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holaaaa volevo postare un self ma mi usciva un Service, allora ho pensato a una cosa che piu' mi rappresentasse, un vecchio carretto, poggiato su un muretto che guarda tutti dall'lato, non perchè mi ritenga chissà chi o chissè cosa, no...anzi, perchè mi piace osservare come si muovono le persone, viste da una prospettiva diversa, ecco perchè ho scelto di essere uno zombie, vivo ma zombie, che osserva e scruta.

Strana la vita, guardo ma non mi muovo, osservo ma ho difficoltà a raggiungere, bloccato dalla mia pigrizia cronica e da altre coincidenze meno salutari, mi sento come un morto vivente, o un vivo morente?

Bho...so però che non mollo, osservo, scruto e commento, leggo tutti i vostri post, tutti i vostri commenti, mi piace curiosare sulle vostre condizioni di "UmAni" correnti, non come i conti, ma vivi e dinamici.

This is my five year old Bengel Cat CPII taking a cat nap. He was letting me know I can't sneak up on him for a quick snap shot..

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Palabra que el reflejo estaba asi, no es Photoshop, jeje, tubimos mucha suerte y pillamos el agua muy calmadita ;-)

~ Langston Hughes

This one goes to Jen (zstheday) for the sweet testimonial she wrote for me... Thank you so much! you really made me so happy, it was such a beautiful surprise =) Do checkout her wonderful stream.

About the shot; Ummm! I like how those petals came out.. like streaks from a paint brush. Oh & again an experiment with the processing =D

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Loads of em' plus a bonus leftover Persied meteor after peak last fall as seen here.

This is another from the land of very little (but still some as you can see) light pollution at Steens Mountain in SE Oregon. If you like night skies, this is a great area to visit!

Image notes: The keys for this shot were very little light pollution, no moon, high ISO (1600) wide aperture (F/3.2) and a relatively short exposure to prevent obvious star trails (30 seconds). A bit of reverse USM (30%, 60 radius, 0 threshold) and ACR clarity (you can open TIFFs as well as RAW in ACR if they are 16bit) helped to further pop the stars.

The foreground was light painted with an extremely bright LED torch from Lowes (Task Force 2 C cell Cree LED flashlight). It was really too bright at 1600 ISO wide open so I had to basically turn it on and paint what I wanted super fast or it completely burned out. I should have probably taken a second exposure at a much lower ISO and could have taken my time light painting and had a much easier go of it. Then later in post combine the two. I think I was just on a kick to get it all in the original untouched shot for this one, whatever original untouched actually means heh.

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This is dedicated to littlefoot mek, she wrote a great testimonial for me. She has been my contact for a long time and we crossed paths on my very first post to the Bokeh Wednesday group. So I felt it would be best to dedicate this HBW shot to her, Thanks you are truly a good friend.

تاريخ 23 مارس 2009

Carnegie Mellon في مبنى جامعة

Camera:Nikon D300

Exposure:0.017 sec (1/60)

Aperture:f/5.6

Focal Length:200 mm

ISO Speed:250

Flash:SP900

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This is a blossom from a TULIP TREE.

NO MORE STRESS !!!!!!

"Stress is like dark chocolate. A little of it won't kill you. In fact, small blocks here and there can be good for you, or at least give you a reason to get out of bed in the morning. But chronic and severe stress can damage your body and mind, blocking the fluid communication to and from most organs--especially in the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis and in the limbic system, the brain's emotional center. Believe me, you want these two systems running as smoothly as possible, with low levels of the delinquent stress hormones in your bloodstream."

~Therese J. Borchard

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THANK YOU FRIENDS for your continual support of my photography, your lovely comments and encouragement and most of all for your enduring friendship.

More such unique moments from...Bethlehem

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That image I have taken during my walks at Jerusalem amazing streets.....

My pilgrimage to Holy Land-march'09

My good dear Friends.....

Have a peaceful day....!!!

Thank you for all comments ,invites and Favs....

Yours

Bea pilgrim;)

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A building that was close to where Mr Bacardi used to live in Santiago de Cuba.

