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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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My favorite image from a wonderful trip this last Sunday to Coal Mine Canyon. This marvelous canyon is vast, deep, and filled with amazing colors of geological layers and hoodoos. If you took a quick glance at this photo you'd think it was the Grand Canyon, but that is over to the west by about 150 miles. This location is on the Navajo reservation and you buy a permit in Cameron (at the trading post) for hiking. You are not ok to hike down into the canyon because there is a dividing line of sorts between the Navajo and Hopi and a dispute of some sort. The Hopi do not sell permits for their side of this canyon. But I can tell you there are plenty of places up on this top rim to climb about and see wonders. Some of the hoodoos there are so much like what you think of a Bryce and Zion in Utah. I highly recommend this trip. Mark and I were the only people out there on a perfect afternoon and evening for photography. Just think, hours and hours alone in this place. Yes, cobalt here was in Heaven for sure.
Excellent online article, I read it and agree with this author heartily:
www.americansouthwest.net/arizona/coal-mine-canyon/index....
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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Tomada en Cala Flores (Cabo Palos) - Murcia.
Vereis, el pasado viernes cambié mi viejo monitor HP de 19" por un NEC P221W de 22" que llega a cubrir hasta un 96% del Adobe RGB, también le he instalado el software que distribuye NEC denominado SpectraView II en su versión 1.1.03 que actualiza entre otras cosas el panel LUTs de 8 a 10, y al que he calibrado hoy con un Eye-One Display 2. Es tan brutal el cambio en el color de un monitor a otro que no sé realmente lo que vosotros veis y necesito saberlo.
Ya se que esto será muy subjetivo porque cada uno tendreis un monitor diferente calibrado o no.
Mi viejo monitor HP de 19" también está calibrado pero hay mucha diferencia de uno a otro en los matices de color.
Según el histograma que me aporta CS3 no hay luces reventadas ni sombras empastadas. Cómo lo veis vosotros?
Gracias de antemano.
Por mi parte le aprecio un halo en la parte superior de la roca que choca con el cielo, pero eso no es novedad ya que lo provoca el algoritmo de reducción que aplica Flickr a todas aquellas imágenes que son mayores de 500px en su lado mayor como es el caso.
I need to know your real opinion about this shot because the last Friday I haved changed my old monitor HP 19" for a NEC P221W that covers until a 96% of Adobe RGB. The histogram is ok in CS3, but the color is very different in HP 19" or NEC P221W.
Thanks for your opinion.
Sony DSLR-A700
1/3''
F20
ISO 100
Sigma 10-20mm a 11mm
Cokin ND8 P121S
Trípod + Remote Control.
I made this 30cm chocolate cake for a 7 year old who's party was all hearts!! I loved doing this one!! Have a great week...Dot
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Machine and objective: Canon EOS 450D, Sigma 18-200mm DC OS.
Locale: España, Sevilla.
Photographer: F.MartínezLedesma
Grande View On Black Large
Velocidad: 1/200s
ISO: 100
Apertura: f3,5
Focal: 18mm
...El amor de una madre es el combustible que hace que un ser humano logre lo imposible....
...A mother's love is the fuel that makes a human being to achieve the impossible.....
Esté donde esté siempre te tengo en mi corazón porque eres mi madre, madre que tanto quiero y a quien tanto necesito.
- F.MartínezLedesma -
Este es mi pequeño detalle que dedico a mi madre, persona que quiero más que a mi vida. Tu felicidad para mi es como un bonito atardecer. Gracias por todo mamá.
…Nunca me han interesado ni el poder ni la fortuna lo que admiro son las flores que crecen en la basura…
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So today was the day after the party and some of my friends had a hangover haha. My friend Di and I didn't. Last night was crazy and I threw up for thr first time from drinking. It was so hard to walk home and my friend and I just collapsed on my bed when we got home. My parents didn't notice a thing haha. When we woke up we went to Mr. Tea's (the cafe we usually go to and where we had the party at) to eat and check out the place. Everything was back to normal and then we went to the park to play some ball and hang out. When everyone went to basketball practice three of my friends and I decided to go to Battery Park to hang out and eat Applebees. We stopped at some place I call the shore and skipped some rocks. I took this at seaport and we walked all the way to Applebees just to find it closed. So we decided to go to wholefoods where we just ate burgers and fries for dinner.
Ex #18 Front Page Explore :) Thanks for all the views and comments :)
Stopped of at the coast last night on the way to a party as there were some fantastic clouds around. I got some pics but I've never missed so many shots in such a short period of time, always arriving just a few seconds to late for a rainbow or whatever.
Pura Batu Bolong -Tanah Lot, Bali, Indonesia
Pura Batu Bolong is a small shrine located just a stone's throw from the famous Tanah Lot temple. It is perched at the end of a rocky promontory that leaps seaward into the surging Indian Ocean. Visitors to Pura Batu Bolong tends to lump it with Tanah Lot, hence its name is not as familiar.
Canon EOS 50D + EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM
EXIF: 0.167 sec • f/14• 14 mm • ISO 100
Exposure Mode + White Balance: Manual
Filters: Hitech 0.6H + Lee 0.9S
Software: Digital Photo Pro + Adobe Photoshop CS3
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Sevilla es una de las ciudades más importantes en la historia de España desde la Edad Antigua en que surgió un primer núcleo identificado con la cultura tartésica y que, tras su destrucción atribuida a los cartagineses, dio paso a la ciudad romana de Hispalis, junto a la que se construyó la colonia de Itálica. Durante el reino visigodo alojó en algunas ocasiones la corte. En Al-Ándalus, tras la invasión musulmana, fue primero sede de una cora y después capital de un reino de taifas. En el año 844 fue saqueada por los vikingos remontando el río Guadalquivir decidiendo el emir de Córdoba fortalecer su sistema defensivo.
