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Greetings Stumblers! Ahalanui, on the Puna coast of the Big Island of Hawaii is home to an incredible volcanically heated hot pool with water that is nearly body temperature. It also has some excellent coastal scenery and large breaking waves. Sunrise is the best time to see the drama at its best! No HDR.
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Canon 5D Mark II
Canon 17-40L @25
1/6-second exposure @F10
LEE soft ND grad (100x150mm - 4x6in) 0.9 + 0.9
Lee foundation kit filter holder with Lee 77mm adapter ring
No polarizer.
ISO 100
RAW file processed with Capture One by Phase One
TIFF file processed with Photoshop
Small Slik Sprint mini II tripod
Manfrotto 322RC2 pistol-grip ball head
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It seemed like it would be an easy sunrise to shoot. Merely go around the hot pool, over the top of the rock wall blocking the ocean, and around to the cliffs and lava pools. However, the rocks are extremely slippery and you don't expect that when all of the lava is just a few decades old at most and very sharp. So, you walk along experiencing a reliable grippy surface and suddenly it is as slippery as ice! So if you go here, especially in the dark before sunrise, be careful!
The problem gets worse because I wanted to get close to the little reflecting pools in the foreground, but it was difficult to even move, let alone run from these unobstructed waves which pound this spot every 20 seconds or so.
The weather was warm and about as perfect as it can get, and this can lull you into a false sense of security. I mean, how can there be danger in such a paradise? Well, with no coral reef in front of many Hawaian beaches, it seems like every 4th wave is a sleeper wave, so be careful photographing any non-reef beach. Seriously!
Anyway, even if you do not make it to the beach during the day (the hot-pool lifeguard has a bullhorn to keep people away from the waves), definitely visit this hot pool. It has an opening for the 78 degree (28c) ocean water to mix with the 94 degree (34c) hot pool water. Suddenly, the oean water feels as cold as California! The breeze off the ocean is cool enough so that you can relax in the hot water without getting too hot. It is perfect!
Check it out.
www.hawaiiweb.com/hawaii/html/beaches/ahalanui_park.html
The map shows the exact location.
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Google Earth
Simply the best way to scout out locations that there is. You can see sun angles and pre-visualize light under lots of different conditions. Sometimes you can actually pre-compose your shots! This has saved me many thousands of vertical feet of climbing by avoiding spots with blocked views etc.
Satellite imagery (choose 'National' for a local US region or use your fave website)
www.wrh.noaa.gov/satellite/?wfo=mtr
Tide charting and preditions: (chose your area in US, other countries have similar websites)
tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/tide_predictions.shtml?gid=235
Wave Heights (I choose 'North Pacific from Global')
polar.ncep.noaa.gov/waves/main_int.html
Or Here:
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Photos of every inch of the California coastline from a small plane. Excellent for close in detailed views.
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1st place winner in My Winners group "Yellow" contest ~ Nov 2010
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Honololu, Hawaii
Waikiki Beach
Nikon D700 + Nikkor AF-S VR 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6G
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*Las grandes señales en nuestras vidas*
Me encontré con este faro y el barco que se aproximava a él,
y en este momento vi la gran conexión que habia entre ellos,
como en nuestras vidas, donde uno alumbra el camino del
otro, para que en buen puerto lleguen . . .
# Para esta toma:
Canon EOS 400D Digital + Sigma 10 ÷ 20 mm EX DC
# Obturación: 1/125 seg. ~ Diafragmado: f/4 ~ 100 ISO ~ WB: Manual.
# Filtro polarizador.
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Aqui mi paso del analogico al formato digital:
This Audi was at the parking place of Grand Hotel Huis Ter Duin. It's a beautiful car. What do you think of the editing?
I made this picture last summer but at that time I adapted this picture too much. Now I made a better version of it without the gates and poles. I hope you like it!
Seen in Explore 08/08/2010
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Cette photo n est ni un montage ni du HDR
Please don't use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission.
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Suddenly before my eyes
Hues of indigo arise
With them how my spirit sighs
Paint the sky with stars
Only night will ever know
Why the heavens never show
All the dreams there are to know
Paint the sky with stars
~ Enya
Southern Pocatello rises towards the Milky Way.
Astronomy.net solver results:
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وآللـه إنـي من غـلآتـك , آحسبني بـ قلبيـن
قـلــبٍ يحـبــك بس , وآلثـآنـي لــ غـلآتــك
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Rodas es la ciudad principal de la isla griega de Rodas, en el sudeste del mar Egeo, y la capital de la prefectura del Dodecaneso. Rodas ha sido famosa desde la antigüedad por ser la sede del Coloso,una de las Siete Maravillas del Mundo Antiguo.
