Cool sky photo from last week:
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Bat colony/camp at Botanic Park, just outside Adelaide Zoo. These are giant fruit bats (grey-headed flying foxes), native to Australia, and the largest bat species in Australia with a wingspan of up to 1 metre.
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Thank you! Bat photos added 
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Love how you composed Spiderman
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Thanks, Ant! Comic Con is so much fun to shoot!
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Spotted a grey heron at the lake.
This is a zoom shot on a Samsung, where it combines several images (a short piece of video actually) to try to keep it sharp. If I look at the separate images they are all pretty blurred.
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That looks like it did a really nice job! The color looks a bit on the purple side though. Is that how it looks on the phone or just on the web? How far away were you? I am looking for a new phone with better telephoto abilities.
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Yes, the unprocessed pics it used are less blue, I let the S22 Ultra decide what to do with the image.
They can appear blueish in some lights, but not this much. I could sort that quite easily.
It was 10x, about 50 feet away.
Thanks very much. Impressive.
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A grey, Grey Heron. More like he looks in the video. It’s not actually that great close-up, you can see where the various images are not quite lined up. Useful tech to have I guess.
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Yes, that is more natural. Thanks again for the info.
I’ve posted a photo of the dam at Myponga Reservoir before, but it is a pretty rare sight to see the release gates open and the water flowing down the spillway.
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Is that the region that’s suffering from heavy rainfall and floods? We have the opposite here, we still have water restrictions in place - and the Autumn has been pretty dry so far.
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No, the flooding has been in the eastern states - New South Wales and Victoria, with Victoria being the worst affected.
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