It was explored.

Guango Lodge, Ecuador, December 2011

So so much that has happened the last week. I want to say, thanks for all the attention I have gotten, it has been unreal for me!! And I am really sorry I cannot get out to everyone who has added me as contact! Thank you all! Dont hesitate with sending me a flickrmail if you have any questions or just want to talk.. :)

I have pushed away some of my fears.. I applied for jobs, and I even made a facebook page.. I appreciate so much if you like.. I have 17 likes now! haha :P

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On my site you can see lots of photographs that I never uploaded to Flickr or just recently taken photos that i am thinking about uploading :)

Well, thanks again! I appreciate it all so much!

By the way, I have some photos out on Getty Images now!

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I had a whole other fence planned for today ... until I realized it was Friday the 13th!! In light of that news, I decided that a fence ---> photographed in a cemetery ---> on Halloween ---> was the more fitting fence to post!

So here it is, complete with spooky cobwebs, textures from the tombstones overlaid on the background ... and a bonus snap of a suspicious photographer character lurking in my viewfinder {image in comments}!

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Happy "Friday the 13th" Fence Friday!!

I hope everyone has a better day than Jacob did!

Peace Wall at the Eiffel Tower

Plankton has traveled to a lot of places, and we {he & I} realized: he's never been to his hometown!!

So off to Chicago for a sunrise! I am guessing that most of you will recognize this iconic backdrop ("The Bean") in Millennium Park ... though probably not ever like this!! As I pulled Plankton out of my backpack ... this fake mustache fell to the ground. Naturally, he begged to wear it for this shot!

And why would I have a fake mustache in my backpack you ask? I 'forced' all the cousins into a mustache photoshoot over the holidays. {see all the silly shots in comments} The one Plankton is sporting is the one Jackie used!

Sorry I haven't been around much ... who knew that a 'job' could be so time consuming!! They've asked me to work extra days (a good thing for the bank account ... but not for Flickring)!! I shall catch up tonight ... just had to post a toy today!!

Happy Toy-in-the-frame Thursday!!!

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P.S. I hear that snow is on the way ❅❅❅❅❅

Explored. thanks!

starting 2012 ...

I'll never forget this day! this car is astonishing!

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Remake of the night shot i linked to last time... www.flickr.com/photos/dcdead/2373525712

Es el más reciente de los faros asturianos, más moderno y automatizado. Se encuentra en un lugar llamado "Prau el Picu" En Lluces-Lastres y se hizo famoso por la serie de TV de el Doctor Mateo, pero creo que lo mas importante es conocerlo por su entorno con unos acantilados impresionantes y unas vistas increibles, desde ademas del mar se ve la Sierra del Sueve, la del Cuera y los Picos de Europa.

Espero sea de vuestro agrado

Mejor ver en grande sobre fondo negro

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Another one from the Daimler plant. The motorway is the Autobahn 81 separating Sindelfingen and Böblingen.

So many years

I watch the sunset

everyday,

and yet,

no, never its same!!

-Vks

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Day 78 of 365

Aperture - f/8

Speed - 0.5 sec

Focal Length - 17mm

ISO 200

Press 'L' looks great on black

Update: Explore #58 on Jan 10, 2012

wish you all a great week

rainy season started here

no snow around

but sugar in a can

;)

The Burrowing Owl is a species of special concern in Florida due to rapidly declining habitat.

I haven't been out shooting in a while. Raiding the archives again. This was taken from my car one summer morning.

Canon Digital Rebel and Canon 75-300.

Doesn't this look like ice? Not even close! Just another cliche Big Sur, long-exposure shot!!

Hope everyone is having a {smooth} Saturday! By the way: this looks really sweet in the lightbox!!

Happy Cliché Saturday!!

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♫ {cause you're so smooth} ♫

“No inventes, no engañes, no robes ni bebas; pero si inventas, invéntate un mundo mejor; si engañas, engáñale a la muerte; si robas, róbate un corazón y si bebes, bébete los mejores momentos de tu vida.....”. ( Will Smith )

Textura lenabem . anna ¡¡Thanks ¡¡

Muchas gracias por vuestras visitas y comentarios

Un montón de besos ¡¡

Thank you for your visits and comments

Kisses

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wanting to be still

to be still with you

in the shadows

all those buildings

all those people/ celebrating/ sunlight & love/ you

you are sucha fool/ you spend all day piling up images

locations/ morsels of daydreams/ to give me a poem

just smile/ i'll get it

~Ntozake Shange

I found this poem a few months ago - Folded, printed on mimeograph paper. It was tucked between the dog-eared pages of Shange's book. It is a book that I've had since grad school. I forgot how much I love the words, and they just seemed to fit...

