The clouds cleared out just in time for this long-exposure nightscape image taken during one of my night photography workshops in Arches National Park. And with no moonlight, just a little reflected light pollution from the little town of Moab, Utah, the lighting was amazing! So with swirling milky way skies over the Three Gossips (on the left), we set up for a some great long-exposure images...

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"The Old Mill was the watermill of Hobbiton, owned and run by the Sandyman Family. The Old Mill was a corn mill powered by a large water wheel. It lay directly adjacent to the bridge across the Water and next to the Old Grange as well."

This is the water mill that can be seen in the Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring when Gandalf arrives in Hobbiton for Bilbo's birthday and crosses the bridge. I hope you will enjoy it, I apologize in advance for the photo, I didn't managed, unfortunately, to capture the water.

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Cars and vans being transported across the country by train, taken from the footbridge at Claremorris Railway Station in Co. Mayo.

Photographer: James P. O'Dea

Date: September 1950

NLI Ref.: ODEA 4/42

Welcome to a small piece of a tropical rainforest with a running waterfall, intricate rocks and exotic fauna inhabited by tree frogs, a chameleon and more.

Enjoy the Video to see the running water, and various details like the leaky cave :)

This build started as wanting to to have a running waterfall/fountain. We started with an upside down Belleville baseplate to hold the water, which also meant that the entire build was stared upside-down. The transition to going right side up was used to create various rock work and give us interesting angles. The pump and stickers are the only non Lego elements included. The background itself is taken from a Lego Chima poster.

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This was created for our Iron Builder against the Erickson Brothers, and uses the green flexible spike as large ferns, chameleon paws, turtle feet, a water lilly, a budding willow branch and more.

These two cute baby Barred Owls were perched in an Ear Tree last spring. The owl on the left had just fledged the nest that day and the one on the right had fledged a few days earlier. You can see that the bird on the left has more down and less feathers than the bird on the right.

It looks like I was close but I was actually about 100 feet away. The shot is fairly heavily cropped. The light was a bit uneven but I don't use flash on owls, so I was pleased with the way this turned out.

Taken in the Orlando area, Orange County, Central Florida, USA

Canon Rebel XSi and Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM

Schoorl / Camperduin - Noord Holland

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The Burg Gutenfels (also known as castle Kaub) is a castle 110m above the town of Kaub in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It was build in 1220. It was used with Pfalzgrafenstein Castle in the middle of the Rhein and the fortified city of Kaub on the far side to provide an impenetrable toll zone for the Holy Roman Emperor until Prussia purchased the area (1866) and ended this toll in 1867. The Castle is in part of the Rhine Gorge, a UNESCO World Heritage Site added in 2002.

Kaub (old spelling: Caub) is a town in Germany, state Rhineland-Palatinate, district Rhein-Lahn-Kreis. It is part of the municipality (Verbandsgemeinde) Loreley. It is located on the right bank of the Rhine, approx. 50 km west from Wiesbaden.

It has a Roman Catholic and an Evangelical church, and a statue of General Blücher. The trade mainly consists of the wines of the district. (Wikipedia)

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One of my goals for 2013 was to take some long exposure night photos and to get some shots of lightning. So here is another experimental shot. This was the first night I ever tried talking lightning photos...

This photo was taken from the observation walkway on "city key", Sarasota Florida across from the Sarasota Sailing Squadron, close to the Mote Marine Aquarium facing toward Coon Key.St. Armands Circle is to the right. The tall building in the center is Plymouth Harbor, a local retirement community.

Thanks for taking a look. As always comments and constructive advice is always appreciated.

Mike

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Camera.......................Nikon D600

Exposure....................20

Aperture......................f/4.5

Focal Length..............55 mm

ISO Speed..................100

Here's a little slice of a fantasy ocean :)

This is an entry for Iron Builder against the Erickson Brothers, utilizing the green flexible spike as mermaid fins, corals, and palm trees.

¡gracias Angel, por esa gran caminata en tu maravillosa ciudad, besos, los extrañamos mucho!

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A cloud is a visible mass of liquid droplets or frozen crystals made of water or various chemicals suspended in the atmosphere above the surface of a planetary body. These suspended particles are also known as aerosols. Clouds in Earth's atmosphere are studied in the cloud physics branch of meteorology. Two processes, possibly acting together, can lead to air becoming saturated; cooling the air or adding water vapor to the air. In general, precipitation will fall to the surface; an exception is virga, which evaporates before reaching the surface.

