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#219/365 Post Process Fridays episode #28. Just when you thought Point & Shoot week was over I reel you back in! This gorgeous shot was taken by Chris aka h1r0. Some of you may or may not know I spent a good portion of my childhood in Germany. Seeing European scenes like this really brings back some wonderful memories. If you get a chance check out h1r0's stream, he has some pretty incredible street portraits. Also I'm running low on PP friday volunteers. Let me know if you are interested or if I have passed you up. FYI I usually will pick the photo so sending me shots does not usually work out in your favor :) (see how I added a happy face so I don't come off as rude)
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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...
A great way to end a wonderful day. A drive down to Currumbin Rocks for a moonrise shot and plenty of opportunities to get something else than the moon. Sorry guys...no moon in this shot taken 6min before moon rise. The moon was behind the clouds for the first minutes so I just hang around...
And good to see my friends there too, Danielle and Nick, Terence and Brenda and the kids and Wayne and and and...
All my work is available in large size and high quality.
This one is 6103 x 2034 pixels at 300 dpi
I also have variations of this location which are not published on Flickr....
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.
Explore #277, August 4th, 2009
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It's not easy shooting a sunset through a plane window as we climb above the clouds. I reckon I had about 25 seconds to get this shot, and that included getting my camera from the overhead lockers while were we climbing!
How great were these golden cotton buds!
We were chasing the sunset almost all the way home... its was neat, probably the longest 'blue hour' I've ever seen.
Enjoy.
- Canon 50D.
- ISO 100, f9, 1/200.
- Canon 24-70 f/2.8 L lens.
Processing
- WB Adjustments.
- Increased Blacks.
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 ♥
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.
"...A noite - potranca zaina
de nuvens empelegada -
perde o rumo em disparada
na direção do sem-fim...
E quando o baio da aurora
clareia a pampa da vida,
eu nada mais sei de mim,
eu nada mais sei de mim..."
Trecho de "Reculutando lembranças", de Antonio Carlos Machado
Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil
Another multiple me experiment!
Explored July 31, #57
Thanks a lot for all of your comments and views, and have a great weekend!
When I heard about the Glacier National Park in Montana, I couldnt resist myself from going there. The glaciers were amazing to say the least mainly because I have never seen one before...but I was deeply saddened when I heard that out of 150 odd glaciers back in 1850, only 26 remain at present. They have also predicted that by 2030, this park will completely lose all its glaciers thanks to global warming.
I dont know what I can do to prevent it, but I thought letting people know is one of the biggest little things that I can do. I always believe that mostly people are good and that they do things out of being not aware.
Glacier National park is a fascinating place. It is shelved in the northernmost part of Montana. The drive through the countryside of Montana is quite interesting and a bit eerie especially at nights when you will most certainly be the only one driving :)
This particular pic was shot in the Many Glacier section of the park. It rained heavily and I managed this shot when the clouds started clearing.
Thanks for viewing..
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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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.
Flickr Group Roulette is doing What The Fluff today -- real constructive criticism, rather than the regular "fluff" comments :) So I took some selfies, and kept the processing down to a minimum.
Explored :)
",,,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
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)
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!
For Angelica, who very kindly wrote a great (and funny!) testimonial for me today :) It was a really wonderful surprise! Thanks Angelica, for being such a lovely Flickr friend. You can see her beautiful collie dogs and wonderful photos here:Hermio82
Hehe! Barney looks like he's ready for take-off here, with those great flappy ears :) We were at the top of the Beacon, the highest point of the Malvern hills, where it's always wild and windy, even on warm, sunny days. He loves it up there, racing about, or simply standing, nose to the wind, taking in the scents and sounds from the villages and farm land below. He loves the wind, and I love what it does to his ears (lol but not what it does to my hair!)
Finally, I am pleased to say that Barney's sore paw has almost completely healed now, he's back to his happy, bouncy self, and going for normal, long walks. I'm soo happy and he is obviously overjoyed at being able to run free once more, thanks once again for all the kind comments and support when Barney wasn't feeling well.
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But than did not register... yet :)
Wonderful people... honest, fun loving, hard working, enjoy life and beauty… existentialists...
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.
See more Hmong portraits here
Taken at Elephant Trunk Hill Park
Guilin City, Guangxi Provice China
"The Elephant Hill, lies on the conjunction of the Li River and the peach blossom river in Guilin City. The whole hill looks exactly like a huge elephant stretching its trunk drinking water by the Li River. It is the masterpiece of karst landscape, composed of pure limestone deposited on seabed 360million years ago.
Have a Wonderful Weekend to Everyone!!!
#206/365 Before leaving worked I wanted to mess with flash and try to balance it with the ambient room light. Martha was a good sport and stood in. Holding the camera in one hand while holding a monopod with the flash in the other hand. Used a DIY beauty dish..only because that was the only thing I had available (umbrella shaft was broke). Have a great weekend!
Strobist: sb800 on a monopod with a diy beauty dish. Setup shot