*** This Week Through Your Eyes 2024.06.29 ***

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Woodsider79
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June 30, 2024, 7:20 a.m. June 30, 2024, 7:20 a.m.
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@SteveMonks has written:

Great Hill - Again!

Here's a view of the slop stone from the other side, showing its location in relation to the wiry Hawthorn tree that dominates this ruin and almost seems to be looming above it from this perspective.

Grime's Gatepost

Further along the path across Heapey Moor we come across the oft ignored ruin of Grime's farm. Between the path and the ruin, almost lost in the grass stands this lone gatepost, which, without its companion almost looks like some forlorn and lonely standing stone. Barely poking out of the grass, it always reminds me of the shy and nervous standing stone in one of Terry Pratchett's Discworld books, that just wants to be left alone and will resort to hiding in a bog to avoid receiving any attention.

Great Hill Farm

I really like the way the sky has turned out in this one, I think it's got a bit of a Turner-esque feel to it without looking overly forced. There's probably about half a dozen layers on it, dodging, burning and teasing out the details I wanted to highlight. I did try brightening the foreground a bit more, but it killed the mood of the scene and this feels kind of representative of how it looked.

The Gatekeepers

Following the path down the side of Great Hill and approaching the Great Hill Farm ruins, these three sheep paused in their relentless search for better grass to watch me warily as I made my way down. There was some good looking crepuscular action going on in the sky behind, but I didn't feel like I was really in the best place to take advantage of it.

*post edited to swap the captions of the last two photos which I've just realised were in the wrong order.

Slop stone is curious.
Yes, wonderful sky in the last two.
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Fireplace33
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June 30, 2024, 7:46 a.m. June 30, 2024, 7:46 a.m.
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@Bryan has written:

@Fireplace33 has written:

Power lines
Whatever you might think about powerlines in landscape photos, you have to admire the engineers that built these huge 300kV Pylons that take power right over the misty mountains

In 2003 I was traveling around India and went up into the foothills of the Himalayas. They were building a dam on the Ganges (sacrilege to many) which I didn't get to see but I saw one set of transmission lines going over a cliff down into a deep valley. The tower at the top was leaning over the edge almost 45 degrees. I was quite blown away with the engineering and what it would have taken to build that.

That sounds incredible! A true feat of engineering.
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Vahur
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June 30, 2024, 2:01 p.m. June 30, 2024, 2:01 p.m.
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@Woodsider79 has written:

A different kind of Italian church

Orkney! The Italian Chapel on Orkney is a fascinating piece of history. Built by Italian prisoners of war using a couple of nissen huts, spare concrete, plasterboard and paint.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Chapel

Facade doesn't show everything..
Interesting building, magnificent decorations.
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Vahur
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June 30, 2024, 2:07 p.m. June 30, 2024, 2:07 p.m.
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@NCV has written:

Bobbio II

The main reason for my visit to Bobbio, was to see the medieval mosaics in the Abbazia di San Colombano. The abbey was founded by Columbanus, an Irish monk.

With 50 cents you can illuminate the mosaics, for a good while. The only downside is that we see them upside down.

Impressive mosaics. All the bad actors are deceipted...
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Vahur
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June 30, 2024, 2:09 p.m. June 30, 2024, 2:09 p.m.
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@SteveMonks has written:

Great Hill - Again!

What do you know, I don't go up to Great Hill for ages and then twice in a couple of weeks. Just like buses, or something. Anyway, nothing much to report from this walk, just your bog standard 5ish mile White Coppice to Great Hill and back on a hot and initially sunny evening that went a bit hazy later on. I didn't stick around for sunset, although, by the time I got back to the car I might as well have!

All images taken with the Fujifilm X-T50 and Sigma 18-50 f/2.8 or Fuji 55-200 (making a rare appearance outside of "lens drawer hell"). Processed from individual raw files in Capture One Pro 23. EXIF will say X-T5, but that's because I've hacked the RAF files with EXIFTool to get my version of C1P to load them.

I'm really enjoying this little camera, but I've still got my doubts about the Sigma 18-50. Certainly it doesn't bear comparison to my Nikon S series or Fuji GF zooms and I think it falls short when compared to the first party XF lenses I own too. Distant details don't look particularly, er, detailed. They're not blurred as such, just lacking crispness and resolution, which is not the case when I stick one of the little XF primes on the camera. With that said, it's not awful and it's light and it's tiny, which is it's main selling point, particularly for me at the moment, plus it's a lot more convenient than a bag of primes, but I don't think I'd recommend it.

Foxgloves

Drinkwater's Plantation

This tree stands at the South / West corner of the small plantation adjacent to the Drinkwater's ruin and was backlit by the late evening sun. The plantation is curiously fenced off with a waist high wire fence. I often wonder if this is to keep people out or to keep something else in.

Like this shot, BW works really well.
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NCV
Members 1620 posts

June 30, 2024, 3:37 p.m. June 30, 2024, 3:37 p.m.
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@SteveMonks has written:

Great Hill - Again!

What do you know, I don't go up to Great Hill for ages and then twice in a couple of weeks. Just like buses, or something. Anyway, nothing much to report from this walk, just your bog standard 5ish mile White Coppice to Great Hill and back on a hot and initially sunny evening that went a bit hazy later on. I didn't stick around for sunset, although, by the time I got back to the car I might as well have!

All images taken with the Fujifilm X-T50 and Sigma 18-50 f/2.8 or Fuji 55-200 (making a rare appearance outside of "lens drawer hell"). Processed from individual raw files in Capture One Pro 23. EXIF will say X-T5, but that's because I've hacked the RAF files with EXIFTool to get my version of C1P to load them.

I'm really enjoying this little camera, but I've still got my doubts about the Sigma 18-50. Certainly it doesn't bear comparison to my Nikon S series or Fuji GF zooms and I think it falls short when compared to the first party XF lenses I own too. Distant details don't look particularly, er, detailed. They're not blurred as such, just lacking crispness and resolution, which is not the case when I stick one of the little XF primes on the camera. With that said, it's not awful and it's light and it's tiny, which is it's main selling point, particularly for me at the moment, plus it's a lot more convenient than a bag of primes, but I don't think I'd recommend it.

The Slop Stone

Talking of ruins, hidden amongst the rubble at Coppice Stile is an intact slop stone. I'd have to check my records, but I'm sure this used to be a lot more hidden and looks like its been uncovered a bit recently.

A lovely set as usual. The pictures of the ruins hold the most fascination for me.
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NCV
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June 30, 2024, 3:39 p.m. June 30, 2024, 3:39 p.m.
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@Vahur has written:

This is quite magical
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Fireplace33
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July 4, 2024, 8:28 p.m. July 4, 2024, 8:28 p.m.
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@SteveMonks has written:

@ChrisOly has written:

High density

Massive residential development is happening in downtown Toronto recently.

Nice play of light and shade you've caught here. Have you considered cutting the bottom bit off below the walkway? I think it distracts a bit from the wonderful lines and curves in the upper part.

Yes, indeed such a crop works well. It makes the image less busy but it still retains loads of those shapes to consider and enjoy
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Fireplace33
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July 4, 2024, 8:34 p.m. July 4, 2024, 8:34 p.m.
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@Vahur has written:

Continuing theme du jour.

I love such shots where the light breaks through a tree canopy onto the mist below and makes those rays shine out.
Here is almost creates a darker Teepee in the middle of all that light :-)