Found growing inside a sweet pepper. I have no idea what it is or why it was there but it looked so strange that it deserved to be photographed. It's about 5cm long (or 2 inches if you're old enough to know what they are :wink. K3iii + Irix 150mm macro, f11, single shot, couldn't be bothered to set up the kit for a stack.

Thoughts, comments, explanations of what it is etc. welcome as usual.




Steve

Yes, that's another valid take on the stairs picture. In fact, it's very similar to another, longer exposure, shot I took but which eventually lost out to the darker one because of the way the light at the top of the stairs and the windows draw you up and eventually off the stairs into the heights of the cathedral (well, that's what happens with me anyway :wink. As ever, there's no right and wrong in matters of photographic taste - which all helps to make life so interesting .

Steve

Thanks folks. It was a toss up whether to take the fisheye or the Tamron 10-24mm for very wide angle shots. I'm now glad that the fisheye won .

Getting the stairs shot was interesting. The 16-85mm was on the camera while going round the cathedral with Mrs L and daughter. I spotted the possibility of a fisheye shot but had to keep moving to keep up with the others. After 'doing' the building, the ladies took a pew to recover from their exertions and unexpectedly didn't object to me wandering off on my own for a while. As it turned out, there was only one way to take the stairs without including the barrier on the bottom step that was blocking entry. And that's the shot that's posted here.

Steve

Stunning photo of what seems like an impressive space .

If you hadn't said it was taken with the 03 fisheye I'd have assumed that all the curves were due to the architect's extremely creative imagination .

Steve

Seeing what the 10-17mm fisheye could do to shape and form in a couple of cathedrals. First two are Norwich with the K3, last two are Ripon with the K3iii. All hand held and the best of several attempts to get alignment right(-ish) and no people mucking up the view. Best seen large with a dark background.

The big copper vat in Norwich Cathedral is the font. It came from a chocolate factory where it was used to make chocolate. And yes, there is a fisheye-distorted image of a curved-surface-distorted image of the photographer in the base of the vat-font.

Thoughts, comments welcome as usual.

1. Norwich



2. Norwich



3. Ripon



4. Ripon



Steve

Ahh, nice little birdies! And nicely photographed.

An interesting title, too. A former nature correspondent for the Times said that when he started to submit his columns by e-mail some of them didn't arrive. It seemed to be quite random. The IT department investigated. They found that the 'lost' e-mails had been rejected by the firewall because they referred to birds of the, as you put it, T***Censored***T family.

Steve

Latest on my fibre chaos story: I contacted my Town Councillors, they raised it at a Council meeting, other councillors joined in with tales of woe from their wards, the Town Council is taking it up with the County Council officer who placed the contract for fibre installation. Now waiting to see whether local democratic institutions can have any impact on what non-democratic businesses get up to in public places.

I was in Ripon yesterday, currently staying with daughter and family in Harrogate. Free entry to the cathedral but had to pay £3 for a photography pass because of the DSLR hanging round my neck while people with phones were snapping away without a pass. No sense in it at all - particularly as I paid for the pass with the note I was going to put in the donations box and just put the change in the box instead .

Steve

Somewhere between the first and second for me, please - enough to show a bit of motion but not turn water into milk. When I see a (real) waterfall or fountain I usually find myself following individual drops or globs as they move around rather than looking at the overall impression, so I like to see drops and globs in photos.

Steve

No, not Virgin. The fibre company is local to the South West, small but with big ambitions, possibly trying to run before they can walk.

It could have been worse, though. A while ago my sister and her entire neighbourhood lost broadband for a few weeks - a Jag collided with a cabinet full of connections, wrote it off completely, big mess .

Steve

Well, broadband and phone returned a couple of days ago. Then an apologetic phone call from the fibre cable people who apparently didn't know that they had been causing chaos in my road. Oh well, back to what counts as normal life... until the next time.

Steve