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Music: Mia - Mein Freund
Komm her und tanz mit mir, hin und wieder mal. La di da da da dam, da da Komm her und tanz mit mir.
Shot:
Pentax K100D, Tamron 18-250, 50mm (35mm equivalent: 70mm), 3 Shots -2EV; 0EV +2EV, tripod
Software used for this image:
Photomatix Pro 3 ( Details Enhancer ), Adobe Photoshop CS3
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Explored Nov 24, 2008 #216
My favorite sound in the entire world (as of this point in my experiences) is the sound of snow crunching underfoot as you walk through it. This is because of two reasons:
1) It is snowing, and I love snow.
2) In order to hear this crunching, it has to be quiet and whenever it snows, things get really quiet. It does not matter if it is out in the Gorge or in the middle of downtown. Snowy mornings are almost always quiet mornings.
This was the case this morning a few years back. Though there were ample signs of life continuing on in the foot prints and tire treads cutting through the snow, I saw nary another soul in this hour or so I wandered downtown. Eventually I found myself on top of a parking garage, which seems to happen with alarming regularity since I got into photography. I liked the pattern in the tire marks as they cut through the intersection and got this shot with my Nikon FM2. Actually I really really like the flow of travel amongst all the trails left by both pedestrians and motorists. It is interesting to see where people turned, where they swerved, etc. Maybe that is just me.
I have few qualms about living in Portland. It rains a lot. The city is green. It is close to the mountains, the gorge and the beach. The people are ... interesting. What is not to love? Well the fact that we get one good snowfall every other year in town. If we had more practice at driving in the snow, maybe we would not all panic the moment we got half an inch of the stuff. ;-)
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To visit the Diamond and Gold Mine Cave we had to continue by feet. The cave guide took us on a one km stream bed walk, rough and at times shady. But the forestry scenery was so beautiful. Crossing the beautiful green paddy fields and continue our way through the steer limestone rocks. Here was the entrance of the cave. We all got a flashlights with battery pack. . .
This photo was taken inside the Diamond and the Gold Mine water cave nearby Vang Vieng - Laos. This friendly man was our private cave guide. Previous tourists did donate his glasses. He couldn't see clearly anymore and proudly showed us the letter of the tourist who send him his new glasses. He was happy to see clearly now.
. . .It was very slippery inside the cave and our private guide suggested us to enter the cave by bare feets. So we did. Once again the naturalness of life here in the tropics crept up and I found myself knee deep in water in a pitch black cave slowly creeping along, avoiding jagged rocks covered by water, escalating vertical mud walls, crawling for what seemed like miles through tunnels that barely fit me… slowly. My kids and wife were much faster. One hand in the mud, pulling my stomach and feet along. Trying to avoid the numerous spiders, with their jewel eyes, gleaming against the walls. These spiders are the size of my hands. I felt like I was smuggling myself through an underground tunnel into China. But our friendly guide showed us all the wonderful natural stalagmines and stalactites of this cave. it was quite an adventure to walk and sometimes the guide carried our daughter Samantha having to go across ponds, slippery rocks and sticky mud! We got out covered all in mud. We even went back to an underground river inside the cave. Just swimming and cleaning ourselves. The kids jumping in and out the water. Being there in the water in the dark was a good thrill. It was an exciting adventure but for me no more caves!!!! There wasn't any gold or diamonds either ;-)
Yes, here it is, a view from above the Czech town of Český Krumlov that took my breath away for hours. I could have spent days shooting from this viewpoint which is in a tower on Castle Hill, part of the Krumlov Castle which you'll see views of soon.
I have shots wider than this in which I'll be posting soon enough, I just wanted you to see this end of the city first. So make sure you see it large, please!!!
Thanks for the view, comments and faves are always greatly appreciated. :D
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As the 1/4 moon rose 1 hour after sunset about 1 year ago, this scene presented itself in the darkness on Rodeo beach just north of San Francisco in Marin County, California.
