*** This Week Through Your Eyes 2026.07.11 ***

Last week I was in Hard Rock laager, 2 days and 22 bands. This year we had luck with weather, mostly sunny with just ocassional rain. I left my camera home and just took some photos with my phone, concentrating on experience instead.

View to main stage. I like how the partially transparent backside shows nature through it, real ambient experience.

View over small river. For some bands some locals gathered on other side to enjoy show without paying.

Dead and alive. That dual status was marking these days, constant music, emotions, lack of sleep, beverages, that all created that living dead experience.

View to sunset after midnight from parking lot.

Cool, like a phalanx protecting the umbrellas behind.

I mix all of my photos together and just pick the best ones. I'm no longer prejudice against my phone if I don't see problems. My phone shoots RAW when I remember to use it.

I have looked at this set a couple of times before commenting. At first the first shot was my favourite, but somehow I think 2 and 3 are the best in this nice low key set. Canals are always interesting. I loved walking the Kennet and Avon in Bath

A terrifying sight for a fish.

It's part of your story but this makes a fine landscape in its own right.

The shoeshine shot has a nice vintage feel to it. Maybe the way you shot the guy posed harks back to another time. Yes cherries, I live near Vignola our cherry capital, and we gorge on them when they are in season.

It seems to be the theme this week. Phone cameras have become remarkably good, as this picture shows.

The sunset shot easily wins this set. The water front panoramas are nice too.

Metheny is pretty versatile, he ranged from soft pastel pieces, to blistering free stuff (that only works live in my opinion), and lots in between.

The shoeshiner is quite intriguing.

I don't understand that tomb. How is it covered?

These three are really good ones.

The judges at my camera club would tell you to pull up the shadows on this. There is too much pure black in the foreground.

The building has a roof made out of one single block of stone.

The bathtub Sarcophagus probably had an inner coffin of some sort.

Fine sunset.

Cherry time 😀 We've been gorging on cherries too, though bought ones only. I always go for the spanish picota cherries ever since we came across the valley where they grow at blossom time. The picotas fall from the tree without stalks, and strangely people prefer the stalked ones, though the picotas have much better flavour in my opinion.
Sour cherries are good used to make cherry vodka 😋

The shoeshiner does have a vintage feel. All his equipment is so fine.

A single block of stone! Wow.