Su posición la convierte en un cruce de caminos entre Europa, Oriente Medio y África. Esta localización ha supuesto que a lo largo de la historia hayan pasado por la isla diferentes culturas, arquitecturas, lenguas, etc., lo que ha dejado una gran riqueza cultural en la isla. Se cree que está habitada desde el período neolítico.
En el centro de la Ciudad actual de Rodas está el núcleo antiguo, dedicado en su totalidad al turismo junto al puerto de Mandraki. Lo forma la ciudad medieval, con sus calles empedradas, las fortalezas y edificios antiguos reformados, y alguna mezquita. Cabe mencionar las murallas y fortalezas, el Palacio de los Grandes Maestres de la Orden,el Hospital (hoy Museo Arqueológico)... La ciudad vieja está llena de tiendas donde trabajan seis mil personas y se venden toda clase de recuerdos, con el centro comercial en la calle de Sokratos.
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"... - Sí, Capitán, llegaré ! -
dijo el chasqui Justo Ayala.
- Solamente que una bala
me baje del pangaré.
La nota la retobé
en un basto del recao
y aunque caiga acribillao,
envuelto entre polvo y pasto,
naides sabra que en los bastos
llevo un secreto sagrao ..."
Fragmento de "El chasqui argentino", de Martín Castro
Fuente: gauchoguacho.blogspot.com/
Jinete Gaston Trujillo, de Paysandu
Semana Criolla del Prado 2010
Montevideo, Montevideo, Uruguay
Todos los miembros del género se conocen como "Hierbas de San Juan" o "Hipéricos"; algunas especies que se usan como plantas ornamentales tienen flores grandes y vistosas.
Hypericum es un género de unas 400 especies de plantas de la familia Clusiaceae, anteriormente se encontraban encuadradas en su propia familia Hypericaceae. Este género presenta una distribución casi mundial, faltando solamente en las tierras bajas tropicales, en los desiertos y en las regiones árticas.
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wow that is some ICE BLUEEE! i love that color [: even though it was 105 degrees today i managed to get an cold colored picture :D
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Here's another image from yoga shoot with Natalia Rudovsky, an amazing yoga teacher at Yogalife Seattle.
This is CPII with his EYE keenly focused on his buddy, the squirrel, that lives in an Oak Tree in our back yard.
I had just returned from taking a shot or two of a rose and caught his intensity with a 100mm Macro lens. Not my lens of choice but I fired away because of the opportunity to capture this pose. I thought it turned out pretty cool and decided to share..
Needs to be viewed LARGE or ORIGINAL to see the focus of his eye. The image starts to blur out quickly because the lens was stopped up to f/2.8 at the time. thanks....
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Another shot from my series of Munich's Metro stations. I guess it's the best known station amongst photographers - Westfriedhof.
Once again, hand held shot, two exposures - one for the lamps and one for the rest, blended in Photoshop.
In color-processing i concentrated on the light - to enhance the contrast between the cold blue on the walls and the warm yellow on the floor.
© Billy Wilson 2010
A long exposure of a moving ferris wheel.
I just started using Google+ and its a great place to show your work and find great photographers, here's an invite.
About the Photo
*Camera: Canon EOS Digital Rebel XS *Lens: EF-S 18-55mm ƒ/3.5-5.6 IS *Shutter Speed: 20.0 Sec. *Aperture Value: ƒ/22.0 *ISO: 100 *Focal Length: 18mm (28.8mm Equivalent in 35mm Film)
I shot this on a tripod, using a polarizing filter to make the sky a darker blue to contrast the bright lights, and a 2 Sec. selftimer. I like the diffraction stars created by the small aperture that I used.
I opened the RAW file in ACR and used a new preset I made to give an image a slight HDR feel by increasing the contrast and recovering the highlights and adding detail to the shadows. Pretty well it increases the fill light and recovery sliders, then compensates for lack of contrast by increasing the blacks. The detail is added by the clarity slider and the tone curve is manipulated to tune the global contrast of the image. Since I agressively increased the contrast of the image I decreased the saturation and increased the vibrance to compensate and tweaked each colour's hue to make them look the way I wanted.
I opened the RAW file in CS4 and blended it using luminousity blending mode with another layer that didn't have the ACR adjustments that I had done, I lowered the layer's opacity to control the HDR-like effects to the image and removed some of the annoying halos around the shadow areas. I used the patch tool to remove a large pole to the left of the frame and finished it off with the cloning tool. I cropped the bottom of the frame slightly to remove a boring portion of the image. At the end I saved a 16 bit TIFF file, converted to sRGB colourspace and saved as a JPEG to upload to the internet.
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One of our tours in northern Spain along the Atlantic coast brought us to the fishing village Bermeo, which still preserved the atmosphere of a typical fishing port.
As I discovered the ropes with the boats in the background, they encouraged me to play with the depth of field. You can see the second picture in my comment.
If you like please tell me .... which one do you like more?
