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Despite being from the country of Doisneau and Cartier-Bresson, I am definitely not an adept of street photography... but sometimes, you get lucky! This was in one of the old trams in Lisbon, Portugal. Nikon D3, Nikkor 24-70mm ƒ/2.8 G lens. ... and this is the opposite of the Sardinia ruined...

The seaside village of Cefalù, Sicily, August 2008. Nikon D3, Nikkor 70-200mm ƒ/2.8 G VR lens.

I will try my hand at posting a few flowers, too... :giggle: First, a very old one, probably from the Spring of 2008, just a few months after I bought the D3. Shot most likely with the Nikkor 14-24mm ƒ/2.8 G, but I have no EXIF to confirm. Handheld in a field near my house. October 2015...

Usually, clean sandy bottom makes for a greener water, as it is yellowish. Blue + yellow = green, but we knew this, right? ;)

Festive livery !

Yes, I have been using tilt-shifts for some years. For wide-angles, I used the 24mm, then the 19mm came out towards end of 2016 or early 2017, I don’t remember exactly but I bought one almost right away... then lost it, if you can believe that, and had to buy a new copy. I used it with DSLRs...

My two black-and-white photographs of the day are ruins, and about the second one I have a fun story to tell. The first one was taken in Sardinia, a large Italian island in the Mediterranean Sea —not Sicily, the other one. :giggle: I love Sardinia. I went there several times as a teenager to...

I have always been fond of the photo I am uploading today, because of what I, at least, regard as a form of “un-reality”: the watch seems somehow suspended in space, because you cannot tell whether it is resting on its side or on its back... I have an eerie feeling of vertigo every time I look...

And as I posted only one of mine above, I will, if you allow me, indulge and post a second one, completely out of my comfort zone. It took a conscious effort to go out that day in the Spring of 2021 (not far from the house, I think we were still under COVID restrictions back then) and photograph...

Hmm... no film buffs around here, then? All right, maybe some other day... ;) Now, I mentioned above Dom Angelico, and today I will show him to you. First, below is a “profile” photo of the façade of the Romanesque cathedral in Angoulême, a midsize city in central-western France you probably...

Amazing !

In France you can buy a Mediæval castle, sometimes for very little money —but of course, there will probably be a lot of repairs, then— and pretend to live the life of the local lord. Not a Disneyland recreation, but the genuine thing from the 13th century. Guy Baudat, who made a small fortune...

I meant to ask, is that a stitched panorama, Marilynne? Do the birds pose for you long enough so that you can take several exposures? I'm curious to know how you do this on a live subject... I did do wildlife photography myself some years back, including herons, and I always found those beasts...

Roger that, that's good. I have always used KUSO EXIF Viewer, personally.

I don’t do a lot of black-and-white as it does not seem to come naturally to me, but when I set my mind to it, I am often surprised and happy about the result, and it seems other people sometimes are too. It is easier for me to think religious architecture in black-and-white terms as my mentor...

Great shots!

To continue our Roman trip, this is a photo, well a snapshot really, which is technically not good at all (this sort of reportage or “street photography” is not at all my thing) but does manage to capture, maybe, an interesting ambience: in Saint Peter’s basilica, on the threshold of the immense...

Thanks Hark, I will look into it but I please understand that I make no promises... Every site has this gizmo they’d like you to add, and every forum has that other one, and you soon find yourself with a bloated browser that runs slow because you tried to accommodate everyone... I see your...

Thank you for your image. Don’t worry about eloquence, and I hope you do feel better soon. I wasn’t thinking about The DaVinci Code, but rather Angels and Dæmons, which Brown published a couple of years before and which I recommend, it is a fun and (at least partly) educating read. And more...

I have memories very much like yours, being, I suspect, in a similar age bracket... My first reflex camera was a Canon FT/QL I received for Christmas in the early 1970s. It wasn't what I wanted, but as you said, Nikons were tremendously expensive back then. Anyway, I started saving like mad on...