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Doc Martin? A 10 out of 10!

Mitchie recently discovered that we have Sky One in the list of programs we can receive, and so we can watch Doc Martin. We’re only into Season 2 by now, but wow, all I can say is that if you don’t immediately love these people, you have no heart! A bold statement, I know, but this show so deserves it! It’s funny, quirky, and simply wonderful. To see the previews on IMDB makes me smile without sound even:

A must see, if you can receive it. And as you can see, in case you have Prime Video, you’ll get at least seasons 1 and 2. Enjoy!

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Clara et son fameux papa

This is ten years ago already – but I just found out now:

Clara et Jean-Luc Ponty au Palais Idéal du Facteur Cheval

So good to hear his daughter perform “Enigmatic Ocean” and “Mirage” with him… and more of Clara on her internet page.

Like always, thanks for viewing.

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Cookie from today, with the help of several tools

I took this photo with my 50mm macro lens from the 4/3rds system today:

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Cookie, Mörfelden-Walldorf 2023

I had the camera set to black & white already, but converted the raw file using the OM System raw converter on Windows without changing anything yet. Then I loaded the .tif file into Silver Efex Pro 2, also on Windows, and applied a preset called 015 “Full Dynamic (Harsh)”. Back in Linux and using RawTherapee 5.9 I still applied an own contrast-enhancement curve and some blacks to the image. The format is the camera’s full 4:3 this time, so here we have 16 Megapixels. No further enhancements.

And that was that. Like always, thanks for viewing.

P.S.: the camera and lens used, taken with my mobile phone:

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My camera, Mörfelden-Walldorf 2023

Thanks for viewing.

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Black tulip

Here’s one from our garden from today:

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Black tulip, Mörfelden-Walldorf 2023

I used an Ilford HP5+ film simulation in Silver Efex, and a light vignette in RawTherapee. Like always, thanks for viewing.

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So peaceful…

Wilma was already here and sleeping at that exact spot when I got up:

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So peaceful…, Mörfelden-Walldorf 2023

Couldn’t resist, had to capture that peaceful scene… and like always, thanks for viewing.

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First Wilma, then myself…

Today I took two photos, with the same camera and lens, but with slightly different settings, and also cropped differently.

The first one was of Wilma, in 3:2. She was very alert because of the always love-sick Cookie who was also around, so there was a lot of hissing and warning to keep him at a safe enough distance. Understandably, she had no eyes for me:

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Wilma, Mörfelden-Walldorf 2023

Later – long after the two cats were gone – I took a self portrait, with having my camera on a (microphone) table stand, remote-controlled by a mobile phone. I cropped this one into a 5:4 format and used a Kodak Tri-X film simulation in Silver Efex to achieve this:

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Selfie at the computer desk, Mörfelden-Walldorf 2023

The camera was my Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mk2, and the lens was the 17mm/1.8 from Olympus, with f/4 for the cat, and with f/1.8 for myself (it was getting dark already). And like always, thanks for watching.