*** December 2025 Images & Videos Thread ***

[jtv_backstudio]

Sad Santa

 

[PJD]

I'd previously shot this bridge on a sunny Summer day ...

But today it's raining:

• Panasonic DC-S5M2X
• LUMIX S 20-60/F3.5-5.6
• ƒ/6.3
• 42mm
• 1/100s
• ISO 2500

 

[jtv_backstudio]

Took a ride and stopped at a waterfront park.

• Sigma Sigma BF
• ƒ/5.6
• 24mm
• 1/1250s
• ISO 320

• Sigma Sigma BF
• ƒ/6.3
• 24mm
• 1/2000s
• ISO 320

 

[PJD]

Another Anna's Hummingbird, this time snapped using my 70-300mm lens, again through our home office window's double-pane glass and screen. As expected, sharper & with fewer artifacts compared to a similar shot taken with my old Nikkor 70-210mm manual lens. Happiness.

• Panasonic DC-S5M2X
• LUMIX S 70-300/F4.5-5.6
• ƒ/6.3
• 300mm
• 1/200s
• ISO 1250

 

[xaviergut]

Tree and sunstar by XAVIER GUTierrez, on Flickr

Panasonic DC-S5M2 + LUMIX S 20-60/F3.5-5.6 @ƒ/9.0 - 47.0 mm - 1/4000 - ISO 100

 

[RuleOfThirds]

Had to kill some time near Schiphol Airport today, so played with the 70-300 a bit.

• Panasonic DC-S5M2
• ƒ/8
• 166mm
• 1/320s
• ISO 1600

• Panasonic DC-S5M2
• ƒ/8
• 152mm
• 1/800s
• ISO 1600

• Panasonic DC-S5M2
• ƒ/8
• 284mm
• 1/640s
• ISO 1600

 

[RuleOfThirds]

• Panasonic DC-S5M2
• ƒ/2.8
• 24mm
• 1/13s
• ISO 1600

First stage of th Ariane1 rocket

• Panasonic DC-S5M2
• ƒ/5.6
• 24mm
• 1/13s
• ISO 1600

Part of ISS in 1:1 for training if I remember correctly

• Panasonic DC-S5M2
• ƒ/5.6
• 24mm
• 1/80s
• ISO 1600

European part of inside ISS.

 

[GeorgeHudetz]

I'd previously shot this bridge on a sunny Summer day ...

But today it's raining:
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Ah, Oregon. I do miss the moss.

 

[Travis Butler]

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First stage of th Ariane1 rocket

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Part of ISS in 1:1 for training if I remember correctly
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European part of inside ISS.

Ooh, nice. Where's the museum?

And OK, fine. Still working on the shoot's pics, but I'll put up a few from the Kansas Cosmosphere trip.

 

[Travis Butler]

Kansas Cosmophere
Winter weather cut short my Thanksgiving visit to sis's family in north central Illinois... but weather was still good to the south and west when I got home, so took the chance to visit again, hoping they'd finished their big renovation.

They had.

20251130-SDIM8838 by Travis Butler, on Flickr
Sigma fp, Hexanon 28/3.5

20251130-SDIM8843 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

20251130-SDIM8850 by Travis Butler, on Flickr
The shooting model of Glamorous Glennis used for the 1990s movie The Right Stuff.

20251130-SDIM8858 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

20251130-SDIM8868 by Travis Butler, on Flickr
Alas, the remodel did not include anti-reflective glass. ;_;

20251130-SDIM8898 by Travis Butler, on Flickr
TTArtisan 11/2.8 fisheye
The original version of this gallery did a compare/contrast between the early US and Soviet manned space programs, and thankfully they kept this for the remodel. Note the Voskhod 2 replica in the background; while most of the spacecraft was built from semi-authentic bits, like the capsule (from the Zenit satellite program, which used the same shell as Vostok and Voskhod), the airlock is an actual flight-ready backup.

20251130-SDIM8910 by Travis Butler, on Flickr
Likewise, this isn't an actual Vostok capsule, but a replica made from a flown Zenit capsule. Still very well done; the Cosmosphere's restoration shop built all the spacecraft sets for Apollo 13 back in the 90s.

20251130-SDIM8948 by Travis Butler, on Flickr
A closer look at Voskhod 2. The old version of this hall was a very challenging shoot, because of low lighting and reflective glass; the new version has more light, but unfortunately the glass is just as reflective.

20251130-SDIM8937 by Travis Butler, on Flickr
Liberty Bell 7, the Mercury flight that sank and was recovered in 1999; the Cosmosphere did the restoration, so after going on tour they were able to keep it.

20251130-SDIM8953 by Travis Butler, on Flickr
The new Apollo-Saturn gallery; the bits in the foreground are parts of a F-1 engine from the Saturn V that were recovered from the ocean floor in 2013.

20251130-SDIM8959 by Travis Butler, on Flickr
This LM was built by Grumman, but not for flight; it was used by NBC as a demonstration/broadcast aid during the original Apollo flights.

20251130-SDIM8967 by Travis Butler, on Flickr
This LM, OTOH, was an engineering test model from earlier in development; you can tell because the front hatch is circular, not rectangular.

 

[RuleOfThirds]

Ooh, nice. Where's the museum?

And OK, fine. Still working on the shoot's pics, but I'll put up a few from the Kansas Cosmosphere trip.

This small museum is called Space Expo, in Noordwijk. Near Katwijk on the shore. Very close to Leiden as well. It focusses on Dutch contributions in space and some general stuff like the rover and the moon landing.

• Panasonic DC-S5M2
• ƒ/4
• 24mm
• 1/25s
• ISO 1600

Soyuz capsule in which Dutch astronaut André Kuipers travelled back and forth to the ISS.

• Panasonic DC-S5M2
• ƒ/5.6
• 24mm
• 1/15s
• ISO 1600

A rover replica

• Panasonic DC-S5M2
• ƒ/5.6
• 24mm
• 1/8s
• ISO 1600

Moonlanding 1969 in 1:1 setting.