May 2023

[Bruno Schroder]

Could also be in the Li'l flowers threads. Casual iPhone snap

[Birna Rørslett]

Lots of detail and colour from that 'phone shot, Bruno

A mixture of familiar and less familiar species. The foreground grass might be Holcus lanatus?

[Birna Rørslett]

Testing whether our recent connection issues are solved, by uploading images ... Not too bad response as far as uploading goes, evidently.

Commuters alighting at Oslo Central Station. IR with Nikon Z5 and the Nikkor 28mm f/2.8 SE Z, Hoya R72 filter. With the jet black filter in front of the lens most people assume there is a lens cap on, and the impression is strengthened by using the camera in silent mode. AF works fine in IR, by the way.

Most people have dark attire and thus tend to appear quite bright in IR (optical brighteners, presumably)

[Akira]

Waiting in line.

[Fons Baerken]

Cows under high voltage

Z7  35mm f/1.8s

[Bruno Schroder]

Thanks Birna, a taste of the spring meadow in the garden.  I trust you on Holcus lanatus.

[Birna Rørslett]

Thanks Birna, a taste of the spring meadow in the garden.  I trust you on Holcus lanatus.

A first impression, actually. Which might be in error, but the appearance certainly is close to that species.

The red flower is Silene dioica Red Champion. The blue belongs to Boraginaceae, but there are multiple candidates for it.

[aerobat]

Today May 25th was the last flyby to say good bye of the last flightworthy Mirage III in the world - D750 & 80-400mm

[mxbianco]

Zebra car

Z7 + NFZ + AFS μNikkor 60mm f:2.8

Ciao from Massimo

[John Geerts]

A bit busy with lots of things. 

The Silene in the evening sun
D850  AF-D 50/1.4

[Hugh_3170]

Nice to see your (last) images of the Mirage.  Australia licence built Mirage IIIEs for the RAAF, with their last 50 being sold on to Pakistan when they were withdrawn here.

Today May 25th was the last flyby to say good bye of the last flightworthy Mirage III in the world - D750 & 80-400mm

[ColinM]

Today May 25th was the last flyby to say good bye of the last flightworthy Mirage III in the world - D750 & 80-400mm

As well as being lovely images of some amazing (maybe vintage?) technology, I loved that we could clearly see the pilot in some of these Daniel.

I've had similar experiences in the hillside of Wales, where the airforce train their pilots by flying along twisty valleys, so you can often be standing higher up than the plane.
Were you in a similar location,  or was this near the airfield?

The Silene in the evening sun
D850  AF-D 50/1.4

There's lots going on here John.
An intruiging and delicate image

[Fons Baerken]

May 26

Geranium species, G maximowiczii probably

Z7 - Voigtlander 125mm f/2.5

[Bruno Schroder]

Moselle. Epinal, France. iPhone

[golunvolo]

0 emissions.
 The "feria" is over here. People used a lot of this little ones for transportation to and fro the fair. They are for sharing.


  Z6, 28mm 1.4e