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[RICHARD L.]

[jgnfld]

Love Quebec City...so beautiful there. Once, about 25 years ago I was there to do final negotiations and to sign off for our province on a national professional licensing agreement for psychologists (under the original AIT). One of the other delegates--in addition to being a psych--was also a campanologist from England originally before he immigrated to Canada. Anyway, he got us into the old Anglican cathedral through his rather obscure/esoteric campanology community connections to ring the bells to celebrate!

Didn't have a camera with while climbing up the steeple, but some of the stair runs near the top were made of de-barked logs with adze-cut (NOT sawn) notches to mount the treads and risers! Lots of old blacksmith nails in evidence. I don't think any of that's present day code! And some of the graffiti on the walls went back to the just before the Napoleanic wars era.

Don't know about the condition now this quarter century later, but if it can be entered these days, there's definitely some great shooting in there and/or up there.

Quebec may be almost as stunning and nearly as pretty as Newfoundland when on the land doing landscapes! :-) (Of course there are no more stunning seascapes anywhere in the world as here...but that's just how it is!) OTOH your more urban stuff shows how much more architectural history is over your way. Especially in the Ancien Ville area of the city which you apparently like to explore as well.

And the food beats Montreal all to hell.

[RICHARD L.]

The Old Town has many old stone houses built under the French Regime (before 1760). You find awesome architectural details like old doors and windows, thick stone walls and beautiful wooden interiors. Maybe I should start photographing indoors to show these nice wooden floors, hearths and staircases everywhere. I don't want to bother people though. Rue Saint Jean has very nice architecture as well as around City Hall and Chateau Frontenac. I much prefer summer shooting outdoors, though.

Regards

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[RICHARD L.]

Pictures of Quebec City taken with the HD DA 16-85 mm ED

[Scorpio71GR]

It has been a few years since I posted anything here. This is on my K3 shortly before it died. Taken at the local zoo last spring. They a big exhibit throughout the zoo of life sized animals made from Legos.
68mm, F6.3, 125s

John Ball Zoo 2021-107 by Michael, on Flickr

[Des]

Post-harvest rain passing over South Gippsland farmland, Yanakie Isthmus, Corner Inlet and Wilson's Promontory. K-S2 + DA 16-85



(X-posted from monochrome landscape and cloudscapes threads.)

[skolkmeier]

Post-harvest rain passing over South Gippsland farmland, Yanakie Isthmus, Corner Inlet and Wilson's Promontory. K-S2 + DA 16-85



(X-posted from monochrome landscape and cloudscapes threads.)

What are the little white dots in the field? Bee hives?

[Des]

What are the little white dots in the field? Bee hives?

They are plastic-wrapped hay bales, Stan (the swiss-roll type). Each is about 4 or 5 feet high, which gives you an idea of the distance (more than a kilometre away).

[Scorpio71GR]

the local zoo had a Lego exhibit throughout the entire grounds last year. I used the 16-85 for pretty much all the shots.


John Ball Zoo 2021-114 by Michael, on Flickr

[subsea]

A sunset image from tonight, taken with my K-3III and HD DA 16-85mm lens, with metering set to highlight weighted mode. X-posted in the Sunsets thread.

[CBM]

Heavily cropped, the sun was too intense to manage (for my skill set anyway!) This is in the everglades, as the sun sets, the birds gather and follow it down into the sea of grasses on the other side of the canal.

[Des]

Heavily cropped, the sun was too intense to manage

These are both striking images. The sunlight striking the bird in flight in the second one is magic.

[steamloco76]

Winter in Penn’s Woods

[Scorpio71GR]

A closeup of the previous shot.
85mm Instead of 16mm, F6.3


John Ball Zoo 2021-115 by Michael, on Flickr