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October 2018. December 2021, following strong winds. The top half! April 2024. Natural regrowth. Today. Former site of sycamore tree. All that's left of sycamore tree.

I have started this photo series on "descansos -- roadside memorials to the dead" and someone suggested that it would be nice if I let other photographers contribute to the project. I'm not opposed to the idea ... but I am not sure if anyone else actually takes photos of these things. If you...

Just a brief rant on the process for software that requires activation. DxO's process is lousy. You get 2 activations for PureRAW, but there's no way to deactivate a license, like when you know you're swapping PCs, for example. Contrast with On1 and CaptureOne, where you can deactivate a...

So today I went to an annual car-show. Previously, I've only found out about it after event when seeing photographs online. This year people from our neighbourhood, who own a car that was being exhibited, offered me a ride and insisted it's high time I attend. It's held over the two days of the...

Amazing https://petapixel.com/2025/01/16/417-megapixel-andromeda-galaxy-panorama-took-over-a-decade-to-make/ I downloaded the image, and zoomed. I kept looking for the main body of the galaxy, only to realize that this image has a resolution to see some of the individual stars. The article...

Did this back in 2023 - old thread HERE These next few weeks might be a little challenging trying to get out with the weather being what it is right now...but I'll try and get something. Instead of blowing up the thread with a lot of images, for each week, I'll post only the top 3 (at most)...

So a couple of years ago I developed a series of lectures on Photography and Art (a deceased wife was an art consultant to several successful painters and sculptures), and I've been thinking about how knowledge about how photography came to be an art and how that can help one become a "better"...

Wonderful photos and story

Post any music that you are listening to while you are enjoying this forum. Perhaps also a short Bio of the artist Just to kick things off..... Gregg Karukas.... One of urban contemporary jazz's most versatile and acclaimed artists for over 25 years, Gregg won a Grammy for producing...

I've been somewhat active photo enthusiast since my early teens. I even taught photography for small limited audience. Transformed from film era cameras to digital and found eventually the gear I enjoy using, more or, usually, less. But now my daughter, studying in Space Institute in Sweden...

For those looking for one, DON'T OVERPAY. The local chain in my area still seems to have a pretty long list. I got in touch with a store I have dealt with before about something else the week before Thanksgiviing. For fun I asked what the wait was for a black one. Two weeks later, I had it in...

Today I finally felt like imaging again. So, I charged up my batteries and am looking forward to imaging next week. My whole focus (so to speak) has changed and I'm going to not go birding every week. More industrial and small-town imaging. Not such a good time here in the US NW as rain and...

Hi all, I am looking for some info on taking photographs in Budapest. My daughter and I will be going there on 4th December just for a few days and I would really like to make the most of it. We have decided to do a Danube night cruise and also visit a few of the more iconic buildings and...

Some sad news out of Kansas, photographer Amanda Gallagher of AG Photography died after an accident where she came into contact with a spinning plane propeller. Gallagher was on the tarmac of Cook Airfield, near Wichita, taking photos of passengers getting on & off of planes for skydiving...

Hey everyone! I’m curious—what’s that one photo you’ve taken that you’re most proud of? Whether it’s your first great shot, something that took tons of effort, or just one that has a special meaning to you, I’d love to hear the story behind it! Feel free to share the image if you can.

How long before you burned out from birding. I'm keeping my gear, but after 20 years and perhaps 100K of images, I am now looking for reptiles and large mammals here in Oregon. I had not been in a couple of months and it was not fun. Even though a nice white Egret did a lot of hunting not more...

What are the potential drawbacks and challenges photographers face when selling their work as NFTs compared to traditional methods?

I have my choice of two trips: 10 days on a river boat or 8 days deep in the jungle. I turn 75 and this is going to be my last trip out of the US (wife's going to France for her 75th trip). I have an agent orange disability, so I normally wear 10" boots that lock my feet and ankles together and...

Hi good folks of the internet. I am in an ongoing project of documenting the stuff my friend and I do in this , the most likely last summer she is with us. I am using film in a half frame for diptychs, instant film, an action camera and my main shooter. I am trying to think in the ways of a...

My normal travel gear has been my trusty Gx85 (took a Gx8 one year, but the IBS was so much better on the Gx85 I changed), Pany 14 & GWC1 (Makes it a 10.5mm according to my PL8-18mm) and the Oly 75-300II. I was thinking about taking my G9II or Gh6, but after looking at my Gx85 images for the...

Broncolor selected this studio shot (reposted below) for inclusion in their Para brochure . The young model was excited to be published in Broncolors brochure. It was her first time being published. The brochure shows the work of 18 photographers from around the world. …and motivating for me as...

Little surprise in my back yard...

As a kid, I drew regularly with graphite pencils - wild animals, mostly, from photos in books and magazines. Over the years, the urge to draw remained, but the motivation to start has mostly eluded me. From time to time I'd get bad GAS, and buy some more pencils, and draw a few things - gum...

Hey, New to the forum. I am looking for anyone that can help a guy with no photo experience trying to get his first metal photo produced. I have some photos from a disney trip that I'd like to get made to hang on a focal wall. I asked ArtBeatStudios what to do with two picture files I...

