*** This Week Through Your Eyes 2025.04.05 ***

Good morning to everyone wherever you are in the world...the weather here in London has been just perfect for a week now. Amazing how sun can lift the spirits.

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Ipanema Beach, Rio de Janeiro.

Damson blossom time

Our new home overlooks the Lyth valley in Cumbria, centre of the Cumbrian damson growing area. With this week's warm weather, the trees are coming into blossom. The trees are scattered around the small local farms, adding a white froth to the picturesque scene. I haven't had much time for photography lately, but took the camera along on yesterday's evening stroll.

Being on that beach would be my idea of hell, but it's a great photo! Balance, colour, depth - it has it all.

Old town, new camera

On Wednesday I took deep dive with my credit card and bought OM-3. On Thursday it was very warm (+17C, right now it's 0 and land is covered with snow...) so I took my camera out to show it old town.
It was fun to shoot and try different creative modes (I used mono, soft focus with stars effect and vivid modes) though handling is not optimal, as it's quite heavy camera without grip, missing focus point joystick and creative mode dial is too tight, requiring two fingers to turn. But my main reasons to replace OM-5 with OM-3 was similarity to my main camera OM-1, including battery, this makes it easier to switch between cameras.
All images are SOOC as DXO does not support OM-3 yet.

Street of old town. Sometimes gets busy, mostly from tourists, mostly from Finland.

Depeche Mode bar. By fans of DM to fans of DM. Word goes around that band members have visited this place as well.

As flag says, photo museum behind town hall, exhibiting old cameras and photos. I've visited it years ago, maybe need to revisit.

Someone is lost and tries to find right route?

Cases, i see cases.

Near busy main streets there are other streets which are quite empty

Street dance

In front of old town's McDonald's, the place young seem to like

Ad for Fotografiska exhibition of Erwitt's photos. I visited it couple of weeks ago, great experience, quite few photos made me laugh. But if anything then it made me want to photograph something similar. I just need to accustom to BW world, it's quite different from colour and one needs to work with shapes and light instead of colours to make good photo.

Out of old town to modern city.

The Pinnacle

I decided to go back to a favourite place for my Sunday afternoon walk. The Sassi di Roccamalatina, are two pinnacles that rise out of the surrounding landscape. You can climb one of them via stairs that were cut into the rocks long ago. It was a slippery climb as it had been raining.

Signs of medieval habitation, near the top

Here I am below the pinnacle that I climbed. You can see the Cross at the top of the pinnacle I climbed.

I stopped of at a Medieval Borgo on the way back

I like the way you included the balconies on the left, to close of the image.

Fantastic atmosphere and light in both of these. Well spotted.

Me too but I did go early one morning and it was lovely.

Congratulations Vahur!
I do miss some of the computational magic from Olympus.
In terms of photos, i think the 4th is my pick.

Fantastic set Nigel. Italy looking lovely as ever. These are my picks. especialy first and last.

Waterworks - Nuts & Bolts

Part Ii from last week's thread of redesign of 1930's machine shop to present Food Hall...

Winning shot, so are the rest.

Just fabulous shot.

Hot, hot, hot...

Great classic shot. Did you use that special monochrome dial?

The twig patterns are lovely in this shot.

Here the Cherry trees are in blossom.

Nothing like a new camera to stimulate the photographic appetite. Not being able to shift the focus point with a joy stick seems like a big omission. How do you move the focus point with this camera?

I like the vibe in this last shot.