lovely tram!

Never seen a Jaguar with the car there, it must be a custom made one then!
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No way this is real but it is beautiful!
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Hello all.
Correct me if I am wrong. A smoking volcano is to be considered active.. Or is it we call active volcanoes we historically know they have errupted?

We have a photographer daring to go there, wearing or not wearing a gas mask, he takes the picture of a smoking volcano from close..., I'd applaud his/her courage first.

I suspect the use of an old lens with no electronic connections to the camera. Wise choice Bernabe. I'd put my money to a good life insurance rather on the lens.

The issue here you might say is the picture but I thought to pay dividends where they are due.

Panoramic images are mostly landscape and landscapes may or may not be just that. Presentations of the geography of a place. The picture we see does exactly that. As an extra you get some smoke too, making this a landscape with action.

Suppose you were there. If we were to reduce some space from the left to exchange it for seeing more smoke on the right now much should we have given? Could we see beyond the smoke? Is more smoke more interesting than more of the geography of what lies beyond the volcano?

It is a matter of a careful weighting of importance to proportion and for me although the ridge of the volcano we see is big in proportion to the image, it is what it is. A correct geographical pictorial information.

Before I start writing my thoughts about the image here, I had seen a mod by darklord that excluded the smoke but no text yet. It looked like a picture from a mountain rather a volcano, so I think the smoke is optional but for me it does worth staying in the frame. I would have loved to see an image as paulbroad describes as I can not manipulate the image where I am now. It may had worked to do the sky less bright, the right side of the ridge darker but the smoke would need some burning, right?

I am not sure if this picture will stay in my memory a couple of years down the line. But for the time being I applaud it with a standing ovation.

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My grand nephew is about the same age. His mum sent me pictures recently, almost similar facial expression and hand gesture. In our childhood when we got shot we were laughing. What happened to this 21st century kids?

Her mum told her not to dive in the deep, maybe?
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Stairs stay put, lifts go up or down.
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That looks straight from the early eighties! Great mono image.
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well seen and executed, lovely poetic image
bravo!
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A-M-A-Z-I-N-G

It has something of Dali's surrealism, bravo!
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Lovely colours
Sunshine in Scotland?
How strange, LOL
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Mono for me, otherwise the butane cylinders are easily spotted, hahaha.
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Hi, nice shot.
I reckon this is a good subject for sepia. Black and white conversion would turn the light from the lamps white and cold and as a concept this as a roofed area would provide some comforting warmth. Sepia is warmer than black and white so, why not?
A walk on the memory lane.
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p.s. I think you could tilt it one or two degree(-s) to the left to look upright

As a child I was told this is called ''thief'', as you always try to catch him as it runs in the wind.
You've made a great capture with a humble old friend. Serene and poetic result.
Bravo, bravo, bravo!
Shortlisted for award
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That's the result of sunshine, what's wrong with that?
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I must not make any associations with what's happened on in the world and judge this on its merit.
Great capture not so great background and a bit underexposed?
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May God put some more brain on the head of some people. Amen
Peace
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Namaste

Hello all,

yes, I think some cultural issues have to be understood.
Please read this article of wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quinceañera

15 is an important age so being too close to this age can be celebrated too in an image.
And what is the best colour to identify with freshness and youth? Green!

Mono is a absurdity as a concept here. I have been old enough to know pictures in black and white and I still use black and white film, but for architecture and still nature. But for a kid in the green? No, no, no. It is not a men versus women discussion this. Think of old and mono and new and green.

What nobody seems to have discussed until now is lighting. Metadata show this was shot at nearly 12AM -midnight- and no flash was used but I see some shadows on her face and highlights on the leaves that tell me an off-camera light source has been used.

I produced a modification myself veering to softness. And I flipped the young lady on the left to make a point that left or right it makes no sense when viewing a single picture. It does mean something when you literally read a series of images on a page.

I must check my blood pressure now. Garçon! Tequila!
Oooph!
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Nice, but it can become nicer if you crop out most of the empty sky (and a vertical bit from the left so that the frame looks symmetric - but keep all of his shadow intact! ).
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He looks as if he has just been told that snow once it melts it becomes water

Vava-voom!

Hi,
I just left the boats in - it is interesting to have a wider image also - but since you mentioned the boats I thought of just showing the boats; I gave some punch to the colours too by reducing exposure and highlights.
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Impressive symbiosis.
You can increase the colour intensity and lower the highlights Savvas so the colours of the lamp come to life.
Thus I would say it is not suitable for a mono conversion, Colours all the way!
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Bring on Friday!
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p.s. is that bottle a Nookie Brown Ale?

Howdy dudler.
I cropped because of the strange colouring effect of the suspenders had on her thighs. I could describe it as ''reverse shadow'' or ''tanning mishap''.
I thought on my second mod the hat would be cut a bit further down so as the round top isn't visible, as cowboy hats had a flat top.
The colour intensity changed from mod to mod but the idea was to increase the flesh tone.
Kind regards,
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Hi Savvas,,, good to see an edifice still standing (and escaping WWII).
If it is the one in Saudi Arabia, it is spelled Al Ahsa (the yellow lake).
Did you go there with a 4x4 or a normal car?
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''SDC'' is hidden behind all this.

Spectacular isn't it?

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probably NOT the best photographer ever

Never thought they had classes for Hooligans...
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