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<p>Mary - nice water!</p>

<p>Jim you've done more systematic testing than me, but I'm convinced that the 'green line' in my XE1 is often inaccurate. Lots of pics with an horizon in, such as over the sea, I've carefully levelled with the green line but turn out angled. So much so that I've considered installing one of those little cubes with spirit level bubbles for horizontal and vertical that slip into the hot shoe.</p>

<p>Yesterday, a day of quiet perfection. Up the hills near our house, to find an inversion that lasted, with just slow changes, all the time we were high.</p><div></div>

<p>Rhaeadr Ogwen</p><div></div>

<p>and birch leaves</p><div></div>

<p>Louis - love the fungi (may be <em>Trametes</em>?). From me, stream detail.</p><div></div>

<p>OK I'll try to find the odd example (but I do like Salgado!). And perhaps one more genre - intimate landscapes. Generally, closeish, no sky visible, perhaps a little ambiguity. Favoured by some Brits because we don't have as much Grand Vista as some other countries. David Ward does this well. Not quite the same as Enigma.</p>

<p>Very interesting post Julie. Those categories are mostly readily recognised (I guess Playground could cover the many pics posted here of kayakers, horse riders etc that have a significant amount of background). Could these genres (I think that's what they are) each be seen as having good and bad examples, so while Sublime has too many clichéd pictures (golden hour, rock in foreground, mountain/blurry sea/blurry waterfall in back) there are some excellent and original pictures in this genre. So what makes excellence within a genre? Not just novelty, but seeing what you might call the essence of the place. Often that means a distillation to simplicity. Or is this just pretentious? </p>

<p>Coigach</p><div></div>

<p>Thanks for getting us started Rick - and fascinating first image.</p><div></div>

<p>Early morning by the Afon Llugwy - somewhat seasonal mist</p><div></div>

<p>Bidein a'Glas Thuill</p><div></div>

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<p>Minimalist autumn</p><div></div>

<p>Bing - is this disease-related die-off or is it the carbon dioxide emissions near Mammoth Lake?</p>

<p>It's definitely the Afon Llugwy in the background, and it may be <em>Lactarius piperatus</em> in the foreground</p><div></div>

<p>deep in a wet woodland</p><div></div>

<p>The Welsh for gorge is 'ceunant'; like most things in the UK our gorges are not on the world scale for size, but they have other merits.....</p><div></div>

<p>For those of us over the pond from north America, the remoter reaches of north-west Scotland are quite impressive.</p><div></div>

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<p>Thanks Louis, it's just as Rick says. They take some learning, and this Canon ltm may suit a soft, quiet landscape style I'm after.</p>

<p>Thanks Howard, we're lucky to have 4000 y old remains near us!</p>

<p>Laura - lovely, Gordon B I assume you mean Killarney Il, not Killarney Eire? Trees just command so much respect - how has this one survived? Wood near the Afon Scethin.</p><div></div>