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I was glad that i brought my Nikon 20mm Lens, as it's the widest i have that takes a CPL Filter, so i could get this dark sky.
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#78/365 Well technically a day early but since tomorrow is PP friday then I thought I'd post my spring picture today. Enjoy it while you can because summer will be here before you know it! Please view this large, small just doesn't do it justice.
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London | Architecture | Night Photography
EXPLORE # 453
When I first started with night photography two years ago, this is what I enjoyed the most, capturing the streaming lights...so its fun doing it again...
London Streaming Lights
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The London IMAX is an IMAX cinema in the South Bank district of London, England, just north of Waterloo Station. It is operated by the British Film Institute.
The cinema is located in the centre of a roundabout on Waterloo Road. Stamford Street is to the north-east, York Road is to the south-west and Waterloo Bridge is to the north-west.
The London IMAX was designed by Avery Associates Architects and completed in May 1999. By far the largest screen in Britain it has a seating capacity of just under 500. Although the site is surrounded by traffic and has an underground line just four metres below, the architects and engineers accounted for this in their design and the entire upper structure sits on anti vibration bearings to prevent noise transference.
The cinema won several awards at the time of opening, including a Design Council Millennium Products Award in 1999 and a Civic Trust Award in 2000.
London has another traditional IMAX cinema at the Science Museum in South Kensington/Albertopolis and in December 2008 gained IMAX digital cinemas at Odeon cinemas in Greenwich and Wimbledon.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_IMAX
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IMAX (short for Image MAXimum) is a motion picture film format and projection standard created by Canada's IMAX Corporation. The traditional version of IMAX has the capacity to record and display images of far greater size and resolution than conventional film systems. A standard IMAX screen is 22 metres (72 ft) wide and 16.1 metres (53 ft) high, but can vary.
IMAX is the most widely used system for large-format, special-venue film presentations. As of April 2009, there are 320 IMAX theatres in 42 countries, with about half of these located in the United States. About 60% of IMAX venues are commercial theatres with the other 40% being located in educational venues.
Variations of the traditional IMAX format include IMAX Dome (using a tilted dome screen) which is sometimes called OmniMAX, IMAX 3D and IMAX Digital.
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London IMAX Streaming Lights...
Dear friends,
I could not resist today to come back to HDR and Paris :-))
Hope you enjoy your week-end :-)
Hugs! :-)
XXXL size On Black should be better (or not) :-))
Explore #249 (Thanks People)
61:365 - Ok so not the normal shot of Paris you would expect to see.
Click on the notes for the sights!
This is taken from La Defense looking over Pont Neuilly towards the Arc De Triomphe on the Place de l'Étoile. If you look closely you will see it, and the Eiffel tower off to the right.
oh and it got treated to Lasm's Ultra Vivid again!
After several years living in upstate New York this was our first trip in New York City.
O well, we have a friend who was born and raised in New York State whose
first visit in NYC was last month! LOL
This was taken last year, and I will be going back there this Spring.
Have a gorgeous day my friends!
Seahorses are a genus (Hippocampus) of fish belonging to the family Syngnathidae, which also includes pipefish and leafy sea dragons. There are over 32 species of seahorse, mainly found in shallow tropical and temperate waters throughout the world. They prefer to live in sheltered areas such as sea grass beds, coral reefs, or mangroves. Colonies have been found in European waters such as the Thames Estuary.[2] From North America down to South America there are approximately four species, ranging from very small in size (dwarf seahorses are only about an inch long) to those much larger, found off the Pacific Coast of Central America (the foot-long Hippocampus ingens). Hippocampus erectus are larger seahorses found anywhere from Nova Scotia down to around Uruguay. These fish form territories, with males staying in about one square meter of their habitat while females range about one hundred times that area. They bob around in sea grass meadows, mangrove stands, and coral reefs where they are camouflaged by murky brown and grey patterns that blend into the sea grass backgrounds. During social moments or in unusual surroundings, seahorses turn bright colors. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
I could write many things about my trip to Paris, even a novel or a poem, others have done it… a travel book, an essay… what a city!… totally none original to say, We loved it!... but we did… I shared the experience with my two sons, Guilherme and Raul Jr., they were on my side, making the experience bigger… they will have their own sayings and feelings, but I could feel they loved it too! We felt there at home… we felt welcomed… I cherish the human side of a city too… all those landmarks were built in our mind from long ago… to meet them live was a dream come true!
So I was too busy with my eyes, ears, all five senses… trying to capture it all inside… amongst all the emotion and awe… the urban life, the streets full of people, the monumental architecture… too much for so few days! That sometimes I remembered to grab my camera and make a picture… other times I forgot I had it… other times there was no light, or it was raining, or cameras were not allowed, or tripods, etc. But that doesn’t matter… the memory is here to stay!
