** Weekly X-Series Photo-Sharing Thread 19 MAY – 25 MAY**

A few from the Mother Road

I took the back roads on my way to the big city this week. Part of the back roads follow Rt 66. There were some decent clouds so I took my XE1 and 18-135 lens and made my trip take a little longer than jumping on the interstate. There's a good 30 miles of back roads to skip the interstate. They didn't look right in color so I processed them in b/w in C1 Express.

Storm over Mt. Taylor--before I got to Rt 66

I've seen this old sign for a long time. Finally stopped a snapped a couple pics of it.

Budville Trading Co.

The Dixie with Mt. Taylor in the background. If you have a bar in Budville, you serve Bud.

That's really a nice shot Greg!

Hah!... Thanks! :)

Well, that new one is going to take the lead I guess. 2 primes on each and then it should all be okay :)

XT5 with XF 23/1.4 wr

Nice style on these.

Deformation

Very nice monochrome processing.

Bob

Living on the west end of '66' these are great photos.

Bob

Thanks so much Bob! Still getting used to the new UI :-)

Thanks Biza!! It’s one of the rare pictures where nothing is sharp and it’s quite pleasing. Appreciate the comment!!!

Very nice bird view! Where and how (drone?) did you take this picture?

I took it from the bridge Luis I in Porto, Portugal

Inner Wall Medieval Church Museum Florence

The intricate painting of the walls in the Medieval Churches is nothing short of amazing. The only issue when on a tour is to have enough time to image what I wanted to. Normally I would bring a small tripod, mount the cam and shoot at low ISO. Because of the regimented time I couldn't do that even though I had my travel tripod. Therefore all these had to be shot hand held at auto ISO at the fastest focal length. Luckily Topaz exists and one can recover a lot of the IQ. So, in the near future when all of you are sick of all the chuch and cathedral images, please note it has taken a bit of processing to get to where they are. 😁

Bob

Also a superb interior cathedral shot, Bob! I will be hauling around the 8-16 f/2.8 for our trip to Europe later this Summer. Hoping I can get results half as good as what you've posted here.

Without a threaded view function the "quote" button becomes your friend. When responding to a post, click "Quote" first and then respond below it to give the comment more context.... like I just did!

Bob

Are you referring to mine?

Bob