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*** September 2026 Image & Video Thread ***

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RuleOfThirds

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I'll kick off the month with pictures from yesterday evening. Really enjoyed the walk.

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  • Panasonic DC-S5M2
  • ƒ/8
  • 24mm
  • 1/60s
  • ISO 500
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  • Panasonic DC-S5M2
  • LUMIX S 24-105/F4
  • ƒ/8
  • 24mm
  • 1/60s
  • ISO 1000
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  • Panasonic DC-S5M2
  • LUMIX S 24-105/F4
  • ƒ/8
  • 24mm
  • 1/60s
  • ISO 800
 
Ooh, nice! You’ve been having much nicer weather… here, we’ve had temperatures hovering around/over 100F for several weeks, and the plants are suffering. :(
 
Travis Butler said:
Ooh, nice! You’ve been having much nicer weather… here, we’ve had temperatures hovering around/over 100F for several weeks, and the plants are suffering. :(
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We had a drought and scorching temps as well... lt is now over, and for the last few weeks we had quite some rain, but also a few sunny days. More like how it is supposed to be. The heather coped well though. And the rain helped. But yes, the grasslands here already recovered, no more yellow fields.
 
Had some unique meteorological conditions the other night, which allowed me to see stars concurrently with lightning strikes due to a gap in the clouds. So, I setup the camera with Live View Composite on, and let it do it's thing. For the most part, all I got was a handful of images with cloud-to-cloud lightning, but the last image I captured is shown below. I never thought about capturing star trails in conjunction with lightning strikes before, but it sure turned out great!

This was with the 18-40. Exposure was set to 5 seconds, ISO 400, f/4.5. Overall integration time was perhaps 3 or 4 minutes - not sure exactly.

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  • Panasonic DC-S1RM2
  • LUMIX S 18-40/F4.5-6.3
  • 18mm
  • 5/1s
  • ISO 400
 
GeorgeHudetz said:
Had some unique meteorological conditions the other night, which allowed me to see stars concurrently with lightning strikes due to a gap in the clouds. So, I setup the camera with Live View Composite on, and let it do it's thing. For the most part, all I got was a handful of images with cloud-to-cloud lightning, but the last image I captured is shown below. I never thought about capturing star trails in conjunction with lightning strikes before, but it sure turned out great!

This was with the 18-40. Exposure was set to 5 seconds, ISO 400, f/4.5. Overall integration time was perhaps 3 or 4 minutes - not sure exactly.

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Excellent photo!!
 
GeorgeHudetz said:
Had some unique meteorological conditions the other night, which allowed me to see stars concurrently with lightning strikes due to a gap in the clouds. So, I setup the camera with Live View Composite on, and let it do it's thing. For the most part, all I got was a handful of images with cloud-to-cloud lightning, but the last image I captured is shown below. I never thought about capturing star trails in conjunction with lightning strikes before, but it sure turned out great!

This was with the 18-40. Exposure was set to 5 seconds, ISO 400, f/4.5. Overall integration time was perhaps 3 or 4 minutes - not sure exactly.

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That’s a really top class shot George! Well done.
 
I have taken a few days off work to drive interstate to visit the city of Geelong on the western side of Port Phillip Bay. There is quite a nice waterfront precinct.

These photos were taken with the S5ii and 24-105mm lens.

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  • Panasonic DC-S5M2
  • LUMIX S 24-105/F4
  • ƒ/10
  • 105mm
  • 1/200s
  • ISO 100


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  • Panasonic DC-S5M2
  • LUMIX S 24-105/F4
  • ƒ/10
  • 105mm
  • 1/320s
  • ISO 100


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  • Panasonic DC-S5M2
  • LUMIX S 24-105/F4
  • ƒ/8
  • 53mm
  • 1/200s
  • ISO 100


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  • Panasonic DC-S5M2
  • LUMIX S 24-105/F4
  • ƒ/8
  • 24mm
  • 1/250s
  • ISO 100



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  • Panasonic DC-S5M2
  • LUMIX S 24-105/F4
  • ƒ/8
  • 42mm
  • 1/250s
  • ISO 100
 
RuleOfThirds said:
Those type of cows are also in that reserve where I was last sunday with the purple heather. Actually they are visible too in my middle picture as few orange dots :p (near the tree far away left
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These Scottish cows are really photogenic... and cute

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Scottish cow by XAVIER GUTierrez, on Flickr
 
This past week all 11 "HI-LO Trail" interpretive signs were finally installed along the new trail's 6.3 mile urban & forest route between Portland & Lake Oswego. As I've previously posted, I took most of the color photos which appear on the signs. FWIW, my copyright credit appears on each of my pix. :) Here are a few examples. In the close-up photo below, 3 of my photos appear at the lower-left corner of the sign (not the woodpecker).

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  • Panasonic DC-S5M2X
  • LUMIX S 20-60/F3.5-5.6
  • ƒ/5.6
  • 23mm
  • 1/40s
  • ISO 400
 
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On the way home from our recent trip south, we drove back through a farming area where canola (rapeseed) is grown. The canola is in bloom so the countryside looked awesome.

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  • Panasonic DC-S5M2
  • LUMIX S 70-300/F4.5-5.6
  • ƒ/8
  • 300mm
  • 1/400s
  • ISO 100


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  • Panasonic DC-S5M2
  • LUMIX S 24-105/F4
  • ƒ/8
  • 105mm
  • 1/400s
  • ISO 100


And of course I had to have an image with a railway theme. I think the red stop sign goes rather well with the blue sky and yellow canola. Z04 Carrot

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  • Panasonic DC-S5M2
  • LUMIX S 24-105/F4
  • ƒ/8
  • 63mm
  • 1/500s
  • ISO 100
 
Continuing from yesterday's post above: Some of the "trailheads" on the HI-LO Trail are picturesque, some not so much. :) The 11 interpretive signs are located at urban intersections and forest trailheads. Usually it's the route between the signs that's most interesting. For example, the sign below which currently has a chain link fence behind it due to a construction site. But someone standing there who turns to their right will see a filtered view of Mt. Hood. And walking a few blocks south, there are unimproved dirt roads and tall Douglas Fir tees. And so forth. Refer to the HI-LO Trail website for details.

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  • Panasonic DC-S5M2X
  • LUMIX S 20-60/F3.5-5.6
  • ƒ/7.1
  • 22mm
  • 1/250s
  • ISO 100


pjd_th1_hi-lo-sign-260912-p1014554_h.jpg
  • Panasonic DC-S5M2X
  • LUMIX S 20-60/F3.5-5.6
  • ƒ/6.3
  • 20mm
  • 1/200s
  • ISO 100


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  • Panasonic DC-S5M2X
  • LUMIX S 20-60/F3.5-5.6
  • ƒ/6.3
  • 20mm
  • 1/40s
  • ISO 250


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  • Panasonic DC-S5M2X
  • LUMIX S 20-60/F3.5-5.6
  • ƒ/5
  • 40mm
  • 1/125s
  • ISO 100


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