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Settings etc.:
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30-minute exposure @F5 (ISO 50) with no filters
(I had to guard the camera every second because the waves were big!)
Canon 5D
Canon 17-40L @ 19
RAW file processed with Capture One by Phase One
TIFF file processed with Photoshop
The dark and clear conditions allowed the moon to light the seascape much as the sun does during the daytime, but over a long period of time. The waves have been reduced to a haze and the star trails indicate how much each star had moved during the exposure.
It was a warm night and after a while, my eyes became used to the darkness and I could see the faint blue in the sky. This is how it felt to be out here, alone at night in an alien place.
In order to get a properly exposed photograph at night, a lot of experimentation is required. In previous outings at night with strong moonlight, I tried exposures from 5 minutes to an hour. 30 minutes is just about right with this amount of moonlight and the aperture nearly wide open at F5 with ISO 50. Under a quarter moon, perhaps an hour is necessary. Changing the ISO to 200 reduces the exposure time and also
produces less heat sensor noise, which is different than regular ISO noise. I use ISO 200 now as long as I can get an exposure of at least 10 minutes, to show movement in the stars.
Now I use ISO 200 on exposures over 10 minutes and turn on auto-noise reduction, which takes a second picture of equal duration (60 minutes total in this case) with the shutter closed so only noise is recorded. Then the noise is subtracted, leaving the original image with just a hint of noise.
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Explore #1, wow... Saturday, November 22, 2008
Explore Front Page in 75 minutes...
many thanks to my friends :))
Its another… taken a few seconds later, the sun is centered here :)
Las yeguas comen la poca hierba que les dejan las ovejas en Saibigain. Por esa zona parece que acaban de pasar las ovejas y han dejado sus restos...
I cannot tell you how scary having a powerful, 23in collie running at you full pelt when you're sitting on a steep hill holding a camera is! Mostly when Barney runs to me, he either stops or turns off at the last second, but sometimes well, he just keeps running! My reactions have got pretty quick, I usually manage to put a hand out, to stop him but in this case I realized too late so he crashed straight into me... much to my dad's amusement (blurry person in the background is my dad)
The hardiness of my little camera is remarkable, it has been bitten (by the dog - not me!), dropped, bounced off the pavement, run into on many occassions, taken out in the rain and slung in my bag or coat pocket everyday for weeks on end... it may be a little point and shoot but it still does a fantastic job even after nearly 4 years of serious abuse :) yep its a good little camera!
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To get rid of poverty, the farmers have started cultivating fish on their paddy fields to maintain their livelihood. Fish breeding in paddy fields encouraged. Considerably raising the per-hectare yield of rice and fish production In the rainy season throughout this region many small fish can be caught in the paddy fields and small ditches: an environment highly familiar to the Lao people. The small fish are used to make a dish called Pa dek. It is a kind of fermented salted fish, and to the people of Laos, this food is second only to rice in importance. The dish is made by mixing together rice bran, fish, and the salt harvested from the earth. The mixture is allowed to stand for over three months and is then ready to eat. A specialty of this region and an extremely important element of the culture.
I think the best way to explore Laos is by bicycle or feet. Meeting friendly Lao people in the small villages along the way and enjoying its countryside. I had to stop many times to make a photo. A beautiful scenery of rice fields next to the limestone hills. This woman was working in the paddy fields nearby Vang Vieng.
Om armoede van de hand te doen, zijn sommige boeren begonnen met het kweken van vissen op hun rijstvelden. Zo hebben de boeren aanzienlijk meer opbrengst per hectare van rijst en vis productie. In het regenseizoen worden in dit gebied vele kleine vissen in de rijstvelden en de kleine beekjes gevangen: De kleine vissen worden gebruikt om een schotel te maken genoemd Pa dek. Het is een soort vergiste gezouten vis. Naast rijst is deze schotel van groot belang voor de inwoners van Laos. De schotel wordt gemaakt door rijst, vis en het zout samen te mengen. Het mengsel moet drie maanden gisten en is dan is het klaar om te eten. Een specialiteit van dit gebied en een uiterst belangrijk element van hun cultuur.
