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In May I traveled to the Big Island of Hawaii for a week long vacation and there were 2 things I was most looking forward to: scuba diving with the Manta Rays and seeing hot scalding lava. The trip delivered everything and more! A lot of back and forth decisions finally led my friends and I to sign up for an evening lava tour with Kalapani Cultural Tours.
The hike out to the lava wasn't too bad -- about 2 miles along mostly flat lava. Our guides LOVED to talk about the lava but unfortunately they couldn't seem to do it while we walked. We spent so much time stopped 'resting' that our arrival time started getting dangerously close to the best light. At first we came upon the surface flow -- where some of the lava had bubbled over and began to creep along the surface. After taking my picture 2 feet away from 2,000 degree lava I decided I wanted to go see the ocean flow.
The lava conditions change every day. A lava bench that was around yesterday may have fallen off and will be completely gone the next morning. When I arrived there was no safe viewing spot close up to the lava. I had to stay far back, high on a cliff, and used the 80-200mm telephoto to get nice and intimate with the lava. On this evening the lava was flowing so fast that there was a TON of steam everywhere. More steam than I would have liked.
As we watched the sun set, 2 new streams of lava broke through the tube and made their way down into the ocean. You can see them on the far right of the photo.
Check out my blog entry for more photos and more info on shooting the lava: blog.aaronmphotography.com/2013/07/18/big-island-lava-adv...
Nikon D800 w/Nikkor 80-200mm:
145mm, f/6.3, 0.4 sec, ISO 800
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PANORAMA DAL CAMPANILE DI GIOTTO.
A fianco del Duomo si trova il Campanile di Giotto, uno dei campanili più belli d'Italia. Alto 84 metri e di forma squadrata, risplende di marmi bianchi, rossi e verdi. Raggiungendo la cima del campanile, dopo 414 scalini, si potrà ammirare da vicino la Cupola del Brunelleschi e osservare un bellissimo panorama della città.
FOTOCOMPOSIZIONE DI 3 IMMAGINI.
CANON EOS 600D con ob. SIGMA 10-20 f./4-5,6 EX DC HSM.
"When the door opens, it must be a troll, which is in the frame. His house seems to fear that threatens from above misfortune. This does not seem far-fetched, because above it rumbles and rattles. ......" (Source Stuttgarter Zeitung).
The only article where I could find more about it, but unfortunately only in German.)
What do you think, what came first ... the houses or the railway bridge?
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"Wenn sich die Tür auftut, muss es ein Troll sein, der im Rahmen steht. Sein Haus scheint zu fürchten, dass von oben Unheil droht. Das scheint nicht abwegig, denn oben rumpelt es und rattert. ...." (Quelle Stuttgarter Zeitung).
Es war der einzige Artikel, wo ich ein wenig mehr darüber finden konnte.
Aber .... was meint ihr, was war zuerst da ... die Häuser oder die Brücke?
Ich denke auch das Viadukt, mich irritierte der Satz „Es scheint, als stünden sie trotzig und wollten nicht weichen, weil schließlich sie sich zuerst hier niedergelassen haben."
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Quedlinburg is a town located north of the Harz mountains, in the district of Harz in the west of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. In 1994 the medieval court and the old town was set on the UNESCO world heritage list.
In the innermost parts of the town a wide selection of half-timbered buildings from at least five different centuries are to be found (including a 14th-century structure, one of Germany's oldest), while around the outer fringes of the old town there are wonderful examples of Jugendstil buildings, dating from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Quedlinburg is one of the best-preserved medieval and renaissance towns in Europe, having escaped major damage in World War II. (Wikipedia)
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Created for Sliders Sunday
“Your ghost will walk, you lover of trees
(If our loves remain)
In an English lane,
By a cornfield-side a-flutter with poppies.”
