin,

Thanks. I'm glad you like the squirrel photos. It was something unexpected that I saw, as I walked down the sidewalk along a street.

I will keep an eye out for the statue in all its glory and you can be sure that I will post a photo!

There is tons of "architecture" here, and lots of stories to go with it. I will post more if others dont find it too boring. (Let me know.)

Thanks for your kind comments on the rose photo. This has been an interesting learning experience for me. As you can tell from the 240mm lens, I had to take it from about 10ft away! Avoiding burn out without making the image look flatter than it is in reality was not easy, as I said before.

Apart from the fuchsias that I grow on my window sill (did I post any of those?), I dont often take pictures of flowers; but your example encouraged me this week.

David

The red colour of that rose is so deep. Beautiful.

Nice shot Steve. An impressive looking flower.

These fuchsias are from October 2021.

David

We have those round abouts us. Cool Photo.

I thought these three different coloured trees looked good together.
Taken on Sunday the 21st of May 2023... OOC JPGs... Resized by Digikam.

Inspired by @stevet1's cat , I thought I'd show our dog, having a snooze this afternoon.
OOC JPGs... Resized in Digikam

I am finally processing many Canon 5DII photos I took in Japan in June 2017! My resolution before upcoming travel is to finish off as much of my neglected photo processing as I can. Today's batch is our day's trip from Kyoto to Nara and two notable shrines there. The previous batch of photos was from the Daibutsu Buddha in Kamakura. More photos can be seen in chronological order in my "Japan 2017" album on flickr.
This is the Todai-ji shrine in Nara, higher ISO, hand-held.
IMG_1203 Canon 5DII Todai-ji Nara Japan 2017 by Sandy Fleischmann, on Flickr

PS added: I am fascinated by the stone lanterns at shrines and elsewhere in Japan, thus my many photos of .... stone lanterns.

Went to the St Ives show in Sydney last weekend with the grandkids.

Canon RP with the Tamron 35-150.
Getting used to the RP body again while waiting forever for the R8 to turn up.

There was a reptile presentation of some of Australia's more venemous snakes. It was very educational as the presenter explained how to avoid being bitten, where you're likely to find them and a little about their behaviour.

The King Brown is related to the Red Bellied Black snake but not found in Sydney and highly venemous.

The Common Death Adder is an ambush predator. Small in length and hides in leaf litter. Doesn't move a lot and you can walk past these in a trail while there a few feet away hidden in leaves and you won't know they're there.

The Red Bellied Black snake is not known to be aggressive and you can be near it and it won't strike but it's deadly if it does.

The Tiger snake quite painful if you get bitten, takes a long time to recover (assuming you get treated in time)

The Eastern Brown. Very venemous and aggressive. If you're within a few feet and move it will strike as a defence mechanism.
If you're 3 metres (10 feet away) or more, you can run away, it won't follow you.

The first pic is a baby Salt Water Crocodile which have humans on their menu. The second pic is the Fresh Water Crocodile which has a long thin snout and won't attack humans unless you annoy them but they are also deadly.

A couple of pythons. The white I think was a reticulated python and the darker one an Olive python. Neither is poisonous but they were trying to eat the crocodiles.

Cheers
Paul