View allAll Photos Tagged :

Another from our recent trip to Embo, in the North East Highlands of Scotland. With the highlands, being the highlands, we got all 4 seasons in one week... you've seen one of the calm days... here's one where the sky was a wee bit more angry.

 

No sunsets over the water on the east coast, so had to find a rock out in the sea to precariously balance tripod and my not insignificant frame, to shot back across the beach towards the sun. This was after the sun had dipped below the horizon. Invested in a pair of wellies after getting a royal soaking on this one :-)

  

.

 

حياط خونه ما

:)

“...Se alzó espantao un carancho

de la dormida cumbrera

y el viento encrespó en la tarde

un remolino de ausencias...

¡Qué rancho pa' estar de noche

bautizando las estrellas!

¡Qué campo con el rocío

pa’ desvelar las vigüelas!...”

 

Fragmento de “Remolinos de ausencia”, de M. Duran

Fuente: gauchoguacho.blogspot.com/

Tacuarembó, Tacuarembó, Uruguay

 

~Explore#

...As escolhas que fazemos podem mudar

Ou destruir

As correntes que nos prendem nesse lugar

Bem perto de você é aonde eu quero estar

Até o fim de verdade dessa vez! ♪

 

I'll tell you

The choices we make can change

Or destroy

The chains that bind us in this place

Right next to you is where I want to be

  

The concept of "foreground interest" doesn't really seem to be my thing. But, trying here to see if a very uneventful sky can be balanced by at least some kind of "event" going on in the foreground :-)

 

Have a great weekend everyone!

 

My web site | Join me on Facebook

-----------------------------------------------

Please no icons/banners/images in the comments.

Sunset outing with Jeffie www.flickr.com/photos/jeffiebrown/ and also accompany by a lots of mosquitoes (lols) yesterday (its past 12am in my place now) at Tanjung Aru Beach, Kota Kinabalu Sabah.

Spiral staircase leading to the 'Café Glockenspiel' in Munich.

 

I took several shots of this staircase from different angles, but this one is my favorite, because of the bit of wall which is still visible on the right side (looked strange when i cut it off a few shots earlier) and because of the intersecting railings.

 

Technique/Processing

 

I took 2 shots, 2EV apart from each other. The first one already had dialed in an exposure correction of +1EV, because i wanted to retain the bright walls. The upper part of the staircase had to be replaced (manual blending) with the one from the -2EV exposure, because it was completely white.

 

I did NOT use a tripod, but hand held it again, having to use ISO 7200 (!!!) to get the bright look. I was really excited, that the lavender wall color came out so nicely at this high ISO setting

III Maximum speed III

 

III سرعه قصوى III

 

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 

canon 7D

 

SIGMA 10 - 20 mm 1:4-5.6 DC

 

F : 11

 

2 Seconds

 

10 mm

 

ISO : 640

 

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 

لكم مني كل الحب والتقدير

 

عبدالرحمن محمد القيسي

 

لا انسى وجود المتألق : عبدالله التيهاني خلف العدسه

 

www.flickr.com/photos/29397103@N06

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 

أجـاوبـكـ هـنـا

 

Ask me anything formspring.me/qaisi

Paradise island resort, Maldives

 

Thank you very much all my dear friends for your visits, comments and favs!

Please NO MULTIGROUP invites!

 

Smoking kills

 

personal favourites - a photoset by fifichat1 ~ offline / busy on Flickriver

  

Graffiti chat dans l'Albaicin à Grenade:mon avatar chat!

 

Cat graffiti. Albaicin area. Granada.Spain.

 

My buddy Icon ;))

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 

Données Exif

 

CaméraPanasonic DMC-LX2

Exposition0,003 sec (1/400)

Ouverturef/7.1

Longueur focale6.3 mm

Vitesse ISO100

Détection du degré d'exposition0 EV

FlashOff, Did not fire

 

© All Rights Reserved.

 

***********************************************************************

 

Winner in

 

# Magik Troll Artistry November Challenge ~ Public or Street Art ~

 

# Urban Design Office (UDO ) 4+ Award gallery (15)

 

# CONTEST 14 - GRAFFITI AND STREET ART - Dark Side of The Light Challenge

 

Many Thanks :)

 

*************************************************************************

_

IView On BlackI

 

HaPPY GoRGeouS GReeN THuRSDaY !!!

