Thank you Faye. 

I love seeing photos of the snow and ice.  I don't like the cold either so will probably never see it for real. 

Here's another variation on Sabastian's (my son) sunglass picture.  Taken at Pottsville Northern NSW.

We got a new cat tree

This is not my picture but it is well worth including in the thread.

The pair are 13 and 14, they are members of a group of students learning English in Russia, the event was a party on Valentine's Day.

Depth of field demonsration.

Top of lens is in focus as is the lens cap as well as the rellection in ithe lens. The focus point was the closest rim of the lens

The Sun.

Picture taken using a 32X ND filter and 2 linear Polarizing filters out of phase at f22. the polarizing filters have to be of the linear type and set at 90 degrees out of phase the blue colouration is added by the polarizing filters.

The sun was also veiled by a thin layer of cloud.

The solar corona is clearly visible, which I was hoping to capture 🙂

I was looking for Sunspots but there were none 😞

Sunspot 🙂

Picture taken 15-03-15 Using Solar Filter at f8 with a 300mm lens

It is only a small one even though the earth wuld fit in it several times over

Better sunspots 🙂

There is also another one developing on the lower right

More celestial objects

Great thread. It doesn't say in the head post that you must have taken the original photo, so... I'll post a few "impressionist" pics, if that's all right...

 

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