I read somewhere that they were into human sacrifice and that they were interested in the way the blood flowed.
Its a pretty weird place with Box bushes, which are not found elsewhere.
I read somewhere that they were into human sacrifice and that they were interested in the way the blood flowed.
Its a pretty weird place with Box bushes, which are not found elsewhere.
* Light dusting
Great White Frozen North is not getting much snow...(so far, that is)
Looks like you had a good walk here :-)
Sunset In Rivington
I very nearly had nothing for this week's thread, but an early finish on Friday afternoon, coupled with an unexpectedly nice evening 'hath bringeth'd home the bacon' (to paraphrase my 'A level' pure maths lecturer from many decades ago, who was nothing if not very entertaining).
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.14. Tree and Gate
I would have preferred this if the branches on the right hand side of the tree fully extended across the gate and I didn't have intrusion from the tree out of shot on the right.
These two shots stand out for me, the light and colours are really good in both
Nice use of dark shadows too , to make the lighter parts of the image look even brighter :-)
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!
The first is a good action shot !
The lead dog is looking right at you :-)
The sun dial is very cool, nicely seen and good title, but the time it's showing is a bit off, compared to the EXIF ;-)
Good morning to everyone wherever you are in the world...90% recovered now. Wow, thought I'd had flu before. I clearly hadn't. Been in bed, delirious, sweating, every joint aching, for days. And I'd had a flu jab. Maybe it was something else. Any way enough of that, many thatnks for Nigel for stepping up while I was in Brazil.
I'm glad to hear you're recovering, there's something nasty going around. My chef had been sick nearly 2 weeks.
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.
It's a very strong image and really dramatic. I didn’t experience any issues with the site, though.
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.
Following my encounter with Turner watercolours last week, I was inspired to try some ICM images
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.
A very nice set! The muted colours and contrasty scene work well for me in the first one. The third image indeed looks like a watercolour. The first lone tree works better for me than the second.
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.
Rossena
There must be something wrong with me, I see a bear on the rock
Last two are my picks/
This is the entrance gate of an empty house awaiting restoration,in Turkey, Afyon, my hometown Currently, no unapproved alterations are allowed as it is a historic building. As restoring the houses according to the law’s requirements is very costly and the owners are poor, many of these houses deteriorate slowly. Interestingly, the metal door seems relatively new and was likely added before the conservation law came into effect. The construction date of the house, inscribed in the Ottoman Rumi calendar, reads 1318, which corresponds to 1902. It’s a fascinating detail, as several old houses still stand in this neighbourhood. Notably, if the construction date is written in Arabic and the Rumi calendar, it indicates that the house likely belonged to a Muslim. Conversely, dates inscribed in Latin and the Georgian calendar typically signify that the owner was a non Muslim.
Great shot. I find my pictures always look dull when posted here, this is compared to how they look in C1P on the same calibrated monitor, so I was curious that you're finding a similar issue.
If you're working in AdobeRGB, that is a wider gamut than standard sRGB. I don't know if it's still the case, but it used to be recommended to export images in the sRGB colour space for sharing on the web, this avoids issues with software that ignores the embedded colour profile.
I'm pretty sure the effect that I'm seeing is a perceived darkening caused by the light theme of the website. As a test, I displayed one of the images I posted earlier using the website's viewer with the C1P window pulled up alongside it on the same screen and took a screen grab...
With most of the light surround cut off, the two images look exactly the same to my eyes (in terms of exposure at least), so I'd say any loss of impact is probably perceptual. Even switching to the dark theme doesn't help much, as it's not that dark, the post background colour is still quite light because the text is black and the viewing tool still has quite a bright background surrounding it.
I think a proper dark theme would be helpful (light text on dark backgrounds) as the generally bright background on this site does make a lot of posted images look dark.
I agree with what you have said Steve, but I also believe the size of the so-called "thumbnail" contributes to the effect. The bigger the image, the less blank space to influence our perception. I don't know why the thumbnail is the size it is. To conserve bandwidth? There is a lot of blank space to the right. He_who_finally_left knew how to have the image fill the width. I thought it was an appropriate size for images. Not full screen but not so condensed either.