**This week with your Z camera, Jun 14-20 2025**

This weekly topic serves as a place for forum members to share recent work with our Nikon Z cameras. It's OK for Z owners to dazzle us with images made with other cameras, but the idea is to allow owners with similar cameras to compare notes, chops, and sensibilities.

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Gila Woodpeckers - aren't mates a PIA sometimes

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Thanks for your help, Michael

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Handheld pano, 3 frames

In rehearsal and performance: I prefer the version from the rehearsal with a stronger shadow. The performance was on the following day after the rehearsal, but somehow the direction of the spotlight seems somewhat different and off.

Foggy morning on Lake Como - arriving in Varenna from Bellagio

Z6, Sigma 105mm F2.8 EX DG OS HSM Macro on FTZ II. Developed from RAW in DXO Filmpack 7.


F3, ISO 140, 1/125

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Jonathan

Dave,

Excellent captures. Love the first 2 images.

Best,

Den

Early morning walk through Birmingham city centre with the Zf and a variety of primes. All photos taken over the last couple of weeks.

With an old F mount 300

From a workshop I did with Dave Wyman and the notorious Ken Rockwell, who was not at all what I expected.


St. Raymond Church, Amboy


the iconic Roy's, where I got to turn the sign on


drove all the way out to Hilltop Mart and it was raining, but found this behind the main attraction


at the Route 66 motel in Barstow. Not on a Leica lens, I think it was my Nikkor S C Auto 55mm f1.2


just outside Barstow


there was a constant stream of trains through Daggett


in Tehachapi on the way home


more from Tehachapi


an abandoned Toys R Us in Modesto

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Pixels are for peepers.
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Out cycling just outside Gouda NL.

Greylag geese settling in for the night:


Z5 and Nikkor 1.8 50mm at f8

Exotic Emerald ducks feeling at home in the polder


Z5 and Nikkor 1.8 50mm at f8

And then I noticed that they had been dredging the ditches in this small nature reserve, to prevent them from clogging up:


Z5 and Nikkor 50mm - two shot stitch

History nuts like me call this 'old soil' which means that interesting objects can be found in it.
For Gouda and surrounding area that means: clay pipes!

From about 1620 to 1960 these pipes were made here.
Around 1750 there were some 7000 people making clay pipes while the total population in those days was 17.000!
At first they learned the art from British mercenary soldiers in the Dutch army.
The official Pipemakers Guild started in 1660.

Most clay pipes have a heel mark or maker's mark. They confirm the maker and the period in which they were made.
All of these are described and documented in clay pipe literature and these days also on internet websites.

So the sport is: find a clay pipe, determine the heel mark and find the makers.
Here's what I found during a quick search of these earth mounds:


Z5 and Micro-Nikkor 3.5 55mm AI

The ones with the smaller bowls are early, around 1650, and have no heelmarks.
The bigger ones 1730-1780.

Two interesting maker's marks:


Z5 and Micro-Nikkor 3.5 55mm AI

left: Coat of arms of Batavia (former Dutch East Indies) ca. 1775.
right: the Crowned three Diamonds ca. 1740.
The third one is a crowned number 31.

Thanks for scrolling down this far

André

Muscicapa striata, Slovakia.

A macro of the same lily I posted in last week's thread.



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Joel

All taken today at Kofsa in southern Sweden.

Striking photograph!

Den

Wonderful shot. Do you live in the city?

Best,

Den

Santa Cruz

Thanks! I do live close by so can decide based on weather to try for shots …