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Il porticciolo di Bardolino (Verona)...Lago di Garda...Italy
"LOVE FOR THE LIFE"
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The clouds that day were really incredible and i was lucky enough that the sun just came out from behind the clouds as i stepped out of my door :)
View On White to see the rain drops on the poppies.
No HDR processing - just flashed the poppies and the field separately3
#1 on explore 09/06/09 - thanks!
Explore #133 - 09.06.2009
Come, and trip it as ye go
On the light fantastic toe,
And in thy right hand lead with thee,
The mountain-nymph, sweet Liberty;
And if I give thee honour due,
Mirth, admit me of thy crew
To live with her, and live with thee,
In unreproved pleasures free;
To hear the lark begin his flight,
And singing startle the dull night,
From his watch-tower in the skies,
Till the dappled dawn doth rise;
Then to come in spite of sorrow,
And at my window bid good-morrow,
Through the sweet-briar, or the vine,
Or the twisted eglantine;
While the cock with lively din,
Scatters the rear of darkness thin,
And to the stack, or the barn door,
Stoutly struts his dames before;
Oft list'ning how the hounds and horn
Cheerly rouse the slumb'ring morn,
From the side of some hoar hill,
Through the high wood echoing shrill.
From L'Allegro by John Milton (1608 - 1674)
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Life is so hectic. I envy those who make a living doing what they love. My days belong to my very very not fulfilling job... All I have is the night...
This is my hometown...San Francisco CA
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I hate repeating myself... I need to go out and take some fresh shots... not in the best mood....
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Cropped... following mzappafreak's advice... thanks...
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It's time to say goodbye to Vienna and Austria.
When we visited last summer we had a quick two days in the city, but let me assure you, it was enough to get a lasting impression. This is a wonderful European city. No wonder it was named first in a survey of 127 world cities for quality of life.
We say farewell with a photograph of the Karlskirche (German for St. Charles's Church). This is one of the most magnificent baroque churches we witnessed on our journey. It's oval shaped dome is massive at 70 meters high and 141 meters in diametor. The church was completed in 1737 and designed by Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach. I've seen many of domes and this one was a amazing, but what I really loved were the two flanking columns. The columns, crafted by Lorenzo Mattielli look much like the historic Trajan's Column in Rome which was designed in 113.
I hope you all enjoyed my little tour through Vienna. I've missed a few incredible buildings, like the St. Stephen's Cathedral, but at this point it's time to move on. Maybe someday I'll post some more from here.
Now it's time to Czech out another country.
If you didn't see all my photos from our quick two days in Vienna you can see the set here.
I hope everyone had a great weekend. Let's get this week started! =)
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I am posting a black swallowtail next to a Spicebush Swallowtail so the observer can see the differences. The dorsal views are in the comment section. Notice the Black has seven orange spots on the inner ring of orange spots. It is also possible to see the eye spot with pupil.
Here is a link which describes key differences between the black butterflies of North Carolina: www.flickr.com/photos/drphotomoto/4200650680/
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"Sometimes you just get lucky":
I’ve mentioned before how the light was relatively poor while I was photographing the Baha’i House of Worship in Wilmette. There was no sunrise and I missed the five seconds of great light by being on the wrong side of the building. Despite these setbacks, I came away with a few great images, predominately because the temple is simply stunning. I was taking a few photographs from whatever vantage points weren’t blocked off by a winter’s worth of deep freeze, trying for something specific. Sometimes when you’re trying really hard to do one thing (get a shot of the white stone temple silhouetted against a pitch black sky) you luck out and get something that is quite the opposite, but better than you could have hoped for. A low cloud ceiling, sodium vapor lights, tungsten white-balance, and a rather nasty bit of lens flare coming off the ridiculous front element of the 14mm all intersected to create some very beautiful colors and shapes in the sky behind the temple. This would be an all-time favorite of mine were the foreground to be more interesting. Perhaps I should drop it to black with a little photoshop magic …. :)
In your hands there's a photograph. You look up, she begins to laugh. So cold as she walks away and you know that it's time to pay.
