Photo of the Day | January 2025

[sparksd]

Another Cannon Beach sunset.

 

[dimme]

Pacifica-241211-8.jpg by Charles Martorelli, on Flickr

 

[tizeye]

Another race on the beach at Daytona...
Original slide from Nov 1973 copied to digital

 

[svish]

 

[goldmac2006]

Ultra Wide shot of a nuclear ☢️ reactor plant and workers preparing for the next nuclear strike. iPhone 15 Pro, during a work trip.

 

[drbill]

 

[OldMacs4Me]

 

[Ish]

Putting together a slideshow from the 2013 roadtrip. This shoot from Yellowstone made the cut.
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Impressive! It must seem obvious to you and those who live there, but I'd not really considered why it was called Yellowstone. It was just a name to me but now I know! Thanks!!

 

[piatigorsky]

A UNI Air (EVA Air subsidiary) ATR 72-600 on approach near Taipei Songshan Airport. Shot with a Nikon F4 on Ilford XP2 metered at ASA 800.

 

[Janichsan]

… preparing for the next nuclear strike.

That doesn't sound good.

 

[xJustxMegx]

I somehow can't attach any pictures anymore.

 

[goldmac2006]

That doesn't sound good.

That facility offered a tour. To ensure everyone’s safety, the red lights are only turned on when a nuclear shot is fired. During the tour, the engineer who showed us all the equipment explained that they wear coveralls, gloves, and other protective gear when working in radioactive material areas. They use lasers to test their equipment and wear glasses to protect their eyes. Additionally, he is the physics operator in the lab, responsible for deploying the nuclear fusion shots from the control room.

 

[Janichsan]

That facility offered a tour. To ensure everyone’s safety, the red lights are only turned on when a nuclear shot is fired. During the tour, the engineer who showed us all the equipment explained that they wear coveralls, gloves, and other protective gear when working in radioactive material areas. They use lasers to test their equipment and wear glasses to protect their eyes. Additionally, he is the physics operator in the lab, responsible for deploying the nuclear fusion shots from the control room.

Ah, I see. I normally associate the term "nuclear strike" with this…

Which has unfortunately some connections with the location of my photo for today…

Shukkei-en, Hiroshima

 

[cjsuk]

Been a little busy to take photos annoyingly. Visit to The British Museum last weekend was productive though. Shot from the Mausoleum of Halikarnossos. Nikon Z50ii + 18-140mm Z DX. ISO 5600, 24mm, f/6.3, 1/50s.

 

[_timo_redux_]

getting it clean
40mm

 

[datagov63]

 

[sparksd]

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Really exceptional with an iPhone!

 

[bsamcash]

 

[iAssimilated]

 

[dhershberger]

Utqiagvik (formerly Barrow), Alaska. September, 2021.

 

[stillcrazyman]

 

[squawk7000]

Govan Cross, Glasgow

 

[datagov63]

Yesterday, I took my Olympus OM-1 and three lenses in a backpack to a park in Portugal and walked a couple of miles with all that gear. It was heavy and cumbersome to navigate the rain soaked ground near the streams. I took many shots with the liveND feature of the OM-1 but was only able to get about 3.2 seconds of hand-held stabilized shots of the rapids with the camera. In contrast, I was able to use an app called Light Stack on my iPhone 16 Pro to get 10 second shots saved as a PNG hand held. When I got back to my computer I was able to edit the files in Pixelmator Pro and didn't see much difference in the result - except maybe that the iPhone shots were better.

The lighting conditions were low. It was overcast. I desaturated the brown water and lightened the greens more in the iPhone shot.

Increasingly, I much prefer the convenience and quality of using the iPhone for photography than the OM-1.

 

[decafjava]

Yesterday, I took my Olympus OM-1 and three lenses in a backpack to a park in Portugal and walked a couple of miles with all that gear. It was heavy and cumbersome to navigate the rain soaked ground near the streams. I took many shots with the liveND feature of the OM-1 but was only able to get about 3.2 seconds of hand-held stabilized shots of the rapids with the camera. In contrast, I was able to use an app called Light Stack on my iPhone 16 Pro to get 10 second shots saved as a PNG hand held. When I got back to my computer I was able to edit the files in Pixelmator Pro and didn't see much difference in the result - except maybe that the iPhone shots were better.

Here is a comparison. I wasn't able to get a steady handheld shot on the OM-1 in portrait mode. Maybe the results would be different with a tripod.

The lighting conditions were low. It was overcast. I desaturated the brown water and lightened the greens more in the iPhone shot.

Increasingly, I much prefer the convenience and quality of using the iPhone for photography than the OM-1.
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Very interesting, I know this is a comparison but normally we post one photo per day.

 

[arkitect]

Aftermath…
Pompeii, Italy

Olympus E-M10 II
Lumix 45-175mm f/4-5.6