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We had a lot of rain here last Wednesday - we even had a little tornado in a beach-side suburb. I often walk down to a local lake, and as there is a bakery nearby I usually stop by to pick up a coffee and croissant to enjoy here. This lake, which a few months ago was bone dry, is now at least at least 10m past the banks now. The swans are actually swimming over lawn in this photo!

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A bit further around you can see the little jetty that I normally look out for a snake-necked turtle from. I should have taken my gumboots.
 
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Not a great photo as this is cropped from an iphone pic. This is the local snake-necked turtle I try to see every time I go to the lake. He/she has a shell maybe about 30cm long, and it's covered in algae. It's looking up at me here. I'm shooting directly down from the jetty seen in the previous pic but this time on a less flooded day! These animals are hard to photograph because of the water reflections, so I've had to increase the contrast to make it more visible. They're endangered so I feel very lucky to see this fella as often as I do.
 
HamishR said:
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Not a great photo as this is cropped from an iphone pic. This is the local snake-necked turtle I try to see every time I go to the lake. He/she has a shell maybe about 30cm long, and it's covered in algae. It's looking up at me here. I'm shooting directly down from the jetty seen in the previous pic but this time on a less flooded day! These animals are hard to photograph because of the water reflections, so I've had to increase the contrast to make it more visible. They're endangered so I feel very lucky to see this fella as often as I do.
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A polarized filter would eliminate the reflection. I used to do wedding shoots back in the 70's and 80's. I'm not sure if they make anything like that for an iPhone. So I thought I'd check real quick.

polarized iPhone filter
 
Cherry-Faced Meadowhawk One to Control, CFM1 to control:
maintaining low-pass s-turns and doglegs up here, await confirmed landing zone, over...

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CFM1 to Control, have confirmed visual approach of landing tower, will proceed to same after last go-around, checking for wind-shear...

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Couple Bat-turns and am knocking on your front-door, Control...

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CFM1 to Control, resting and refuelling, situation is Bravo Zulu

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CFM1 to Control, ready to bug-out for next attack-sortie on bandit-mossies...

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Took a break from building a pedal the other day and rested in the back yard with the doggo, and we had our CFM1 visitor buzzing about us for a good 20-30 minutes. Hadn't seen one of these little red guys since moving back here 4 years ago (mostly blue and green here, but there's also two more reds, the Western Meadowhawk and White-faced Meadowhawk).

Was great to see this guy, as I miss seeing the Crimson Dropwings and my favourite, the utterly brilliant cardinal-red, Crimson Dwarf dragonflies back in Hong Kong. I've got pics of those on my HD, I'll post 'em if I come across them and remember to do so.
 
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