Porto canale di Rimini...........................mare e cielo uniti
Compiendo poi quel rito inevitabile e abusato,
corremmo coraggiosi e scalzi lungo la battigia:
di un verde di bottiglia era quel mare affaticato, l' aria una stanza grigia...
Scoprimmo che oggi il mare lascia un povero relitto,
naufragi di catrame e di lattine arrugginite:
parlare era soltanto un altro inutile delitto contro le nostre vite..
F. Guccini
Rimini 13 . 11 . 2008
When I think about how well I am doing in photography and how to improve, I consider my task as five steps, or decisions that I have to make. I think this is true for any of us.
1. Where and when to go, and why? Location, location, location. If you travel around the world, de facto you have a lot of content possibilities, and if you stay in your house all the time, a lot less. Of course we can find great content in our house and boring content in a distant place, but all else being equal, it helps (but is not necessary) to go to places on purpose in order to find interesting content. And if you are a Flickrite, you know that sometimes photographers go to great dangers to get where they want to go.
In my initial post, I forgot an important aspect of the question: why to go? What's your purpose? What do you want to communicate?
2. What equipment to use? Just remember expensive equipment is nice, not necessary, and often not needed or even inappropriate. Don't buy into the megapixel myth. A far greater percentage of pictures taken by my $10 Vivitar Ultra Wide and Slim have been in Explore than with my digital cameras.
3. What pictures to take?At locale with equipment in hand, what are you going to click at and how? The clicking or even camera preparation is a small component here; what matters is how good an eye you have. What I have been doing recently is pretending like I always have a camera, looking for an interesting shot.
4. What shots to keep?Some shots get tossed, some get kept but not shown, some get shown. I think this is an often over-looked "skill". I think this requires both constraint and judgment, which in part can be developed by looking at other people's works.
5. How to present image? This includes post-processing, framing, as well as a decision as to where to show it.
For me right now, I am trying to work on #3, especially by paying attention to light-dark contrasts.
We had this plan to go out and shoot today in Guelph, Ontario. But it's been raining all day, we drove to Guelph and couldn't find a single place to shoot. So we had breakfast, and drove back to Kitchener and shopped instead. Obviously the shopping trip is more like a photoshoot, it was a fun day. But now I gotta go make up some sleep, getting up at 6AM is challenging. But here's my FoB sister, Mandee! And her new hat ;)
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Highest position: 142 on Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Il Castello di Donnafugata
Il Castello è situato nell’omonima contrada del comune di Ragusa a 308 metri s.l.m.
Donnafugata deriva dall’arabo “ayn as-jafaiat” che vuol dire “fonte della salute” giustificato dalla presenza di una sorgente di acqua purissima.
Le sue origini documentate partono dal 1628 con un atto di vendita, con cui la famiglia Cabrera vendeva il feudo comprensivo di una tenuta di caccia, con antica torre di avvistamento Arabo-Normanna, alla famiglia Arezzo, che ne terrà la proprietà per tre secoli, fino al 1982 quando verrà acquistato dal comune di Ragusa.
La famiglia Arezzo avviò una lunga opera di trasformazione del nucleo originario, che culminò alla fine dell’800, quando il Barone Corrado Arezzo de Spucches (1824.1895), diede alla struttura l’attuale immagine di Castello con la sua varietà di stili dal gotico-veneziano al tardo.rinascimentale. La struttura occupa una superficie di 2500 mq, circondato da otto ettari di parco. Conta in tutto 102 stanze, anche se quelle visitabili sono quelle del piano nobile (circa 28). L’eclettismo degli stili che caratterizza la facciata del Castello, si riflette anche negli ambienti interni e nei mobili che per la maggior parte datano metà ‘800 e ‘900.
