Brings back memories of Walter White, in his under wear, breaking bad ....

I have one of these and use and like it a lot.

Try to keep the head as light and secure as possible - I use a simple 360 degree circular pano head that accepts an Arca Swiss plate, which I use on all my cameras and lenses - the KISS principle applies!

The second image intrigues me - softer light, very low contrast and when downloaded it made me shiver with cold - well caught starlifter.
The best technical image is not always the best photograph - I suspect #2 is straight out of the camera with minimal PP?

I recently "retired" from practicing law to teach my specialty at a University close by (I can walk my dog there) and secondly to try to become a much better photographer.
Your images have convinced me I would like to get permission to capture other classes and the fascinating looks you get on students faces - the very best of those are when at least in some of the students you see tangible signs of understanding starting to dawn.
What you have captured has inspired me - thanks and all the best, Andrew

+1 from me after 2 years and lots of use of my Jr3 - as CO wrote the fine adjustment and smooth panning make it easy and pleasant to use for airshows and birds in my case use it with a Fujinon 100-400 zoom, sometimes with a 2x teleconverter - they make a big lens way easier to control and use with fast moving objects. Recommended.

Really great capture - wondering if a pano,
and if so how many shots in it?

Fantastic shot Voss - absolutely right to be in B&W, with really good depth of field.
Long time since I was in Denver but it hits my memory button spot on.
Is the street closed to all cars, and does it make for a better pedestrian / shopping / photography precinct?
best, Andrew

Hi Jeffl - always a difficult question - both have interest and a story.
One solution I am experimenting with is using a photo display frame (actually an old iPad) to display consecutive interesting shots on slideshow / rotation - put the iPad on a wall in a high traffic area of the house and have found people like seeing different views of the same scene.
So my solution - display both, and let your viewers share both and make up their own mind.
take care - Andrew

In download the detail in the tabby's fur is extraordinary - great shot and a great memory!

So I admit to being a Fujifilm XT series fan - first serious digital camera after changing from 35mm film, made choice of camera largely on ergonomics (physical dials my hands remembered, size and weight also had a bearing). Took a while to learn, but now love it.
Agree with prior posters about quality of Fuji colour and images - and for anyone interested in how that came to be so, this historical video of Fuji from Tony and Chelsea I found fascinating.

Fuji were a very good film company and (unlike Kodak) saw the long term impact of digital and transitioned to a camera / sensor / lens company with a different niche from the majors Nikon Canon and Sony.

So if you have Fuji, and want to know why it is like it is, watch this :-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWbe_bLqcpQ

And as Mr Armstrong said, about another field - "It's not about the bike ..."

Hmm - a quick click on the Apple symbol in the top left corner shows rather a lot of apps on my mac are still 32 bit - sequence to see that is -

About this mac / system report / software / legacy software / reason : 32 bit

Luminar 3 is already 64 bit, but Skylum says they will have a paid upgrade to v4 "this fall" - on the Luminar user forum pages that Skylum themselves sponsor there is much unhappiness about promises made for v3 but not delivered, and then moved to v4, but as yet no definitive list from Luminar of what upgraded features v4 will contain - even though Skylum are pre-selling v4 as a "pig in a poke" to use that old time expression - responses from mostly grumpy v3 users are here -

https://community.skylum.com/hc/en-us/community/topics/360000158652-News-Updates

(You may have to register first to see them).

I think I will just stay with the old stable v6 Lr and use Luminar v3 as a plugin in it on the odd occasion I need a layer for editing, and wait until the cannon smoke clears to see who is left standing after "this fall".

And yes it would be easier to just give in and pay the monthly Adobe subscription - but that would be a surrender to the evil Empire ....

The Lightroom Queen (and there may be a few contenders for that title) today reports that while LR v6 (the standalone, pay for once licensed version of Lr) is 64 bit, its installer and licensing code in that version are 32 bit, meaning any re-install or re-activation (such as moving to a new computer or new hard drive) will mean you either stay with OS 10.14, or upgrade to Catalina and then either go with the Adobe monthly subscription, or find yourself a Lr v6 replacement.

Have trialled various replacement image editors to Lr as put forward and debated here in UHH many times, and I think the replacement editor that works best for me is Luminar - appreciate that others here will have differing views on choice of an editor, all of which will be perfectly valid.

Best solution would be for Adobe just to do a simple 64 bit upgrade to the offending bits of v6 of Lr (and charge for it appropriately), but I suspect porcine aviation has a greater chance of taking off than Adobe supporting its loved but now abandoned child.

What does fuss me and I suspect others who use and like Lr v6 a lot is the inability of the replacement programs to do the digital asset management job Lr does so well - by metadata, keywords, collections, preservation of original files and a whole bunch of DAM functions I will find it hard to live without.

Anyone know of a Lr DAM replacement that integrates with an image editing program in the mac world that they recommend? The files Library in v3 of Luminar is basic but OK, but without that catalogue function in Lr I suspect on a transfer to a new editor an awful lot of useful search and management data will be lost.

Just not upgrading from OS 10.14 is I appreciate an alternative, but one I suspect that will have a limited lifespan.

If anyone has the same issue, have they worked out the solution?

Great captures - trying to work out the lights - pro studio lighting left right and above with equal lux as a wild assed guess?

Love the sepia tones - unconventional but effective IMHO.

Callan Park was a former State run mental institution established in the 1870's in the inner western suburbs of Sydney - it's near a land projection into the harbour called Bedlam Point, named after the original Bedlam lunatic asylum in London.
Until the early 1990's it operated on the basis of institutionalised care, where patients where committed to that institution until they were no longer considered a danger to themselves or society.
With the world wide change to community based care in the 1990's, the site became redundant and is now used for a variety of community uses, including a college for the arts, a variety of sporting / wide recreation uses and the occasional music concert. The buildings are in a variable state of repair, but all are sort of interesting.

The parklands between the buildings were very much used as part of the therapy to treat patients.

All taken with a Fuji XT2 with a 50-230 kit lens, just to see if you could capture a lot with a single lens.

Typical wide parklands between buildings

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Unusual to include a Japanese garden

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