Photography Thread
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Pross said:
Top one looks a bit Italian
Well, it's only about 100 miles from the border, and I guess that the combination of medieval building materials & practices and climate would have influenced across borders.0 -
webboo said:
I was thinking that I’d seen it in Signora Volpe.Pross said:Top one looks a bit Italian
As far as I know the only 'big' thing filmed at Châtillon-en-Diois was the French film 'Knock'. It is an amazing place, especially once you get into the properly medieval alleyways.
https://www.francebleu.fr/infos/culture-loisirs/omar-sy-en-tournage-chatillon-en-diois-14725814240 -
Italy probably didn't exist when those buildings were put up. IIRC, somewhere near there had a referendum in the 19th century on whether it should join Italy or France.briantrumpet said:Pross said:Top one looks a bit Italian
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Didn’t know whether to put it here or the pet thread (photo by Mrs Pross). Christmas bandana and bow are my daughter’s doing and for the avoidance of doubt neither are wearing a dog nappy.
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Three from me today... bit of a walk in a misty forest fire recovery zone, and a ride up a mountain... the roads have stayed damp today, and with the contre-jour lighting, it picks up the road rather well.
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What exactly does the second photo show – some sort of fungi growing out of a fallen birch tree?briantrumpet said:From today's Christmas lunch walk:
It looks a bit like a fresher, but less intense version of Calocera viscosa. That is sometimes used as decoration on a plate with a dull grey mushroom dish (e.g. mushroom risotto) to give some colour to the dish, as neither poisonous nor particularly tasty either (so unlikely to be eaten). Like flower blossoms are sometimes used to 'brighten up' some boring-looking dishes.0 -
jimmyjams said:
What exactly does the second photo show – some sort of fungi growing out of a fallen birch tree?briantrumpet said:From today's Christmas lunch walk:
It looks a bit like a fresher, but less intense version of Calocera viscosa. That is sometimes used as decoration on a plate with a dull grey mushroom dish (e.g. mushroom risotto) to give some colour to the dish, as neither poisonous nor particularly tasty either (so unlikely to be eaten). Like flower blossoms are sometimes used to 'brighten up' some boring-looking dishes.
Yes ! (Well, not sure about the birch bit, but it is a fungus.)
I've got 'Entangled Life', by Merlin Sheldrake to read when I get back, so might know a bit more about fungus by the end of it, though probably not detailed culinary instructions.0 -
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Christmas day
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TheBigBean said:
Christmas day
Nice photo, BB. Is the skiing or cycling better there? Just as well I didn't plan on skiing here as virtually all the snow has gone below 2000m0 -
Brrr. But a nice change in the weather. A gratuitous photo of my house in the mist, a rainbow in a spider's web (I can't remember having seen that before), and a tiny weeny bit of snow seen from the chilly descent from 1402m.
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Thanks. It was raining a lot, so most places have lost their snow below that sort of altitude, so definitely no better for skiing.briantrumpet said:TheBigBean said:Christmas day
Nice photo, BB. Is the skiing or cycling better there? Just as well I didn't plan on skiing here as virtually all the snow has gone below 2000m
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Not a particularly creative shot from today's walk from my front door, but it quite nicely shows the terrain. A previous walk on the opposite side taught me not to try to follow the dotted-black-line paths on IGN maps, as I got hopelessly lost in the woods on the opposite side trying to follow one: I ended up just wiggling my way down through the woods from the top left to the little field in the middle of the photo, and then finding old farm tracks and faint paths from there. It's a big mountain when you're lost - the descending seemed never-ending!
Still, it was an adventure, and I lived to tell the tale.
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Got the best of the weather for it to capture Barrybados at its finest. Just the iPhone but I actually think it does a better job than my SLR in these conditions.
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I was surprised that not only did I get a ride after the damp start, but the washing actually dried quite a bit outside... and that the autofocus did such a good job.
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A properly all-flat-grey and wet day today, so the best I managed was a stroll down the stream (which is fed partly by the source of our drinking water), and found a spot I'd not been to before... I'll be going back when the sun's out and the river's even fuller, if the opportunity arises, as it looks like a good spot to expriment with long exposures, though the lowish light levels tonight got a bit of that effect on the HDR setting.
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I wanted to catch the last sunrise of 2022, and the clouds conspired to make it an interesting one:
Oops, edit... then the sunset just happened... viewed from my garden:
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First ride of 2023... heading up to somewhere near the top on the right hand side...
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Lack of sun and lack of snow... almost glad I'm returning to Devon tomorrow.
No, not really, but needs must.
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Copying a shot someone else just took.
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Marshalling on my club's annual Christmas trail run this morning, in all the times I've been up there I think this must be the clearest I've seen it as in the summer it gets hazy when that sunny.
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Not for the photography, but for the subject matter... 4 January, FFS!
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A day (Tuesday) when the sunshine wouldn't quite play ball... I was hoping that the ruined château behind the bandstand at Valence was going to be illuminated by the sun, but no. So this will have to do.
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This one?briantrumpet said:A day (Tuesday) when the sunshine wouldn't quite play ball... I was hoping that the ruined château behind the bandstand at Valence was going to be illuminated by the sun, but no. So this will have to do.
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rjsterry said:
This one?briantrumpet said:A day (Tuesday) when the sunshine wouldn't quite play ball... I was hoping that the ruined château behind the bandstand at Valence was going to be illuminated by the sun, but no. So this will have to do.
Yeah, that'll be it. I've still not been up to it, but I really ought to.0 -
Looks pretty impressive from Google Maps (and what I can see in your photo of course).1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
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I need to pick a nice day in the summer and cycle there (and back):rjsterry said:Looks pretty impressive from Google Maps (and what I can see in your photo of course).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Château_de_Crussol
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