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Here is my parents dog, Marley. She is soooooo spoiled she stinks! :o)
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But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day.
~ Indian Proverb
This is a long overdue dedication, I've gotten so much appreciation & compliments for my bokeh shots & I would like to dedicate this shot to the person who inspired me to get into bokehs and hopefully this will answer your question as well; that, "How I got into this bokeh thingy?" Well this ones for v1nz, look what youv'e done to me! =P... Thanks for the addiction! =)
Happy Gorgeous Green Thursday & HBWH ;)
P.S: Ya ya ya! I know I've been posting too many water drops lately... what can I do! I love em =)
Explore #120, Thanks everyone! *hugs*
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Format: Silver gelatin photograph
Notes: In a series of routine wedding photographs, a freak gust of wind floating the dress is captured by the photographer
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Here is a vertorama I constructed from shots taken when myself and Flickr friend Daniel Cheong did an outing to Porkkala last Friday.
“...Sabe quien tenga memoria
que ha quedado en el camino,
más de un jinete argentino
por una porción de gloria...
Homenajear su memoria
es gaucho deber creciente,
su hazaña es siempre vigente
símbolo de argentinidad,
pués cambió su integridad
por aplausos de la gente...”
Fragmento de “Romance del montador”, de Abel Wenceslao Ayastuy
Montevideo, Montevideo, Uruguay
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Explore #259, Oct 16, 2008 - Thank you my flickr friends :) !!!
Sunset behind my house 11.10.2008 - 7:07 p.m.
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The sun rises over La Jolla California, only it wasn't the sun that caught my eye! No HDR....
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1/6-second @F22 with LEE soft ND grad 0.75
Cokin z-pro filter holder
Canon 5D
Canon 17-40L @ 17
ISO 100
RAW file processed with Capture One by Phase One
TIFF file processed with Photoshop
So, I was shooting the sunrise out at the point on the far left of this frame, pointing to the right over the ocean when I looked up and saw this amazing formation in the strato-cumulus cloud deck. I looked around for some rock formations that lined up with the clouds but saw nothing out there. So, I ran almost a mile down the beach over terrain like you see in the foreground until I finally saw what I wanted.
Fortunately the cloud formation stayed in place long enough for me to capture it here!
Then I waited for a wave to complement the scene and provide definition to the sandstone formation on the right side of the frame. I have never seen anything like
this before or after, so I was quite fortunate!
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Taken in the countryside just outside the city of Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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The State Railways of Thailand are easily the best way to get around and see the country. Train travel in Thailand is comfortable, safe, cheap, environmentally friendly. It's a genuine Thai experience that makes the journeys as much part of your trip as the destinations... In fact, Thailand has one of the best metre-gauge rail systems in the world. Taking the train is the best way to travel between Bangkok & Nong Khai. Hop on the Bangkok-Nong Khai train, as Vientiane is just across the river.
We took the overnight train to the Friendship Bridge border crossing to the capital Vientiane of Laos. This photo was taken from the last railway carriage.
Het reizen per trein in Thailand is vooral voor langere trajecten zeer comfortabel. De slaapwagons zijn schoon en voorzien van airco. Sinds een paar weken is de nieuwe spoorwegverbinding tussen Thailand en Laos gereed. De trein rijdt via de Vriendschap Brug over de Mekhongrivier Laos binnen. De trein vertrekt om ca. 18.10 vanuit Bangkok uur en komt aan om ca. 05.45 uur.
HAPPY HALLOWEEN
Explore #288, Oct 9, 2008 - Thank you my flickr friends !!!
"Every day when you do not smile, is a lost day." (Charlie Chaplin) - Seen on a pumpkin day in the park in Ludwigsburg near Stuttgart, Germany.
„Jeder Tag, an dem du nicht lächelst, ist ein verlorener Tag." (Charlie Chaplin) - Dieser lustige Kürbis gefiel mir .... gesehen beim Kürbisfest in Ludwigsburg bei Stuttgart.
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grazie di cuore a tutti! vi regalo una mia foto mentre mi hanno immortalata all'opera!
Su EXPLORE.. 2 ott 2008, n°252..
non capisco perchè vanno su explore le foto che non ho fatto io!!!:-)
beh grazie gagi!
I have seen this beautiful art of a maple leaf created by nature on my way home from work. I love the sky reflections in the water.
Diese Herbstkunst in der Pfütze mit dem Blatt des Ahorn geschaffen von der Natur sah ich heute auf dem Weg von der Arbeit nach Hause. Mir gefiel die Spiegelung des Himmel im Wasser.