-- Robert Browning
fields of poppies in Northern Spain, as long as the eye can see...
look Françoise [http://www.flickr.com/photos/fifichat/] a square! LOL, besos
and happy belated birthday [http://www.flickr.com/photos/16956998@N03/] HUGS!
thank you [http://www.flickr.com/photos/darkwood67/] for the textures
now i'm off to catch-up with your photostreams,
happy sliders sunday everyone! ♥
Up to 60 meters high cliffs in Algorta (a locality within the municipality of Getxo) and some sandy beaches, shape the image of Getxo a city near Bilbao in the province of Biscay, Basque Country, Spain.
Much better in Large On Black
© 2013 Ursula Sander - All rights reserved.
Here is the end of "Anywhere Is" first adventure. Fasten seatbelts, we are preparing to touch down.
The pano was not intended. Anything of what I have captured during those 45 minutes under dark Canary skies 2200 meters above sea level was not planned.
During the processing I have noticed that all three segments of Milky Way have some degree of overlap. So the it was tempting to try and stich them. I'm happy with this attempt. Obviously I need yet another panel to cover the area between Cygnus and Saggitarius.
Aquisition and processing: see here and here.
Pano stiching was made in Photoshop. I have used gradient visibility masks to avoid "magnetic catastrophes" :) in the areas affected by lens distortion.
Aaaargh! Flickr's "next" and "previous" buttons make notes that are close to border of wide picture unreadable and uneditable in Google Chrome...
♫ The hills are alive with the sound of music with songs they have sung for a thousand years
The hills fill my heart with the sound of music, my heart wants to sing every song it hears
My heart wants to beat like the wings of the birds, that rise from the lake to the trees
My heart wants to sigh like a chime that flies, from a church on a breeze
To laugh like a book when it trips and falls over stones on its way
To sing through the night like a lark who is learning to pray
I go to the hills when my heart is lonely, I know I will hear what I´ve heard before
My heart will be blessed with the sound of music and I´ll sing once more ♫
Desejo a todas as pessoas de boa vontade que visitam essa pagina, um excelente fim de semana repleto de Saúde, Paz e Alegrias.
* Apenas as primeira foto da sequencia esta fechadas, todas as outras estão abertas pois já foram publicadas anteriormente
Foto: Gravação de Clip no Parque da Cidade - Niteroi - Rio de Janeiro
According to Law 9.610/98, it is prohibited the partial or total commercial reproduction without the previous written authorization of the author (article 29). ® All rights are reserved.
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Kilchurn Castle is a ruined 15th and 17th century structure on a rocky peninsula at the northeastern end of Loch Awe, in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. Access to the Castle is sometimes restricted by higher-than-usual levels of water in the Loch, at which times the site effectively becomes a temporary island.
It was the ancestral home of the Campbells of Glen Orchy, who later became the Earls of Breadalbane also known as the Breadalbane family branch, of the Clan Campbell. The earliest construction on the castle was the towerhouse and Laich Hall
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Yes it's only two feet high. Yes, I fell down it. Yes, I landed it rabbit poo. No, no one saw.
View during the setting sunlight
Atardeciendo desde la Meseta de Alul.
Robert Fripp - A blessing of tears
Región del Biobío, Chile central
A quelques pas du village famillial de Gresse en Vercors ; une délicate intimité entre l ' homme et la nature procure une sensation instinctive d ' émerveillement : un horizon déchiqueté par les reliefs , un lac où tout se reflète...
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Music : " Beethoven's 5 Secrets " By The Piano Guys
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Gresse en Vercors - Isère - France
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ESTAR VIVO
Es cierto que la vida da golpes fuertes.
Pero recuerdo siempre que cada nuevo amanecer es más bello que el anterior.
Y mientras espero ese maravilloso amanecer, existen las estrellas para iluminar mi noche.
Levanto la cabeza y sigo adelante, porque mañana brillará el sol de nuevo.
Y cada día trae consigo miles de oportunidades únicas.
Existen muchas razones para amar, soñar... mil razones para luchar y vivir.
Y siempre tengo presente, que cuando le sonrío al mundo, el mundo me sonríe a mí.
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TO BE ALIVE
It is true that life gives strong impact.
But always I remember that every new day is more beautiful than the last.
And while I hope wonderful dawn... there are stars to light my night.
I raise my head and move on, because tomorrow the sun will shine again.
