*** This Week Through Your Eyes 2026.09.19 ***

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NCV
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Sept. 19, 2026, 8:30 p.m. Sept. 19, 2026, 8:30 p.m.
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@ChrisOly has written:

Ants or humans...

Only if you enlarge this photo you can see people below. Picture taken through the window of an adjoining building from a great height. Downtown Toronto.

I love views from above like this.
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davidwien
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Sept. 19, 2026, 10:18 p.m. Sept. 19, 2026, 10:18 p.m.
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@cpm has written:

At the north end of SEA Rwy 16R/34L (34L for departures) there is a good spot to park and watch the action. I had the camera in the car and stepped out for a couple of minutes. Got a couple of shots, and then the phone rang...

This is excellent: it fits the frame well and there is a lot of detail!
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davidwien
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Sept. 19, 2026, 10:22 p.m. Sept. 19, 2026, 10:22 p.m.
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@NCV has written:

I was curious about the Yard o Led "Perfecta" , which is decorated by hand with over 3000 chasing taps. Each pencil is unique. I found a "New old stock" one, whilst killing time on internet.

Yard o Led was owned for a long while by Filofax. Recently they have been acquired by a company dealing in "luxury brands". Carrying out I am told is called "market repositioning" is moving their prices into the stratosphere. My example made in 1997 was a fraction of the €800 they charge now for this pencil. This is happening to so many brands that made good quality stuff, but was reasonably priced.

Rant over.

I find this sort of macro photography interesting, as getting the lighting right is a huge challenge and is instructive. I made a perspex light tent, and I use a series of reflectors and black cards to create shadow. I made stacked images with my 105Macrow, and a 50mm Macro on bellows.

Another quirky 4 colour pencil, who's colour changing mechanism eluded me, for a long time. Bosset & Erhard Boscolor 1950s in Alpacca.

This was challenging. I made a ton of shots before hitting on the idea of a black reflector to show the pattern. Caran D'Ache Ecridor

Yes, I agree: highly challenging and the challenge has been well met.

I am nor into propelling pencils, but fountain pens -- particularly Parker and Lamy, and I will try to capture some later this week.

David
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Bryan
Members 1961 posts

Sept. 20, 2026, 12:01 a.m. Sept. 20, 2026, 12:01 a.m.
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@ChrisOly has written:

Angles - autofill. Idiotic feature...

The core of AI... 😑
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NCV
Members 2776 posts

Sept. 20, 2026, 6:36 a.m. Sept. 20, 2026, 6:36 a.m.
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@davidwien has written:

@NCV has written:

I was curious about the Yard o Led "Perfecta" , which is decorated by hand with over 3000 chasing taps. Each pencil is unique. I found a "New old stock" one, whilst killing time on internet.

Yard o Led was owned for a long while by Filofax. Recently they have been acquired by a company dealing in "luxury brands". Carrying out I am told is called "market repositioning" is moving their prices into the stratosphere. My example made in 1997 was a fraction of the €800 they charge now for this pencil. This is happening to so many brands that made good quality stuff, but was reasonably priced.

Rant over.

I find this sort of macro photography interesting, as getting the lighting right is a huge challenge and is instructive. I made a perspex light tent, and I use a series of reflectors and black cards to create shadow. I made stacked images with my 105Macrow, and a 50mm Macro on bellows.

Yes, I agree: highly challenging and the challenge has been well met.

I am nor into propelling pencils, but fountain pens -- particularly Parker and Lamy, and I will try to capture some later this week.

David

Lamy is one of my favourite modern brands. I love the precision of the almost invisible joint on this well used Lammy 2000 with its 1960's aesthetic.

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Vahur
Members 1064 posts

Sept. 20, 2026, 6:32 p.m. Sept. 20, 2026, 6:32 p.m.
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@Wormsmeat has written:

Last week I went to see Frameless in London. Such a cool way to spend an hour or two.

Looks like great experience, initially it looked to me like multi-floor stage with transparent floor/ceiling, later I realized that it's reflection.
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Vahur
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Sept. 20, 2026, 6:36 p.m. Sept. 20, 2026, 6:36 p.m.
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@Woodsider79 has written:

Ben Hiant

The highest point of the Ardnamurchan peninsula. This was the only day of our week that didn't require full waterproofs!
It's supposed to have one of the best summit views in Scotland, and indeed it was a fine view, reaching around from the Small Isles clockwise through the mainland hills (though Ben Nevis was of course permanently shrouded in cloud), around to Mull. And we could actually see some of it!

Overnight rain left the going a bit soggy.

Part way up, with the summit to the left, looking north to the distant shape of the isle of Eigg out ar sea. It's a total climb of about 360metres from the road, so not too taxing, even with our various muscular-skeletal issues

Nicely captured water on grass in first shot. I like second shot very much, it looks like painting. Only problem with such wilderness images is lack of scale perception, there is nothing to compare mountains or water with.
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Vahur
Members 1064 posts

Sept. 20, 2026, 6:42 p.m. Sept. 20, 2026, 6:42 p.m.
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@NCV has written:

I was curious about the Yard o Led "Perfecta" , which is decorated by hand with over 3000 chasing taps. Each pencil is unique. I found a "New old stock" one, whilst killing time on internet.

Yard o Led was owned for a long while by Filofax. Recently they have been acquired by a company dealing in "luxury brands". Carrying out I am told is called "market repositioning" is moving their prices into the stratosphere. My example made in 1997 was a fraction of the €800 they charge now for this pencil. This is happening to so many brands that made good quality stuff, but was reasonably priced.

Crazy prices, but with current tendency to create one-time throwaway items I kind of understand why they are valued so much. Especially when hand-writing is kind of dying art.
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Vahur
Members 1064 posts

Sept. 20, 2026, 6:50 p.m. Sept. 20, 2026, 6:50 p.m.
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@SteveMonks has written:

Anglezarke

With the recent reopening of the Heapey Dam, I can now easily reach the woods along the North East shore of Anglezarke reservoir. As such, I've spent the last couple of weeks revisiting and exploring that area.

Wow, your BW shots are great, they look like captured masterpieces of nature. I've tried BW shots of forest but it's hard to find well-defined patters with loss of eye-sensitive green colour information, but you managed to capture well-defined tree shapes very nicely.