*** This Week Through Your Eyes 2024.09.28 ***

The first is the better picture. The EM5 was also a step forward compared to the EPL2.

Now explain this shot, is it an atmospheric effect, or a double exposure?

Summer is ending in Canada?. I can almost fill the wind in this shot.

I'll have a look tomorrow.

These two are particularly nice when you blow them up to see the small detail.

I like scene from 6:40, it's lovely how all leading lines take you to one point at stream. But seems like you did not take photograph from this point, only video.

No digital trickery here, it’s pretty much the scene I saw and wondered myself how the boat and lighthouse can be in the sky. Then looking through camera I realized that sea colour has this interesting division where distant part is almost of same colour as sky. Maybe it’s due to different wave pattern or sea/air temperature, as closer part is located between 2 peninsulas and quite shallow.

I have seen this effect somewhere else before. A pretty incredible moment.

Welcome to Reggio

Two posts this week. I have just got back from my Saturday stroll in the centre.

Nice to be back home in Reggio, with a good old demo in the main piazza. The Hammer and Sickle has been replaced by another flag. Reggio is a notoriously "Red" city, and it is good to see the yoouf keeping up the tradition.

I did wonder what "Keep the church out of our panties" referred too.

Well spotted. You're quite right, the actual picture I took handheld in the video is this one...

The one I included in the video is actually shot just a few paces further forward, from a spot by the two rocks on the left hand side about halfway up the frame, so it is a similar image, but not quite the same. Here is the image I included in the video...

Of course the real giveaway is in the EXIF. This one had a 3.2 second exposure time, so it was actually shot on a tripod as there's no way I could have hand held that on the GFX (I might have managed it handheld with my E-M1 MKII, which has unnaturally good image stabilisation). I think I spotted the composition when I took the earlier image, went back for the tripod, which had the action cam perched on it then took the 2nd image with the action cam in my pocket, so there was no footage of that.

When I first included it in the video, I didn't initially realise it was the wrong image, but as it's the better image, when I did eventually realise, I left it in.

** SEA RESCUE **

I'm not sure if they were actually looking for someone in the water or on a training drill but I didn't see them pulling anyone out of the water while I was there.

I was there to photograph the windsurfers. A few of them were doing 360deg flips, or whatever they are called in windsurfer lingo, hence the very fast shutter speed to "freeze" them in action. I would normally set a slower shutter speed to get some motion blur in rotating wings and/or propellers.

Yes, I am almost back to my old self, but I was with my wife, who is not a mountain walking person. So it was easy walks.

Well it it is not much of an Autumn this year, so that sweetens the pill maybe.

"S" shaped curves in Carinthia

Back in June we had a hiking holiday in Carinthia in Austria. At the time, I posted one wide angle shot of the famous Nockalmstrasse with it's 52 hair pin bends.
Here are two more shots of that landscape with little bits of the curvy road, that I processed today.

And a little closer, with one of the sport cars, enjoying racing up through one of the many "S" shaped curves.

Please do not edit these photos

The views are definitely part of the reward you get on a fishing trip,... sometimes the only reward ;-)

"Alto Adige" or "South Tyrol" is a popular holiday destiniation for the Austrians too. I've been there a few times and love it.
On the daily Austrian TV weather forecast, the temperatures are shown for each of the Austrian federal states. And noticably it's also shown for South Tyrol as well ;-)
Your landscape shots here are great! Nice light and well captured.
I think the first one with the bell tower in the lake could be rotated to the left just a fraction, so that the tower and its reflection make a straight & vertical line.

The frescos are up to your usual high standard. I wonder what those 2 poor buggers in number 7 did to be held down and beaten like that ?

Well spotted, really looks like they are flying!

We once had a wonderful holiday in Carinthia. I would love to do that pass with the Alfa in sports mode (without my wife to slow me down).

The way the light catches the stones is pretty cool !