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JRD3DU<a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/vertorama?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#vertorama</a> [3 of 3]<br> These boots walk on thin ice most times... Mountain pass glacier lake.<br> .<br> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/throwback?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#throwback</a> to #2012 travels in <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/nepal?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nepal</a><br> .<br> .<br> .<br> .<br> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/ice?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ice</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/lake?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lake</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/water?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#water</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/basin?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#basin</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/glacier?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#glacier</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/kumbu?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#kumbu</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/trek?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#trek</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/trekkingdiaries?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#trekkingdiaries</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/mountaineering?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mountaineering</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/altitude?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#altitude</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/thattravelblog?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#thattravelblog</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/hikking?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#hikking</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/hike?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#hike</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/mountains?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mountains</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/himalayas?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#himalayas</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/everest?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#everest</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/asia?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#asia</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/real?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#real</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/fitness?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fitness</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/adventuretime?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#adventuretime</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/outdoors?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#outdoors</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/depart?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#depart</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/worldcaptures?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#worldcaptures</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/friday?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#friday</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/outdoor?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#outdoor</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/worldstar?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#worldstar</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/real?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#real</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/nofilter?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nofilter</a>

1/5 #churchphotography
This is a 180 degree #vertorama of St Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe - a #ChristopherWren church in the city. It's so-called because its first structure was by the Royal Wardrobe - where in 1361 Edward III moved his store for clothes and armour.

That burned down in the Great Fire, Christopher #Wren built the replacement. That was bombed, but restored and reopened in 1961.

I used a DIY 360 degree panorama mount on a tripod to hold an #Olympus EM1iii with a Laowa 7.5mm F2.

Out with the Kodak 3-A Folding Pocket camera: Some street art around Aveiro

My second outing with the Kodak 3-A Folding Pocket camera was just as much fun as the first test with this camera, but not as successful. From my expired film box in the cupboard I picked a roll of Lomography ISO 100 colour film, which expired in 2023.

Loading the camera was easier than the first time, I roughly know what I’m doing now. I stopped winding when I came across the ‘start’ arrow and closed the back. This time I wound forward for 20 half turns, which is the position that the Camerhack.it website suggests the film was in the right position for the first exposure. After each exposure I wound the film forward eight half turns to the next frame.

This time I headed to Aveiro to record some street art. There’s one excellent example near the railway station, and I discovered other on the other side of the city near the Yacht Club. Actually, I had intended to go to the Yacht Club but the area was being resurfaced and I couldn’t gain access. 

As before, I left the shutter speed of the 3-A on 1/100 second and rated the film at its box speed of ISO 100. I used the app Camera Meter to judge the apertures I should be using, which for this exercise was between f16 and f22. With my four exposures in the bag I dropped my film off at the lab and within a few hours the zipped files dropped into my inbox. 

Again the images were a little ‘thin’ to my mind. Having looked at the negatives from the first outing they actually looked fine, so I didn’t adjust the exposure, but I’m wondering if I should open the aperture by one stop above the meter reading to get a better exposure. I’ll check when I see the negatives. 

Sadly, apart from my first image the framing of the subsequent images was quite poor, and I’m not sure why. Perhaps I didn’t have the viewfinder quite level. Also, the street art near the station was framed completely wrongly. I’m going to have to go back and do that again. Lastly, I only got three frames out of the roll, and I’m not sure why. It’s a bit fiddly to get to the shutter, and I reckon that perhaps I didn’t press the shutter lever properly.

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1/5 Hull Minster
Hull Minster is very big, very old and very beautiful. You would think it was a cathedral, but is England's biggest parish church, and was only elevated to a minster in 2017.

The transepts date from c. 1300–20, the choir is estimated at 1340–70, the nave 1380–1420 and the tower 1490–1520.

This is a #vertorama shot with the Laowa 7.5mm F2 on my Olympus EM1 iii.

Aurora, Edinburgh

Sometimes you just gotta sit on a bench beside the Observatory, eating fish & chips from a favoured chippy (Stefano's on Morningside Road) in a chilly -1ºC under light of a full moon whilst watching the remains of an aurora display as Orion rises.

Fuji X-H2, 8-16mm @ 10mm, a 3-frame vertorama processed in DxO, Hugin and LuminarAI.

Previously unedited #vertorama from the City. Still getting to grips with Affinity Photo 2. Had a problem with linked raw files, but I think that was an issue with DNG's from Vuescan. I converted them with Adobe DNG converter and Photo 2 much happier and stable.

Messing with split toning and using Color Efex from Affinity Photo 2.

If I can find a simple DAM solution I might be able to ditch Adobe subscription... 😁