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One from todays shots from the Australian Botanic gardens, Mount Annan, 32 Deg C out ther etoday so a bit on the warm side, but not to bad. The Gardens I shoot in weren't tounched by the fires, but the ones up the blue mountains west of Sydney were …

Nice one Chris, most likey these from your description and shots. https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/48521-Coprinopsis-atramentaria

The latest interactive map to give an idea of the scale of the fires here, you can drag the world map around and click on any location in the world that your familar with and then click to overlay the sqare area burned here, to give you an idea of …

Just to add to @RussP we got a dust storm roll in to the Sydney basin this afternoon as well, so apart from everything covered in red dust. Visibility has been reduced to like being in a fog but it’s red dust so weird light, still hot at over 37 …

My shot from last Saturday's Mushroom shot, given a B&W edit. Still not that flash at B&W something for me to work on, the editing etc no worries, just getting the right subject matter and working it, I've done a few older buildings and historic …

Todays weather in Australia, At least some of the rain helped on the fire grounds. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-20/australia-wild-weather-hail-rain-storms-lightning-dust/11883496

Here’s the actual light conditions and set up for this shot. Two off camera lights one geled.

Bit of rain about this way the last few days, 47mm the other day in the gauge at home. Headed out to the Australian Botanic gardens, Mount Annan this morning to see what I could find. Quite a few fungi to pick from today, so all good. I checked out …

Andrew Twiggy Forest, Is known to put his money where is mouth is, and in general most people think he does more than most of our well off business types. He is a big supporter of the local indigenous people, and has spent a lot of money in that …

Maybe the top of the line Olympus, it has the flip out screen as well for vlogging and they are going to bring out a super zoom for it. It’s light for its size and does everything including in body stabilisation. Worth having a play with feels …

@Chris theres always the Scott Bourne option, Why not have both and choose which one suits your needs at the time, no rule to say it has to b eone or the other. I've heard Scott say that on many of his pod casts over the years, no where is it …

Yes some here as well 47mm here yesterday in the rain gauge here and some more to come the next few days so a good start.

A different story to come out of the fires. In the Mountains near Sydney is a small pocket of bushland, where a small area contains about 200 trees of the Wollemi pines, these were thought to be extinct from the time of the dinosaurs and were only …

Here's a group thats been around for a while now, they have a stable of singers and musicians that they rotate thought, they do the most amazing covers, well worth checking out. https://youtu.be/td-_pUPVjdo Keep an eye out for the Tamborine guy …

They will only need feed for a few weeks or so. Already in some of the areas the fires have been through new life is shooting up. From the ground and the burnt tree trunks new shoots are springing up. A photographer friend was in one of the towns …

Hmmm that could get interesting. Air drop of Carrots. Hmmm could this be a good idea???? Warning this report has some graphic images of injuries caused by Kangaroos to tourists after they got a high from eating …

Great day for Bird Photography today, not so flash for Mushrooms, again the drought and the heat are making it hard to find any, well it is for me. I didn’t find any today. So another one from the past. Take in the Australian Botanic Gardens, Mount …

Here's one of many videos on the weather sealing. https://youtu.be/HMQdzyyw2Y0 Some of the guys down here that shot waves crashing on rocks have converted over to the Olympus purely for the weather sealing as their Canon's didn't stand up to it …

Yes costed out Sony A9mkii with 600f4 canon 1dxmkiii with 600f4 and Olympus guessing at the new lens agreed about half price much smaller and lighter, the pro-capture to get the exact moment it’s all sounding good. Want to get my hands on each for …

I think you'll be very happy with the Olympus, a few things to look for in it is Pro-capture (May not work with non-native Olympus lens from memory) It allows you to take a shot and the camera has taken shots before and after you press the shutter, …

Re your comments about the water booming planes, here's some local info, including the chart showing that we are already using the largest plane there but only one of these from memory. But some reading for you. We'd need quite a few of these to …

Spot on DangerDave. Another report the govenemnt chose to ignore was this one. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-08/economic-bushfires-billions-ross-garnaut-climate-change/11848388 As per some of the other comments here, a lot of the fires as …

if you take into account insects which most of these don’t the the figure is so much higher. This from the Wayward Ecologist You may have seen the estimate suggesting 500 million mammals, birds & reptiles have been killed by the ongoing …

Yes there is a very big lot of that going on down here as well, why let the truth, science and facts get in the way of a good story. So sad and people go for it as well.

Yes Chris unfortunately this is true, we get some of this each year, some are young kids that don’t know any better but should, others do it for the excitement generated with out realising the significance. Others do it knowing full well. Probably …