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Buzz lightyear, The Moon, Jupiter and ISS (International Space Station)! I posted this picture onto Col. Chris Hadfield's ( Commander of the International Space Station) Facebook page and he responded :-) It's not everyday you get someone on a space station commenting on one of your photos from earth orbit!
This shot took a bit of organizing, calculation, preperation and luck! Firstly I knew when and where the ISS would be visible so I had to set up a large Rock and place Buzz on it and then I had to get the low POV right so as the composition was just right with the Moon, Jupiter, Buzz and of course the ISS. Then the task of how much focus to use on Buss and the background, as he was the "Star", pardon the pun, of the show I weighted it more on him. I had to practice the exposure times and ISO settings to get that right and then the light painting of the forground to make sure I wasn't over exposing it.
Just as it was about to all came together, some cloud slowly appeared creeping in, ready to ruin the shot! The ISS was right on time though, I activated the shutter, took two steps to the left and using my head lamp, light painted the foreground for a count of 2 seconds approx. With nervously excitement I turned away and waited for the shutter to close. I had my shot!
30 seconds later the clouds did indeed roll in, luck was on my side!!
Pentax K-x, 15 sec,ƒ/8, ISO 800 @32.5 mm
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My last clear night and only the 2nd for February, I added to my mosaic project on 2/13/2013
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24 frame mosaic consisting of 3-20 minute frames and 3-10 minute frames(bin 2x2) of Hydrogen- Alpha(Ha) per frame for a total of 19 hours Ha. Images were taken over the course of 7 nights Jan 7,8,18,19,20 & Feb 10,12 2013 with a QHY9M & Orion ED102T CF
With the addition of M78 and the 6 new frames there are 27 hours 33 minutes of images
Again, the star colors are synthetic but I will defintiely not finish this correctly this year. I'm looking into a different setup to speed up this process. With my skies a mosaic of this size is impossible.
shoes? these aren't shoes. these are stone bricks. stone bricks stuck to me.
try as i might, and I do try, i can't move off.
and you, you there, always there, like some sort of over-vigilant ward. why?
leave me be.
this rain too.
it rains too much.
Vosges
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Quick candid shot of a Venetian local enjoying his Sunday paper in a strong winter sun, with fashionably attired dogs in attendance.
Hope everyone is having a fantastic week!
Digging through my archives, I found this image. This was shot in Subic Bay, Olongapo City, Philippines and this location used to be the biggest overseas US Naval Base until its closure in 1991. There are more interesting spots to shoot in this location and I know I will be back. However, the question is when?
Have a nice Wednesday to all! :)
Canon EOS 5D Mark III ı Canon EF24-70mm f/2.8L II USM ı Lee 0.9 Soft ND Grad Filter ı Lee 1.2 ND Filter ı 24mm ı 15s ı f/13 ı ISO 100
This is another one from this weekend' shoot! It was extremely fun/cold, and totally worth it!
I HAVENT STOPPED STUDYING SINCE NOVEMBER BUT IN XMAS BREAK. EXAMS, END NOW.
..and can we be together like this forever? Always and ever. Can you be like that kiss of dewdrops on the flower every winter morning, together forever ♥
P.S This is what I wrote in one hour, thinking thinking still thinking!
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Here is a view of Seattle’s Public Library in downtown. Alongside the Space Needle and Pike Place Market, the downtown branch of the city’s public library system is also a well-known landmark and attraction -- both its exterior and interior -- especially for photographers! Fortunately, I had my ultra-wide angle lens to capture the entire building in this instance, taken during the city’s “Fog Affair” of late January. This was on a Saturday morning, when the city was still in slumber with very few people walking the streets of downtown.
Given the fog cover and emptiness, the downtown area actually seemed abandoned to some degree, except the occasional taxi or automobile that passed by, driving through a modern-day twilight zone and serving as a reminder of the existence of other people.
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Contraluz en el castillo de Almodovar de Rio. Córdoba.
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I saw two of these white morph Reddish Egrets while helping to lead an Audubon birding trip at Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge in Florida. The white morph is much less common than the dark morph and I was happy to see one this close. The bill turns this beautiful two-tone color during breeding season and is mostly dark the rest of the year.
