Walk by the river (on the way home). Captured on the phone.
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Nice spring image.
We headed towards Kirriemuir (fabled in song). The first few of these were taken near Badyo on the road to Glen Shee and show Ben Vrackie in the background
The last one is of Reekie Linn in Glen Isla. A better shot is of the face of the waterfall, unfortunately with the winter storms, a tree has been brought down, obscuring the view.
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Brings many good memories!
My family and I really liked Zurich.
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A long-promised joy-flight in a small aircraft (pictured in first image) over the SW corner of the New Zealand North Island, plus a couple of the USAF Globemaster coming in to Wellington on Saturday.
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After my day of rally photography was cancelled I realised the Canberra Airport Open Day was on - and it turned ou to be a cool event. Free entry too…
I only just realised that it fits with the theme of Martin’s post above. 
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I really like the colours and tones in your pictures, especially the second and forth. May I ask how you achieve the non-deep black in the shadows? I often use the “target black” of filmic/sigmoid for this in black & white images but so far struggled to get good results in colour images.
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Thanks! 
It’s a new thing for me - it’s mostly rgb curve, with local contrast adding a little contrast back in so it’s not too flat. Fairly normal sigmoid workflow otherwise, with rgb primaries masked to the shadows doing a bit of colour grading.
Here’s the .xmp files, from darktable 4.7.0+852~gf0c81ac018
Hopefully they’ll work on 4.6 too but can’t check just at present.
EDIT: forgot files… 
DSC_8923.NEF.xmp (15.4 KB)
DSC_8974.NEF.xmp (15.9 KB)
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Rainy Sunday afternoon, what else to do but whip out some dried flowers and fotograf em.
No flash, window on right, white card on left, matt black card behind & camera in front, 
Graduated spot just an inverted mask in darktable exposure module
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We were traveling last week so I’m just now getting around to processing and posting these from our eclipse trip. The vast majority of the processing on these was done in ART, with only a little follow-up in AP.
The main event, ostensibly. I posted an earlier version processed minutes after totality, but on later examination it wasn’t too spiffy. This one is better, but I’m obviously no astro-imager.
The three-eyed monster embedded in the wall. Or something like that. Color or B&W?
Well, you were warned about looking at the eclipsed sun!! Don’t worry, we’ll keep an eye on you…
This is Natural Bridge falls inside Lost Valley State Park near Ponca, Arkansas. It’s B&W because I noticed some horrible color processing artifacts I didn’t feel like fixing… LOL The midday high-contrast light didn’t help any.
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Tried my hand at some astrophotography with a friend last night. 
20 light and 20 dark frames stacked in DeepSkyStacker (apparently open source although I haven’t seen it mention much here?) then further processed in darktable.
1 or 2 second exposures with Sony A7s and 135mm lens at f3.5 and ISO3200.
Second shot is cropped.
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It’s free but I’m not sure it’s FOSS. There’s also Siril.
Nice results.
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Odd that it doesn’t mention it on the actual homepage.
I find Siril a little hard… but I should probably try again.
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You’re right… That’s where i was looking. Hmmm
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