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Padova, late afternoon, May 12th, 2010...
Yes, that was a real "inferno" (hell). In a few minutes, this storm will have flooded the whole town (including my area). In some areas, people have seen several inches of hail. I did not report major problems to my house at the end, but in some places the water was above waist line... Seconds after this scary shot (taken in Ponte di Brenta), I started to run back to the car to take cover and there I stood for more than an hour before I could move on... what a storm... !
A video found on the web:
mattinopadova.gelocal.it/multimedia/home/24584913
Padova, tardo pomeriggio 12 maggio 2010....
Sì, un vero Inferno! Fra qualche minuto la tempesta avrebbe colpito ed allagato tutta la città, inclusa la mia zona. In alcuni punti, si sono rilevati diversi centimetri di grandine.
Alla fine non ho subito danni rilevanti a casa, ma in alcune aree l'acqua è arrivata all'altezza della cintura...
Alcuni secondi dopo questo scatto un po' pauroso (da Ponte di Brenta), sono corso alla macchina per trovare riparo e lì sono rimasto per più di un'ora prima di potermi muovere... mamma mia che tempesta...!
Un video dal web:
Montepulciano, Tuscany, Italy.
When I leaned out from that terrace, I was almost sure I could have touched that incredible sky. And, actually, I think I really did it. In that precise moment, I was just one of those runaway clouds.
PS: The so-blue sky and white clouds come from the polarizer !
Montepulciano, Toscana, Italia.
Quando mi sono sporto da quella terrazza, ho avuto la certezza che avrei praticamente potuto toccare quel cielo incredibile. E, in realtà, penso di esserci riuscito. In quel momento esatto, ero solo una di quelle nuvole che correvano via.
PS: Il cielo così blu e le nuvole bianchissime provengono dal polarizzatore
After being completely SKUNKED last time I was at Cape Kiwanda, I had it in me to stay 'til the sunset - despite the forecast.
Last time, it was rainy - windy - stormy - not good for electronics. This time, quite the opposite. Light winds, warm weather (though, by the time this shot was being taken, the evening wind turned into a constant howl, and a bitter cold one at that. Typical Oregon Coast, I guess...), and sunshine that was bright enough to make a native African to squint.
I could rant about how I couldn't find **THE** Keyhole that I've seen many times before, but I think this sunset will just have to do - and I'm not disappointed one bit in it. Best coast sunset I've personally been present for in quite some time. I hope I wasn't the only one to grab it. =]
Happy Monday! (More beach pictures to come!)
Boston from its nicest side. I'm not so often in the financial district, but I should do once a night photowalk there. You will pretty likely see some results here soon.
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Friday, May 14, 2010 - 2:20 PM EST
Note: I still recommend Mission Control on SomaFM for your listening pleasure. Live STS-132 feed mixed with ambient music for the duration of the 12-day flight. So awesome.
Space shuttle Atlantis lifted off successfully from Kennedy Space Center this afternoon. This will likely be its final mission, and what a way to go! Perfect weather, beautiful blue sky, and relatively few snags during countdown. We drove down to Titusville for my first close viewing of a day launch.
Space View Park was packed when we arrived about 3.5 hours before liftoff, and the view from any available spots was obstructed by trees. We found room at the end of the adjacent tidal bay with a straight view to the launch pad. It looked like there was a bit of dry land a few feet down at the base of the wall along Indian River Avenue, and we figured I could walk a bit north to ensure that the covered dock didn't block my view of Launch Pad 39A. That didn't work out so well... and the process of discovering this served as entertainment for the crowd and left me with smelly mucky feet! Fortunately, some generous onlookers allowed me join them them on the wall in the coveted area. I sat next to a man and his son who came all the way from London, England to see Atlantis leave Earth for the last time. At least a hundred spectators waded out onto a sandbar in the water to get a similar view.
Needless to say, the launch was incredible!!! : )
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Amigos, estou com problemas no meu computador, por isso não estou conseguindo fazer as visitas, mas logo devo estar de volta normalmente.
