*** This Week Through Your Eyes 2023.09.23 ***

Reflection

Outstanding! My clear favorite immediately. Love the composition and the wonderful colors.

Would love to be able to take shots like this... Excellent work! 👍

Yes indeed - that's my clear favorite as well! Love the light and reflections!

I got very close to an eraser on a pencil and - with the help of a tiny Zeiss microfilm lens - was able to convince it to get rid of some of the redundant bokeh 😅:

I did a 'field study', trying to create a painterly look, as is discussed in detail here.

... and tried to capture these balancing acts with one of the most unusual scanner lenses I've seen so far (it has an almost perfectly round aperture and is able to create bubble bokeh like a Trioplan, even though it's most likely a 6 element design:

They reminded me of the carvings at Bluewater Shopping Centre, depicting various professions in stone.

This one is a winner and I want to eat ice cream now !

Yours is definitely more interesting than mine. I wish I had a camera long time ago. I feel like I missed the golden era of street photography.

Yes, all in-camera.

The first one is focus stacked (bracketed in-camera, assembled in Ps). It was pure luck that the jackdaw had its head turned at the right angle, as the the other shots in the sequence it was looking all over the place 😁

Decay

More from the village of Cromarty. The remains of an old Victorian church.

This image makes me ask a question - does anyone have a guide about working with reflections?

I think you have something there. It was much easer to snap away back then, no privacy neurotics ever hassled me on my wandering around London. London was also a lot more gritty and interesting back when I did these shots.

Some time ago I was shooting some architecture. Some woman passing by demanded to see what I had shot to make sure she was not in the picture.

Piacenza II

Here are a few more pictures of my trip to Piacenza. Basilica di Sant'Antonino was the original city Cathedral, built outside the city walls. Much altered, the Romanesque origins are still mainly hidden under the Baroque makeover. The cloisters are a little oasis of peace and quiet.

Some other places in the city.

Palazzo Farnese

Basilica San Francesco

Brilliant! Yes, times have changed.

Actually the water is excellent, it's from a natural spring. It was murky because of clay stirred up in heavy rain. But my fishing is catch and release anyway.

There's always some social event happening near you it seems Vahur.

Ha! Very droll.