Berlin, Prenzlauer Berg, Eberswalder Str.
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Around the neighborhood, with the new (to me) EF 70-200 f/2.8 I picked up as mentioned here:
…from a photographer I met while taking photos at CYYZ a while back. I haven’t posted images from that day yet, but they’ll appear here:
All of these are “test shots” - I am getting used to using the older EF lens via an adapter and dealing with the hefty weight of this beast of a lens.
Snooty Geese:
Splish, splash I was takin’ a bath:
Royal Canadian Navy formation Exercises:
Solo Photo:
Pirate ship gliding in to port vibes:
Testing the extreme limit of the lens, same pond, after 9:00PM - so no light except from far off streetlamps and reflections:
200mm (320mm full frame equiv.), f/2.8, 1/15s hand-held, ISO-25600.
Autofocus wasn’t too happy with how little light there was, but it managed to get sorted.
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In Dublin this weekend and saw that French ship on Friday at the river Liffey, close to the seaside port. It’s either the Loire or a sister ship. Not quite sure what role such a support ship actually plays?
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Old Oak tree on a meadow that has been used as a hunting ground by the Underberg family for almost a century - maybe someone knows that name from their alcoholic beverages. The Underbergs sold their liqueur as “medicine” during the prohibition and made a lot of money in the process. The family still owns a lot of land on the left bank of the lower Rhine.
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Our house is well situated. Not just military but sometimes our neighbour, a coastguard rescue pilot brings his work home with him
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Not up to Wes’ standards but these used to be abundant in the UK - nowadays we count ourselves lucky if we see one at all (max digital zoom for this one)
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Imagine a world in which a chaffinch is a rare bird… 
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They are still very common around here (Lower Rhine) but yeah …
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Same down here in the Ländle.
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Even though we are in the countryside, chaffinchs are fairly rare like most birds. Bird flu is to blame.
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We have high conifers down the border of one side of our garden and for 22 years it was full of chattery house sparrows, which we looked on as our little lodgers. We used to go through a large amount of food on our bird feeder stand and table, though on the downsides they did attract the usual predators like cats and sparrowhawks.
Last year we found ourselves in a bird flu zone - in fact they only just removed the warning signs in recent weeks - and it decimated our feathered friends population. Within a week the whole lot had disappeared.
We only put out a couple of suet feeders in winter - there was no point in offering anything else, because it wasn’t touched.
We’re hopeful that the few who have made their way back to our feeders in the last days are the start of a rebuilding of our little colony of spadgers.
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If it is any consolation, we got our first snow for the year three days ago. Enough for a couple of inches to settle - It made my drive to a local town (80km including 50km of unsealed road) and back… interesting.
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At least you’re not getting it one month before summer!
Been there 
Believe it or not, we have had snow in November… Canberra once and where we live at least twice (we are 1000m above sea level).
Managed to photograph a long-eared owl today. So happy I decided to take my camera to work today:
This time the correct thread 
Also, another blue tit
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Auster Fly-In at Fenland is this weekend. Looks like Sunday will be the best for weather.
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btw I found the photo’s of those cars I had that I mentioned - they are not my photo’s and the cars are not mine, just the same type and colour.
the Lancia Delta HF4WD made famous by Miki Biasion as champion of the WRC (Class A - the 2 years following class B removal):
This is the type and colour of my first Audi Coupé GT 5E:
and this my second one, a white Coupé GT 5S - the difference being the 5E is fuel injected with the fabled K-Jetronic injection system and the 5S is a standard carb job at 2.0 litres and 136 and 115PS respectively.
Awesome cars in their time, all 3. Though the 5E was exceptional. Same engine exactly was used in the “poor man’s Porsche” 924.
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Sadly it’s missing the wide body mod.
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