Happy (abstract with heavy poetry) Fence Friday!

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Times Square is a major commercial intersection in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, at the junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue and stretching from West 42nd to West 47th Streets. The extended Times Square area, also called the Theatre District, consists of the blocks between Sixth and Eighth Avenues from east to west, and West 40th and West 53rd Streets from south to north, making up the western part of the commercial area of Midtown Manhattan.

Formerly named Longacre Square, Times Square was renamed in April 1904 after The New York Times moved its headquarters to the newly erected Times Building, which is now called One Times Square and is the site of the annual ball drop on New Year's Eve. Times Square, nicknamed 'The Crossroads of the World' and 'The Great White Way', has achieved the status of an iconic world landmark and is a symbol of New York City and the United States.

The northern triangle of Times Square is technically Duffy Square, dedicated in 1937 to Chaplain Francis P. Duffy of New York City's "Fighting 69th" Infantry Regiment; a memorial to Duffy is located there, along with a statue of George M. Cohan, and the TKTS discount theatre tickets booth. The stepped red roof of the TKTS booth also provides seating for various events. The Duffy Statue and the square were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

Times Square has been featured countless times in literature, on television, in films – including the 1980 film Times Square, which featured a punk rock/new wave soundtrack – in music videos and recently in video games. An immediately recognizable setting, Times Square has been frequently attacked and destroyed in a number of movies, including Knowing, when a solar flare destroys New York City, Deep Impact, when a tsunami created from a meteor impact destroys New York City, Stephen King's The Stand, where the intersection is overcome by total anarchy, and Transformers; Revenge of the Fallen. Films have also employed the opposite tactic, depicting the typically bustling area as eerily still, such as in Vanilla Sky, as well as the post-apocalyptic I Am Legend, in which Will Smith and his dog go hunting for deer in the deserted urban canyon. Times Square was also depicted in the 2011 movie, New Year's Eve.

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During a way cool photowalk in Lyon with Mohamed Simma & Damien Caron

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Firstly, a very happy new years to everybody!!

Its great to be back on Flickr after a long break. I had a very eventful and exciting road trip across some of the most untouched parts of India. It was a great experience to say the least but our car broke down a couple of times and we wasted a lot of time trying to get the vehicle repaired. But on the whole, it was a fascinating journey and I will be sharing some of the picture with you in the coming days.

We ended our trip in Goa, which is arguably the party capital of India. We spent our new years eve with a bunch of friends in Goa before heading back home. The image you see if from the new years eve, the last sunset of the year 2011.

This is when we bid goodbyes to the year 2011 only to welcome the new year, which brings a lot of surprising and exciting times ahead of us.

Hope all of you have a wonderful year ahead, filled with joy and excitement. I will catchup with your streams today.

Nikon D7000 + Tokina 11-16

ISO200 | f14 | 16mm |30sec | ND8+GND8

Thanks to all of you for your comments, favorites, invites and inspiration in 2011.

Wishing everyone all the best in 2012.

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* Happy New Year * Frohes Neues Jahr * Bonne année * Feliz Año Nuevo *

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Please enjoy another view of Mount Rainier, the tallest mountain in Washington State. From this vantage, the dormant volcano is actually 90 miles (145 kilometers) away!

Wishing you all a very peaceful and enjoyable remainder of 2011!

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The Grossglockner High Alpine Road is a panoramic road in Austria. The most famous route through the Alps ends just before the jewel in the Hohe Tauern national park's crown: the highest mountain and the largest glacier in Austria, the Großglockner 3,798 m and its glacier, the Pasterze. You will have a driving and nature experience of a special kind on 48 kilometres of high alpine road with 36 bends, and an altitude ascent to 2,504 metres! You pass through a unique world of mountains with blossoming alpine meadows, fragrant mountain forests, massive cliffs and eternal ice to the foot of the Grossglockner, the Kaiser-Franz-Josefs-Höhe.

