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Friday Night Photos Zoomania Edition

Happy Friday everyone. Welcome to Friday Night Photos your once a week escape from the day to day insanity of the world we live in. Post any photos, memes, music or whatever else you find of interest that helps tune out the madness.

In the film era of photography, camera settings were limited to shutter speed, aperture, and film speed. Not much to go wrong there. Today's digital cameras are small computers, and the settings you can program into how the camera functions are in the hundreds. And like all computers/programs, you get bugs and glitch's. One of those glitch's popped up when I went to the zoo Wed. morning. When I turned the camera on and looked through the viewfinder, there was no color. Everything was B&W. That was something I didn't expect since the last time I used the camera a few days earlier, everything in the view finder was in color. One of the hundreds of programing options available is to save your preferred camera settings on a memory card (which I've done) so when a glitch happens you can throw that memory card into the camera (which I did) and reload your preferred settings. Color restored. Crisis averted. It was a beautiful day weather wise. Sunny and mid 70s. A big plus was there were very few people visiting the zoo that day. The big minus was the animals were being very camera shy. Now if only there was a setting on the camera to make the animals less camera shy.

Bonobo
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Meerkat
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Guianan Squirrel Monkey
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Common Eland (not sure on this one)
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Koala Bear (not really a bear)
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Dwarf Mongoose
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Klipspringer
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Gelada
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Big Plastic Polar bear
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QMS's picture

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glad you were able to sort out the settings in your
'little computer' camera. The shots are fine as always.

Never heard of a Klipspringer. Big ears and small horns.
Critters are made in so many varieties.

Got no pictures to share as usual.

Could copy and pasta something, but not the same as
the real thing. Getting the bare tree visage going now.
Expecting a few inches of snow Sunday. May get some shots
for next week? First snow of the season is magical in the
visual imagery aspect. Cheers!

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@QMS

"Could copy and pasta something". Foodporn is always enjoyable. I'm sure you have lots of that.

I'm currently preparing stir-fried string beans with lots of scallion and garlic, chili and tamari. I'll take a photo and pasta it tonight or next week.

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@QMS
I do love that critters are made in so many varieties.
Please do copy and pasta anything you come across that you like, real or not, That's what FNP is for. Looking foreword to any shots from your first snow.

For your bare trees

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Maybe there’s a simpler fix to entice the animals out. Do you think that recordings of animal sounds might work, or is that against the rules? Thank you for sharing your vision and knowledge of digital operations. I still only use a fairly simple old digital camera, yet it still is confusing and frustrating. I would like to have a digital camera that operates as film cameras did. Do you know of any that are close approximations?

This is as close as we get to a traditional Christmas environment in these parts ...

Bright red blossomy balls adorning the Pohutakawa trees, and a snow-like dusting of blossoms on the Manuka and Kanuka trees.

More snow-white blossoms at the tops of the Manuka tree in the setting sun.

My Christmas tree, a stalk of Flax flowers, and a bird woven from flax.

I wish you and all a pleasurable weekend.

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@janis b
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Food porn, yeah got lots of that. Some is an art form
now that you mention it. Like your interpretation of a
holiday tree. No falling needles to sweep up. The fluffy
red, white and green trees are loverly.
Cheers!

edited to clarify tree types

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@janis b
Late spring in NZ is looking beautiful. Love your Christmas tree.
I don't have a problem with using animal recordings as a lure for purposes of photography, or as a way to get a source of food to eat. If it's used to bring in an animal to kill as nothing more than a trophy to mount on a wall, than I have a problem.

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@Socialprogressive

I hadn't considered its use to kill for trophy. That's definitely against the rules.

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