  

I will be away for some days.

 

Hope your spring is beautiful.

    

Have all a fantastic weekend ahead…………….

    

Thank you JoesSistah for the texture.

   

Play it loud and………

♪♪♫ L I S T e N ♪♪♫♪♪♫

  

 

IView On BlackI

 

HaPPY FLoWeRY THuRSDaY !!!

  

The last day of Songkran festival is here.

 

Thailand is wet and ready for a new year.

   

This man here is working on the Erawan Shrine in Bangkok.

 

The most important shrine for the thais and you can believe me, tons of flowers, candles and incense sticks are laid down all day by the thai Buddhists, coming to this place to pray for good business and success.

 

So this man is doing an important job, he grabs all flowers and the other stuff and making space for new ones.

 

I like the hand of him, I catched in this shot.

  

HaPPY GoRGeouS GReeN THuRSDaY all of you !!!

    

Look here for more information about the eRaWaN SHRiNe.

   

Miss me……..

♪♪♫ L I S T e N ♪♪♫♪♪♫

 

 

View it on Black

 

Chefchaouen or Chaouen is a Small City situated in the Rif Mountains in Morocco, just inland from Tangier and Tetouan.

 

More Information from Wikipedia

 

Chefchaouen, Morocco

 

A dollhouse store in Minneapolis called ‘Little Enchantments’ let me take some pictures of there awesomely detailed miniature stuff - check them out: www.littleenchantments.com

 

Seen on a church wall in Prague

  

Only developed from RAW and then color processed (curves adjustment)

Let's move from Prague to Munich :)

After Prague we went to Munich on short notice

  

Station Georg-Brauchle-Ring of the U1 line.

 

Info

 

Georg-Brauchle-Ring is an U-Bahn station in Munich on the U1. It is located below the Georg-Brauchle-Ring, part of Munich's Mittlerer Ring ring road system. It opened on 18 October 2003. Artist Franz Ackermann produced two coloured walls for the station entitled The Great Journey and consisting of 400 panels, each wall weighing 30 tons

  

Technique/Processing

 

Handheld - only 1/15s this time - so no problem at ISO 1000 - i really love the ISO Auto function of the D700 - you can concentrate on the subject instead of having to adjust your exposure/ISO every time.

 

Developed from RAW in Photoshop - one exposure for the lights (especially the clocks - they were completely white out of cam) and one for the rest and then combined them by layer masking.

 

A little contrast added, by applying a slight S-curve.

 

After that i added some 'glamour glow' to the lights on the ceiling and their reflections to make them look softer.

Batu Bolong, Canggu Tua - Bali

Canon EOS 50D + EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM

EXIF: 2 sec • f/13• 12 mm • ISO 100

Exposure Mode + White Balance: Manual

Filters: Hitech 2stops RG +Singh-Ray 3stopsRG.

Software: Digital Photo Pro + Adobe Photoshop CS3.

 

View Large

Thanks everyone for your visit, comments, critiques, fave,invite..etc. I really appreciate it.

Elvis Presley - You've lost that loving feeling

 

VIEW MY STREAM ON BLACK

On this occasion, the wally was me! Why? For forgetting to take my Lumix off the rock on the bottom right of the image when I was taking it :p I've cloned it out now of course :)

 

Also cloned out the big buoy between the island and mainland (see previous picture), as well as the dust bunnies I've got, and had to straighten the lighthouse as well as the 10-20mm at 10mm doesn't half have some distortion :)

 

Oddly enough the colour is the one thing I've not touched in post-pro, I spent far too much time (ok 10 minutes) cloning out the camera, buoy and straightening the lighthouse that I was fedup already by then).

 

HiTech 0.3Grad SE ND, + 0.9ND

 

Please view large, on white

  

Fisherman at mediterranean sea.

 

For more I suggest my slideshow click

This is one of the old buildings little m and I saw on our road trip to eastern WA this past weekend. Did some blurring of the clouds to make this amazing structure stand out. Had some help from expert editor vinny , thanks Vinny! Out of all the old structures we saw, I have to say this was in my top two for interest. I will be photographing some spring flowers soon for all you color lovers out there. Will be stopping by your streams tomorrow. And as always thanks for your visit :) Don't forget to play a trick on someone you love today!