Taken this winter on Black Point Wildlife Drive, Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, Brevard County, Florida, USA
Canon Rebel XSi and Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM
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Les Rochers des Tablettes and the Alps ; Sunset of 12 12 12 .No 1631.
1631.
Canton of Neuchàtel.
Up in the picture You can see The highest Mountain in the Alps; The Mont Blanc...Far away but so close )))
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This image was the work of 15 images combined to create a sweeping panorama from HDRs.
Pressing "L" for best viewing effect. Enjoy !
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per favore, premi "L": in GRANDE, è più bella - please, press "L": the BIGGER, the better
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ed anche scrivere con i vestiti.
sono stato fortunato.
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♬♪♭ modà ft. jarabe de palo - come un pittore ♫♪
(non resisto agli ultimi 25 secondi :)
We see : Chiese Cattoliche Parroquiali Carmini, Ponte de le Pazienze and Venice Jazz Club.
The name "Rio di San Barnaba" comes from the church of San Barnaba, near.
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Nikon D90 + "Nikkor 16-85 f/3.5-5.6G ED VR"
It is a cold and freezing winter day. Glad to see a little sunset after long rainy period, at George C. Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary, Delta BC Canada.
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Model: Sony NEX-6, Shutter Speed: 1/160 sec, Aperture: f/8, Focal Length: 10mm, ISO: 100
Lens: Sony 10-18mm f/4 Wide-Angle Zoom OSS Alpha E-mount (SEL1018).
Hi I'm just gonna pretend I'm American so this counts as the 2nd week and it's not Monday yet. You can perfectly see how my Sunday night looks like as I'm facetiming the awesomest girl in NY called Gina Vasquez (known as a ballerina). Sorry for the cheezy description, it's so late and I'm ready to get a 4 hour sleep night.
P.S: I have a really important exam tomorrow morning. Yay me and my responsabilty.
Love always, Laura
Getting a full moonrise over Yosemite Valley had been on my bucket list but had eluded me for some time. My original plan for the day was to shoot the full moon rising over the Painted Ladies with the San Francisco skyline during blue hour. However, the forecasted clearing storm in Yosemite was too promising to pass up.
While shooting sunset at Tunnel View, I was so engulfed watching the epic conditions unfold I nearly forgot about the moonrise. Once the sunset show was over, all the photographers began chattering about the impending full moon rise.
Somehow, no one seemed to know where or when exactly the moonrise was to occur. Figuring that we had already driven 4 hours to Yosemite, Alan, Aaron, and I decided to wait it out. Twilight began kicking in and all of a sudden, the moon appeared on the horizon north of Cloud’s Rest. At that moment, the entire crowd of photographers flocked southward at the Tunnel View overlook.
Initially I focused on shooting the moon using my tele lens in hopes of getting a giant moon framed with Half Dome. However, the moon’s position had too much spread from Half Dome and the wider angle shot seemed more optimal. For my last shot, I threw on my 24-70 lens for a midrange shot with hopes of a light star from the moon. I really did not expect much out of the shot but was pleasantly surprised with the result. It was an evening worthy to remember: an epic sunset followed by a full moon rise over Yosemite Valley.
Popular Photography Magazine Your Best Shot finalist for January 2013.
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Aprovechando la densa niebla por toda la costa, decidimos coger altura subiendo un puerto de montaña para fotografiar de noche el mar de nubes, la contaminación lumínica y el cielo estrellado.
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Mother nature creates awe-inspiring masterpieces and very often just around the corner if one has an eye for it. Beauty of nature - ice flowers on a car window.
Looks like Winter, right? But the fern frost was actually taken on 2nd of April, Denver, Colorado.
Much better in Large On Black to see the details.
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A Bombardier Dash 8Q400 of Austrian Arrows on it's way to the runway at Innsbruck airport. Will lift off to Frankfurt/Main, Germany shortly. Welcome aboard and have a nice flight, ladies and gentlemen... :D
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On Explore - thank you all!
