Your Photo of the Week

[Tim Mayo]

Week 10/52: Mackerel in Coconut Sauce. I took this picture to use in the thumbnail for my next youtube video. I cheated a bit and used Photoshop to mask the dish while replacing the black granite countertop with a solid black layer (this will help me later in making that thumbnail as I said).

Looks tasty! Will definitely have to watch your next video now.

 

[Tim Mayo]

A day late for week 9, but yesterday was kind of busy.

Meet Bear. We completed our first Pilots N Paws mission yesterday taking Bear from Frankfort, Kentucky, to Clarksburg, West Virginia, where another gentleman met us to take Bear onto his final destination in Pennsylvania. Bear has had a pretty rough life so far, but it sounds like he’s going to be well cared for now.

I can certainly see why he's called bear! Great job. Glad to hear that he will be cared for now, every dog deserves a nice home.

 

[Tim Mayo]

Week 7. A female blackbird munching on some ivy berries.

• ILCE-9
• FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS
• 600.0 mm
• ƒ/6.3
• 1/1000 sec
• ISO 1000

 

[FowlersFreeTime]

Week 7. A female blackbird munching on some ivy berries.

"Blackbirds" look to be a different species on your side of the pond, interesting. Ours are more like this (not my image):

 

[Tim Mayo]

"Blackbirds" look to be a different species on your side of the pond, interesting. Ours are more like this (not my image):

Male blackbirds over here look very similar to this, so basically black The female ones despite sharing the same name are actually brown with spots and streaks on their breasts, I'm not sure if this is the case over on your side of the pond?

 

[Uncle Kevriano]

Week 11. By no means a fantastic shot, but this Little Bunting is a super rare visitor to the UK, only 60-70 birds in a year, and this is only the 10th ever to be seen in my county and the first ever at our local reserve, Hard to get shots of in that undergrowth as his colours blend so well.

• ILCE-7RM4
• FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS
• 202.0 mm
• ƒ/6.3
• 1/500 sec
• ISO 800

 

[FowlersFreeTime]

Looks tasty! Will definitely have to watch your next video now.

I just uploaded that video!

Mackerel in Coconut Sauce

Welcome back to Fowler's Free Time and today I'm cooking a family favorite: Mackerel in Coconut Sauce. Join me as I share with you the moment when I caught t...

youtu.be

The action bits were filmed with a gopro, but the rest is still my a6400 with a combination of the Sony 35mm and 18-135mm lenses

 

[Clix Pix]

I'm back! Picking up where I left off, with Week 8:

• DSC-RX10M4
• 220.0 mm
• ƒ/4
• 1/250 sec
• ISO 100

 

[Clix Pix]

Week 9:

• ILCE-7RM4
• Voigtlander MACRO APO-LANTHAR 110mm F2.5
• 110.0 mm
• ƒ/22
• 1/640 sec
• ISO 12800

 

[Clix Pix]

Week 10:

• DSC-RX10M4
• 220.0 mm
• ƒ/4
• 1/800 sec
• ISO 100

 

[Clix Pix]

Week 11:

• ILCE-7RM4
• FE 35mm F1.8
• 35.0 mm
• ƒ/22
• 1/80 sec
• ISO 1600

 

[Uncle Kevriano]

Week 12. Reed Bunting.

• ILCE-7RM4
• FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS
• 600.0 mm
• ƒ/7.1
• 1/640 sec
• ISO 1600

 

[Tim Mayo]

I just uploaded that video!

Mackerel in Coconut Sauce

Welcome back to Fowler's Free Time and today I'm cooking a family favorite: Mackerel in Coconut Sauce. Join me as I share with you the moment when I caught t...

youtu.be

The action bits were filmed with a gopro, but the rest is still my a6400 with a combination of the Sony 35mm and 18-135mm lenses

Great video work Chris and editing! I've never caught and eaten a fish before, I should probably put it down on my to-do list!

 

[Tim Mayo]

Week 8. A mute swan on a local lake. I heard there were otters there but if there was they weren't coming out to play.

• ILCE-9
• FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS
• 600.0 mm
• ƒ/6.3
• 1/1000 sec
• ISO 500

 

[FowlersFreeTime]

Week 11/52 running a week behind as usual.
Tony the two-tailed iguana (you may recognize him from Week 4) made a guest appearance outside my home office window again, but this time, he tried to hide in the Gardenia bush...

