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Shibuya, Tokyo.
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Walking in the early morning and leaving the Shibuya Excel Hotel to encounter the thousands of Tokyo commuters milling around Shibuya train station, the thing that strikes you is the silence. A silence punctuated with the click clack of high heels and the public announcements over the tannoy.
Salary men and salary women on the march. Solemn. Silent. Not yet adjusted to the new day, quietly, sleepily they move in sweeping masses, herded on to trains where mobile phones are always on silent. Nobody talking.
Fast forward to the evening, and it has all changed.
In the station, loud conversation and laughter drown out the tannoy's public announcements. The clickety-clack of high heels goes unnoticed. The early morning solemn faces are now animated, more cheerful. Smiles are seen. Salary men and salary women are unwinding. Unwinding after the working day.The march has changed its beat. The sweeping masses are no longer herded along. Time has slowed a little. On the streets, small groups gather. The rush to get where they have to go to has gone.
For now.
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Mont Blanc (French) or Monte Bianco (Italian), meaning "White Mountain", is the highest mountain in the Alps, Western Europe and the European Union. It rises 4,810.45 m (15,782 ft)[2] above sea level and is ranked 11th in the world in topographic prominence. It is also sometimes known as La Dame blanche (French for "the White Lady") or Il Bianco (Italian for "the White One").
The mountain lies between the regions of Aosta Valley, Italy, and Haute-Savoie, France and the location of the summit is on the watershed line between the valleys of Ferret and Veny in Italy and the Arve Valley in France.
The two most famous towns near Mont Blanc are Courmayeur in Aosta Valley, Italy, and Chamonix in Haute-Savoie, France—the site of the first Winter Olympics. A cable car ascends and crosses the mountain from Courmayeur to Chamonix.
Begun in 1957 and completed in 1965, the 11.6 km (7¼ mi) Mont Blanc Tunnel runs beneath the mountain between these two countries and is one of the major trans-Alpine transport routes.
The Mont Blanc massif is popular for mountaineering, hiking, skiing and snowboarding.
The summit of Mont Blanc is a thick, perennial ice and snow dome whose thickness varies, so no exact and permanent summit elevation can be determined. But accurate measurements have been made. For a long time its official elevation was 4,807 m (15,771 ft). Then in 2002, the IGN and expert surveyors, with the aid of GPS technology, measured it to be 4,810.40 m (15,782 ft 2 in).
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The Aiguille du Midi (3,842 m) is a mountain in the Mont Blanc massif in the French Alps.
The cable car to the summit, the Téléphérique de l'Aiguille du Midi, was built in 1955 and held the title of the world's highest cable car for about two decades. It still holds the record as the highest vertical ascent cable car in the world, from 1,035 m to 3,842 m. There are two sections: from Chamonix to Plan de l'Aiguille at 2,317 m and then directly, without any support pillar, to the upper station at 3,777 m (the building contains an elevator to the summit). The span of the second section is 2,867 m measured directly, but only 2,500 m measured horizontally. It thus still is the second longest span width, measured directly.
Cousin Greg launching 4th of July fireworks bottle rocket over one of Minnesota's 10,000 lakes.
I’ve been getting a few questions on how this was done so here's the full story: We did this one over a long 4th of July Holiday stay at the lake cabin on a windy night with a close to full moon. 3 People were involved; 1 model, 1 person to light the bottle rocket, and 1 cameraman (me). I was using a DSLR (Sony A77) at the time that let me set Shutter Speed, ISO and Aperture independently in Manual Mode (kind of a 'duh' for you Flickr Pro's but those were the questions I was getting). I put the camera on a tripod, attached a wide angle lens (11-16mm) and had a remote shutter release cable attached so I could take a picture without touching the camera and potentially shaking and blurring the image. We shot off a test bottle rocket and counted ("one one thousand, two one thousand . ." ) how long it took from lighting the fuse, till it flew and exploded – the total time was 5 seconds – so that is what I set my camera Shutter Speed. We launched some more test rockets off and worked at adjusting the launch angle against the wind trying to get in the entire arch and explosion into the picture frame (easier to do with the wide angle lens). I also took a couple of test pictures and played with Aperture and ISO settings and checking how those effected the exposure (shutter was set to 5 seconds). I settled on an Aperture of f/5 because it seemed to get everything around the launch area and model in focus and it helped to keep the ISO low. ISO was at 400. The Histogram was on the dark side but it looked good in the camera. I positioned the model on the back side of the rocket from the camera so he would get illuminated by the sparks. It also looked better if he had his hands out otherwise he was just a floating face in the dark. It was very dark out so I shined a flashlight on the model to set the camera's Auto Focus and then I switched the camera to manual focus so it would not hunt for focus during the shot. Time to take the picture: I had the model freeze and try not to move for the entire 5 second exposure. My helper lit the bottle rocket and as soon as he got out of the way, I pressed the remote camera shutter, the rocket took off and exploded and my shutter clicked shut. We did it in one take and then ran out of there cuz the mosquitoes were eating us alive. On the computer in Photoshop; I cropped the picture, adjusted the colors and saturation a little, used a program called Noiseware Pro to reduce noise, used a program call Topaz Adjust to make the red orange sparks ‘pop’ a little and then gave the entire image a little overall sharpening. That's it – thanks for looking.
