Your Canon Photos No.2: 14th to 20th May 2023

Looks good Benji.

Some other blackberry bushes.
On one, you can see the berries starting to form.
I wanted to resize these to 1280X720(HD), just to see what they would look like.

Steve Thomas

Benji,

That car looks good. Did you take that picture recently? Everything looks so green. I love the blue sky too.

Steve,

Resizing works. I always resize my photos. It keeps it small for viewing. Plus no-one can steal your full sized images that way.

I have yet to find a stolen photo from me. I donated a few to Wikipedia however. My aquarium photos are probably my very best work.

The photo above is dated from summer 2020. This year, I decided to use my original 15 inches aluminum wheels instead of the 16 inches ones because there is a much better choice of new 15 inches tires available. The photo below is dated March 28 of this year with the new wheels on. However, I had to wait until mid April to use it on the road. After the photo, it went back inside the garage.

I actually prefer the 15 inches wheels even if the 16 inches ones are also Ford originals.

Some frost covered branches taken with an older lens (magic drainpipe)

Frost covered branch by Photobygms, on Flickr

Canon EOS 5D Mark IV - Canon EF 80-200mm f/2.8L (Magic drainpipe)
ƒ/5.6, 1/250 at 200.0 mm 400 ISO

A sunny day during the winter:

Sunstar by Photobygms, on Flickr

Canon EOS 5D Mark IV - Canon EF24mm f/1.4L II USM
ƒ/22.0, 1/100 at 24.0 mm ISO 1000

It seems to me that the current method of displaying photos is quite adequate. It automatically displays exif data under the photo and allows the user to look at larger magnifications by clicking. It might perhaps be developed further, but it is already a great improvement over the method used at DPR. I also think that the programmers of the site have greater priorities to occupy themselves with currently than making interfaces for the cloud storage companies you have listed.

David

Surely it is much better than when I first used it. The only worry I have is that 4 GB limit but I guess that can be easily increased.

Photobygyms,

If these lovely images are recent, I assume that you must live in the southern hemisphere! I particularly miss the frost (even ice) on trees from when I used to live in Michigan, which has long winters. I found such a photo recently on my hard drive, but unfortunately I dont think I could go straight back to it...

David

REMINDER

As agreed (by those who participated in the discussion!), we shall start a new thread on Sunday. As midnight does not happen at the "same time" all over the world, and as I am currently taking responsibility for starting it I shall open the new thread shortly after 11 pm Central European Summer Time (MESZ). I know this a bit early for those in the UK, at it will be 10pm there, but it is my bedtime, and one has to draw a line somewhere, as someone must have said when proposing the Greenwich Meridian as the 0° point of latitude. (For further help, 11 pm here in Central Europe is 5 pm in New York.)

I will put a note in this thread when I have created the new one. So, please look out for it and move to the new thread when you see it.

David

You're wrong 😆 (both were made in December 2021) I do live in the Netherlands, and winters like you mention in Michigan, did we have also, but climate change has given us winters that have higher temperatures and less snow and ice.

I am happy to be corrected!

David

We both should have winter at the same period (If you are still in Austria) 😉

I am and we do. But it is mainly a question of cold and overcast here these days; but little snow or ice -- at least not anymore in Vienna.

Dig,
I use Irfanview too. Did you ever notice that when you go to Image-Resizing, all the ratios are in the 4:3 aspect ratio?

Steve Thomas

@Photobygms

Great photos. I especially like the second one.

The new weekly thread is now open -- here.

Thank you all for your participation here: this has been a good week for your photos and interesting comments and interactions. Let's keep up the momentum.

David

I'd like to share a Canon 5DII photo from 2017 taken in Japan with the Canon 5DII + 24-105mm lens! I have resumed (again) processing my older, unprocessed RAW files, after sorting through some computer issues this past week. My husband and I took a monumental trip to Japan 2017, I of course with several cameras, he returning for a reunion of an American school he had attended many decades ago. I believe we travelled the farthest, by the way, from Virginia to Japan. I have an album started on my flickr page entitled Japan 2017 with photos from Tokyo and Nikko. I today (Saturday, May20) processed and added photos from a day trip to Kamakura from Yokohama. Next up, Nara and Kyoto. This is a crop of the Daibutsu Buddha statue in Kamakura:

IMG_1164 Canon 5DII Daibutsu Kamakura Japan 2017 by Sandy Fleischmann, on Flickr

Sandy,

I looked around a little bit on your Flickr page. You've got some shots with people around this sculpture that show just how big this sculpture really is.

Steve Thomas

Steve, It is huge and very old. The amazing point to me is that people still can go inside and climb a long stairway! My husband was inside it when he was in junior high school. But the day we were there, it was in the high 80s F, with a long waiting line. I had no inclination to go inside a metal structure in the heat! You can see the ventilation openings in the rear or side view. I think many Japanese school kids were there on excursions.

I use FastStone Image Viewer, and I really like it.
I'm not much of a fan of IrfanView.