Experiment in black (and white).
X-T4, Hexanon 52mm/1.8, and darktable
Have fun!
Claes in Lund, Sweden
X-T4, Hexanon 52mm/1.8, and darktable
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Thank you for so much 
love .
Un saĆŗdo.
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X marks the spot, I guessā¦ Maybe I need to check in a few minutes and verify my neighborās house is still there! LOL 
(cellphone shot)
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Three from a mid-week outing at Kisatchie Bayou Campground, near Natchitoches, Louisiana US. And unless youāre from the area youāll probably have trouble with those names! (except for @ggbutcher LOL)
The road ever goes on, according to JRRT
Looking downstream
The cycle of (autumnal) life
All shot with my Canon T8i / Sigma 17-70, processed in ART 1.16.4.1 and (minimally) Affinity Photo 2.
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@lphilpot Shows that you donāt need an expensive kit to take good photos. One minor quibble is the first two images appear to be leaning to the left. Perhaps, it is just how the trees are.
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@afre thanks and yes, the trees are leaning outward. Not that Iāve never taken distorted photos but not this time. 
[edit] At least I had the built-in level flat. The trees there are kinda all over the placeā¦
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Beautiful images, Lenā¦
Probably the most important lesson Iāve learned photographing parts of Colorado is that the grandeur really isnāt necessary to capture excellent imagesā¦
Regarding Kisatchie, in my youth I craved altitude and vertical terrain, and Kisatchie National Forest was the closest place for me to jones that. All of 54 feet MSL, IIRC. Funny, I never made it there before I left the state for the Air Forceā¦
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Thanks!
Iād also add that grandeur isnāt a guarantee of a good image, either. Iāve proven that too many times. 
Even for the best photographers, there are good ā even spectacular ā settings that just donāt make a good photograph.
Itās kind of fun to see what I can realistically pull from what I shoot in terms of color, feel, etc. Iām not trying to go overboard, just to pull out whatās hopefully latent in the image.
Given my learning-mode editing āskillsā. Iām getting a better (but still far from complete) understanding of what the buttons, sliders and such literally do, but Iām still very much working on the ātechniqueā side of things: Which slider / workflow / approach is more appropriate for each image (type), etc.
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First snow this season.
X-T4, XF27
Have fun!
Claes in Lund, Sweden
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I applaud the way you resisted the urge to do a long exposure
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Thank you. Itās because Iāve done lots of them in the past 
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Didnāt we allā¦ (** smashes his ND64 filter **)
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I was trying to get one of those āpeek above the grassā shots but he never lookedā¦ Was too interested in his food 
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Iām back in an office 5 x 8 but itās still mostly empty. Rather institutional here but I do enjoy these old mid-century buildings for whatever weird reason
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I particularly like the first one. It makes one wonder who sits in the empty chairā¦ actually I suppose that might be you!
Having worked in IT before retirement, thatās a common sight ā An empty office / cubicle before or after a move. While I was usually on the non-desktop (infrastructure) side of the house we assisted with mass moves more than a few timesā¦ all hands on deck!
My office is actually across the hall from that cube, I spent a year in a cube farm after we got brought back from COVID. Although my building is much older now but Iāve got windows that open in my office. Plus these old school bathrooms are cavernous. Hardly anyone on this floor as this building is set to be demolished or remodeled soon. I feel like the newer buildings are just stamped out of plastic. These mid century state buildings are made to last.
Hmm, Boomers filled with lead paint and asbestos, us millennials and the zoomers filled with microplastics and PFAS. Maybe we have more in common than we think.
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