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From left to right... Mojo, Wookie and Yoda.
On Saturday, I dragged out my studio lights, the posing platform, and background drapes. It's been months since I set up my studio gear. I used a very basic lighting setup on this shot. (Simple always seems to work best with animals!) One stobe was pointing at the backdrop, set to 100% power. The other light was bounced out of a white umbrella onto the pugs at 80%. I always have fun playing with the lights and seeing what different setups create.
Lorenzo Favaro:
artista, giocoliere, attore, mangiafuoco e altro ancora
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Fotocamera: Nikon D700
Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8G ED-IF AF-S VR
massima focale
Esposizione: 1/2500 sec
Aperture: f/5
ISO: 200
Balloon Festival
Ferrara settembre 2008
La Città Magica - Rione Santo Spirito
After seeing Luke/PhotoInference's many experiments with different colored gels, I settled on green for my attempts at light painting the wreck - I liked the underwater feel the green light gave the shipwreck. Dive in and drift along with the shipwreck.
NOTE: See a new 2014 reprocessing of this image here.
The sky and stars are from just one of three exposures that were combined using masks and layer modes to produce this image. N06966 Sky: 44sec ISO 1600 f2.8 WB set to 3250 in LR; N06967&70 Light painted shipwreck: 118sec sec ISO 1600 f2.8 WB 2950/tungsten; SB24 with green colored gel.
Highest Position - Explore #92 | Sept. 12, 2008 - Thank you all so very much! :^)
Happy Bokeh Wednesday!!
I must be going wacky or something. I looked at these dandelions and saw two things; fingers making a peace sign and a face, well at least the eyes! :-)
Yep, I am going wacky I think! I have to stop uploading these photos so late at night!
This picture is featured in an article on photo-friendly cities in the May, 2009 Popular Photography magazine and on popphoto.com!
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(photo not there as of Feb 2010)
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The sun rises between the fog and high clouds. It is rare to see both at the same time! No HDR.
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2.5-second exposure @F22 with 2 LEE soft ND grad 0.9's
Lee filter holder
Canon 5D
Canon 17-40L @ 21
Gorillapod tripod to deal with the uneven rocks.
RAW file processed with Capture One by Phase One
TIFF file processed with Photoshop
The thick fog surrounding the Golden Gate Bridge alternated from being a thick soup to a emerging as a golden veil as it swirled around on this morning. Fog often can produce some excellent atmospheric effects, though it does not always cooperate. Three foghorns echoed against the hills as ships passed by.
The fog allowed parts of the bridge to be hidden so others could be emphasized. It is usually necessary to wait quite a long while in order for the most interesting parts to be visible, as if a painter were composing the image. The wait often pays off but even if it doesn’t, this is a great place to be.
I pay close attention to the local weather conditions at the Golden Gate before I go here, but it is rare that I see conditions align themselves in a way that can produce a really good photograph.
Koh Kood is a part of Koh Chang National Park, it has a more peaceful and pristine atmosphere than any other Island in Thailand. The sandy beaches are great. You can relax beneath the palm trees enjoy a fresh coconut, a good book and bathe in the crystal-clear water. Our resort is located at the beginning of this crescent shaped half moon bay - the Bang Boa Bay.
We stayed at Koh Kood resort. After the rain of last evening the sky cleared this morning. It's such beautiful morning when I woke up I immediately run into the warm sea water. The greatest bath tub of the world.
Koh Kood is een deel van het nationaal park Koh Chang. Een eiland weg van de massa waar je kunt toeven op het witte strand met wuivende palmbomen. Je kunt onder de palmbomen genieten van een verse kokosnoot, een goed boek lezen of ontspannen baden in het warme schone zeewater. Onze bungalow bevindt zich in het begin van deze baai - de Bang Boa Bay.
L'addio… che tra vento e sabbia mi lasciò memorie ridondandi tra la mente e il cuore. Ne ricordo l'essenza, e l'incapacità di tener dritto il capo vedendola andar via.
(...perche' non sia distante piu' del mio pensiero il tuo respiro.)
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Video di presentazione della mostra "percorsi di luce" di Claudio Parente - 2009
Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.
My first rainbow shot.. and there are two rainbows in this photo if you could notice.. a thick obvious one, and a lighter one above it ;)
Non sempre acutanza e colore fanno la foto, alla fine una foto piena di disturbi si riscatta in monocromia tonale.
Mi era venuta voglia di togliere i lampioni ma non mi sento un falsario !
