*** This Week Through Your Eyes 2025.03.01 ***

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Woodsider79
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March 1, 2025, 5:42 p.m. March 1, 2025, 5:42 p.m.
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@ChrisOly has written:

Beach anyone?

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Great White Frozen North has been bombarded by lots of snow recently, up to half a meter (20 inches) and freezing temperatures (-20C or -4F). The view of the beach is a relief, however we have to wait few more weeks for the arrival of Spring...

Love this! The little pops of colour are hopeful.
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Woodsider79
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March 1, 2025, 5:52 p.m. March 1, 2025, 5:52 p.m.
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@SteveMonks has written:

An Evening On The Moors

Shades of Ratten Clough

I was really drawn to the bold shadows cast on the ruin and spent a little time trying various locations and compositions. I was short for time as I had plans to be on another part of the moors and I was restricted by being on the wrong side of the fence, so this is the best I came up with, actually leaning against one of the fence posts to fit as much of the wall and tree in as I could without foreground obstructions.

Shadows always make for interesting images, and this is no exception.
The barn owl is a great bonus, just to watch.
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Fireplace33
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March 1, 2025, 6:15 p.m. March 1, 2025, 6:15 p.m.
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@NCV has written:

Carrara

I was down this way for work on Friday, and when I finished, I visited the Duomo in Carrara, as the weather was not too good, and the Marble quarries up in the mountains were shrouded in damp fog. Actually, I am finding that cloudy days are good for Architectural photography, as I do not have to deal with the sun being in the wrong place, and other buildings casting shadows.

This Cathedral is the only church in Italy constructed with solid marble blocks, rather than faced stone. Immagine the cost of building this building today? It suffers from that black mould that seems to like marble. The Architecture is a mix of Romanesque and Gothic.

I tried out my new Nikon Z8 for the first time. The button driven bracketing for HDR sets, is very nicely implemented on this camera. The viewfinder level is a small step back from the Z7 as the lines are very faint. I was able to use my tripod with geared head, as the place was deserted and nobody seemed to mind.

All up to your usual high standard!
Interesting & wow, all made from solid marble.
Congrats on the new Z8, personally I'm waiting for an update on the smaller bodied Z7, if it should ever come.
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SteveMonks
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March 1, 2025, 7:28 p.m. March 1, 2025, 7:28 p.m.
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@NCV has written:

An interesting read as usual. These two are my picks from this set.

I too hate those bloody information panels that visually pollute almost every monument and place of outstanding beauty. Surly they are redundant when I can look things up on my phone, or at least could be made less obtrusive.

That exactly mirrors what I think about these things. In this day and age, anyone interested in what the ruin is could look it up online, or even a small QR code on a plaque somewhere would be better for the internet connected crowd. The worst thing is they place them right next to the ruins and they're massive and not in keeping with the surroundings.

Here's a version of the same image with the sign left in place, it stands out like a sore thumb.

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SteveMonks
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March 1, 2025, 7:39 p.m. March 1, 2025, 7:39 p.m.
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@NCV has written:

Carrara

I was down this way for work on Friday, and when I finished, I visited the Duomo in Carrara, as the weather was not too good, and the Marble quarries up in the mountains were shrouded in damp fog. Actually, I am finding that cloudy days are good for Architectural photography, as I do not have to deal with the sun being in the wrong place, and other buildings casting shadows.

This Cathedral is the only church in Italy constructed with solid marble blocks, rather than faced stone. Immagine the cost of building this building today? It suffers from that black mould that seems to like marble. The Architecture is a mix of Romanesque and Gothic.

I tried out my new Nikon Z8 for the first time. The button driven bracketing for HDR sets, is very nicely implemented on this camera. The viewfinder level is a small step back from the Z7 as the lines are very faint. I was able to use my tripod with geared head, as the place was deserted and nobody seemed to mind.

Some interesting buildings and adornments as always. I do wonder what some of these sculptures are depicting, they're a bit bizarre.

Welcome to Z8 club. I much prefer the control quadrant arrangement to the drive mode dial approach on the Z7, as you say, it's much nicer for getting in and out of bracketing modes. My only disappointment with bracketing is the lack of negative only or positive only bracket sequences, it seems a peculiar omission and is the one thing I really wish they'd add in a software update (open gate video would be nice too, but at least we've finally got shutter angle in the latest update as well as separate still and video settings banks I believe).

The horizon level implementation was one of the main selling points for me as I can configure it to show both the horizon level and the histogram at the same time, something the Z7 couldn't do for some reason, yet pretty much essential when taking high contrast landscape photographs hand held with a modern digital camera.
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SteveMonks
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March 1, 2025, 7:41 p.m. March 1, 2025, 7:41 p.m.
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@Woodsider79 has written:

@SteveMonks has written:

An Evening On The Moors

Shades of Ratten Clough

I was really drawn to the bold shadows cast on the ruin and spent a little time trying various locations and compositions. I was short for time as I had plans to be on another part of the moors and I was restricted by being on the wrong side of the fence, so this is the best I came up with, actually leaning against one of the fence posts to fit as much of the wall and tree in as I could without foreground obstructions.

Shadows always make for interesting images, and this is no exception.
The barn owl is a great bonus, just to watch.

Barn owls are amazing thing to watch when they're hunting over moors. When I first saw one up there, it looked like some ghostly spectre, silently floating above the grass in the pale moonlight. Marvellous.

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SteveMonks
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March 1, 2025, 7:46 p.m. March 1, 2025, 7:46 p.m.
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@Woodsider79 has written:

North Face

...of the wall.

Mossy dry stone walls are glorious things. I particularly like how you've caught a curious tree, peering over the wall to look at you in the last shot.
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Fireplace33
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March 3, 2025, 10:18 p.m. March 3, 2025, 10:18 p.m.
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@SteveMonks has written:

An Evening On The Moors

The planet is now getting back into a position in space where there's enough time for me to get up onto the moors after work for a couple of hours before it goes dark, which is very considerate of it. Even the weather has played ball over the past few days, so one night this week I was quite eager to gather my kit together and begin the lengthy trudge up the steep tarmac of Well Lane to reach Withnell moor.

Onto The Moors

This is actually the point where Hatch Brook leaves the moors and disappears beneath Well Lane to reappear in the woods before tumbling down its steep and rocky waterfall.

Whittles Plantation

Often, a cluster of mature trees on these moors is an indication of the former location of a moorland farm and these are no exception, although the farm ruins themselves are out of shot and way off to the left.

Ratten Clough

At the top of Well Lane stands the ruins of Ratten Clough.
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As usual, another interesting and enjoyable story.
These two are my favourites from that good set.
Great compositions and lighting!
They'd also go down really well in the new Weekly Landscspe Thread, if you're interested :-)
Trevor