Tag: 300mm

Pink rose

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wild rose
this is the only rose I own
I am not a rose person and find them over rated as flowers
this one survived by accident (my sister took the others)
I thought it had died
then a shoot started from really low down and when it flowered this is the result
I am guessing it is from the original root stock
so for now it is surviving with no looking after (a requirement for plants in my garden, the other is they should be native, local preferably)
quite a cute rose really, understated rather than showy

taken using my 300mm lens as a macro

Todays Flowers

Macro Flowers Saturday

cross processed

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Thanks to Shutterday photo meme, I stepped outside my normal photo editing habit of trying to make my photos look as natural and as close to the subject as possible (as far as my memory and screen will let me). But they decided to make the theme cross processing, the art of accidentally processing your (old days) film in the wrong chemicals (yeah, sure you did it on purpose, lol) and coming out with high contrast and weird coloured results. Of course in the digital age it is easier to make your photos artsy by emulating the process with a few simple bends of the curves tool, so I had a bash. I am not sure I like the result, maybe I need to do a bit more research.

But here is my first attempt.

maybe I need another try 🙂

RedBull air race

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Red bull air race
This last weekend the RedBull air race was held in Perth, the first time in a few years. So I thought I would take a wander down and check it out. I have to admit that even though I am not a sports fan, especially motorised sport, I was really impressed with the skill of these guys. Flying low over the water and twisting and turning their planes through the gates. Of course I had a shot or two (about 300) at trying to take photos of the planes. So using my Pentax DA* f4 300mm, with it set to autofocus (still not sure I like auto)(this photo was with my 80-320mm lens). I tried various spots up and down the river, to get different angles at the gates and try to get something that shows Perth in the background. This photo I think is Yoshihide Muroyn from Japan coming through the finish gate. In the background from the left is KPMG, QV1 building, BHP Biliton (I had a hand in making their roof top sign), Woodside, iicor, some other buildings, Clough and the ASX. Below is the convention centre and a huge PERTH sign, just to make sure its Perth :).

this is one of the photos, I have more on my gallery site and still more to put up

Classic car show

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The Council of Motoring Clubs (CMC) of Western Australia and Auto one Classic car show at mussel pool
Whiteman park is a brilliant free event for car enthusiasts to get to see a wide variety of cars, trucks, tractors, motor bikes, and even push bikes. This is a Delage on its way home after the event.

More photos soon on my gallery site

Barn owl

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Western Australian Birds of Prey Centre

a Barn owl
part of  the Western Australian Birds of Prey Centre display at Whiteman Park
a flying display of Australian raptors (although the owl doesn’t fly as it is blind)

well worth a look

there are more on my site Gumnuts world do a search for raptor in the search box

Pentax DA* f4 300mm

Unique Exposures challenge

World Bird Wednesday

Camera-Critters

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