I am back from Maui with lots of good photos to share. No HDR
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1.6-second exposure @F16 with ND grads 0.9 + 0.75 (I used a longish exposure to show the unusual flowing movement.) This length of exposure often results in cottony and messy looking water, so you have to make sure that all the water is flowing smoothly in order to obtain good results.
Canon 5D
Canon 17-40L @ 19
ND grad 0.9 + 0.75 angled at 8am-2pm
Sky slightly desaturated to retain detail
This red sand beach is just outside of Hana and is rather difficult to get to at high tide, especially in the dark before sunrise. The old path was
washed away by a landslide and the waves at high tide make it difficult to run across the beaches between waves. But high tide is needed for the
waves to wash over the rocks you see here. I moved around until I positioned the sun in the corner to act as a spotlight on the rest of the scene.
The rocks really are that red and the red sand to the left is even redder. I will add that image later.
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A typical french castle - wonderful to visit but they say nothing about taking pictures until you are inside the castle, and you guess it: no photos, please!
HDR from 3 exposures - f/10 - 1/160 - ISO 100 - 10mm
Nikon D80 with Sigma 10-20
explore interestingness #3
On Gijón/Xixón's Seafront the Águila (Eagle) squadron of Spanish Army realizes an exhibition before the attentive look of hundreds of thousands of spectators.
Nel Muru de Xixón, la patrulla Águila de l'Armada Española fai una exhibición ente la mirada de milenta espectadores.
En el Paseo del Muro de Gijón/Xixón la patrulla Águila de las Fuerzas Armadas españolas realiza una exhibición ante la atenta mirada de centenares de miles de espactadores.
Who loves to sing arias? The State Opera in Stuttgart was built between 1909 - 1912 (architect Max Littmann) and belongs to the State Theatre. It is beautifully situated near the Eckensee in the castle garden. I love this building and the architecture. - This photo was taken 2006 with my Minolta SLR Camera.
Das Württembergische Staatstheater - Opernhaus in Stuttgart wurde erbaut von 1909 bis 1912 (Architekt Max Littmann).Es liegt wunderschön im Schlosspark beim Eckensee. Mir gefällt das Gebäude und die Architektur sehr gut. - Aufgenommen 2006 mit meiner damaligen Minolta Spiegelreflex. Württembergisches Staatstheater Stuttgart
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“...En los últimos años, en la Provincia de Buenos Aires, ha dado en usarse por domadores, reseros y nativistas, un cinto ancho de cuero fuerte, totalmente cubierto de monedas o, aún, de una especie de malla de escamas, plateadas y aún doradas, al que se llama ‘escamoso’...”
Fragmento de “El gaucho”, de Fernando O. Assunção
Montevideo, Montevideo, Uruguay
Explored #1
دریاچه ارومیه
دریاچه ارومیه در شمال غربی ایران قرار دارد و در میان دو استان آذربایجان شرقی و آذربایجان غربی بخش شده است. دریاچه ارومیه بزرگترین دریاچه درونْ سرزمینی ایران و دومین دریاچه آب شور دنیا است . آب این دریاچه بسیار شور بوده و عمدتآ از رودخانههای زرینهرود، سیمینهرود، گدار، باراندوز، شهرچای، نازلو و زولا تغذیه میشود.
حوضه آبریز دریاچه ارومیه ۵۱۸۷۶ کیلومتر مربع است که پیرامون ۳٪ مساحت کل کشور ایران را دربر میگیرد.این حوضه با داشتن دشتهایی مانند دشت پیرانشهر سلماس، ارومیه، تبریز، آذرشهر، مراغه، میاندوآب، مهاباد، نقده و اشنویه یکی از کانونهای ارزشمند فعالیت کشاورزی و دامداری در ایران بشمار میرود.
دریاچه ارومیه بزرگترین آبگیر دائمی آسیای غربی است که در غرب پشته (فلات) ایران قرار گرفته. پارک ملی دریاچه ارومیه پس از مرداب انزلی از جالبترین و نغزترین زیستگاههای طبیعی جانوران در ایران بشمار میرود. این دریاچه در حال حاضر ۲۷ گونه پستاندار ،۲۱۲ گونه پرنده ،۴۱ گونه خزنده ،۷ گونه دوزیست و ۲۶ گونه ماهی حیات وحش این دریچه را تشکیل داده است.
دریاچه ارومیه دارای ۱۰۲ جزیره است که همه آنها از سوی سازمان یونسکو به عنوان اندوخته طبیعی جهان به ثبت رسیده است. جزیره اِشک زیستگاه پرندگان زیبای کوچگر از جمله مرغ آتش و تنجه و نیز گوزن زرد ایرانی است. گِل کرانه دریاچه خاصیت درمان برای دردهای بندگاهی (مَفصلی) و بیماریهای زنان را دارد. برای گشت و گذار در دریاچه و جزیرههای آن میتوان از دو کشتی سهند و نوح یا قایقهای گوناگون در بندر گلمانخانه بهره گرفت.