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Sorry I'm late...
Because of my family situation,
so I'm late...so sorry.
我之前家裡發生一點事情，
所以這些天都沒有上來...
很抱歉。
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O lendário e valoroso Castelo de Montemor-o-Velho domina, do seu alto monte, a extensa e bela planície de arrozais do Baixo Mondego. Aqui se acolheram diferentes povos e culturas, existindo sinais materiais da passagem dos Romanos, como o testemunham alguns dos cilhares de pedra integrados na base da torre de menagem desta fortaleza medieval. Vivendo os tempo conturbados das invasões bárbaras e, posteriormente, do mais calmo reinado visigótico, Montemor-o-Velho seria ocupada no século VIII pelos muçulmanos, que deixaram nesta região uma forte impressão da sua cultura. Reconquistada em 848 para as armas cristãs, através de Ramiro I de Leão e do seu tio, o abade João, este castelo do Baixo Mondego mudaria de mãos por diversas vezes até ao século XI. Numa dessas razias, a fortaleza foi particularmente afectada pela acção militar desencadeada pelo impetuoso exército árabe de Almançor.
O castelo de Montemor-o-Velho está implantado num local que apresenta vestígios de ocupação muito antiga, provavelmente pré-histórica, todavia é certa a ocupação romana, atestada pelas pedras utilizadas na base da Torre de Menagem. As primeiras referências a este castelo, dão conta da sua reconquista aos árabes por volta de 848, mas cairia de novo nas mãos dos muçulmanos em 990, com uma nova reconquista cristã por volta do ano de 1006, para voltar à posse árabe em 1026, e este alternar de conquistas e reconquistas só viria a estabilizar por volta de 1064, quando Fernando Magno reconquista toda a região, empurrando os árabes para lá do Mondego. Este castelo em conjunto com os de Miranda, Penela, Soure e Santa Eulália formava, no período da consolidação da independência do Condado Portucalense, a cintura defensiva da cidade de Coimbra. Palco de muitas lutas, não só com os árabes, mas também devido às disputas entre os príncipes e reis de Portugal, e até nas invasões francesas, foi sendo reparado, ampliado e modificado ao logo dos séculos, mas se alguma coisa marca a história desta fortaleza, é o facto nela ter sido decidida a morte de Inês de Castro.
Ao longo dos anos, a quebra progressiva do interesse militar deste tipo de estruturas, foi ditando o abandono ou a sua utilização com outros fins, neste caso chegou a existir no seu interior, um cemitério, junto à igreja da Alcáçova, que foi retirado em meados do século XX. A partir de 1936 tem vindo a ser conservado, foram reconstruídas muralhas, foi colocada instalação eléctrica e criada uma casa de chá no que resta do chamado, Paço das Infantas. Para além do que este castelo tem para ver, da sua grande estrutura defensiva, no seu interior encontram-se as ruínas do antigo paço senhorial, a Igreja de Santa Maria da Alcáçova, a Capela de Santo António, a Igreja da Madalena e as ruínas da Capela de São João. Mais recentemente em1994 fizeram-se algumas obras de recuperação e consolidação das muralhas. Foram também ajardinadas algumas partes interiores. O castelo foi classificado como Monumento Nacional pelo Decreto de 16-06-1910.
