The mono shots look timeless but my fav is that xmas restaurant. Looks so welcoming, even when xmas is disappearing in the rear-view mirror.

Replying to Wormsmeat (the thread-starter picture).... there's a super "feel" to this! Like a movie. Cellphone cameras nowadays... give great results. The exposure algorithms are especially impressive. Why do I lug around a camera bag? Because it is heavy (need some exercise) and there are more controls/settings to fiddle with? Okay... IQ, to some extent. But sometimes... I wonder... especially for close-up subjects. Telephoto is a different ballgame. I do indeed like to shoot with my phone, too. :-)

[Edit... I've just now looked at the other replies (NCV... looks like a frame from a "film noir") -- I got the same impression!]

My favorite is the last one, #8. Really nice wide shot. 12mm? Were you able to level the camera perfectly (and is the distortion that well-controlled) or did you do some straightening in post? If so, what did you do/use? Looks like a really good lens.

What a tree for climbing and the life it has had living there at the pond's edge. I had to look-up "heath" -- and I found it. Interesting! And I learned about Gloucestershire. That's another thing I like about these photo threads. A bonus!

A very nice scene that balances the wet/gray weather I'm seeing looking out the window right now. Is this in Toronto? When I see pink, I think of Miami.

Minus 6, that's cold. My favorites are #4 (Uphill battle against wind and gravity), #8 (Old town hall square), and #12 (Walking in old town).

Thanks

It was taken with a 15mm Laowa shift lens, on a Nikon Z8. I used a tripod with a geared head, with the camera levelled, and the lens shifted upwards. The shot is a 3 frame HDR composite.

The Laowa is a surprisingly good lens

SOME SHOOTING - made a couple of stops on the drive home after work this week (normal places/subjects) and also a shot from the back yard (another typical subject). I keep telling myself I'm going to branch-out, but never seem to have the time to go far afield for a fresh perspective! Nothing to write home about, but always fun to get out with the camera and then fiddle in post. :-) I like the motivation this weekly thread provides.

Holgate Street

East Passage & cloud-obscured Olympic Range

Georgetown (I probably over-cooked this a little bit).

Yes, Toronto, Canada. Sugar Beach - man made environment facing Lake Ontario.

Great shot of dreadful traffic.

B&W is a perfect setup.

Saddle maker.

Brrr.... I like how the trees and spire work together. Could be next (this) year's Christmas card 😊

Nice balance to this. You're right, seeing the world through other people's eyes is a great part of this thread. it has taken me to many places I will never visit in person.

Great scene. I wonder wher his 'clients' stand when they come for a fitting 😁

My First Shots of 2026

A bit of a round up of what I've been doing since New Years Eve. A selection of kit used including the GFX100S, OM-1 and the Z8.

Sunrise Over Belmont

This is typically the only time of year I get to take sunrises, the whole "getting out of bed at a silly time in the morning" usually writes that idea off before it has a chance to form, but with sunrise around 8:30 in the morning, I can just about make it. So it was, on this particular morning I managed to drag myself out of bed and drive over the moors in Belmont to just catch sunrise. It wasn't the best morning for it to be honest as the sky was completely cloudless, but the emerging colours were nice, so it was worth getting up and shooting it.

Other challenges include the car park near the centre of both images. When I arrived, I carefully parked my car behind a bush, knowing where I'd be shooting the photos from, but there was a huge camper van sat there in full view, so that's had a bit of healing brush treatment to get rid of it. If you look carefully, you can just see the white edges of my car poking out from the scrubby brush near the front of the car park, but it's not intrusive enough to be worth cloning out.

The car park itself is pretty intrusive. When shooting a similar shot under different conditions I've managed to tint it to make it less obvious, but here, it still stands out quite badly. This being a GFX image, I could probably crop it out, but that's a whole different composition, so I'm going to need to try this again in the near future while sunrise is still reasonably late in the day.

I took a number of shots with intentional framing including this one for X-Pan format...

And this one which was actually intended for 4:3 framing, but I preferred the look of a square crop on it...

Deerie Me

I've had quite a lot of success photographing the local Roe Deer over the past few weeks, which is great fun, although I'm not so sure they're into it as much as I am. After comparing results between the Z8+Nikkor 100-400 and the OM-1 + Olympus 100-400 I don't think there's much in it by the time I've cropped the images down, even though the Olympus lens isn't as good as the Nikkor one. With this in mind, I've been experimenting with carrying both cameras on short(ish) walks. The Z8 with the 24-70/2.8S for general landscape photos and the OM1 with its 100-400 for wildlife shots. The OM1 has worked well with the deer, its subject detection seems better than the Z8 when it comes to spotting these animals.

Cormorant

I'd been tipped off that there was a Kingfisher knocking around at the Heapey Lodges, so I was on the lookout for that when I noticed this thing swimming around in one of the lodges. Eventually it headed to the shore and raised its wings to dry them out. It was really too far away for the 100-400, but I've run it through Topaz to upscale and sharpen it and I think it's an okay image. I've yet to see this Kingfisher of legend and repute.

Heron

As I was looking at the Cormorant a Heron came flying along from my right. It would have looked great if I'd caught it early on, but I was too slow and only managed to get myself into gear as it swung around and came into land.

It then crept along the shoreline in a rather sinister manner before finding a spot to rest in.

I waited for quite some time to see what happened and eventually, without warning it took off. Again, I was too slow to react and missed it taking to the air, but managed to grab a few shots of it flying above the lodge. I would have caught more, but I'd positioned myself badly for the direction it was heading and after just a few shots it had disappeared behind the trees.

Tree In A Snowstorm

When I set off for this particular walk the skies were clear. As I was getting my kit out of the car it started to snow, quite heavily too. Great timing eh?

Lodge In A Snowstorm

This is looking across the lower entry in the Heapey Lodge chain as the snowstorm got into its stride. Fortunately the snow was short lived.

Snow Covered Trees

This tree on the side of the lodge really stands out in person and a dusting of snow its branches certainly did it no harm. From this angle, it looks to be reaching to the trees on the opposite bank and they're reciprocating. The surface of the lodge is frozen and covered in snow.

Framed

I spotted this composition on my way back past the lodges towards the end of my walk. I think it required a bit kneeling to get the alignment just right, my knees may forgive me one day.

Some Sort of Sunset

The sun was setting as I walked back past the lodges on my way back to the car and the sky looked pretty good, but the options for foregrounds were somewhat limited, but I think I got away with it.

Thanks. I bought the Pixel 9 Pro simply because it has a decent telephoto. I prefer to use a camera but for those grab shots the phone does a decent job.

The first is very well handled. Good composition, good lead-lines, well exposed and some starbursts to boot.
The third has subtle lighting, is tack sharp and the composition allows the eye to follow the the light trail right to the end of the train.
Well done sir.

These one-man industries always make for a good subject.

These two are superb.

The colours in the first and last, together with the billowing foreground in the last make great bookends to this series.
I always find herons slightly amusing; they seem to take themselves so seriously 😁. Your reflection shot is great. 😁