It was a circular glass floor which Photoshop's reflection removal tool cleaned up nicely. Even though it was glass I had to crawl on my hands and knees to its edge.
May 3, 2025
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This is lovely when seen big, and we are able to explore all the little detail.
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Early Purple Orchids
These have been popping up all over Sizergh Fell, just a few minutes walk from home. I took focus bracketed shots and stacked in Ps, but getting the closest focus point was tricky for the closer shots in fading light.
There's some variation in colour;
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A really interesting view! On first glance I thought "How did Wormsmeat manage that with coping with vertigo...?" Well done!
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What an amazing place! Someone had a very active imagination!
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Now that would make a great jigsaw!!!
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What a fascinaring series. If that cabinet were restored it would probably be quite valuable now!
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These almost work 😁In the second I would have tried to get rid of the one foreground flower that's OOF and obstructing the main subject group - perhaps just weight it down with something if you don't want to pick it. (I get rather blaze about bluebells after having them come up as weeds in my vegetable garden)
These are lovely. Well done. Bluebells are surprisingly trickt to capture well in my experience.
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Orchids are always impressive. I like the way you have put the plants into a landscape context.
Apart from judging the closest focus point, I found that getting a wind free moment was almost impossible, even a 5 frames a second, I got of unusable stacks.
Yours are nice and sharp. Has the Olympus got a higher frame rate for stacking?
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We all have an irrational fear of class floors. I have done strength calculations for glass floors like this, and they are super safe to walk on, with a failsafe layer. But I think I would be afraid to walk on this one too.
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Interesting photos!
These cellar rooms are also to be found in old apartment houses, such as where I live, built before 1900.
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Ouch. I'm not good at heights, such view is not for me.
Our TV tower has similar floor windows at height 190 meters, when I visited it I avoided them though I know that they are safe. -
Nice scenes, seems like spring is on fullest there. On second image I'd probably centered this road, right now it seems to be off.
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Interesting frescoes, not the usual biblical representation of saints, I guess.
Being only or one of few photographers in group is difficult, photographer will be in hurry always and others waiting. I try to avoid group travels for this reason, as usually in such case schedule is tight and not accounted for photography. Only groups I enjoy is traveling with photo groups where there is plenty of time allocated for getting shots done. Or travel alone. -
No higher frame rate, though it does use the electronic shutter. I think I was just lucky with a still evening.
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Well, all these are straight out from camera and some may benefit from post processing, e.g. this first image may benefit from better contrast. But in some shots I used this handy computational button on camera to turn HDR on and get more dynamic range in JPG-s.
I agree about post-Chernobyl, as it was quite surreal to walk in these apartments: I felt like I was traveled back in time 30-60 years, intruded into someones home and expected owners to step in any minute and start shouting at me. Real time capsule, which I haven't experienced in other museums. -
Great pictures, again. Thanks for taking me along, I felt like I participated there reading the description and looking images. Seems like in this case your quest for bluebells was sucessful.
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Those bluebells are really lovely! You caught them well, I especially like the first two in the light and those carpets of bluebells are just something traditionally English. They seem to love ancient forests :-)
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Until I read the comments, I didn't realise that you're standing on a glass floor here. Puts a whole new perspective to it :-)
