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Lovely details, brilliant colours and nice composed

Thank you Chris 😊

Very nice photo and easy on the eyes 😊

Red

Folks who've been on the thread for a while may recall that when I'm too occupied to take new pictures I sometimes play Lightroom Catalog Roulette, where I spin the catalog and let it fall where it may, then submit whatever it falls on, maybe with a new edit or maybe not. This is a closeup of an old herring shed on Grand Manan Island. The abandoned herring outfit was a photographers' paradise, with most of the equipment lying about.

An interesting method to extract a photo from your archives (Russian roulette).
I like the worn doors and colours and rustic hardware. One can imagine the history behind this setup. And...I bet there is more, much more: shelving, equipment, accessories etc there must a hidden trove of relics. Maybe one day you will dedicate the whole series to this shed...Could be very interesting.

Oceanside Lighthouse, Sunset

A few years ago, after shooting nothing but digital since 2003, after decades of film before that, I had a (very) brief episode of nostalgia and scored a Nikon EM in absolutely mint condition for $19 at eBay. (Yes, $19). The EM was (is) a remarkable camera - a full size film SLR that was (is) smaller than a Leica (yes) , including its match needle exposure system. In a (in)famous episode of misogyny, Nikon marketed it as a small and delicate "camera for women." Women weren't interested and men avoided it like a plague. It was a marketing disaster and it disappeared from Nikon's catalogue quickly. It is jewel of a camera. Professional in every respect for its era. It was decades ahead of its time.

I was "testing" the camera and Fuji 400 ISO color negative film. I caught the Oceanside, CA Harbor Lighthouse at sunset with the sun just hitting the horizon.

It's Friday night and the energy is just getting going. And it is fun!

Upstairs, customers are outside at the tables of the Lighthouse Oyster Bar and Grille where the food is absolutely fresh every day from the fishing fleet, docked just out of the image. Luis's Especiale pasta and seafood stew is to die for.

Downstairs Dominic is making fantastic pizza and Italian food. The restaurant bar is an attraction of its own not only for drinks but for its huge Ice Cream Bar and Italian desserts made fresh daily. Spumoni forever!

And at the Rockin' Baja Lobster, you can get everything from a Hamburger to Lobster. And they play nothing but Rock and Roll!

Yowzer!

Rich

Yum!

The color and texture!

Rich

Wow. The area really lends itself to Pano. Didn't catch the guy on the peak until I saw the bigger version.

It's a nice photo with good lighting and lots going on. Your story makes it really interesting, Great stuff!
... and it woke up my interest in film cameras again :-)

A simple photo with bold red colour a few lines and a lock, but it certainly gets you thinking about what's been going in and out of that door ovetr the years :-)

That is a very impressive panoramic shot.

Rich

Tastes good. Lasts all day!

Good eye!

Rich

Very well seen and captured.
With this photo I can see why you sometimes have something to criticize about my photo editing.
It's probably the screen or its calibration.
I downloaded this photo and opened it in Photoshop.
The red and yellow colors are partially overexposed.
Automatic enhancement in Camera Raw suggests an exposure correction of -0.42 EV.
The colors then look better, actually the whole photo, and no more overexposure.
You probably edited the photo to your liking.
If we start correcting each other's photos to our liking and ignore technical circumstances, then we'll have endless discussions in this forum.
I want to avoid that.

A nice series of landscape photos.
I also like the photo with the cows in the foreground the best.

A good photo.
But, as always, it's about cropping the photo, which is starting to bore me.
What I'm actually interested in about this photo: where is the focus point?

Very good photo.
Except that the frog has turned his back on the princess 😄

These types of photos become more interesting when they fit into an overall concept.
Good and interesting photo.

Thank you Mike, Chris, Fireplace33, Dan and Kumsal for the kind words.
To Mike - I like to show some surroundings around my subject, unless an image planned as closeup.
To Kumsal - probably frog is mad that princess has not kissed him yet. 😁