I like the framework but there are too many people in the shot for me. I can be cruel with you now because you are a good enough photographer to take it...

The sky is beautiful here. Gorgeous shot. I might toy with cropping a tiny bit more from the bottom,

I think the distortion adds to the photograph

Some B/W taken at a car show

Along the highway

Here is something a little different

Several frames merged into one

Nice set :-)
2nd and 3rd work best for me with the 3rd just winning by a hair

Yes, I can't deny it rains quite a lot! And daylight hours are short in winter, but the quality of light for landscape photography is wonderful. And from March to September there is more daylight than in London :)
We all have our preferences. I love to visit London - and other big cities - but a day or two is plenty :)

Thanks to the maritime environment the winters are relatively mild - though we had some exceptional cold spells this last winter. There are palms and other subtropicals growing in the nearby botanic gardens. I fear a lot of these places are doomed if the Gulf Stream fails.

Great shot! There must be scope for some architectural abstracts there.

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A Disappointing Sunset On Heapey Moor

The view in the second is nicely balanced, and I do like the colours in the last.

Nice one. I tried something similar last week with a rookery. Another opportunity to look out for.

I like these two the most. The simple composition and splash of red. And the bird shot actually works rather nicely.

Sagalassos

Just got in last night from five weeks in Turkey, Jordan and Israel. I will most likely be posting one site a week for quite a while, and today's candidate is Sagalassos, located in the lake region of Turkey.

Although Hittite records mention Sagalassos as far back as 1400 BCE, the main reason we visit today is to see the Roman ruins --- most notably, the Antonine Nymphaeum, with a Roman fountain that is still operation. The statues at the Nymphaeum are replicas, the originals having been moved to the Burdur Archaeological Museum about 30 miles away. The location is very remote, and so the site was never looted as much as some other ancient sites. Excavations began in the mid-1980's, and only a small portion of the site has been excavated so far.

Wow, this looks like an incredible place to visit. I like the way the fountain is still working.

Sagalassos is definitely one of my favorites from this trip. The place is huge and almost deserted. A busload of Russian tourists was leaving just as I arrived at 9 a.m. After that, I saw maybe 12 people total in my five hour stay there. The parking lot was almost empty when I left. It always fascinates me how some rather ordinary sites are absolutely overrun with tourists, and other truly amazing sites are almost deserted. Of course, the location is pretty remote, but the drive through the backroads was gorgeous.

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Sagalassos

That looks like an amazing place. The fountain shot is my pick from these.
I planned a trip to the lake region a few years ago but it never happened - must revive that plan. I know what you mean about the deserted archaeological sites - we've had places almost to ourselves, notably Catal Huyuk (though that's not so immediately attractve to the uninitiated I suppose). Even the busy places can be suddenly drained of coachloads when they all head off for lunch :)

Lonely skies - a view from this afternoon

Breaking the software is the first step to real creativity, lol. 50sII, Helios 44 58/2, R72.

Awesome. Simply awesome. So is it actually just the one bird, or were there more?

I deeply despise how the poor quality of the previews completely changes what I can initially perceive an image to be. Don't be too mad at me here, but I went from "WOW," thinking this was a puddle reflection, to, "Oh, it's just a bird in the sky."