O Castelo de Montemor-o-Velho e a Lenda das Arcas
Já diziam os antigos que no castelo de Montemor-o-Velho estão enterradas duas arcas, uma cheia de ouro e a outra cheia de peste. A sua origem remonta ao tempo dos Mouros quando era alcaide naquela cidade um viúvo austero que tinha uma única filha, a qual guardava longe dos olhares de todos como se fosse o maior tesouro do mundo. Um dia, quando a jovem era já uma mulher, um dos seus fiéis cavaleiros apaixonou-se por ela, mas o alcaide nem queria ouvir falar de tal possibilidade. Quando o cavaleiro insistiu, o alcaide resolveu prendê-lo e condenou-o à morte. Assim que a jovem soube da tragédia em que involuntariamente estava envolvida, ainda tentou interceder mas o pai permaneceu insensível às suas súplicas. A jovem que até então não fazia ideia do grande amor que o cavaleiro lhe dedicava, resolveu visitá-lo em segredo nas masmorras. Este amor devia estar já talhado no livro do destino, pois a jovem logo se apaixonou pelo cavaleiro e ambos fugiram do castelo. Porem, a sua captura foi fácil e logo foram levados a presença do irascível alcaide, este ainda ficou mais furioso quando soube que a sua filha tinha casado com o cavaleiro. Então, por vingança, resolveu dar-lhes uma prenda maldita: duas arcas, uma com ouro e a outra com a peste. Os jovens que prezavam mais a sua vida e o seu amor que todo o ouro do mundo fugiram do louco alcaide, deixando para trás as duas arcas que nunca ninguém ousou abrir e que ainda hoje estão enterradas nas muralhas do velho castelo. Muitos, movidos pela audácia ou pelo desespero de tempos difíceis, aproximaram-se das arcas e em épocas de crise muitos foram os que se juntaram para abrir a arca da fortuna… Mas… logo paravam atónitos e perplexos, petrificados com o medo de abrir a arca da peste pois esta se aberta traria ainda mais desgraça e miséria… E assim, as arcas lá continuam à espera de um dia alguém ter a ousadia de as procurar e a imprudência de as abrir...
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Picking the second one to post on this comeback tour was harder than the first!! :-))
The above as seen in NYC's Central Park, they have a man made lake where they race toy boats.
Thanks again everyone for all the well wishes and the welcome back!!
Hope everyone has a great Tuesday!
El Faro de Ponta da Piedade, en Lagos, fue construido entre 1912 y 1913, entrando en servicio el 1 de julio de 1913. La lámpara original era de petróleo; en diciembre de 1923 la luz pasa a ser de ocultaciones, con una cadencia de 2,5 segundos cada 69,5 segundos.
En 1953 el faro fue electrificado con grupos electrógenos, y se sustituyó la lámpara de petróleo por una eléctrica, con un alcance original de 15 millas, que aumentó posteriormente a 18 y finalmente a 20, el alcance actual
Fue completamente automatizado en 1983.
El faro tiene como peculiaridad estar flanqueado por dos enormes palmeras, y la zona en que se ubica, a unos 2 kilómetros de Lagos, es muy visitada por sus acantilados y cuevas horadadas por la acción del mar.
Espero sea de vuestro agrado
Mejor ver en grande sobre fondo negro
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Have received a few requests to post together Orvieto's and Siena's cathedral. Here they are. You can see the many similarities between one and the other. But it is still unclear which one influenced the other. What is certain form an architectonic point of view is that Orvieto's is built all in the same style while Siena's started in Florence's style (see lower part) and ended up like Orvieto's (upper part).
The view from Ardnamurchan over to the small isles of Muck, Eigg and Rùm, on what turned out to be a very rare, fine summer's morning (might look better larger).
This one's taken near the end of my little photographic expedition, 25 secs at f20 around 4.30am - the layers of colour and clarity over to the islands has stuck firmly in my mind ever since - despite only having around 2 hours sleep, I left Ardnamurchan thinking "this was exactly what the doctor ordered!"
If you want to see more of this trip I've put togther a little slideshow at vimeo.com/43952135
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... I apologize in advance for bringing you yet another one!
This is #7 in the series {and that doesn't even take into account the ones I posted on Instagram}! If you are interested in seeing the Instagram versions, you can check out my Instagram gallery here: statigr.am/pixelmama I'd love to find out who else is on Instagram!!
