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Placed 12^th in the challenge. Taken in Northern Italy

Placed 81^st in the challenge. Red-crested pochard at lake of Garlate, Italy

Placed 31^st in the challenge. Sanctuary at Montevecchia (N Italy) from my home balcony. Distance 4,8 km (3 mi).

Placed 14^th in the challenge. Goosander (common merganser) fighting with a black-headed gull. Lake of Garlate, N Italy.

Placed 13^th in the challenge. Belltower of Galbiate, N Italy, in a foggy night. Taken from a distant and much higher point.

I have the 15 mm and since then I no more trust in Irix build quality. Look at my User review with test images on dpreview titled
"Weird OOF spot in (all?) Irix 15 including dpreview's"

Three...

I have little experience until now, I just noticed the OOF spots, often changing place after little adjustments. My 2 copies had a correctly set infinity marking. What's amazing is the fact that ...

I tried 2 copies of Irix 15 mm and both have the same defect, found also in dpreview gallery: a spot of OOF randomly appearing at center-left or center-right of the image, inside the APS-C area. ...

Clearly defective like the 2 copies I tried, there is a spot of field curvature in the center-right part of the image. In my experience, the spot is not always in the same position, depending on...

Some tooth whitening needed... :)

Thank you Ed.

Thank you. I like your flamingo - different lenels give a pleasant 3D effect to the image.

Placed 10^th in the challenge.

Placed 43^rd in the challenge. Taken at Paradisia Alpine botanical garden in Gran Paradiso National Park, Italian Alps.

Placed 29^th in the challenge. Concorde at Technik Museum - Sinsheim, Germany

Placed 23^rd in the challenge. Young marmots in Gran Paradiso National Park, Italian Alps

Placed 14^th in the challenge. Hazel dormouse found hibernating in an artificial bird nest.