*** This Week Through Your Eyes 2026.08.15 ***

Yes, it has been too hot everywhere to get out and about.

I rather like this scruffy Robin.

Beautiful work. The first has such nice light that it really makes me want to be there.
And the last captures that weird gloom of eclipse very well.

Nooo! Tell your chef he is wrong :)

Excellent photos on the thread. Very interesting, all of them. I am going to take a closer look! Here is shot from last week along the tracks of a local rail yard... under smoky skies from the wild fires across the mountains in Eastern Washington:

Amazing how long the train and its wagons are. Those engines must be incredibly powerful.

Harsh contrast works here, giving impression of heat and strong sunlight.

Great time capsule opened here! Are these from 70-ies? Love these rusty boat shots and last 2 from piazza capturing the time.

Second one is from eclipse? Clever use of that event, so unlike from the "normal" shots seen everywhere.

Always interesting to see these old factories, good that at least some are preserved.

I like this shot, at first I thought that it's some web with water droplets but it seems to be dropping water. Black background brings it nicely out.

Some great shots here but first one is my favorite with its light, it's just magical!

In kestrel shots I'd use bit smaller exposure, they seem to be bit too light and that blank background is not very appealing. But it's hard to get anything interesting for background if sky is uniformly cloudy.

When I was child then I spent each summer about month on countryside at my relatives and one task was to bring cows back from pasture in the evening (and sometimes take them out in the morning). So I am somewhat used to such animals, but of course one has to be careful, as there have been accidents and even death caused by cows.
All that said I felt quite secure while taking pictures, as I was behind quite sturdy fence which had also couple of electic wires. And these animals were more interested in grass and wild roses than me, they spent short time sniffing lens and I scratched their head little bit, then they proceeded with eating.

I recall watching a transcontinental train going through Jasper, Alberta. We counted the wagons and did some maths... it was over 3km long.

I guess these tanks are empty, that's allowing to have so many of them attached to locomotives. And they seem to be different from ones used here, with shape, where center seems to be lower than edges, here tanks are quite uniformly cylindrical.

These appear to be Highland cattle which are notoriously docile 😁

Of course, the grass at sunset is my favourite. 😁
The eclipse landscape has worked quite well, captures the weird light nicely.