SiMuMe wrote:
Reminds me of Oceanos, the cruise ship that sank off South African waters in 1991. Wonder if they have stopped daring the oceans with these names.
Siphiwe, I do not know. One thing is certain, you will never see me on one of those floating buildings, have enough of those in NYC.
Nice photos, specially enjoyed the clarity of the one in the previous page. Your zoom looks fine to me.
James, going back a couple of pages to color vs B&W kitty… with the color picture my eyes are immediately drawn to the richness of the bird’s eye maple, and also the out of focus transition. I’m a sucker for nicely colored woodwork. With B&W the wood disappears, the kitty becomes the subject. Interesting difference! I suppose that’s the essence of B&W photography, with this being he clearest example I’ve ever seen.
Serge,
The Pantheon, and the fountain Trevi are such treats to the eye, and their history was an enjoyable read. I live in Michigan - where we salt the roads in the winter, and the governor ran on a slogan - "fix the damn roads". Roads here break up in 12-months to just a handful of years, but the Romans built roads, domes, and aqueducts that last for millennia. It puts things in perspective for me. Thanks again
Jim
serge07 wrote:
Ray, great scenes and colors.
Rafael, excellent composition, nice lighting.
Andy, super view from outside the office,terrific photograph.
Trevi Fountain, 1762
Visitors throw approximately1.2 million Euros annually in hopes of returning to Rome. The coins are collected by a Catholic charity.
The rest of the story - You will likely be surprised that I discovered the bird's eye maple on the back of some tacky brown wood-grained paneling in my den during a remodel. It's from the 1960's - the front of the paneling was a featureless open grain wood like gum, or light color English walnut with vertical lines cut on the face. The table was a rock maple frame with a smoked glass insert which a visiting couple's child jumped feet first onto - shattering the glass. After my heart started beating again I replaced the glass with the bird's eye maple (some of the best I had ever seen), and banded the edges with a Padauk, Purple heart, Maple, and Wenge inlay I made. I like rich wood color too.
jbouchard wrote:
James, going back a couple of pages to color vs B&W kitty… with the color picture my eyes are immediately drawn to the richness of the bird’s eye maple, and also the out of focus transition. I’m a sucker for nicely colored woodwork. With B&W the wood disappears, the kitty becomes the subject. Interesting difference! I suppose that’s the essence of B&W photography, with this being he clearest example I’ve ever seen.
A couple days ago it started snowing. Eight inches - then another inch for good measure the next day. Two days later it is almost all melted. The Robins showed up just before the storm, then couldn't find worms - so they started eating and guarding Barb's seed cakes. The other long term resident birds are not happy - many fights. Not fat shaming, but with all those eggs onboard, how did they ever fly here?
D850 with the Nikkor 600mm f5.6 ais and the tc16a + MB-D18 grip & Battery Rat-a-tat-tat-tat @ 9.2 fps
Matt, the sunset colors in the pier photo are uniquely beautiful.
Glen, your processing is different, changed a while back, in my view it works great with the grass and sky, not so much with the car, what are your process settings?
Wintry trees look interesting Ray, nice color.
Andy, the color of your sunset is beautiful and dramatic, the cloud strata knocks it off the field.
Thanks you for the roman tour Serge.
Siphiwe's gardens make me jealous.
After the unexpected success of the weed portraits, took the 13.5cm 3.5 MIOJ NKT to my Kit Carson Park walk, a mile from home. Minimal processing, some vignetting added.
Another nearby historic bridge , this time over the Shotover River.
Originally a wooden bridge was built in 1840 which washed away, replaced by a later version in 1880.
This version was "completed" in 1913 but the council refused to pay the final bill to the contractor as the council's Chief Engineer believed that the final pier's footings were not excavated down to bedrock.
The engineer was proved right when a subsequent storm/floodwater surge down the river washed the last pier away. The council's team finished the bridge 2 years later. As you can see, the new pier footing design is different. The washed out pier is still there on the river bed next to the new pier !
