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Before we started our holidays, I bought a new zoom lens: the EF 70-300 F4-5.6L IS .  The plan is to use this lens mainly for nature and bird photography, and the lens performs exceptionally well.  I already could make some very nice pictures of the European honey buzzard and the common kestrel.  During our holidays in Italy, I also tried to make some pictures of the moon, without a tripod, just shooting from my hands and I was really amazed by the amount of details that were visible.  I used the Canon EOS 80D, which transforms the lens in a 480mm lens.   Enjoy the pictures!  The moon on July 17, 2021 in Piedimulera, Italy The moon on July 19, 2021 in Piedimulera, Italy The moon on July 20, 2021 in Piedimulera, Italy  

During our holidays, we stayed one week in the beautiful Obergruberhof in Latzfons, Italy.  On holidays, I tried to make quite some timelapse movies.  This time, I tried to make some holy grail timelapses.  A holy grail timelapse is the smooth transition from day to night.  This is not so easy to do, because the difference in light during the day and at night is enormous.  I made the timelapses using my Canon EOS R.  As intervalometer, I used the LRTimelapse Pro 2.5 timer .  The settings of the camera were adapted automatically using the Android app qDslrDashboard .  This app calculates the brightness of the images taken and adapts the camera settings to make this more or less constant.   The two camera's shooting the pictures for a timelapse movie The editing and rendering of the timelapses was done using  LRTimelapse .  I'm happy with the results, certainly because it was my first attempt to make a holy grail timelapse.  It is a bit pity that the clouds were building up duri

During our holidays in Austria, we could spot a nice halo during one of our walks.  The rainbow-colored arc at the left side of the picture is a lens artifact.   Halo in Gaschurn on July 3, picture taken by Canon EOS 80D and Sigma 10mm f/2.8 EX DC