Bermeo is a town and municipality located in the province of Biscay, in the autonomous community of the Basque Country, which lies in Northern Spain. Bermeo has 17,049 inhabitants, and it is the most important fishing port of the Basque Country.
Bermeo is linked by EuskoTren to Bilbao. Bermeo - en.wikipedia
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Eine unserer Touren in Nordspanien entlang der Atlantikküste brachte uns nach Bermeo einem Fischerort, in dessen Hafen die typische Fischereiatmosphäre noch erhalten ist.
Der Anblick der Taue mit den dahinter liegenden Booten reizte mich zum Spiel mit der Tiefenschärfe. Das zweite Foto seht ihr in meinem Kommentar.
Wenn Ihr mögt, verratet mir welches Foto euch besser gefällt ....
Bermeo ist eine Stadt mit 16.932 Einwohnern (2005) im spanischen Baskenland.
Sie liegt direkt an der Atlantikküste, etwa 25 km nordöstlich von Bilbao, in der nordspanischen Provinz Bizkaia.
Der Küstenort verfügt über einen wichtigen Fischereihafen. Durch eine Eisenbahnlinie ist Bermeo mit Bilbao verbunden.Wikipedia
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台北之夜 [ 攝於台北市碧山巖 - Bishan Temple, Taipei City, Taiwan ]
Canon EOS 5D + SIGMA 70-300mm F4-5.6 APO DG MACRO │ View On Black
No.4800203939
July 16, 2010
Photo by Yueh-Hua © All rights reserved
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I took this shot during the channel boat parade that the city of Amsterdam organized for the Dutch (orange) soccer team for reaching the second place at the Fifa World Cup 2010. It was an amazing party and I had a lot of fun. This shot was taken just before the boat with the players arrived and as you can see the people where ready for them. Oranje boven!!!!! (Translated: Orange above all)
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Camera: Canon EOS 5D MarkII
Exposure: sec 1/500
Aperture: f/ 5.6
Focal Length: 400 mm
ISO Speed: 400
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Does the bee care what happens
After it had its fill of the flower…...
Am I the wasted flower and
you the bee….
Be careful,dear
Love is a double edged sword,
It can pierce with love
or it can enter with hate.
You heard the words often
“Hell hath no fury like a women scorned’
hear the words now…
“Revenge has no face like the women deceived”
Think well Dear, Think twice
it is your life in the making…
Lest you have to look over
your shoulder again and once more.
Title credit to Sir Issac Assimov
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5DmkII + EF 70-200mm f/4L USM
30 sec - f/13 - iso50 - 70mm
What:
A very full Finch feeder with a couple on the "waiting line" :-)
About:
My buddy has always had quite a few birds at his place about 1/2 hour outside the city in Beaverbank (don't laugh) but after he installed this funky new feeder they just come in droves!
I've only ever had one pair at my place!! sheesh...
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Canon 7D : EF-S18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS : 1/250s @ f/8 ISO 200
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The name of Canada has been in use since the earliest European settlement in Canada, with the name originating from a First Nations word kanata (or canada) for "settlement", "village", or "land". (Wikipedia) Most still-spoken Iroquoian languages have a similar word (e.g. Mohawk kana:ta "town"). (Online Etymology Dictionary)
"Canadian Heritage ~ Origin of the Name - Canada"
(Canada Day is celebrated on 01 July)
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Bjarnarflag Geothermal Power Plant just at midnight. We were going out the Myvatn Natural Baths, and we saw the light of the Midnight Sun.
It was the only time I forgot the camera at our place, so I had to drive all the way to Skutustadir and then, come back.
The Power Plant is such a strange place, with chimneys and steam vents everywhere. The ground is burning. The light at midnight made this place much more surreal, like a base on Mars...so I decided to shoot at a very long exposure speed, like 6 minutes. The steam and reflections of the sky in the small Blue Lagoon lake made it.
Bjarnarflag, Myvatn area, Iceland.
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Bjarnarflag, que es una Planta de Energía Geotérmica, a medianoche. Salíamos de los Baños Naturales del Myvatn, cuando vimos la luz del Sol de medianoche.
Fue la única vez que me olvidé la cámara en la granja donde dormíamos, así que tuve que conducir todo el camino a Skutustadir y, a después, volver al mismo lugar.
La Central es un lugar extraño, con chimeneas y fumarolas de vapor en todas partes. El suelo quema. La luz a medianoche hacen de este lugar algo mucho más surrealista, como una base en Marte ... así que decidí disparar con un tiempo de exposición muy largo, como 6 minutos. El vapor y los reflejos del cielo en el pequeño Blue Lagoon del Myvatn hicieron el resto.
Bjarnarflag, zona del lago Myvatn, Islandia.