Level 42 - A Floating Life (grooveshark) (spotify) (youtube)
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I listen to "A Floating Life" from time to time 'cause it reminds me not to get too obsessed with the materialistic life. This was shot just after this one in Kristiansand some 30 minutes before sunrise :))
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This photo is almost a month old. I edited it month ago also. But I never felt comfortable to upload it. I have already uploaded a lot of shot from that shoot. So today this is probably the very last one :-)
In that room I took a self portrait with the light coming through the window casting some shadows. But before I could set up everything I found those pidgeons all over the room. I saw them sitting on the floor. I but my f1.8 50mm on and was walking carefully closer and closer to the window - looking through the cam the entire time!
It was quite dangerous because every now and again there was a whole in the floor down to the lower level :-)
Anyway, I am glad that I managed to have hit the shutter in pretty much the right time.
I never liked the overexposed first pidgeon, but the more I look the better I like it, because it melts so nicely with the outside (white) world - coming from the dark inside.
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This is one of a series of photos I took yesterday at a really cool alpaca ranch near Vermilion, Ohio. These lovely creatures are quite sociable and seemed to enjoy our company. This particular one came up and rubbed its nose on my arm.
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Speed / action photography practice using seagulls and bits of bread.
To high of an ISO caused grain while using a good depth aperture of f/8, a brighter day would worked better, but it's what I got. Corrected the look using TopazLabs and made it into something other than another deleted pic.
Have a great day.
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From my garden to YOU, all my FRIENDS.
Many thanks to all of you for your visits, comments and faves!
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Shine On, just, shine on!
Close your eyes and they'll all be gone.
They can scream and shout that they've been sold out,
But it paid for the cloud that we're dancing on.
So shine on, just shine on!
With your smile just as bright as the sun.
'Cause they're all just slaves to the Gods they've made,
But you and I just shone.
♫ You'll be in my heart - Phil Collins
Canon EOS 50D
EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM
0.8sec • f/5 • 13 mm • ISO 100
HITECH Filter ND Grad
RAW proccessed with Digital Photo Pro
TIFF proccessed with Adobe Photoshop CS3
Mt. Tamalpais ( facing west) Marin County, California
Most of the coast in N. California has been covered in fog these past few weeks, so I decided to take the advice of one of my contacts and head above the fog. Around here there seem to be few places high enough to get above the fog, one of them being Mt. Tamalpais. So Monday evening I made a trip out around the coast and into Stinson Beach and up the west side of the mountain. I have spent very little time in this area so I found a little trail and followed it until I had a nice view of the rolling hills with fog in the background.
Five image stitch processed in CS3.
Canon 5D Mark II
24-70 f2.8 L
Lee 0.3 & 0.9 hard edge ND grads
EXPLORE, June 2, 2009, #206
Estava vindo de Saquarema e voltando para a minha casa, quando essa cena bucólica me capturou... o sol estava se pondo e os pescadores aproveitando a última luz do dia.
Was trying to get a refraction shot on the weekend on the roses and irises in our garden without much success i might add, but inbetween trying that I got this shot which I quite like for its semi abstract feel
better on B l a c k M a g i c
You will see this Norman style tower as you drive down into Uig from the Portree road. This is not an early Norman Tower it is a much more modern ruin. The Uig Tower was built by Captain Fraser, a notorious landlord of the Kilmuir Estates during the period of the Highland clearances, and was indeed originally used to collect rents from the local crofters.This building was used to house a family in Uig into the 1950s.
Photo of Fraser's Folly or Uig Tower taken Uig - Isle of Skye - Scotland
U ziet deze ronde toren als u rijdt naar Uig via de Portree weg. Dit is niet een oude Noormannen Toren maar een veel moderne ruïne. De Uig Tower werd gebouwd door Captain Fraser, een beruchte huisbaas van de Kilmuir landgoederen en werd oorspronkelijk gebruikt voor het verzamelen van de huurprijzen van de lokale boeren. Dit gebouw werd gebruikt als huis van een gezin in Uig in de jaren 1950.
Beinn an Eòin and Beinn Mhòr Chòigich, seen across Loch Bad a' Ghaill. The name of this loch translates as 'loch of the place of the stranger'.
(Note to potential photographers - the midges were unbelievably bad here!)
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This little duckling didn't want to hang around to have it's picture taken!! I still got a nice shot though as it fled back to it's family! :-)
Another re-post, i hope you like!
Hope all my friends have a wonderful week...... be happy! :-)
Love Carl xx
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Explore on 1 June 2009. Highest position #9.
This image is dedicated to my Dad and my Dear Friend Henny. Happy Birthday to both of YOU. Wishing You a lot of Health, Peace and Happiness.
