Usually the bicycle ramp would be on the side, and not in the middle

I’m very happy with it. Considersidering it’s a camera from the late 70s, it’s still working very well.
It has just the right amount of handholding for me (light meter built in) that it feels like I’m truly manually taking these pictures.

I think those are cargo ramps, but it’s funnier to imagine that it is just an extremely steep wheelchair ramp

Jep, die voetgangerstunnel

Banishing pedestrians underground so the cars can have the surface is a little bit backwards though.

There are certainly situations where a pedestrian bridge or underpass is the only reasonable solution, but it shouldn’t be the default solution. And if you have to build a pedestrian underpass, at least make it spaceous, inviting and easily accessible, and not dark and claustrophobic.

I’m fairly certain the underpass in this picture is quite old, and it passes under what used to be the main road to the north before the ring-road was finished.

I’d assume it’s some kind of art piece? They’re hanging from the wires for the suspended street lights, and not exactly easily accessible like laundry normally would be.

What is it about UltraMax 400 that you like?

Funnily I actually prefer Kodak Gold 200 film. The colours are a bit nicer, and the image feels more refined.
UltraMax 400 works better in sub-optimal light conditions though, which is especially nice now that we are going into winter.

Don’t worry, I don’t think you implied anything like that.

It was more to show that I met my own standard for “not cheating”, and that the result is indeed roughly in line with the original shot.

Actually, by my own standard the Schwebebahn picture I posted a few days ago is sort-of a cheat, because it’s a composite of two pictures.

As promised, the original scan.

Basically I cropped and straightened it a little, and did some minor colour correction.

Thanks! I did some minimal digital editing afterwards, but I try not to “cheat” too much when shooting on film.

I have them developed at CameraNu.
They have a service for developing and scanning photos on film, and the actual machine to develop colour film happens to be located at the Eindhoven branch.

So I can bring in a roll and the scans get sent to my email within two hours.

Edit: I’ll upload the original scan when I get home, so you can be the judge as to whether I cheated 😄

The sky was indeed quite over-exposed.

I take these photos on film, so the dynamic range is not quite as wide as with digital, and getting the exposure right remains tricky

The terrain is a former factory right next to the downtown of Den Bosch in the Netherlands.
It’s one of those areas they are in the process of revitalising. There is a few food establishments and an arcade now.

Thanks! I always seem to get a singular downvote on every image I post here

I think a hard J makes sense, but soft J is acceptable too

I can open the image in Thunder (Android) but it is not embedded

Edit: Also, I propose we pronounce the file format as “jixel”

You mean to say I can take the anti-stress bench for free? That’s nice :)

DD-MM-YYYY is what is most commonly used in Europe, and in my opinion it is perfectly acceptable and logical to use.

But YYYY-MM-DD does have one major benefit that makes it extremely useful for archival purposes. When you sort it alphabetically, it also sorts correctly by date.

You can even keep going and use YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:SS…

There is innocent people in my country too. That doesn’t mean we are somehow owed the same privileged position that the US has held for decades.

The US really pissed away any strategic advantage it may have had with that little stunt sanctioning a few justices and prosecutors.

It made it plainly obvious to anyone paying attention that American software cannot be trusted, and caused a bunch of countries to start preparing their exit strategy for building down their dependence on American software.

And for what?.. So that they could be an annoyance to some people prosecuting the war criminal, and friend of the US government, Benjamin Netanyahu? That sounds like such a small win, if it causes you to lose the leverage completely.

Edit: Not that I mind. It’s a good thing that it’s this plainly obvious that we cannot trust a reliance on anything American.
It makes it cost a whole lot less political capital in order to get governments to move away from these dependencies.

I’ll bite… Why would that be my goal?