And in the end, we had the great pleasure of meeting my flickr friend Frank Baillet and his friends Catherine, Thierry, Julien and Valentin! It was an emotional moment for me, going from virtual to real. I thank you all the warm reception and for accepting us into your group in a photography journey we will never forget. Meant a lot… We felt even more at home… This picture here today of your city is for you, dear friends!
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Picked almost at random, with little processing... We were strolling down Ille St. Louis when I saw this vision of Notre Dame… maybe it was done before, for sure, I loved the symmetry from there!
The shot
Standard 3 exposures HDR [-2,0,+2EV] in RAW/ISO100 at f/13 on a gorillapod using the 10-20 Sigma lens.
Photomatix
Tonemapped using the detail enhancer.
Photoshop
°Noise reduction in the sky.
°A little dodging in the water.
°Increased yellow saturation.
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All comments, criticism and tips for improvements are ( as always ) welcome.
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Surfing is not normal in Andalusia. The waves will only be big enough after a winter storm to get a good surf.
Hiking along the chalk cliff coast of Rügen, Germany's largest island, I was scouting for other interesting places to take pictures around the time of sunrise.
One of the places I found was this one. The picture you see here was taken about 80 minutes before actual sunrise and involved setting my alarm clock to a really un-holiday time, freeing my car of ice (it was during the cold strike in Europe during January, but luckily, a bit less harsh on the coast), driving 30 minutes to a hiker's parking area and then walking 30 minutes with a flashlight through the dark forest of Nationalpark Jasmund and eventually getting down to a place called "pirate bay", with a rumored treasure chest still being digged in somewhere here...
At the time of taking this picture, it still was very dark, of course, which is why you can still see all these stars.
For taking this picture, I again used the Tokina 11-16mm lens and put my tripod at a low ground level. At this time, the shot ended up taking 15 seconds with a 2.8 aperture and ISO 200, resulting in soft water, of course. A nice detail I like is the light of the ship you can see at the horizon.
Watch next week for how this same place looks like 5 minutes after sunrise. :)
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What:
A ship being pushed in to dock by a couple tug boats.
Where:
Halifax,
Nova Scotia
Canada
About:
I love it when you plan to shoot something in particular but end up finding something more interesting. I met up with a friend from the photo club and we went and did a few shots of the harbour front from Dartmouth and then made our way to the top floor of the parking garage at Purdy's to try to shoot some cityscapes but there many cars to get good light trails etc...
We took a few shots and had packed up the car and were leaving the car park when we saw this ship docking. Had to stop and get "one" more shot! :-)
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Nikon D90 : Sigma 24-70mm f/2.8 EX DG lens @ 29mm : 1.6s @ f/2.8 : ISO 100
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Explore #7 on Monday, March 9, 2009
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Self Portrait, DownTown TOronto with a P&S :)
Image taken from the Crown Plaza Hotel on Front Street, adjacent to the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. Full frame, minimal adjustments, not an HDR.
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Después de cruzar desde el lago Tromen al Huechulafquen por la cara este del Lanín y bajar varios laderas "nadando" por las quilas y chauras, llegamos a este vallecito del Turbio que nos llevó a Puerto Canoas a bañarnos a las ricas aguas del Huechulafquen, que se anduvieron tiñendo de otro color por un rato.
Provincia de Neuquén, Argentina.
The life of a west side playa where cowards die
Only in Cali where we riot now rallies are live and die
-- 2Pac
#64/365 When I'm not taking pictures of toys and pretty flowers I like to keep it real and cruise the hood. Happy Thug Thursdays!
There is a lot of details if you view it large..like the picnic tables..and the mound where a dead body was probably dumped.
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Explore FP on 5 Mar 2009. Highest position #13.
This picture is dedicated to all my Flickr Friends. Thank you very much for your everyday supports! I very appreciate.
As always thank you very much all my dear friends for your visits, comments and favs!
Please NO multigroup invites!
34.76@1460 == Gran Madre & Capuccini reflection over river Po bridge 1235-108-80-101-88-118-214-48-37-51
Blesi (the blazer) is a hot spring pool at the Geysir Area in Iceland. It's just a few metres away from the two geysers Strokkur (which you can see erupting in the background) and the Great Geyser.
The waters of the pool are turquoise blue, but you can't really see that because of the reflection.
I'll post a closeup below where you can see the source of the pool under the surface, leading to the centre of the earth!
