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Welcome to the Weekly Image Thread!

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Andrew (19andrew47)

Formerly: The Weekly OMD & 4/3 DSLR Images & The Weekly 4/3 DSLR
 
Thanks Charlotte.

If I was much younger than I am I would probably take up pack rafting. It's becoming increasingly popular with outdoor types here. Lots of lochiness to explore.😊

Dave
 
It's early morning Roy and looking at your images has really increased my need for my first coffee of the day.

The weatherman says we will have a month's rainfall this weekend.

Dave
 
Beautiful scenery from Lochs to snow on the mountains. Time to find somewhere warm to sit and relax and look back on the year and to look forward to many more Dave.

Dicky.
 
Those roads look treacherous! Many thanks for showing us how coffee is graded, I had often wondered. Sadly I think I have been drinking grade four all these years. I will search diligently for some paler beans.

Dicky.
 
Thanks Dicky. I think I'll follow your suggestion later this evening. I can hear the single malt calling out to me.

Dave
 
the coffee roasters, like Barista, Coffe'r us, and so on sadly buy 2 and 3 besides premium first, but they blend something like 65 or 70% of the first and add only 30% of 1rst.......so the have smell and flavor and the rest is garbage.....not that the blend is not good but they sell that as pure primium.....and I hate when they try to see our fools face...
 
Like them a lot specifically the second one remember me of the film Highlander
 
oh man.....all are great but the last one is intriguing to say the least
 
well narrative Andrew....like that cause I really don't know the game and some of the pics usually don't make sense off
 
like em.....but beware someone inside would think you are spying....lol
 
The road in the first image looks inviting Roy. The road in the second not so much! All that 'mud' must make upkeep a full time job with all the rain you get. Interesting images of the coffee washing and the grades.

Andrew
 
Thanks Roy. I enjoyed the film but wondered why a Frenchman played the part of a Scotsman.😄

Dave
 
Palin0_0 said:
like em.....but beware someone inside would think you are spying....lol
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That actually happened with the little snowman. A woman in the stairwell gave me the evil eye. I tried to point at the snowman to show her what I was photographing and then I just stopped looking at her. :-D

Maybe she thought I was pointing the camera at her. But it was dark inside, I hardly saw her.

But normally people are friendly in my area. We often say hi even if we don't know each other, at least those of us that are often out walking around. I guess most recognize me at least loosely, as someone who belongs here. I *know* everyone with a dog. 🤗
 
Storms ripped through southeast Queensland last night; they did quite a lot of damage and two people were struck by lightning - one is in a serious condition. Again the main cells missed us but we got a welcome seventeen millimeters of rain in twenty minutes.

My morning walk was rather boring, but a good chance to get used to the new lens.



Banksia.
Banksia.



Tasty nectar but no takers.
Tasty nectar but no takers.



Bar-shouldered Dove.
Bar-shouldered Dove.



I'm getting better with the MF tweak.
I'm getting better with the MF tweak.



My usual escort.
My usual escort.



Red-browed finch
Red-browed finch



Shrike thrush.
Shrike thrush.

There should have been a mistletoe bird but it was isolated on a thin twig and in spite of several attempts I couldn't lock focus on it. It got bored and flew off.

Dicky.
 
Nice pictures, Dicky. All you need to get used to is the albino pallor of the lens. You're back to your old tricks with 1/250 at 4 or 500mm. 80 years old is too mature to showing off so brazenly.

And another thing. Why do you have such tarted up doves? Now ours look plain to me. Do yours coo? I had a pair outside my window for months cooing. It is very relaxing. No, your tarted up doves likely laugh like kookaburras.

Never heard of the mistletoe bird. I looked it up and recognized its true name, flowerpecker.

I'm glad you got some beneficial rain. We have 10 days of HD storms forecast, starting tonight. So I went out and got the sunset tonight to hold me over. I tarted this one as much as your dove. Rich



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Pleased you got your much needed rain Dicky. We are due to get 200mm today and we don't need it for sure. That's a month's rainfall in a day.

You're getting to grips with the new lens as I knew you would.

Dave
 
Thanks Rich, but in my 80th year it's not steady hands it's rigor mortis :-D

Tropical cyclone Jasper has delivered a deluge to far north Queensland, but they are hardy folk up there that know how to deal with cyclones and floods.

The dove dress up so as not to be confused with the dreaded rock pigeons.

Another great sunset, I hope your storms don't cause havoc and destruction.

Dicky.
 
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