Here’s to having a good and healthy new week and thread! 
A handwritten note on the Lufthansa plane bringing us home from Madeira. The first line reads “We’re getting you home!”
The runway at Funchal just before take-off.
Austrian and German alps.
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Glad you are back safe and sound. Was that one of the German government charters to get those stranded back home?
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Thank you very much, @big_D !
Just woke up to the thought that my post was pretty idiotic in these times. Self-flagged it as inappropropriate. Sorry for posting this. 
This was pretty much the first time in four weeks outside since I’ve been in self-quarantine before and during our stay. Excited to see something else than a living room, I suppose.
It was a regular flight with regular tickets but the airline will likely have been financially supported to keep up the connection since it flew one passenger to the island and maybe 150 back. If there is one thing truly worth sharing about this experience, it’s the spirit of the team that brought us home.
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They are photos that document what is going on currently, I don’t see it as inappropriate.
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Seconded. Or judging by the likes, Fifthed.
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If I look hard enough, I can see the coronavirus in those photos 
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Sorry, but I am going to cheat by posting a photo from a month ago. You know, that time long ago when we used to go outside…
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Setting up some garden beds for the kids to give them something new to do once we take them out of school next week.
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Colour popped with snapseed
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Nobody has uploaded anything today, so did something experimental.
As I expected, not even nightsight on my pixel 3 could make this handheld shot:
Then I played with the settings in google photos until I got something pleasing.
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Did not really find anything interesting in the apartment or from the balcony. So instead, here’s an old shot that looks like great, fresh air. Taken on the panorama mode of the S8+. Still wonder if the black cow (Where is Waldo?) ever got back on track. I suppose it will have. There is a full size variant of the image with about 11k x 4k which makes an awesome background but I cannot upload it due to size restrictions.It’s really impressive to me how well these panoramic modes work given an even and bright lighting of the scene.
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Look at that gradient! Did you shoot this in raw and then save it to something with more bit depth than jpg? Or was this simply the perfect gradient for 8 bit channel depth? On second thought and as a hypothesis based on your picture: it might be helpful to avoid colour banding if the gradient goes from one fundamental colour (blue) to another (red), increasing the available colour depth since the gradient plays out in two channels when compared to simply going from dark blue to light blue where the gradient plays out in only one channel.
On another note: I never really got how people find windmills to make a landscape less attractive - at least to me, they’re much more a symbol of a forward-facing society. Oh well, I guess it depends on how far or close you live to them…
Standard settings with the Galaxy S20+.
The camera is much better than I had expected. Although the mate 10 camera was good, the AI made some poor choices and the results often left something to be desired.
Are you happy with the new phone? Any other positive surprises besides the camera? I found it difficult to get thoroughly excited about the functions of my S10e when I got it last summer, coming from the already pretty fine S8+. The key advantage to me was that my phone would fit into my pocket again.
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Shelter in place photography was a speedlite and collapsed octa. Decided not to just use the speed light because I wanted to do low key shots 
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