what do you see like: 2015

I've just recently felt like I'm emerging from a real period of drought and lack of inspiration that has lasted more than a year, London can be a really boring city to look at when you've been here 20 years.

I had a couple of days in Paris recently while my other half was at a work conference so I made a plan to visit as many of it's famous passages as I could, some were amazingly beautiful Belle Époque style arcades with fashionable galleries and little tearooms and some just had 20 barbers and a curry house, the grimy ones were more interesting to photograph by miles though.

This is Passage Caire which is the longest remaining one and is given over to clothes wholesalers mostly.

http://i60.tinypic.com/9tzrqh.jpg
http://i62.tinypic.com/o7ppvd.jpg

Couple more...

http://i57.tinypic.com/2vwwv3a.jpg
http://i60.tinypic.com/30ausjp.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/pC0dILJ.jpg

WTF is that?! Looks cool...

I do a lot of digital manipulation of the photos I take. If you turn your head sideways, you’ll see all the busses lined up.

Here’s one more, from yesterday:

http://i.imgur.com/xbfRgSq.jpg

I was in Shetland for work (briefly) a couple of weeks ago. Took and used my Fuji X10 for the first time in ages, quite happy with the results for once.

https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8855/18207529722_a1cf1898fc_b.jpg

Rest of the set: https://www.flickr.com/photos/michaellambert/sets/72157653604446212

Got to go to Yosemite last week. Tried to get some waterfall shots with longer exposures, but they blew out the highlights pretty badly.
https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/461/18702202276_e5387e7e73_b.jpg

And a couple more, from Camp Mather in the evening:
https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/379/18722893432_5243d94fcf_b.jpg

https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/558/18727753745_a67459ec4e_b.jpg

More here.

Always a big fan of night photos like the one of the phone boxes.

Likewise. Nice series.

Still mostly using the Fuji but the Canon comes out for events:

https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8787/18071915848_860cb3b8f2_c.jpg

Back to the Fuji in the park:

https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/316/18064720213_56a1af28a9_c.jpg

And on the street:

https://c4.staticflickr.com/8/7734/18214063096_5cab22606f_c.jpg

Great colors!

Same venue and almost the same angle as Michael's great pianist shot ^

http://i57.tinypic.com/14mewc7.jpg

Oh that's ace.

Took a few shots around my neighborhood on Sunday.

A few:
https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/535/19111384348_9dc0cfca8e_b.jpg

https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/481/19272714156_5b1c38097c_b.jpg

https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/545/19111151838_760e07e759_b.jpg

Love the preacher!

Took the Canon + L-zoom to Barcelona, but also the little Fuji + 35mm prime for night-time shots around El Born. The former (#3 below) are touristy (but necessary!), the latter (#1 and #2) have more feel...

https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/365/19176488200_f621331734_c.jpg

https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/282/18716281704_be713d7845_c.jpg

https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/521/19339657716_cbfd97f1c9_c.jpg

a few from a trip to california:

http://i1247.photobucket.com/albums/gg622/bizarrogazzara/11536515_10153359088665638_8126497467739256129_o_zpsjiaetk8f.jpg
http://i1247.photobucket.com/albums/gg622/bizarrogazzara/11713673_10153387535495638_1411029709739573402_o_zpsvmo4n7jm.jpg
http://i1247.photobucket.com/albums/gg622/bizarrogazzara/10927855_10153359088625638_5750145689712179607_o_zpsgh54pbck.jpg
http://i1247.photobucket.com/albums/gg622/bizarrogazzara/11215188_10153359089145638_4187837694260201525_n_zpsveis4whq.jpg
http://i1247.photobucket.com/albums/gg622/bizarrogazzara/11425148_10153361207040638_526357701484102067_o_zpsxhtfhesy.jpg

When you take pics of people and they're looking at you, do you ask p-ermission?

mostly i'll just take the picture and move on unless they look like they have something to say

https://scontent-lga1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/11170347_10100552212029466_2408355076451797459_n.jpg?oh=eb8b65aafbcfc19cec399d58c0bc7028&oe=563607B9p

https://scontent-lga1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/11170347_10100552212029466_2408355076451797459_n.jpg?oh=eb8b65aafbcfc19cec399d58c0bc7028&oe=563607B9

i have missed these threads

BAGELS

really beautiful photo gbx
the ratio looks sorta confusing to me right now

Piggy-backing on the art of others...

Whitechapel gallery, cafe, looking up:

https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3705/20152773355_7615f072cd_c.jpg

Carsten Nicolai, Unicolor, Brewer Street car park:

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/309/20240775455_6147e9cb49_c.jpg

Whitechapel interior:

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/387/20152897875_86e8d6c92a_c.jpg

https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfp1/v/t1.0-9/11866374_10100558510806666_8860622400305479183_n.jpg?oh=ef3d9d2864c8e44fb6297b203e0b33c6&oe=56440373

https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5621/20744996582_60aa7c6481_n.jpg

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/734/21281545546_c3d52a2cc4_c.jpg https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5639/21315958271_5349472cd1_c.jpg

rad! crazy about this too https://www.flickr.com/photos/altairnouveau/18659891919/in/dateposted/

i kinda feel like the highest compliment photographs can be paid is someone slightly guardedly, jealously asking so uhh what kind of camera did you use, BUT these really make me wanna get a new point + shoot, they look great

Hope this works...

Old Man of Storr, Skye.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/carljgodwin/20682245574/in/dateposted/

ugh!

https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5809/20682245574_fa7b765952_b.jpgOld Man... by Carl J Godwin, on Flickr

bit big, sorry!

Bigger! Bigger!

So good.

yeah, that's awesome - beautiful range of tones in the b&w

cool fotos

gbx' one especially

sorry for posting-and-running. thanks though!

that point-and-shoot one was either a stylus epic (the one w/the fixed lens) or a konica big mini.

have I mentioned I bought a digital point-and-shoot now? just been messing around with it for about a week. I want to use it to photograph things in subway stations this fall and winter.

Trying to make time to get out and shoot, pretty much impossible without a holiday lately. If the Isle of Skye wasn't 450 miles away, I'd be a little happier...

Another from trip to Isle of Skye
https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5672/20719290234_b91be4d812_c.jpgNeist Point

Nice!

Great!

whoof, goodwin those are fantastic

https://scontent-lga1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xtp1/v/t1.0-9/12002075_10100577149803966_5406081645713400981_n.jpg?oh=bd506c6d16df4176a0ff23a894939a57&oe=56A32779

Wow!

Anstruther, Fife, last month...

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/710/20898190133_62594d8fdf_c.jpg

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/574/21519261625_f15a72577d_c.jpg

Forth Road Bridge, between the windscreen wipers...

https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5756/20853169874_3f0470affc_c.jpg

And this one, out of the window of the car on the A66...

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/631/21532487801_14fa9f6fd5_c.jpg

ooh i like that

me too

gbx, where was that taken? it's lovely.

gbx, that's stunning, where were you?

Mr Jones, nice work as always, that B&W from the road is amazing.

Change of location from last week, few thousand miles to the south...
https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5833/21534490205_87ec0eddcc_c.jpgUntitled