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Not using luminar 4, but am generally operating with open source software. Concur with you, as my sales does also not warrant paying a huge sum for software. Using darktable for RAW conversion and Gimp for editing that cannot be done in darktable. I am not doing any leading edge photo editing and both tools offer all I need.

could be kind of a dog rose / rose hip / wild brier

just 'ealized my keyboa'd 'efused to type the lowe' case R .... just trying an excuse ...

.... adding lovely, inimitable and enchanting stench ...

[sarcasm] No, we wear iron socks 🧦 [/sarcasm]

No, not really require ironing, but some people would even iron socks. Personally I am an unacquainted ironeer - could also call me dysironic - hence no picture of that in my portfolio

I had a search show up for the German word "bügeln" and was baffled as I did not remember any of my pictures that would fit. It comes that the word "bügeln" translates into the English verb "(to) iron" and iron itself is slightly ambiguous in English. Hence the picture that showed up to the client was this: which obviously is iron and quite rusted, but has little to do with ironing shirts - that is unless one needs some rusty stains. Anyone else experience with weird translations

oh, nearly missed this post, these are really great images that you have there and good work digitizing them.

so its me?

I still see only 500 in width for all your pics, maybe is only me or is photoshelter reducing to 500px?

looks perfect to me as is. Looking at the original, which you said is 4686 x 3494, the crop is kinda half width of the picture. The crop comes at 500x347, so would suggest the original is kind of 1000 or 1200 in width. Are you sure this is a 100% crop?

Opening of the 2020 Carnival season in Cologne, one month ago

I always leave the power cables connected to the hard drives, when I store them away. The cable I roll around the power plug in the hope they do not cuddle and muddle up over time. Unfortunately cables are a bit like snakes and I am sure they are alive; There is just no other way to explain the chaos with all the knots they get into after a year of plain storage. Thats even true for the neatly rolled up cables around the power plugs, doh. In German we have a word describing that state of entropic cable chaos (not that German has a specific word for everything .... ) - we call it Kabelsalat, literally "cable salad"- Bon Appetit 🤓.

Here are my three, with a little preference for gnomes

Congrats for the win Michael and thanks a lot for doing this Meanderingemu, the topic was well chosen and gave me inspiration!