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Perfect reflection
📷 Nikon D3500, Nikkor 18-55mm at 26mm, aperture f/16, shutter 1/50s, ISO 100.
⛰️ Lake Matheson in New Zealand.
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‘Ferns' Orb, occluding the sun - Wellington Civic Square.
Shot on RPX25 35mm film
Full Size
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Monochrome sparrow
Full size on Flickr
The subject is a tree sparrow (Passer montanus). Taken in the Delta del Ebro national park in Spain. The thing which I love about this is how a one-colour ...
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Weekly Featured Image: Ongoing Contest
Nikon D3200
Focal length: 260mm
Aperture: f/5.6
Shutter: 1/640s
ISO: 400
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Taxi Noir
An urban abstract shot with a modified square-aperture lens.
Higher-res view and more info on Deviantart: http://fav.me/dan283o
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Icicle melting of a flower bud
Captured this moment on a cold April morning as the frost was starting to melt.
Nikon D5200 f/18 1/200 ISO-620 taken with reverse ring method (hence focal length not ...
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I was sitting near a wooden hut and saw this little kid playing and had to take a photo of this kid with such a background in the alps.
Full-sized picture can be found here
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"Hey, what's up?!"
This photo was taken in June 2018, in the Gobi desert.
...
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Questions on photography using not-quite-a-camera...cameras
Absolutely. If it's making a photograph, it's photography and it's on-topic (subject to our other constraints, obviously). We all clearly agree that smartphone photography is on-topic, and a ...
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Full image version: https://unsplash.com/photos/_5JtKjB3mto
I loved how the ocean waves merged the water with the shore, and the two "smiles" in the water were like some kind of audience.
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Shot with Sony A7R and adapted Carl Zeiss 25mm Distagon (for C/Y mount), ISO 100, f/8, bracketed around 1/500s (3 exposures combined in Photomatix with final adjustments in Lightroom)
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2020 Community Moderator Election - Failed Election
I hesitated to recommend this prior to the deadline, but I see no risk doing so now: couldn't the number of open mod slots have been reduced to 1, to at least have an election? As it stands, our ...
scottbbMod
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Shouldn't we try to point new users in the right direction *before* mercilessly criticizing their question?
The first comment is clearly a violation of "Be Nice", which is the most pivotal rule of SE. There isn't any particular responsibility to help people use the site, though it would certainly be ...
AJ HendersonMod
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"My horn is my world"
full size: https://www.flickr.com/photos/szulat/942683641
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Accepted
Self Answered Questions
Self-answered questions are very definitely encouraged on Stack Exchange. Just do it, people will vote your question and answer up as appropriate - if it's good, you get reputation, if it's not good, ...
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Is there any hope for making this site about photography?
This site really has become rather unfriendly to real questions about photography. It is FAR too technical, and does not have enough questions about the artistic aspects of photography. That really ...
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Weekly Featured Image: Ongoing Contest
Deer moment
Taken at Richmond Park, London
Nikon D7000
Nikon 70-300mm @ 145mm
f/4.5
1/60 sec
IS0-1600
24/10/2015
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Grenadine
For a high-res version see the image on 500px
Exposure time is about 30s, the only source of light was a torch.
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Clear to Land...
Uncropped full size @6000x4000
I chased this bee (or one very, very similar ;-) all week.
It would arrive mid-morning & flit around this large yellow flowering bush against a ...
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Weekly Featured Image: Ongoing Contest
Fire is Diabolic, Too
Can you spot a devil's face? Renamed after descheleschilder pointed it out.
Nikon D3300, Kit Lens (18mm-55mm), f/7.1, 1/1000 sec., ISO 800
Location: Kerala, India
Date & ...
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