Playing with my camera 1 (pics)

[cyprusmax47]

It looks like that there are more butterflies this year, so I thought this is a good chance to play with a different setting (sports)...



It is always very difficult to photograph hummingbird moths, as soon you come too close they are gone..




an absolute beauty






some pics from my trips last week, Gypsum mix with Alabaster....


and a very nice blue volcanic outcrop


Max

[trevnhil]

Amazing Max.. Well done.

[Dominic]

I love the two-tone flowers you find in Cyprus.

That humming-bird moth is amazing.

[cyprusmax47]

one I forgot


If you don't cut this flowers down every 2 years they overgrow the whole garden, Dominic!

Max

[PaphosAL]

Beautiful photos, Max, and thanks for sharing Mother Nature's delights in Cyprus with us!

A few pictures I avidly await are your next Saturday fish meal, please, pretty pleeeeze?

AL

[PW in Polemi]

Dominic, those two tone flowers are Lantana. I have them in the less subtle shades of red and orange. The black, very small, berries are poisonous, if I recall correctly.

Max, yet more stunning photos, thank you so much. I don't always comment, but I always enjoy. Bravo!

[cyprusmax47]

Thank you all for the nice responds to my pics.

Max

[cyprusmax47]

Great photos cyprusmax , what camera do you use ?

Terry

It's a Sony Bridge Camera DSC HX400, max 100x digital zoom. 21.3 MegaPixel (I am still learning to get the maximum out of it, this time it was the "Sports" setting...)

Max

[Ams]

Really lovely photos Max, thanks for sharing.

[cyprusmax47]

I used to lug around a Canon SLR with three lenses and because of its bulk invariably did not have it with me when needed , switched to a Nikon bridge fours years ago and it's much more portable with numerous shooting modes. At the time it was state of the art but now has a modest 42x zoom and 16.1 megapixels , antiquated by the spec on your camera.

Terry

The downside of my new camera is, that there are so many functions now that you need a long time to learn to use them. The Sony "help guide," consisting of 175 pages, and if you believe or not if one uses the camera not all the time you forget some of the settings... and then what....!

Max