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This is probably my favourite shot from my South Island trip. It was taken at Kelland Ponds, just south of Twizel.
Normally when I shoot a location, I run around all over the place trying different compositions and angles while the light is good, but here I found my spot and didn't move an inch.
As the sun was setting, it would break through the clouds every now and again lighting up the trees, showing off their incredible autumn colours, and I would click the shutter. It was kinda refreshing just standing there admiring the scene rather than running around like a headless chicken!
I left this place with a big smile on my face. :)
Flickr Explore 7-1 #483
This photo is dedicated to my friend Mingo, that appears in the picture with his camera capturing the beautiful sunset.
Esta foto esta dedicada a mi Amigo Mingo, que aparece en la foto captando con su camara ese hermoso atardecer. Para vos Amigo.
Explore #189 - 01.07.2009
Blueberries are flowering plants of the genus Vaccinium with dark-blue, -purple or black berries. Species in the section Cyanococcus are the most common fruits sold as "blueberries" and are mainly native to North America[1]. They are usually erect but sometimes prostrate shrubs varying in size from 10 cm tall to 4 m tall. In commercial blueberry production, smaller species are known as "lowbush blueberries" (synonymous with "wild"), and the larger species as "highbush blueberries". The leaves can be either deciduous or evergreen, ovate to lanceolate, and from 1–8 cm long and 0.5–3.5 cm broad. The flowers are bell-shaped, white, pale pink or red, sometimes tinged greenish.
The fruit is a false berry 5–16 mm diameter with a flared crown at the end; they are pale greenish at first, then reddish-purple, and finally blue on ripening. They have a sweet taste when mature, with variable acidity. Blueberry bushes typically bear fruit from May through June though fruiting times are affected by local conditions such as altitude and latitude.
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O mirtilo, também conhecido como arando ou uva-do-monte, ou até blueberry (Vaccinium myrtillus) é um arbusto que pertence à família Ericaceae (família da azálea). As plantas são arbustos de pequeno porte que crescem em sub-bosques de florestas temperadas na Europa. Vive em regiões nas quais o inverno é bastante rigoroso, daí a dificuldade em cultivá-lo no Brasil.
Em Portugal vive em regiões nas quais o inverno é rigoroso, porque necessita em média de 500 horas anuais de temperatura entre os 10º e os 12º celsius. É na zona do médio Vouga, no vale do Rio Vouga que se encontra o local ideal para a produção deste fruto, nos concelhos de Oliveira de Frades, Sever do Vouga, Águeda e Albergaria-a-Velha, sendo Sever do Vouga o que reúne as melhores condições.
Lens : 70-300mm (my friend Lens Mohammed Al-Khars) and taken by ME
Editor : Photoshop CS3 - Dynamic-Photo HDR - Windows Photo Gallery
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Diving into Vancouver...in high-contrast. See any landmarks? Leave a note.
Michael you are immortal. With songs, art will continue to live with. Future generations will continue to listen to you. The music will live until the Day of Resurrection. You are immortal. I will continue to live music...
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Music: PeterLicht - Die Geschichte vom Sommer
Today was the first hotter day in quite a while. So a friend and me had a beer in the garden, of course not without a cold beer :-)
We used only one beer bottle. The beer as already open, Thomas just flipped the cap away (with the lighter). It was only the second try!
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EXPLORE # 252
I was really impressed with these clouds over the Albert Bridge, just before the thunderstorm in London...
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A cloud is a visible mass of droplets or frozen crystals suspended in the atmosphere above the surface of the Earth or another planetary body. A cloud is also a visible mass attracted by gravity, such as masses of material in space called interstellar clouds and nebulae. Clouds are studied in the nephology or cloud physics branch of meteorology.
On Earth the condensing substance is typically water vapor, which forms small droplets or ice crystals, typically 0.01 mm in diameter. When surrounded by billions of other droplets or crystals they become visible as clouds. Dense deep clouds exhibit a high reflectance (70% to 95%) throughout the visible range of wavelengths. They thus appear white, at least from the top. Cloud droplets tend to scatter light efficiently, so that the intensity of the solar radiation decreases with depth into the gases, hence the gray or even sometimes dark appearance at the base.
