Sunset, bats, and the Fuji X10

Flying foxes over Brisbane | Herston, February 23, 2012 | flickr

The best camera is a camera you have with you. This light lasted just for few minutes, and fortunately the Fuji X10 was with me that day. Sunset mode, 1/110 sec, F2.5, iso 100. I have not noticed that the exposure compensation dial was moved to +0.3. The image was cropped in GIMP, resized and the unsharpen mask was applied. Click on image to see the flying foxes.

In past several days the sunsets around Brisbane were very spectacular. Right now it is raining for several hours, and some suburbs already got over 50mm since 9am, and our place got about 30mm. I am curious to see if it will match overnight the January 25 rainfall when the city got about 170mm in 24 hours...   

back to photos :-) The image below was cropped on one side: there was a light pole. I probably can clone it out, but I like such long image. Araucarias are very tall trees with characteristic branches. 

Hoop pines at sunset | Herston, February 23, 2012 | flickr

Fuji X10 at sunset

 Sunset in Herston | February 13, 2012 | flickr

Both pictures were taken with Fuji X10 at Sunset settings/preset, OOC JPEGs were resized in GIMP and unsharpen mask was applied. I have posted several other pictures from the same day on flickr.

The pictures were taken under the rain, and I had an umbrella in one hand, and the camera in another. I screwed up the ID of the tree:  it is Hoop pine not Bunya pine. It is different Araucaria species.

Hoop pine | Herston, February 13, 2012 | flickr