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Photos from Qatar _244
London 2024 post _79

Afternoon, with the kids, heading to winter wonderland in Hydepark. It was really cold, but we had a wonderful time. After the sunset, it started raining 🌧 , so we decided to go back to the hotel.
Photo taken by Sony RX100vii camera.
London 2024 post _48

Although all or say most of my photos of London 2024, using the Sony RX100vii camera were in small-size and in 1:1 rasio, but they all are great for what I am useing for, some of the kids photos were in 3:2 and medium size, but for street photography, and I know that I will publish them, they are in 1:1 small.
But once i browse them, I am very happy with what I got. Click the image to Enlarge it.
📷 setup: ISO 250, 24mm lens, F2.8, and shutter 1/40s and my Black and White picture profile.
London 2024 post _44
Photos from Qatar _114

I take the advantage of blue sky and clouds ⛅️ to take this shot, testing the classic chrome picture profile setting on my Sony RX100vii camera. I was in the car waiting to collect my kids from their school.
I think I need to add 1.3 or 1.7 to the aperture.
Photos from Qatar _112
Photos from Qatar _6
The Bonsai experiment
Two weeks ago I was jumping through some web pages and i come over the Bonsai trees, I like the idea and the over-all tree looks and shapes, later I fond the Bonsai kit in amazon, so i add it to my cart and 10days later I got it (International Shipping).
Now, I will start this experiment of growing a Bonsai 🙂 I will do some other posts about this project to follow up.
Contain:
- Plastic Bags
- Peat plugs
- labeling sticks
- 6 pots
- 3 packets of seed: (Seeds are)
- Silver Birch (Betchula Pendula)
- Red Maple (Acer Rubrum)
- Mountain Pine (Pinus Mugo Pumilio)
- instruction book
The instruction:
Ok, it was not easy to understand the instruction, I tried to simplify it into some point and I hope I am right.
1. To put the seeds in water for (24 hours)
2. Then put the compost discs in water for some time it will absorbs water it will swell.
3. Open it and put it in the pots.
4. Add the seeds to each pots. (label each pots with the date and seeds name)
5. Put the pots in the Plastic Bags for 2-3 week in cool place.
6. Then move the Plastic Bags into refrigerator for 4-6 weeks. (not sure about the points 5 and 6)
7. Now, after that the seeds should be start germinate!! so we then remove it from the bags.
This process should take 1 year before the Bonsai Tree takes it shape. I will do other post with more photos of this experiment.
Bonsai Experiment Follow-up:
Bonsai post 1 | Bonsai post 2 | Bonsai post 3 |
Alone
In a cold and cloudy day this tree stand 100meter away alone and with no leaves as it say’s “.. Here am I!”
Using Nikon 18-300m lens is very helpful where it covers great range for close and far subjects.

[Click to enlarge]
::Camera Setting::
Camera: Nikon D7100
Exposure: 1/500 sec.
F/5.6
ISO: 400
Focal Length: 220mm [Nikon 18-300m lens]
Photo from Austria 1998 .. Photo #2
Another photo from Austria 1998, it is a flower clock in Stadtpark. [Click the image to enlarge]

Film camera, Austria-1998, the negatives converted to JPG in 2010.
Click for more detail on ‘Convert Negative to JPG project‘.
Ali,







