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Sparkling view of Hong Kong Skyscrapers from Victoria Peak.
During the day, one can see tall buildings and busy Victoria Harbor. At night, lit up by colorful lights, the whole scene is dazzling like a fairly-tale world. The best spot to enjoy the scene is the Peak Tower.
25 minutes after this picture was taken, the twilight sky dramatically changed, heavy cloud and darkening sky took us altogether to a different world. One of the pictures taken with heavy cloud is in the first comment box.
Recommended to view on Light box and in Large.
Explore # 411 dated Sept 15, 2012.
Adoor in Kerala holds its famous Bull Races every year around the time of Onam. It is a celebration of agrarian existence and is carried on without any grants or aid from the Government. This is a spectacular fiesta of rural Kerala. There are 2-3 other such events that are held in Kerala.
Two racing bulls are hitched together and three men come into action. Two racers with lead ropes on either side of the bulls who try to control the direction and speed if possible and one often obscured by sprays of mud and water, a jockey who rides on a small flat strip of wood.
The bulls race ahead with the men keeping desperately abreast of the thundering hooves. At the end of the racing track there is a 4-6 feet embankment of earth which acts as a protection and a marker for the bulls. The embankment gets totally crowded with onlookers. The bull racers need to turn the bull around and do a 360 degree here but most times that effort fails as the bulls in their racing frenzy would be uncontrollable.
I have no idea on the current status of the bull races. There are enough organisations howling to stop such races but the Supreme Court of India in a judgement a few months ago allowed bull/bullock cart races to go on in Punjab. So chances are that the tradition may still live on.
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Taken on August 15, 2007 at 1.16pm IST (edit)
Posted to Flickr September 15, 2012 at 4.50PM IST (edit)
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Camera Nikon D70
Exposure 0.001 sec (1/1000)
Aperture f/4.0
Focal Length 70 mm
ISO Speed 200
Exposure Bias 0 EV
Flash Off, Did not fire
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The walking encyclopedia on Nanga Parbat and Northern Pakistan
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Nikon D800,
Nikkor 24-120@98mm,
f/4, 1/125s, 200 ISO
Subject distance from Focal Plane mark: 3m
GP-1 coordinates
I took these photos when I visited Olga last July and had forgotten I had them on my iphone ;)
I got to visit Olga and her family and enjoyed seeing this beautiful artwork for a few days. My husband and I were truly fascinated at the artwork in her home and of course I fell in love with every piece on her wall.
I took these photos of the paintings to remember them because they make me happy when I look at them ;)
I wanted to share this mosaic for our FLickr friends to see, she is not just an amazing doll customizer, she is truly an amazing painter and artist tambien! (my Spanglish for you Marcos!) lol.
Besitos Olga <3
(in nero e GRANDE, per favore - on black and LARGE, please)
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crow agency, montana.
I nativi americani (tutti), assistono alla loro gara di ballo, durante il loro pow wow.
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sorprendersi, stupirsi, è iniziare a capire.
(Josè Ortega y Gasset)
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le apparenze sono un modo di vedere l’invisibile
(Anassagora)
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la meraviglia è propria della natura del filosofo; e la filosofia non si origina altro che dallo stupore.
(Platone)
♬♪♭ sul mondo - lucio dalla ♫♪
madonna quanta luce là in fondo
che mi viene quasi voglia di uscire
e poi magari i miei mi stanno aspettando
è già ora di partire
via che preparo una valigia di sogni
e due tre voglie dentro una sportina
oh Madonnina chi l'avrebbe mai detto
vado a incontrare la vita
vado a incontrare la vita
Views of Emerald Lake and some mountain ranges, located north of the community of Carcross, Yukon Territory, Canada.
The turquoise-green color of the lake is the result of sunlight reflecting off of, what is called, marl. Marl is the white calcium carbonate that settles on the lake floor. It is created by mixing the limestone remains from the ice age with the calcium in the alpine water.
One mountain especially stands out - the Gray Ridge Mountain at an elevation of 6085 feet.