The Grossglockner high Alpine road in Austria is 48 kilometers of pure driving pleasure. The route is described in the brochure as a Bikers Heaven. The Großglockner Hochalpenstraße Road was built between 1930 and 1935, to fight unemployment and boost tourism in Salzburg. It is in within the Nationalpark Hohe Tauern. Closed in winter until end of October to beginning of May. Photo taken from the car park of the Edelweisspitze. A beautiful panoramic view on the Fuscher Törl, a 2428 meters high mountain pass.

De Großglockner Hochalpenstraße is één van de mooiste bergwegen ter wereld en zeker de moeite waard om te bezichtigen. Deze panoramische tolweg verbindt de deelstaat Salzburg met Karinthië. De 47,8 km lange weg leidt middenin het Hohe Tauern National Park naar de hoogste berg van Oostenrijk, de Großglockner 3.798m en zijn gletsjer, de Pasterze. De Pasterzegletsjer is wel 10 km lang en heeft een oppervlakte van bijna 20 m2. De Großglockner Alpenstraße voert je door een wild en rotsachtig landschap. Maar liefst 36 haarspeldbochten zorgen ervoor dat je uiteindelijk tot een hoogte van 2.504 meter stijgt. Tijdens de rit wordt je getrakteerd op adembenemende uitzichten. Ook kun je genieten van de aanblik van enkele honderden bergtoppen van boven de 3.000 meter. Onderweg op de Großglockner Alpenstraße kun je eventueel stoppen bij verschillende uitzichtplaatsen en informatiepunten. Voor kinderen zijn er speeltuintjes en ook is het mogelijk om in echte sneeuw te spelen. Er zijn tevens 2 kabelbanen die je de mogelijkheid bieden om nog meer van de mooie omgeving te bekijken.

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cigarettes suck. same mirror from this photo, which i love.

despite my room being small, it has a lot of character.

can you find the heart that someone drew on the wall and the nail sticking out?

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A pochi giorni dal Natale non poteva mancare una spolverata di neve sul Vesuvio...

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Nikkor 80-400mm

Description : this photo is not photoshopped, it's the RAW file with less vibrance and saturation !!

this bulk carrier boat beached in Britanny France since a week..and made fuel pollution..as always...

all your comments are welcome

16/12/2011 TK BREMEN, navire échoué sur la plage d' Erdeven dans le Morbihan, dont toutes les chaines d'actualités parlent en ce moment. Cette photo a été prise de nuit vers les 22H00, face au navire, avec une mer quelque peu formée ce soir là, d'où le flouté des vagues sur la gauche. L'ambiance qui en ressort est assez mitigée car la photo est belle, mais le symbole l'est beaucoup moins, à cause des répercutions écologiques. Etant donné l'intérêt et à la fois le dégoût qu'ont les habitants pour ce bateau, il était important pour nous de le mettre en image, et d'en garder une trace en l'état car les autorités entament des mesures pour le démanteler.

Il a fallu trouver l' axe adéquate pour palier au problème de surexposition dû aux spots halogènes du pont qui gâchaient toutes les photos de coté.

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Canon 5D II w/85mm f/1.2

85mm

ISO 100

30 sec @ f9

7 shot (vertical stitch) - more on this below

RAW processed in Lightroom

TIff in Photoshop CS5

Please view large or continue to view at like 250 pixels tall ;P

"In the shadow of the city, the light glows brightest."

I took this shot right before I left for Hawaii and I felt like taking a break from seascapes. I went for 6 shots with the camera in the portrait position. I overlap by about 1/5 of a frame when capturing the panoroma. I do this because when it comes time to stitch, I want as much source image as possible to sample from to take out those infamous trails in the water from the constant ferry, coastguard, and freighter traffic around the island. I do my stitching in Photoshop CS5 on the “reposition” setting. After the rendering is complete, I look for the seams and then I overlay the original source image on top of the panoramic image and mask in where the seams are visible. At least with lines in the water, after you get the knack of it, its quite forgiving. Sometimes the reflections can make it look like there's a seam where there isn't because of the way light hits the miniwaves and currents. The hard stuff is when you have a weird seam on hard structures such as building and bridges. The reason for this is in water or sky, often you can mask away the hard line in the seam at 100% opacity then feather it out by reducing the opacity of your brush. You can’t do that for hard objects, if you do you’ll wind up with transparent building and the like - not too pretty. I’m definitely better at the process than I was a year ago, so its all practice. Don’t forget to zoom in at 100%+ to look for the smallest seams. Panoramas can be ton’s of pixels and even the smallest seam gets big once you’ve printed it 20x60 inches!

