*** This Week Through Your Eyes 2026.06.13 ***

I like that half smile...

Cloud iridescence. Nice.

Good to see you getting out and about in the Apennines. I wondered about the title when I saw the pictures. It was only on closer inspection of this one that I understood.

Fortunately, deadly fauna is at least one thing we typically don't have to worry about in the British countryside (granted there are a handful of venomous things here that'll give you a nasty bite though and I'm genuinely glad I didn't step on the well camouflaged Adder basking on the path that I encountered in The Lake District a few years ago).

Aliums! Nice against the dark background.

I like it but maybe it needs a bump in contrast?

I love 2 and 4 but this last is outstanding.

We see this quite often here in our part of the world.

Glad you had a good time and a rest. sometimes a holiday without photography is a good thing.

Architects and designers love doing this weird "green" stuff. I did read somewhere about an Engineer who used straw blocks to build his house. I wonder how it worked out.

I rather like the composition you have seen in something so ordinary.

For some reason I like the sense of emptyness in the Grain Pole hill shot... curious name.
The fox looks in good nick. Vixens often look a bit tatty at this time of year in my experience - the toll of motherhood.
The light in the last two is fabulous.

Very effective shot.

I think it worked out well. I came across this a few years ago;
www.houseplanninghelp.com/designing-and-self-building-an-affordable-straw-bale-house/

I also did a garden consultation years ago for a couple in the Forest of Dean who had built a straw bale extension to their stone cottage. They were a bit weird, but the house was cosy.

Very interesting. A "thatched roof" on a vertical surface.

Happy Birthday! Very nice bokeh. What lens did you use?

Thanks.

This is a stacked image taken with a Nikon Z105 Macro.

Thanks for the link. Looks like the straw is used to insulate, with a timber arch to hold the roof up which makes sense. I imagined walls made out of bales.

Very nice. When I was a kid, my dad grew alliums commercially.

STEVE... What an excellent series (as is always the case!) -- I really like No.1 with the wispy grasses and clouds. Dreamy.

Excellent. That's a GREAT shot. B&W is perfect. I admire your courage (street photography). I am fairly sociable, but standing behind a tripod trying to get a decent landscape shot is less intimidating! LOL.

Orcinus orca. I went out for a walk yesterday afternoon, and when I got to the end of the street, there were many cars parked on the shoulder of the road. Didn't think much of it. I continued on my normal walk up the hill (elevation is about 460 ft. at the top; 140m) -- about 12 minutes up and 12 minutes down. Something quick to get the heart going. Coming back, the cars were still there and I could see people standing with binoculars. Ahhhh. I think I know what's happening. Got back to the house and grabbed the camera. I have a few more, but this was one of the better shots. A bit difficult… zooming in and out (to get the whole pod or a tight shot?) and the changing lighting (ISO) and dummy me always shoots in manual mode, so lots of wheel spinning and twiddling while looking at the light meter… plus keeping the shutter speed "up" (telephoto) and you don’t know where they will surface again after they go under water. There seemed to be about 5 or 6 whales in the pod. Two large, a mid-size, and two or three smaller ones. This one is a male (distinguished by the dorsal fin).

Must be a spectacular experience.

Yes, this is a nice happy portrait.

The top one is my favourite in this set. I like the light.

It is amazing how much you can crop a Z8 image and still get something useful.