Brickwork underpass.

A must see in Antwerp is the Zurenborg borough with eye-watering architectural mansions mostly in art-nouveau style and which for common people are prohibitively expensive (despite this, if any of these come available - which is almost never - they are sold in a matter of hours.)

Zurenborg is split in a South and North part by a railwaybridge (also in art-niveau style) which to me is worth a visit all on its own.

#whimsicalwednesday #viaduct #spoorwegviaduct #architecture #architecturephotography #brick #traveltip #zurenborg #antwerp #anvers #antwerpen #belgium #belgie #belgique #pentax #pentaxqs1 #pentaxq #editedincaptureone #potd

Our Shiva being a reluctant meowdel, giving me his signature "blue steel" pose.

When I first bought my Pentax Q-S1, I read about using Yashica 8mm cine lenses on it. These lenses can be mounted with a D-to-PQ adapter (link below), though only with manual focus and aperture control.

I managed to find an affordable set on eBay: the 13mm f/1.4 and the 38mm f/1.5. The 13mm is particularly interesting—it has a swirly bokeh and, with a full-frame equivalent focal length of 60mm, works well for portraits. However, there is some vignetting.

Focusing at f/1.4 on the small camera display is tricky, so I usually take multiple exposures while slowly moving in, hoping one will be sharp.

D–PQ mount adapter: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/322952265679

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This moonshot was captured using a Pentax Q-S1, a tiny 12-megapixel interchangeable lens camera released in 2014. It's almost toy-like in size, small enough to fit comfortably in your pocket. However, when paired with my 150-450mm telephoto lens (see second photo), its 4.65 crop factor results in a focal length of over 2000mm full-frame equivalent.
(Thank you, @pentaxke, for inspiring me to use it more often again!)

#astrophotography #luna #lune #maan #mond #moon #moonshots #pentax #pentaxq #pentaxqs1 #pentaxian #月 #달 #月亮

Trots op ons Belgisch erfgoed - Fier de notre héritage Belge. In the city of Dendermonde, Belgium there is a small steam-train museum. Run only by volunteers (most of them (ex-) train-drivers) it has 11 steam-trains, the oldest of which is Cockerill 509 (AKA Petit Chateau) dating back to 1860. If you are lucky you can make a ride with Tubize 2069, a train dating from 1927. It is the museums flagship fondly called Helena. #sintamands #puurssintamands #puurs #belgie #belgique #belgium #visitbelgium #stoomtreindendermondepuurs #landschap #dendermonde #landscape #paysage #pentaxq #pentaxqs1 #pentaxian #lijn52M #helena #helenatubize #stoomtrein #trein #steamtrain #train #trainavapeur #arcetasso #captureonepro

#SilentSunday #Sunset #Cranes #harbour #Port #Silhouettes #CityScape #Hamburg #PentaxQS1

Mars? No, Howick!

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Ardlamont, Cowal Peninsula, Scotland
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to me, everything looks alive, even the stones
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