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I'm staring to get the itch to take some new photos, sure do miss you all, have a great week ahead!
This slide started life as an escalator in the Seattle Public Library, yes they are this yellow. I wasn't happy with the left side so I cloned the right side and slid it to the left. Still not happy I slid more of it further to the left. Then, just to confuse the viewer, I added/removed bits here and there to hide my handiwork (can you find them?). In the end, it's really about the wonderful yellow and black, it came to life and I was happy!
For Sliders Sunday - HSS!
A boy lives near my home,yesterday morning i caught him in a sunny weather heading to home with a pair of Anabas testudineus fish,he was not unhappy! He was in a hurry to reach home.
Yes he is a little independent boy.
Pray and Blessing for the Unknown boy[ though i am gonna catch him soon again]
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Sempre que falamos do futuro, não podemos deixar de pensar nesta magnifica cidade que nos transporta numa viagem de séculos de historia, desde o cálice sagrado da ultima ceia de Jesus Cristo fielmente depositado na Catedral de Valência, até a cidade das Artes e das Ciências que nos transporta ao Século XXI e nos faz sonhar com um futuro próximo… A Cidade das Artes e das Ciências Projectada por Santiago Calatrava e Félix Candela, vale não tanto pelo interesse do seu conteúdo científico, mas sim pelo seu lado lúdico, e pela paixão que incute a todos os viajantes que como nós, por ela passaram, e quer queira-mos ou não, ninguém ficará indiferente a tamanha ousadia arquitectónica, e a tão magistral enquadramento paisagístico ao longo do rio Túria que tão carinhosamente é chamado por os locais de rio seco e que termina nesta bela obra de arte que é A cidade das Artes e das Ciências. O ecrã gigante de 900 m² do Hemisfério, as plantas aromáticas do L'Umbracle, um jardim de 17 500 m² coberto por uma fabulosa arcada, ou os inúmeros aquários e lagos ligados por incríveis corredores de vidro no Oceanário. A forma daquela arquitectura, em que sobressai o betão, o vidro, o aço e a cerâmica branca e azul de Valência, aplicada em fragmentos, numa técnica semelhante à usada por Gaudi, reflecte-se em enormes espelhos de água e recria, graças ao movimento das suas linhas, a forma de um olho (O Hemisférico), de um esqueleto (O Museu das Ciências) ou de uma espinha de peixe (a marca registada do Palácio das Artes.)
Este maravilhoso parque temático é formado pelas seguintes construções
O Hemisférico
O Hemisférico que ocupa uma área de (aproximadamente 26.000m²) localizado entre o Museu das Ciências e o Palácio das Artes, está limitado a norte e a sul por duas piscinas rectangulares, emergindo delas como uma grande cúpula formada por uma parte central fixa (a coberta opaca), os elementos laterais móveis que funcionam como guarda-sóis, e a lateral transparente e envidraçada. Esta cobertura de formato ovóide protege uma esfera no seu interior. A estrutura geral está constituída por uma cobertura, formada por cinco arcos rebaixados que, apoiados nos extremos sobre um tripé de betão armado, une-se entre si por perfis laminados e vigas curvas. Dentro desta estrutura dispõe-se uma outra secundária que constitui a sala de projecções, executada em betão armado, assenta sobre uma fundação de lajes de uma grande espessura. No conjunto arquitectónico destaca-se o seu acabamento de cor branco brilhante e revestimento de mosaicos e azulejos fragmentados com o recobrimento típico das cúpulas mediterrânicas. A arquitectura exterior desta cúpula, é formada por grandes lâminas, formadas por vigas metálicas de 90 m de comprimento, que surgem do nível da água e envolvem a cúpula, estas lâminas estão providas de enormes cancelas móveis na forma das pálpebras de um olho. O movimento é obtido por meio de um sistema hidráulico, semelhante ao usado em portões de garagem. Os espaços vazios das costelas entre a viga inferior e a sua imediata superior, servem como janelas envidraçadas e executadas com vidro laminado. Santiago Calatrava não entende a Arquitectura como algo estático, procura o movimento nas suas construções, sendo esta uma das suas preocupações constantes, assim, mais uma vez, ele utiliza o conceito do movimento e do dinamismo nos seus projectos, dotando este edifício de uma característica marcante, utilizando cancelas curvas de aço e vidro movimentadas por um sistema hidráulico que, como “pálpebras”, abrem e fecham as laterais da cúpula complementando o efeito do “Olho que tudo vê”, simbolizando a Ciência e o Conhecimento.