Nikon D300 | Sigma 10-20@10mm | ƒ10 | ISO160 | Handheld | HDR -1/0/+1exp
I couldn't resist taking this shot, even though I know there a lot of sky/sunset shots out there from far more picturesque locations than my kitchen window!
The cloud momentarily looked rather like some kind of cartoonish creature running across the sky...
As a side note, I know the processing may not to be all's taste, but it's surprisingly close to what was actually there. London can manage some pretty good skies when it puts it's mind to it.
This image is dedicated to Robbie Swan aka R I S Photography for a lovely testimonial he wrote on my profile page! Thank you Robbie!
Please check his amazing stream here !
Thanks also to everyone for your support! :-)
A sunset view from Western of Hong Kong Island.
Explore, March 01, 2009 and Front Page (First time)
Thank you, thank you, thank you Guys
~ A playful mallard greets me at the pond with a few water tossing dunks and flap. ~
I studied ducks for over two years on a daily basis and can tell you many things about how they survive day to day and all about body language. Very unique personalities for each of them and one common love for fresh seeds as posing payment.
I hope everybody is having an outstanding weekend in their own special way and that the happiness of this Mallard may bring a bit of joy to anyone looking for some.
Have a great night / day.. (depending on the World's rotation)
Explore Highest position # 44 on Wednesday, February 25, 2009
The above photo is from my computer which I forgot long ago. The taditional architecture of the pavilions with high roof, no wall and built in the water. The design suit for our hot and humid weather, unlike the modern building which we have to use airconditioner all the times.:) The place is in Samuthprakarn, Thailand.
ถ่ายที่เมืองโบราณ จังหวัด สมุทรปรการ
Exposure: 1/180 sec, Aperture: f/6.7, Focal Length: 12 mm, ISO: 100, -1 EV
Nikon D80, Nikkor 12-24mm f/4G ED-IF AF-S DX
(No very long multi invitations please.:))
People who are crucified with Christ have three distinct marks:
1. they are facing only one direction,
2. they can never turn back, and
3. they no longer have plans of their own.
--A.W. Tozer
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I am truly amazed by the number of views, comments, and favorites given to this photo.
I thank each of you for that.
The moon's near side -- the side that's almost always visible to the earth. Visible features of the near side on a full moon are the its craters and "seas" -- the dark areas. Previously(before the high end telescopes and moon explorations), the dark spots of the moon were thought to be bodies of water -- seas -- by the astronomers observing using their telescopes. Some of the features were later named as seas, hence, "sea of tranquility", "sea of serenity", etc. They would later turn out to be large valleys and lowlands. The lighter and higher areas, brilliantly illuminated by the sun and has a slightly different surface are called the "highlands" or terrae.
The Apollo 11 moon landings(first time a man landed on the moon by traversing more than 380,000 kilometers) were on the area called the Sea of Tranquility.
Shot taken from Badian, Cebu, Philippines
"...Cada voz,
cada voz era un grito de: "¡¡¡a la cargaaaa...!!!"
que sonaba a clarín en las patriadas
y cada mano gaucha: garra fiera
que la batalla prolongaba en lanza..."
Fragmento de “Romance en celeste y blanco”, de Mario César Arrieta
Fuente: gauchoguacho.blogspot.com/search/label/Mario C%c3%a9sar Arrieta
San Antonio de Areco, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Amigos, visitem: www.visiteareco.com
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Camera: Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi
Exposure: 25
Aperture: f/16.0
Focal Length: 25 mm
ISO Speed: 200
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Flash: Off
Location: Orlando, Florida
Copyright© 2009 Kamoteus/RonMiguel RN
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It is currently raining in East Lansing. The next ten days are going to be a whirlwind of sorts: rain, snow, sunny days, cloudy days..you get the drift.
Can spring come soon? Pretty please??
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Explored - Feb. 18, 2009 - Thank you all so very much!
Thanks Chris for the explore link!
What:
My lame attempt at an abstract image with a hint of crappy bokeh tossed in.
Where:
Granville Street Mall
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
When:
Near midnight after a snow storm last month
Why:
Roaming the streets downtown just after a snow storm last month with a couple buddies taking some night shots.
I see a lot of great abstract images from you guys here on Flickr and wish I was able to "see" them as easily as so many of you do. I guess it it something you need to train yourself to do but I seem to just have an eye for the "big" picture and not a tiny little scene.
One exercise that I read about somewhere is to put a prime lens (non-zoom) lens on your camera and just shoot with that for the day. This will help train you to be able to "see" with that particular lens.
