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Read The Quiet American.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89542461

Speaking of which, heading from Phnom Penh to Saigon and Vung Tau in a few days.

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'The Quiet American' is a fine example of Greene's work.
 
@Helveticum - 'In a landscape mood again,' - cool I'm good with that.

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Two views of the East peak of Suilven from the West at dawn. Sutherland North West highlands of Scotland.

Picture one - We had slept on the summit of the hill the previous night and I knew there was a pretty good chance of getting a cloud inversion at dawn. I set my alarm for 10 minutes before sun up and when I woke up I could see the cloud rolling in over the sea at an alarming rate. Panic ensued - trying to get out my sleeping gear, grab a camera and get to the spot I had identified the previous night for the picture. I was bare-footed when I took this - there wasn't time to put my boots on. Everything happened really quickly - the glen below was rapidly filling up - the two streams of cloud rolled up and over the bealach - a pass between two peaks - like waves breaking on a beach. What this picture can't show - is the noise. A loud roaring - very much like water in torrent. The East peak looks like a shark's fin.

Picture two - this is only two or three minutes after the first was taken. The cloud is about to obliterate the view. Landscape photography - in my experience - is generally a war of attrition and patience. Pick your spot and wait for something interesting to happen light-wise. Sometimes you might just be in the right place at the right time. Not in this case- it was all over in 5 minutes. All that remained was to - gently - kick my mate awake and remind him it was his turn to get a brew organised, get back into my sleeping bag and await my morning coffee. cheers - I.
 
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Castle Ardvreck - Loch Assynt, Sutherland. North West Highlands. Originally late 16th C. - built by the Clan MacLeod, traditional lords of this area. Only the tower remains - it would have been much bigger, with a walled enclosure - gardens and courtyard. You get days like this in the Highlands - the weather locks in. The cloud is just above sea level. This is about as much as you can do with this sort of light. Leica and film. Cheers - I.
 
Some "Zeppelin Bus"
1940s / 1950's in my hometown.


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Hello,
Let's stick to the photos that members have actually taken in this thread, there's another one for "favourite pictures". Or if you would like to share a story about your town (which is always interesting), even better to start a separate thread.
 
Street photography I guess -

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The Northern suburbs of Kabul. A Russian tank captured by the Mujaheddin - you could never tell whether these things were active or not. The Muj didn't have the spare parts or the engineering expertise to keep them going, generally. Just after I took this picture - the turret started rotating towards us. We started running. A volley of machine gun fire chasing us. Olympus body - Tri-X - cheers - I.
 
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@Helveticum - elephants in a room - Malaga. I have no idea what was going on here. I can't understand what this space was used for. Other than having small elephants in it. I've said before - there is a vein - a seam - of surrealism that is never that far under the surface of Spanish culture. You just need the right kind of eyes to see it. Your turn next to post I think? cheers - I. @William Dobson - Leica and Pan-F
 
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@Helveticum - elephants in a room - Malaga. I have no idea what was going on here. I can't understand what this space was used for. Other than having small elephants in it. I've said before - there is a vein - a seam - of surrealism that is never that far under the surface of Spanish culture. You just need the right kind of eyes to see it. Your turn next to post I think? cheers - I. @William Dobson - Leica and Pan-F
Looks like a proper Lynch movie set up :D
 
@Digimonkey you're right mate, about the time I posted something. But the only new shot I made during the last few days was yesterday's overexposed picture of the rain droplets on a car window I took with my phone. To be honest, rain in August here in Cyprus is something next to a miracle, so that was something special :)
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Rain, August and Cyprus is a miracle in one sentence. :)
 
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