Nel giugno 2002 è stato aperto riaperto al pubblico dopo cinque anni di lavoro di restauro.
HDR image processed with photomatix
Altri scatti del Castello sono qui sul mio sito
Traditional timber-framed houses in the 'Petite France' area, Strasbourg, France.
In Explore - Highest position #31
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The Avengers was a British television series featuring secret agents in 1960s Britain. It was an early example of the spy-fi genre, combining secret agent storylines with science fiction elements. Running from 1961 to 1969, it is the longest running espionage series produced for English-language television.
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I always suspected that my friend flickr.com/photos/fernandoalamillo/ was a secret agent as well.
I wanna do bad things with you, bad urban pink things, but still bad things nonetheless.
I have had this song in my head since Scarlet Sunday. I have it in my head every week after Sunday, but typically not this long. This is my attempt at an exorcism. I figure if I can infect enough of you I might be healed. Either that or we'll all be humming, whistling, and singing out of tune, together!
This is pink for Pretty Pink Themed Tuesdays; Urban Pink. This is the bridge over the Kemptville Creek in downtown Kemptville. The pink building in the background is one of the local restaurants. The bokeh'ed guy at the other side of the bridge is wearing his poppy, this is also a Rememberance Day Urban Pink shot, a HBWE shot, and last but not least, a Happy Birthday wish for my sister, whose birthday I will never forget :) Happy Birthday Lori.
Mi primer HDR, y con Pinky de vacaciones. Qué bonito es ver un atardecer con buenos amigos. Sus nombres Pinto y Bicho.
HDR from 3 exposures - f/5,6 - 1/30s - ISO 110 - 18mm
Nikon D80 with 18-200 VR
I processed this picture very light, only HDR and sharpening
#1 in explore interestingness (12->2->16->2->3->2->3->2 and finally 1 :)
- My first attempt to make HDR image!
- Lokasi adalah di Masjid Bentong ketika perjalanan pulang dari photocamp kat Lubuk Semak!
- Trima kasih tunjuk ajar semua, specially to Abe Ki yg banyak membuka minda saya tentang HDR ni...
- Jadi, komentar semua amatlah dialu²kan...
"Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you?
But when you take him in a car he sticks his head out the window. "
~Steve Bluestone ~
"Happiness is a warm puppy." :-)
~Charles M. Schulz
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The Mekong is one of the world’s major rivers. It is the 11th-longest river in the world. Its estimated length is 4,909 km and it drains an area of 795,000 km2. From the Tibetan Plateau it runs through China's Yunnan province, Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. The biodiversity of the Mekong mountains is one of the richest in the world. More than 1200 species of fish have been identified and there could be possibly as many as 1700. Fishing is a very important part of the economic activities in the area and a vital source of protein in the local diet. Even the rare species of freshwater dolphin, the Irrawaddy dolphin can be seen at the Lower Mekong. Irrawaddy dolphins have been documented participating in cooperative fishing with humans using cast nets by driving the fish towards these fisherman in response to acoustic signals from them.
Photo of a local fisherman at the Mekong river in Vientiane taken just before sunset. Somehow I was a little diligently with the colors of PhotoShop ;-)
De Mekong is een rivier in Zuidoost-Azië. De rivier is 4909 kilometer lang en wordt beschouwd als één van de belangrijke rivieren in Azië. De rivier loopt achtereenvolgens door de landen China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodja en Vietnam. De Mekong ontspringt in het Tanglhagebergte in China en mondt met een delta (Mekong-delta) uit in de Zuid-Chinese Zee. In de rivier leeft de grootste soort meerval ter wereld. De biodiversiteit van de Mekong bergen is één van rijkst aan de wereld. Meer dan 1200 soorten vis zijn geïdentificeerde en misschien nog wel meer. De visserij is economisch zeer belangrijk en een essentiële bron van proteïne in het lokale dieet. In het lage gedeelte bij de Mekong-delta komen zelfs nog de bezondere irrawaddydolfijnen voor. In sommige gebieden werken de twee samen: de dolfijnen drijven vissen de netten van de vissers in, en de vissers belonen de dolfijnen met een klein deel van de vangst. In deze gebieden worden deze dieren vereerd.
