• Members 968 posts
    Jan. 26, 2025, 10:24 a.m.

    Yes, a heavy load. It was actually a trike.

  • Members 419 posts
    Jan. 26, 2025, 10:26 a.m.

    I guess you found source of photography there, several great shots from same location.

  • Members 419 posts
    Jan. 26, 2025, 10:29 a.m.

    Great scene, I'd visit this location frequently, it seems to allow great shots in different conditions.

  • Members 968 posts
    Jan. 26, 2025, 10:29 a.m.

    Cheating who?
    You're not selling it as editorial.
    Do what makes you happy, it's a hobby.
    The last is lovely, although I'd crop top and bottom.

  • Members 968 posts
    Jan. 26, 2025, 10:30 a.m.

    Some beautiful sunsets and sunrises at the moment and this is another.

  • Members 419 posts
    Jan. 26, 2025, 10:32 a.m.

    Nice warm light is working well with this scene. Seems like it's open to winds, trees are growing in one direction.

  • Members 419 posts
    Jan. 26, 2025, 10:34 a.m.

    Great colour combination here. And great moment with few people on platform and trains full.

  • Members 419 posts
    Jan. 26, 2025, 10:43 a.m.

    Huh, I'd expect low down in up north but it seems possible to have it in Italy as well... My consolation is that here we are moving toward spring and light, day is 90 minutes longer than it was month ago.

  • Members 419 posts
    Jan. 26, 2025, 10:45 a.m.

    It's taken during overture when music built up and singer waited for his turn to let out first scream :D

  • Members 419 posts
    Jan. 26, 2025, 10:48 a.m.

    I'm pretty sure that such ice formations convey some message, but so far I haven't been able to decrypt it...

  • Members 419 posts
    Jan. 26, 2025, 10:59 a.m.

    FIrst is excellent, looks like painting.
    Second is also great, but (without knowing what's outside frame) I'd gone bit wider to get merging foreground and background hill into frame.

    Last is another excellent shot, only nitpick is that maybe bit more space between fence and tree would have been better.

  • Jan. 26, 2025, 1:11 p.m.

    Tomorrow, Monday 27 January, the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, is International Holocaust Memorial Day.

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    Translation of the inscription:

    Never forget

    This is where the house of the Gestapo stood. It was hell for those who believed in Austria. For many of them it was the antechamber of death. It has fallen into ruins like the Thousand Year Reich. But Austria has risen again and with it our dead, the immortal victims.

    More information here.

    David

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  • Members 705 posts
    Jan. 26, 2025, 2:52 p.m.

    This is the one that speaks to me.

  • Members 705 posts
    Jan. 26, 2025, 2:55 p.m.

    It's quite near the coast of Morecambe Bay, so I guess the wind funnels up from the Irish Sea
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  • Members 1892 posts
    Jan. 26, 2025, 3:43 p.m.

    When, I open a newspaper of late, it seems the lesson is fast being forgotten sadly.

  • Jan. 26, 2025, 3:46 p.m.

    Try this one!

  • Members 349 posts
    Jan. 26, 2025, 4:20 p.m.

    I think you may have missed the tongue in cheek nature of my comment there and taken it a bit too seriously.

    Perhaps the top, but not the bottom.

  • Members 349 posts
    Jan. 26, 2025, 4:44 p.m.

    There's not a lot worth seeing outside of the frame from that vantage point, at least while focusing on the woods. This is one of the wider shots that I took, but ultimately discarded to give you some idea.

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    I did try other crops, most notably taking a chunk off the top and bottom, although, mostly the bottom to get rid of the messy muddy patch in the foreground, but in the end I preferred the full frame image as I quite like the way hardy moorland grass looks in winter. Here's the cropped version for reference.

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    I think it's worth revisiting this location at some point and experimenting with different vantage points, while trying not to drown in the bog.

    Yeah, I'd tend to agree there, although, short of bringing along a pair of step ladders to get a bit more height I'm not sure how I'd achieve that from that spot ;-)

    I did take a few more shots once I'd crested the little hill I was on, which do successfully separate the two elements, but it loses the curve of the fence as it crests the hill and introduces the patches of green grass from the path on the right, which I'm not keen on. Again, if I'd had more time to experiment, I may have found a workable compromise.

    Here's one of those shots with a hasty edit thrown on to give you some idea how it would have looked...

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    JPG, 805.2 KB, uploaded by SteveMonks on Jan. 26, 2025.

  • Members 968 posts
    Jan. 26, 2025, 4:46 p.m.

    I've been. A life changing experience.