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Speed / action photography practice using seagulls and bits of bread.
To high of an ISO caused grain while using a good depth aperture of f/8, a brighter day would worked better, but it's what I got. Corrected the look using TopazLabs and made it into something other than another deleted pic.
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Hit Explore #21. Also hit Front page. My second Front Page. Thank you so much.
Hirosaki Japan in winter. One from the vaults and remastered.
Shine On, just, shine on!
Close your eyes and they'll all be gone.
They can scream and shout that they've been sold out,
But it paid for the cloud that we're dancing on.
So shine on, just shine on!
With your smile just as bright as the sun.
'Cause they're all just slaves to the Gods they've made,
But you and I just shone.
♫ You'll be in my heart - Phil Collins
Canon EOS 50D
EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM
0.8sec • f/5 • 13 mm • ISO 100
HITECH Filter ND Grad
RAW proccessed with Digital Photo Pro
TIFF proccessed with Adobe Photoshop CS3
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Mt. Tamalpais ( facing west) Marin County, California
Most of the coast in N. California has been covered in fog these past few weeks, so I decided to take the advice of one of my contacts and head above the fog. Around here there seem to be few places high enough to get above the fog, one of them being Mt. Tamalpais. So Monday evening I made a trip out around the coast and into Stinson Beach and up the west side of the mountain. I have spent very little time in this area so I found a little trail and followed it until I had a nice view of the rolling hills with fog in the background.
Five image stitch processed in CS3.
Canon 5D Mark II
24-70 f2.8 L
Lee 0.3 & 0.9 hard edge ND grads
EXPLORE, June 2, 2009, #206
Estava vindo de Saquarema e voltando para a minha casa, quando essa cena bucólica me capturou... o sol estava se pondo e os pescadores aproveitando a última luz do dia.
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Assignment: Earth, Wind & Fire
Earth, Wind & Fire - Let's Groove
- www.last.fm/music/Earth,+Wind+&+Fire/_/Let's+Groove
About:
Still in the week of the Earth, Wind & Fire assignment and still shots from my early morning trip on Saturday.
This shot was not really blue nor was it really orange/yellow/red, so I wanted to play around on the white balance a little. I ended up on this greenish look :))
In the sky you'll see a trail. Thor, the great Thunder God, ride the sky at this hour to chase those deadly Jötnar away! This is the trail he leaves behind!
Thor is the protector of all good Vikings. Just to bad that those f**** neo nazis are using the old Norse mythology in there campaign! They are giving the old Norse mythology a bad name in Norway :(
Trond thinks that Thor is looking for his dinner candles :))
I'm still hoping that Thor one day will stop his chariot drawn by the goats Tanngrisnir and Tanngnjóstr and share a meal with me at the camp fire.
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Was trying to get a refraction shot on the weekend on the roses and irises in our garden without much success i might add, but inbetween trying that I got this shot which I quite like for its semi abstract feel
better on B l a c k M a g i c
You will see this Norman style tower as you drive down into Uig from the Portree road. This is not an early Norman Tower it is a much more modern ruin. The Uig Tower was built by Captain Fraser, a notorious landlord of the Kilmuir Estates during the period of the Highland clearances, and was indeed originally used to collect rents from the local crofters.This building was used to house a family in Uig into the 1950s.
Photo of Fraser's Folly or Uig Tower taken Uig - Isle of Skye - Scotland
U ziet deze ronde toren als u rijdt naar Uig via de Portree weg. Dit is niet een oude Noormannen Toren maar een veel moderne ruïne. De Uig Tower werd gebouwd door Captain Fraser, een beruchte huisbaas van de Kilmuir landgoederen en werd oorspronkelijk gebruikt voor het verzamelen van de huurprijzen van de lokale boeren. Dit gebouw werd gebruikt als huis van een gezin in Uig in de jaren 1950.
Beinn an Eòin and Beinn Mhòr Chòigich, seen across Loch Bad a' Ghaill. The name of this loch translates as 'loch of the place of the stranger'.
(Note to potential photographers - the midges were unbelievably bad here!)
Best viewed Large on Black.
This little duckling didn't want to hang around to have it's picture taken!! I still got a nice shot though as it fled back to it's family! :-)
Another re-post, i hope you like!
