LIFE'S A BEACH - (Selected for FLICKR EXPLORE)
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**** This frame was chosen on April 18th 2016 to appear on FLICKR EXPLORE (Highest Ranking: #259. This is my 86th photograph to be selected, which for me is both amazing and exciting, as I never view my images as worthy compared to some of the awesome photography out there. EXPLORE is Flickr's way of showcasing the most interesting photos within a given point in time -- usually over a 24 hour period.
Flickr receives about 6,000 uploads every minute -- That's about 8.6 million photos a day! From this huge group of images, the Flickr Interestingness algorithm chooses only 500 images to showcase for each 24-hour period. That's only one image in every 17,000!..... so I am really thrilled to have a frame picked and most grateful to every one of the 15.0 Million people who have visited, favourite and commented on this and all of my other photographs here on my FLICKR site. *****
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Photograph taken at an altitude of Four metres at 15:57pm on Tuesday 19th May 2015 off the A835, on the rocky shoreline at Elgol, a village on the shores of Loch Scavaig towards the end of the Strathaird peninsula in the Isle of Skye, in the Scottish Highlands
In the background we see the Black Cuillin mountain range. And from this beach you can catch a boat ride with 'Misty Isle Boat Trips'. The Black Cuillins (Gaelic: An Cuilthionn or An Cuilthean), consists of twelve munros and reaches a height of 992m (3255ft) with Sgurr Alasdair. Composed of Gabro, the Cuillins consists of: Sgurr nan Gillean, Am Basteir, Bruach na Frithe,Sgurr a'Mhadaidh,Sgurr a'Ghreadaidh,Sgurr na Banachdaich,Sgurr Dearg,Sgurr MhicChoinnich,Sgurr Alasdair, Sgurr Dubh Mor, Sgurr nan Eag and Bla Bheain.
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Nikon D800 24mm 1/1600s f/2.8 iso100 Hand held. RAW (14-bit) AF-S single point focus. Manual exposure. Centre weighted metering. Auto white balance.Auto Active D-lighting.
Nikkor AF-S 24-70mm f/2.8G ED IF. Jessops 77mm UV filter. Nikon MB-D12 battery grip. Two Nikon EN-EL15 batteries. Digi-Chip Speed Pro 64GB Class 10 UHS-1 SDXC card. Nikon DK-17a magnifying eyepiece. Hoodman HGEC soft eyepiece cup. Lowepro Transporter camera strap. Lowepro Vertex 200 AW camera bag. Nikon GP-1 GPS unit.
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LATITUDE: N 57d 8m 46.29s
LONGITUDE: W 6d 6m 28.25s
ALTITUDE: 4.0m
RAW (TIFF) FILE SIZE: 103.00MB
PROCESSED (JPeg) SIZE: 21.02MB
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PROCESSING POWER:
Nikon D800 Firmware versions A 1.10 B 1.10 L 2.009 (Lens distortion control version 2)
HP 110-352na Desktop PC with AMD Quad-Core A6-5200 APU processor. AMD Radeon HD8400 graphics. 8 GB DDR3 Memory with 1TB SATA storage. 64-bit Windows 10. Verbatim USB 2.0 1TB desktop hard drive. WD My Passport Ultra 1tb USB3 Portable hard drive. Nikon ViewNX2 Version 2.10.3 64bit. Adobe photoshop Elements 8 Version 8.0 64bit.
LIFE'S A BEACH - (Selected for FLICKR EXPLORE)
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**** This frame was chosen on April 18th 2016 to appear on FLICKR EXPLORE (Highest Ranking: #259. This is my 86th photograph to be selected, which for me is both amazing and exciting, as I never view my images as worthy compared to some of the awesome photography out there. EXPLORE is Flickr's way of showcasing the most interesting photos within a given point in time -- usually over a 24 hour period.
Flickr receives about 6,000 uploads every minute -- That's about 8.6 million photos a day! From this huge group of images, the Flickr Interestingness algorithm chooses only 500 images to showcase for each 24-hour period. That's only one image in every 17,000!..... so I am really thrilled to have a frame picked and most grateful to every one of the 15.0 Million people who have visited, favourite and commented on this and all of my other photographs here on my FLICKR site. *****
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Photograph taken at an altitude of Four metres at 15:57pm on Tuesday 19th May 2015 off the A835, on the rocky shoreline at Elgol, a village on the shores of Loch Scavaig towards the end of the Strathaird peninsula in the Isle of Skye, in the Scottish Highlands
In the background we see the Black Cuillin mountain range. And from this beach you can catch a boat ride with 'Misty Isle Boat Trips'. The Black Cuillins (Gaelic: An Cuilthionn or An Cuilthean), consists of twelve munros and reaches a height of 992m (3255ft) with Sgurr Alasdair. Composed of Gabro, the Cuillins consists of: Sgurr nan Gillean, Am Basteir, Bruach na Frithe,Sgurr a'Mhadaidh,Sgurr a'Ghreadaidh,Sgurr na Banachdaich,Sgurr Dearg,Sgurr MhicChoinnich,Sgurr Alasdair, Sgurr Dubh Mor, Sgurr nan Eag and Bla Bheain.
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Nikon D800 24mm 1/1600s f/2.8 iso100 Hand held. RAW (14-bit) AF-S single point focus. Manual exposure. Centre weighted metering. Auto white balance.Auto Active D-lighting.
Nikkor AF-S 24-70mm f/2.8G ED IF. Jessops 77mm UV filter. Nikon MB-D12 battery grip. Two Nikon EN-EL15 batteries. Digi-Chip Speed Pro 64GB Class 10 UHS-1 SDXC card. Nikon DK-17a magnifying eyepiece. Hoodman HGEC soft eyepiece cup. Lowepro Transporter camera strap. Lowepro Vertex 200 AW camera bag. Nikon GP-1 GPS unit.
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LATITUDE: N 57d 8m 46.29s
LONGITUDE: W 6d 6m 28.25s
ALTITUDE: 4.0m
RAW (TIFF) FILE SIZE: 103.00MB
PROCESSED (JPeg) SIZE: 21.02MB
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PROCESSING POWER:
Nikon D800 Firmware versions A 1.10 B 1.10 L 2.009 (Lens distortion control version 2)
HP 110-352na Desktop PC with AMD Quad-Core A6-5200 APU processor. AMD Radeon HD8400 graphics. 8 GB DDR3 Memory with 1TB SATA storage. 64-bit Windows 10. Verbatim USB 2.0 1TB desktop hard drive. WD My Passport Ultra 1tb USB3 Portable hard drive. Nikon ViewNX2 Version 2.10.3 64bit. Adobe photoshop Elements 8 Version 8.0 64bit.