From my sons I've got a GPS tagger as Christmas present. Since 2 years I wanted to buy one but I never knew which one I should take. Therefore I'm really happy about this gift!
These days I have tested the tagger and have tried it first in my neighborhood in the late afternoon. The tagger works very well and is easy to handle.
I've taken the shot above during this test walk ... nothing spectacular but I like it somehow and on the left you can see my beloved walnut tree.
Much better in Large On Black
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It took about twenty minutes in the middle of the night to set up in the middle of a wintery pool, wellies full of water by the end of it. Five minutes later my flash, which I'd brought out solely to test, stopped working... If anyone knows about fixing Metz flashes, please message me! It still makes noises, and the button glows, it just doesn't flash. In this case "two out of three ain't bad" ceases to apply.
Anyway, having set up I figured I'd just trying gelling my flashlight/torch instead, and ended up with a shot I'm happy with and some neat lessons around lighting a scene.
Lighting is from a Lenser MT7 flashlight - first with a turquoise gel beneath the water (in a zip lock freezer bag), then with an amber gel aimed along the wall from the right, and vertically down on the scene from the top of the wall. I've included a flat white lit shot of the scene in the comments so you can see how it transformed things - without the lighting, this was pitch black bar a tiny sliver of moonlight on grey rock and brown water.
More to follow from the location in future. Hope every one is having an amazing Christmas/holiday run.
A series of images that have little to do with anything other than the fun of creating them.
Happy Slider Sunday - HSS!
* FROHE WEIHNACHTEN * JOYEUX NOËL * FELIZ NAVIDAD *PRETTIGE KERSTDAGEN * BON NADAL * 聖誕快樂 * 圣诞快乐 * Καλά Χριστούγεννα * メリークリスマス * Gleðileg jól * GOD JUL *
Nativity Scene in handicrafted manger of plywood with the Holy Family, donkey and ox.
I have sawed out this crib and the figures of plywood and then painted with colors some 20 years ago. In the comment you can see all figures.
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I've found about 3 hours for this work, improving only one concept, and at the end I lost a sense to determine whether the effect is satisfactory for me, I hope so. And finally I broke square format.
Thank you for all comments and invitations.
Architect: Aron Johansson
Built in: 1897-1905
Client: Sveriges Riksbank and Riksdagen
The Parliament House, Riksdagshuset, is the seat of The Parliament of Sweden and located on Helgeandsholmen in central Stockholm.
The building was designed by Architect Aron Johansson and built between 1897 and 1905. When it was opened it replaced the old Parliament House on Riddarholmen. The building was originally constructed to house both The Parliament and The Swedish National Bank.
In 1971 it was decided that the bank part of the building was to be rebuilt into a new assembly hall for The Parliament. An architectural competition was won by the architectural firm Ahlgren-Olsson-Silow Arkitekter AB. The largest outwardly visible change was the copper-clad body of the old National Bank with the new chamber. The rebuilt building was inaugurated in October 1983.
Mi amiga Julia ( www.flickr.com/photos/juliatedesco_rauch_argentina/ ) me comenta más adelante lo siguiente:
Jabi, magnífica captura; ha sido un gran éxito tu intento de contrariar las inexorables agujas del reloj paralizándolo en este bello paisaje.
En cuanto al plano de expresión, tu técnica y creatividad nos permite revivir ese instante, en el cual los rayos de sol son una esperanza de calidez en el frío, y dan fuerza a la escena.
Muy buen ángulo de toma. Impresiona la magnitud.
Excelente equilibrio compositivo.
The morning of this sunrise was hot and humid; in the 90s even before the sun rose. Despite the oppressive conditions, we managed to get some beautiful shots of the sun coming up over the lake.
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Interior of the Upper Basilica of St Francis and its fresco-covered walls (UNESCO World Heritage List, 2000), Assisi, Umbria, Italy
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Chamonix is dominated by the white majestic dome of Mont Blanc, at 4,810m the highest mountain in western Europe.
Every year the summit of Mont Blanc becomes the ultimate objective for mountaineers the world over, all striving to stand on top of the roof of Europe and look down on all of the major summits of the Alps.
