Little Hart Crag.
Lake District, Cumbria, UK.
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Dima Діма
Can you recommend a smartphone that takes photos that look both natural and beautiful? I'm tired of photos that look so fake. What do you think of the OPPO Find X10 Pro Max?
Can you recommend a smartphone that takes photos that look both natural and beautiful? I'm tired of photos that look so fake. What do you think of the OPPO Find X10 Pro Max?
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Last: Nov 06, 2026
Kyle Foreman
In The Round Practice
Hey everyone. Recently some Pep Ventosa work came across my social media and it inspired me to get out and try his in the round technique again. I've tried it before without a ton of success.
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Last: Nov 05, 2026
Alan Brown
Exploring a different angle.....
I posted recently about how using the Bluristic app angle mode could simulate the action used in the Pep Ventosa 'in the round' technique.
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Last: Nov 05, 2026
Денис Білоус
Can you recommend a smartphone that takes photos that look both natural and beautiful? I'm tired of photos that look so fake. What do you think of the OPPO Find X10 Pro Max?
Can you recommend a smartphone that takes photos that look both natural and beautiful? I'm tired of photos that look so fake. What do you think of the OPPO Find X10 Pro Max?
Charles Mercier
Grain silo
A couple of old photos taken while the Amtrak was stopped - somewhere in Colorado, I think?
(And yes, I like that the vertical leans!)
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Last: Oct 22, 2026
3 Comments
Another of your fine, restrained images, Chris! I like the touch of drama with the sunlit outcrop, but not OMG! Wow! drama.
You seem to have a typically UK sense for preserving a degree of realism rather than maximum possible impact above all, which I share. Given this, to my eye, the sky looks just a bit too unrealistically dark, even allowing for the contrasting shaft of foreground sunlight.
Hi Chris, many thanks for your comment. I have lifted the sky and will re-post to see if anyone thinks its better. The day was really dull and flat except for this really bright patch of light slowly moving over this crag. I do attempt to keep photos obviously but slightly edited, I'm not really into the heavy editing as demonstrated by many of the images here. That's not meant to be derogatory in any way to those superb works of art, it's just my simple preference. Thanks again.
I share your preerence, Chris! If you do post the version with lighter sky, remember to post it under your original at left (you may want to edit your text so new viewers don't get confused). If you do so, viewers can scroll directly between the two.