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Albert Bridge is a Grade II* listed road bridge over the River Thames in West London, connecting Chelsea on the north bank to Battersea on the south bank. Designed and built by Rowland Mason Ordish in 1873 as an Ordish–Lefeuvre Principle modified cable-stayed bridge, it proved to be structurally unsound, and so between 1884 and 1887 Sir Joseph Bazalgette incorporated some of the design elements of a suspension bridge. The Greater London Council carried out further strengthening work in 1973 by adding two concrete piers, which transformed the central span into a simple beam bridge. As a result of these modifications the bridge today is an unusual hybrid of three different design styles.
Built as a toll bridge, it was commercially unsuccessful; six years after its opening it was taken into public ownership and the tolls were lifted. The tollbooths remained in place however, and are the only surviving examples of bridge tollbooths in London. Nicknamed "The Trembling Lady" because of its tendency to vibrate when large numbers of people walked over it, signs at the entrances warn troops from the nearby Chelsea Barracks to break step while crossing the bridge.
Incorporating a roadway only 27 feet (8.2 m) wide, and with serious structural weaknesses, the bridge was ill-equipped to cope with the advent of the motor vehicle during the 20th century. Despite the many calls for its demolition or pedestrianisation Albert Bridge has remained open to vehicles throughout its existence, other than for brief spells during repairs, and is one of only two Thames road bridges in central London never to have been replaced. The strengthening work carried out by Bazalgette and the Greater London Council was unable to prevent further deterioration of the bridge's structure. A series of increasingly strict traffic control measures have been introduced to limit its use and thus prolong its life, making it the least busy Thames road bridge in London except for the little-used Southwark Bridge. The bridge's condition is continuing to degrade however, as the result of traffic load and severe rotting of the timber deck structure caused by the urine of the many dogs using it as a route to nearby Battersea Park.
In 1992 Albert Bridge was rewired and painted in an unusual colour scheme designed to make it more conspicuous in poor visibility, and hence avoid being damaged by collisions with shipping. At night it is illuminated by 4,000 bulbs, making it one of West London's most striking landmarks.
In 1990, the tidal flow system was abandoned and Albert Bridge was converted back to two way traffic. A traffic island was installed on the south end of the bridge to prevent larger vehicles from using it. In the early years of the 21st century the Chelsea area experienced a growth in the popularity of large four-wheel drive cars (so-called Chelsea tractors), many of which were over the two-ton weight limit; it was estimated that 1⁄3 of all vehicles using the bridge were over the weight limit.[27] In July 2006 the 27-foot (8.2 m) wide roadway was narrowed to a single lane in each direction to reduce the load.[28] Red and white plastic barriers have been erected along the roadway in an effort to protect the structure from damage caused by cars.[29]
Between 1905 and 1981 Albert Bridge had been painted in a uniform green colour and in 1981 was repainted yellow, but in 1992 it underwent significant redecoration and rewiring.[30] Partially as a result, it is now a major West London landmark. The bridge is painted in a scheme of pink, blue and green, intended to increase visibility in fog and murky light and hence reduce the risks of shipping colliding with the fragile structure during the day.[31] At night, a network of 4,000 low-voltage tungsten-halogen bulbs illuminate the bridge. In 1993 the innovative use of long-life low-energy lighting was commended by Mary Archer, at the time Chairwoman of the National Energy Foundation.[17] Its distinctive and striking current appearance has led to its being used as a backdrop for numerous films set in the Chelsea area, such as Absolute Beginners, Sliding Doors and Maybe Baby.[26]
4,000 bulbs illuminate Albert Bridge at night.Except for Tower Bridge, built in 1894, Albert Bridge is the only Thames road bridge in central London never to have been replaced.[9] Despite being intended as a temporary measure to be removed in 1978, the concrete central piers remain in place,[17] and although in 1974 its lifespan was estimated at a maximum of 30 years, the bridge is still standing and still operational.[25] Albert Bridge was given protection as a Grade II* listed structure in 1975, granting it protection against further significant alteration without consultation.[32] Despite this, it continues to deteriorate. Although proposals have been drawn up by Kensington and Chelsea Council to repair and rescue it,[29] as of March 2008 funds for the repairs were unavailable.[33] As well as structural damage caused by traffic, the timbers underpinning the deck are being seriously rotted by the urine of dogs crossing it to and from nearby Battersea Park.[34][n 4] With multiple measures in place to reduce traffic flow and prolong the life of the bridge, as of 2009 it carries approximately 19,000 vehicles per day, the lowest usage of any Thames road bridge in London other than the little-used Southwark Bridge.[35]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Bridge,_London
London ~ Cloud spotter ~
a bird beautiful, elegant and graceful outfielder high level he has a movement of the wings very slender and full of grace
It has always been a magical scene to witness an end of a day. There's something magical about the sun sinking into the deep blue, even the air carries a nice breeze.
