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Unfinished, Bologna

The last one for me too. Blossom close ups are irresistible.

First time posting on this thread. So here is Susu our first Maine Coon who travelled all over Europe with us. He sadly passed away a couple of years ago.

Finding his place to sleep in a hotel.

Farm Cat

I made friends with this little guy when was inspecting a cow shed in the Italian Apennines

OK, I will play.

I was pretty shocked at the quality of the pictures my iPhone 14 produced when I first got it. with 3 lenses and all that electronic wizardry, I makes really good out of camera shots. I even left my dedicated camera at home last time I went back to the UK. The family sort of pictures were great.

But with a dedicated camera like my Z7, or D850, I can do things my iPhone cannot do. I shoot Raw, and shadow recovery is much better than I could ever get from an iPhone JPEG. I can use specialized lenses such as my set of shift lenses, that are not available on a cell phone camera. Post processing produces better results with a Raw file, especially a large sensor Raw file.

I guess for me they are just two different tools.

I challenge anybody to do something like this with the same tonal range and noise levels, with a cell phone.

I like the symmetry of this second shot.

Curious that most of the design and fabrication was done so far away on the other side of the Atlantic. Worth a return trip on a less challenging day.

Good to see you shooting bird life again. I really like this last shot.

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Green Roofs

Spanish colonial architecture in the historic centre of Icod de las Vinas, Tenerife.

Some really lovely timber architecture in this set. I like how in the fist on the timber balcony is set against a plain wall to give it a stanghe sort of atmosphere..

These are great fun, although the first looks like an atomic bomb has just dropped.

I like the strange way the guy seems to be hiding from the fish in the river.

Having a human presence adds greatly to this shot. Are they other visitors? As it looks like a fashion shoot.

Looking for Cimabue

On my last visit to Bologna, I wanted to see out of curiosity a painting by Cimabue, that I knew was in a church in Bologna, but even with the internet, was not easy to discover where. I finally tracked it down, but unfortunately the painting on display is a copy, as it is on loan to one of those commercialised block buster exhibitions that museums seem to be concentrating on right now. Patience.

Behind the anonymous nineteenth century façade of Saint Vitale Agricola, and below the musty Baroque church, we descend a flight of stairs and find ourselves in a Paleo Christian crypt that dates back to the year 1000. For a while the church was not consecrated and the crypt was the meeting place of an aristocratic literary circle before disappearing in the nineteenth century. Several years later when the church was consecrated again and works were being carried out, the crypt remerged. The church is said to be constructed above the Roman arena, where Agricola and his slave Vital were martyred in a grisly way in about 300AD.

One of those little hidden gems that Italian cities conceal, unless you dig them out.

Last are a couple of quick shots of the more famous Santo Stefano complex, which is a must see in Bologna.

The crypt, Bologna

Some pretty amazing pictures in this article.

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But at least the post got some reaction!

Yes please, and early morning keyboard error!

When I was doing theatrical photography, back in the late eighties, I bought a Billingham 550 to carry the multiple bodies and long lenses, I used for this work. Back then It cost about the same as a similar bag from competitors. Finished my theatrical photography, I bought smaller bags for reduced needs. A backpack that went into the attic after a month and a smaller Billingham was fine for M43. an old Camera care bag was fished out of the attic for a while. No camera bag ever seems to be the perfect fit for our needs.

But I always seem to come back to the roomy 550 after a while as it is about the most practical bag I have found. It has just come back into service again as the smaller Billingham was proving too cramped for my shift lenses that I am using heavily right now. I bought some new inserts to protect the lenses, better, but I always seem to come back to this bag.

I was amazed and shocked to see Billingham want £700 for this bag now. The same price trajectory as my wife's favourite brand: Prada

Let's hear about your camera bag odysseys