The international cloud classification system is based on the fact clouds can show free-convective upward growth like cumulus, appear in non-convective layered sheets such as stratus, or take the form of thin fibrous wisps, as in the case of cirrus. Prefixes are used in connection with clouds: strato- for low clouds with limited convection that form mostly in layers, nimbo- for thick layered clouds that can produce moderate to heavy precipitation, alto- for middle clouds, and cirro- for high clouds.

While a majority of clouds form in Earth's troposphere, there are occasions when clouds in the stratosphere and mesosphere can be observed. These three main layers of the atmosphere where clouds may be seen are collectively known as the homosphere. Above this lies the thermosphere and exosphere, which together make up the heterosphere that marks the transition to outer space. Clouds have been observed on other planets and moons within the Solar System, but, due to their different temperature characteristics, they are composed of other substances such as methane, ammonia, and sulfuric acid.

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The clutter of car traffic and how it changes streetscapes is really evident in this one compared to our earlier, more open, street scenes. We believed this to be some time between 1930 and 1950. And though it'd be really great if we could tie down a date based on cars, businesses, height of trees (only joking about that last one, but who knows?).

And so the 2 decade range (c.1930-1950) was indeed narrowed to 2 years or so (c.1948-1950).

Date: Catalogue range c.1930-1950. Though likely c.1948-1950.

NLI Ref.: VAL 2251

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En verano Peña Ubiña es bastante accesible, sólo hace falta salvar un desnivel cercano a 1200 m desde el pueblo de Torrebarrio.

En el primer plano podemos ver el sendero que baja de Peña Ubiña, y alcanza las praderías del collado del Ronzón, después de dejar atrás el inclinado y serpenteante sendero entre rocas que baja de la cumbre. Enfrente tenemos Ubiña La Pequeñas con 2197 m de altitud.

VER vídeo de este ascenso:

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In summer Peña Ubiña is quite accessible, just need to save a slope close to 1200 m from the village of Torrebarrio.

In the foreground we can see the path down Ubiña Peña, and reaches the pastures of the hill of Ronzón, after leaving behind the steep and winding path through rocks coming down from the summit. Before us Ubiña The Small with 2197 m altitude.

"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed:

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."

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This was another find on a recent Collembola hunt, this is a male Calvatomina rufescens, I experimented with a blue background in this one. There is a fallen tree near where I look for these that makes a convenient outdoor studio, I rest the subject on the tree and I can then place a background behind the subject, I often use a small LED to throw a bit of light on the subject and the tree makes for a very stable work surface. This guy was a very small one at just over 1mm at a guess, also one of the prettiest examples I have found to date :o)

Anyway, this is an 11 image handheld focus stack, it is a rare opportunity to get a stack of one of these as they can be quite active little fellows. Again I used my MP-E at x5 on my 1.4x teleconverter and a 12mm extension tube. These are supposed to something of a rarity in the UK, but there are loads at the local woods, it could be they are under recorded :o)

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This is another shot from the watergate in Fort Augustus (Loch Ness). The mood realy was great in the evening after the rain!

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Esta semana otra vertical, parece que últimamente me encuentro a gusto con este formato, dicen que es más complicado distribuir elementos de esta manera , pero en mi opinión si son pocos y jugando con un primer plano y un fondo interesante se pueden conseguir perspectivas con una eficaz sensación de profundidad y además se consigue siempre centrar mucho más la atención sobre lo verdaderamente interesante de la escena. No escogí el formato yo, más bien creo que el formato últimamente me escoge a mí y luego me busco la vida para hacer lo que puedo con lo que tengo delante de la cámara...no se ,divagaciones mias.....

-Técnica: Para la escena de hoy ND 64 de B&W ,más inverso de dos pasos de Hi Tech mas Black Card, ésta la utilizé poniéndola perpendicular al eje del horizonte ( para estas ocasiones tengo una estrechita de unos 2 cm) intentando reservar el cielo sin tapar en exceso los farallones.Con este tipo de escenas en las que las nubes blancas reciben la luz cálida del atardecer hay que tener cuidado con la exposición, pues la representación del histograma en la pantalla de la cámara (un jpg que realiza la propia cámara), puede aparecer dentro de gráfica pero realmente cuando abres la imagen en el procesador de RAWs, en mi caso DPP, los rojos, si hacemos una selección por canales, suelen estar quemados en las luces altas, es por esto que mi recomendación es que intenteis tender a subexponer al menos un paso, ya que después será más fácil recuperar zonas algo oscuras en edición que salvar luces quemadas.