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ألتفت .. وتوها .. توها ما اختفت ! .. ماكساها الليل باللون الحزين
ألتفت .. أو تعالت صرخته .. في نظرته !
صاح ! .. لكن بالنظر .. ! وإنكسر شوفه عثر
حسايف ..
حسايف .. تقتل الضحكه وهي بين الشفايف !
وتذبل الفرحة وتضيع .. ويصبح الكون الوسيع ..
ما يكفـّــي خطوتين !!
لا كساه الليل .. باللون الحزين
Explored on Jun 27, 2009 #230
HDR from 3 exposures - f/8 - 1/320s - ISO 200 - 18mm - handheld
Nikon D90 with 18-200 VR
One of the best places to have a great view over Barcelona, and much better if there are some nice clouds!
#1 in explore interestingness - thanks my friends
EXPLORE #336 June 26, 2009. Shooting thru the car window, due to extreme falling rain. At the Hunter-Leggett U.S. Army Reservation, in Central California.
Explore Highest position # 115 on Saturday, June 27, 2009
The above photo is another squirrel at the Lazienki Park or Łazienki Park in Warsaw, Poland. This little friend just came out of the bush and played with my friend as on the first comment.:)
กระรอกที่ Łazienki Park เมืองวอร์ซอร์ ประเทศโปแลนด์
Exposure: 1/1,000 sec, Aperture: f/5.3, Focal Length: 100 mm, ISO: 1,600
Nikon D700, Tamron SP AF28-300 f/3.5-6.3 XR Di LD Aspherical (IF) Macro
(No multi invitations please.:))
I'd like to wake up every morning with a beautiful day in mind;
Where worries of the day ahead are nothing but fiction;
I'd like to sleep at night with soft, feather-filled pillows;
Where fear of monsters in my closet are nothing but the imagination;
I'd like to travel life with rays of light and flying birds;
Where the darkness of the clouds are eclipsed by the mere idea of hope.
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Explore: #211
While waiting at the airport...
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Recommended by my dear friend.... stella
I've been on a Mini-Flickrwalk with Martin last sunday. Martin has got some really cool lenses, like a Sigma 4.5mm f/2.8! That really is an amazing lens!
I decided to leave it uncropped, because I liked that lensflare :)
Another one of my attempts at a refraction shot in the backyard
Hope everyones week is going well
Comments and critiques welcomes
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Sooo, Summer is finally here!!!
Watermelon and baseball, doesn't get much hotter than that, right?
And I posted a jumping picture on my blog. :)
I've got an answer in mind but I wanted to know yours. One from my archive that I really want to salvage. Very sorry about the noise, quite dark when I took this and I currently don't have a flash yet.
In reality, there was only one bird.
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Thank you so much for all of your wonderful comments and your favorites.
My love of my kitties started me on this wonderful journey of photography.
51 NYC blocks, north and south....4 blocks east and west, the center of Manhattan, the playground of the rich and poor.......
Beautiful and majestic,
Have a very Happy Blue Monday!