As you can see from the SOOC in comments, I slid the heck out of this image. The originals below are the middle & under-exposed images of a 3-bracket set. The over-exposed image was totally blown out. The sky in the under-exposed image of the set is what I was going for in the sky, but the surfers were too dark and not in a good position like the middle exposure image. I started with an image blend, but it was a hand-held bracket shot and it didn't line up at all! Imagine that! *note to self: use tripod for bracketed shots*
To begin my slide, I selected the middle-exposure image and processed using my standard Photoshop edits {levels, H/S, etc.}. I then opened it in RadLab . I really like RadLab with the endless possibilities and tweaking you can do with it.
The final step was a fine-tuning in Nik Viveza. Of all the plug-ins I have, I think I use Viveza the most. The final image looks completely different, doesn't it? Sliding is so much fun!
Hope everyone is having a Marvelous & Happy Sliders Sunday!!
On my way down to Wagga, I made a diversion to a place called Laurel Hill, just outside Batlow. In a minute section of the Bago State Forest, sits the Sugar Pine Walk. These sugar pines, which are native to the USA, reach into the sky and makes for a enchanting place. A pathway has been created so that you can comfortably immerse yourself in this almost ethereal location.
Smoo Cave is a large combined sea cave and freshwater cave in Durness in Sutherland, Highland, Scotland.
I didn't flash - the light on the rocks is ambient lighting.
Lo más característico de Venecia son los preciosos canales que recorren todos los rincones como si de calles se tratara. El más grande e importante de todos es el Gran Canal que recorre la ciudad dividiéndola en dos
Justo enfrente de la Plaza San MArcos, en Venecia, se encuentra la Iglesia de San Giorgio Maggiore, con su campanile.
San Giorgio Maggiore es una de las maravillosas islas de Venecia y allí está situada esta monumental iglesia construida en el año 1565 junto al monasterio . Sus tres naves y su crucero con cúpula,más baja que el eminente campanile, forman parte del hermoso horizonte veneciano.
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Isla de San Jorge - Venecia - Italia
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I know Phacelia (Scorpionweed) already a long time. Many species are cultivated as garden plants and honey plants. I love this wonderful flower which attracts bees and bumblebees.
Now I saw it for the first time planted between the wine rows and like the blue colour between the green lines. I think the wingrowers use it as green manure how I used to do in my own garden many years. This vineyard is in Kleinheppach (Region Stuttgart, Germany).
Much better in Large On Black
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..little by little one walks far..
..this is my last image of my Morocco set, I enjoyed walking with you, thanks for the great company and all the laughs.. see you in a few days for the next adventure :-)
Finally finished my exam and have my freedom back once again. I should be uploading more often from now on. I'm off to visit your streams :)
雙月 is a very young hight school girl, she liked to dress cosplay cloth , she pretended a sweet school girl just like herself that was very lovely and charming
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puoi volarmi nella mano
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Oeschinensee near Kandersteg, Switzerland
Oeschinen Lake is a lake in the Bernese Oberland, Switzerland, 4 kilometres east of Kandersteg in the Oeschinen valley. At an elevation of 1,578 metres (5,177 ft), it has a surface area of 1.1147 square kilometres (0.4304 sq mi). Its maximum depth is 56 metres (184 ft).
The lake is fed through a series of mountain creeks and drains underground. The water then re-surfaces as the Oeschibach. Part of it is captured for electricity production and as water supply for Kandersteg.
The Brown Wood Owl - Strix leptogrammica - is an owl which located in south Asia from India and Sri Lanka east to western Indonesia and south China.
It is an uncommon resident bird of dense forests and is very nocturnal .
It feeds mainly on small mammals birds and reptiles.
This species belongs to the earless owl genus Strix.
The Basilica houses 70 chapels, reflecting the origins of the Catholic immigrants and religious orders whose generosity erected them. Its Greek-styled interior is crowned with numerous domes decorated in mosaics, similar to the Basilica of St. Mark in Venice, Italy, but much larger.
Construction of this church, notable for its Neo-Byzantine architecture, began in 1920 under Philadelphia contractor John McShain and opened unfinished in 1959.
... and this is just one of them!
Well, that is probably a gross underestimate ... I just wanted to use that title! :-)
I can't even tell you how many shots I took on this day {maybe not quite eight million} ... but I've purged the folder so many times ... then repurged some more ... and then yet again! It's possible I was nearing that number. I'd bet that if the shots I took were added to the shots Irene took, it would've come pretty close!! LOL!! :-)
It's just that the light was spectacular! It was hard for us to leave, to turn our back on the light, the view ... the sea. So we lingered on until well after sunset ... much longer than we should have as it had been a really long day. But I have to say, it was the perfect finale. Thank you for hanging in there with me Irene. It was so much fun shooting with you and I can't wait till we are able to hang out again!!
