**This week with your Z camera, Jul 12-18 2025**

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I flew my drone over Herron Island today and their privately owned/operated ferry was operating. A few photos:












Herron Island in distance

I have a few arial stills taken with the drone that turned out nice. Do you think I would get in trouble if I posted them here?

Z8 with the 24-120mm zoom at 35mm

This rusty Maine barn has its own security detail.


Z6, Z 24-120mm F4 S @120mm

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Jonathan

Female Anna's Hummingbird sitting near the feeder. Haven't ever seen a hummingbird this plump, perhaps she is pregnant.




Z50, 50-250 lens @ 250mm, f6.3, 1/1000 sec, ISO 2200

Z50II Nikkor MC 50MM F/2.8











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Police Officer (Retired)
No plan survives first contact with the enemy.

Castor fiber.

Hornad river (Slovakia), Z8 + Z600PF

Two weeks ago I spent a a few days photographing owls and Kestrels. This was my first time getting really close to owls. A family of two adults and five young ones were sitting (at different times) in a group of trees beside an old barn near a gravel road. They were used to people walking by on the road so they did not seem to be scared of me. I think the distance was about 8 to 10 meters at the closest point.

Unfortunately they were not sitting together on one branch but you can’t always get what you want

This is the first set of pictures of the owls.















Best regards

Peter

A couple of butterflies, shot with the 400/4.5 + 1.4x TC. This combo works reasonably well for that application.

birdofthegalaxy said:

Z8 with the 24-120mm zoom at 35mm

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As someone who is struggling with B/W, I'd kindly ask to see the color version of this beautiful image.

Micro/Macro shots with the 105 MC.

Ruby-throated hummingbirds























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A beautiful set. The female in the first shot looks VERY pregnant, it's a wonder she can even fly.

jtr27 said:

A beautiful set. The female in the first shot looks VERY pregnant, it's a wonder she can even fly.

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Thank you! That's a young male, so definitely not pregnant! Might have just overindulged a bit on nectar.

A recent rainstorm blew some small limbs from my willow oaks. It's amazing how many species of lichen will grow on just a couple inches of limb.





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Joel

First three of a SAAB JA37 Viggen, last one of an Apfenpinscher named Beppe.

Rene Gr said:

birdofthegalaxy said:

Z8 with the 24-120mm zoom at 35mm

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As someone who is struggling with B/W, I'd kindly ask to see the color version of this beautiful image.

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I would need to go all the way back to a raw image I have never actually even looked at. I am not sure this comment will be helpful … but when I am capturing a scene like this that I know is ultimately destined to be a monochrome image I change the camera mode to MC (one of the great capabilities of mirrorless) so I essentially look at the scene and compose in black and white from the start. Adobe camera raw then actually opens the image already in monochrome as “shot” and I edit from there so I never work with the color shot and in my mind shot it in black and white though I know I could recover it from the raw data if I changed the ACR setting. For fog I almost always work in black and white, same for architecture.

Lovely shot. Is it the UK?