A new year, a new photography thread! Thanks to everyone who's participated in these threads, whether as a photographic contributor, a commenter, or as someone who just pops in from time to time to admire the latest offerings. The Soul Source photography thread now enters its sixth year (well, technically it started life in April of 2013, but who cares?), which I think is amazing.

As I mentioned in the last post of the 2018 thread, its longevity is entirely down to you and your continued involvement, so thank you one and all for making this a real highlight for so long. Cheers, and here's to another photo-filled year!

 

 

1 hour ago, davebanks said:

My first contribution.

Not the sharpest picture but so hard to get a stoat to keep still!

 

Dave Banks

Brilliant Dave. They're as you say not the easiest creatures  to photograph  Now your here. Keep them coming.  

Steve 

12 hours ago, Winsford Soul said:

Looks Stunning.  Love Turkey especially Icmeler.  

Steve 

Have agricultural fields out our back . The trench flood to grow food . Inca Style . Maybe Incas were Turks and 😎

20 hours ago, Winsford Soul said:

Looks Stunning.  Love Turkey especially Icmeler.  

Steve 

Have agricultural fields out our back . The trench flood to grow food . Inca Style . Maybe Incas were Turks and 😎

Had a trip to Anya Beach Turkey .

Place of National interest.  Location for Green Turtles laying eggs on Beach . Locals help them apparently . 

 

Out on the bike to the Amsterdam woods armed with my camera on an afternoon that just got greyer and more drizzly as the hours passed. Not great conditions for taking pics, but I did get a few shots of mushrooms before conditions got too bad.

 

13 minutes ago, Soulfulmerlin said:

Had a trip to Anya Beach Turkey .

Place of National interest.  Location for Green Turtles laying eggs on Beach . Locals help them apparently . 

 

When you get the boat from Icmeler  to the mud baths at Dalyn. The larger vessels are  moored offshore and you transfer to smaller boats and your landed at a place called Turtle beach before you have a boat ride through the freshwater lakes and rivers ( incidentally where the African Queen was filmed) to the mud baths 

Steve 

1 hour ago, Amsterdam Russ said:

Out on the bike to the Amsterdam woods armed with my camera on an afternoon that just got greyer and more drizzly as the hours passed. Not great conditions for taking pics, but I did get a few shots of mushrooms before conditions got too bad.

 

These are brilliant!!! 👍🏼 Imho. 😊

46 minutes ago, Flamingemeralds said:

These are brilliant!!! 👍🏼 Imho. 😊

Thank you. That’s appreciated. Quite happy with them myself, but think they could have been better if I’d gone out with a bit more preparation. 
 

With fungi often being found on or close to the ground, even just having a carrier bag with me would have enabled me to kneel down and get better compositions. I have a small fold-up chair that would have been perfect today. Being a wuss, I didn’t want to spend my afternoon cycling around with wet and muddy knees or worse, a wet and muddy backside! 😂

54 minutes ago, Amsterdam Russ said:

Thank you. That’s appreciated. Quite happy with them myself, but think they could have been better if I’d gone out with a bit more preparation. 
 

With fungi often being found on or close to the ground, even just having a carrier bag with me would have enabled me to kneel down and get better compositions. I have a small fold-up chair that would have been perfect today. Being a wuss, I didn’t want to spend my afternoon cycling around with wet and muddy knees or worse, a wet and muddy backside! 😂

Russell . One of those posh cameras with the tilty  flipy thingy screens would have been just perfect.  Camera on ground, screen points upwards so as you can see from the ground up to the mushrooms.  Great pictures mate 

PS. I haven't got one of those posh cameras.  

Steve 

 

29 minutes ago, Winsford Soul said:

Russell . One of those posh cameras with the tilty  flipy thingy screens would have been just perfect.  Camera on ground, screen points upwards so as you can see from the ground up to the mushrooms.  Great pictures mate 

PS. I haven't got one of those posh cameras.  

Steve 

Thanks. That camera thingy sounds a bit too posh for me! 

I did take a few worm's-eye view shots - holding the camera at arm's length at ground level, shooting upwards while crouched over – but it was a bit awkward to do... and as a result the pics didn't work. Had it not been so soggy out, and I had a carrier bag or something similar, I'd definitely have been on the ground taking pics. 

Few snapshots from Munich International Airport

Community area between Terminal 1 & 2 

Saw these tyres in the back of a van.  The patterns of the treads fascinated me. You'd think there's be one standard for tread. One that is more effective than all the others, but obviously not. I'm calling this photo "Tyred out" ! 🙄

Louise.  You could always use a rubber to erase them from your memory when your tyred.

 Hat , coat , door. Just leaving 

1 hour ago, Winsford Soul said:

Louise.  You could always use a rubber to erase them from your memory when your tyred.

 Hat , coat , door. Just leaving 

Hmmm, yes, that joke is running a bit flat Steve, you'll have your audience deflating.  😊.  

Some photos from my recent week in Alcudia, Majorca with the missus.  Was good to get away and it's a beautiful place but we chose a hotel popular with young drunken lads and lasses so spent two days on my return catching up on sleep!  Next time we're choosing a quieter place.  Anyway, onto the photos.

