*** This Week Through Your Eyes 2024.01.18 ***

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Woodsider79
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Jan. 18, 2025, 2:10 p.m. Jan. 18, 2025, 2:10 p.m.
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@Vahur has written:

Natural sun dial

Lovely to see some of your bird photos. The 'sundial' is a great catch.
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Wormsmeat
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Jan. 18, 2025, 2:16 p.m. Jan. 18, 2025, 2:16 p.m.
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@NCV has written:

Monte Luseto

I have been to this strange place before, where the Celts made some strange incisions into a large rock for their ceremonies. I wanted to experiment with my old Sigma 12-24 which I found autofocuses on my D850. On the way back I came across a couple of nice "Case Torre".

This strange cat looking carving is set into a church wall next to a ruined castle, below Monte Luseto. The cat was amongst the ruins.

Monte Luseto

Albereto

Rossena

I like the double cat start. And I like how in Italy, when one takes a picture of a building, there's often a little landscape lurking in the background as in the penultimate shot.
The last is my fav though, nicely lit.
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Wormsmeat
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Jan. 18, 2025, 2:19 p.m. Jan. 18, 2025, 2:19 p.m.
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@NCV has written:

@Wormsmeat has written:

Rio de Janeiro gets its name from Gaspar de Lemos, a Portuguese explorer who initially thought Guanabara Bay was a river. Rio de Janeiro means river of January.

I flew round Christ the Redeemer and Sugar Loaf in a helicopter, which was great but not great for photography. I eventually got the picture I wanted from a boat in Guanabara Bay.

I give up trying to second guess this website. I gave this image a curves boost because this website tends to anaesthetise pictures. Now it looks nothing like it does on my calibrated screen or even my phone. I'd love to see how it appears to others. If I post something on Flickr it looks the same as my PC.

I must say out of the thousands of shots that I have seen of this monument, your picture of Christ the Redeemer, is pretty unique and interesting.

How did you holiday in Brazil go?

I thought long and hard how to come up with something different. Wanted to capture the spiritual feel that statue casts over Rio. In the end it was to wait for the right weather and shoot from a distance.
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Wormsmeat
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Jan. 18, 2025, 2:36 p.m. Jan. 18, 2025, 2:36 p.m.
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@Wormsmeat has written:

@NCV has written:

@Wormsmeat has written:

Rio de Janeiro gets its name from Gaspar de Lemos, a Portuguese explorer who initially thought Guanabara Bay was a river. Rio de Janeiro means river of January.

I flew round Christ the Redeemer and Sugar Loaf in a helicopter, which was great but not great for photography. I eventually got the picture I wanted from a boat in Guanabara Bay.

I give up trying to second guess this website. I gave this image a curves boost because this website tends to anaesthetise pictures. Now it looks nothing like it does on my calibrated screen or even my phone. I'd love to see how it appears to others. If I post something on Flickr it looks the same as my PC.

I must say out of the thousands of shots that I have seen of this monument, your picture of Christ the Redeemer, is pretty unique and interesting.

How did you holiday in Brazil go?

I thought long and hard how to come up with something different. Wanted to capture the spiritual feel that statue casts over Rio. In the end it was to wait for the right weather and shoot from a distance.
Holiday was pretty intense. Crammed a lot in.
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Wormsmeat
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Jan. 18, 2025, 2:39 p.m. Jan. 18, 2025, 2:39 p.m.
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@Woodsider79 has written:

@Wormsmeat has written:

Rio de Janeiro gets its name from Gaspar de Lemos, a Portuguese explorer who initially thought Guanabara Bay was a river. Rio de Janeiro means river of January.

I flew round Christ the Redeemer and Sugar Loaf in a helicopter, which was great but not great for photography. I eventually got the picture I wanted from a boat in Guanabara Bay.

I give up trying to second guess this website. I gave this image a curves boost because this website tends to anaesthetise pictures. Now it looks nothing like it does on my calibrated screen or even my phone. I'd love to see how it appears to others. If I post something on Flickr it looks the same as my PC.

Hard to comment on the processing without seeing the comparison, but maybe it could use a bit more drama. Fantastic composition though. Very different from the usual touristy pics of this. Of course 😁

More drama?! I'd have to raise Cecil B. DeMille from the dead. I thought this was already OTT :-)
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Wormsmeat
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Jan. 18, 2025, 2:41 p.m. Jan. 18, 2025, 2:41 p.m.
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@AlanSh has written:

@Wormsmeat has written:

I give up trying to second guess this website. I gave this image a curves boost because this website tends to anaesthetise pictures. Now it looks nothing like it does on my calibrated screen or even my phone. I'd love to see how it appears to others. If I post something on Flickr it looks the same as my PC.

