This reminds me a bit of fractal trees 
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Had a think about the Nikkor 50/1.8, and threw a scene where I want creamy textures at it. Adjusting my perspective to align more with what I expect from a 35mm film camera (as opposed to an MILC) has made me much happier with this lens. Also, I seem to have something going on regarding my viewfinder and this lens that I need to figure out. Anyway:
EDIT: Since I liked the image, I actually spent some time editing it. I removed the original image with the rough edit
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So I’m not the only one doing this :).
This is probably my #1 trick for avoiding shots that I would later delete anyway.
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Yep, me too. My hit rate has increased a lot since I started doing this (or my miss rate has decreased anyway)
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Cherry blossoms straight from the tree trunk, from my walk this morning using my brand new Nikkor Z 28mm/2,8
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10 years ago it was funny to see the branch breaking through the roof.
today i walked there and took my camera with me:
in the meantime the branch became a tree
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I too had a run in with bees today
Editing these pictures is pure hell 
I’ll maybe setup a playraw because I am out of ideas. It’s almost impossible to get them bright and colorful enough like irl under strong sunlight. They quickly go out of srgb and it just looks bad
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Yes, the background was good, just tons of the same flower, but the light was the same as yours probably, just 2PM direct sunlight 
It’s really difficult
We have such a horrible hobby, really. 
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Wish I had more to share here than just photos, but I still don’t quite understand the program yet.
I’m at a point where I can determine what sliders I want to adjust to get the look I want… But still not the"why".
Anyhoo… Here’s some recent ones from a new creek location near where we’re working. Pretty neat find… First spillway I’ve located, and the wrecked car was a great touch.
Can’t imagine how frightening that crash could have been though.
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Continuing on the topic of the empty city. Let’s turn this place:
Into this:
It was the most difficult shot in the series so far. I used an 8-minute exposure, but it was still too short. So, the final result is a mixture of that long-exposure shot and several other shots with masking.
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Leaving the man digging in the garbage is an interesting choice in an Empty City theme!
I tried these super long exposures, but the image quality degraded really fast on my old D3500 with increasing exposure duration.
I might try making several successive 30s exposures and average them - it should give almost the same effect, but with increased image quality and lower requirements for ND filters and calculations
I am going to guess that this won’t be received well here, but I like it:
because in the rear-view, even beauty can seem monstrous.
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The caption makes the photo!
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This is very true. Sometimes context is necessary to answer the “why” question and single images rarely allow for that without text (imo at least).
Without getting into details, I needed to make an image that was related, but diametrically opposed (in feeling), to the last image I posted here. Its the same flowers, just different lighting and perspective.
I probably shouldn’t subject people to my skill building drills at such an early stage 
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It was foggy day and I had an idea of a photo of a ship in the fog that I wanted to try. I found decent location and checked timetables and even found one ship leaving soon. So I headed out, waited and tried out some panorama shots while waiting (too bad I left tripod home, but didn’t think I would need it at the time).
Minutes after the ship left the dock, fog thickened so much that the ship wasn’t visible anymore. So… foggy landscapes etc. and some shots from the trail I took to get to my spot it was.
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