 

 

Above photos are Port Alcudia beach, some shots of Alcudia Old Town, second one down is the view from our room and last photo is looking down "the strip" where most of the bars, restaurants and shops are.  Weather was between 25 and 30C all week long.  Got a couple of litre bottles of decent Ron Barcelo rum for 14 Euros each too, result!  Apparently there was a soul bar in Alcudia once but a bloke I got talking to in another bar said it had closed down.

Edited October 20, 20195 yr by BigGordy
Typos.

On 15/10/2019 at 07:40, davebanks said:

My first contribution.

Not the sharpest picture but so hard to get a stoat to keep still!

 

Dave Banks

fantastic, well done!!

 

Place of beauty  . Seen a Woodcock first time in life , also Ravens , Ospreys , and Red Kites among the other usual suspects .

Red Kite

See them every day .

Good population of them over Bowland . Even get Ospreys now 

8 hours ago, Soulfulmerlin said:

Place of beauty  . Seen a Woodcock first time in life , also Ravens , Ospreys , and Red Kites among the other usual suspects .

 The woodcock camouflage is unbelievable,  you almost stand on them before they fly away 

Edited October 22, 20195 yr by Winsford Soul

This is true .

Such an elegant Bird . Short wings and strong long bill . Markings are striking . Deep Brown and lighter Shade . Sadly unable to capture a picture .

Though for those who like wildlife .

A must visit . Twitcher paradise 

Sunset through the trees

 

Not mine ... pinched off Twitter ... made me laugh

44 minutes ago, Martyn Pitt said:

Not mine ... pinched off Twitter ... made me laugh

Love it 

Buttermere, The Lakes 

The golden glow of an autumn evening in the Amsterdamse Bos (Amsterdam woods)...

Some from my first day’s trip to Skye

River in full flood , slow shutter speed and filters added to create this effect

Edited October 25, 20195 yr by Winsford Soul

4 hours ago, Pat Bleasdale said:

Buttermere, The Lakes 

Hope your knees are up to job .

Seems as if they are . 

H

5 hours ago, Amsterdam Russ said:

The golden glow of an autumn evening in the Amsterdamse Bos (Amsterdam woods)...

Love the images however the description is fab as well 😁

1 hour ago, Wayoutgirl said:

Love the images however the description is fab as well 😁

Thank you! The description is very apt - as we finished our walk at about 6pm, the light changed dramatically - and it really was a golden glow. Conditions were a bit hazy, so no real 'sunset' as such. Instead, we had this kinda yellowy light in front of us that was weak, but still bright enough to create the soft light effects and the opportunity to set the camera for silhouettes. Making most of the chances, I guess.

12 hours ago, Soulfulmerlin said:

Hope your knees are up to job .

Seems as if they are . 

H

New knee doing great thank you for asking.

Veiws of Derwent Water and Skiddaw from Cat Bells.

16 hours ago, Amsterdam Russ said:

The golden glow of an autumn evening in the Amsterdamse Bos (Amsterdam woods)...

Stunning silhouettes Russell 

38 minutes ago, Winsford Soul said:

Stunning silhouettes Russell 

Thank you kindly! 

Second day on Skye

12 hours ago, Amsterdam Russ said:

Thank you! The description is very apt - as we finished our walk at about 6pm, the light changed dramatically - and it really was a golden glow. Conditions were a bit hazy, so no real 'sunset' as such. Instead, we had this kinda yellowy light in front of us that was weak, but still bright enough to create the soft light effects and the opportunity to set the camera for silhouettes. Making most of the chances, I guess.

The light is amazing isn't it! 👍🏼

22 minutes ago, Flamingemeralds said:

The light is amazing isn't it! 👍🏼

Absolutely gorgeous. Obviously the sun sets very rapidly, so I needed to work fast in taking pics before the light faded too much. 

The Amsterdamse Bos is a wonderful place and well worth visiting any time of the year.

3 hours ago, Amsterdam Russ said:

Absolutely gorgeous. Obviously the sun sets very rapidly, so I needed to work fast in taking pics before the light faded too much. 

The Amsterdamse Bos is a wonderful place and well worth visiting any time of the year.

I've looked on the internet. It looks fab, and close to the city too. I've never been to Amsterdam, but I intend to one day! I'll certainly make the national forest a "must do", definitely! 👍🏼🤗😊

6 minutes ago, Flamingemeralds said:

I've looked on the internet. It looks fab, and close to the city too. I've never been to Amsterdam, but I intend to one day! I'll certainly make the national forest a "must do", definitely! 👍🏼🤗😊

If you do make it over, make sure to give me a shout. 

1 hour ago, Amsterdam Russ said:

If you do make it over, make sure to give me a shout. 

That's nice! I shall do! 😊

2 minutes ago, Jaco said:

Not sure how the duplicates happened but these are from Neist Point lighthouse, the most westerly point of Skye

Few more Red Kite pictures taken from my recent visit to Pembrokeshire.

 

 

Edited October 26, 20195 yr by Winsford Soul

3 hours ago, Winsford Soul said:

Few more Red Kite pictures taken from my recent visit to Pembrokeshire.

 

 

Superb!!!!! I love this thread! 📸

Sculpture outside Evergreen Jazz Club Kotor, Fisherman Bay Of Kotor, Perast, sign outsiide bar and finally the last thing I expected to see in Montenegro Laurel and Hardy 

 

 

Today’s pics from Skye. 

Little Grebe at dawn. The sun was reflecting off the slight ripple on the water to give this effect. i personally love it

 

Simple autumn colours

Ed