Merry Christmas and venturous New Year to all forum members!




She is Helga… our Hamster.


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My son Federico and his colleagues at University Graduation.






I may post my entry here (out of competition of course) because I will be out for 10 days.

I just didn´t lose Lilly´s party.


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Hi Clarky,

Impressive quality in the Aussie build bikes. What make of engines they use for build his machines? Aussies or Japanese’s?

It was a good opportunity for get very colorful images. Very opportune shoots Clarky! Sharp and with a good photographic eye!

Thanks for share.


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Astronomy, what an interesting and gripping discipline!

Your images really are impressive. I like it very much. Like Clarky, I am interested in know more about astronomic photographing.

Congratulations Mongoose, you did an excellent work. Thanks for share so spectacular images. And of course, awaiting for the next Astro photo...




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It should be interesting to know what was the focal length in each case.

My first impression is that the Tamron 18-200 at the focal lengths you used have very acceptable image sharpness. Very nitride and good definition in all the seven images.

For really appreciate the lens qualities use the extreme values (maximum aperture with extreme focal lengths stops) f/3.5 at 18mm and f/6.3 at 250mm in the appropriate light condition. An see what you get…

And what about the Tamron price?


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My theory that is a sunset is because I suppose the B747 is in a more or less straight flight from Hong Kong to Amsterdam (I know that the airways are not at all times a straight line). The direct course or track (show in a globe map) is more or less 280º/300º, and the sun is in the horizon (or near it) and at the nose of the aircraft. For these reasons is that I believe this is a sunset.


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From Hong Kong to Amsterdam, then this must be a sunset! Or I´m wrong?
Impressive photo.



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Thanks Lilly for the PS.

I appreciate this “enrich you vocabulary” It is really the woman´s touch of the forum!





That is what Babylon says about “Slap”


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Two images for comparing. What a difference!

And nothing else that the info you have in the RAW file.



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Take a look to my entry image of this week. This is just a pseudo HDR.

With only one single RAW shot I developed one .jpg image with the correct exposure, then a second .jpg with a Ev bias of – 1.5 and a third one with a Ev bias + 1.5 Merged the three images and, voilá … Look what strong and healthy Cu´s I get.


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