Can yopu post a link to the raw file (if you have one). Or a link to the JPG you like. I'd be interested in seeing the differences.

Alan

I will.
But just testing something here...

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Wormsmeat
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Jan. 18, 2025, 2:43 p.m. Jan. 18, 2025, 2:43 p.m.
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@ChrisOly has written:

* Light dusting

Great White Frozen North is not getting much snow...(so far, that is)

Ooh! I like this!
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Wormsmeat
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Jan. 18, 2025, 2:44 p.m. Jan. 18, 2025, 2:44 p.m.
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@ChrisOly has written:

@Wormsmeat has written:

Rio de Janeiro

Iconic site and your shot is really full of drama in the sky, unseen before (imho).

Did you go to the jungle or stayed mainly in the city?

No jungle, visiting some friends in Goiania and nearby. Then Rio.
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Wormsmeat
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Jan. 18, 2025, 2:46 p.m. Jan. 18, 2025, 2:46 p.m.
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@SteveMonks has written:

Sunset In Rivington

I very nearly had nothing for this week's thread

2. An English Countryside Scene

This reminds me of some of the historic paintings that seem to be popping up on my social media quite a lot recently. I particularly liked the juxtaposition of the misty fields and woods in the distance against the silhouetted tree and fence, but I was being plagued by the strong sun in the scene and limited by where I could stand, before eventually finding a spot that brought in the elements I liked while sticking the sun squarely behind the trunk of the tree to reduce the glare.
The foreground is a boggy mess of ploughed mud as there seems to be some construction work going on here, but the abject mess of it is conveniently hidden in the shadows. Result.

Towers overs the rest of the set.
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Wormsmeat
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Jan. 18, 2025, 2:48 p.m. Jan. 18, 2025, 2:48 p.m.
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@ArvoJ has written:

@Wormsmeat has written:

I give up trying to second guess this website. I gave this image a curves boost because this website tends to anaesthetise pictures. Now it looks nothing like it does on my calibrated screen or even my phone. I'd love to see how it appears to others. If I post something on Flickr it looks the same as my PC.

Interesting, I see your [gorgeous] image identically in browser or displaying downloaded file. Your image is saved in AdobeRGB - maybe this causes some problems?
What browser you are using? From your description, one possibility is that your browser color management is somehow messed up and it displays images like they were in sRGB - which results in much less color saturation and a bit different dynamics. Chromium based ones (Chrome, Edge, Opera, Brave) use windows default color profile, I don't know abut Firefox (or non-windows browsers) settings.

I use Firefox :-)
But images on Flickr always appear OK to me.
What profile would you suggest? sRGB?
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NCV
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Jan. 18, 2025, 3:29 p.m. Jan. 18, 2025, 3:29 p.m.
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@Woodsider79 has written:

Good to hear you're on the road to recovery. Sounds a very unpleasant week.

A Cold Snap

We had very little snow in Galloway, just a covering on the higher hills. But several days of hard frost.

There were some magnificent cloud formations.

Some old sheep folds. Ihave shared images of this spot before, probably with identical composition, but it's a place I like to return to.

The cloud formation is really nice, with just enough detail in the foreground. I like the last shot too, with all that scruffy detail.
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NCV
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Jan. 18, 2025, 3:32 p.m. Jan. 18, 2025, 3:32 p.m.
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@ChrisOly has written:

* Light dusting

Great White Frozen North is not getting much snow...(so far, that is)

I remember once flying over Canada on my way to Atlanta. I was amazed by the endless white landscape.
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NCV
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Jan. 18, 2025, 3:46 p.m. Jan. 18, 2025, 3:46 p.m.
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@Vahur has written:

After couple of days of snowstorm sun came out last Sunday so I decided to go out with camera, though hope to see birds was small, as wind was quite strong and not many birds want to be exposed in these circumstances.

So, you finally had some decent snow. The natural sundial is the winner in this set for me.
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Wormsmeat
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Jan. 18, 2025, 6:21 p.m. Jan. 18, 2025, 6:21 p.m.
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@Vahur has written:

After couple of days of snowstorm sun came out last Sunday so I decided to go out with camera, though hope to see birds was small, as wind was quite strong and not many birds want to be exposed in these circumstances.

There were others, defying wind and some degrees below zero, and they seemed to enjoy it!

Lots of life in this shot.