Your Canon Photos No. 8: 25th June to 1st July 2023

SteveP,

The two birds are super sharp. It's an awesome photo at ISO6400.

Mocha,

Thanks. All these photos were taken from the car, along Highway I-90. We traveled to the Bozeman, Montana area and then came back to Oregon. I also took some interesting photos from the car of eastern Washington. It's so dry there in parts. In Spokane, Washington there are a lot of trees, although.

Mocha,

Yes, I agree about that lens. My copy of the Tamron 150-600mm G1 lens was also excellent. You've seen my photos before. I could even use F11 as I show below and be happy with it. I almost never use F6.3.

Model - Canon EOS 800D
ExposureTime - 1/640 seconds
FNumber - 11
ISOSpeedRatings - 1000
ExposureBiasValue - 0
FocalLength - 600 mm
Lens Model - TAMRON SP 150-600mm F/5-6.3 Di VC USD A011

Dig,

I lived in Bozeman for 3 years. That's where I learned to ski.

Nice country.

Steve Thomas

Thank you. I've been quite impressed with the the 90D and the Tamron 18-400mm. I think I got an exceptional copy of the lens.

Great shots - really like those three in particular! Effective focusing and implementation of the surroundings and very pleasent colors.

Steve,

Small world...yes, there's nice countryside everywhere around that area. It looks quite livable, other than it can be cold around there. We had so much clouds and rain and I was a little surprised that it was so cold in June. We had some mosquitos too. I forgot about putting on my repellent until they started biting. I got good at slapping them away.

Dig,

When I was there in the late 80's, there were guys with Master's degrees slinging hamburgers at McDonalds.

I remember once going hiking in August. I was wearing shorts, and it started to snow.
😀

I remember reading a newspaper article one time about a guy causing trouble in a local bar. The police picked him up, drove him to the edge of town, and he was "encouraged" to leave town.
😀

Steve

Yesterday afternoon I took a walk along the Donaukanal which, until the rerouting of the main arm of the river in 1870 was what was called the Blue Danube -- it is green at present. We are on the edge of the oldest parts of the city, though the walls were long since demolished. There was excessive contrast in this NW facing direction, which was impossible to deal with satisfactorily in post. (To avoid overload on the sky I had to set -2.67 EV.) This is the view from my starting point. One can see the spire of St. Stephen's Cathedral about 1/3 of the way from the LHS and the triangular tower of St Ruprecht's Church in the centre -- there is a gentle climb from the Donuakanal to Stefansplatz. The building on the right is post war. To its left, in Morzin Platz, where used to stand the Hotel Metropole, which was commandeered as the Nazi headquarters during WW2.

The U4 subway/tube line runs under where one can see the graffiti -- one can just about see a train. The main road above is soon to be dug up to replace the roof over the train line. This will involve replacing the gap in the train line by buses during the whole month of July...

Although I have an ambivalent attitude to graffiti, depending on where they have been painted, they are tolerated along the canal and some are very interesting. Of course, every year these get painted over, and this year's graffiti are not as good as those in former years. Here are some of the better ones, under the Salztorbrücke (Salzgate Bridge). You can see that the canal is navigable by pleasure craft.

This photo was taken further up the canal:

Around this point there is a community garden:

I am ignorant of flower names; but I think this is a hollyhock -- please correct me if I am wrong!

And I saw many of these interesting insects on one of the plants -- name, anyone?

The grass perhaps needs mowing a little further on:

-- and we are closer to the high rise building that is always enveloped by a different screen each summer.

The red brick towers to the right are part of the old imperial barracks.

On my side of the river is this interesting structure. Dont ask me what it is all about! I managed to read the QR code from this photo with my phone, and it leads to a website: something to do with Red Bull. The cartoons are well-done.

And we arrive at the subway station, the platforms of which go right under the canal. The building further on was designed by Otto Wagner and was originally for the control of a lock. I may return to this interesting building later. It is now a restaurant.

Between the entrance to the U2 and the Wagner building someone has planted lavender!

David

They are called "fire bug" (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrrhocoris_apterus) and we have thousands of those around our house.

Back to busyness! by simple.joy, on Flickr

They have an interesting geometric pattern on their back, which always seems to be the same, when they're adults at least.

Rush hour on wall street by simple.joy, on Flickr

Great photos mocha, the 3rd one (little egret) is my favourite.

We had an interesting sky last night. A times, it almost looked alive.

Steve Thomas

Wow, that dragonfly is awesome. Great photo.

You've done a very good job, as always, with on-the-move photos, Digirame.
This one is my favourite.

BTW, we call them wind turbines. Our sea horizon has a lot of them. Some people don't like them, but I personally don't mind them.

Wow, amazing shot.

Indeed you did. That's one amazing sky.
The first pic is my preference, Steve.

David,

Well done! You documented a lot of street art very well. Also I liked reading your narratives.

Steve,

I like seeing your cloud pictures. I took a lot of pictures of clouds also on my trip to Montana. Thunderstorms can show us interesting cloud formations that reach high in the atmosphere.