Los datos exif los podreis encontrar en la WEB.

-COMPOSICIÓN: La compo resultó fácil en un principio, buscaba una triangulación de elementos entre las roquitas del primer plano y los farallones, tras la primera toma mi sorpresa fue descubrir que las trasparencias del agua dejaban entrever algunas formas del fondo bastante interesantes, sólo tuve que reencuadrar y controlar la exposición.Las nubes en el cielo me echaron una mano aderezando el fondo.

-Edición: En el DPP de Canon ,balance de blancos, por canales bajar un punto la exposición de los rojos,curvas.En PS contraste por zonas.

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Looking over Loch Long and the Firth of Clyde with Rosneath and then Gare Loch to the left

At 142 metres, it was the world's tallest building from 1647 to 1874

64 sec exposure, using a ND1000. I wanted an even longer exposure, but I already had to set the lens to f/22. I forgot about ISO 50 though...

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Out west in the desert, the climate is pretty harsh. Everything out here has to be tough to survive. Even the vegetables. I had to cut these guys with a hacksaw. A dirty, rusty one at that. Don't look at me that way, they insisted. Now if you don't mind, I'm gonna go have me a nice cold glass of milk. In a dirty glass of course.

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The invention of Photography was public announced on this day in 1839 in Paris

Taken on a summer morning at Mead Gardens in Winter Park, Florida.

Canon Rebel XSi and Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM

Día perfecto subiendo cerca de las termas de Pelehue, a unos 2200 metros de altura. Al fondo, el volcán Lonquimay, cerro Lancú y volcán Tolhuaca.

Valle de Ránquil, Región de la Araucanía, Chile central.

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She was with us every day - from the day she was born until we had to say goodbye 18 years later.

Ronjas Milly (Norwegian Forest Cat), 03.06.2007

Reposted for the "Happy Caturday" theme "From your archives".

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International Space Station passing Cassiopea heading for Andromeda Galaxy. Shot from a Plymouth back garden

As derangedlemur solved today's mystery image in about 30 seconds, presenting today's bonus photograph - the paddle steamer Sibyl (libations to all the maritime gods that for once the name is clear!) on the River Blackwater near Cappoquin in Co. Waterford.

Photographer: Probably Robert French of Lawrence Photographic Studios, Dublin

Date: Circa 1900??

NLI Ref.: L_CAB_05845

Mountain panorama in the Rofan Mountains - Tyrol, Austria

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Taxi driver waiting for a fare (and chatting to another driver leaning on his car?) at the rank in Dublin's O'Connell Street beside the Sacred Heart Shrine.

Photographer: Elinor Wiltshire

Date: Summer 1964

NLI Ref.: WIL 10[6]

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The Supermoon illuminates the empty pebble beach of El Peñón as the night falls on Salobreña (Spain). The lights of the small fishing town of La Caleta shine in the background. Playa del Peñón.

Salobreña, Granada, Andalucía, Spain.

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Nikon D800 | Nikkor AF-S 14-24 mm f/2.8G ED at 16mm | Induro AT213 tripod + BHL2 ballhead

151s (2min 31s) | f/11 | ISO 100

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… with just the prow of the Rothesay Bay showing.

Date: Between October and December 1889 or between July 1890 and mid-1899

NLI Ref.: L_CAB_06638

The daily flickr blog featured a Gallery of "Pretty Panoramas" and this image was included, resulting in thousands of views!

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Though I've seen pictures of Crater Lake for many years, I had never seen it in person before today. You cannot believe the deep jewel tone of blue until you see it yourself ! The lake is one of the purest and clearest in the world. It is self-contained - no streams flow in or out of the caldera. It is fed entirely by the annual snowmelt by the 44 feet annual snowfall ! There are still a few patches of snow here and there around the rim.

It would be nice to be here when there are big puffy clouds in the sky, so we'll just have to come back again. The season here is very short - June through September. It is snowed in the rest of the year and they do not snow plow the rim drive.

This is a 7-image panorama covering just under 180 degrees.