O Museu das Ciências Príncipe Felipe.
Este edifício na foto acima, O Museu das Ciências Príncipe Felipe, foi concebido como um museu aberto e dinâmico onde o lema principal é - É PROIBIDO NÃO TOCAR -. Ao longo dos seus 4.000 m² o visitante passa pelas diferentes áreas que cobrem uma ampla gama de temas científicos, desde biologia e física até as mais avançadas tecnologias aplicadas à comunicação, construção, desporto, etc.
O Palácio das Artes
O Palácio das Artes foi o último edifício a ser inaugurado na Cidade das Artes e das Ciências, em Valência, o Palácio das Artes Rainha Sofia é uma das obras mais recentes do arquitecto espanhol Santiago Calatrava. Com 75 m de altura e 163 m de comprimento, a construção é a grande aposta do governo da região de Valência para colocar a terceira maior cidade espanhola nos grandes circuitos internacionais da cultura. Ao que tudo indica, o palácio de dimensões colossais tem atendido bem a esses interesses. Não só pelas dimensões, mas, principalmente, pela geometria ousada, típica de Calatrava em que uma "pena" parece flutuar sobre a construção, que é abraçada lateralmente por duas "cascas" de aço.
O Parque Oceanográfico
O conjunto completa-se com o Parque Oceanográfico, projectado por Félix Candela, uma autêntica cidade submarina de 80.000 m², com túneis envidraçados e réplicas perfeitas de sectores costeiros com águas de diferentes qualidades, que permitem conhecer os animais representativos de cada zona da Terra. Conta com uma zona recreativa composta por um restaurante flutuante submarino, uma fonte para espectáculos de luz, som e água, e o maior aquário da Europa para espectáculos. Possui também áreas envidraçadas para observar o trabalho dos mergulhadores e um túnel submarino de 70 m de comprimento.
O L'Umbracle
Este estranho edifício formado por uma sucessão de 55 arcos fixos e 54 arcos flutuantes com 18 m de altura, que servem de apoio às trepadeiras que proporcionarão sombra ao longo do passeio ajardinado, dá ao espaço uma aparência actualizada do Winter Garden. Construído em betão branco, combinado com a forte componente de marquises e arcos metálicos, abriga inúmeras espécies tropicais, sendo o passeio coberto por madeira Teka, que suporta sem desgastes a acção das intempéries.
Mais uma vez, gostaria de deixar bem claro que visitar este complexo parque temático, é uma experiencia inesquecível, não só por o conhecimento extra que se adquire mas também por as surpresas que se encontram ao virar de cada canto quase sempre acompanhadas de um olhar de espanto dos visitantes que pela primeira vez o visitam, é também de louvar o empenho do povo Valenciano que demonstra um orgulho e um carinho muito especial por este parque que embora aberto ao mundo, muito legitimamente o reclama para si…Um bem-haja para o povo Valenciano…
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ubermummy asked me to do a picture that conceptually means "fuck cancer". So this is what I came up with.
5 fedoradollars for anyone who can spot where I displaced my eye. It's very hard to find yet I placed an entire fucking eye ball from guy on the right in a different part of the picture.
More "hat chronicles" stuff tomorrow. I think minipimp might have a little something up her sleeve. Or will the cowboy get one over on her? It is rumored there will be another character possibly returning from the pimps past. Oh my!
I am celebrating pimp week by getting people to hold pimp signs on the street. I'll post them all sunday.
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It's rainy now and it seems that rain is washing out our Indian summer... oh well we shouldn't be complaining as we had these fantastic sunny days lately :-)
So my fave spot of Toronto's Mixed Forest is loving this mist at early blue hour settings...
More autumnal impressions (rain or shine) will come soon - Stay tuned! / Bientot a l'ecran! :-)
The series Toronto's Mixed Forest
You are most welcome to look through the set or you may like to see it as a slide show.
The gray squirrel is numerically the most common squirrel on the East Coast. Gray squirrels are also known as black squirrels. This guy is from Williamsburg, VA. I also like the old fence with the hitching iron.