San Miguel de Allende.

Estado de Guanajuato. Mexico

 

View On Black

Highest position: 432 on Monday, March 29, 2010

 

View On Black

 

Just listen to this beautiful music

youtu.be/qZmisi_CmN8

 

Mexico City International Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto Internacional de la Ciudad de México or AICM), also called Benito Juárez International Airport (IATA: MEX, ICAO: MMMX) is a commercial airport that serves Mexico City, the capital of Mexico. It is Mexico's and Latin America's busiest.

This hot and high airport offers direct flights to more than 100 destinations worldwide. In 2009, the airport served 24,243,056 passengers, a decrease of 7.5% compared with 2008, who received 26,210,217. This modest decline was mainly due to the global financial crisis and the outbreak of influenza. In optimal conditions, and with the current renovations and expansion projects completed, the Benito Juárez airport will be able to handle up to 32 million passengers per year.[3]. It provides non-stop services from Mexico City to North America, Central America and Caribbean, South America, Europe and Asia.

source: Wikipedia

Camera : Nikon D3s

  

Lenses : Nikkor 105mm f/2.8G ED-IF AF-S VR

 

(( In My Studio ))

    

© All copyrights for all photos in my photo stream belongs to me

Don't copy, download or use my photos without my permission.

 

© حقوق الطبع والنشر جميعها محفوظه

يمنع حفظ أو استخدام أي من الصور من غير إذن

“...Vos juistes el blando nido

ande mis sueños se criaron ;

el palenque ande se ataron

mis afetos más queridos;

la güerta ande ví floridos

y semiyaos mis anhelos;

el manantial color cielo

que supo acalmar mi sé;

la fogata ande quemé

tuititos mis desconsuelos...”

 

Fragmento de “Totora”, de Serafín J. Garcia

Tacuarembó, Tacuarembó, Uruguay

 

has started.

 

Winters were gray. Thankfully the days are getting longer now and in few weeks sun will start shining bright.

 

Even though English sun gives me headaches but its much better than the gloomy night-like days of winters.

 

Larger

  

E X P L O R E D # 55 ~ 15 Mar 10

  

| Facebook |

I'm starting to see a few odes flying around here. This is another one from the archives, cropped a little tighter to show more detail.

 

Taken this spring at the Genius Preserve in Winter Park, Florida.

 

March 2008

 

Canon Digital Rebel and Canon 75-300.

Honestly I LOVE THIS CITY.

Every detail of it is painted with this special touch. Everything is found a world city needs and you feel the fresh taste of new life everyday!

 

Ha I am getting poetic and this with my bad English. I am sorry :)

 

I think you will understand if you ever live there!

 

Ben

 

| Facebook | Fluidr-Interesting | Flickr Hive Mind | DNA | Blog | Twitter | Tumblr |

Explore Frontpage, Highest Position #6

 

Best viewed in LARGE (Contacts only, sorry).

 

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Any use of my photographs on this website is prohibited without my prior written consent. Contact me via Flickrmail, if you want to buy or use any of the images.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

My Website : Twitter : Facebook : Instagram : Photocrowd

 

Having seen some great shots by some of my Contacts of this Future Systems building at 367 Oxford Street I know there's a lot of potential but every time I've walked past the building is in shade. I liked this one though as the chaotic composition seemed to reflect it's Oxford St context.

 

© D.Godliman

 

P.S. This photo is one of nine included in my 'Through a glass, darkly' set for the #OxfordshireArtweeks 2021 Festival. You can see the others here : www.flickr.com/photos/oxfordphotographers/galleries/72157...

 

The jumping spider is typically found in tropic regions. The tropic regions that they are found in are very different, anywhere from the rain forest to the Himalayas. The jumping spider can be found anywhere in these climates, if its day the spider can be found on the ground, on rocks, in the grass, or on trees. At night or if it is raining, the jumping spider will hide under rocks or a small web.

 

*Taken during the 2nd Anniversary Celebration of Pinoy Macro Group at Matabungkay, Lian, Batangas - February 20-21, 2010.