Remember yesterday, walking hand in hand, love letters in the sand... I remember you
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Fotografada por: Mônica Fadul
Modelo: Lívia Fernandes
Produção: Mônica, Lívia, Larissa
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Nelle zone rurali del Perù, l’abito è un importante elemento distintivo, frutto del sincretismo degli elementi preispanici con l’abbigliamento europeo che fu importato durante il periodo della colonia.
Il tradizionale anacu inca fu trasformato dalle donne nelle famose “polleras” (gonne). Secondo la regione, una gonna nera si abbina a una fascia di diversi colori, ornata con fiori della sierra di Piura o la Ilclla di lana colorata a Chiclayo.
Rimini 26, 10 , 2008
Fall visit to Japanese Gardens.
This is another photo of the famous Japanese Maple.
I think one of the appeals besides the aesthetic quality, is that it gets good light most of the day. There are other wonderful maple trees, but they don't get the same light.
For Pretty Pink Themed Tuesday - Petrifying Pink Halloween!
What could be more petrifying than a chihuahua dressed as a pig... Look even the cat is petrified!!
Not the best shot - we were trying the costumes on the dogs a couple weeks ago and the light was horrible and the dogs were not cooperating at all!
Here is my parents dog, Marley. She is soooooo spoiled she stinks! :o)
(one more photo in first comment box)
Some things just look better Large and on BLACK…… Enjoy!!!
The colors of autumn are amazing.
Explore: #50
Music for today : Aeroplane by Björk
At the same place as my last shot, a large view over my valley!!
a nice place for gliders which come take the aerial streams!!
I love the view from there!!
I just want to let you profit of that view!
just let your spirit fly like that glider and ENJOY!!
have a nice day dear friends!!
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Nikon D300 12mm F/8 1/250mm iso200 -0,7steps Polarizer filter
Otra postal de Brujas… la verdad es que he estado mirando las fotos de ese día y creo que hay más de una “visible”... casi podría hacer otra miniserie de postales… :)
Curiosamente hace unos días, después de la visita a esta preciosa ciudad, vi una película protagonizada por Colin Farrell que se llama “Escondidos en Brujas” y a mí particularmente me gustó bastante. Un poco lenta pero divertida y sorprendente en muchos aspectos. Os recomiendo que si tenéis ocasión, la veáis.
Al estar rodada íntegramente en Brujas se pueden ver muchos de los lugares turísticos y la verdad es que la fotografía está bastante bien cuidada.
Muchas gracias a todos por los comentarios de la anterior foto y un abrazo a tod@s.
Me gusta más como queda en grande...
Yes, another postcard from Bruges, I repeat myself, I know… but I must admit I’ve been checking pictures from that day and I believe there is more than one “acceptable”… I could almost have enough for a mini postcard series from it… :)
Curiously, few days ago, after visit to this beautiful city, I watched one of the last movies from Colin Farrell named “In Bruges” that I really enjoyed it a lot. Sometimes can look slow but it was funny and surprisingly enjoyable. I recommend it honestly.
It’s filmed mainly in Bruges so many touristic places are shown in it and photography is really good…
Thank you all for your comments in previous picture… big hug to all of you.
I like more the bigger size...
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Yeah , Rags it is.... I had to use the mirror up mode, which fires in 30 secs...giving me enough time to run around the waters edge (avoiding footprints) and be there.
DRI- Digital Blending for the sky - 2 exposures. The water and "me" is a single exp layered in. The beach and driftwoood tone map+layer composite
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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wild horses, Rano Raraku volcan slope, (the quarry from the moais were hewn) easter island (rapa nui)
Taken in the countryside just outside the city of Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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