If you look at the marble close enough, you might actually see the mess I made in our dining room when I shot this. :)

For Day 81 of the 2009 Photo Challenge: Sphere

#11 on Explore and appeared on Front Page. Thanks!

They say red meat's bad for you, but I've never seen a sick-looking leopard.

also featured in environmental article here:

green-buzz.net/environment/the-rarest-big-cat-in-the-world/

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The North Sea Canal is a Dutch ship canal from Amsterdam to the North Sea at IJmuiden, constructed between 1865 and 1876 to enable seafaring vessels to reach the port of Amsterdam. It ends at Amsterdam in the closed-off IJ Bay, which in turn connects to the Amsterdam-Rhine Canal. The North Sea averages about 100 m. The beaches and coastal waters of the North Sea are popular destinations for tourists. The Dutch coasts are especially developed for tourism. Windsurfing and sailing are popular sports because of the winds. Because of the strong tides and areas of still water, the North Sea is more difficult to sail than the Baltic or the Mediterranean. Mudflat hiking, recreational fishing, and diving, including wreck diving, are all possible. The North Pier near Wijk aan Zee shown above is a nice fishing spot. Anglers from all over the country come to the North pier. At the beginning of the North pier, just across the restaurant you can do some good sea bass fishing. In stormy weather there is a good catch of fish on the inner side. On the pier there is not really one super spot with fish. One moment there is a good catch across the corner, the other moment there is not, whilst the catch is then good at the fence. Is the fishing bad from the beach because of the cold weather, then some fish can be caught on the pier in the deeper water. Sole, codfish, gurnard, dab, flounder, garfish, sea brass, eel pout, eel, whiting, plaice, pout, sea trout, pollack, twaite, mackerel, and mullet can be catched. Various types you will only catch in summer, but a surprise is not impossible. Avoid the pier with stormy weather, because it can be perilous because of breaking waves.

A photo of the lighthouse at the beginning of the North Sea Canal. It's beautiful walk of 1.5 km to the lighthouse at the North Pier of Wijk aan Zee - Netherlands. It was a lovely sunny day but I had to work. At the the day's end I went to the beach. There was almost no wind and the colors of the sunset were beautiful. It was 30 minutes after sunset. Exposure 4 sec. F8.0, ISO80 and -1.0EV. The flying geese were taken 10 minutes before with standard exposure and blended into this composite. Please notice the fisherman at the end of the pier. After this walk I went for dinner at the sociable Aloha beach club which is open even during the winter season but today it was the first day in spring ;-)

Het Noordzeekanaal is een kanaal in Nederland dat loopt van de stad Amsterdam (het IJ) naar IJmuiden en Velsen Noord aan de andere kant, waar het uiteindelijk uitmondt in de Noordzee. Om de verbinding tussen de Haven van Amsterdam en de Noordzee te verbeteren werd in 1824 het Noordhollandsch Kanaal tussen Amsterdam en Den Helder in gebruik genomen. Dit kanaal voldeet al snel niet meer aan de eisen van het groeiende scheepvaartverkeer. Daarom werd enkele decennia later besloten om via de kortste verbinding tussen Amsterdam en de Noordzee een kanaal te graven. Hierbij werden de duinen nabij Velsen op het smalste deel van Holland ('Holland op zijn Smalst') doorgraven. Er werden sluizen aangelegd die de verbinding vormen tussen het kanaal en de zee.

Zijn de visvangsten door de kou vanaf het strand slecht, dan valt er op de pier door het diepere water nog wel een visje te vangen Tong, kabeljauw, knorhaan, schar, bot, geep, zeebaars, puitaal, paling, wijting, schol, steenbolk, zeeforel, koolvis, fint, makreel en harder. Diverse soorten zal je uitsluitend in de zomer vangen, maar verrassingen zijn niet uitgesloten. Zo kan je midden november nog best een dikke tong vangen en de zeebaars blijft ook steeds langer. De Noordpier bij Wijk aan Zee: een fijne visstek. Hengelaars uit het gehele land komen naar de Noordpier toe. Aan het begin van de Noordpier, even voorbij het restaurant is het goed zeebaars vissen. Bij storm wordt er aan de binnenkant goed vis gevangen. Mijd de pier met storm, want het kan dan levensgevaarlijk zijn door overslaande golven.

