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Fun with the Fuji X ___!

scho

Well-known member
Cyclamen in favored location (Cool, north facing kitchen window). Fuji XT3 with Canon EF 24-105 f/4L IS in Fringer adapter. 105mm ISO 3200 f/6.3 1/125 sec

 

Grayhand

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Thy Nature Reserve, Denmark
X-pro2, 10-24



One of the best things with Sweden is that it lays so close to Denmark :thumbup:
Ray
 
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Pelorus

Member
Melbourne summer 1. A feature of Melbourne summers is very hot days followed by a blustery front - "the cool change".

Today it was 43 degrees Celsius and the wind blew from the north at up to 50 knots. Early this evening the cool change came through, skiffs of rain started and the wind abruptly changes to the south west and the temperature plunges as much as 20 or more degrees in 10 minutes. Later the wind will go to the south, but before then we are expecting a line of thunder storms associated with the change.

The change is starting...

 

Pelorus

Member
The other indispensable part of a Melbourne Summer?...An Akubra, this one over 20 years old, and 2 of those years were spent behind a filing cabinet in a country motel office after it was left behind. But good hats are like boomerangs, they return.

 

Pelorus

Member
That sick feeling in your stomach when you wake suddenly to the smell of smoke. Heart beating faster you search the house...only to realise that it's from outside.

Melbourne is at least 100km from the nearest fire, indeed the smoke this morning came from Tasmania. Today it has been like a mid-winter's day...the light has been soft and yellowish, a very light rain has fallen and everywhere the pervading smell of smoke. It got worse as the day progressed. Smoke from the east and north blew in, swimming pools closed because of the air quality and it felt like perpetual dusk.

This however is nothing compared to the communities that are really affected. Their days have been turning to night - black night. So far this fire season around 6 million hectares have burned in Australia - that's roughly 6 times the area burned in the Amazon fires last year, over 6 times the area burned in California. Whilst there is a small respite, the fire will flare again later in the week and more will burn.

Visibility in this shot is around 150 metres before it is seriously degraded - by smoke, not rain.

 

rayyan

Well-known member
Thanks folks for the ' likes '...:)

A new year...lots of new toys, eh!!

But the old are not forgotten.....


X-T1, 18-55mm.
 

Pelorus

Member
Not taking...

In this part of the city the air quality is officially classed as Hazardous. Easterly breezes have brought more bushfire smoke into the city and it won't improve for a couple of days. Meanwhile NASA tells us that the smoke plume from the fires has almost circled the globe and should reappear in Australia in the next couple of days.

 

Pelorus

Member
There is something immensely calming about water in public spaces. It seems to invite quiet contemplation and on a hot day it makes you feel cool.

In Australia now there are towns with no water at all. Stanthorpe in Queensland, a town of about 5,500, ran out of water completely earlier this month. Water is being carted by truck from Warwick around 70 kilometres away. But that supply too will run out later this year without substantial rain. Stanthorpe is not alone....

 

Pelorus

Member
The next cycle of hell. The Australian bushfires are just the latest example of Australia's challenges. For several years much of Australia has been suffering from a severe drought. This drought has denuded the landscape and exposed the topsoil.

Today the wind blew hard and hot from the north. During the day a dust storm was reported covering 275,000 square kilometres in South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales. The strong winds had lifted the topsoil exposed by the drought and driven it before the wind. This is but one of many dust storms in recent weeks.

In Melbourne a south westerly change is near. Before it arrives however a small portion of the dust storm has arrived turning the clouds reddish orange and the light a sickly glow.

 

Pelorus

Member
Morning & Evening

From where I work, this is my view...sad in its limitations but interesting in its variety.

Morning



Evening

 
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