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Singapore 44th National Day Parade 2009
No PP, Just KISS, SOOC
No exotics fruits !
Buachaille Etive Mor is one of the most beautiful mountains and its more N peak, Stob Dearg is a magnet for climbers, hillwalkers and photographers. Buachaille Etive Mor is orientated SW to NE with its two munros at either end of a long winding ridge. Stob na Broige lies at the SW end of the ridge overlooking Glen Etive. As this end of the ridge is steep and craggy, the normal ascent routes are on the crest of the ridge from Stob Dearg, or by an ascent to the col between Stob Coire Altruim and Stob na Doire, either from the path to the W in Laraig Gartain or from the road in Glen Etive to the E
let's have a coffee break! :))) Happy weekend Flickr friends!!
explore #157
thanks everyone for the views, comments, faves and invites!
The Grand Canyon is unmatched throughout the world for the vistas it offers to visitors on the rim. The Grand Canyon is known for its overwhelming size and its intricate and colorful landscape. Geologically it is significant because of the thick sequence of ancient rocks that are beautifully preserved and exposed in the walls of the canyon.
The uplift of the Colorado Plateau is uneven, and the north-south trending Kaibab Plateau that Grand Canyon bisects is over a thousand feet higher at the North Rim (about 1,000 ft/300 m) than at the South Rim. The fact that the Colorado River flows in a curve around the higher North Rim part of the Kaibab Plateau and closer to the South Rim part of the plateau is also explained by this asymmetry. - Courtesy wiki.
I preferred the North rim to the South. Mostly coz less people around and I prefer that any day, the reason being it takes an additional 200 odd miles from the south rim and many do not wanna do that.I was amazed by the sheer magnificence of this place.It really makes you feel humbled.I have so many shots of this wonderful place. I hope in the days to come, I can share some more of it and provide some more info about this marvel of nature! This was shot at dusk at Cape Royal in the North Rim.This beautiful formation is known as the Angel Arch.
I know I have not kept good pace with my uploads. I spend most of the time catching up with all your wonderful creations that I hardly find time to spend time on mine :) I hope to catch up soon though! Thanks for viewing and have a great weekend!
Canon EOS 450D + Peleng 8mm 3.5 Fisheye
HDR (One RAW) (-2/-1/0/+1/+2)
Explore - Highest position: 139 on Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Foto tomada desde el Circulo de Bellas Artes, con el Peleng (y mucho trabajo).
HDR unido con photomatix y retocado con Dynamic photo HDR.
Tratada con fisheye-hemi y manualmente para eliminar las esquinas.
Y si, el horizonte queda en medio de la foto, pero para hacerla con un ojo de pez no quedan mas narices... y no me apetecia recortar ni el cielo ni la parte de la ciudad...
On the third day of the trip I took the boys to go shoot some paintball guns at a range just outside of Hirafu town, as they had been pestering me for so long to do so. Boys had seen lots of my old photos when I used to play paintball back in Texas, along with airsoft here in Japan, thus their interest.
Afterwards hit a dairy farm on the Higashiyama side of the Niseko resort for some freshmade icecream and horseback riding.
Non-HDR shot of lovely wife Chizuko and I taking in the beautiful Hokkaido upcountry view.
Hokkaido, Japan.
Shot at lowtide. These ships are lying at the seafloor. Six hours later it will be hightide , and the vessels can continue their journey.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aN2eJYoW3-8 Weather report suite
EXPLORE # 247
Cory Aquino will be buried* today, Wednesday, August 5, 2009. The funeral procession is not even half-way to the Manila Memorial Park as of this posting. A requiem mass was celebrated at the Manila Cathedral and the late President was given military honors. About some minutes past 11 am, Philippine time, the coffin was placed in a flower bedecked truck to begin the funeral cortege (procession). Six lane highways became one lane. People crowded the streets. Indeed Cory Magic is still with the people even in death. They shouted Cory! Cory! Cory!
* From the start of the mass at 9 am to the final minutes of the burial, the entire proceedings lasted almost 12 hours up to 8:30 pm.
The poem "I Have Fallen in Love (With the Same Woman Three Times)" was composed by her husband, the assassinated Benigno S. Aquino when the family was still in Boston, Mass., USA.. It was adapted to music by Jose Mari Chan, a famous Filipino composer and singer.
Happy Tall Ship Tuesday everyone! LOL
What:
The tall ship "STV Unicorn", a 118' schooner.
Where:
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
When:
During the Tall Ships Festival of 2009
About:
From the website:
Built in Holland in 1947, STV Unicorn partners with Sisters Under Sail Corporation to deliver a non-profit leadership development program for teenage girls, whose mission is to build confidence, enhance self-esteem, develop social conscience and teach the value of sisters working together towards a common goal. The vessel welcomes young women from around the globe to sail aboard with Unicorn's all-female professional crew. Unicorn also partners with BeamPines Inc., a Human Resources Consulting Firm in New York City, to offer on-board executive development and team building programming. Chart Your Course, an on-board women's leadership program, is just one of the successful executive programs that has brought together executive women from Fortune 100 Companies to small business owners.
