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Sunset - Greenwich, London, UK
It was very windy this day which I would probably describe as bracing to say the least. Just the sound of the wind and the sea filled the air. Lovely.
Hope everyone is keeping well.
...and I paint my dream
Vincent van Gogh
Glamis Castle in Scotland in soft moonlight
Ich träume meine Gemälde...
...und male meinen Traum
Vincent van Gogh
Glamis Castle in Schottland in sanften Mondlicht
Orion's Belt or the Belt of Orion, also known as the Three Kings or Three Sisters, is an asterism in the constellation Orion. It consists of the three bright stars Alnitak, Alnilam and Mintaka.
Looking for Orion's Belt in the night sky is the easiest way to locate Orion in the sky. The stars are more or less evenly spaced in a straight line, and so can be visualized as the belt of the hunter's clothing. They are best visible in the early night sky during the Northern Winter/Southern Summer, in particular the month of January at around 9:00 pm.
Alnitak (ζ Orionis) is a triple star system at the eastern end of Orion's belt and is 1,260 light-years from the Earth. Alnitak B is a 4th-magnitude B-type star which orbits Alnitak A every 1,500 years. The primary (Alnitak A) is itself a close binary, comprising Alnitak Aa (a blue supergiant of spectral type O9.7 Ibe and an apparent magnitude of 2.0) and Alnitak Ab (a blue dwarf of spectral type O9V and an apparent magnitude of about 4). Alnitak Aa is estimated as being up to 28 times as massive as the Sun, and to have a diameter 20 times greater. It is the brightest star of class O in the night sky.
Alnilam (ε Orionis) is a supergiant, approximately 2,000 light-years away from Earth and magnitude 1.70. It is the 29th-brightest star in the sky and the fourth-brightest in Orion. It is 375,000 times more luminous than the Sun. Its spectrum serves as one of the stable anchor points by which other stars are classified.
Mintaka (δ Orionis) is 1,200 light-years away and shines with magnitude 2.21. Mintaka is 90,000 times more luminous than the Sun. Mintaka is a double star. The two stars orbit around each other every 5.73 days.
Taken from Nikon Z 50 + 16-50mm F/3.5-6.3 VR
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It is with great sadness that I learned that long-time friend and noted rail photographer Dave Augsburger passed away yesterday afternoon. I find that as I process the photos that I post here, I think more about the friends that I was with as well as circumstances and incidents that accompanied the outing than I do the train itself. Dave comes to mind frequently. Beside photography, Dave and I shared interests in history of the Lehigh & New England and other anthracite railroads, prewar American Flyer trains, and Pennsylvania Dutch (German) culture and language.
Here, in happier days, Dave and I were out for the day, and had gone in futile search for an infrequent Conrail train that served the cement mill in Evansville, Pennsylvania, With the day coming to a close, we decided to stop by the Wanamaker, Kempton, & Southern in Kempton. Seeing an opportunity, I had the most prolific photographer of the Lehigh & New England pose next to one of the WK&S’ L&NE gondolas. Dave is now with many of his contemporary friends who have passed in recent years, including Dick Samsel and Neil Shankweiler. I will miss Dave and treasure the many memories of him for years to come.
Another nocturnal faff to appease my creative inner child. Many thanks to my old pal Nihal for his invaluable patience and assistance.
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Thames Barrier (IV), London, UK
Best viewed large.
My starling murmuration project for winter 2019/20 is complete and available online: www.alanmackenziephotography.com/2020/01/brighton-starlin...
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Taken on Jinzhou Street (金洲街) in Pudong's Lujiazui Financial District.
Some prominent bank buildings in the picture:
Hengsheng Bank (aka Hangseng) 恒生银行
Minsheng Bank 民生银行
Huaxia Bank 华夏银行
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Tall buildings in the Lujiazui Financial District. Left is the Bank of China Tower, right are the twin towers of the Shanghai IFC. In he center the three supertalls.
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It was a hundred years ago, the world went roaring through the '20's, are we there again !!!
Happy New Year !!!
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Happy New Year 2020!!
Canal Reflection - London, UK
M42 from Paris (big city so a lot of light pollution)
6km from La Defense
One RAW photo (600mm ; 6400 ISO ; 6s ; F6.3) vs full processing (result of Stacking 270 photos and post processing).
As you can see there is a "small" difference between both images.
Sony A7S
Tamron 150-600 (600 F6.3)
EQ2 mount
Shutter speed : 6s and 10s
6400 ISO
These lakes near Drei Zinnen Hutte looked so enticing, that I went down there to take photos rather than relax like the rest of our group.
Day five was from Durrenstein Hutte/Rifugio Vallandro to Rifugio A. Locatelli/Dreizinnenhütte, another big day of almost 20km with descents totalling 865m and ascents totalling 1237m.
After leaving the hut, we had a gentle climb to alpine meadows, then down a gully and an aided trail around Strudelkopf and steeply down to a main road which we crossed over before heading along route 102 and the long ascent up to Tre Cime di Lavaredo - the famous three peaks.
I process my photos with Lightroom as well as Skylum's Luminar and find it easy to use with great results. Here is a link if anyone is interested in trying it out and with a $US10 discount: skylum.grsm.io/janetteasche8660
Os deseo a todos un Año Nuevo lleno de paz,amor,salud y felicidad.