Another three in one photograph.
From the banks of the of the Potomac River you can get a great view of the Arlington Memorial Bridge, The Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument all in one frame.
The Arlington Memorial Bridge not only links the state of Virginia with the District of Columbia, but also the Civil War era North and South.
On one end you have the Union’s Lincoln Memorial and across the Potomac on the Virginia side you have the Confederacy’s Robert E. Lee Memorial.
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Red Rock Canyon , Nevada
This was another monsoon evening i wish these sunsets came all year round. I guess you have to take them when you get them.
Nikon D800
Nikon 16-35mm f4 VR
Astronomy Magazine POD 20th FEB 2013
Drifting through the cosmos a mere two and a half million light-years distant, the Andromeda Galaxy is the most voluminous of the galaxies in the Local Group, which includes our own Milky Way galaxy. Visible to the unaided eye in a dark location, the central core can be seen as a tiny smudge. In a moderate telescope, M31 can be seen with its two largest satellite galaxies; M32 and M110.
Located in its namesake constellation, Andromeda contains roughly a trillion stars not including the 14 known satellite galaxies gravitationally bound to it.
Visible in this photograph are the dusty lanes of stellar debris visible as the dark bands. The remnants of stellar deaths, this material will be recycled into new stars and planets as gravitational forces compress the matter within the chaotic environment.
M31 and our own Milky Way Galaxy are on a collision course. Expected to collide in roughly four and a half billion years, it should certainly provide a spectacular show for anyone around to witness its approach.
Unless you look closely you probably won't notice the "subtle" difference between this and my previous LRGB image www.flickr.com/photos/terryhancock/7870322924/in/photostream. This version includes the H-Alpha filter shoot that highlights the HII Regions and nebulae within the Andromeda Galaxy, some of which are larger than the Great Orion Nebula within our very own Milky Way Galaxy.
The image consists of 2 minute combined with 5 and 10 minute exposures for the luminance, 5 and 10 minute exposures for the RGB, 15 minute exposures with QHY9C one shot color CCD and finally 20 minute exposures using H-Alpha filter with QHY9M monochrome CCD Camera.
Clear Skies
Terry
Image Information
Location: DownUnder Observatory, Fremont MI
Date of Shoot August 13, 21, 22 and 23 2012
Exposures:
QHY9M mono CCD
Luminance
18 x 10 min
23 x 5 min
26 x 2 min
RGB 6 x 5 min
9 x 10 min
26 x 2 min
23 x 5 min
18 x 10 min
H-Alpha 11 x 20 min
QHY9C
13 x 15 min
all sub exposures un binned.
Camera: QHY9M monochrome CCD & QHY9C one shot color CCD, cooled to -30C www.astrofactors.com
StarlightXpress Color Filter Wheel
Scope: Thomas M. Back TMB 92SS F5.5 APO Refractor www.astronomics.com
Astro Tech AT2FF Field Flattener
For guiding: StarlightXpress Lodestar autoguider, StarlightXpress Ultra Slim Off Axis guider
Paramount GT-1100S German Equatorial Mount (with MKS 4000)
Image Aquisition software Nebulosity II for OSC and Maxim DL for mono CCD
Stacking software Deep Sky Stacker for OSC and CCDStack for mono CCD
Registration of images in Registar
Post Processing Photoshop CS5
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This is my second image from Brookes workshop in London on the Saturday just gone. I've literally been editing this all day long and was about to save and close it for the evening, when by chance I decided to add a slight gradient to the top right corner. Suddenly, it looked exactly how I'd hoped it would eventually look... after a good few hours work. I'm glad I didn't have to give up on it completely though! KD was at first terrified of this doll when I handed it to her to pose with, but when I'd finished shooting she took it with her and I didn't see it again for a good hour or so. I guess even a creepy old doll can grow on you when you're having to sit on a bed cuddling it...
Model: KD Stapleton :)
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We see : Vtlava river,Prague Castle , St. Vitus Cathedral, St Nicholas cathedral and Charles Bridge.
