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A stormy afternoon near Hillsboro, Virginia.
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Shortly before noon, the sandstone in this remote slot canyon on the Colorado Plateau catches the light just right, resulting in the light diffusion effect known as Rayleigh scattering.
Many, many thanks to my friend Willie Huang for his time, patience and especially his critical eye & counseling on helping me get the most out of the complex task of 'developing' an image that combined many focal & exposure blends
The night we met I knew I needed you so
And if I had the chance I'd never let you go
So won't you say you love me
I'll make you so proud of me
We'll make 'em turn their heads every place we go
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13 Jul 12
Buenos Aires tiene estas cosas; de repente, paseando por la ciudad, nos podemos cruzar con extraños fenómenos como un parque de domos de luz..!!!
Gracias Roxi por el envio.
This was Leanne's cat " MR DARCY"... He was a British short hair... Leanne got him because she is a server asthmatic... But sadly Mr Darcy has passed on, he was very sick for a while, and Leanne had to make the tough decision of having him put to sleep.... xxx Michelle xxxx Mr Darcy..
SADLY MR DARCY HAD TO BE PUT TO SLEEP TODAY , MONDAY 20th February 2012...HE HAD CANCER THAT WENT TO HIS STOMACH, AND THERE WAS NOTHING THE VET COULD DO FOR HIM... HE WAS ONLY 2YEARS OLD.... ~ RIP MR DARCY ~
This piece is for a group show, the Supahcute Dream Team Show “Art Too Cute for Words”
May 12 – June 24, 2012 in LA!
Thank you for 28,913 views, my friends! (February 2018).
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From deep in my archives!
Taken around 1980 in Exeter, England, Great Britain. © 2012 All Rights Reserved.
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The only copy I had of this image was a framed print, with a bubble in it, hanging on my wall. My son helped me scan it and I'm delighted to have it in digital form. It's one of my favorite images!
I had accompanied my husband on one of his business trips and while he was in meetings all day, I wandered around town, getting to know the city and, of course, taking pictures. In mid-afternoon I sat down to rest on a bench in this park where through a gap in the Roman wall I could see the tower of Exeter Cathedral. So lovely...
Suddenly through the gap came a book pack, which landed on the ground. It was followed by a schoolgirl in light blue uniform and straw boater. So cute! Then she lifted over a second book pack and helped her friend, a second cutie, up into the gap ~
and I snapped this picture...
Within a few minutes they had dropped down, collected their book bags, and run off!
Another example of "It's all about the timing"!
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(Second of 2) This male Shining Honeycreeper was part of a mixed flock I noticed while I was eating lunch on the third floor of the Canopy Tower eco-lodge. I went to the open windows and got close views of some beautiful birds. The flock included Shining Honeycreepers, Green Honeycreepers and Thick-billed Euphonias.
The bright yellow legs quickly distinguish it from the somewhat similar Red-legged Honeycreeper. It is considered uncommon in the area around the Canopy Tower.
See: avibase.bsc-eoc.org/species.jsp?lang=EN&avibaseid=D2E...
Other images from my 2011 and 2012 trips to Panama:
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July 3, 2012, Canopy Tower, Soberania National Park, Panama province, Panama.
NIKON D800 + SIGMA 24-70mm F2,8 DG HSM EX
52mm | 1/10s | f/5.6 | iso 80
Flash : SB-900 + SB-700
28/07/2012
On the trek up to the foot of the hill, and had already decided to only use my iphone. So getting the composition was important and rested my phone on a fencepost to frame the cottage. Cropped and added some contrast to wash out the sky to enhance the image.
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Pordaneck Point, Cornwall, UK
Not had chance to get out with the camera much due to work recently. Here's one from the end of July last year at Pordaneck Point close to Lands End, Cornwall. There was some fabulous light and colour that evening and had the place to myself.
Dartmoor National Park - On this day back in February I had my 5 a Day at Sunset, with Black Tor front and center, looking towards Sharpitor an Leather Tor on the left, then Leeden Tor and Ingra Tor on the right. Looking forward to these coming months when my Wildlife adventures reduce and my Landscape ones lead the way
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I have not seen this young manta ray since I first Identified it in November 2012 and named it for a good friend who had departed too soon. Nice to see him again.
Davide is really happy!!!! Finally the spring!!!
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Davide crossed the Rainbow Bridge on June 25th, 2012 killed by kidney failure.
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Well after 13 hours at work my brain wouldn't function so figured it was time to re-vist a side project of 2012. HFDT.
