Exhibit your B&W shots

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Thanks Henry.
What's that guy doing? Showing how to catch someones ....?
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Dr. Harout wrote:Thanks Henry.
What's that guy doing? Showing how to catch someones ....?
... cojones?

Great image Henry, would like to know what those bous were up to if you can recall.

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Dr. Harout wrote:Henry, not much differs here, except that we use some spices in the boiling water.
I do as Louisiana people do, eat the tail and then suck the guts out :wink: , but some just prefer the tail.
Oh, and we consume a lot of beer/ale, after all we are in its birthplace (see Xenophon's Anabasis, though I'm sure you have read it).
I haven't tried the guts. It is just one of those things that I sort of decided that I can probably live without and won't have regrets on my death bed for not trying. :lol: I have eaten many other things, many of them once was enough, but I just haven't felt the need to suck crawdad guts. I remember that while working in Japan 20 years ago going to an izakaya (pub) with some Japanese co-workers and we had a platter of small, raw, whole squids -- each one was about 12-15 cm long. I ate one of those and it was horrible. I won't bother describing what it felt like in my mouth or how it tasted. I am glad I had the foresight to order a new beer before eating it since my current beer was almost finished. I ate the squid, swallowed it, and then drank half the big glass of beer to wash it down. One was enough. :lol:

I haven't read it. It sounds like the Spartacus story has some of the same elements in it.
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Dr. Harout wrote:Thanks Henry.
What's that guy doing? Showing how to catch someones ....?
These boys are brothers and I think that even in Nigeria and Egypt the rap culture is alive and well. They were great kids, but when I took their photo they posed like rappers. It was funny and I took a couple of photos of them doing it.
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Some more from Spain. Shot with the RX100.

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Very nice Mark - I especially like the first one - great detail in that shot.

Here is one from the archives - I may have posted this before in one of my Isle of Harris threads.

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Great shots, Henry, Mark, Andy and Ken.
Mark, I am with Andy on your first one.

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Thanks to you both Andy and Sury. I agree on your assessment.

@Andy: the image has nice "layers" which are accentuated by the use of the grayscale. Well done.

@Ken: spooky looking tree! Nice.

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Mark, as for me I like both your shots. Definitely the first has more details but the second, specially the upper part of the shot, is very serene looking.
Andy, you're right, we've seen that shot, but I guess it was in color.
Ken, a superb shot of a tree, but imho you should crop the bottom part (the snowy section), it kind of distracts your view. Try that and you'll see what I mean. Or, if more of the bottom is included in the original shot, I would love to see it.
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Dr. Harout wrote: Ken, a superb shot of a tree, but imho you should crop the bottom part (the snowy section), it kind of distracts your view. Try that and you'll see what I mean. Or, if more of the bottom is included in the original shot, I would love to see it.
I go the same idea after I saw how it posted!! :oops: :oops:
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Thank you Doc!
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Here is a not so typical view of the Golden Gate Bridge. This is looking towards west from Berkeley side. GG bridge spans North-South across
the mouth of the bay. You can see the GG Bridge as a faint line in the distance slightly above the pier. You can see the North Tower and the
bridge going right to left just above where pier turns dark (to the right of 4 light pole from left). This is one of those times I did not have 70-400 or 200-500. This shot was taken with CZ2470. One consolation was that it was very foggy on that day, a not so unusual occurrence on SF Bay.

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I thought it was much bigger :lol: :mrgreen:
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Crop of the portrait I posted but converted to B&W. This is my attempt at learning to crop (sensibly).

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