تاریخ
نام کهن این دریاچه چیچَست بوده است. این واژه واژه ایست از اوستایی و پارسی باستان و تلفظ آن چَئِچَستَ بوده است. دریاچه چیچست در اسطورههای ایرانی نقشی بنیادین دارد. عرصه بسیاری از رویدادهای مهم زندگی کیخسرو، کرانه این دریاچه بوده است. دژ بهمن که کیخسرو در نبردی غول آسا و سهمگین آن را میگشاید و از چنگ دیوان بدر میآورد در نزدیکی همین دریاچه بوده و بسیاری اسطورههای دیگر. نام ارومیه نامیست که آشوریان به آن داده اند. اور در زبان آشوری به معنای شهر است (همان واژهای که در نام اورشلیم (شهر آشتی) هم وجود دارد) و میه به معنای آب است (همریشه با مآء عربی). پس اورمیه یا ارومیه بمعنی شهر آب است.
در دوران پهلوی به مناسبت پادشاهی رضاشاه پهلوی، به این دریاچه نام رضائیه داده شد.
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Lake Urmia
Lake Urmia (Azerbaijani: ارومیه گولو , ارومیه گولی, Persian: دریاچه ارومیه ), Daryacheh-ye Orumieh, ancient name: Lake Matiene) is a salt lake in northwestern Iran near Turkey. The lake is between the provinces of East Azarbaijan and West Azarbaijan, west of the southern portion of the similarly shaped Caspian Sea. It is the largest lake inside Iran, and the second salt water lake on earth, with a surface area of approximately 5,200 km² (2,000 mile²). At its maximum extent, it is about 140 km (87 miles) long, and 55 km (34 miles) wide. Its deepest point is approximately 16 m (52 ft) deep.
History
The lake is named after the provincial capital city of Urmia, originally a Syriac name meaning city of water. It was called Lake Rezaiyeh (Persian: دریاچه رضائیه) in the early 1930s after Reza Shah Pahlavi, but the lake was renamed 'Urmia' in the late 1970s. Its ancient Persian name was Chichast (meaning, "glittering"--a reference to its glittering mineral particles suspended in the lake water and its shores). In the medieval times it came to be known as Lake Kabuda, or "azure," in Persian, (Gabod in Armenian).
Lake Matianus (Latin: Lacus Matianus) is an old name for Lake Urmia. It was known as the Lower Nairi Sea (Lake Van was the Upper Nairi Sea) during the Nairi-Urartu period and as the Lower Armenian Sea after the Armenians displaced the Nairi. It was the center of the Mannaean Kingdom, a potential Mannaean settlement represented by the ruin mound of Hasanlu was on the south side of Lake Matianus. Mannae was overrun by a people who were called Matiani or Matieni, an Iranic people variously identified as Scythian, Saka, Sarmatian, or Cimmerian. It is not clear whether the lake took its name from the people or the people from the lake, but the country came to be called Matiene or Matiane.
The lake is marked by more than a hundred small rocky islands, which are stopover points in the migrations of various kinds of wild bird life (including flamingos, pelicans, spoonbills, ibises, storks, shelducks, avocets, stilts, and gulls). The second largest island, Kaboudi, is the burial place of Hulagu Khan, the grandson of Genghis Khan and the sacker of Baghdad, where he had his treasury.
By virtue of its high levels of salinity, the lake does not sustain any fish species. Nonetheless, Lake Urmia is considered to be one of the largest natural habitats of Artemia, which serve as food source for the migratory birds such flamingos. Most of the area of the lake is considered a national park.
The lake is a major barrier between two of the most important cities in West Azerbaijan and East Azerbaijan provinces, Urmia and Tabriz. A project to build a bridge across the lake was initiated in the 1970s but was abandoned after the Iranian Revolution of 1979. The project was revived in the early 2000s, and is due to finish by the end of 2007.
Lake Urmia has been shrinking for a long time, with an annual evaporation rate of 0.6m to 1m (24 to 39 inches). The lake's salts are considered to have medical effects, especially as a cure for rheumatism. Lake Urmia is a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve.
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گردهمایی گروه ایرانیان در تبریز
Iranian Group`s Gathering - Tabriz
This shot belong to a set called "Iran Beauty"