Friends, I am having problems with my computer, so I am not able to make the visits, but soon should be back often.
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Praia de Bombas fica na cidade de Bombinhas SC
É uma praia de águas calmas ótima para os banhistas.
O mar da praia de Bombas é muito limpo, com ondas leves, ótima para banho, surf, mergulho e pesca.
O mergulho é feito no costão direito e a pesca no costão esquerdo.
Uma opção fascinante são as caminhadas pelas trilhas do costão esquerdo, pelo Parque da Galheta até a Ponta de Bombas.
No canto esquerdo tem morro com Mata Atlântica, mar aberto.
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An HDR of Essar Steel in the evening. While I was out riding my bike to get these pictures, I passed a guy who was walking back from the rapids with a big rainbow trout that must have been around 7 pounds, I ask for him to pose and I got a few pictures. Also I saw a male wood duck paired with a female mallard duck which I have never seen before, I also got a few pictures of that.
About the Photo
*Camera: Canon EOS Digital Rebel XS *Lens: EF-S 18-55mm ƒ/3.5-5.6 IS *Shutter Speeds: 2.0, 4.0, 8.0, 15.0, 30.0 Sec. *Aperture Value: ƒ/13 *ISO: 100 *Focal Length: 55.0mm (88mm Equivalent in 35mm Film)
I shot this on a tripod using mirror lockup, a polarizing filter, and a 2 Sec. selftimer. I used the smallest aperture possible that would allow me to reach a 30.0 Sec. (I have no cable release, so I can't use bulb mode) exposure when overexposed by 2 stops, so that I would end up with the largest diffraction stars possible (I just like them). This image is made from 5 different exposures, 1 average exposure, 2 one stop overexposures, and 2 one stop underexposures.
I opened the RAW files in ACR and removed some chromatic aberrations. I then loaded the RAW files into Photomatix Pro and tone mapped them to my liking. Here are the values that I used:
*Method: Details Enhancer *Strength: 100 *Color Saturation: 62 *Luminosity: 0 *White Clip: 1.567950 *Black Clip: 2.470150 *Smoothing: High *Microcontrast: 2 *Microsmoothing: 0 *Gamma: 1.000000 *Highlights Smoothing: 0 *Shadows Smoothing: 0 *Shadows Clipping: 0 *Color Temperature: 0 *Saturation Highlights: 0 *Saturation Shadows: 0
Then I opened the 16 bit TIFF file from Photomatix Pro in ACR and increased the first white balance slider to make the image warmer, since it was around sunset. Then I increased the clarity and vibrance sliders. I then manipulated tone curve to give a higher contrast look. I then slighty increased the saturation and luminance of the reds, oranges, yellow, and greens, and slightly saturated and darkened the blues. I then slightly sharpened the image and opened it in CS4. In CS4 I cloned out some sensor dust and a few distracting elements of the image. I then used the sponge tool to saturate the sky behind the industry. Then I used the distort filter to correct slight barrel distortion. I then cropped the image to bring the focus on the industry. Finaly I saved a 16 bit TIFF file, converted to sRGB colourspace and saved as a JPEG to upload to the internet.
Large: View On Black
EXPLORED!
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Please take your time... and enjoy it large on black
A Bhikkhuni is a fully ordained female Buddhist monastic. Male monastics are called Bhikkhus. Buddhism is unique in that Buddha, as founder of a spiritual tradition, explicitly states in canonical literature that a woman is as capable of nirvana enlightenment as a man, and can fully attain all four stages of enlightenment. Yes, the thing that strikes many visitors to Laos, besides the beauty and solitude of the place, is the incredible number of Buddhist monks walking around. Bhikkhus are dressed in those trademark saffron robes and Bhikkhunis dressed in white, you'll easily spot them walking in pairs, usually with an umbrella in hand to ward off either sunrays or raindrops. In the early morning hours, when they make their daily alms rounds through town, it seems as if a wave of orange is flowing down the streets.
