A New Year means a new Soul Source photography thread! Starting in 2013, "Show us your great photos" has proved to be a long-lived favourite - all because of the continued contributions and involvement of its enthusiastic participants. Here's looking forward to yet another year of fab photos - and don't forget that you don't need to be a photographer to post up pics. Whether taken with top-of-the-line gear or the camera on your smart phone, if you've got interesting pics, please feel free to share.

To kick off, here's a batch of pics I took today while out on a cold and misty walk in a place called the Amsterdamse Waterleidingduinen. I'd not heard of it until just very recently. Apparently it's a natural water table from which Amsterdam gets most of its fresh water. At the same time, it's a nature reserve, so now that I know of its existence, I'll have to make a point of visiting regularly.

It wasn't a good day to be out with a camera, especially with a zoom lens. The light was poor, it was misty (heavy fog overhead - we could hear geese flying over but could barely see them, even though they were quite low), and it was cold. Hopefully conditions will be better on my next visit.

Here's wishing you all a happy New Year and lots of happy shooting across the next 12 months.

A few to end the year from walks in the last couple of days, the tunnel one is the  of the subway to Stubbins Halt station on the ELR , you can just about make out the blue tiles, I've passed the large tree one many times and never noticed the size of the branches which are the size of tree trunks on there own.

Went for a walk round Loweswater again - had some fun with the fog - made for some shots I was really pleased with - I really MUST get round to taking my proper camera (or buy another one for the purpose). Dx

I've decided to get a 'bridge' camera rather than lug my Canon EOS about (specially as it's in pretty permanent use on a tripod shooting closeups of my salmon flies - and occasional cheap and cheerful studio pack shot work, which I used to pay for it last year).
Want to use it as a hiking camera - as per the above pics - though it's 600g (the Canon alternative is only 360g, but only 16mp) I am pretty settled on the Sony DSC-HX350 Digital Compact Bridge Camera - 50x optical zoom, 20mp - £294.
Any thoughts or counter suggestions and reasons? Don't want to spend much over £300.
Dx

Edited December 31, 20204 yr by Davenpete

19 hours ago, Davenpete said:

I've decided to get a 'bridge' camera rather than lug my Canon EOS about (specially as it's in pretty permanent use on a tripod shooting closeups of my salmon flies - and occasional cheap and cheerful studio pack shot work, which I used to pay for it last year).
Want to use it as a hiking camera - as per the above pics - though it's 600g (the Canon alternative is only 360g, but only 16mp) I am pretty settled on the Sony DSC-HX350 Digital Compact Bridge Camera - 50x optical zoom, 20mp - £294.
Any thoughts or counter suggestions and reasons? Don't want to spend much over £300.
Dx

 

Just now, Uk Soul said:

 

Some amazing photo's on here

Many many thanks for sharing

ATB

Thanks to everyone for all the fantastic contributions in what has been an extremely difficult year.

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