Anyway, this is a pretty lame shot taken just before the night lights shot I posted last night. I was going through my archives yesterday and realized that I had never posted anything from that night. I'm a lazy bastard and saw this shot with some bokeh in it and new I could copy some tags and info from the last shot for this one, so here you go :-)
I mentioned it before but I just can't get over the image quality from this cheap "nifty-fifty" lens. If you own a Nikon, Canon or Pentax (maybe the others too?) go out and spend the $100 and pick up one of these lenses!
PP info:
B&W conversion done in NIK Software Silver Efex Pro. I used the Kodak T-Max film emulation for a little nostalgic effect. I used to use that film when I first got into photography in high-school. Mmmm... I still remember getting high off of the fumes from the chemicals in the dark-room :-)
What I learned:
Wear a big coat to protect your camera from the snow when you aren't shooting. Also bring lots of little lens wipes.
You:
I appreciate all critiques, comments, tips, questions & faves!
View LARGE to see the faux film grain!
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Exif data - Nikon D90 : Nikkor 50mm 1.8D lens : 1/30s @ f/1.8 : ISO 400
♥ EXPLORE & Front Page ♥ ..... 2-18-09....Best Position #7......THANK YOU FRIENDS!
A random act of kindness is a purportedly selfless act performed by a person or persons wishing to either assist or cheer up an individual or in some cases even an animal. There will generally be no reason other than to make people smile, or be happier. Either spontaneous or planned in advance, random acts of kindness are encouraged by various communities. An oft-cited example of a random act of kindness is, when paying the toll at a toll booth on a highway, to pay the toll for the vehicle behind you as well.
The phrase "Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty" may have been coined by peace activist Anne Herbert. Herbert says she wrote it on a placemat at a Sausalito restaurant in 1982 or 1983.
A book, Random Acts of Kindness, was released by Conari Press in 1993.
Established in 1995 as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, The Random Acts of Kindness Foundation promotes spreading kindness.
The movie Pay It Forward (2000) is largely based on Random Acts of Kindness.
The French film Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (2001) (Amélie) follows a young woman who engages in various random – and often anonymous – acts of kindness.
NOTE: Please feel free to share a story of some random act of kindness someone did for you.... or vice versa
all information was found at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_act_of_kindness
The snow is back in full force tonight Wednesday Feb 18th 2009 and it is -3c. Just when we thought winter was over.
Nikon D700 + Sigma 50mm F1.4 EX DG HSM. Handheld no flash. Hirosaki Japan.
“It takes a long time to grow young.” - Pablo Picasso quotes (Spanish Artist and Painter. 1881-1973)
Photo taken during the birthday of my girls' 8-year old cousin, Irvine. He is Maggy B's student, by the way. Good to see you again, Magz!
I was first tagged by Christian et Cie then by Thierry la Fronde, so I feel I don't really have a choice here... ;-) That's a fun game, I admit (because I learned a lot about my contacts), but I would never consider being tagged alone, as my partner in crime helps a lot with the pictures I post here. I'm talking about David of course (Birdman)... ;-)
So here are 16 random things about us (there will be less to say about me):
1. I'm 4 years older than David. Yeah, I know how to pick them! I spotted him in Cuba on 26 December 2003. What do you know... He was travelling with a friend but ended spending more time with me (sorry John!). ;-)
2. We live in Bishop's Stortford in Hertfordshire, England, a pleasant little town close to Stansted airport (convenient for our travels). People often comment about the amount we travel. I suppose it's become a bit of an addiction as it's easy and cheap for us to reach many destinations in Europe on 'no-frills' budget airlines (and sometimes the flights are even free! Not too expensive when you book an hotel with your Airmiles).
3. I used to be a legal secretary who always wanted to be a graphic artist. Now I'm a legal secretary who would like to be a professional photographer. David is a technologist who invents recipes for polymers, glues and all those fascinating things that you can buy in a tube at B&Q. As a teenager, he wanted to become a make-up artist for horror movies... oh dear! He used to ‘entertain’ his parents by entering the room with fake flesh wounds, missing limbs and eyes hanging out on stalks.
He tried that with me once, lying on the kitchen floor with ketchup on his jeans and a bit of hotdog on the floor, pretending he'd chopped off a finger. I was not impressed! I just stepped over him and went to the loo. Since then he says I'm very insensitive!
4. I'm not a sporty person (I much prefer my chair in front of the PC) as I feel I'm kind of jinxed: someone once threw a dart in my forearm, then at the 'school's Olympics', someone threw a discus into the back of my head, then later on it was a pool ball in the forehead, then my cousin tried to drown me under a rowing boat... David, on the other hand, is a football maniac and Manchester United fan. He played regularly up until a few months ago, but kept coming home broken after each game. "I'm too old, he said!". (Oops! Update here – He says he's going to try again this Friday evening!)
