*** This Week Through Your Eyes 2024.01.27 ***

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Brighton, UK. Of course.

No humans

Oh, I like the hip outfit. Excellent catch.

A touch dark but that really seems to emphasise the distant focal point.

Bologna

I am coming to the end of my Romanesque project, and now I am starting to move forward in time to explore Gothic and Renaissance architecture. Also Bologna, which is hour down the Autostrada, is a city that I have never really explored. So on Sunday I went to see the Gothic San francesco, with a couple of Renaissance items tacked onto the visit. A virtual visit on Google maps has thrown up an almost endless list of places and things to photograph, in this city.

San Francesco needs another visit as I was not to happy with what I shot.

This set was shot with a Z7 + Nikon 24PC and 24-200, on the monopod, with feet. I had some weird sharpness problems with this shoot, so I did some testing this week and I found that with a small mod with sticky tape to the ball joint between the feet and the monopod, I can replicate the sharpness of my heavy tripod.

Oratorio Spirito Santo

Corpus Domini

Well that's odd, the first shot seems to have some kind of optical illusion. It appears to have barrel distortion and a tilt to the right. But I put a grid over it and it seems bang on.
The 3rd is one of those that comes to life when viewed large, razor-sharp and a nice starburst.
And #4 is nice too.

Some fab examples of period architecture.

That ceiling reminds me about spiders...

What a classic shot with contrasting light, shadows etc
Brilliant.

British eccentricity and high camp at its best.

Just finished reading a rather disturbing Julie Burchill article in the Spectator about Brighton.
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This looks like a still from one of those old B&W films from the fifties. Lovely.

Yes, looking more carefully you are right. I think the fact the building has a lighter area in the centre, is playing tricks with our eyes.

This shot shouts, "cold winter day".

I'm not sure if the diagonal shadow is a good thing or not for me.

Julie Burchill is still a voice of reason.

Walk in park

About week ago I took walk in local park. Weather was nice and winterly, fresh knee-deep snow falling from sky. Not much is left from it thanks to thaw, the nice snow has turned into cold and hard ice, so I leave house voluntarily only to run on icy streets (thanks to Icebugs which make it possible). Anyway, I at least have some photos what I can look at and dream how proper winter looks like...

"No Place to Hide"