Tras el descubrimiento de América en 1492, Sevilla se convirtió en el centro económico del Imperio español. Los Reyes Católicos fundaron la Casa de Contratación, desde donde se dirigían y contrataban los viajes, controlaban las riquezas que entraban de América y, junto con la Universidad de Mercaderes, regulaban las relaciones con el Nuevo Mundo.
Durante el siglo XVI Sevilla experimentó un gran desarrollo y se construyeron algunos de los edificios más importantes del centro histórico. La ciudad llegó a ser un centro multicultural lo que ayudaría al florecimiento de las artes, jugando un papel importante en el Siglo de Oro español. Destacaron entonces las fábricas de jabón del barrio de Triana, la artesanía de la seda y la cerámica sevillana.
Coincidiendo con su momento artístico más brillante, el Barroco, se vio afectada por la crisis del siglo XVII, lo que significó una decadencia económica y demográfica, al tiempo que la navegación por el Guadalquivir se dificultaba cada vez más, hasta que el monopolio comercial y sus instituciones se trasladaron a Cádiz.
La revitalización de la ciudad en el siglo XIX, con la industrialización y el desarrollo de la red ferroviaria española, coincidió con la época romántica.
Durante el siglo XX, además de sufrir la represión de la Guerra Civil y la posterior dictadura militar, presenció hitos decisivos como la Exposición Iberoamericana de 1929, la Exposición Universal de 1992 o su elección como capital de la autonomía andaluza.
This is a beautiful place to watch the sunrise, it comes up behind you looking at Death Valley. We got up early two mornings and went there. Fortunately it's only a 5-10 minute drive from where we were staying at the Furnace Creek Ranch. It's very popular, though, I talked with a photographer from Chicago on my left and one from Toronto on my right.
“...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
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?
~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
"...Entonce, empeço a alembrar
aqueles trastes que eu tive:
- a daga, punho de ourives,
para passear à mão-salva
e um nagão, berro de touro
e um relógio, casca de ouro,
mais certo que a estrela d'alva..."
Trecho de "Recuerdos de Tapejara", de Aureliano de Figueiredo Pinto
Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil
Sunrise above Melbourne CBD through my window , Tonemapped then processed from standard RAW (.Cr2).
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Sunset over the Hradčany in Prague.
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Prague Castle (Czech: Pražský hrad) is a castle in Prague where the Kings of Bohemia, Holy Roman Emperors and presidents of Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic have had their offices. The Bohemian Crown Jewels are kept here. Prague Castle is one of the biggest castles in the world (according to Guinness Book of Records the biggest ancient castle) at about 570 meters in length and an average of about 130 meters wide.
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Technique/Processing
I shot this one, using the Sigma 50mm f/1.4 lens. At first i shot a normal photo, but i realized it didn't look good, because of the troubled waters of the Vltava.
But then i remembered that i miraculously did not forget to pack my B+W ND110 ND filter, so i screwed it onto the lens and by that, could use an exposure of 15 seconds, which created the silky water you can see here. Oh, and i also had to carry my tripod around the whole day, but hey, 2kgs more or less don't matter ;)
Moreover, the cloud moved during those 15 seconds and thus it seems to encircle the sun.
Only one shot, no HDR
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! ;-)
Paradise island resort, Maldives
Thank you very much all my dear friends for your visits, comments and favs!
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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 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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Kerala State In INDIA celebrates VISHU ( MALAYALAM NEW YEAR ) tomorrow..
Advance Happy Vishu To All Of You mY Dear Friends and Flickr !!:)
This building at the Maciachini Centre is still under construction but it's what I was looking forward to seeing more than anything else on the trip to Milan. And with the help of elen@c I made it. Thank you, Elena!
mine I like : ministract : buildings
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My wild river reflection …!!!
An impressionnist photo safari concentrated mainly on a daily basis (or almost) on my small piece of planet of 55 000 square feet …!!!
A Thoreau "waldennienne" approach …!!!
Reflet de ma rivière sauvage …!!!
Un safari photo impressioniste au quotidien concentré essentiellement (ou presque) sur un petit morceau de planète de 55 000 pieds carrés ...!!!
Une démarche "waldennienne" à la Thoreau …!!!
Welcome in my new
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
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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 !
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.
Thanks everyone for your visit, comments, critiques, fave,invite..etc. I really appreciate it.
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 :).
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
The sun. The nearest star, despite it shines from a mere 150 million kilometers far away.. In order to take this shot, I have climbed upon a dam and waited there until the sun barely touched the bridge, far away no more than 1 km from me, one hundred fifty milion times closer than the sun. More or less...
Il Sole. La stella più vicina, sebbene emani la propria luce da appena 150 milioni di km di distanza. Per fare questa foto, mi sono arrampicato su una chiusa e ho atteso fino a quando il sole fosse quasi tangente al ponte, lontano non più di un km da me, e quindi centocinquanta milioni di volte più vicino del sole... più o meno...
i've placed my position on the map.
on the blog: toomanytribbles.blogspot.com/2010/04/rio-antirrio-by-ligh...