• Argentina, Entre Ríos: Estancia La Mercedes o halcon blanco •
opera di Bros (Daniele Nicolosi)
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Keizersgracht Canal - Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Not much can be said about Amsterdam that no one already knows. It's probably one of those cities that people who are visiting Europe want to see to give life to the picture they have in mind. There are many of these scenes in Amsterdam; every winding road will lead you to a place like this: crooked buildings, houseboats, canals - all of which make up a postcard perfect scene.
Keizersgracht, named after Emperor Maximilian I, is the second and widest of the three major canals in Amsterdam. The 17th-century canal ring area, including Keizersgracht, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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Ever the optimist, I headed on to Portland one evening in January, amid winds, rain and fog. Drove up to Portland Bill and heard the fog horn for the first time in my life. Setting up beside the cafe, I used the overhanging roof as shelter and somehow managed to get this shot, despite the driving rain blowing towards my camera. Nikon D800, Nikkor 20/2.8, ISO 6400 for one second (to freeze the beams of the lighthouse)
I had the best sunsets on one of my first evenings in Yosemite. I drove down a long road from the Tenaya Lodge to Tunnel View alone. The road is about a 45-minute twisty set of curves that is perfect for scenery and listening to audiobooks. Every few minutes , the sun would pop out from the forest cover, and I would hunt and peck for a place to pull over to get a clean shot.
- Trey Ratcliff
Click here to read the entire post at the Stuck in Customs blog.
Knowing that the Transit of Venus was a rare event, and already owning a solar filter for the recent solar eclipse, I gathered some of our new interns at work and drove over to a nearby parking structure roof. I setup the camera and started clicking away -- 1 picture every minute. Man do I have a heck of a lot of work to do to make this into a timelapse video. I'm not looking forward to it! Willie had joined me as well but left and after seeing some nice clouds starting to roll in, decided to come back. At one point he screamed "AIRPLANE" and I raced back over to my camear to start clicking away. Willie managed to capture a REALLY sweet shot of the airplane right in the bottom center of the sun. I was just a second too late and captured it just away from the sun.
I had originally planned on only posting this to facebook, but since so many of you called this out as really "awesome" I decided to post this single frame as well.
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“We may run, walk, stumble, drive, or fly, but let us never lost sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way.” ~ Author Unknown
Definitely an upside to all the rain we had on our trip....we saw more rainbows in a matter of days than I've probably seen in a lifetime :-) Hope everyone's enjoying their weekend; we're off to have dinner with my dad and then on the road tomorrow to see our nephew's NCAA championship (2012) soccer team play (go Hoosiers), so I will catch up with everyone soon.
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Based on Howard Miller's wartime poster for Westinghouse, we did a series of "We can do it!" inspired shots this afternoon. This isn't the iconic shot but it was one that I really liked. It is almost sooc with only a little touch-up on a pesky dust particle.
In other news, I probably won't have the opportunity to upload for the next week or so but I'll try to keep up on my comments. Thanks for visiting. :)
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I've just come back from another fabulous trip to Nepal, some trekking, some chilling, some peace. She surely is my spiritual home and I was so very glad to visit her warmth once again. Whilst trekking in the Annapurna Himalaya I made some things next to the trail. Here's an excerpt from my journal on the day I made this little sculpture:-
Nepal isn't like anywhere else I've ever been. It seems to change me on the inside, it's not just the outside environs that are different.
Other places in the world have left my soul untouched. It's as though I've simply taken the me from home and travelled with it to a foreign land. I'm still the home 'me', stood somewhere else.
But Nepal is different, it seeps through my pores and changes me to what I should be. I feel at peace, confident and full of joy. My sensitivity becomes a blessing and never a chore. It's as though my sensitivity was designed to live in and appreciate the multi-faceted beauty of this place.
It is much more than the mountains, the landscape, the trails, the walking. It's the people, the magical encounters, the just about bloody everything. But most of all it's the way I can open my heart and soul and let all the world pour in. Without cynicism, without fear, without shyness, without worrying about difficult emotions and how I will handle them. Without the need to manufacture situations so I can sheild myself from things I can't cope with, all and everything that holds me back, makes my sensitivity difficult and taxing and sometimes the bane of my life. Here I am free, unleashed, filled with joy and happiness.
I can let my sensitivity fly free and grab onto every wonderful flower, tree or bird and to experience the rhythmic magic of simply placing one foot in front of the other. This is where I am meant to be , unshackled and home at last.
Now don't get me wrong. I have a rich and fulfilled time at home. But the mundanaties of life push spikily against my psyche and make some everyday tasks and relationships difficult. To feel every nuance can render you often vulnerable, confused and overwhelmed. Aching to hide from the world and to launch my vessel into the river of my own inner thoughts. That's why I love to cycle, to run, to walk, to climb and to create. The sublime lives within these things and I go looking for them to release my soul on a long leash and to let it stretch its legs for a while.