I've heard from others that mosquitoes can be vicious here; but we saw only a few. They enjoyed snacking on my tender skin until I slathered it with Deet ! I think the skeeter problem diminishes after most of the snow is melted and there is no standing water.

If you have a moment, look at the largest size to see the astonishing amount of beautiful geological detail created 7,700 years ago by a violent volcano !

(No, that is not the name of a 1960's Merseyside pop band.)

Turning away from the lake as we head north now toward Brussels, we pass over the La Côte vineyards by Gilly & Bursins. The farm in the clearing in the forest has its own name, according to Google (which of course knows everything and therefore must be right): Pomeiry.

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In May I traveled to the Big Island of Hawaii for a week long vacation and there were 2 things I was most looking forward to: scuba diving with the Manta Rays and seeing hot scalding lava. The trip delivered everything and more! A lot of back and forth decisions finally led my friends and I to sign up for an evening lava tour with Kalapani Cultural Tours.

The hike out to the lava wasn't too bad -- about 2 miles along mostly flat lava. Our guides LOVED to talk about the lava but unfortunately they couldn't seem to do it while we walked. We spent so much time stopped 'resting' that our arrival time started getting dangerously close to the best light. At first we came upon the surface flow -- where some of the lava had bubbled over and began to creep along the surface. After taking my picture 2 feet away from 2,000 degree lava I decided I wanted to go see the ocean flow.

The lava conditions change every day. A lava bench that was around yesterday may have fallen off and will be completely gone the next morning. When I arrived there was no safe viewing spot close up to the lava. I had to stay far back, high on a cliff, and used the 80-200mm telephoto to get nice and intimate with the lava. On this evening the lava was flowing so fast that there was a TON of steam everywhere. More steam than I would have liked.

As we watched the sun set, 2 new streams of lava broke through the tube and made their way down into the ocean. You can see them on the far right of the photo.

Check out my blog entry for more photos and more info on shooting the lava: blog.aaronmphotography.com/2013/07/18/big-island-lava-adv...

Nikon D800 w/Nikkor 80-200mm:

145mm, f/6.3, 0.4 sec, ISO 800

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PANORAMA DAL CAMPANILE DI GIOTTO.

A fianco del Duomo si trova il Campanile di Giotto, uno dei campanili più belli d'Italia. Alto 84 metri e di forma squadrata, risplende di marmi bianchi, rossi e verdi. Raggiungendo la cima del campanile, dopo 414 scalini, si potrà ammirare da vicino la Cupola del Brunelleschi e osservare un bellissimo panorama della città.

FOTOCOMPOSIZIONE DI 3 IMMAGINI.

CANON EOS 600D con ob. SIGMA 10-20 f./4-5,6 EX DC HSM.

"When the door opens, it must be a troll, which is in the frame. His house seems to fear that threatens from above misfortune. This does not seem far-fetched, because above it rumbles and rattles. ......" (Source Stuttgarter Zeitung).

The only article where I could find more about it, but unfortunately only in German.)

What do you think, what came first ... the houses or the railway bridge?

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"Wenn sich die Tür auftut, muss es ein Troll sein, der im Rahmen steht. Sein Haus scheint zu fürchten, dass von oben Unheil droht. Das scheint nicht abwegig, denn oben rumpelt es und rattert. ...." (Quelle Stuttgarter Zeitung).

Es war der einzige Artikel, wo ich ein wenig mehr darüber finden konnte.

Aber .... was meint ihr, was war zuerst da ... die Häuser oder die Brücke?

Ich denke auch das Viadukt, mich irritierte der Satz „Es scheint, als stünden sie trotzig und wollten nicht weichen, weil schließlich sie sich zuerst hier niedergelassen haben."

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After I was taking the photos with the ND filter, the sun came out for a really short time. I liked the contrast between the warm light on the rocks in front, to the cold, metallic look of the background.

Here is the first one:

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Quedlinburg is a town located north of the Harz mountains, in the district of Harz in the west of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. In 1994 the medieval court and the old town was set on the UNESCO world heritage list.

In the innermost parts of the town a wide selection of half-timbered buildings from at least five different centuries are to be found (including a 14th-century structure, one of Germany's oldest), while around the outer fringes of the old town there are wonderful examples of Jugendstil buildings, dating from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Quedlinburg is one of the best-preserved medieval and renaissance towns in Europe, having escaped major damage in World War II. (Wikipedia)

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