Het is een mooie wandeling van zo'n 1.5 km naar de vuurtoren. De hele dag was zonnig maar ik moest helaas werken maar 's avonds uit werk gelijk naar het strand gegaan van Wijk aan Zee. Prachtig avondrood met blauwgrijze Noordzee. Mijn statief meegenomen maar er was eigenlijk te weinig deining om de golfslag mooi vast te leggen. Deze foto geschoten een halfuur na zonsondergang met sluitertijd 4 seconde. De vogels vlogen eerder over en genomen met standaard belichting en later in deze foto bewerkt. Een mooi detail is de visser aan het einde van de pier. Na de late strandwandeling in de gezellige Aloha beach club diner gegeten. Deze club is zelf 's winters open maar vandaag was het de eerste lentedag :-)

~ A hometown delight, Rideau Falls.~ wiki info here...

a BIG HELLO from Ottawa, Canada.

I was glad that i brought my Nikon 20mm Lens, as it's the widest i have that takes a CPL Filter, so i could get this dark sky.

#12 on explore 19/03/09

Signs of Spring

Hong Kong Flower Show 2009

Causeway Bay, Hong Kong

Happy 43rd Imagoism Thursday (HIT) and

Happy Gorgeous Green Thursday (HGGT) to everyone!!!

Front Page & Explore, March 19, 2009

Thank you very much Everyone and to Ronaldo F Cabuhat for the FP screen shot.

Highest position in Explore = #17 on March 19th, 2009, THANK YOU!

This is a photo of the downtown Seattle public library. Built by Rem Koolhass, this piece of modern architectural art is as amazing on the inside as it is outside. This structure has been shot a ton so I really tried to give it something I hadn’t seen before. Out of all my shots that day, this one “popped” most for me. I brought out my wide angle lens (14mm full frame) and got really low to the ground for this shot. Standing on the corner, I could just barely squeeze in the entire structure. I waited for the sun to peek through the buildings downtown and captured the reflection on the side of the building, which I felt added to the dramatic nature of the structure. As you can see, there is a bit of lens flare, but I actually liked it this time. If you follow the flare trail, you can see it reflected all the way to the street sign on the left, which is ultimately why I decided to keep the street pole in. I really liked all the angles in this shot!

If you like this kind of funky perspective, here's another one of the Seattle Center.

#78/365 Well technically a day early but since tomorrow is PP friday then I thought I'd post my spring picture today. Enjoy it while you can because summer will be here before you know it! Please view this large, small just doesn't do it justice.

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An Irish blessing for all my family and friends!

For Pretty Pinkisms group (pink and green theme for St. Patty's Day)!

Happy St. Patrick's Day everyone! Have a blessed day!

Spiaggia di Tirrenia (Pisa)

Tirrenia beach (Pisa)

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eXplore # 498 + FP

march 15/2009

Anne Frank

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Taken during a picnic along with friends at Shorncliffe, Brisbane.

Exposure

EV[0], f/5.6, ISO 250

Toys

Canon 40D, Canon 70-200mm f/4 L IS, Canon EF 1.4X extender

Processing

Photoshop CS4 - Camera Raw 5.2 Tonal Adjustments

Adjustment layer - curve (linear contrast preset)

Borders

BMX

Sorry I have missed so much, but I've been busy.

I'll do my best to catch up :)

HNFF!

50mm @ f1.8

Thanks for the visits everyone. This made it to the Front Page. I knew I liked it, but you never really know if anyone else will... :)

BMX bike close up

After several years living in upstate New York this was our first trip in New York City.

O well, we have a friend who was born and raised in New York State whose

first visit in NYC was last month! LOL

This was taken last year, and I will be going back there this Spring.

Have a gorgeous day my friends!