Hope all my friends have a wonderful week...... be happy! :-)
Love Carl xx
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Explore on 1 June 2009. Highest position #9.
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Music: Harvey Danger - Flagpole Sitta
Enough of those black and white for now ;) I am a fan of colours and so I decided to put some colours up again. Since it is already the beginning of the summer (at least that's what the meteorologists say) I was almost forced to put some nice summer colours up!
Today Marko and me were driving around our hometown in search of one field or the other :-) (So more cheesy flower pictures to come)
10 / 6 / 2003 .....10 / 6 / 2009.....dedicata alla Dott.ssa Maria Teresa N .
Ho cercato ed aspettato un po di tempo per fare due scatti da dedicare a questa Grande donna . secondo scatto , " Tracce di vita " scattata sulla spiaggia di Rimini !!!
.....Perché non esistono scorciatoie a nulla: non certo alla salute, non alla felicità o alla saggezza. Niente di tutto questo può essere istantaneo. Ognuno deve cercare a modo suo, ognuno deve fare il proprio cammino, perché uno stesso posto può significare cose diverse a seconda di chi lo visita.
Tiziano Terzani
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Venerdì 12, sabato 13 e domenica 14 giugno 2009, si tiene a Rimini la seconda edizione di “Mare di Libri”, il Festival riservato alla letteratura per adolescenti.
Mare di Libri è un festival dedicato al divertimento culturale, un luogo di appuntamento per tutti i ragazzi che amano i libri e la lettura, che così hanno la possibilità di incontrare altri coetanei che condividono le loro passioni. Il festival è anche un’occasione di riflessione per tutti coloro che si interessano dell’adolescenza e della letteratura per ragazzi.
Rimini 30 . 5 . 2009
On our visit to Central park last week we went to the Zoo for the first time, and caught this sealion cruising around. I think he must be shy as his eyes were closed in every shot I got of him :)
Hope everyone had a good weekend
In Shock this made Front page in 3 hours, thanks to all your support, comments and Fav's
Personally I think this looks way better on B l a c k M a g i c
#148/365 Talking about cutting it close! I didn't have a shot so I went in my daughter's bedroom turned on the light and sat her up and ask her to smile for me (the things my kids put up with!). The kids are going to Disneyland tomorrow (luckty them) with the grandparents. My daughter wanted her hair wavey...so my wife braided it for the first time. The shot is a tad overexposed but I kind of like it. Happy Snapshot Thursday!
Strobist: Rayring flash mounted on a SB-800 on camera.
About the photo:
A spike and rail road track.
About the process:
I wanted to do a lot with this photo. I tried B&W, I tried sepia, but in the end I decided it was just better off left alone. I added an overlay to heighten the contrast and I added a selective high-pass filter. No cropping
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giusto per divertimento... / just for fun
William Blake : The Fly
Little fly,
Thy summer’s play
My thoughtless hand
Has brushed away.
Am not I
A fly like thee?
Or art not thou
A man like me?
For I dance
And drink and sing,
Till some blind hand
Shall brush my wing.
If thought is life
And strength and breath,
And the want
Of thought is death,
Then am I
A happy fly,
If I live,
Or if I die.
William Blake (1757-1827)
The ladies usually meet him during casual walks in parks… soft talk, vulnerable look and sweet blueberry eyes…
Once the first contact is established, he begins to tell his sad and sour tale…
He start by telling them that even though he looks like a lime-frog, ‘deep inside’ he’s a real prince, stranded from his true destiny by deceitful and unfortunately events in his life.
He also tells them he has a beautiful Kingdom in a far, far away land awaiting for his glorious return along with his new Queen, the women of his dreams and the one that with a kiss, has ended all his suffering and saved him from his cruel lime-frog destiny...
So far… 435 romantic women have believed in him.
However, more victims are still being accounted for…
So if you see this frog around… don't believe his apparently sweet blueberry eyes and whatever happens, don't fall for his 'kissing scam!'
...because most of the times in our lives a man is just a man, a frog is just a frog, a lime is just a lime and above all... a lime-frog is just a lime-frog.
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Explore #169 on May 26, 2009.
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The Pannonian Plain is a large plain in Central Europe that remained when the Pliocene Pannonian Sea dried out. It is a geomorphological subsystem of the Alps-Himalaya system.
The river Danube divides the plain roughly in half.