I wish you all a New Year full of peace, love, health and happiness
Well, the camera did (important note: no cameras were harmed in the making of this capture) ;-)
No, this is not my new camera / lens combo taken with my old camera; as you know, I'm a happy MFT user, and I'm not planning on a system change. This is a fellow photographer's camera, and in the lens you can see the reflections of star-shaped lights of one of the many beautiful Christmas illuminations at the Tierpark Berlin. Fun shot taken during a walk with Flickr friends. Happy weekend and fourth Sunday of Advent, dear Flickr friends, Christmas is around the corner :-)
Ich glaube, ich sehe Sternchen :-)
Oder besser: Diese (nicht meine) Kamera sah welche. Wichtiger Hinweis: Bei der Aufnahme kamen keine Kameras zu schaden ;-) ! Die Sterne, die sich hier in der Linse spiegeln, stammen von einer weihnachtlichen Illumination im Tierpark Friedrichsfelde ("Weihnachten im Tierpark"), aufgenommen bei einem Fotospaziergang mit Flickr-Freunden. Ich wünsche Euch ein schönes Wochenende und einen ebensolchen 4. Advent, liebe Flickr-Freunde (noch fünfmal schlafen, dann ist Heiligabend) :-)
Cotopaxi is on the right (5,897 m / 19,347 ft);
Chimborazo is in the middle (6,263 m / 20,547 ft);
El Altar is on the left (5,319 m / 17,451 ft).
In fact, the valley owns eight volcanoes inside, one the reasons Alexander von Humboldt named the region "Avenue of Volcanoes".
When many think of Ecuador, we often think of Galapagos and the equator, but it’s not always the case that Ecuador is thought of in tandem with the majestic Avenue of the Volcanoes that it sits along. That’s right, Ecuador is full-on Volcano Country! But fear not, for this does not by any means detract from how impressively safe the country is to visit! If anything, it adds tremendously to the overall geographic and scenic beauty that’s found throughout. Ecuador is home to 47 volcanoes in total (both active and extinct), with 15 in volcanoes Galapagos and 32 on the mainland.
The small country is the third in number of volcanoes, it only loses to the continent countries, USA and Russia, but it does not lose in altitude, the highest in the world.
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With its elevation of 5,023 metres (16,480 ft), Tungurahua just over tops the snow line (about 4,900 metres (16,100 ft)).
Tungurahua's top is snow-covered and did feature a small summit glacier which melted away after the increase of volcanic activity in 1999.
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The Garganta de Fogo Volcano, its crater ...
It has a 183 meters/600 feet wide crater.
Most of the volcano is covered by snow.
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*Got my fourth 1,000 faves on September 13th, 2020.
My first view of the Avenue of the Volcanoes at 6:52 am (a 4h58m climb) from the Refugio (Hut).
There are several volcanoes, but the most striking are the Chimborazo on your right (I will climb it tomorrow), the highest in the world and Cotopaxi, the second highest volcano in Ecuador (I climbed it in the first 24 hours).
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Climbing an active volcano is complicated.
The crater is just below me. It took years for the Ecuadorian government to release climbing permits.
Me knowing the risks and signing the papers. It is a great pleasure for Pachamama to accept me, agradiseyki.
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Tungurahua 5,023 metres (16,480 ft) is located in the Cordillera Oriental of the Andes of central Ecuador, 140 kilometres (87 mi) south of the capital Quito.
Nearby notable mountains are Chimborazo (6,310 metres (20,700 ft)) and El Altar (5,319 metres (17,451 ft)). It rises above the small thermal springs town of Baños de Agua Santa (1,800 metres (5,900 ft)) which is located at its foot 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) to the north.
Other nearby towns are Ambato (30 kilometres (19 mi) to the northwest), Baños and Riobamba (30 kilometres (19 mi) to the southwest).
Tungurahua is part of the Sangay National Park.
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Lancôme Christmas Tree St Pancras International - London, UK
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Christmas illuminations - Regent Street, London, UK
Actually, this is the same sunset taken from the same vantage point as the one that I posted last Saturday. But this shot was captured 18 minutes and 30 seconds earlier than last week's shot, and also zoomed closer to catch the best color and reflections at that moment. It's a pretty shot, though not as attractive as last week's image, IMO, when the sky and high clouds above lit up with pinks and purple. It goes to show that it often pays to wait until the sun drops below the horizon to get the best sunset look, methinks.
For anyone interested in the comparison, I've placed last week's shot in the first comments box.
HCS
This morning in Uyuni, it was an awakening before dawn: a long day was waiting for us in 4x4 on the tracks of the south of Bolivia to the Chilean border, via the Southern Lipez desert and the Eduardo Avaroa National Reserve.
All day long , we would be above 4000 m altitude. It promised to be a outstanding adventure, and it was!
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Une longue piste dans les hauteurs du sud bolivien
Ce matin là à Uyuni, ce fut un lever avant l'aurore : une longue journée nous attendait en 4x4 dans les pistes du sud bolivien jusqu'à la frontière chilienne, via le désert du Sud Lipez et la réserve Nationale Eduardo Avaroa.
Toute la journée, nous nous baladerons au dessus de 4000 m d'altitude. Cela s'annonçait comme une aventure grandiose, et cela le fut !
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Désert Sud Lipez - Bolivie / Southern Lipez desert - Bolivia