But being in Nepal is not simply a holiday, a break from those taxing minutiae of everyday life. I am not free of those things through simply being away, when I've travelled to somewhere in the States, Europe or South America I've brought a lot of those things with me.
But here I've stepped through the secret door in the back of the wardrobe into another me and another realm.
It's only when I'm here that I remember. It's only here when I am totally me once again. All those times when my innards soared skywards when climbing a snow covered mountain at home, when I've cycled to a long toiled for hill summit or lived the moment when a sculpture resonates, becomes vibrant and electric, when it is more than the sum of its parts. All those times join together with all the months I've spent in Nepal, connecting together all the sublime times in my life.
Another existence running in parallel, rich and diverse and perfect. Perhaps that's what Buddhist enlightenment feels like. Where you can ride the waves and ripples of life. It does not matter what happens, it only matters how it affects you. If the rough feels as important and as interesting as the smooth then maybe you've found the secret to how you should live your life.
I cannot manage to live in this enlightened way much of the time but I am so very grateful to have as much of it as I do. I hope to extend the length of these moments and tie the ends together with little knots in the strands of experience. And maybe one day I'll have a very long length of tightly woven cord, stretching from one side of my existence to the other and nothing, and everything will matter all at the same time.
Aside from how this place makes me feel it is brimful of brilliant in such a wonderful myriad of ways. Today was an experience of a thousand different treats.
We waited for the sun to warm us before shouldering packs and trudging into dense bamboo forest. We entered a deep gorge that is the gateway into the Annapurna Sanctuary and the trail cuts a path along the steep gorge walls like a wound.
Laim, Bamboo and Rhododendron forest dapple the light onto our faces and beneath our feet is a carpet of fallen coloured leaves while massive, savage peaks cut holes in the fabric of the sky.
Julia was a little way behind so I stopped awhile and sat on a warmed, sunlit stone. I collected up some red, orange and yellow leaves and cut circles around a five rupee coin. I stripped some sedge grass and pinned them on with Berberis thorns.
Unusually I could step off the trail here and pin my sculpture up in a tree. Normally the drop offs, either side of the trail, are so steep that you can touch the top of the trees. Nepal is so very corrugated and dramatic but not so good for setting up a little sculpture amongst the foliage. But here was perfect with plenty of room to pick a good spot with bright sunshine and plenty of contrast. Within a few minutes it was positioned and set against the dark trunk of a Rhododendron tree. The breeze swung the branch it was fixed to so I snapped away hoping for something good and sharp and clear.
My land art comes in thirds. Every third attempt just seems to click. All the elements combine just as I imagine they may do if I had had a plan in the first place.
A quick stop on a rock in the sunshine, surrounded by beautiful hued leaves. A quick circular route with scissors and a construction was soon created. Everything combined as I would want it. The place, the materials, the sunshine: click, it was all there.
So this was the third of the three and how I would want it to be. All the pieces fell into place without me really trying very hard.
If you live your life without expecting anything and then are happy with whatever life dishes up, then surely that's a better way to be. If you can conjure up that carefree existence, go with the flow and live from moment to moment it just seems to come together how you may have wanted it to if you'd spent any time wondering how you will want it to be. But the key seems to be not wasting any time pondering on what you would wish for and grasping gently and just letting everything be. Maybe not everything will be just how you would like it, but surely you'll settle for one in three!
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Con esta imagen me despido de vosotros y de Flickr por un tiempo. Os deseo feliz primavera. Nos vemos...
With this image I say goodbye of you and of Flickr in a time. I wish you a happy spring. We will meet again...
Hier noch ein Foto der 18 201 bei der Sonderfahrt von Wittenberg nach Prag am 17.11.2012 im Bhf. Coswig bei Dresden
Sunset breaks through the marine layer at Montana de Oro State Park
Lee 0.9 Hard ND Grad, Hitech 0.9 ND
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Sunset on the Dunnigan hills - California
I recently saw an image from Ivan that really caught my attention. With busy days that seem to pass like they're almost nothing, and my lack of motivation to make costal trips, I've been spending more time photographing trees. Well once I saw Ivan's recent tree image, I knew I had to make it out to this area soon. Ivan and I have talked about me coming up to shoot the rolling hills in the Dunnigan area, but as I said... Time seems to be passing by faster than I can comprehend.
Anyway... It was a nice afternoon touring around the rolling hills of wheat and grape vines with Ivan. Thanks buddy for showing me around!
By the way... The tree that we set out for is just a sliver outside the left edge of this image.
Hasselblad 501 C/M
Zeiss 150mm CF T* @ ƒ/11
Shutter speed: 1/60
Linear polarizer
Ilford FP4 (ISO125)
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