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Channeling my inner Magritte, I took this last night out with the dog on the Long Walk. Might print it out. Aside from setting the exposure level, it is a completely unmolested image from an iPhone 11.
And for those interested, here is the inspiration https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Empire_of_Light
@tlr - It is one of my ambitions to photograph a Kingfisher. There are a couple that must nest close to me on one of my regular kayak haunts but they are so bloody quick!! Your pics must have taken some patience and are incredible.
@eskay - thanks, they are quick buggers for sure. These were taken at 4000th of a second, I was very lucky with the light. And some decent equipment too, always makes me smile when people ask if I took it on my iPhone.
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Full Member@eskay – thanks, they are quick buggers for sure. These were taken at 4000th of a second, I was very lucky with the light. And some decent equipment too
And a tank full of minnows in the river too??? 😉😉
Excellent kingfisher photos, we’re lucky in that near us is probably the tamest kingfisher in the Uk, will happily perch and fish about 10’ away, sometimes there are 20 people watching it!
Only got good perching shots, it’s hard work getting the fishing shots!
A few from the Bristol harbourside.
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@vmgscot - I love the photo above with the old fenceposts across the dry grass, I like taking similar simple photos using a diminishing perspective.
The kingfisher photos are stunning!
Here’s a couple I took while out for a walk around Biddestone last week, when I took some bluebells I’ve just posted on the bluebell thread, but I also spotted this little fella, and I was able to get close enough to get a couple of photos, before it flew off - it’s tricky using a mobile phone, but I put it onto 2x zoom, which helped; the phone was still less than seven or eight inches away, though!
I don’t often take mono photos, but I’ve taken quite a few of this part of the lane where I took the butterfly and bluebells photos, and with the clouds it looked like it might be worth a go - I’ve just tweaked it a bit, upped the contrast, brightness and so on a wee bit, but nothing much.
Evening stroll around Cambridge.
The Jesmond library sits nice with all the ancient buildings...
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So the project that I've posted a few images of on here - Ivan: The Divided Self - has had some recognition via the online magazine Lens Culture. I thoughtl, vainly I suppose, I would share here. Maybe the wider project is of interest to others here.
The images I submitted into this competition are only a small fraction of the total project, which is likely around 60 images now that I would regard as keepers (probably three times that in images that just won't ever see the light of day).
I really need to make a selection from that 60 to curate a finished project set that will go on my website, but I just don't appear to be finished yet! Perhaps I need to publish this project in volumes!
Lens Culture Portrait Awards
My neighbour, Obert, originally a son of Zimbabwe, taken on the anniversary of that country's independence.
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Had my first play with a (cheap) ND filter while cycling along the Southern Upland Way - Old Bridge of Minnoch (aka Roman Bridge)
Not up there with the great and the good of this thread but I was happy with the composition and results from a simple point and click camera phone.
From atop Farley Mount in Hampshire
Few from a week's holiday in Croatia, mostly just phone pics but the best camera is still the one you've got with you.
A day at Bempton Cliffs:
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Phone box with a bit of character
Dodging the rain this morning I cycled overt to a cemetary I'd ridden past since a child, but never entered. This angel really stood out in an area of overgrown graves.
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Harris Hawk launch. Taken on my Samsung A50.
@hopster - that Angel statue is lovely, the blurring of the foreground grass works really well.
Here’s a couple I took a couple of weeks or so ago, quite unexpectedly. I was walking back to the workshop at around 7am, and something white blowing around caught my eye, then as I was looking around to see what it was, I felt something on my arm…
This is what it was, it happily sat there while I fished my phone out of my left pocket, and managed to open the camera one-handed, get it focused and take this photo. Then it flew off, but came back and landed on my arm again; I managed to get another shot, slightly closer, but not quite as crisp.
It’s a Swallowtail moth, apparently rarely seen, because they’re strictly nocturnal!
Beautiful creature, lovely subtle colours, and a privilege to share it’s world for a couple of minutes.
Not necessarily proud of these as such - nothing special beyond 'test' snaps on a dog walk, but having fun playing around with an old Japanese lens I found in the bottom of a box the other day. Was given to me years ago and totally forgotten about. Plugged into a new (to me) Lumix MFT body via an M42 adapter. My eBay purchase history this week already suggests that modern kit plus old lens might be a bit of a new obsession...
Loving the fact that old lenses won't speak to the camera body so I'm having to try and remember how to take proper photographs again rather than just pointing and clicking and letting the software do it all.
I love watching bumblebees burrowing into thistle flowers, difficult to get a symmetrical photo usually, but this one’s close-ish.
Osprey with a catch
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Turns out I like silly cheap modern Chinese lenses less than old free Japanese ones...
(waits impatiently for eBay deliveries)
Seemingly random one, but I liked it and it's actually bike related...
Rider dropping into the top of the last steep chute at Grinduro at the weekend. As per the Marshal's instructions: "Awkward corner, steep chute, aim left at the bottom..."
Fisherman.
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Today's new old lens is a Zeiss Tessar 50mm. Beautiful thing to use and love the image quality, but on the MFT body with an M42 adapter, it's focal length is just too long for anything other than close up work. Shame, as I really like the lens but it won't really work for landscape on this body.
Another day, another old lens delivered to play with. This one's a bit younger I think. A not so great Pentacon 29mm from the later era when they were rebadging other lenses.
I quite like the way it handles colour but the main issue is the 'win some lose some' of buying cheap eBay lenses - it's full of dust (see the final unprocessed image below). This isn't an issue when shooting wide open, but makes the thing pretty useless when working with smaller apertures.
It's filthy!
Snapped this last night
A few nice ones from a few days in Wasdale last week:
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Quick selection from the last few weeks.
These photos are all amazingly good and a joy to see, especially with such variety. I cannot take a good photograph, I’m only slightly better than my aunt, who infamously cut off everyone’s heads 😂
I’m proud because I managed to make my underwater camera work and then get the picture from camera to iPad!
Probably not up to the high standards above but I really like this one of my bike from a couple of weeks ago.
Was out shooting for The Heb adventure race again last weekend, and we got glorious weather on the Sunday afternoon.
I haven’t really been out and about much lately, just not in the mood, but I’m really chuffed with this one from EOTR Festival:
Mid-range action camera as digital lomography stills camera? Fixed focus? Check. Automatic exposure? Check. Point and click? Check.
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Stunning sunset that, I saw the same last night but couldn’t get a photo as was driving…. It was a belter especially when you get the pink appearing too with the orange
It’s that time of year again.
It certainly is...