And every day brings thousands of unique opportunities.
There are a thousand reasons to love, to dream ... thousand reasons to fight and live.
And always I have present, that when I him smile at the world, the world smiles to me.
Happy fence Friday - seen during a walk in Fellbach - Oeffingen, Germany.
Much better in Large On Black
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Palamidi is a fortress to the east of the Acronauplia in the town of Nafplio in the Peloponnese region of southern Greece. Nestled on the crest of a 216-metre high hill, the fortress was built by the Venetians during their second occupation of the area (1686–1715).
In Greek mythology, Palamedes was the son of Nauplius , prince of Nauplia who led the Nauplians in the Trojan War.
He is said to have invented counting, currency, weights and measures, jokes, dice and pessoi, as well as military ranks. Sometimes he is credited with discoveries in the field of wine making and the supplementary letters of the Greek alphabet.
Another view www.flickr.com/photos/stratos_giannikos/8716241971/in/pho...
NAFPLIO CITY www.flickr.com/photos/stratos_giannikos/sets/721576334431...
Ο Παλαμήδης, ήταν γιος του Ναύπλιου αδελφός του Ναυσιδέμοντα από όπου και οι σχετικοί όροι για την ναυσιπλοΐα. Φημιζόταν για την σοφία και την επινοητικότητά του και λέγεται πως είχε επινοήσει μερικά από τα γράμματα, με την μετατροπή των φοινικικών στοιχείων σε γράμματα του ελληνικού αλφαβήτου. Θεωρείται εφευρέτης της ναυτιλίας, των φάρων των μέτρων και των σταθμών, των νομισμάτων, καθώς και της διαίρεσης του χρόνου σε ώρες, ημέρες και μήνες, αλλά και παιχνιδιών (επιτραπέζιων)
Το κάστρο του Παλαμηδίου στο Ναύπλιο πήρε το όνομά του.
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Back from vacation in Spain, or as we call it,
the longest flickr walk ever ( 15 days) LOL
HUGE thanks to Pilar and Angel, our hosts,
I can't remember having this much fun,
los quiero y me quedo corta... ♥
"Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness."
- Frank Gehry
always wanted to see Bilbao's Guggenheim,
it gleamed in the setting sunlight
my textures
I'm off to catch up with your wonderful photostreams,
what the hell happened to flickr? grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
happy sliders sunday!
xo♥
A quick upload to say a huge thanks, my account has passed 5 million views today. I would like to thank everyone that has left a comment, a fave or has simply viewed my account. Flickr is such an amazing community, I have learnt so much from all of you!!!
This one is for Munich.
For all the fantastic architecture whether the old or the new one.
For all the breweries and the most delicious beer in the world.
For all the rollercoasters at the Oktoberfest which make so many people happy every year.
This is to the people.
To all those people sitting outside in the sun even though it is freezingly cold.
To all those surfers who are surfing no matter the season.
To all those drunken strangers at the Munich beer festival which are friends for one night.
I love you guys, you are my inspiration, you are my life.
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Vineyards on the Kappelberg in Fellbach, Germany.
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This is the view from the Thompson Trail #121 south of the Roosevelt Dam by Roosevelt Lake in the Tonto National Forest.
www.fs.usda.gov/recarea/tonto/recreation/bicycling/recare...
From State Highway 188, the trail quickly climbs along an arroyo and then follows the contour of the ridges above the highway and Roosevelt Lake. After 1½ mile, at the junction with the Cemetery Trail 255, the trail turns south and gradually ascends a broad ridge to the junction with FR 341. This trail is named after Jerome Thompson who served as the district ranger, 1956-1965, for the then-named Roosevelt Ranger District.
hikearizona.com/decoder.php?ZTN=1945
Took me a while, but I got the views from both sides :)
Four Peaks Wilderness and the Arizona Trail across the bridge.
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As Darrell and I walked back across the campus after a session with the WIU Hot Shots photography club in the University's photography studio, we spied a stand of dandelion stalks softly lit by the setting sun. Neither of us could resist pulling our cameras out and taking some shots. This image of one going to seed is probably only the second dandelion picture that I have posted to flicker in the last couple of years. To obtain the shot, I used the articulating LCD (instead of the viewfinder) while holding the camera down near the ground. It was processed in Lightroom 5 using a radial filter.
