[Capture Challenge] Charge your battery and take some photos

[hatsnp (Nuno Paulino)]

@DanielLikesDT

Found water on Mars? The Moon? A vulcano?

Could also be Mordor on a good day

[ggbutcher (Glenn Butcher)]

Monochrome without even trying. Nice!

[raublekick (Andrew Raub)]

@ggbutcher

All the wood and metal tools to work on railcars, two tracks on which to wheel them in. Behind the tank car is the office/lunch/morning coffee commiseration space.

This is really cool. I grew up in an old town with an old railroad that still operates today. The number of people in the country who know how to service and operate these machines must be so small these days.

[lphilpot (Len Philpot)]

@hatsnp

Could also be Mordor on a good day

Mordor after the Rain?

Wasn’t that a famous painting?

[Thomas_Do (Thomas)]

Gadwalls in flight.

[ggbutcher (Glenn Butcher)]

@raublekick

This is really cool. I grew up in an old town with an old railroad that still operates today. The number of people in the country who know how to service and operate these machines must be so small these days.

Indeed. In the US, a lot of the talent pool is aging out, but there are young folk showing interest. A full career doing tourist railroad work can involve numerous relocations.

Doing restoration work is a bit different, there are professionals out there but the majority is done by volunteers like me, a software careerist with home woodworking experience. That group is aging-out also.

[ThomasM]

[epeeist (Colin Walls)]

Retro image of duck wall plaques

[Kurt]

Fresh from this morning

[reox]

My latest visit to the zoo.

[Ofnuts]

Took my new 16mm for a walk this afternoon:

Everything strictly JPEGs out of camera:

I’m becoming a prime convert

[Thomas_Do (Thomas)]

Black-tailed skimmer (female).

[streetfighter (Tim Wood)]

Photo walk in Copenhagen with Fuji X100F

[DanielLikesDT (Daniel, who likes dt and digikam)]

Did someone say it was not possible to get shallow DoF on a mobile phone camera?

[Kurt]

Dark water, no wind and an Egyptian goose

[Tim (Tim Cuthbertson)]

That one rises to the level of art.

[Kurt]

Thank you. I’ve tried the last weeks to get this image, but finally luck and weather have been on my side.

[kofa (István Kovács)]

I haven’t posted here in a while, so a fresh one from yesterday.

[martin.scharnke]

It has been over a month since I’ve added anything here … a trip to Melbourne a few weeks ago gave some inspiration; I’m still culling and processing (and will be for a while)

Plenty more zoo (and aquarium) captures to cull: a future post awaits.

[kofa (István Kovács)]

A hardly ever shoot macro and have no macro lens. These were taken with a 70-300, some with a cheap +2D close-up lens.