Picture(s) of the day

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Here's picture of a poor tree, outlived it's seedling time in a 44 gallon drum, just before the one way Orari River bridge on Scenic highway 72.

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Grey skies with fresh humid easterlies.

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Dragonfly on Pear Tree leaf.

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Our first strawberry for this season.

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Lightning from today

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Some photos from today.

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Altocumulus Lenticularis towards Timaru.

[Orion]

^ Beautiful fleet of "silver spaceships" there

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The last batch of our strawberrys.

[David]

They look pretty good! How easy is it to grow them? Might think about doing it myself in future

[David]

Auckland city from my ferry commute home on Thursday
I love my new commute! So much nicer than driving even though it takes me longer to get home

[Richard]

Neat photo with that line of cloud

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A "Teeth" cloud

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Today's Cu clouds from the gold southerly.

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Here is a pyro-cumulus cloud forming near Orari, from a nearby burn-off.

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More wispy cirrus uncinus

[BeaconHill]

Lovely sunset from Wellington last night

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Horowhenua Sunset.

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Wellington

[David]

Sunset yesterday

[David]

Got my new smartphone yesterday. Been experimenting with the camera quite a bit. Photos can be a bit hit and miss but here's a few relatively successful shots

On the ferry home

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Rainbow at 5x optical zoom

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Taken 40 minutes after sunset

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Night sky with anemometer in foreground

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Moon at 50x zoom

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[David]

Mixed results again today. Phone camera has a tendency to wash out the blue sky or over saturate it. Here's a selection of pics from today.

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Your photos look really good.
I bought a new camera the other day, rather than using my cell phone, a Canon IXUS.
Based on the old, in your pocket, style you can wipp it out at any momment.
Only trouble with these as when they get older, when you focus outwards, the projection lens tends to get spots on them from dust injected when you retract the lens, as I found out from my old Sony camera.
So much for Carl Weiss

[David]

Your photos look really good.

Yeah, it can produce quite nice and crisp photos. But you need to take a number of photos and pick the best ones as there were a number of throwaway shots I never posted here. Some shots, especially when using the wide angle lens, can turn out a little blurred in parts too.

Overall it's a pretty excellent camera for a smartphone - arguable the best the market has to offer right now. The phone is the Huawei P30 Pro for anyone interested.

For balance, here's a few of the pics that didn't turn out that quite as great.

Washed out sky:

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Lens flare due to the sun:

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Night mode photo - often suffers from blurriness, and here the grass is over saturated:

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[David]

Few more pics today to finish up my testing. Went down the the beach, always a great spot to snap some photos.