Reminds me of a courtyard in Pompeii...

At record market

Haven't photographed lately much, last 2 days are spent on visiting Tallinn Music Week (TMW) concerts. Not photographing them, so had to go out today to get some images to post here. One of the TMW events announced was record market though it takes place more often than only during TMW. So I thought that this is good opportunity to get some images for this topic.
Bought also second-hand Tenacious D CD, it's playing now and i'm chuckling at Jack Black's lyrics, great fun 😀

Music lover's backpack

Record seller with style

There were also instruments for sale

Record case

New music obtained

Labeling record boxes is good idea, otherwise one is lost in these piles

Properly clothed for event

Nice weather brings out smiles

"I had to tear out this record from his hands"

Flipping through records

Overview of market. It was quite crowded as weather was sunny and today it was also warmer: almost 10C, it's been barely above zero in this week.

Ten meters of bags filled with CDs

Damson gin is the best!!
Stewed with greek yoghurt 😋
Crumble.
Removing the stones is a bit of a faff so if we're consuming them en famille we don't bother, just spit them out 😁

What a little gem. I like the sense of reflected light in this one.

Magnificent building.

Overwhelming majority of middle aged men trying to relive their mis-spent youth 😂
Those instruments look interesting.

Love deco so this gets a thumbs up.

Nice one. The prospective effect is brilliant. How does it look in colour?

A nice set. I remember crate digging in the past. I must admit I use Discogs these days for hard to find albums.

Art Deco, when it is done well is probably the finest modern architecture.

Vinyl was a much more rewarding music experience in as much as it gave you some tangible to hold, read and pore over whist listening. I can remember the names of albums back then but not now.
This is a good shot, shame you didn't have a little blip of flash.

I'm sold!

The Character of A Woods

I find it interesting that a woodland can have its own character and I think two recent walks in nearby woods demonstrate this.

The first was an afternoon walk in Brinscall Woods. It was an overcast day and the woods looks like it is only just starting to wake up and moving into its Spring phase. Here's a selection of images from that walk (all taken with the Z8 + Nikkor 24-70 f/2.8S + CPL mounted on a tripod)...

A few days later, I took a morning walk in Roddlesworth Woods. This is around five miles away from Brinscall Woods. The weather was actually a bit brighter than it was when I visited Brinscall, so I was able to get away with handholding all of these images using the same kit...

I think these two areas show a very different character and hopefully this comes across in the pictures. Brinscall Woods feels very peaceful, the trees seem almost relaxed and protective. In contrast, I never feel particularly comfortable in Roddlesworth Woods, there's a sense of anger in the trees and parts of the woods feel downright eerie for no particularly good reason. It's odd and I can't explain it, but I've never felt that same sense of unease in Brinscall Woods, or most of the other woods that I've photographed in the area.

Mind you, I did spot this buck while in Roddlesworth. He was stood quietly watching us as we trudged around a section of exceptionally dark pine woods. He seemed very at ease and wasn't even remotely bothered by our presence, eventually just trotting off on his own with no particular urgency, so whatever I find creepy in that woodland didn't seem to be bothering him very much.

There are others which are great, but this one is a real classic shot. Well done.

Good decision. The snow (?) in field makes this work, providing good contrast between it and trees/mountains.

Good choice of BW conversion, it allows to concentrate on building and reflections

Photos convey lushy spring quite well.

Sometimes it's worth to drag lot of gear, makes you look more serious photographer...
In last image it seems like they reused some blocks here during (re)building.