Landscapes

Could include town or cityscapes as well.

Surreal landscapes in Spain…! Wouldn’t want any of this IMBY…

St Emilion?

Yes. :grin:

Are there many photographers on SF?

Lots :wink:

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I’m a very amateur one. The Creative Director (OH) points out the subject to be captured along with angle/framing advice and I point my camera at it, take a guess at exposure/shutter speed etc. and press the little black button.

OH and Panasonic do the hard work and I’m just a beer and cheese powered bipedal camera mount.

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OK then. Here’s one from our trip in February, where we didn’t manage to get out much.

Lac des Settons-4 by Anton Ertl, on Flickr

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Not a pro, but a keen amateur.

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Me too.

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I love walking through the stunning landscapes of the Aveyron, but seldom photograph them, because I prefer making photos that are unexpected. The one below is of Workington, which vies with Barrow in Furness for the title of the ugliest, most depressing town in Cumbria. The photo’s title is Workington, a Mountain Farm and the print is 24" wide.

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Not to far from me. Many others in the region to discover

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Just a hobby for me, have had some photos published locally and nationally when working with my Nikon F3. Lost interest for many years, just treated myself to a D500.

The D500 is a great camera, and really good for wildlife, with a fast AF system and the crop factor to make the most of a longer lens.

We only had a single free day to explore, and the weather wasn’t kind. hopefully things will be better in a few weeks.

Apart from the ruggedness, that tipped the balance when choosing. Long lens I have a 200 - 500 and with the crop factor 1.5 gives total 750mm at 500mm. Now I just have to find the time to observe, set up a few hides… Finding time, that’s another thing…

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We used to see kingfishers occasionally here 30 years ago, but not any more. On our October trip I saw some on 2 occasions - if you’re a birder then France looks to be pretty good.

I do landscape, street, occasionally portraits and a bit of travel. I don’t have the patience & dedication for wildlife, nor the long lenses. :slight_smile:

That F3 was a great bit of kit - hope you still have it. I kept most of my film era stuff: Minolta 7000, Bronica ETR, and picked up a Nikon F301 along the way.

I used to keep a diary of what birds I’d “spotted” in the fields around our house, during our last 27 years in UK . (I noted insects etc etc as well… a real nature-diary)
It was noticeable how the quantity and variety of birds (and insects) fell, year on year…
In the end… it was almost painful to go to my usual viewing window and see virtually nothing… very sad.

and, yes, I’ve seen the Kingfisher here in France, on a few occasions.
First time, just as we were crossing a little stream in the valley below our house. I saw this sparkling “something” out of the corner of my eye and my brain clocked it straight away. Bellowed (softly) to OH to stop the car… and we both sat watching this gorgeous little bird darting hither and thither…

there are many parts of France where the bird life is absolutely amazing… hurrah.

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Not sure whether the wind turbines add to the prestige or just make it worse :joy:

I’ve had various film SLRs over time, but my first was a second-hand Praktica which I bought as a student - I loved it, and it served me really well until I dropped it down a mountain in Wales after which it was irretrievably broken :angry: My current, and rather ageing digital SLR is a D300. Have been eyeing up an upgrade for several years now, but somehow just haven’t got around to actually buying one - torn between the Nikon range I know, and a Canon EOS of some kind - most of my stuff is either landscapes or wildlife, but I also want to try astrophotography, so kind of stuck looking for something that is comfortable in a wide range of situations, which inevitably will involve compromise !

I’m not a gear head, but worth mentioning the camera world has gone mirrorless now, and both Nikon and Canon have changed lens mounts. The upside is that DSLR stuf is now a bit cheaper because it’s a dead format and it still takes pictures as well as it ever did. The downside is that the new lenses are a lot more expensive, though in many cases they are optically better.

I went for Sony - they have the most mature system, some of the best lenses, the others are still chasing to catch up in terms of system.

All makes have DSLR to mirrorless adaptors at allow backwards compatibility of lenses, but the only really good one is from Canon.