The side-effects to using 7 shots to create the panorama is that it takes 3 min to make all the exposures and the light will change during that time unless a pure nighttime shot. To accentuate this I started on the right side where I knew it would be brightest (also where most of the ocean traffic comes from so you can stay ahead of them) and moved to the left. I did play with ISO slightly to adjust exposure as I panned left to keep the things close in terms of brightness. But I wanted it to be dark and glowy on the left. If you don’t, or have different lighting situations, pan the other way for more even light - you’ll start in the dark area when it’s brightest and move to the light area when it’s darkest. Changing the ISO only changes the noise level and not water smoothness (shutter speed) nor DoF (aperture) and with the 5D II, anything below 320 looks very very similar unless when viewed at 100+%.

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Bandon Beach + Moonlight + 8 Minute Exposure = Enjoy!

Amanece con niebla en la Laguna de Boada de Campos./ Sunrise and fog in Boada de Campos Lagoon

♫ Chris Garneau - Leaving Song.♫

Fotografía unida a esta canción de mi cantante revelación del año.

Cuando la gente que daba luz a la vida, se va, te sientes abandonado.

En 1998 la Fundación Global Nature inició las gestiones para la recuperación de la Laguna de Boada ( foto) , distante a tan sólo 11 kilómetros de la Laguna de la Nava ( foto) y con unas características ecológicas muy similares a este humedal.

Con el apoyo del ayuntamiento de Boada y el Ministerio de Medio Ambiente están ya inundadas 60 hectáreas del humedal.

Se pueden observar los miles de aves acuáticas que visitan esta laguna, especialmente el ánsar común, ya que este humedal es la tercera zona más importante dentro de España, con un contingente anual de entre 10.000 Y 12. 000 ejemplares.

Miles de aves acuáticas se establecen todos los inviernos en las lagunas de La Nava y Boada; ánades reales, cercetas comunes y patos cucharas

Durante la primavera y verano, avefrías, cigüeñelas, archibebes y fochas sacan a delante sus polladas en las aguas someras del humedal.

Antes del otoño varios miles de pequeñas aves como mosquiteros, carriceros o golondrinas se alimentan y descansan en los arroyos y la vegetación palustre.

Las vastas extensiones cerealistas que rodean ambas lagunas son el hábitat de una interesante comunidad de aves esteparias. Especies como la avutarda, ortega, aguilucho cenizo o calandria encuentran en esta zona un hábitat único dentro de Europa.

Photo attached to this song of my singer revelation of the year.

When people who gave light to life, is gone, you feel abandoned.

In 1998, the Global Nature Foundation initiated steps for the recovery of Boada Lake( photo ) , distant only 11 km from the Laguna de la Nava ( photo ) and ecological characteristics very similar to this wetland.

With the support of the City of Boada and the Ministry of Environment already flooded 60 hectares of wetland.

You can see the thousands of waterfowl that visit this lake, especially the common goose, and that this wetland is the third most important area in Spain, with an annual quota of 10,000 and 12. 000.

The vast cereal that surround both lakes are home to an interesting community of steppe birds. Species such as the Great Bustard, Sandgrouse, Montagu's harrier or calendar are in this area a unique habitat in Europe..

This was the sunrise over Seattle this morning, my friends. It was one of the most phenomenal sunrises I had seen in months. You can see Mount Rainier, Washington State’s tallest mountain (and dormant volcano) that dominates the horizon on unbelievably clear days such as this one.

An impromptu decision to curtail my morning workout at the gym gave way to serendipity, which led me to capture this image today. If I had followed my regular routine this morning, I would have completely missed this.

This image was taken from the balcony of my apartment. Enjoy!

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A large flock of Black Skimmers, Ring-billed, Laughing, and Herring Gulls, and Forster's and Royal Terns on the south end of Jekyll Island

Merry christmas to all! (A little in advance.)

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Here is another shot from our trip to the backwaters in Kerala. this is what people living in these areas see on a daily basis. The beautiful Sunset across the array of coconut tress makes for an enchanting scene and for me, a first time visitor to this part of the world, it was nothing less than magical.

On the technical front, I'm not completely happy with this image. The light was too harsh and was difficult to handle the exposure. This is the best I could achieve after processing it but some good GND filters would have made my life easier and I'm planning to invest in them something soon.

Have a wonderful day ahead, my friends.

Explored on 7th December 2011. Best position #15

Gargoyle From Notre-Dame, Paris, France

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