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Thank you very much all my dear friends for your visits, comments and faves!
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Music: Harvey Danger - Flagpole Sitta
Enough of those black and white for now ;) I am a fan of colours and so I decided to put some colours up again. Since it is already the beginning of the summer (at least that's what the meteorologists say) I was almost forced to put some nice summer colours up!
Today Marko and me were driving around our hometown in search of one field or the other :-) (So more cheesy flower pictures to come)
10 / 6 / 2003 .....10 / 6 / 2009.....dedicata alla Dott.ssa Maria Teresa N .
Ho cercato ed aspettato un po di tempo per fare due scatti da dedicare a questa Grande donna . secondo scatto , " Tracce di vita " scattata sulla spiaggia di Rimini !!!
.....Perché non esistono scorciatoie a nulla: non certo alla salute, non alla felicità o alla saggezza. Niente di tutto questo può essere istantaneo. Ognuno deve cercare a modo suo, ognuno deve fare il proprio cammino, perché uno stesso posto può significare cose diverse a seconda di chi lo visita.
Tiziano Terzani
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Venerdì 12, sabato 13 e domenica 14 giugno 2009, si tiene a Rimini la seconda edizione di “Mare di Libri”, il Festival riservato alla letteratura per adolescenti.
Mare di Libri è un festival dedicato al divertimento culturale, un luogo di appuntamento per tutti i ragazzi che amano i libri e la lettura, che così hanno la possibilità di incontrare altri coetanei che condividono le loro passioni. Il festival è anche un’occasione di riflessione per tutti coloro che si interessano dell’adolescenza e della letteratura per ragazzi.
Rimini 30 . 5 . 2009
Just to let you all know that I'm back from my trip & I'll be visiting you all as soon as I possibly can but please be patient as it looks as though you have all been busy with your cameras so I have lots of lovely photos to view :))
TRNC meadow
Explored 29/05/09. Thanks for spotting it Len.
#148/365 Talking about cutting it close! I didn't have a shot so I went in my daughter's bedroom turned on the light and sat her up and ask her to smile for me (the things my kids put up with!). The kids are going to Disneyland tomorrow (luckty them) with the grandparents. My daughter wanted her hair wavey...so my wife braided it for the first time. The shot is a tad overexposed but I kind of like it. Happy Snapshot Thursday!
Strobist: Rayring flash mounted on a SB-800 on camera.
About the photo:
A spike and rail road track.
About the process:
I wanted to do a lot with this photo. I tried B&W, I tried sepia, but in the end I decided it was just better off left alone. I added an overlay to heighten the contrast and I added a selective high-pass filter. No cropping
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giusto per divertimento... / just for fun
William Blake : The Fly
Little fly,
Thy summer’s play
My thoughtless hand
Has brushed away.
Am not I
A fly like thee?
Or art not thou
A man like me?
For I dance
And drink and sing,
Till some blind hand
Shall brush my wing.
If thought is life
And strength and breath,
And the want
Of thought is death,
Then am I
A happy fly,
If I live,
Or if I die.
William Blake (1757-1827)
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Explore #169 on May 26, 2009.
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taken in rome, just behind the colosseum.
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The Pannonian Plain is a large plain in Central Europe that remained when the Pliocene Pannonian Sea dried out. It is a geomorphological subsystem of the Alps-Himalaya system.
The river Danube divides the plain roughly in half.
The plain is divided among Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine.
The plain is roughly bounded by the Carpathian mountains, the Alps, the Dinaric Alps and the Balkan mountains.
Although rain is not plentiful, it usually falls when necessary and the plain is a major agricultural area; it is sometimes said that these fields of rich loamy loess soil could feed the whole of Europe. For its early settlers, the plain offered few sources of metals or stone. Thus when archaeologists come upon objects of obsidian or chert, copper or gold, they have almost unparalleled opportunities to interpret ancient pathways of trade.
The precursor to the present plain was a shallow sea that reached its greatest extent during the Pliocene, when three to four kilometres of sediments were deposited.
The plain was named after the Pannonians, a northern Illyrian tribe. Various different peoples inhabited the plain during its history. In the first century BC, the eastern parts of the plain belonged to the Dacian state, and in the first century AD its western parts were subsumed into the Roman Empire. The Roman province named Pannonia was established in the area, and the city of Sirmium, today Sremska Mitrovica, Serbia, became one of the four capital cities of the Roman Empire in the 3rd century.