Flag: USA
Rig: Topsail Schooner
Class: B
Homeport: Clinton, New Jersey
Normal Cruising Waters: Long Island Sound, New England
Sparred Length: 118'
Draft: 96'
Sail Area: 9,688 square feet
Hull: Steel
Links:
Tall Ships Festival: www.tallshipsnovascotia.com/
STV Unicorn website: www.tallshipunicorn.com
Location: Barangay Caliclic ,Samal Island
Davao del Norte
*Taken from the rest house of my friend Marivic Quiambao-Pascual .
HAVE A HAPPY TUESDAY TO ALL !
What the Champs Elysees and the arc de triumph is for the people in Paris
is the Ludwigstrasse and the victory gate for the people in munich. (Pretty likely it was also copied from Paris). I worked there at this place during my study times and it was all the time nice for me to cross the street exactly at this point day and night ;-)
For the story & technique behind this shot, please visit my blog: world.werner-kunz.com
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My husband's rock from when he was little. :) Florabella Textures: Champagne 30% (overlay), Tea Stained 25% (overlay), and "Vintage Autumn" 20% from Set II (ready soon)... see my profile ♥
As target practise for my safari trip in September '09 to Kenya and Tanzania I took my new sigma 120-400mm f4.5-5.6 apo dg os hsm to the Zoo.
Explore Highest Position: #31 on August 3, 2009.
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So I was recently tagged by both PollyPreppyPants and Gareth Weeks! This is a little "party" I had that involved Guitar Hero, tequila, whiskey and security not doing much of securing!
Here are 10 things are may not know about me:
1. I'm 25, very soon to be 26
2. I've been to Disneyworld 3 times
3. I went to college an hour from Canada but never went there
4. I can speak German, and am learning Italian
5. I just left my beloved Blackberry for an iPhone (great decision!)
6. I own 902 DVD's
7. I played baseball for 17 years
8. I'm a financial analyst for a global organization
9. I don't like to sleep in, it wastes too much of the day
10. I love to travel more than anything!
Thank you friends, for all of your views and comments!!!
Back to the HDR tomorrow!
Explored August 1, #479
6 pictures Stitched Panorama/Vertorama
To be there is a gift but to fly in the middle is magic
I have had 2 flight, one the evening and one the morning.
This one was the morning one.
Thanks to:
Pilote KLOSEK Wlodzimierz co pilote WALCZAK Rysiek
for the invitation to fly on them Polish hot-air balloon
and to
Claudine and Alain
for them last minutes hospitality.
Between ground and sky , I count 182 balloons!!! + all the others who take off before us.
Another multiple me experiment!
Explored July 31, #57
Thanks a lot for all of your comments and views, and have a great weekend!
Explore #86 on Friday July 31, 2009
Khu has told me this many times… Here we are at a lovely spot I love and go to see many times. Its near Hang Da village, where most are master basket weavers who supply the region. Here she said again “I can see the spirits now…”
The Black Hmong are the 3rd largest minority in Vietnam with nearly 900,000 people. In the Sapa region there are about 35,000 Black Hmong residing in the surrounding 17 villages and they account for about 50% of the area population. Most reside at an altitude of 1,600 – 1,700 meters above sea level in this stunningly beautiful region they call “the city above the clouds”. The Hmong started migrating to Vietnam from China in the last 300 years.
In this region about half the Hmong are Catholic and half animistic. They live of the land growing rice and corn and they all believe in the spirits.
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Nikon FA, Nikkor 35mm f/2, Fomapan Creative 200.
See you at the end of summer.
This picture will be exposed in the Trieste townhall from 1 to 8 September.
Just when I'm back.
Questa foto verrà esposta nella sala d'arte del Municipo di trieste al 1 al 8 Settembre.
Se siete della zona e volete vederla dal vivo. Io il primo sono lì.
",,,A los baguales criollos, de azarosa
historia de fortín y tolderías,
hijos de aquellos que en lejanos días
nos dejara don Pedro de Mendoza...
Fui jinete de espuela y guardamonte
y le pago mí deuda al compañero:
al picazo, al lobuna, al estrellero
al de la selva virgen y al del monte...
Porque soy una crianza de capayos
con la leche robusta de la sierra,
le debía a los gauchos de mi tierra
el romance de todos sus caballos..."
Fragmento de "Romance de los caballos", de Buenaventura Luna
Fuente: gauchoguacho.blogspot.com/
San Antonio de Areco, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Amigos, visitem: www.visiteareco.com
Some quality time between Ken and Grayson.
(Challenge: How many places in the image above can you find "rule of thirds"?)
