[zoppo]

just came back from a little bike tour trough the city. the sun has come out AT LAST!

[Voidmonster]

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I took this one yesterday while out scouting for textures.

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Man, I love this thread. You guys are all putting wonderful pics up!

Maximus, yeah, that picture is fairly heavily processed. Not as much as it would seem, though. It's a picture of the skeleton of some kind of cactus with lots and lots of spring growth coming through it. Death Valley is normally among the most inhospitable places on the planet. In the spring though, it's really lovely. Last year, I went camping there with some friends during an anomalous spring-bloom. The entire desert was just awash in surreal numbers of flowers. Most were tiny, but some were larger. Apparently, they saw stuff blooming that year that no one even knew grew there.

[j_man]

Ah - something to remind us of the gerat weather alst summer. a small confession though, I didn't take the photo, because that's me in the apron driving the BBQ!

nice closeups maximus! hmmm bananas!

J.

[Hervé]

cool picture.... BBQ specialist as I see... hehe , I am one too...

Bananas grow in Sweden...? nahhh (kiding) Max, these are cool Banana photos.... how about making a Banana Split... a little ice cream... chocolate topping... Whip cream... some sliced grilled almonds... and you're in Paradise... hehe

ok, for the rest... I have to look more these photos... tooooo busy now...

cya..
H

BTW, I found a Swedish Girl eating a banana split... hehe

[j_man]

I am the BBQ master! hmmmm swedish girls. hmmmm nabana splits.

J.

[desclarke]

Took this in Bilbao a few weeks ago, a corner of the Guggenheim museum.

[Maximus3D]

jdp: Thanks!

AndreD: That's a cool shot! gotta love the dof

Larsson: Thanks so much hehe see, we have bananas in Sweden too..

zoppo: Hehe congrats to that the sun finally arrived at your place too

Voidmonster: Nice angle of your road shot there

j_man: BBQ chef eh keep the grill burning! well done shot photo aswell & thanks for your banana comments hehe

Hervé: Hehe nahh we don't harvest bananas here in Sweden, but we sure eat alot of them.. alot. That girl, it looks like she enjoys her banana split

desclarke: Wow that's pretty nice! with the colors, reflections and all that stuff.

I ain't got much today, the weather sucked outside so it got to be another boring indoor photo.. today of a spoon.



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/ Max

[Hervé]

really cool shot Max... Lokks like a bridge almost.... but I know that's the spoon you're using to eat BananaSplits.... hehe..

[nik_h]

Maximus, that's a really, really great shot. Did you use a macro lens for that?

Here's a shot of the People's Palace in Glasgow, just outside my flat:



And here's an update of the orchid, just inside my flat:



Cheers,

Nik

[kirkt]

@max, nik_h - Very nice you two.

[Maximus3D]

Hervé: Thanks a bunch i'm glad you liked it, hehe you know me too well tho, now you even know what i eat all my bananasplits with. No more secrets..

Nik: The flower shot is great! very pretty and with a nice mood to it. You should take more photos from where you live, it looks pretty there cheers & thanks for the comments on my photo, yeap i used the macro mode on my camera for that shot of the spoon. It works quite well even tho i can only go 20mm close to a object i'd like to go even closer..

Kirk: Thank you!

Here's one more from today, a big old and rusty metal crane in the harbour downtown. It's no longer in use but during wintertime it stands in as a big metallic christmas tree filled with bulbs all over so it lights up nicely in the dark winter nights. I shot it in color ofcourse and then sized down the photo and converted it to greyscale as it looked kinda boring in color, well it's not that exciting in greyscale either if i'm honest hehe



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Tossing in another one here of a chain, the crane bored me to death hehe



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/ Max

[Hervé]

... pretty cool crane Max... yep we have a lot of these here still... metal factory..

What was the primary use for that crane, besides Xmas tree..

I like the chains a lot...

one question.. do you just convert your RGB's to greyscale... or do you keep it rgb with no saturation... how about a bichrome...?

[Maximus3D]

hiya Hervé and thanks!

Ahh you got the huge cranes there too, then you know what they look like. This one i think was used for loading stuff on and off cargoships which used to come here ages ago, probably around the time i was born because i can't remember ever seeing them in action.

For these greyscale photos i always make sure to keep the full RGB range intact and then i convert them via a plugin to greyscale to get as much as possible outta the images. I'm not sure tho if it makes a difference but i'd like to hope so hehe

/ Max

[nik_h]

Thanks Maximus, KirkT

Here are a couple of images from today. The first is another view of the People's Palace. The second is just a bit further along and is one of my favourite buildings in Glasgow, the former Templeton Carpet Factory. It was built in the 1890's and the brief was to make it look like Doge's Palace in Venice. It has to be seen to be believed! I promise I'll move a bit further afield in future but there is a lot of nice architecture surrounding my flat.

Nik


People's Palace:



Templeton Carpet Factory:

[Voidmonster]

An old, old B&W photo I took at the San Diego Wild Animal Park.



(Specs long lost)