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Egipto - Amanecer en el rio Nilo / Egypt - Sunrise over the Nile river
Beautiful sunrise over the Nile river
Unforgettable! Luxor - Egypt. May 2009
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Precioso amanecer en el rio Nilo. Inolvidable!!! Luxor - Egipto. Mayo 2009
... il solito bacio, invece, per chi la guarda a grandezza originale :D
"La rocca fu costruita nel sec. XI, tra il 1073 ed il 1077, dall’abate di S. Scolastica Giovanni V, allo scopo di instaurare sul castello di Subiaco il dominio monastico.
Venne parzialmente distrutta dal terribile terremoto del 1349, nel 1461 venne abitata per un breve periodo da Giovanni Torquemada ( zio del più celbe inquisitore) inviato lì da papa Callisto III.
I lavori più radicali di ricostruzione e mutamento furono eseguiti nel 1476 dal cardinale Rodrigo Borgia, suo successore, il quale, nella parte orientale, elevò una fortificata torre quadrangolare.
Opera dell’architetto Baccio Pontelli, fu messa a difesa della vecchia fortezza con la quale comunicava attraverso un corridoio assai angusto e provvisto di trabocchetto. La torre, corredata di merlature e feritoie, baluardi e carceri, fu l’espressione-sintesi del programma politico del Borgia, che la disse eretta in onore di S. Benedetto, a tutela dei monaci, dei castelli abbaziali e dei confini dello stato pontificio. In tal senso parla un’epigrafe, incassata tuttora nella parte occidentale della torre.
La Rocca ospitò Vannozza De Captaneis, l’amante di Rodrigo che, tra il 1476 ed il 1486, vi diede alla luce i celebri rampolli del commendatario Cesare e Lucrezia.
Nel 1492, eletto Rodrigo papa con il nome di Alessandro VI, Rocca e commenda sublacense passarono al cardinale Giovanni Colonna, quale compenso del voto datogli in conclave, e per lui alla sua famiglia, il cui dominio si prolungò per 116 anni.
La Rocca conobbe i piacevoli ozi e la vita scorretta del commendatario Pompeo, il quale ne fece un baluardo contro papa Giulio II che, censurandone la condotta, gli ordinò di cedere carica e privilegi al cugino Marcantonio. La morte del Pontefice, però, vanificò l’imperativo della Santa Sede.
Fu solo nel 1513 che Pompeo, previa assoluzione da parte di Leone X, cedette la commenda al proprio nipote Scipione. Tre anni dopo le truppe di Pompeo attaccarono quelle papali che, per ritorsione, assalirono i feudi Colonnesi tra i quali Subiaco dove bruciarono alcune case e demolirono parte della Rocca.
Questa venne completamente smantellata nel 1556 dai soldati di Paolo IV, durante le lotte cruente intercorse tra i colonnesi ed il papato, che catturarono il commendatario Francesco e lo tradussero nelle prigioni di Castel Sant’ Angelo.
Rimesso in libertà, questi provvide ad effettuare nella Rocca rilevanti restauri tra i quali un suntuoso appartamento detto, appunto, dei “Colonna”.
Nel 1633 la commenda fu affidata da Urbano VIII dei Barberini ai suoi nipoti così che la Rocca per 105 anni rimase al centro degli atti del loro governo autoritario e severo.
I Barberini. però, nulla fecero per ingrandirla e fortificarla e quando nel novembre del 1753, Benedetto XIV tolse ai commendatari la giurisdizione temporale, la Rocca cessò di avere ogni interesse feudale ed importanza militare.
Nuovo lustro le donarono i lavori commissionati nel 1778 da Pio VI all’architetto Pietro Camporese che, nell’eseguirli costruì la carrabile, il portale, l’androne per le carrozze, l’orologio pubblico apposto sulle mura occidentali, dimezzò la rocca borgiana e decorò gli appartamenti con pregevoli affreschi.
Rese, insomma, la Rocca una degna dimora per l’abate commendatario cancellandone, però le originarie caratteristiche di fortezza medievale.
Infine, l’occupazione napoleonica del 1799 la depauperò di ogni preziosa suppellettile così che, attualmente, i saloni sono adorni solo di notevoli affreschi della seconda metà del settecento di Liborio Coccetti e dei fratelli Zuccari.