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Lake Atanasovsko is a salt coastal lake north of Burgas, Bulgaria
Due to the water of Lake Atanasovsko's high salt content that increases every year because of the link with the sea, salt has been produced in it since 1906, with 40,000 tons of sea salt being obtained a year.
Machu Picchu is possibly the most famous archaeological site in all of the Americas, and is also one of the most beautiful places anywhere on earth. It is often referred to as the Lost City of the Incas because it lay undiscovered until 24th July, 1911.
Machu Picchu is actually the name of the tall mountain to the south of the ruins, and means ‘old peak'. This is in contrast to Huayna Picchu, the sugarloaf mountain to the north of the ruins, which means ‘young peak'.
Machu Picchu was built by the Incas during the 15th century but was mysteriously abandoned.
Archeologists believe that Machu Picchu was built, occupied and abandoned all within the space of about 100 years and it didn’t take very long for the jungle vegetation to completely reclaim the mountain and hide the existence of the city for hundreds of years.
The site was never looted by the Spanish, and it is therefore the best-preserved Inca complex in existence.
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En compañia de nuestro amigo Shadi nos trasladamos hasta el concejo de Cudillero a esta preciosidad de playa para hacer amaneceres que es Gueirua.
Es una pequeña playa escondida, de dificil acceso, pero que brinda uno de los paisajes costeros mas bonitos que jamas haya visto que se encuantra en el pueblo de Santa Marina.
Espero sea de vuestro agrado
Os recuerdo que todas se pueden ver en grande y comentarlas
Mejor ver en grande sobre fondo negro
Ehh minus the love part, this epic LP670 is in LA from Saudi Arabia for the Italian Stampede in a few weeks! Epic car, more to come in the next few days of this car ;)
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Summer in Somerset.
View north to Wells and the Mendip Hills from the summit of Glastonbury Tor in Glastonbury, Somerset late on a fine summer afternoon.
Taken at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in the wing that has the Temple of Dendur, which is an Egyptian monument built ~ 15 BC. There is a reflecting pool in the room, and great glass walls, and always lots of people milling about.
Took lots of pictures that day! :-)
Hope everybody is doing great!
Anche questo meraviglioso posto racchiude una leggenda......
La leggenda racconta che un giorno i diavoli, attratti dal fascino e dalla bellezza del golfo di Cagliari se ne impadronirono, Dio mandò allora i suoi angeli prediletti guidati dall'arcangelo Michele per scacciare Lucifero e i suoi adepti, ma nella fuga quest'ultimo perse la sua sella che cadde e si pietrificò, il promontorio fu quindi chiamato Sella del diavolo e il golfo tanto ambito Golfo degli angeli.
The longest slide! I've worked with this image before and I could treat it a thousand ways and be happy with most. I started with the building and Fireworks, added a little yellow/gray image mix and then the NYC shot. That was exactly what I wanted and all it needed was a little SC. I created a B&W layer which I masked and erased most with a wide brush leaving only a little B&W around the edges, a giant SC play!
The End!! (For now!) Time for R&R but I will catch up and THank YoU!!!!
Happy Slider Sunday Complication!!! HSS
Now that I have the building image its time to see what I can do with it. I combined the building image with various other images to see if anything came to light. The fireworks was one image I really wanted to play with - we'll see where that goes, but within the combined image was one little piece toward the center that I wanted to explore further. I added some ripple filtering to the fireworks and then a little meadow and some Sweet Peas, the color reminds me of a persimmon. Done for now.
Off to the OB, NC for a bit of R&R.
He was so happy to see the sunrise! It has been a very long time since I photographed Plankton! He was very miffed and uncooperative, but finally I got him to oblige. Even toys can't resist a good sunrise over the lake!
It has also been a long time since I posted a Toy on Thursday! *gasp* In fact ... the last time I posted was way back in January, and ... incidentally, that one was taken in Chicago too!
Happy Toy-in-the-Frame Thursday!!