How synchronous. I randomly checked the date on which I joined here because I was wondering which photos I may have already posted from my back-catalogue. To my surprise I saw that (yesterday) it's my 2-year anniversary here! Thank you to everybody who has supported my images and added...

A rather sad sight at the flea market this morning got me pensive - the red slide bottom right is marked "navorsing" which means 'research' -

I'm very proud to see my photo from last year was used in current advertising (I knew I recognised it and did a search and found it now) I've just finished up shooting the arrivals at the finish of this year's Cape 1000 Rally, editing to make the deadline to upload my 50 selected best in an...

just finished this one up Alumilite Clear with a label

I read this in the Comics section of my online newspaper this morning and immediately started laughing. I’m guessing it may trigger some memories for a few others as well :p

I took up working with wood when I had to take early retirement after hurting my back. That was 30 years ago on the 6th may. My back's OK now and not a problem, but me passion for wood has grown. My main interest is wood turning and when I started it was mainlt turning bigg-ish bits of firewood...

dark cherry $ cream cheese stuffed French bread for dinner last night

I have been looking around for a little while and decided to join. I took up photography roughly 50 years ago and transitioned from film to digital in 2002. I have a fondness for primes. In the analog era, I was a hard core Pentaxian and my first DSLR was a Pentax. Ten years ago, I switched to...

My husband, daughter and I did the usual Saturday morning traipse around the flea market and were discussing what to have for lunch on our way home. It's been hot (in the 30's) and dry the past few weeks already and as we came over the mountain dip between two mountains, which brings us to the...

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I often get asked for suggestions for lenses with a different look, or some that fly under the RADAR screen. Lenses that were "cult status" a few years ago have come way down in price- with patience. Just about any lens designed for a camera with interchangeable lenses can be used on a...

My nephew on the Steady Cam preparing to broadcast America's Thanksgiving Parade from Detroit. Photo credit one of his cohorts.

Sometimes we're lucky enough to be asked to take a picture of someone, a small group, or an event. Those have been some of my favorite pictures over the years. Two friends just off the School Bus. 1934 Carl Zeiss Jena 5cm F1.5 Sonnar.

On November 6th of this year, my wife would have celebrated another year of life, but instead, we celebrated what was her life in a celebration of life for her. It was held at the gymnasium of the school she loved and was injured while covering a game a couple of months before. Most of the...

As an aside, odorless - as in “Odorless Fixer” - is only odorless in comparison to some of the other versions out there 🤣 I was reminded of this as I mixed a gallon of D76 and a gallon of fixer tonight for the first time in far too many years. Cleaning the rest of the necessities and getting...

SO- have you ever looked at a picture of a person, and look into their mind, and know exactly what they were thinking? It's a gift. I took this 20 years ago, posted it and someone commented- "Terrible Bokeh". Yup. Should have asked my Daughter. Nikkor-SC 5cm F1.4, on the Canon 7. This is why...

YEARS ago, we had the "Photographer's Lounge" that was merged into Cameraderie. It was to be a more relaxed place, more like a Coffee Shop where people show pictures from their cell phones, back of a camera, on their computer, or pass Pictures around- and people Chat about them. Not a Critique...

I've been following street photographer, The Real Sir Robin (aka Robin Shimko) on youtube for a while and he posted this clip recently: Here's the follow-up clip:

So this crazy story is blowing up; and because it's a South African photographer, I'd like to share it here with you https://petapixel.com/2023/04/12/divorced-woman-demands-refund-from-wedding-photographer-4-years-later/ It is really worth the read! And the story doesn't have an ending yet...

Mik Critchlow has passed away aged 68 (frightening.....same age as me!). He documented the hard lives of the working class folk; especially miners, in the north east of the country. He has left a legacy of wonderful material for future historians to look back on and comment "Did people really...

Albert W. Stevens, in full Albert William Stevens, (born March 13, 1886, Belfast, Maine, U.S.—died March 26, 1949, Redwood City, California), U.S. Army officer, balloonist, and early aerial photographer who took the first photograph of Earth’s curvature (1930) and the first photographs of the...

Hello. So this Friday I shot a friend's wedding, it was a very short event with only 8 and 1/2 people (their 2-year-old daughter was with them) at the local registry. There was no church or main event. Unfortunately, the couple was giving me low expectations and organization on what they wanted...

I met a retired photojournalist / press photographer, he regaled me for 2.5hrs with fantastic stories of his time as a working photographer during film photography's heyday. He also told me he doesn't understand Lightroom. He joined a local photography club and attended some of their...

A tragically sad ending for an 80 year old photographer. https://thetimeshub.in/frozen-in-the-middle-of-the-street-photographer-rene-robert-tragically-died-in-paris Heartlessness seems to be a thing these days.

These cases are becoming all too common with photographers being sued or having to go to court to protect their copyright: https://www.rangefinderonline.com/news-features/industry-news/jay-z-files-lawsuit-against-photographer-jonathan-mannion-for-exploiting-his-likeness