Thanks to Dr. Alfred Tan and Dr. Roland Perez

 

best viewed LARGE:

www.flickr.com/photos/rundstedt/4412545871/sizes/l/

Day 60 - March 1, 2010

 

Tonight I met up for the first time with long-time Flickr contact Dux and his future best man Mark. It was actually my first Flickr meet up with someone from the Philippines, my third of all time.

 

My first Flickr meet was with Adrian, Amanda and Stephanie back in November of 2009 when I visited Guam. The second this January with Ron when Adrian visited the Philippines.

 

Tonight's photo walk was very brief and more time was spent talking than shooting photos but it was alright, in fact that was all I really wanted to do tonight.

 

The cool thing about tonight is that even from this brief three-hour meet I could already sense that Dux & Mark are going to end up being really good friends, just like Adrian and the Guam gang have become to me. Flickr hasn't got it wrong yet!

 

Who wants to meet up next? And if you could meet up with any Flickr contact who would it be and why (you don't have to say me)?

 

PHOTO NOTES:

This is my first strobist attempt, but don't know if it counts since Dux set it up for me and even told me what the best camera settings would be. Here's the strobist info:

 

1. 430exII on lightstand with shoot through umbrella @1/32power; 50mm

2. Triggered via ctr-301p's

 

EXPLORE #113 - (March 1, 2010)

"Lord Jesus, be the King and Ruler of my heart, mind, life, and home. May my life reflect your meekness and humility that you may be honored as the King of glory!"

 

Larger & Better View On Black

 

King of GLORY Live by Third Day

 

Copyright© 2010 Kamoteus/RonMiguel RN

This image is protected under the United States and International Copyright laws and may not be downloaded, reproduced, copied, transmitted or manipulated without written permission.

After the Thurs-Fri snowstorm. I think the full moon washed out the reflection on the water a little bit. Going to find something else to study now. Last Brooklyn Bridge shot for a while.

 

Single exposure, 18mm, 78s, ISO 200, f/13

 

Huge 2000-pixel-wide version.

Today I have been driving back to my hometown, the places where I have grown up. There comes a time in the year when I can really smell in the air the taste of spring coming up, and this was the day. I went there to take pictures of the sunset (which actually I did some), but on the other side of the horizon, I hesitated in front of an unexpected moonrise. It looked gorgeous, as the air was very clear. That awesome moon, floating on the top of my long-known hills, still lit by the last sunrays, started to pour a river of memories into my mind. I could not stop the superposition of fragments of those memories, just at random… the cans of cheap beer barely hidden and the first cigarettes stolen from our parents, the many dreams about our future lives and what we would have become, the first challenges of love, no worries about tomorrow and the uncertainty about the present time.

Tonight, for a handful of minutes, I felt again the same, just until the sun faded finally behind me.

 

Dedicated to all of those who look in depth at the details

 

PS: By the way, I don't smoke (anymore) but still like beer :) It helps to remember...

  

Oggi sono tornato nella mia città natale, i luoghi dove sono cresciuto. Arriva un momento, durante l’anno, in cui riesco veramente a sentire il profumo della primavera, nell’aria, e oggi era proprio quel giorno. Sono andato a fare fotografie del tramonto (e qualcuna in effetti l’ho scattata), ma dall’altra parte dell’orizzonte ho esitato davanti ad un inatteso sorgere di luna. Era impressionante, per l’aria molto tersa. Quella fantastica Luna, che galleggiava sopra alle mie colline note da sempre e illuminate ancora dagli ultimi barlumi di sole, mi riversava nella mente un fiume di ricordi. Non potevo arginare la caotica sovrapposizione di frammenti di memorie… Le lattine di birra a basso costo a malapena celate e le prime sigarette rubate ai genitori, i molti sogni sulle nostre vite future e su quello che saremmo diventati da grandi, le prime sfide dell’amore, la spensieratezza per il domani e l’incertezza del presente.

Stasera, per una manciata di minuti, ho provato esattamente quelle stesse cose, ancora una volta, fin quando il sole è finalmente tramontato dietro di me.