It was refurbed a few years ago when the timber deck beams were replaced with steel I-beams. (There is a new concrete bridge nearby that now carries the vehicular traffic out of town)
rafaelcasd wrote:
After the unexpected success of the weed portraits, took the 13.5cm 3.5 MIOJ NKT to my Kit Carson Park walk, a mile from home. Minimal processing, some vignetting added.
rafaelcasd wrote:
Beautiful photos of the pantheon Serge. Whant happens when it rains? the skylight is open right?
Thanks, Rafael. It is a very interesting place to photograph.
I believe it always remains open but Roman engineers addressed the potential of water damage. The Pantheon's circular floor is raised at the center so the water would flow to the perimeter where drain holes are located. Amazing engineering for a 2,000+ year year structure.
GroWeb wrote:
I've been pretty busy with work this week and not posting; but this place has been keeping up the pace rather nicely! For today's contribution, I have a few more photos from the Canadian Prairies in 2017, courtesy of the Fuji X-E2 that was my first mirrorless camera, purchased from the B&S forum here on FM. As I mentioned previously, I used only MFNG on this cross-country trip, but I don't know which ones as they all show as 24mm in the exif data. I'm waiting for some decent spring weather to coincide with a weekend or a day off so I can get some 2024 photos. In the meantime, I'll keep working through what are, as far as I can tell, previously unprocessed images from our move from Ontario to BC....Show more →
Hey Glen, that first image looks like a car ad! Can I print it really big and hang it in the garage for Suzie? We finally parted with her 17 YO Honda garage mate and she would love having a picture of a sibling for company! She is a charcoal colored twin with a rack!
We did a bike tour called "The Flower Route", about 35km around the "Keukenhof".
It was expected to be a half sunny day, but as usual no sun.
Only Daffodils and Hyacinths are at full bloom at the moment, so next month we'll try again.
NIKON Z 6_250-135mm f/3.5 lens92mmf/8.01/320s100 ISO0.0 EV
NIKON Z 6_250-135mm f/3.5 lens92mmf/8.01/250s100 ISO0.0 EV
Terrible tragedy in Baltimore overnight, and the effects are going to last a lot longer.
The previous incident in those waters was almost exactly 2 years ago when the Ever Forward (sister ship to the one that got stuck sideways in the Suez) ran aground a few miles south of today's incident. That was a lot more benign event so I managed to find a spot to take a couple photos while it sat immobilized in the shallow area of the Chesapeake Bay.
rafaelcasd wrote:
Glen, your processing is different, changed a while back, in my view it works great with the grass and sky, not so much with the car, what are your process settings?
Interesting difference between your perception of the car, Rafael, and Mary's (see below)! What are you seeing about the car that doesn't seem to work? The processing was done through a combination of various "light" settings (such as light/shadows/blacks/whites, contrast/microcontrast, etc.) and denoising in PhotoLab 7, followed by various options in the latest iteration of Nik Color Efex; then the frame and some vignetting were added in PhotoRaw 2024. As you can see in the first image below, the car was pretty dirty.
mjgphotoz wrote:
Hey Glen, that first image looks like a car ad! Can I print it really big and hang it in the garage for Suzie? We finally parted with her 17 YO Honda garage mate and she would love having a picture of a sibling for company! She is a charcoal colored twin with a rack!
Mary
You may feel free to print the image, Mary. However, before you do this, you should know that this car was a Subaru, not a Honda (the first photo below makes this fact easy to see).
Here is my final set of photos from the Prairies in 2017 from, as always, the Fuji X-E2 with unspecified MFNG.
saph wrote:
Terrible tragedy in Baltimore overnight, and the effects are going to last a lot longer.
The previous incident in those waters was almost exactly 2 years ago when the Ever Forward (sister ship to the one that got stuck sideways in the Suez) ran aground a few miles south of today's incident. That was a lot more benign event so I managed to find a spot to take a couple photos while it sat immobilized in the shallow area of the Chesapeake Bay.
I saw that news and the video of it happening and immediately thought of you Samy. Terrible tragedy. Apparently it had damaged it's stern and the dock in a previous incident while in the charge of the same Captain.