5. As you probably have realised by now, David is a keen birdwatcher. This fits well with my photography, as we get to see a lot of places I wouldn't normally think of visiting (such as the Scilly Isles). While he chases birds around, I have fun with my Canon! David has seen 407 species of birds in the UK, God knows how many worldwide...
6. What kind of music do we like? Well, that's not easy to answer. I remember the first two albums I bought at 13: Dark Side of the Moon and Saturday Night Fever... Yeah... ;-) A short while after that I bought the first five albums of Led Zep, as well as Abba and Beatles albums. But lets say that for a long time, you could classify me as a Rocker, as my gang and I were into Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, etc. Today I'm more into easy listening stuff, and I really like Amy Winehouse! ;-) As for David, he also likes all the above and Rush (a Canadian band... yeh!). His favourite album is Grace by Jeff Buckley.
7. David plays the guitar and sings (pretty well!) He should have joined a band when he was young but was always too lazy (some things never change)! ;-) Now he just plays for his own amusement. I'm the only person who ever hears him play (and sing) these days, what a shame! At least it gives him something to do while I play Flickr!
8. We both like good movies, especially on a lazy Sunday morning when the weather's too bad to go out to play! Our all time favourites are the French classics Jean de Florette and Manon des Sources, by Marcel Pagnol. Other favourites include:
Anik: Frida, Gandhi, Catch me if you can, Forrest Gump and C.R.A.Z.Y. (a Québec movie that depicts what Québec was like when I grew up).
David: The Green Mile, Shawshank Redemption, Twelve Monkeys, American Beauty, Midnight Cowboy, March of the penguins (oh boy ... does he love March of the penguins!...)
9. Thanks to **Gwen**, I have discovered an author I really like these days, and I'm talking about Welsh novelist Ken Follett. One day Gwen suggested I read "Pillars of the Earth". It took me forever, but I finally read it in French (Les Piliers de la terre). I simply adored it. Then I read the 'sequel' (in English), World without End. David is now reading this but he keeps complaining that the book is too heavy!!!
10. Our current car is a gold coloured Peugeot 307 (which I chose by the way!). David does not like it much. It's an automatic, which I insisted we buy instead of the sports car he wanted! Anyway, being a Canadian, apparently I'm only allowed to drive automatics around here. David would be OK with that if only I would actually drive... but I don't! I never got used to the damn roundabouts and the narrowness of the roads in this country. To make things worse, I still need the GPS just to go to the grocery store, and I still manage to bump the curb every time (that's probably because I drive with my two eyes shut and I scream all the time...) ;-)
11. You know what annoys me most about England? ...the fact that they don't have screens in their windows here. I hate that because I'm terrified of spiders. Have you seen the size of the spiders around here? They're as big as mice and run as fast! I always try to make David kill them when I see one, but he systematically refuses! Instead, he carefully catches them (which can sometimes take half-hour) and puts them outside the door (so that they can easily get back in!)... HATE THAT!!! My solution is more radical. I Hoover them up whilst standing on the couch.
12. We both gave up smoking in October 2008 after I got very sick on our return from our trip to the Scilly Isles. I had a very bad chest infection and David, being the wonderful husband that he is, agreed to give up smoking with me from that day forward. Since we both love smoking and find it very difficult to stop altogether, we agreed that we could still smoke every now and then, but only when we're on holiday. Need I tell you I can't wait for the next one? ;-)
13. As a young man David was very accident prone. He once ran into a concrete pipe which caused such a deep wound on his head that he could touch his skull! He also broke his arm from sliding down the banister in his house and was hit by a motorbike which resulted in him having to have his earlobe stitched back on! I think it's just as well that he gave up paragliding when he did...
14. When we met, David had a nipple ring! I think you know what I think of piercings by now... ;-) Eventually I made him get rid of it (body-piercings on over-40's is very undignified I think!)
15. This photo is absolutely rubbish. I just wanted to try (without too much effort, I confess), my new Sigma 30mm f/1.4 lens... I wanted to see what I could obtain in our dark living room without a flash. Not impressed so far! ;-))
16. Where does this story end? Hopefully in British-Columbia, Canada. This is one of the places I would like to retire to, if not in Québec (but this is very unlikely because David doesn't seem to be able to learn French). However, wherever we are in the world when we retire, one of our dreams would be to publish a book about all the places we visited, with my photos and David's texts. Yeah, dream on...
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Now it's my turn to tag five of my contacts (but feel free to decline eh, no sweat!), I know some of you are really busy!... ;-)