july

It took me a couple of days to go through my images from a recent trip. Here are mine, all monochrome, all from my trip to SoCal.

I actually spent time out of town in July. It was nice to be someplace new. I thought I would go with black and white for this month. Please share yours!

We're overdue for some routine maintenance so I'll hit it Sunday night, July 16, at around 8PM Eastern. Should be about 30 minutes. ⏲️

The neighboring small (Oregon) town of Ashland boasts an annual 4th of July parade, in honor of "Independence Day", celebrated across the United States. (For those who don't know, the 'Declaration of Independence' was signed by the Americans revolting against the English monarchy on July 4th...

Start Date March 01, 2022 End Date March 12, 2022 (Just because it gives me the weekend) I'm lending @MoonMind a hand and creating the thread ahead of time for him. Though I did start with his text...

I forgot to start this thread last week. Better late than never, I guess. I had a really productive month of July and had a hard time choosing just 3. So I thought I would do a theme: lepidopterans. Please share yours!

Thanks to David (@davidzvi), we're able to continue with the "Favourites" collage - and additionally, there'll be an opportunity to create (or have created) your own personal collage from all of your entries. David will announce where you can upload your chosen images to shortly; as is becoming...

Here's to a merry sendoff: M.

Second to last ... Smooth sailing! M.

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(Apropos of nothing - I just happen to be impressed by this song and performance ...) It wasn't completely trivial to find a version without some annoying fiddling with the original ... with this one, you only have to ignore the last 15s or so ... M.

(Something went wrong with the "original" featuring Stevie Wonder himself ... So I decided to link to this version ...) M.

Time keeps on slipping into the future ... M.

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Get ready for the last leg! M.

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Just got an email stating there is a FLASH sale on for Capture One. Enter "JULYFLASH50" into the checkout.

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Not a slur at all (the song's too old for that ...) - but ... M.

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Half way there! M.

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(Somewhat repetitive - second time Tower of Power; I hope you don't mind.) M.

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We're reaching a third of the way today :) M.

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Round and round and round she goes ... M.

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Since quite a few have already shown their gear: Why not put together a little collection of this year? Add one or more images of your chosen gear to this thread. M.

The original ... 120 years old! M.

Got more than one worthwhile shot? Here's the place to show it. M.

Share your thoughts and experiences. Let's have a good time together and support each other's efforts. M.

The Single in July 2022 (SiJy 22) challenge is coming! What it's all about: One camera! One lens! One month! One image a day! The key rules: Take at least one image per day during one month - and post (only!) one image to each day's thread. It's encouraged to post the image on the very day...

Final day of this year's SiJy challenge - thanks so much for participating and hanging in there; and to those who found it impossible to see this through, thanks for your contributions as well! And if you want to ponder "final days", I really, really recommend "Good Omens" (by Neil Gaiman and...

In the same vein as the "Day to Day" post: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/30_(number)#/media/File:Square_pyramidal_number.svg Click the link, or you'll not see what I mean :) Everything watch-worthy is behind paywalls, unfortunately. So I can't recommend anything today ... (Only partly...

Okay, a chemistry reference (Copper, Cu, is element number 29), but with a twist because, frankly, in spite of being truely over-the-top, this made me laugh (and it manages to stay informative, too): M.

28 is a so-called "perfect" number: Add up all of its proper divisors except itself (i.e. take its "aliquot sum" - nice little piece of Latin there), and you get the number itself: 1+2+4+7+14=28 A good reason for a perfect turnout, everyone :) (N.B. I could have used this earlier ... 28 is not...

Another one of those more insightful songs - and besides, an egotist self-reflecting is always a sight to see ... M.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantons_of_Switzerland A little trivia-worthy information about the country I call home - something to torment primary school children, but also quite a lot of useful knowledge: Switzerland is a federal state - and it's the Cantons where most of the political...