* The Weekly Image Thread 25 05 23 #972 *

A nice set Roy. That plant you fought with looks very prickly! Likely not fun for the person being wacked!

Your friend still waiting to be fed. The activity at our feeders has subsided from chaos to a state where the feeder may go several days before I need to refill it instead of being emptied in less than a day. We have two feeder into which I put about four litres of black oil sunflower seed each time I fill them. That can get expensive in early spring. Now it is much better. Also a hummingbird feeder and an oriole feeder on the go currently and lots of activity there. I try not to photograph birds at feeders though, unless I am desperate!

Andrew

Is that the same guy you showed the portrait of in the previous thread? So, what did you buy?

Andrew

Very nice WN. Not a bird here I see very often, other than the painting in the hall way.

Andrew

Good to hear you escaped the worst of the storm WN.

A great set of images and difficult to pick a favourite.

I like the woodpecker shots but the dancing Cardinal wins first place.

Dave

Nice set Roy.

That lichen looks very similar to a type that grows on trees in my part of the world. It's said to only grow in areas where the air is clean.

Dave

From a gentle walk in the Appin area.





















Dave

Yes the bird is from around the house……the others are from the farm

Tell you the truth it was fun, hurts a little but not much…..unless you being hit in the face……good exercise though…….

Gladly it is truth Dave , the air still is very clean…..

I like the fringe on that one, Andrew. Our local dahlia garden is always slow and among the last flowers to bloom. I am waiting impatiently.

The Kinetic Grand Championship Race is today. I've been trying to find subjects other than flowers. I should get plenty of non-flower photography today, if I am lucky. I will need to stay on my feet for several hours. The myasthenia gravis is currently making me so weak and shaky in my legs that walking is difficult and dangerous.

I am wondering why you have said you're likely to have nothing to post but flowers. Are you laid up and having trouble getting out?

I like to shoot into tulips. On a very bright day I get the light coming through the petals. Rich

I am about the same as the last few years Rich. The weather has been not the best for going anywhere so we have not. On top of that I have chores in the spring that consume time when the weather is good. This morning I had to fix the lawn deck on the tractor. That meant taking it of the tractor, turning it over (250 lb), removing the blades so I could replace them, hammering the heck out of the deck to straighten it, installing the blades and returning the deck to the tractor. Then I mowed for 2 h, the short mow, one direction only through the forest.

I hit a steel post a couple of weeks back. Did not think much of it. After cutting the grass I noticed it was not right, scalping on the right side. The deck has three blades. I severely bent the right blade. The blade is much thicker metal than the deck. It is likely 3/16 in thick where as the deck is fairly thin stamped sheet metal. The deck near the bent blade was out of shape. (Rotate the new blade and see where it is compared to the deck edges as it rotates.) So, I had to hit the deck with a sledge hammer many times in a couple of different locations until the blade was in the correct position relative to the deck edges as the blade turned through its range. This is not the first time I have had to do this, but the first time in several years. Before it was tree stumps that were cut too close to the ground and I could not always see them in the fall as they got covered in leaves at times.

I still have to trim some trees a bit so the water truck can deliver to the above ground pool behind the house. Bought a new chain for the pole saw yesterday. Not sure how long I can do that. I am getting weaker by the day for that type of work. Holding the saw upright to trim off the branches that over hang the lane way in that area is a pain in the arms!!! The weak arms! I used to have muscles there but now mostly wasted away from lack of use.

Andrew

Looks like a very enjoyable walk Dave. I am envious!

Andrew

A nice image Bruce. The dead tree has a pleasing shape and balances out the composition. You sure are getting you money's worth out of those old converted bodies!

Andrew

Nice stroll…..not a fisherman on sight…….is that common or it is just not the spot

Great ……you change filters on the camera ? Wonder of the different colors of the infrared on your shots

19andrew47 said:

A nice image Bruce. The dead tree has a pleasing shape and balances out the composition. You sure are getting you money's worth out of those old converted bodies!

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Thanks Andrew. One correction, the Olympus C-2020z is not converted!

Just buy a filter adapter and screw on a 720nm IR filter. A manufacturing defect with the IR blocking glass (which did not block all IR) caused it to be IR sensitive, and therefore hand hold-able in the IR spectrum. No conversion is necessary. Focus works perfectly.

It's the quickest ticket to the world of IR. Has a look that differs (in a good way) from converted cameras.

Palin0_0 said:

Great ……you change filters on the camera ? Wonder of the different colors of the infrared on your shots

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Thanks!

This one is with a 720nm filter. I also have a converted Pana G5 that has a 665nm filter that does have a different look...

No the previous guy was a random person in front of a barber shop. I didnt buy anything from this guy . The hats were 65 dollars and the clothing 80 to 100 dollars. A bit strong on price and not really my style.

Recent flowers, except the last.



Rosa Queen Elizabeth Grandiflora I visit often.



The wind stripped off the petals. I wonder if the remains are rose hips.



Another windy day and it broke the stem but didn't damage the petals.







Almost a pinwheel.



I like to find them like this.











What I shot today. The Kinetic Grand Championship. I have around 150 to process, so it will be a while. This is Sparkle The Horse. The bicycle crew are to pick up after him.

This is a very remote and rural part of California, but we're just a weird as the rest of the state, if not more so.



That's enough. Rich