Location: Malshapara, Sirajganj, B A N G L A D E S H.
The boy was pose me while playing in the muddy water in the village area, Sirajganj. Village children play in the water when they come to river for bathing, they jump into the river from bridge, they run through field after they played with the mud in river.
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It's day 60!! Oh god, how fast time has gone. Normally I wouldn't have noticed this, but now the days are counted so. Just 40 days until day 100. And that is a lot.
Okay so, I got this idea while editing yesterdays photo. That is why it is alike. And I wanted to do it on asphalt, but I honestly didn't want to risk my life. I hope no one takes the title bad, but I felt it fit.
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Out in Mount Angel, this family of Osprey was quite curious. Judging by their panting maybe they were hoping I was the air-conditioning guy. =)
...rebellion in the street...have a excellent weekend my friends, remember not to compromise on having fun :-)
Love the plates on this rather epic LP640 from Washington, on its way to get stickered up for goldrush Rally 4! Quite satisfied with how this came out after a boatload of editing, lol. I'd love to hear any and all feedback below!
This really does look better on black, so click "L" and enjoy!
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Who doesn't love a Cthulhu? I've been wanting to build one for awhile. The contest over at ReBrick gave me an excuse to get to work. It placed 2nd in the ReBrick Building Challenge by the way - just found out today. (July 16)
Lots of thanks to everyone who put up with my continual reminders to go to ReBrick and vote. If it weren't for you guys taking the time to help out, I wouldn't have placed at all.
We thought that this W.D. Hogan photograph was taken during the Irish Civil War. The title on our catalogue was: "A prayer vigil, during the Irish Civil War, possibly in London" - at least we were partly right!
It had been suggested that this was taken in London, because it was stamped on the back with "Photo by The Press Photographic Agency, Johnson's Court, Fleet St., E.C.4.". Have to admit I wasn't initially convinced about London, but am absolutely happy to say that I was entirely wrong...
Have a look through the comments below, to see how the location of Downing Street in London was established by our Fantastic Flickroonies, and hence an accurate date for this photo... So we've achieved two of our Triumvirate of Terrificness - Date established and Location identified. If we identify any of the people, I may faint away with happiness! :)
Date: Thursday, 14 July 1921 (at approximately 17:30)
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Look into my eyes!
Ferrari 166 MM e Bandini 750 Sport "Saponetta" a "Le Mitiche Sport a Bassano" 2012
A long stretch of U.S. Route 50 traverses Utah along a desolate portion of the Great Basin Desert. It is commonly referred to as the "Loneliest Road in America."
At the time, I was talking to the old man. He was telling me that he had made this colossal recipe of beef enchiladas. I was getting the entire recipe related to me in it's entirety. It was so lonely out there, all by myself ... that I was content to just tune in.
I finally had to 'tune out the food channel' when I saw this epic sunset unfolding over the desert swamp right before my eyes. I stopped in the middle of the road, left the car door open ... sat on the hood of my car ... and watched the sun set. Not one car passed by... the only sound I heard were the frogs.
Gracias a Marisa Vicario que nos mostro este bonito lugar para hacer este ocaso en un lugar de Rota al que ella suele ir, asi que si entrais en su galeria podeis ver alguna tomas desde este mismo lugar y otras muchas muy buenas y bonitas que tiene en su galeria.
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Gracias Marisa por tu compañia y por mostrarnos este bonito lugar
Enhorabuena por la noticia que me has hecho llegar
Espero sea de vuestro agrado
Mejor ver en grande sobre fondo negro
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The chromatic aberrations and halo effect that you see there is no on an original file!
I have problems with setting up this type of photos on Flickr!
(As it added contrast or sharpening)
Reflections of sunrise over Cronulla rock pool, Cronulla Beach, Sydney
Cronulla is a popular tourist attraction and attracts many beachgoers from all over Sydney. Cronulla Beach features a long stretch of sand that runs from Boat Harbour to North Cronulla, followed by rock pools and another sandy beach at South Cronulla.