**This week with your Z camera, Jun 7-13 2025**

Thanks Arnie, glad you enjoyed the photo.

Den

Can you see the settings? If not it's Nikon Z5 + Sigma 105mm f.2.8 lens.

F/22 1/640 ISO1800

Z6iii with 35/1.4 Z

Bob A L said:

Two birds with one stone (or photo). Just playing around and not as simple as I might have thought, and just barely acceptable. Figure it would have driven birds eye af crazy.

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Just sharing a moment of peace. Great shot!

André

HI

I spent a week in Bonaire this year and last, visiting my daughter and son in law.

Had a chance to snap a few pictures and just now placed them into one of my pBase Galleries.

Here's the link:

Bonaire Gallery on pBase

And a few shots from that gallery:



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Pelican at Salt Flats



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Obelisk and Huts at "Red Slave"



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Best Regards,

RB

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LightsAndTones said:

Nikon Z7 + Nikon Z 14-30mm F4 S

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HI!



I like your composition



Best Regards,

RB

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Swimming laps.



Followed by relaxing in the sauna.



Finishing off with volumizing hair powder before a night on the town. (They actually make volumizing hair powder - I looked it up)



Taken in Yellowstone with Z8, 100-400 with 1.4 TC.

Since,

LOVE Vivid Sydney!

I have some shots from there, as well, but they're not easily located at this time. My computer is somewhere on the Pacific Ocean at this time, heading to Australia, and with it my hard drives with photos on them.

Sam

greenmanphoto said:

Since,

LOVE Vivid Sydney!

I have some shots from there, as well, but they're not easily located at this time. My computer is somewhere on the Pacific Ocean at this time, heading to Australia, and with it my hard drives with photos on them.

Sam

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Welcome, Sam. Are you coming here for good?
I look forward to seeing your photos.

Thank you

Since2007 said:

greenmanphoto said:

Since,

LOVE Vivid Sydney!

I have some shots from there, as well, but they're not easily located at this time. My computer is somewhere on the Pacific Ocean at this time, heading to Australia, and with it my hard drives with photos on them.

Sam

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Welcome, Sam. Are you coming here for good?
I look forward to seeing your photos.

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Since,

Yes, we are! And thanks! I moved to Brisbane last month, but returned to the States with our daughter, who is attending Australian National University in Canberra and has a month off between semesters. Our oldest is also in Brisbane, and has been for three years.

We were considering either Sydney or Melbourne, but our youngest, when asked where he'd like to go to, said Brisbane. I think, in many ways, I would've preferred Sydney, particularly when it comes to my finding a job as a technical writer/editor, as I think there are more opportunities there than in Brisbane. But there are also other potential jobs, so...

I take it you're in the Sydney area somewhere? My family has spent a fair bit of time in Sydney, mostly in and around Macquarie Park.

Here's one from a wetlands preserve in Brisbane, taken last Saturday, before I returned back to the States. It was taken with the Z9 and the Nikkor 500mm PF via the FTZ adapter, and is an Olive-Backed Oriole eating some berries.



And here's an image I took along South Bank in Brisbane a little while ago.





At first, I wasn't too happy with the people on top of the sign. Then I realized that it gave a human touch as well as a sense of size for the sign.

Sam

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Congratulations! ANU is one of the best uni in Australia.
Certainly Brisbane is quite different from Sydney and Melbourne in terms of lifestyle and attractions. In general, it costs more to live in Sydney, and I am getting bored shooting the Harbour Bridge and Opera House.

Nice photos, but the plant in the first photo is Brazilian Pepper, classified as a weed here. :-D

Since2007 said:

Congratulations! ANU is one of the best uni in Australia.
Certainly Brisbane is quite different from Sydney and Melbourne in terms of lifestyle and attractions. In general, it costs more to live in Sydney, and I am getting bored shooting the Harbour Bridge and Opera House.

Nice photos, but the plant in the first photo is Brazilian Pepper, classified as a weed here. :-D

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Since,

Thanks! It was their first choice in Uni, after we visited UMelbourne, USydney, UQ, and ANU.

Yes, definitely quite different! I'm learning my way around and getting to things that are interesting. The wetlands where this photo was taken, for example, isn't difficult to get to: a 15-minute bus ride to the train station, then a 15-minute ride to the stop, followed by a 15-minute walk to the wetlands! LOTS of birds there, too, and a Superb Fruit Dove was spotted there recently! I'm hoping it will still be there when I get back and I can go to try and find it!

I don't know how prevalent that plant is there at the wetlands, but it was certainly quite happy where this bird was on it! I also went to a park a couple of weeks ago where there was a LOT of Lantana, which I understand is also invasive, as well as a nice example of a Purple Porterweed in someone's yard at a different location. I know that Porterweed is also considered an invasive plant there, though here in the States, it's a beautiful and important plant for pollinators.

Sam