Those are great! I remember one of your similar shots with the interesting bird shadows of snow - you really manage to get some really effective compositions out of those scenes - excellent work! I'm sure I would struggle with a situation like that (particularly with snow involved)...

Wonderful capture! I love that you got some of those buildings in there as well to give some context we're inside of a city. The perspective is really interesting and makes me curious how big those things are. I would assume 5-6 meters? Bigger?

Those look really unique - love the look and inventiveness. Are all of those double exposures? I'm very impressed by the way you're able to use this technique!

A somewhat random collection:

Leaf-in impression by simple.joy, on Flickr

Advertising clip by simple.joy, on Flickr

And of course two shots with my (somewhat limited, partly free-lensed f/0.85) "Rocktilux" lens.... it's not really called that, but it's heavy! 😂

Nail-in focus? by simple.joy, on Flickr

Closer to the essence still... by simple.joy, on Flickr

These pictures have a very dreamy soft vibe to them. Nicely done.

I like the way these shout Canada.

This Morning in Brinscall Woods

I wasn't really in the mood to go out for a walk this morning as I'd been on a relatively long hike in the Lake District yesterday and everything was still hurting. I should add that it was a very enjoyable walk in the Dunnerdale fells, a mere six miles and 1,600ft of ascent, but it seems my body classes that as a long walk these days.

Anyway, despite the strong urge to remain in bed this morning, I'd received a used copy of the GF45-100 f/4.0 a couple of days ago and was eager to test it properly, plus mist had been forecast first thing, so somewhat wearily I forced myself out of the house and off to the local woods, thinking I'd just potter around for 30 minutes taking some test shots.

Three hours later I was still there and, if I hadn't had other commitments and my joints weren't still aching, I would have stayed much longer as the conditions were great and seemingly improving as the day wore on, although the promised mist was a complete no show as usual!

All images taken on a tripod with the Fujifilm GFX100S and 45-100 f/4.0, except for the first image which was shot at nearly 45mm with the 32-64 for some reason. All were taken with a CPL and edited from individual raw files in Capture One Pro 23.

1. Wonky Trees

This is actually the right hand half of a wider shot and although I liked many of the features on the left hand side, they weren't really adding much to the overall composition, in fact I felt they imbalanced it.

2. Hanging Out With A Fun Guy

I seem to be spotting fungi all over the place at the moment, there were loads of tiny ones mixed in with the turf on the fells yesterday, but this little cluster on the side of a rotting tree seemed kind of cool. The 45-100 only focuses down to 65cm, so there's been a bit of cropping to get this so large in the frame. Having said that, the full res edit is still about 40MP.

3. The Eerie Woods By Hatch Brook

This is close to unedited by my standard. I've switched up the film sim to Film High Contrast, boosted the contrast a bit in the lower left and lifted the overall exposure ever so slightly, plus I've cropped it to 3:2 to get rid of some bits of sky that were creeping into the frame. Looking at this, I wish I'd included a bit more of the tree on the right hand edge of the frame, but if I recall correctly, the main trunk continues up and out to the right and what looks to be the trunk curving back into the frame is actually just a branch, so it's probably better as it is.

4. Fifty Shades of Green (and a bit of yellow and orange)

5. A Gateway

This was as wide an image as I could get with the 45-100 and there was already a downright hostile holly tree attacking me from behind just for standing on this spot, so zooming with my feet wasn't an option. I did take a slightly wider shot by moving a little to the left which allowed me to move further back without getting impaled on the holly, but in the end I actually preferred this shot out of the two.

6. Don't Forget To Look Up

This was taken around 9:30. The woods sits on the steep, West facing slope leading up to Withnell Moor, so it doesn't get any direct sunlight first thing in the morning, but by this time the tops of the trees were just beginning to rise above the shadow cast by the hillside and the canopy was taking on a rather impressive golden glow. I nearly missed this spectacle and it was only by chance that I looked up to the top of the steep slope in front of me and spotted it.

7. Over The Wall

This is on the other side of the wall to a one time favourite photography spot of mine. That spot has lost its lustre now that the fallen tree that sat across the wall has decayed and collapsed, destroying one of the best features in that scene. Fortunately the view from this side is not too shabby at the moment.

8. Colourful Chaos

This a very busy image, but I think it works. I've actually cut about 1/4 of the left of the frame to draw the focus more along the line of the receding wall, which I think removes a few distractions and helps to guide the eye.

They are all good, but for me the standout shot is this last one, with its "Colourful chaos".
The rich reds and greens in the lower part of the image compliment each other well, and the two thicker trees left and right make a nice frame for all those autumn leaves in the upper part!
A very harmonious result, Super!

Thank you, yes, all double exposures. i was particularly pleased with the first as it seems to capture the quality of light just as the rain stopped falling and the sky brightened a little.

I think this one works well despite being 'busy'.

I have samsung and with all the 100+ megapixels it's not delivering comparable to read camera quality, especially in night, despite of the night shot modes. Maybe when I try to shoot in RAW and or use some non-default post-processing results will be better but I never cared much to try it. Just the handling of mobile phone for taking shots is not good at all, so I'm not interested in shooting with it. I use camera occasionally for documenting something or reading too small or hard to access labels, but that's it.
All that said the image looks quite good...

These are quite interesting, look like paintings.

So similar and yet so different...

Seems like this club updated the lighting set, previously they had only ceiling lights, but now there were also floor lights in front of drums stage, making these nice light rays and they added quite lot to visuals. This makes shooting even more challenging as you have to fight against 2 sets of counter lights, but where's fun if it were easy :P

First shot is really facinating, love it. Maybe bit too tightly framed but everything else is very good: the scene, captured moment, processing.

Seems like castle made for sitting out hard times, in the middle of nowhere... But with great views so you can enjoy them while waiting something to happen.

Thank you, this is greatest praise when someone admits that he is not interested in photographed subjects but still enjoys photos.
On other hand I expect that these photos are liked by music lovers and musicians without questions asked :P

These shots are really interesting, black birds on white snow and especially their shadows.