Meditation is for the Bhikkhunis the road to enlightenment. Their lifestyle is shaped so as to support their spiritual practice, to live a simple and meditative life. Photo taken at a temple at village Kieng Than Lei. We had a friendly chat with the local people and monks. This elderly Bhikkhuni reached the age of "cow-sib" which means she's 90 years old. She still helps at the temple. Bhikkhunis are very friendly and approachable. We donated some money to this Buddhist community. Most people donate food to the monks to gain merit and improve their karma. The temples of Laos were once seen as "Universities" for monks. Lao monks are highly respected and revered in Lao communities. Many of the novice monks come from poor villages throughout Laos and live and study.
Een bhikkhuni is een non in het boeddhisme. Het dagelijks leven en veel van de regels voor bhikkhuni's komen sterk overeen met die van bhikkhu's de boeddhistische monniken. Voor bhikkhuni's is er echter een striktere discipline. Een van de redenen hiervoor is dat in de tijd van de Boeddha vrouwen onder bescherming stonden van mannen. De Orde van Bhikkhuni's is daarom ook ondergeschikt aan de Orde van Bhikkhu's, die een begeleidende en overziende rol speelt in de Orde van de Bhikkhuni's. Een groot deel van de Laostiaase bevolking, zo’n 60% is boeddhist. Men hangt het zogenaamde Teravada-boeddhisme. In het Theravada wordt meditatie benadrukt als een essentieel onderdeel van het pad naar verlichting, samen met moreel gedrag en wijsheid. Het brengen van een einde aan het lijden is het hoofddoel van het Theravada boeddhisme. De Boeddha legde verder een zeer gedetailleerde gedragscode voor de Monniken neer: de Vinaya. Over het algemeen worden monniken door de Boeddha aangemoedigd om wereldse aangelegenheden en passies achter zich te laten, zodat zij gemakkelijker in staat zijn een staat van vrede en wijsheid te bereiken, en sterke ongezonde emoties zoals haat, verlangen en lust te overwinnen. De monniken altijd kaalgeschoren met sandalen aan de voeten zijn niet meer weg te denken uit het straatbeeld van Laos. De monniken in oranje gewaden en bhikkhuni's altijd in het wit zoals deze oude non van negentig jaar oud. Ze help nog steeds in de tempel van het Kieng Than Lei dorp vlakbij de Tad Lo waterval.
Amour
Amour, Toi qui nous transportes
Ouvres nous ta porte
Celle du Cœur
Pour que naisse le Bonheur
Amour, n’a pas de frontière
N est jamais froid, comme une pierre
C est toujours Toi, qui décides
Que l’on soit jeunes, ou avec rides
Amour, nous sommes sous ta menace
Quand nos deux corps s’enlacent
Tu nous brûles de désirs
Jusqu’ aux derniers de nos soupirs
Domi
Love
Love, You who transported us
WATTAGE us your door
That of the Heart
To be born Happiness
Love has no borders
N is never cold like a stone
It is always you, who decide
Whether you are young, or with wrinkles
Love, we are under your threat
When our bodies intertwine
You we're burning with desire
Until the last of our sighs
Domi
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9.may 2010 - Mothersday - 1.221 / 150 / 767 / 4 galleries
* mother - the shapes and colors of a role.
Within the belief systems of parenthood, of motherhood, there are dictates of what mothers should be offering to children. ...
www.eliasweb.at/transcripts/t_session.php?session_nr=171
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Have a wonderful day !
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Today, Margreet and I went to Ghent Belgium.
It was a cold and windy day, but we had fun.
We went for coffee and a group of Spanish people came in.
Margreet (Margaretha) is from Spain, so she asked a nice man ;-))
to take a picture of us. And although this is a "snapshot",
I love the way how he captured the incoming light and the outside view!
Texture by:Temari 09: Afternoon Delight Thanks my friend!
1. i know i have two other shots very similar to this one, but i LOVE that damn ferris wheel! and i love ocean sunsets! and i just can't help myself...
