*** This Week Through Your Eyes 2023.09.16 ***

Ghosts of Covent Garden

Glad to see you got back safely!
It must have been a terrible experience. As you said ,... "Poor sods"
Did you come back with the originally planned flight, or get back earlier?

That's a great set. my favourite are the first 3
... There's not many trees left in Scotland :-(

Another good and typical set from you Nigel! even if only hand held ;-)
my picks above.

You're lucky, I've never seen the polar lights in real life. I always thought it would be good to experience that one day !
My picks from your set above.

Mountain quarry
Zoom in to see all the different pretty coloured rocks being loaded into trucks in the quary.

An older shot this week, as I'm packing for a holiday in Poland. So I'll see you all after that :-)

I understand that these are from Marrakech? It was hit, but not epicenter, so can't imagine what was it like there.. I'd probably also not be able to photograph in such situation. And this is maybe difference between photographers and amateurs, like me, real photographers can shoot in any condition. I realized this when in ironman competition I saw how one woman went over handlebars before finishing bicycle stage and I was just looking and hoping that she was ok instead of shooting. Fortunately she was able to stand up and go on, just bloody chin which was patched by medicals (though I didn't saw her on running distance, maybe she decided to cancel).

Very effective.

Interesting to see all the different colours from just the one quarry.
Have a great holiday - looking forward to seeing the results.

I wandered lonely as...

Love those crooked and wrinkled trees, they are like statues to vitality. First shot is my favourite.

I could recognize only some of chess pieces, they probably use old notation.. Seems like in one mosaic unicorn is shown. Fight scene is also quite interesting.

Lovely scenes but #2 is my favorite.

Actually you don't need to pimp it very much thanks to sensor colour sensitivity. Here is image directly converted from RAW, it's colourful enough. In my processing I just tuned WB to more neutral (as original has quite red cast, probably from city lights reflecting from clouds), adjusted levels and contrast.

I think that you are on to something, it's probably alien attack, that would also explain this galactic battle I managed to capture :D

With some luck it's possible to see polar lights at our lattitude but best places are 1000 km. northward...

This is my pick. Such shots seem to be matter of luck with correct shutter speed, I have tried to capture ghosts but nothing to show so far, it's either too slow or too fast shutter speed ruining shot.