My attitude towards these prolific and tenacious weeds has radically changed since moving out into the countryside of western Illinois. I used to fruitlessly try to eradicate them from the lawn... but now, because of the sheer overwhelming number of them and the huge size of the lawns out here, I am content to keep them mowed down with the rest of the grass. :D
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Boy the way Glen Miller played.
Songs that made the hit parade.
Guys like us we had it made,
Those were the days.
And you knew who you were then,
Girls were girls and men were men,
Mister we could use a man
Like Herbert Hoover again.
Didn't need no welfare state,
Everybody pulled his weight.
Gee our old LaSalle ran great.
Those were the days.
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Love this place!
Fort de Soto Park Turns 50
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1001 night !
Wikipedia: Tashkent (/ˌtæʃˈkɛnt/; Uzbek: Toshkent, Тошкент [tɒʃˈkent]; Russian: Ташкент, [tɐʂˈkʲent]; literally "Stone City") is the capital of Uzbekistan and of the Tashkent Province. The officially registered population of the city in 2008 was about 2.2 million.
Published:
- King Abdul Azeez Public Librar (Saudi Arabia) 28-Jul-2016
- BBC News & Sport (United Kingdom (Great Britain)) 06-Feb-2019
Romantic Hörschbachschlucht with sun lighted trail in spring in Murrhardt, Germany.
Much better in Large On Black
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Been on a search for a beach fence like this.
I'm sure they are here ... somewhere ... on the West Coast.
Finding one is a challenge I gladly accept!
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Happy Fence Friday & TGIF!
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p.s. of course if any of you know where one is, please do share!
Poland. Warsaw.
A person, who values the beauty of nature and ambient the world, for richer and happier than those, who did not notices this.
A volte sentiamo bisogno di un faro che ci illumini e ci indichi la riva di approdo, soprattutto quando ci sentiamo in balia delle onde della vita.... e ci è difficile scorgere un porto sicuro; mi piace pensare che ci sia sempre qualcosa o qualcuno capace di illuminare il mio cammino..
Visita mi WEB
Continuo mostrando esta semana parte de las sesiones que realicé junto a mis amigos Yannick Lefevre , Arnaud Bertrande y Eric Rousset y Joserra en Costa Quebrada. Elegí esta porque para mi es la que mejor muestra la sensación que la luz cálida del atardecer nos hizo sentir. Hay tardes en las que todo fluye como la seda, la luz acompaña ,la marea, la temperatura, la compañía es agradable, sólo te tienes que dejar llevar por lo que el lugar inspira, y en este lugar, inspiración es lo que nunca puede fallar. Junto a esta os muestro otras dos con un encuadre más cerrado,buscando la simetría en los reflejos, o con una leve variación dando más protagonismo al cielo, que tambien se lo merecía ; ))
-TECNICA: De las fáciles, filtro ND 64 de BW más degradado inverso HI TECH de dos pasos.No tube que emplear black card ni mover el inverso ,la luz incidía tan homogénea que no hizo falta.
Los datos exif los podreis encontrar en la WEB.
-COMPOSICIÓN: Hace unas semanas ya os mostré imágenes de la rasa de La Arnia buscando los reflejos que la manea baja ofrecía de las dos "montañas" sobre el agua, esta vista alejada me gustó especialmente ,el punto de fuga de las lineas diagonales justo donde incide la luz y la posición de la nube reforzando esta sensación enseguida llamaron mi atención.La luz y el color adquieren todo el protagonismo en esta escena.
-EDICIÓN: ONLY RAW sólo contraste con curvas y bajar ligeramente la intensidad de los rojos en el DPP. Por supuesto ligero enfoque para la web en PS.
Aprovecho para recordaros que ya queda queda menos para la celebración del IV Rally Fotográfico Parque Natural del Peñon de Ifach, el periodo de inscripción de cierra el día 2 de Mayo, allí os esperamos.