Regalo 6 preset di mia creazione" Vintage Look" per Lightroom, se siete interessati richiedete il link per il download tramite flickr mail ; )
I give 6 free presets created by me, "Vintage Look" for Lightroom, if you're interested, ask the link for download, via flickr mail. ; )
So, as my last, and only other, self portrait was quite well received, I thought I'd try another, and as shots where I get my feet wet often turn out well I decided to incorporate that as well by deliberately getting my feet wet this time, but there is more to this than meets the eye. This is where I grew up and I spent many a day by the harbour, beach and sea in North Berwick, however this was a pretty special sunset and there was an additional treat in store; as I stood for 30 seconds while this shot was taking, I saw a splash out to sea and then another, and then I saw something I've never seen in all my years standing looking out over this view... a pod of dolphins. For some of you that might be a common sight but not here... a very magical moment.
Oh and this was with my new camera :o)
This shot is dedicated to Yasmin Ahmad, who was one of the best directors from Malaysia. Sadly, she suffered a stroke and passed away last week.
Do check this out if you got the time: Funeral. This is one of my favourite commercials directed by Yasmin.
RIP Yasmin.
I've seen countless versions of this kind of shot and have always wanted to try one - regardless of how much of a cliche it might be.
The title should be humorous to anyone who knows a bit of French. For those of you who are Franco-impaired, eau is French for water....and it's pronounced "oh". Besides, calling this pic "Hair Spray" was just too obvious, making it even more of a cliche. At least I have what I think is an original title, even if the pic idea isn't so original.
Whoever did this style of shot first certainly deserves kudos for inspiring a lot of wannabe photographers.
Thanks to my young cousin Claire who was a very cooperative first-time model.
Explored, July 28, 2009 #5
It was sweet seeing these gentle marine mammals.
I remember giving my wife a manatee toy ( Dugong) when we were still dating.
We stayed here for a while and they were being fed with fresh cabbages when we left.
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Exposure Program: Manual
Exposure: 0.017 sec (1/60)
Aperture: f/2.8
Focal Length: 23 mm
ISO Speed: 500
Also? Adobe Photoshop Elements presets -of a fashion. Until I created the 0rated Presets I had no clue Elements existed. Never heard of it, never used it. I've spent the last couple of days playing with Elements, trying to get the 0rated Presets to work. They do not. However there is a way around it.
Free Presets for PS Elements (6&7) are now available for download off the blog!
How strong is the man whose strength is in You,
In whose heart are the highways to Zion !
They go from strength to strength ,
Every one of them appears before God in Zion .
Psalm 84:5,7
FP & Explore #27
Laugh when you can, apologize when you should, let go of what you can't change. Kiss slowly, play hard, forgive quickly, take chances, give everything and have no regrets. Life's too short to be anything.....but happy.
Enjoy your Monday, my Flickr Friends! ♥
Please, use a few seconds of your time to see the photo in large view!
Questo è il dormitorio dei monaci che curano la famosa chiesetta di San pietro, arroccata sulla scogliera di Portovenere e costruita tra il 1256 e il 1277, in segno di ringraziamento per una vittoria sui Pisani, da sempre acerrimi nemici degli abitanti di zona.
Please don't use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission. © 2009 All rights reserved
jule 2009
From the Official Site:
Along the Great Ocean Road and beyond, you will be able to experience some of the world's most breathtaking coastal regions. See huge cliffs, raging surf, tranquil bays, lush rainforests,and fascinating wildlife.
Details:
Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mk II
Lens: Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L II USM
Exposure: 13 exposures (-2,-1.66.-1.33,-1,-.66,-.33,0,+.33,+.66,+1,+1.33,+1.66+2 EV)
Aperture: f/18
Focal Length: 35 mm
ISO Speed: 100
Accessories: Manfrotto 190XB Tripod, Manfrotto 322RC2 Heavy Duty Grip Ball Head, Canon RC1 Wireless Remote
Date and Time: 26 July 2009 7.46am
Post Processing:
Imported into Lightroom
Exported 13 exposures to Photomatix
Tonemap generated HDR using detail enhancer option
Re-imported back into Lightroom
Exported HDR and 0 EV exposure to CS3 and layered HDR on top of 0 EV
Brush tool to even out the sky
Noise reduction layer
Background layer and healing brush tool to remove dust gremlins
Curves layer for contrast
Hues/Saturation layer (reds, greens, cyans, blues)
Background layer and quick selection tool to select rock-face
Unsharp Mask filter on selection
Re-imported back into Lightroom
Chromatic aberration adjustment in Light room
Vibrance adjustment in Lightroom
Added keyword metadata
Exported as 2500 x 1667 JPEG
When you sleeping & awaken & open your eye from asleep , U can seen this scene .
Have a nice week , everyone :D
#207/365 The Tour de France finale stage is today. This shot is a tribute to Lance Armstrong. If all goes well, he should finish 2nd or 3rd overall. If you don't know the history here is run down. Lance survived testicular cancer, a tumor that metastasized to his brain and lungs in 1996. Then starting in 1999 he won a record of seven stright Tour de France titles. He then retired only to come out of retirement this year at the age of 37. This guy really is superhuman. This year's tour was really dramatic and I believe he could have won it this year. He announced next year that he is putting together his own team (Team Radio Shack) and will ride again to try to win. Hope everyone has a great Sunday...Enjoy Life!