April 2025

[Hans_S]

The shepherd

That's quite a contrast between the two sides of the road, the last of the old ways in what is now an industrial setting. Man (and dog) vs machine.

[Hans_S]

Tokyo inferno.

+1 to all the comments above!

[Frank Fremerey]

Testing the capabilities of my new phone. Moss and lichen growing on a wooden bench. Slight crop.
iPhone16 PRO

Utilzing these new top of the line mobile phones can show how far we got technically. IIRC the camera hardware is the same in Apple 16 Pro (yours) and Google 9 Pro (mine). Only the software differs.

[Frank Fremerey]

lovely person unshitting the roof

[Frank Fremerey]

THE VOID


in the Spanish Outback


(annotation: I replaced the version of the picture accidentially had posted the wrong version with a supertired head after a very long ride. We got up at 3 in the morning and went to bed at 20)

Here in the Galician mountains the world ends on the very edge of the settlements. After that vast landscape and fog. I take my camera bad after dawn to show more of these edges.

[Bruno Schroder]

Thank you, Lars and Arturo. I'm pleasantly surprised. Close up images sometimes have an overprocessed look but in a way I kind of like.
Frank, it would be interesting to do same shots comparisons ...

[ARTUROARTISTA]

That's quite a contrast between the two sides of the road, the last of the old ways in what is now an industrial setting. Man (and dog) vs machine.

Indeed, Hams, that place used to be dry fields where hares ran wild and shepherds roamed freely. Now it's an industrial park and a dump. The image is real. I was in the passenger seat and my wife was driving on the way to Puebla de Mula, and I saw the shepherd like a remnant of the past, leaning on his pole, philosophizing in the face of unstoppable development. I shot.

[Akira]

+1 to all the comments above!

Thank you, Hans!

[Fons Baerken]

16april

Basil

Z7_2  _ nikon 55mm f/1.2

[John Geerts]

Nice!, John - I look forward to the same here in Denmark. In the Netherlands the trees are a bit ahead of the trees in Denmark.

Thanks Lars.  Yes we are more than 500km southwards

[ColinM]

lovely person unshitting the roof

I'm speechless (but impressed) Frank! 

Peter Cook & Dudley Moore once did a sketch in the 70's
"What's the worst job you've ever had?"

[Airy]

An "impossible" shot. Lille, cathedral interior, after an evening concert.
Zf, adapter, Canon FD135/2 wide open. 40,000 ISO. Processed in Lightroom. I also tried with DxO 8.5 but did not like the rendering as much - slightly "plasticky".
The old Canon FD must be about 40 years old now... and it is darn good. It only disappointed on m43 (conspicuous purple fringing wide open, which I never noticed otherwise).

[Frank Fremerey]

END OF THE ROAD





La Fonsagrada, Galicia, Spain






D500 with 300PF

[Frank Fremerey]

An "impossible" shot. Lille, cathedral interior, after an evening concert.
Zf, adapter, Canon FD135/2 wide open. 40,000 ISO.  I never noticed otherwise).

We seem to be getting used to what we can do  indoors... at night... I guess we should dare to experiment more.

[Akira]

Hard at work.  iPhone14.