My favorite structure in Rome, The Pantheon. Rebuilt by Hadrian in approximately 125 AD and the final resting place of Raphael. I wanted to photograph the interior but had much territory to cover and daylight was in short supply.
Morning detour while hunting for a pharmacy that would perform the Covid test.
Sidecar racing is insane, Andy. I think the slower practice version is 90% of the thrill with 30% of the risk.
Superb Pantheon images, Serge. One of my favs as well.
James, I really enjoy your indoor crafted masterpieces. I keep telling myself those would be good indoor projects but never find the inspiration to just do it.
George, it’s likely the vertical perspective distortion. To get the space above the door in the background I had to shoot from a lower perspective but wanted the vertical lines vertical in pp.
GeorgeBo wrote:
The right hand doors have me thrown off with perspective. Compression from a long lens? Maybe I have been stuck inside to long too.
We had an antique Tantalus with one cracked bottle a few years ago. It took 4 purchases to replace the bottle with one the correct style, and size. It took a whole additional Tantalus, and 3 bottle purchases. Usually the seller just threw the crystal bottle and stopper into a box with no padding, and we received a box of glass slivers. Now, we have two complete Tantalus', yet we rarely drink scotch anymore. Funny the things you end up owning sometimes.
A few years ago I spent some time on sunflowers, and their whole fractal design blew me away. I usually listen to music while shooting in the studio, and two songs came to mind out of this essentially single image. Don Mclean's "Vincent", and Zepplin's "Nobody's fault but mine". I had left the sunflowers in a vase in the studio over the weekend. They died and shed petals on the posing table where I left them - then photographed them in situ. The idea had been to do an antithesis of Van Gogh's "Sunflowers". LINK HERE (I think I have posted the first one before)
James Markus wrote:
A few years ago I spent some time on sunflowers, and their whole fractal design blew me away. I usually listen to music while shooting in the studio, and two songs came to mind out of this essentially single image. Don Mclean's "Vincent", and Zepplin's "Nobody's fault but mine". I had left the sunflowers in a vase in the studio over the weekend. They died and shed petals on the posing table where I left them - then photographed them in situ. The idea had been to do an antithesis of Van Gogh's "Sunflowers". LINK HERE (I think I have posted the first one before)
James, as it happens I have a vase with sunflowers upstairs which Ingrid bought on Saturday.
No chance yesterday or today so tomorrow I'll have a go - I may even use MF glass. Mostly my images are using modern glass these days as the old eyes ain't what they used to be - even with live view and glasses.
Both your images are inspiring and show that flowers don't have to be fresh to be interesting.
James, great flower shots with post-processing that emphasizes the mood!
Peter, I totally agree. For many years I've liked shooting dead flowers. Here's one from 10 years ago with the 85/2.0 on my old D700. Just resized and converted to jpg.