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Oct 10, 2011 #123
Photo tip: you don't have to dive deep to capture beautiful scenes. Here, I'm 3-5 meters underwater, and I waited about 15 minutes to capture the effects of a large wave hitting the reef that I eventually liked.
Note: The top middle and right sides of the image are still underwater! It may seem like it's above surface!
Summer into autumn
When summer gathers up her robes of glory,
And, like a dream, glides away.
~ Sarah Helen Whitman
Webster Ponds Park
lost
Corkneyfonz: `Love how the tree seems to be pointing out the right path, something that the weary traveller is unable to comprehend. Enchanting image.´
Dedicada a Chelo. Sé lo mucho que le gusta la niebla y es una fuente de inspiración en imágenes de este tipo.
Base Aérea abriu os portões ao público neste sábado em Florianópolis
Evento faz parte das comemorações da Semana da Asa
Para comemorar a Semana da Asa, a Base Aérea de Florianópolis (BAFL) preparou uma série de eventos para este fim de semana.
No sábado a Esquadrilha da Fumaça que fez uma maravilhosa apresentação , apesar do mau tempo, com o céu totalmente encoberto.
Já no domingo, o pátio e os hangares da BAFL abriram a visitação, com exposição de aviões vindos de diversos esquadrões do Brasil.
Grow our dreams ....... Just need to hope and work ........... by Tarqe Alzahrani
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I always feel a bit sad when I find these Red Deer Stags all alone during rutting season, this one looked totally fed up, you should have seen the look on his face when he rested his head down, fully aware that his counterpart has all the ladies :)
There is an insect visible in shot if you can find it LOL :)
Don't forget BBC2 8:30pm AUTUMNWATCH tonight :) No Kate Humble this year :(
Can anybody find me somebody to love?
Each morning I get up I die a little
Can barely stand on my feet
Take a look in the mirror and cry
Lord what you're doing to me
I have spent all my years in believing you
But I just can't get no relief, Lord!
Somebody, somebody
Can anybody find me somebody to love?
A crescent moon illuminates some thin clouds in the night sky over New Mexico. The glow over the mountain at lower left is light pollution from Truth or Consequences, NM. Taken from Fort Craig National Historic Site. I've added notes for the prominent objects in the night sky.
Canon 5D Mark II, Sigma 50mm: ISO 6400, 4s @ f/1.4. Two vertical shots stitched together.
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From Torö in the southern part of Stockholm archipelago, Denes took me there !
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# Highest position: 242 on Sunday, October 9, 2011
# New Highest position: 222 on Thursday, October 13, 2011
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It's funny how things come together at times. It was the last morning of my vacation. I get my 4 a.m. wake up call from the roosters. I get up look out the window and it's pouring rain. I'm thinking to myself what a way to enjoy my last day on vacation. I get back into bed, and lie there for the next hour listening to the roosters just hoping and wishing for the rain to stop. 5 a.m. comes around and it's still raining. What should I do? Should I get up and go? Should I just stay in bed and go back to sleep? All these thoughts are going through my head. I'm making myself mental!
I decide to get up and go. I make my 15min drive to the location. It's still raining with no signs of any breaks. I get to the parking lot, look to the east. Rain......a lot of rain. I get back into the truck and sit for the next half an hour watching the rain contemplating if I should stay or leave. Wait.......I see a break on the horizon. The sky has a real faint glow, but it's at least a 15 min hike down to the beach. The trail down to the beach here is very steep. If it has been raining, forget about it. The trail is slick and muddy. There wouldn't be enough time to get down to the beach, so I decide to go with my plan B; shoot from the cliffs. I make my way slowly down the trail. I'm slipping and sliding all over the place. I get to the spot where I want to be at, I set up, and start shooting. The scene at this point is dark and moody with subtle light on the horizon. After a few frames the rain starts really coming down. I tried to stick it out in the rain for as long as I could but it was just too much. I pack my gear up in defeat. The conditions weren't in my favor this time around, but it's ok.......I've got great light at this location 4 days in row! ;-)
I make my way back up the trail, I take one last look at this killer view and all of a sudden I see this glow on the sea cliffs. The glow starts to get more intense, I can't say the curses that came out of my mouth, but I was swearing up a storm as I ran back down the trail slipping and sliding all over the place. The heart pounding heavy breathing intensity that was going through my body was crazy. The light started illuminating the shore line as if someone had slowly open the blinds in a room that was dark. When I was focusing in live view at x10 I could see the sunlight piercing through the rain! It was one of the most incredible scenes that I have seen. I would say this was a great way to start the morning.
