Your Canon Photos No. 25: 22nd to 28th October 2023

This weekly thread is principally intended for you to show others the photos made with Canon cameras of all sorts: SLR, DSLR, Mirrorless, M-series, APS-C, film, etc. BUT all brands of camera will be accepted, including photos taken with your phone. We do enjoy reading an accompanying text explaining your photo and any special techniques you may have used. Comments and helpful criticisms on others' photos are also welcome: we can all learn something from each other. We look forward to seeing your photos.

This is being posted Saturday 10/21/23 around 8:45 pm PST time. I will be active here while David is away, but we hope that all of you will join in and comment on each others' photos.

New contributors to this series of threads are always welcome!

Digirame

I will start off with one autumn flower that I took on the 23rd of September. I will post more pictures later. It's late for me. 😀

This is such a pretty flower. Does anyone know the name of it?

Model - Canon EOS M50m2
ExposureTime - 1/200 seconds
FNumber - 13
ISOSpeedRatings - 1600
ExposureBiasValue - 0
FocalLength - 200 mm
Lens Model - EF-M55-200mm f/4.5-6.3 IS STM

Thanks for starting the new thread, Digi. I look forward to seeing what you have all been up to in my absence!

I am pretty sure this is a hydrangea (or hortensia). It is helpful to include some leaves to aid identification. Hydrangea leaves have jagged edges and I can just see one at the bottomn right. The blue colour indicates that the soil is acidic: alkaline soil will produce pink flowers.

David

David,

I've been told that in the olden days, people would bury old iron nails in the soil, so that they would rust and deliberately turn the soil acidic to produce that blue color.

Steve Thomas

I am sceptical, Steve: my hazy memory of A-level Chemistry tells me that iron oxides are not acidic. There are other easily acquired substances that can do the job! Like aluminium sulphate.

David

Hi all,

An autumnal woodland walk.

The one that got away. (Aperture f/7.1 <> (SS): 1/400 <> ISO 125 <> EC: -0.33 <> PASM Mode: Custom <> Metering: Partial <> Focus Mode: AI Servo <> FL: 450mm <> Lens: Tamron SP 150-600mm f/5-6.3 Di VC USD <> Camera ID: Canon EOS 7D Mark II).

More fungi at this time of year. (Aperture f/8 <> (SS): 1/160 <> ISO 640 <> EC: 0 <> PASM Mode: Aperture Priority <> Metering: Evaluative <> Focus Mode: One Shot <> FL: 90mm <> Lens: Tamron SP 90mm f/2.8 Di VC USD Macro <> Camera ID: Canon EOS 70D).

'Oh what a tangled web we weave'. (Aperture f/10 <> (SS): 1/400 <> ISO 1600 <> EC: 0 <> PASM Mode: Aperture Priority <> Metering: Evaluative <> Focus Mode: One Shot <> FL: 300mm <> Lens: Tamron SP 70-300mm f/4-5.6 Di VC USD <> Camera ID: Canon EOS 7D Mark II).

Ready to fall. (Aperture f/7.1 <> (SS): 1/1000 <> ISO 200 <> EC: 0 <> PASM Mode: Aperture Priority <> Metering: Partial <> Focus Mode: AI Servo <> FL: 600mm <> Lens: Tamron SP 150-600mm f/5-6.3 Di VC USD <> Camera ID: Canon EOS 7D Mark II).

It's squirrel time as the nuts fall. (Aperture f/7.1 <> (SS): 1/1000 <> ISO 4000 <> EC: 0 <> PASM Mode: Custom <> Metering: Partial <> Focus Mode: AI Servo <> FL: 300mm <> Lens: Tamron SP 70-300mm f/4-5.6 Di VC USD <> Camera ID: Canon EOS 7D Mark II).

Hi Digirame,

That looks a nice unblemished flower, lovely colour as well. 👍

David,

Thanks for letting me know about the flower. It's nice to hear from you as well.

Steve,

Thanks for your comments concerning the hydrangea. I've seen them both blue and pink where I live.

Mocha,

Thanks for noticing that the hydrangea is unblemished. It did look really nice for an early autumn flower.

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Mocha,

That's neat you caught the heron losing its dinner. Yes, that can happen sometime. More fungi is exactly what I'm seeing now too. Did the dragonfly get caught in a web? That's a good background for the dragonfly. Are those horse chestnuts that David showed us? I saw some where I live. When they fell, they would split open. I would have to stand far from them, because they could hurt. The squirrel looks very similar to what I find.

Dig,

I do too in my side yard.

I think there's some cross-pollination going on from the two bushes 😀

Steve Thomas

David,

I can only relay what a 92 yr. old woman told me what her grandmother used to do.
Who knows if they understood chemistry? (shrug)

Steve Thomas

I read a suggestion that one could put a color polarizer on your black and white setting. It turns the deep blue sky even darker.
Here's one I took this morning with that technique:

Steve Thomas

After a few busy weeks and not the best weather we did enjoy a hike again.The weather is more like fall, as it should be this time of the year in our region.
But still some sun during our hike today and a lot of mushrooms 😎

Canon EOS 5D Mark IV - Canon EF 28-300mm f/3.5-5.6L IS USM:

Canon EOS RP - Canon RF 35mm F1.8 MACRO IS STM:

Canon EOS R - Canon RF 24mm F1.8 MACRO IS STM:

Hi Photobygms,

Love the first photo and your fungi, especially photo 3 it takes you into the forest. 👍

Thanks, it was very nice to be in nature again.👍