To climb Mont Blanc from Chamonix, people normally chose one of the two most common routes. Slightly more technical, the route from the Aiguille du Midi, over Mont Blanc du Tacul and Mont Maudit is generally quieter, and highly dependent on conditions.
The slightly easier and more reliable option is via the Tramway du Mont Blanc to the Nid d'Aigle, then up the Aiguille du Gouter and the Bosse ridge.
While not technically challenging, ascending Mont Blanc requires a high level of physical fitness and experience using crampons and an ice axe.
My video of Mont Blanc climbing is here : youtu.be/3xAeVLIcFKw
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Wolfgangsee is a lake in Austria that lies mostly within the state of Salzburg and is one of the best known lakes in the Salzkammergut resort region. The municipalities on its shore are Strobl, St. Gilgen with the villages of Abersee and Ried as well as the market town of St. Wolfgang in the state of Upper Austria. The town and the lake are named after Saint Wolfgang of Regensburg, who, according to legend, built the first church here in the late 10th century.
The Wolfgangsee stretches about 10.5 kilometres from the northwest to the southeast. It is divided into two parts by a peninsula, called die Enge (the Narrow), situated roughly in the middle of its southern shore opposite St. Wolfgang, where the breadth is no more than 200 metres. The western portion of the lake at St. Gilgen is known as the Abersee.
The lake has an area of about 12.9 to 13.1 km² and is completely surrounded by the Salzkammergut mountain range. On the northern side, the Schafberg is located. A rack railway, the Schafbergbahn leads up to the summit at 1,782 m. Due to the steep shore at its foot only a footpath connects St. Wolfgang and the village of Ried with St. Gilgen along the Falkensteinwand, the set of the Bergpsalmen ("mountain psalms") lyric anthology written by Joseph Viktor von Scheffel in 1870. In the south and southwest of the Wolfgangsee lies the Osterhorngruppe, with heights up to 1,800 metres. Directly south of St. Gilgen rises the Zwölferhorn (1,521 m), which can be visited by cable car.
The settlements around the lake, especially St. Wolfgang and St. Gilgen are popular resort towns, mainly in summer. The Gasthaus Weißes Rössl at St. Wolfgang is the set of the famous 1897 operetta The White Horse Inn by Ralph Benatzky, performed throughout the world and filmed several times. Furthermore the area around the lake was the location of several Heimatfilm movies, suggesting an untouched alpine idyll. As the Wolfgangsee has been the vacation resort of former German chancellor Helmut Kohl for many years, the film director Christoph Schlingensief made the lake a site of his Chance 2000 project of 1998 when he invited "Germany's four million unemployed" to take a bath in the lake and flood Kohl's residence.
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The Alps (French: Alpes; German: Alpen; Italian: Alpi; Romansh: Alps; Slovene: Alpe) is the name for one of the great mountain range systems of Europe, stretching from Austria and Slovenia in the east, through Italy, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Germany to France in the west. The word "Alps" was taken via French from Latin Alpes (meaning "the Alps"), which may be influenced by the Latin words albus (white) or altus (high) or more likely a Latin rendering of a Celtic or Ligurian original.
The highest mountain in the Alps is Mont Blanc, at 4,808 metres (15,774 ft), on the Italian-French border. All the main peaks of the Alps can be found in the list of mountains of the Alps and list of Alpine peaks by prominence.
The Alps are generally divided into the Western Alps and the Eastern Alps. The division is along the line between Lake Constance and Lake Como, following the Rhine. The Western Alps are higher, but their central chain is shorter and curved; they are located in Italy, France and Switzerland. The Eastern Alps (main ridge system elongated and broad) belong to Austria, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Slovenia and Switzerland.
The Alps are a classic example of what happens when a temperate area at lower altitude gives way to higher elevation terrain. Elevations around the world which have cold climates similar to those found in polar areas have been called alpine. A rise from sea level into the upper regions of the atmosphere causes the temperature to decrease. The effect of mountain chains on prevailing winds is to carry warm air belonging to the lower region into an upper zone, where it expands in volume at the cost of a proportionate loss of heat, often accompanied by the precipitation of moisture in the form of snow or rain.