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So I brought my red cafe chair to the beach recently as a prop for my friends to use (as well as myself as you can see). We are all Flickr addicts so it was very natural. What ensued can only be described as hilarious with me nearly wetting my pants trying to stay on that chair as the waves rolled in...the chair kept sinking in the sand as well. I have always wanted to learn to surf so here is my ode to surfing. It is probably as close as I will ever get. HBM! HOBM!
Selected among the 40 finalists of the i.Phoneography International Photo Contest.
fotogriPhone: PIC OF THE DAY award
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Lake Powell is a reservoir on the Colorado River, straddling the border between Utah and Arizona. It is the second largest man-made reservoir in the United States behind Lake Mead, storing 24,322,000 acre feet (30 km³) of water when full. Lake Powell was created by the flooding of Glen Canyon by the controversial Glen Canyon Dam.
We spent the night in this beautiful, isolated virgin Island called North Cay. The Experience was grand!
So this was taken in Engalnd. :) And that is my nephew Alex,, he is 14 and now looking to buy a camera haha.
The camera he is holding is a new film camera my grandad gave to me, it's a nikon f65:D:D, so expect some film pictures in the next few weeks :D.
He also gave me 2 lenses, :D :D:D so i'm pretty chuffed :D
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A snapping turtle enjoying the spring sunshine along the Blackstone River Bike Path in Cumberland, Rhode Island.
I never thought that Spain loses against Switzerland. I was shocked yesterday! But heartfelt congratulations to Switzerland! :)
Results of the Game 16.06.2010
Spain 0:1 Switzerland
on the Fifa World Cup 2010 in South Africa
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Sapphire sleeping with her Momma, Phoebe.
This photo was taken with natural sunlight on a overcast day filtered through a Northern facing window.
04Sept10 - Sapphire has been adopted to a very loving home in the North part of the County.
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Have you guys seen GATTACA? it's a fairly old movie starring Ethane Hawke, Uma Thurman and Jude Law... I just remembered it suddenly and incorporated it's theme to this photo. No one and nothing can ever exceed the power, determination and strength of the human spirit.
So, Never give up. Never!!!!!!!! LOL
The models are my best buddies, Owen and Adrian helping each other while going down a steep, rocky hill in Palawan, Philippines :)
Have a Blessed Day!
Hello again everyone. This is a sunset shot from Buffalo Point on Antelope Island on the eastern side of the Great Salt Lake in Utah. This was a shot that came at a very heavy price! Numerous Biting Gnats and mosquitoes were hungrily attacking me as I shot this series of photos! They did not only have me to dine upon, but my nephew and my nieces!
Behind us was a great thunderstorm show, and I kept rotating my camera around to try and catch the lightning! Dang it! Every time I moved it or repositioned my camera, a lightning bolt would strike! Oh well not in the cards for this time.
Tomorrow starts my 5 day photo tour of the Palouse region in eastern Washington. I am extremely excited about that. I have just spent the last day and a half in Glacier National Park. Hopefully I can get a shot or two posted later this week in between all of the awesome crop shots I am about to get.
This is a combination of three exposures (+2, 0, -2) merged and tonemapped in Photomatix. I then used Topaz Adjust to help bring some pop to the exposure and final adjustments in Lightroom 2.
I hope everyone is great and I will be able to catch up on your photo streams later in the week. Thank you for the visits, the comments and faves. Have a great Sunday!
"Lord Jesus, in love you have called me to live for your praise and glory. May I always find joy in your presence and trust in your wise and loving plan for my life."
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Cuatro Torres Business Area (CTBA) (Spanish for Four Towers Business Area) is a business park located in the Paseo de la Castellana in Madrid (Spain), on the former Ciudad Deportiva of Real Madrid.
The area contains the tallest skyscrapers in Madrid and Spain (Torre Espacio, Torre de Cristal, Torre Sacyr Vallehermoso and Torre Caja Madrid). The construction of the buildings finished in 2008.
The complex was formerly known as Madrid Arena
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A city is a relatively large and permanent settlement.[1][2] Although there is no agreement on how a city is distinguished from a town within general English language meanings, many cities have a particular administrative, legal, or historical status based on local law.
For example, an article of incorporation approved by the local state legislature distinguishes a city government from a town in Massachusetts. In the United Kingdom and parts of the Commonwealth of Nations, a city is traditionally a settlement with a royal charter.[1] Historically, in Europe, a city was understood to be an urban settlement with a cathedral.
Cities generally have advanced systems for sanitation, utilities, land usage, housing, and transportation. The concentration of development greatly facilitates interaction between people and businesses, benefiting both parties in the process. A big city or metropolis usually has associated suburbs and exurbs. Such cities are usually associated with metropolitan areas and urban areas, creating numerous business commuters traveling to urban centers of employment. Once a city expands far enough to reach another city, this region can be deemed a conurbation or megalopolis.
Madrid CTBA Glass & Water