 

Dedicato a tutti coloro che guardano i dettagli in profondità

 

A proposito, non fumo (più) ma non dico di no ad una birra :) aiuta a ricordare...

Petite Princesse

  

Tu écoutes chanter les vagues

Pour rendre heureuse ton Ame

Pour ne pas que ton esprit divague

Tu penses qu’ un jour tu seras Femme

 

Là-bas ! Tout au loin

Ton Avenir …

De Toi, prends toujours bien soin

Le Soleil se décide à venir

 

Prêt de Toi

Pour réchauffer ton Coeur

Tu as tout le temps, et l’Avenir devant Toi

Je te souhaite que du Bonheur

 

Domi

 

Little Princess

  

You listen to the waves sing

To make your soul happy

To do that your mind wanders

You think that one day you'll Male

 

There! Far away

Your Future ...

You, always take good care

The sun decided to come

 

Ready for You

To warm your heart

You have all the time, and the Future to You

I wish you Happiness

  

Domi

 

♪♫ ♪♫Platters - Smoke Gets In Your Eyes ♪♫ ♪♫

 

Dear Friends and Contacts I will be away AWAY from March 31st for about a week !!

 

Visit my Blog

Martha MGR's Blog

West Dennis Beach, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA, 2009

 

Panorama of two shots made with the old Panasonic FZ50, stitched in Photoshop. Cokin 2-stop GND Filter has been used to capture more dynamic range.

 

Have a great weekend!

Golden Gate Bridge from the Marin Headlands - Marin County, California

 

This morning I had planned on uploading something completely different, but when I saw the foggy conditions over the bay, I decided to head out to the same old spots along the Marin Headlands. As I have said before, I will never get sick of this view. It will never get old to me, and it will never be the same view twice. Sure... Some elements stay the same. The bridge will always be where it is. The places to stand and watch the fog roll in or out will stay the same, but the light, and fog will always change.

 

This morning the fog was a bit unusual. When I arrived up at the first turnout along the headlands, the fog was flowing east to west just underneath the center section of the bridge. The fog started to surround the north tower, which normally starts to clear as the air warms with the rising sun. Within minutes, the south tower started to become engulfed in the misty haze. The odd thing for me to see was the fog building inside the bay rather than rolling in from the Pacific. I know this has happened before, I have just never seen it in person.

 

So this is not exactly what I had planned for the day, but its a special view to me, and always will be.

 

Thanks for the views, comments, nice notes, bad notes, criticism, or whatever else you all can come up with....

  

View my stream on black here

 

Canon 5D MarkII

Lens: EF 70-200 f/4 L

No filters

Exposure: 200

Aperture: f/13.0

Focal Length: 149 mm

ISO Speed: 50

 

caught me off guard.

 

14 Feb 10.

I was strolling down the beach and chanced upon this odd looking tree. At that moment, I knew I found love. It is truly special that I spotted this on Valentine's Day although I don't celebrate it.

 

Explored | February 14, 2010 #14

 

View On Black |

© Copyright Iskandar 2009 | All rights reserved.

Do not use, copy or edit any of my materials without my written permission.

Would appreciate not having large/animated multi invite codes

        

Marin Headlands - Marin County, California

 

Searching, and cleaning the hard drive, I found this one... I made this on the last day of 2009, but forgot it even existed. The color wasn't that great out on this sunrise, so I decided to go minimal.

 

View my stream on black here

  

Canon 5D Mark II

Lens: EF 17-40 f/4L

B+W ND110 (10 stop solid ND)

Lee .9 hard edge GND

Exposure: 541

Aperture: f/13.0

Focal Length: 40 mm

ISO Speed:100

Straight from the camera. Done in collaboration with missmoody. Big thanks to my friend Tom, who made it possible for us to shoot at the movie theatre!

Dear friends, yesterday in the late afternoon my friend Angelo and I went to Vallette, a small suburb of Sant' Ambrogio di Zoagli, Italy, where you may find a great panoramic view of Tigullio Gulf. I hope this shot may enjoy your blue Monday!

 

Digitally developed with Raw Therapee and enhanced with GIMP.

 

Absolutely to View Large On Black for better details, I appreciate the additional time you'll spend for this!

1 2 ••• 12 13 15 17 18 ••• 79 80