Very nice captures. Was Horst W. a friend or relative? November 2 as All Souls’ Day is an apt time to remember and give thanks.
All Souls Day was the reason to accompany an elderly lady to the Melaten Cemetry to the grave of her husband a few days ago. Despite of living in Köln / Cologne since decades I had never been there before. Today the forecast promised a little sunshine, so I decided to make a fotowalk. At the end it had been 7 (!) km. And no, Horst W. isn’t a friend or relative.
You can book guided tours on that cemetry. I listened to one of them in front of a Mausoleum. The guide asked, how the deceased inside know, it’s All Souls Day? At the backside there is a pipe leading inside, and the family blows cigarette smoke through it and knock back a shot of schnapps. So they know.
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Wow those are really beautiful. The statues especially. I grew up next to a (very old) cemetery and we had three or four cemeteries throughout my tiny town. This gives me a very weird nostalgia, though I guess it’s appropriate for the All Souls Day vibe.
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I took this at the local Mikiztli Dia de los Muertos event. There’s a lot of indigenous / Mexican ceremony and costumes, pretty cool. In the past it’s been in the middle of the day at a big open park, sunny as can be. This year it was in the evening in an outdoor space downtown. The camera I took was not really suited for it but I did like this shot illuminated by some nasty orange overhead light in concrete ceiling.
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@lphilpot Is that what they call the Bayou?
In this case it’s a small man-made lake, from a dammed-up bayou.
A bayou is simply a slow-moving, typically meandering stream. Since the terrain is flat, the water moves slowly and is usually muddy, often stagnant. They often flood from any reasonably heavy rain since there’s not enough slope to quickly drain. In the summertime (that is, anytime but December though February, basically) mosquitoes abound…
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Ha, slow-moving is an understatement.
Not far from there (I’m assuming Chicot SP), in my youth I went to a week at Boy Scout camp (Camp Thistlethwaite) where we did a six-mile upstream canoe paddle on Bayou Courtebleau to a campsite. We also had to paddle downstream on the return, would have taken too long to rely on the current…
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Speaking of bayous, here’s a view upstream at Kisatchie Bayou in central Louisiana, about 100 miles (?) north / northwest of the previous shots at Chicot Lake. I drove up to check on fall color – Not much yet but hopefully it’ll pick up.
This was a somewhat difficult shot to process since the lighting was really mixed. I had relatively deep shadows, very warm yellow (green-ish) sunlight coming downstream toward me and very blue light straight overhead from a totally clear sky. Straight out of camera, the rocks and sand looked VERY blue in the raw file.
I guess my eye is trained or something. I wasn’t thinking “rule of thirds” but if you superimpose RoT grid, all kinds of things just line up. 
Processed in ART, minor post-tweaking with Affinity.
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Yep!
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After dinner this evening I got the itch to go out and shoot something, so I figured with the moon being full I might be able to get some snow capped peaks in the valley just up the highway.
What a treat I was in for… I was just picking away at the scene and then the mist started to roll in… And then the trains started coming by on both sides of the river at the valley bottom.
Ended up staying perched on a rock outcrop for over an hour and got these shots.
I love this hobby, and I really appreciate the work that everyone has put in to darktable, and the forum members here for continuing to inspire me.
All pics edited in dt 4.6.
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Awesome takes, those train lights in the mist are beautiful, as is the whole scenery👌
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Looks almost like a wildfire
Nice bokeh. What lens?
Canon RF100-400
Finally, I have all my ducks in a row.
Also, no luck catching them swans (just the one swan, actually).
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That’s not a row, it’s a line or a column…
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I quite like that swan photo. Great job.
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