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Boss photos you've taken

Nice mate. It was cloudy as hell over Preston and we didn't see anything!

My ambition is to shoot Saturn & Jupiter clearly enough so laymen can recognise what planet it is, so far only got round smudges. Also see if I can manage some spiral galaxies and colourful nebulae.

Astronomy is fascinating stuff: seeing Jupiter + 4 moons with the naked eye was quite something, but very tricky to photograph clearly.
 
High quality optics, yeah, for that. But great to see though when you manage it.

and the location...too much haze in the city, even the moon's craters lose clarity. also the right tripod, with tracking...they often cost a few times more than the telescope itself.
 

I know I only do macro....

But me and the fam had a day in the lakes (Ambleside, then onto Arnside for fish & chips tea). We went up to the famed beauty spot that is Blea Tarn before munchies where the boat is.


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Apologies for the image quality but these were all taken on the Samsung S8... (except the first one which was on the 70D - you can see that the DSLR is more capable at exposing for the highlights in the sky etc.)...


Paul.
 

I was on a romantic holiday with an old girlfriend a few years ago. I was on the Arc de Triomphe at night around Christmas time, you could see the market on the Champs Elysees and the Eiffel Tower had a spotlight shining around from it hitting the clouds/buildings around it.

Whilst I was up there an American couple asked me to take a photo of them on their camera to which I duly obliged.
When I looked at the screen to see the result I was amazed to see that I had taken the single greatest photo that has ever taken, everything was perfect to the point where the Eiffel spotlight was shining directly upwards and all the lights on the roads and buildings looked perfect. As I handed it back and walked off I heard them saying how amazing the photo was and how much they loved it.

It still haunts me today that as a passionate photographer, the best photo I will ever take is of two random people on a camera I dont even own. Sake.
 
Most people don't like them much...

...but they are photogenic!

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Paul.
 

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