Nel 1915 la commenda venne soppressa per volere di papa Benedetto XV e la Rocca restituita definitivamente all’abate di S. Scolastica. "
Another shot of this beautiful city, better weather this time ;)
Made the Explore front page!
Explored #1
Previous shot at same location: www.flickr.com/photos/fragilelisa/3418127749/
#171/365 Breakfast Cereal macro style! Nothing but the healthy stuff here! This was an idea I had..not sure if it all worked out. The coco puff looks like a swedish meatball. But you know you all loved these as a kid! I'm sure there are plenty I have lefted out. Hopefully this makes you want to eat a bowl of yummy sugar...I mean cereal.
Strobist: SB-800 in 15x15" alzo softbox camera left
Explore: #454
... the second photo from the stormy night...
Yesterday I was not sure which to post... and since shooting thunders is not so frequent as shooting sunsets... I thought to post this also...
EXPLORE #249 Dedicated to my daughter Alex on her Birthday!! King Township is the last vestige of green north of Toronto w/ 80% protected and part of the Oak Ridges Moraine. It is a favourite location for cyclists and hikers with dozens of trails criss-crossing in the township and others connecting to trails that run across southern Ontario. Where we hiked is a small place minutes from my house. I think I mentioned before with one of my fern photos that on one side of the river there are giant ferns and on the other a smaller variety. Part of the trail is tended by local residents and we were delighted to see wild flowers growing everywhere. Obviously the place had been seeded, but even more incredible was seeing several varieties and colours of Irises that someone had taken the effort to plant along the trail which have spread. All of these plants living harmoniously together was very special.
Thank you all my wonderful friends for your daily visits, your kind comments and fav'ing my photographs. Have a great weekend all - tomorrow and Sunday I'll only be commenting from the Flickr group Applauding Talent Around the World ... hope to see you there.
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A vertorama for you my friends. Been busy these past few days and even 'til now. Still have some stuff to finish and get over with so I can have a clear mind going into the weekend.
Have a pleasant and relaxing weekend everyone!
I met a girl once and she told me,"When the sky gets green you know a bad storm is on the way." I had my head focused straight ahead, as we steered that convertible into the dusky air. I turned to look into her eyes...and all I saw was green.
EXPLORED FP ...... Thanks to everyone......
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que de mí te aleje
ni luz de luna
sin que yo te bese,
te busco en mis noches
te sigo en mis días,
te encuentro en mis sueños
que nunca terminan..."
Fragmento de "Amánsote porque sí", de Roque Martínez y Julio César Urruty
San Antonio de Areco, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Yes it's true, I'm making a tour along all the carparks in Groningen. This one is inside the building on the left of my previous photo. It's inside the football stadium, in fact you can see the back of the chairs on this photo!
Please, View On Large Black, really, you should take the time to do that.
And oh yes, I'm in a black and white periode again, I've got that some times :)
Hit Explore.#118. Thank you so much.
Nikon D700 + Nikkor 50mm AI-s f/1.2. Straight out of the camera. No processing.
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I hope you smiled! If just one person smiles i have done well... if you all smile, then I have created an epidemic of smiles throughout the globe :) LOL...here is a good love quote to make up for the title :)
"Love is everything it's cracked up to be… It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for." ~ Erica Jong
"...Esses campeiros,
talvez rudes na figura,
almas gêmeas
do sem fim das amplidões...
Esses homens
com destinos definidos
desde o ventre,
sob quinchas de esperança...
Esses campeiros,
humildes, servidores,
campereando
realidades e razões,
São o pago
renascido nos galpões,
pais-de-fogo,
preservando seus valores..."
Trecho de "Esses campeiros", de Lauro Antonio Corrêa Simões
Bagé, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil
This morning I had a very nice message from a flickr member called Darni who isn't one of my contacts so a big thank you to Darni advising me that one of my pics appeared in the photostream of vixengoddess www.flickr.com/photos/vixengoddess/3279620632/
Obviously another photo thief & I'll be reporting this to flickr but just wanted to make you all aware that this person is not someone to be trusted so beware!
Explored 15/06/09. Highest position #140