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[g4aaw pete]

Here’s an idea for an open thread:

 

Town and Country Details.

 

This could be pictures of unusual drain covers, unusual features of buildings, odd paving stones, almost anything ordinary that has some element of interest to the eye.

 

Everybody will have different ideas about what is ‘interesting’!

 

Any camera, any lens, any style, be it colour or monochrome.

Technical details with each picture always appreciated.

 

Some possible examples - I'll leave the tech details off for these.

 

Roof of former stables in Westgate on Sea High Street.

 

 

Looking down on beach escape ladder. The tide comes in quickly in West Bay:

 

 

The sign above an upholsterer's shop in Birchington:

 

 

Capstan wheel on Margate Harbour wall - possibly from around 1900:

 

 

If there's no input to the thread,  I'll know it was a daft idea & need to come up with something better!

 

 

[Ron]

Not daft at all. And, you've provided some interesting examples.

 

--Ron

[g4aaw pete]

Not daft at all. And, you've provided some interesting examples.

 

--Ron

 

Thanks Ron.

A 'fishy' lamp stand - Margate:

 

 

D800E

50mm 1.8

1/1600

f8

ISO 640

[Bent_Rider]

  A Country Barn in Georgia

 

50mm lens, f/8, SS 1/80, ISO 400

 

Thanks for the input. I agree with you. So I resized this. I hope it works.

[g4aaw pete]

  A Country Barn in Georgia

 

50mm lens, f/8, SS 1/80, ISO 400

 

A little bit small to get a full appreciation, but thanks for joining the thread.

[Merco_61]

Photos need to be web sized, but that doesn't mean thumbnail size... I usually scale to fit a 1500x1500 pixel bounding box and a 60% jpeg quality and keep well inside the file size limits that way.

 

The barn looks interesting, but I would like to see it larger.

[g4aaw pete]

Carlton cinema this evening.

 

 

D800E

AFs 24-85 @ 52mm

1/30

F4.5

ISO 1250

[Merco_61]

Some interior details from the city library Friday morning during the blue hour.

 

Model: NIKON Z 6II
Lens: Z 70-200/2.8 S
Lens (mm): 99
ISO: 100
Aperture: 2.8
Shutter: 1/60
Exp. Comp.: -0.7

 

Model: NIKON Z 6II
Lens: Z 70-200/2.8 S

Lens (mm): 70
ISO: 1130
Aperture: 2.8
Shutter: 1/80
Exp. Comp.: -0.7

 

Model: NIKON Z 6II
Lens: Z 70-200/2.8 S

Lens (mm): 70
ISO: 1340
Aperture: 2.8
Shutter: 1/80
Exp. Comp.: -0.3

 

It is too bad that the public never gets to see the almost magical light under the glass roof in the mornings.

[g4aaw pete]

Weather vein atop All Saints Church Birchington:

 

 

D3300

AFs Dx 18-300 @ 280mm

1/200

f6.3

ISO 800

[g4aaw pete]

The lamp on the village square, Birchington:

 

 

D3300

AFs Dx 18-300@ 300mm

1/250

f6.3

ISO 3200

 

NX Studio

Silver Efex pro (grad ND)

 

Very cold hands.

[bluzman]

Strolling around my neighborhood after breakfast this morning.

 

All images taken with a Nikon D3400 & AF-S DX 18-140mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR lens.

 

1/100 sec, f/8, ISO 100, 56 mm
 

1/60 sec, f/8, ISO 200, 116 mm

 

1/250 sec, f/5.6, ISO 100, 60 mm

 

1/400 sec, f/5.6, ISO 100, 85 mm

 

1/640 sec, f/5.6, ISO 100, 105 mm

 

1/250 sec, f/5.3, ISO 100, 85 mm

[g4aaw pete]

Strolling around my neighborhood after breakfast this morning.

 

All images taken with a Nikon D3400 & AF-S DX 18-140mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR lens.

 

 

1/100 sec, f/8, ISO 100, 56 mm
 

 

1/60 sec, f/8, ISO 200, 116 mm

 

 

1/250 sec, f/5.6, ISO 100, 60 mm

 

 

1/400 sec, f/5.6, ISO 100, 85 mm

 

 

1/640 sec, f/5.6, ISO 100, 105 mm

 

 

1/250 sec, f/5.3, ISO 100, 85 mm

 

I particularly like your fire hydrant. We don't have them here (as far as I know).

I can't help feeling they'd be a magnet for vandals if we did.