2. one of my very favorite Flickr friends has just begun a 365. and today she copycatted a photo of mine! she did a stellar job, too. you must go see it! and then you must start following her stream because she is 137 different shades of awesome. :)
3. Ali, Sarah and i have started a new group called Me Through Your Eyes. and it's going to be The Best Thing Ever. come play!
here's what you do:
You take a self portrait.
You give that self portrait to another flickr photographer.
That other flickr photographer processes your shot in their style.
You post the self portrait on your stream with credit and a link to the other photographer.
I walked into the bedroom right about time to go to sleep to discover all five kittens sleeping in a row. As soon as I got out the camera, the two on the right started wrestling. The other three slept right through the photo session.
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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 :-)
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A little more than a year ago I was upload a single tree on a field. I used the same tones like here to compensate the poor light and overcast sky. I also used a 16:7 format the first time.
Even though the field is a completely different one, there are parallels to that one shot. I was driving to my grandmother's when I passed this hill and those cars on top of them. I don't know what they were up to, cause I couldn't see the other side of the hill. Was it just like a sunday morning hill party or an occult?
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!
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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
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canon 7D
SIGMA 10 - 20 mm 1:4-5.6 DC
F : 11
2 Seconds
10 mm
ISO : 640
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لكم مني كل الحب والتقدير
عبدالرحمن محمد القيسي
لا انسى وجود المتألق : عبدالله التيهاني خلف العدسه
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أجـاوبـكـ هـنـا
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My Dear Friends, another quick post just to say that I am still alive, and still doing photography! I am still very busy at work, hence not having much time for flickr.
I did this shot yesterday, on an isolated beach near the place I live.
As for the title, well I feel like something is about to arrive (land?) just in front of me! ;-)
Mengening Beach - Canggu, Bali
Canon EOS 50D + EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM
EXIF: 0.25 sec • f/13• 13 mm • ISO 100
Exposure Mode + White Balance: Manual
Filters: Hitech 0.6RG + Lee 0.9H
Software: Digital Photo Pro + Adobe Photoshop CS3
Thanks everyone for your visit, comments, critiques, fave,invite..etc. I really appreciate it.
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 ;))
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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
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So I skipped school today and stayed home until 3:30pm. I did a bit of homework, caught up a bit on Flickr, saw Beowulf online (friends were talking about it yesterday) and then I went outside to buy some lunch for tomorrow. I'll be taking a midterm for my calculus class which is going to take almost 4 hours so everybody has to bring their own lunch to eat in between the breaks haha. I played basketball for a bit at the park and then I went home to fix my mom's bike. The chain was popping off, so all I did was tighten it by moving the back wheel further back. It's going to be a long test day tomorrow. :(
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………
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 !!!
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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
Kerala State In INDIA celebrates VISHU ( MALAYALAM NEW YEAR ) tomorrow..
Advance Happy Vishu To All Of You mY Dear Friends and Flickr !!:)
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Switzerland, The Lötschenberg - aTour Unesco World heritage- .
On the way to Kandersteg from Goppenstein , you can walk on the glacier of Lötschberg (2690 m,Lötschepass)
(safetly...! But be careful for you and for the nature !
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Please dont use my image without my permission !
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.
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Photographer Joi on the edge of the crater of the erupting volcano in Fimmvörðuháls/Eyjafjallajökull. Iceland april 2010. While observing this photo I was amazed how relaxed he ectually is standing there wile the volcano spreads the melting lava around the area. I guess the lava is about 1000-1200°C at this point.
Several newspapers and magazines around the world published this shot.
Fine art print available, ordered by an email skarpi@skarpi.is
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Cerastes are small snakes, averaging less than 50 cm in length, but are relatively stout in appearance. The head is broad, flat and distinct from the neck. The head is covered with tubercularly keeled scales, which usually number 15 or more across, and a supraorbital horn may be present over each eye in some species. The snout is short and wide and the eyes, which are set well forward, are small to moderate in size. The body is short, stout and cylindrically depressed. The tail is short and tapers abruptly behind the vent.
From en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerastes_(genus)
This snake is called in Libya the snakes of horns and it's very venom according to our guide because it's bites him before :).