I'd show you the originals so you can see my 'slide' but as it turns out I purged that folder a bit too aggressively! DOH! I hate when I do that!!
~Happy Sliders Sunday~
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ISO 100
Exposure 1/125
Aperture f/4
Focal Length 70-200mm
Stockholm, June 2012.
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Fog trails in Yosemite Valley | Yosemite National Park
UPDATE 6/29/12: Sorry for being mostly offline all of this summer...I'm pretty much in the middle of nowhere all summer and high speed internet is a thing of civilization. I'll try to check my email and flickr mail at least a few times per week, so feel free to drop me a message or whatnot!
I'M DONE WITH FINALS!! I'm officially an upperclassman! Heaven knows how they all went...but summer is here and just two more days till I drive back to the Sierras, this time for the entire summer! I will actually have periodic internet, so I'll be able to log on from time to time to keep up with you all and show you some more Sierra views.
So many of my very favorite images are ones that I haven't shared with you all yet. Until now, this was one of them. I often go through them and tweak things just a teeny bit, because the scenes are so near and dear to me that I'm afraid of not rendering them perfectly and regretting it later. This image has been hanging on my wall for over a year and is usually the first thing people notice when they walk into my room. I don't know if they can truly feel the magic of the moment -- the snow flurries, the swirling wind, the crisp cold, and the silence -- but I hope you can. Close your eyes and imagine the scene...then view it large.
Unfortunately, I haven't had time to go through my backpacking photos from two weeks ago...but they are filled with icy lakes, alpenglow displays, and a sunset from the summit of a 13,900' peak...and I'm really looking forward to processing them and sharing with you all.
Taken in between snowstorms in the Sierras -- it snowed almost all day two days before and all the day after. This was shot around 6AM on a Tuesday morning; I was initially planning on leaving on Monday night to make it back for my first class on Tuesday morning, but then I heard about this storm coming in...and changed my mind!
Fog trails in the Valley are somewhat rare on their own, but a scene like this...was once-in-a-lifetime. A few minutes later, it was gone. Unlike most other images you'll find in my stream, I wasn't alone -- there were a handful of other tripods out, but most other people were either shooting for time lapse videos or not prepared for the fact that it was snowing as the drama unfolded.
They were literally flipping the chain control signs on the Wawona Road as I drove past them. I missed one class that day and barely made the other. My 191 classmates seemed somewhat confused by the smile on my face when I walked into lecture late and smelling like a camper...
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I'm home from my school trip and honestly I didn't shoot much except the last day where I asked if someone wanted to go down to the river.
I had a few great days. We were in south of Norway, and the nature was so nice. I have been climbing, rafting in a 7 degrees cold norwegian river, go-kart. Really had a few days with much adrenalin! It was great :)
Now I have some catching up to do.. !
Also, thank you so much Moritz, for writing me such a sweet testimonial. <3 Please go to his stream and check him out if you haven't already, he is amazing! :)
Boats moored in St Katharine Docks getting ready for the Diamond Jubilee Pageant down the Thames.
I watched with trepidation as the two very elderly ladies you can see at the side of the boat in the foreground made their way very precariously from the jetty to the first boat as I felt sure they were going to fall into the water. They then crossed to the second boat, then to the third so I thought phew, they've made it! Oh no, they had a good look round & then proceeded to make their way back! Don't think they had anything to do with the boats, they just decided to go out there for the view! I just couldn't watch their hazardous journey back so I moved on!
Haven't really been out catching too much over the past couple of weeks so I'm uploading a shot I have been meaning to upload for a while from Burnham-On-Sea. This shot gives me faith that despite the weather forecast for rain next weekend when I'm in Cornwall that amazing sunsets can happen. The hours leading up to this shot were covered with lots and lots of rain and very high winds however sadly the majority of rainy days in the UK don't end with this much colour and beauty in the sky.
Anyways enjoy :)
Technical Details:
Sony SLT A33 with Sigma 10-20mm F4-5.6
Shutter Speed: 1/30 seconds
Aperture: F11 (in hindsight should have gone for bigger starburst with F16+)
ISO: 100
Focal Length: 10mm
Filters: Hitech 0.9 ND Grad Hard