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I suppose he shot 30 sec hoping for the best. At least, is how I (try to) shoot lightning... the maximum time without having to wait for the dark frame calculation, shot back to back, hope that one...

Could it be because it's behind the hot smoke from the boat chimney? (I'm guessing --- I'm neither a Fujifan nor the contrary).

The size is quite similar to my sony alpha 55. I was quite deceived when they decided to grow up the 57 and further models. Really don't know why. It's a great positive point in my opinion for...

The size is quite similar to my sony alpha 55. I was quite deceived when they decided to grow up the 57 and further models. Really don't know why. It's a great positive point in my opinion for...

Placed 66^th in the challenge. shepherding, at very small scale. Ants shepherding aphids on a ivy bush.

Placed 54^th in the challenge. Pebbles in the beach

Placed 93^rd in the challenge. Little wild flower of the Spanish dehesa

Placed 29^th in the challenge. After a very rainy and cold spring (at least for our standards), the fields blossomed purple all around home. Shot from a bike trail in the fields north of Madrid, Spain.

Placed 85^th in the challenge. Local bee (I think :) in spring.

Look at photivo too: www.photivo.org

As a no-pro amateur I am quite happy with the open source offers. I can choose among rawtherapee, darktable and photivo for developing raw, Gimp for editing, without forgetting digiKam which covers...

Brian -  thanks a lot for publishing this post. I need to clean my sensor too, for the first time, and I admittedly am quite nervous about it. I have bought specific sensor cleaning swabs because...

This is a really great shot. I started sweating just looking at it. Thanks for sharing!

Thanks a lot!

Hi, just a question for someone more expert than me (not difficult at all). I was trying to shot some starfield with my A55. In my first attempt I simply put the lens (a SAM35/f1.8) in manual...

Placed 28^th in the challenge. Giant kite at a kite show in Cogne, in Italian's Alps, last summer.

It's cheese. Raw. As raw as you can define it. Unless you consider cooking the heating to separate the curd from the whey. Which I (and the rest of culinary world) don't....

Thanks a lot - said for you is a great compliment for me, I love all your photos...

Ripe local tomato, high quality "bufala" mozzarella, basil risen in my backyard and freshly hand-shred, extra virgin olive oil from my old home in Liguria, Italy. Yes, irregular cut, so what?

well, my idea was to focus on the nearest tomato stack (more or less at the rule of third upper right position) and having sufficient DOF so that the oil drop on the second (left) stack was in...