• ILCE-6400
• E 18-135mm F3.5-5.6 OSS
• 135.0 mm
• ƒ/5.6
• 1/125 sec
• ISO 100

 

[Freightdawg]

Week 10. But I think I'm still running a week behind.

• ILCE-7C
• FE 28-60mm F4-5.6
• 28.0 mm
• ƒ/5
• 1/13 sec
• ISO 100

 

[Clix Pix]

Just wrapped up Week 12 here:

• DSC-RX10M4
• 220.0 mm
• ƒ/4
• 1/250 sec
• ISO 100

 

[Tim Mayo]

Week 9. A pair of peregrines have turned up on my local hills. This was shot from around 100m away and heavily cropped. I waited for over an hour with my finger on the shutter for this one to leave its perch.

• ILCE-9
• FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS
• 600.0 mm
• ƒ/6.3
• 1/2500 sec
• ISO 1600

 

[Freightdawg]

Week 9. A pair of peregrines have turned up on my local hills. This was shot from around 100m away and heavily cropped. I waited for over an hour with my finger on the shutter for this one to leave its perch.

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I applaud your patience and persistence.

 

[Uncle Kevriano]

Week 13. Something not wildlife for a change, as I've not been out and the moon was spectacularly clear on Saturday.

• ILCE-7RM4
• FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS
• 600.0 mm
• ƒ/10
• 1/800 sec
• ISO 1600

 

[FowlersFreeTime]

Week 13. Something not wildlife for a change, as I've not been out and the moon was spectacularly clear on Saturday.

Aaand this is why I don't bother to take moon photos anymore: if all I have is 135mm on the long end of my kit lens, its just not enough to get a clear shot compared to this beautiful specimen. Nice one Kev!

 

[Uncle Kevriano]

Aaand this is why I don't bother to take moon photos anymore: if all I have is 135mm on the long end of my kit lens, its just not enough to get a clear shot compared to this beautiful specimen. Nice one Kev!

Cheers, yes, you do need that zoom for sure. It's cropped in as well, but the detail is amazing when it's this clear. All of those striations and impact marks are startling.

 

[FowlersFreeTime]

Week 12/52: Banana Bread, a comfort food many of us learned how to make during lockdown

• ILCE-6400
• E 24mm F2.8 F051
• 24.0 mm
• ƒ/8
• 1.3 sec
• ISO 100

 

[Uncle Kevriano]

Looks lovely

 

[Uncle Kevriano]

Week 14. Dark-Edged Bee Fly in our garden this afternoon. Strange and harmless insects. My wife spotted it on our washing line pole.

• ILCE-7RM4
• FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS
• 600.0 mm
• ƒ/8
• 1/640 sec
• ISO 1000

 

[Tim Mayo]

Week 10. I spent a few hours watching the peregrines again last week. I've not got a shot that I really like yet but it's still very enjoyable just watching them. This was a heavy crop and cleaned up in DeNoise.

• ILCE-7RM4
• FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS + 1.4X Teleconverter
• 560.0 mm
• ƒ/9
• 1/2500 sec
• ISO 2500

 

[FowlersFreeTime]

Week 13/52: Ziva, sitting on a windowsill, gazing out the window...

• ILCE-6400
• E 24mm F2.8 F051
• 24.0 mm
• ƒ/2.8
• 1/160 sec
• ISO 1600

 

[Uncle Kevriano]

Week 15. A Male Siskin. Beautiful birds.

• ILCE-7RM4
• FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS
• 600.0 mm
• ƒ/6.3
• 1/640 sec
• ISO 3200

 

[Tim Mayo]

Week 11. I spent some time in a kingfisher hide last week that has a diving setup. The light wasn't brilliant for dive shots as you need a pretty fast shutter speed, but I was happy with this shot. I used the Sony RMT-P1BT remote to trigger the shutter. I don't think any other remote would work fast enough as they dive off the perch in a fraction of a second. It's also one of the few times that 20fps on the a9 is actually beneficial.

• ILCE-9
• FE 70-200mm F2.8 GM OSS
• 100.0 mm
• ƒ/5.6
• 1/2000 sec
• ISO 3200

 

[Uncle Kevriano]

Week 16. Stunning Rook yesterday. That glorious sunshine really brings out the sheen on the feathers.

• ILCE-7RM4
• FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS
• 200.0 mm
• ƒ/8
• 1/640 sec
• ISO 500