The plain is divided among Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine.
The plain is roughly bounded by the Carpathian mountains, the Alps, the Dinaric Alps and the Balkan mountains.
Although rain is not plentiful, it usually falls when necessary and the plain is a major agricultural area; it is sometimes said that these fields of rich loamy loess soil could feed the whole of Europe. For its early settlers, the plain offered few sources of metals or stone. Thus when archaeologists come upon objects of obsidian or chert, copper or gold, they have almost unparalleled opportunities to interpret ancient pathways of trade.
The precursor to the present plain was a shallow sea that reached its greatest extent during the Pliocene, when three to four kilometres of sediments were deposited.
The plain was named after the Pannonians, a northern Illyrian tribe. Various different peoples inhabited the plain during its history. In the first century BC, the eastern parts of the plain belonged to the Dacian state, and in the first century AD its western parts were subsumed into the Roman Empire. The Roman province named Pannonia was established in the area, and the city of Sirmium, today Sremska Mitrovica, Serbia, became one of the four capital cities of the Roman Empire in the 3rd century.
#146/365 Before Voltron and GI-Joe there was G-Force (aka Battle of the Planets). I remember watching this cartoon everyday after school...oh the memories. I debated whether to use these figures or something more well known ones like (legos or star wars) but in the end the bird customs & nostalgia won out. Happy Strobist Toy Tuesdays!
Strobist: I decided to post a setup shot ala Dustin Diaz style. Basic strobist setup then processed it with more of a retro tone. Click here for the setup
Explore # 405, 25. Mai 2009
Feld-Sandlaufkäfer (Cicindela campestris) gesehen in den Weinbergen
Green tiger beetle seen in the vineyards
EXPLORE: Highest position: # 10, may 26, 2009
Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica.
F/Sttop F/22
Shutter Speed 1/2 sec
iso 100
I feel so blessed witnessing such a magnificient gift from nature. Nature never disappoint me. This sunrise in Kuala Lumpur took my breath away, the sun was emitting some serious "drop dead gorgeous" tones across the sky.
That's why it is so hard letting go of my S5 IS. It has amazing capabilities to take nature shots coupled with its megazoom and versatility. My DSLR can not even deliver me a focus of the sun's yolk. Either that, or I'm just no good? =(
I need to travel so bad! I'm thinking of an island-hop this July, maybe to Langkawi followed by Terengganu and Penang, how bout that?
Explored |May 25, 2009 #86
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We had an unusual, clear and very dark sky last night. We are about 3000km from the closest city light... I do not often get this opportunity and had to use it! I tried my best to find the celestial southpole and by analyzing the milkyway for a moment, composed this shot.... and waited......and waited.......!
This is about a 23min exposure at f2.8 with the Nikkor fisheye.
Winter is creeping in on the island and with cold nights I was kind of worried about my baby, standing out there in the cold for so long, but we both survived, there was some condensation on the "eye" which I thought would spoil the shot, but we got lucky...It was worth it!
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Taken at Guanlan Mountain and Lake Garden Farm
Guanlan, Shenzhen China
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Another take/frame from my night last summer at Steens Mountain, Oregon (one of the darkest night skies found in the lower 48 states). Not a bad place to be for shooting stars!
Notes: I slightly differently processed this one, focusing on keeping the sky darker than I normally do (thoughts are appreciated). Thus it might lose something in the small view, so please do view large. It was taken just after peak of the Perseid Meteor Shower so I was pretty sure it was a shooting star, but I checked due to the shape of the streak to see if it was an Iridium Flare. The online calculator at Heavens-Above Calculator does not indicate any predicted flares for the time period this was taken, thus I am going to assume this is indeed a leftover Perseid Meteor. I believe there is also at least one additional faint Perseids that you can only see in the large view as well.
Edit: in response to those who are saying it's more likely an unrelated meteor not from the Perseid Meteor Shower, you could very well be right. I continue to hedge my bets on this one. Although, as I mentioned earlier, I discount the satellite flare theory since no online calculators predicted one for this location and time (I would love if it were, they are harder to get, heh). So if you came here from the flickr blog and are now thinking, well geeze this isn't even at the peak of Perseids and it might not even be one, I offer this shot of mine from the 2009 Perseid Shower that is definitely one. ;-)))