Explored: Highest Position: #355

It's nearly time for all of us to say goodbye to Salzburg, after the next two photographs I'll be taking you to another beautiful city in Austria.

Will it be greener pastures? Only Laurie and I know...

This is a similar point of view to my first photo of Salzburg, which you can see here, but I still wanted to post it. I got pretty lucky with some interesting light. There's no HDR or shadows/hightlights with this shot. Just bumped up some contrast and darkened some areas. The sun was shinning and was lighting up the foreground nicely, even though it was almost completely overcast. As you can see from the dark ominous sky over the Hohensalzburg Fortress.

If you haven't been following my photographs of Salzburg take some time to check them out if you like here.

As for everyone else, thanks for visiting my stream and being so supportive while I take you on our journey through Europe, in our Year in France.

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This is similar to the F355 shot I uploaded back in late January with three key differences.

- The sun is reflecting in the water

- Better angle for the car

- No Flamingo flock flying

I would have preferred to have this composition with the flamingos flying, but unfortunately when doing sunset shoots, time is your enemy and I was in too much of a hurry. Lesson learned.

I used three Canon flashes triggered by Canon flash transmitter (580EX, 580EXII and 430EX).

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Canon EOS 40D

Lens: EF 24-105 F4 L IS

ISO: 100

Shutter Speed: 1/15 sec

Aperture: F/9

Focal length: 67mm

Lens Filter: B+W circular polarizer

Software: Adobe Photoshop CS2 - Adobe Lightroom.

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Hiking along the chalk cliff coast of Rügen, Germany's largest island, I was scouting for other interesting places to take pictures around the time of sunrise.

One of the places I found was this one. The picture you see here was taken about 80 minutes before actual sunrise and involved setting my alarm clock to a really un-holiday time, freeing my car of ice (it was during the cold strike in Europe during January, but luckily, a bit less harsh on the coast), driving 30 minutes to a hiker's parking area and then walking 30 minutes with a flashlight through the dark forest of Nationalpark Jasmund and eventually getting down to a place called "pirate bay", with a rumored treasure chest still being digged in somewhere here...

At the time of taking this picture, it still was very dark, of course, which is why you can still see all these stars.

For taking this picture, I again used the Tokina 11-16mm lens and put my tripod at a low ground level. At this time, the shot ended up taking 15 seconds with a 2.8 aperture and ISO 200, resulting in soft water, of course. A nice detail I like is the light of the ship you can see at the horizon.

Watch next week for how this same place looks like 5 minutes after sunrise. :)

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Das Stadtbad Gotha wurde 1906-09 nach den Plänen von Stadtbaurat Wilhelm Goette (1873-1927) in den Formen des späten Jugendstils errichtet. Das Bad wird in den nächsten Jahren Saniert.

The old Citybath Gotha was build 1906-09 in the Art Nouveau - Jugendstil. The bath will be refurbished in the next years.

Just to break my streak of wintry scenes,(Breaking the ice! LOL)

here is one of my shots last summer.

I'm already excited about summer while

Spring is yet to come. :-)

You all have a great weekend!

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Das Stadtbad Gotha wurde 1906-09 nach den Plänen von Stadtbaurat Wilhelm Goette (1873-1927) in den Formen des späten Jugendstils errichtet. Das Bad wird in den nächsten Jahren Saniert.

The old Citybath Gotha was build 1906-09 in the Art Nouveau - Jugendstil. The bath will be refurbished in the next years.

The life of a west side playa where cowards die

Only in Cali where we riot now rallies are live and die

-- 2Pac

#64/365 When I'm not taking pictures of toys and pretty flowers I like to keep it real and cruise the hood. Happy Thug Thursdays!

There is a lot of details if you view it large..like the picnic tables..and the mound where a dead body was probably dumped.

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34.76@1460 == Gran Madre & Capuccini reflection over river Po bridge 1235-108-80-101-88-118-214-48-37-51

♥ FP and EXPLORE ♥....3-4-09....Best Position #19....THANK YOU to all my wonderful FRIENDS!

