Timo Hartikainen

Thanks, the background patterns and colors are created by the lens. There were lots of different colored reflections on the icy grass and I shot it at f1.4, which created these beautiful bokeh balls.

Thanks, this is a close-up photo of a shipping container. The container was gray coloured and looked very dull, but when I looked it closely I noticed these colourful scratches in the corner of the container. I guess the stacking of these containers causes these scratches.

Excellent!

Beautiful. I think this could be nice on the wall, as a big canvas poster.

Excellent. Those lines in the ice; it looks like the leaf has fallen on the water and immediately everything was frozen, the splash was frozen and you were there at the right time to capture it.

Wow...Beautiful!

Beautiful, I first thought about a painting of rotten flowers. The upper right corner nut is a good addition, without it this one could be too abstract.

I like the background here, it's not completely smooth and therefore gives a little bit information about the background. I would say this looks quite a classic example of a photo shot with a vintage lens. I guess this could be done even smoother with modern lenses. But it's a matter of taste, which is better, smooth or completely smooth background. There are quite a typical "glow" on the some of the highlight areas, especially at the top of the hay, I have seen that kind of behaviour with my 50mm vintage lenses, too.

I agree on your thoughts. I like vintage lenses and how they render images, the results are not always so perfect, but that's the interesting thing about it, for me at least. I have only one lens which has a new design, modern coatings and several aperture blades and lens elements. It can do very smooth backgrounds for photos, but sometimes I find it a little bit boring, I think the out of focus areas are too smooth.

Beautiful.

I like it, there are so much intresting patterns and details around us.