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The lake was partly frozen topped with a light covering of snow in patches. I was drawn to the green of the tree which gives a subtle contrast to the prevailing white. (For those old enough to remember, the title is inspired by a Jethro Tull song ).
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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.
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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).
One photo that has been high on my bucket list was a snowy Yosemite photo. Willie and I have been keeping an eye on the recent storms in the Eastern Sierras and a *huge* one hit over Christmas weekend, dropping over 7 feet of snow in one day in some areas! I rented a 4 wheel drive vehicle and Willie, Alan, my girlfriend and I drove into Yosemite just as the storm cleared.
We arrived at Yosemite to see the entire place covered in white! It was insanely gorgeous. The storm had moved out a bit quicker than we had hoped and we arrived late, to clear skies. As we looked west we saw another set of clouds coming in and we hoped we might be in luck! After scouting several locations we decided that Ansel Adams had it right and we found our way over to Tunnel View for sunset. We were not disappointed! Some low fog rolled into the valley, the trees stayed covered in white, and a slit of light made its way onto El Capitan for a beautiful view!
To my surprise, my favorite image from the day happened to be one I had not expected at all. An almost full-moon rose just after the sun set, right during blue hour, and everyone raced around to capture the moon rising over Half Dome. I threw on my 80-200mm lens until Alan mentioned, "hey, try going wide." By this point I was cold, tired, and ready to get home before the roads turned awful so I fired 1 quick shot, packed up my bags and went to warm up in the car. When I got home I realized how right Alan was ... I liked this shot more than all my others!
In the end we spent twice as much time driving as we did in Yosemite but it was well worth it!
Nikon D800 w/Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8G ED AF-S:
55mm, f/11, 30 sec, ISO 200
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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
I went back and reprocessed the source files for this image, this time using the 32-bit HDR Pro engine/feature in Photoshop CS6. One of the biggest differences I noticed when comparing the CS6 method with Photomatix (my normal process) is that the CS6 process results in much less noise. It's pretty amazing, actually. The other noticeable difference is that I think the CS6 version results in a more subtle and more easily fine-tuned image. Of course, that comes at a cost. As I've already mentioned in a previous posting, the resulting TIFF files using the CS6 method are twice the size. In my case that means almost a half gigabyte file. Ouch.
On a related note, I finally decided to pull the trigger on an high-performance external storage system. My new Drobo box and drives should be arriving on Wednesday. I'm looking forward to a much quicker and less frustrating photo processing and archiving workload.
The other thing that's going to help me with my photo storage is a set of neutral density filters that I have ordered. I love doing HDR, but I also want to start to even out the light in a scene using filters rather than tonemapping in software. Using filters will mean fewer photos to move and store because where I now take five to seven bracketed shots per image, with filters I should only one shot per image. The filters should arrive in the next few weeks and (fingers crossed) the lens should be as well.
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Strada per l'Abbazia di Monte Oliveto Maggiore - Buonconvento (SI) * Country road to Monte Oliveto Maggiore Abbey - Buonconvento (Siena)
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Six miles high! You can see the snowdrift being carried off the top of Annapurna South and the main peak, Annapurna I, by the hurricane force winds of the jet stream. Annapurna I looks like its a part of the "South" peak but they are separated by a deep valley. Annapurna I is about 800 meters higher and set further back, hence appears level and connected with Annapurna South.
1 of 52 Speed - Going to use this one for my 52 week project - both the dogs are having so much fun as you can see - speeding towards me :-) got good treats in my pocket :-)
I love it when I'm out shooting and something like this happens.
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♫ smell the sea and feel the sky, let your soul and spirit fly ♪
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.
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Canon 5D Mark II
EF 24-70mm f/2.8L II
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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Inspired by the new Death Machine from Call of Duty : BlackOps 2
Framework , inspired by Pierre E Fieschi
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After I got off of work yesterday I quickly made my way out to the coast to try to catch what seemed to be shaping up to be a really killer sunset. I had plans to get farther south than this spot (San Gregorio), but there road to the coast is one lane in each direction...and I got stuck behind a big slow truck. Once I hit the coast road, I tried to hurry to get as far south as I could, but by the time I hit San Gregorio I could see the sun was quickly taking a nosedive over the horizon. Not a problem - San Gregorio State Beach is a great spot in its own right. Due to storms and unusually high tides a few weeks ago, there was A TON of wood debris on the beach. In fact, getting to the beach itself meant climbing over much of this debris.
It wasn't a super colorful sunset, but I loved the way the thick clouds broke in spots to allow rays of golden light to shine through. And the ocean looked a bit angry, so I quickly ditched the idea of taking HDR shots and instead set out to capture the drama shaping up in the sky and the ocean.
I'd like to thank the flock of seagulls for being in the perfect spot to be included in the photograph. How considerate!
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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.
All of the falls forming Niagara are visible. American Falls (Left) Bridal Veil (Middle) and Horseshoe (Right)
En bicicleta por el cordón de Provile, visitando este sitio después de muchos años, desde cuando nos veníamos en caballos por 4 días desde el valle del Queuco.
Región del Biobío, Chile central.
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.
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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.
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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.
This bird was feeding in the grass near Stop 9 on Black Point Wildlife Drive this winter. I watched from a boardwalk as it kept making its way closer to me, completely oblivious to my presence. At one point it was no more than 10 feet away. Taken last winter at Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge in Florida.
Canon Rebel XSi and Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM
The Pinnacles - Phillip Island
How I captured this panoramic.
CAMERA Nikon D800
LENS Schneider PC TS Super-Angulon 50mm f/2.8
FILTERS 1.2 Soft Grad and 1.2 ND
FOCAL LENGTH 50mm
APERTURE f32
EXPOSURE 0.7692
ISO 100
WHITE BALANCE 5880K
TILT SHIFT Shift 6 Tilt 0
FRAMES 6
Having been to this location several times with poor results, I was determined to come away with the perfect panoramic. The ocean was pounding the headland and was kicking up a lot a sea spray making it very difficult to get a set of frames before having to clean my filters but was also creating an amazing atmosphere. I decided to shield myself from the spray and spent the next 20 minutes switching from west to east and found that the combination of sea spray and sunlight looking towards the Pinnacles was creating a stunning three dimensional effect. Getting down low and shifting my Schneider up I captured the perfect set of frames for this panoramic. After a quick stitch on my Mac Air and a little work in Photoshop I was happy with the final result.
Commas, not unlike under-fed cousins, are to be avoided if uncertainty arises. Full stops are to be known as periods; periods as full stops. Semi-colons are funky sister-in-laws, lewd, in undressed tights; ready to be resisted. Exclamations marks are not indelible, but caution is advised. Capitalise correctly at all times.
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This is the « Porte d’en haut », one of the two entrance of Perouges, a medieval walled town northeast of Lyon, France.
Perouges is one of the most beautiful villages of France. The narrow and meandering lanes are edged with small houses, generally without foundations, built with stones and pebbles.
Pérouges was inhabited by craftsmen, mainly farmers and linen weavers. It was probably founded by a Gallic colony returning from Perugia in Italy.
The high wall, reinforced at the corners with free stones, is made of boulders. It has a broken arch inside and is an integral part of the church.
In the XVth century, the inhabitants of Pérouges have turned their church into a real fortress with walls dotted with loopholes and the church tower allows access to the covered way.
Today, Pérouges is a popular tourist attraction.