Thank you very much, Ronny! I feel the same about all the images you posted, not this one.
Kathy White wrote:
Kathy, that is an awesome image! Not only did the osprey dive in front of you but it did so with a nice prey in the claw. I am officially envious .
Thank you Joshua, high praise coming from you.
Oh my gosh, how beautiful Joshua! Your post processing is just exceptional. You should do a utube video, just so I could watch it.
Another of my Osprey shots .
Kathy, thank you very much! My post processing is actually quite simple and pretty fast. The PP for portrait or people photography is more cumbersome. I don't think I want to do any YT video anytime soon. But I can give you some pointers here and there. Please PM your email.
For very good reasons I don't talk politics about the Himalayan region. It's about the most militarised and surveilled place on the planet. But here is what the main roads in Tibet look like these days. I wish my country was smart enough to do this (elevated roadway, concrete edges, drainage, armco inside and out, trees everywhere). People don't enjoy hitting animals, potholes, corrugated surfaces - more accidents and fatalities are the result.
The raised green vertical slats on the centre sections are a cheap genius move - they stop you seeing oncoming traffic and drivers relax more as a result, it's a clear demarcation. It's the most peaceful experience imaginable to cruise along in a 3500m paradise on these roads. Even the trees have stabilised the Yarlung River valley, less dust storms, more beauty.
philip_pj wrote:
For very good reasons I don't talk politics about the Himalayan region. It's about the most militarised and surveilled place on the planet. But here is what the main roads in Tibet look like these days. I wish my country was smart enough to do this (elevated roadway, concrete edges, drainage, armco inside and out, trees everywhere). People don't enjoy hitting animals, potholes, corrugated surfaces - more accidents and fatalities are the result.
The raised green vertical slats on the centre sections are a cheap genius move - they stop you seeing oncoming traffic and drivers relax more as a result, it's a clear demarcation. It's the most peaceful experience imaginable to cruise along in a 3500m paradise on these roads. Even the trees have stabilised the Yarlung River valley, less dust storms, more beauty. ...Show more →
I noticed the same visually even before reading your words. Interesting!
Sometimes it's fun to scroll up, from the bottom duh, where else?) and see how many photographers I can recognize, from their particular style/voice.
Turns out, quite a few.
A ordinary photo with a backstory: this library of over 40,000 manuscripts date from the early translation phase of Tibet, when Indian sutras were translated from Sanskrit to Tibetan script - a 300 year long undertaking dating from the 10th-13th centuries. Not before time, as the Muslim invasions finished off Buddhism in India, leaving barely a trace. Many of these books are recorded in gold ink. One celebrated book (over the womens' heads) is 500kg, 6ft x 4ft, 2 ft wide. The Tibetans had sealed all this behind a wall - it was only 'discovered' in 2003. #2 I'm impressed with the colour of the Sony 85/1.8 - getting these 'right' enough is usually very hard (lots of yellows and golds, fluoros, low EVs).
Gunzorro wrote:
Beautiful shots of a historic town, Helena! I am curious what is the
tall steeple -- surely not a church, with the copper symbol and two
sledge hammers.
A random mix of B&Ws taken with 7Artisans 75mm/1.25.
Reindeers on the roads is a very common sight, especially in winter, because they like to lick the salt.
Looking at 2 Fledgeling or Juvenile Tricolored Herons.
Cropped; tripod mounted 100-400mm GM set to 288mm and A7rIII camera; silent shutter.
ISO 100, f5.6, 1/50 second.
Exposure corrected +0.20 Stops.
May 11, 2019
At Gatorland, Orlando or Kissimmee, FL.
The poppeys are gorgeous this year with the rain we got lately. Went scouting a big area and found this view I really liked. Shot with CV 21mm 1.4 Nokton.
From the archives . . . I took my old Canon LTM 50/1.4 out for a spin on the a7R4. It's actually a pretty nice lens. While wide open at f/1.4 it's a bit glowy, it can give decent results. Stopped down, the lens gives a nice rendering.
The first image is wide open using the VM-E close focus adapter opened up to get closer to the subject. The rest are at either f/5.6 or f/8
Last image shows this little lens on the Sony. Perfect size!
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but I am dying to see the subsequent images.... Did it catch a fish?