[bluzman]

I particularly like your fire hydrant. We don't have them here (as far as I know).

I can't help feeling they'd be a magnet for vandals if we did.

A long time ago in what seems today to be a galaxy far, far away, people opened fire hydrants in cities to get wet and cool down in the heat of summer. It was and probably still is illegal in most places but I think it's still done although I suspect not on the scale it once was.

[g4aaw pete]

Monument on Margate sea front:

 

 

D800E

58mm

1/5000

f8

ISO 1600

 

Inscription reads:

 

To the memory of

William Philpott Cook Senr. coxswain
Henry Richard Brockman Robert Ernest Cook
William Philpott Cook Junr. Edward Robert Grunden
John Benjamin Dike William Richard Gill
George Robert William Ladd Crew
and
Charles E. Troughton
Superintendent of the Margate Ambulance Corps
who lost their lives through the capsizing of
the Margate Surf Boat Friend to all Nations
on Thursday 2nd December 1897

 

 

 

[g4aaw pete]

Garlinge, just West of Margate, is notable for a very substantial house with a thatched roof.

On its roof, a couple of quaint details:

 

 

D800E

AFs 28-300@ 190mm

1/1000

f8

ISO 1000

[Bart]

Here’s an idea for an open thread:

 

Town and Country Details.

 

This could be pictures of unusual drain covers, unusual features of buildings, odd paving stones, almost anything ordinary that has some element of interest to the eye.

 

Everybody will have different ideas about what is ‘interesting’!

 

Any camera, any lens, any style, be it colour or monochrome.

Technical details with each picture always appreciated.

 

Some possible examples - I'll leave the tech details off for these.

 

Roof of former stables in Westgate on Sea High Street.

 

 

Looking down on beach escape ladder. The tide comes in quickly in West Bay:

 

 

The sign above an upholsterer's shop in Birchington:

 

 

Capstan wheel on Margate Harbour wall - possibly from around 1900:

 

 

If there's no input to the thread,  I'll know it was a daft idea & need to come up with something better!

 

Just curious, Pete: do you intend the images to be recent?

[g4aaw pete]

No Bart, whatever you have from your archive.

Mine just happen to be very recent - often taken the same day as shown.

[lightcapture]

Canoes

[Merco_61]

Doesn't quite fit the brief, but I want to post it anyway as it, together with the next one shows how much difference the right camera in the right light can make.

Model: NIKON Z 6_2
Lens: Z 70-200/2.8 S
Lens (mm): 70
ISO: 100
Aperture: 2.8
Shutter: 1/640
Exp. Comp.: +0.7

 

This is shot 45 minutes later in the day the next day. 

Model: iPhone 13 Pro
Lens (mm): 9
ISO: 32
Aperture: 2.8
Shutter: 1/344
Exp. Comp.: 0.0

 

Back on topic! The rest of the photos in this post are shot with my Z 6 II in the good light I had yesterday...

This streetlamp is in the southwest corner of Fyris square. Old-style handmade glass when covered in ice can look like this.

Model: NIKON Z 6_2
Lens: Z 70-200/2.8 S
Lens (mm): 200
ISO: 126
Aperture: 2.8
Shutter: 1/1600
Exp. Comp.: 0.0

 

The old copper-clad roof and the neon sign on hotel Hörnan (the corner) covered in snow.

Model: NIKON Z 6_2
Lens: Z 70-200/2.8 S
Lens (mm): 200
ISO: 126
Aperture: 2.8
Shutter: 1/1000
Exp. Comp.: +0.3

 

Another detail study of the city's architecture (with reflection as it is one of mine...).

Model: NIKON Z 6_2
Lens: Z 70-200/2.8 S
Lens (mm): 70
ISO: 126
Aperture: 2.8
Shutter: 1/2000
Exp. Comp.: -0.7

 

Restaurant and nightclub Flustret.

Model: NIKON Z 6_2
Lens: Z 24-70/4 S
Lens (mm): 37
ISO: 126
Aperture: 5
Shutter: 1/320
Exp. Comp.: 0.0

 

My reflection in a traffic mirror. This pair are mounted to make it easier for delivery drivers to get in and out of a pub's back yard safely.

Model: NIKON Z 6_2
Lens: 24-70/4 S
Lens (mm): 70
ISO: 150
Aperture: 5
Shutter: 1/80
Exp. Comp.: 0.0

[lightcapture]

 

 

Nice selfie