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A bunny in a power wheels AMG rolling down the street in style

A very good dog smiling from a car window

A sweet old low rider pickup truck

A large crowd of people that care about democracy in the United States

I will say after this weekend, being around like minded people really gave a huge moral boost, so if you are on the fence or just reading this in the dark GO to the next one. It great fun and nice to feel like your community cares.

Don’t let it become a pressure and always take care of yourself first, but I also really enjoy the informative posts. 😄

Here is the original unedited photo for reference.

The dynamic range you can pull out of modern camera sensors is amazing. This was shot almost an hour after sunset and exposed for the sky so there is between a 2 and 4 stop boost to most of the image.

I’ve heard that photos of people are more interesting because our minds fill in a story, but I just want to know why she has a Canon strap on a Sony body 😆

Makes sense! Cool to learn what pear blossoms look like 😆

This gives me some motivation to just call what the camera recorded good enough. Really nice photos of the cherry blossoms by the way!

I really like the unaltered photo callout. I’ve been finding it hard to balance wanting to find the optimal form of a given image with not wanting to sit and edit photos for hours.

4. make a syrup by adding 2x more sugar than whatever volume of water you have. Add more 2x ratio syrup if you don't have enough to cover the peels again.

5. boil down again
6. pull the peels out, dry on racks.
7. cover in powered sugar or chocolate once fully dried.

Works for oranges too. 👍

I would put in a vote for candied (and optionally chocolate covered) lemon peels. The process is pretty much:

1. peel a bunch of lemons, like 2 cups worth of peels.
2. add them to a pot and cover with water, then boil until the water is almost gone.
3. strain and put aside the remaining liquid
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Super useful in a ton of cocktails as well.

You then cut the final product with water to adjust proof, and then add sugar to taste, then serve over ice or with soda.

Generally speaking higher proof alcohol will let you dissolve the oils faster and can yield better flavor. If you are somewhere you can get ~120 proof vodka that works best.

One of the great things about making limoncello is that you can combine this with most of the other ideas, since you are only using the peels.

Starting to see cherry blossoms doing their thing which is always exciting

What a fantastic flower! As an aside, are you constantly surprised by just how sharp that lens is? I feel like I’m always caught off guard since it is so light.

Some #monochrome favorites for Monday

Nicely done with the processing for that as well! My 7100 always had very distinct purple banding that would creep in when pushing the iso.

Having fun with the iPhone 16 camera and a little rain

That’s a really fun way to get the red tones of looking into the sunset as well as all of the dark blue and purple looking away. Nicely done!

Until then I’ve been playing with _really_ long exposures with a 720nm filter on an unconverted Z8, which isn’t the best but is interesting to play with.

When I get around to converting the camera I might ask you for some processing tips. I looked through more of your posts and you have some really amazing full spectra/IR images!

It’s not something that I’m too worried about since silent mode works pretty well and doesn’t really have any downsides if you are already doing long exposures.

Thanks for looking into it! I saw that note when I was trying to price out the conversion.

Very cool! I have a spare Z5 that I’ve been thinking about converting but it’s getting more use at the moment getting lent out to friends to try and get them hooked on the hobby as well. 😆

I think I get it, ok. So the normal IR cut filter was removed, and you have a different one that only allows 470 and up instead? That makes sense thanks!

It’s a cool photo regardless 😄