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This picture was shot on a tripod with three exposures (-2..0..+2 EV). I used Photomatix to create the HDR with tone mapping and detail enhanced. I increased the overall saturation with Hue/Saturation in Photoshop. 1 layer mask in soft light mode at 50% gray, using brush tool to lighten and darken some areas of the image, to bring out details. Used Nik Sharpener Pro to sharpen image.
Sunrise view from our room during our stay in Vancouver BC. Please see below for the night scene views. Accommodation provided by our friends Bonnie and Ken.
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"We don't bleed when we don't fight
Go ahead, go ahead lose your shirts in the fire tonight
What makes you think I'm enjoyin' being led to the flood?
We got another thing comin' undone"
Went to Chicago this morning to check out the epic waves!! Still going through the photos ... details to come!! Hope everyone is having a rockin' Saturday! I was abandoned by the family so nothing left to do but Photograph, Photoshop & Flickr!!
I realized I hadn't uploaded an image of the Mackinac Bridge yet from our road trip; so here is a blue-hour shot. Sadly, I was on the wrong side of the bridge for a nice sunrise shot!! Drats!!
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Misty morning (at last).
Three exposure HDR. First time I've used photomatix for a couple of years, it's improved !
Twenty supercars for your viewing pleasure. These are not toy cars :)
Aston Martin DBS
Aston Martin V8 Vantage
Maserati GranTurismo
Lamborghini Gallardo
Lamborghini Gallardo Superleggera
Lamborghini Gallardo LP 570-4 Superleggera
Mansory Panamera Turbo
Ferrari 360 Challenge Stradale
Ferrari F430 (x8)
Ferrari F430 Spider (x2)
Ferrari 458 Italia
Porsche 996 Turbo
What are all those aircraft doing to all my lovely star trails. Those vandals! And who made the sky a muddy brown?!
There was no moon on this night so all the light is supplied by light leakage from the 7 million inhabitants of the San Francisco Bay Area - yes, even the light on the face of the mountain is from light pollution.
The brown resulted because the exposures were started later in the evening - long after twilight. Without the moon to "blue up" the sky the stray light of low pressure sodium vapor lamps and tungsten lights works its muddy deed. When I get a few months I may try to REMOVE all of those aircraft trails from the SFO and OAK airport it seems, however, that it's like trying to paint out graffiti on a Los Angeles Freeway...
If you want to know more about Mission Peak I wrote a lovely article on my blog.
If you're wondering "Steven, how do you get these long exposures late at night - the park closes at 10 pm" the answer is: I'm already home asleep! I make my camera do the work by itself. If you do happen to see a camera all by itself in Mission Peak Preserve... please leave it alone - it doesn't take well to strangers ;-)
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Horseshoe-shaped meander of the Colorado River near the town Page. The river can be viewed from this steep cliff above, which makes a 1000 feet drop (about 300 meters).
Five pictures (APS-C, 16 mm) stitched with Photoshop - Photomerge to a 34 MP-pic., please view in large.
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Madagascar, Majunga, last june
I did not touch it. Posted as it was caught...
Beauty is always everywhere !
FOR THOSE WHO LOVE BLUE SEA..................... ( sooc!)
WISH YOU a BLUE BEAUTIFUL COMING WEEKEND!
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The island of Favignana was fought over during the First Punic War between Rome and Carthage. On 10 March 241 BC, a major naval battle was fought a short distance offshore between the two powers. Two hundred Roman ships under the consul Gaius Lutatius Catulus met and decisively defeated a much larger Carthaginian fleet of 400 ships, with the Romans sinking 120 Carthaginian vessels and taking 10,000 prisoners.
So many dead Phoenicians washed ashore on the northeastern part of Favignana that the shoreline there acquired the name "Red Cove" (Cala Rossa) from the bloodshed. The Romans took possession of the island under the terms of the treaty that ended the war.