I find these sort of shots highly interesting, particularly big / wide panos with lots of detail. I enjoy diving deep into the detail.
Following up on my comment a few days ago (re: another of your town shots, I believe) about Australian towns reminding me of American towns, I’ve turned Cooma into an American town. Enjoy. 
(someone needs to talk to Vinnie’s about their sign…)
I like that! Actually looks like a nicer town… 
I appreciate how you’ve “fixed” most of the signs too.
Glad you enjoyed the pic. I don’t think it’s an awfully interesting photo from an artistic perspective, but there’s certainly plenty to look at!
Not the newest pictures I admin but they do fit the season quite well.
The interesting point here is - minus 23 C. about -9.4 F
It was so cold that my pop up flash froze to the camera (it defrosted once warmed 
).
Last week I had some hours to kill in the CBD after picking up my X-Touch mini before providing “Dad’s taxi” service for my daughter, so I went to Brisbane’s Roma Street Parkland
A sculpture framing a sign:
Good ol’ “Type H”, affectionately known as “Junker” in the French military, where the slide door was customarily closed after departure by slamming the brakes. You aren’t a true French boomer if you haven’t done some crazy things with that thing in your youth, and of course, fixed it on the side of the road in the middle of the night.
Hehe… I’ve done that with a normal car door, by reversing, than stopping suddenly. Just have to be careful not to get so caught up in imparting the perfect amount of momentum to the door that one fails to notice miscellaneous hard objects behind… 
I saw the craziest sunset yesterday. No colours were boosted; exposure, filmic, denoising, CA correction, and for one photo, taken wide-open with a fairly long exposure, bracing myself against the railing, sharpening (f/1.4, 1/8s).
It started like this, at 16:48 local time, about 10 minutes after sunset. I shot these within 5 minutes:
Then, at 17:26, it ended like this:
(Want a Play Raw from any of these? They can be made very dramatic. :-D)
I love evening colours. Not necessarily the oranges and reds (and salmons, for us filmic fans ;-)). For me, it’s the transitions from blue/purple to the warmer tones that does it, and also how this all fades to bluish grey, as time passes.
OK, just for fun, two with my other standard preset, this time with sigmoid:
And B&W:
I love these
Taken about 40 minutes after the last sunset image above. f/2.2, 1/4 s (the last one hand-held, without any support), ISO 80 on an LX7 compact.
Wow. Some sunset. I love the mountains in the distance too!
Yes, that was why I initially got the camera out. Then I looked up :).
There’s a row of hills close to the lake, and then distantly behind them, in good weather one can see the Alps, the peaks covered in snow since about September. I would have needed to zoom in to really show that.
Long, long ago and far, far away… Well, kind of. At least it was April 2022 and in west Texas.
I shot this during a rushed day trip to Big Bend National Park with a friend. You know - Left too late, light too harsh, no time to scout, etc. But I had been to Big Bend before and knew about The Window, so I grabbed a shot of that area while I was there. Anyway, I didn’t think much of it and never went any further other than saving it. But I came across it today while browsing old images. With a little crop and processing it turned out a little better (at least) than I recalled. Maybe a 6 out of 10.
My “mispent” youth involved crazy things in a 1977 EB2 Honda Civic like this one:
Cast aluminum engine block and allow wheels meant it only weighed about 900kg, and it could get air on a decent crest with a little encouragement.
Say Cheese.
Yesterday on way from home and coming back in the evening. First efforts using the x-touch mini as a controller. Works well but need to make some labels.
Reminds me of bombing down the local link road trying to hit max speed with a bunch schoolmates in someone’s dad’s Ford Fiesta, steering wheel and chassis shaking with the effort. Idiotic in hindsight. There’s roundabouts on that road now after teens just like us killed in a fatal collision.
I know the temptation though…
Our car club runs khanacross events which get a lot of young drivers involved - it’s a timed event laid out on a tight course such that you can make 110% effort without being able to reach a dangerous speed. but you do get a very good feel for cars handling limits.
The worst accidents in a long history have been one or two gentle roll-overs, at distant intervals when someone really overcooks it. Helmets and seatbelt are compulsory so the injuries have been just the odd bruise.
I like these events a lot but can’t help thinking that popular as they are, they’re only reaching a tiny percentage of the young, “enthusiastic” drivers…
Yeah, it’s pretty much inevitable that young guys, in particular, gonna do risky stuff. Best to encourage them to do it in as controlled an environment as possible than let them do it on random public highways with zero instruction. A lot of the pearl clutching over “dangerous” sports ignores that people are going to do this stuff whether you want them to or not
The problem I see with people doing dangerous stuff on their own is not so much the risks to them, but the risks to others, including the rescue teams sent out to help them when things go wrong (e.g. off-piste skiing…)
Exactly right. I can’t remember all the details because it was a long time ago but the kids who died hit another car and at the very least they would have suffered life changing injuries
