*** This Week Through Your Eyes 2024.06.22 ***

A great set as usual. The Holts flat shot of the trees and the final approach are my favourites.

Rainbow Bee-eaters

Over a few days I managed to get closer to these fascinating birds. They are migratory and seem to have moved on now.

IMO it's hard to shoot foliage in BW as colour information is lost and often all the details is gone with colours. But in these shots the foliage makes nice frame to those impressive structures without getting too much attention so I think BW suits very well.

These are my favorite shots, showing well this structure and view for passengers.

Like this shot with shadows and leading lines to lonely walker.

Thanks! Fortunately nobody expected anything from me, as there was one photographer who shots this dance studio performances and also 2 video shooters. I tried to not to get on a way for them and public who shot performance with their phones, so I kept myself mostly to side and thus had limited opportunity for shots. And I was bit short with lenses, having 12-40 as longest lens, in some cases 40-150 would have been better to capture faces and expressions. I addition to this I had in most time no idea what to expect or on what to concentrate, so I was definitely in deeper water than I could paddle.
Anyway, I had fun, got some shots I'm pleased with and learned something so it's win in my books.

Love this action shot, well captured!

Beautiful birds. Don't they know we're supposed to be protecting bees now?! 😃

No one told them. I saw them catch many bees. Bird eyesight is phenomenal. They would fly out of a tree 30 - 40 metres, catch one and fly back. I watch the fantails flitting around in the air catching small midges, which I can only see when backlit by the sun.

As I said before, the shot of the bee eater with a bee almost in his mouth is magical.

Although I've shot quite a lot of B&W film in the dim and distant past, this was the first time I'd shot a digital camera set to B&W so that I'm composing through a viewfinder in B&W, which is something I'd never thought to do before, but I think it actually helps to see what will and wont work in B&W. After an hour or two of this, I definitely felt like I was looking for compositions a little differently to how I normally would.

Here's a couple of tree images I shot later in the week. Both of these were composed and shot in B&W and I think they work much better than the colour conversions I've added for comparison, reminding me of scenes from the old Universal gothic horror films of the 1930's, such as James Whale's Frankenstein. With the colour reinstated, I think they lose a lot of their atmosphere and menacing tone.

They have beautiful eyes, I love them 😇

My sat nav took me narrowest and steepest streets of Sarajevo while I was trying to go to old Olympic village. It was a nightmare. I should have used my common sense instead of following it.

I love them , I liked the bridge with shadow. One of the steps shot reminded me Aztec's temples.

Nice weather 😉, this is my pick.

Nice highlights and shadows. Beautiful street shot.