* This photograph of pink hyacinths is dedicated to my son's girlfriend, Rebekah. When Rebekah was a little girl she could not pronounce the word "hyacinths" so she called these beautiful flowers "hyenas". So Rebekah, here are your "Pink Hyenas"!

NOTE:THANK YOU FRIENDS for your continual support of my photography, your lovely comments and encouragement and most of all for your enduring friendship.

Enjoy your Wednesday, everyone! ♥

Back to some more archival shots of Moraine Lake in Banff National Park, Alberta

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What:

One from the archives

Where:

Prospect Bay

Nova Scotia, Canada

About:

Sorry folks but I started using Lightroom as my RAW convertor and database/catalog program and have been going through the 50,000+ images on my computer!! Granted many are triplets from bracketing my shots and my many trial compositions etc. Anyway, I came across this and it reminded me of summer. I'm getting a little sick of the cold and ice and I'm sure you're getting tired of my winter shots. I figured I would throw this on the wall to see if would stick! :-)

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or...Cannibal kitty!

Sabor gatinho ou Gatinho canibal (pela orelha que já era, rs..)

"...Sin fajón en la carona

ni lazo atado a los tientos,

traigo un temblor que los vientos

dejaron en mis bordonas,

y una pena en las lloronas

que no quieren alzar vuelo,

porque el rigor del pihuelo

la lleva atada a mi huella,

pa' que no se hagan estrellas

alumbrando desde el cielo..."

Fragmento de "Decimas de Jacinto Luna", de Osíris Rodriguez Castillo

San Antonio de Areco, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina

Amigos, visitem: www.visiteareco.com

Some things just look better Large and on BLACK…… Enjoy!!!

This is the second shot of my Bright Color OverDose (BCOD) series and I’m stating to feel the effects of the overdose. It feels like there is a butterfly flying in my head and I like it.

I wonder what the second symptom will be, but I guess we’ll have to find that out tomorrow.

Have a happy BCOD!!!

Explore: #76

More… More… More…

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Took a trip to the eastside this weekend!

©2009 Jason Swain, All Rights Reserved

This image is not available for use on websites, blogs or other media without the explicit written permission of the photographer.

I couldn't resist taking this shot, even though I know there a lot of sky/sunset shots out there from far more picturesque locations than my kitchen window!

The cloud momentarily looked rather like some kind of cartoonish creature running across the sky...

As a side note, I know the processing may not to be all's taste, but it's surprisingly close to what was actually there. London can manage some pretty good skies when it puts it's mind to it.

per il ciclo AVolteRitornano!

Giorgia - Gocce di memoria

~ A playful mallard greets me at the pond with a few water tossing dunks and flap. ~

I studied ducks for over two years on a daily basis and can tell you many things about how they survive day to day and all about body language. Very unique personalities for each of them and one common love for fresh seeds as posing payment.

I hope everybody is having an outstanding weekend in their own special way and that the happiness of this Mallard may bring a bit of joy to anyone looking for some.

Have a great night / day.. (depending on the World's rotation)

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قلت لك: رآحت علينا ،، قلت لي: باقي أمــل

قلت لك: مات الأمــل ..!

قلت: الله لا يقول

قلت: طيب وش تسمي كل ما صار وحصل؟؟

قلت لي: أزمة وتعدي ،، لازم نلاقي حلول

وضعنا في (الحب) أصبح ،،،

{ قصه وسيرة ومثل ...

لين صار (الحـب) فينا أشبه ~ بطفلـ/ـن خجول !

ما ادري من فينا ظلم !!

ما ادري من فينا عدل !!

ما ادري من فينا تمنى الزعل عمره يطول !!

كل "لحظة" تمر فينا [أصعب] من اللي قبل!

و أعتقد ما عاد لينا (للهوى) .... طعم وقبول

حتى أبيات ،،،

{ المشاعر والأغاني والغزل !!

صرنا نسمعها ،، وحنا لا نحس ولا نقول

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MoDel: MooDy + NooR (Say Mashaaalla PLZ ^^)

тαкεи βγ: мy sis

εdϊτзd βγ: мε ^^