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Hirosaki Japan in winter. One from the vaults and remastered.
♫ 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.
Show me a white balance slider...
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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.
Discussion
Comments and critique are as always welcome. Let me hear your opinion, why do you like this, or even better, how would you approach this scenery. Give me your thoughts... If you can't find anything to critique, a simple "nice" is cool too :))
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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
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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Notizie
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
Just to let you all know that I'm back from my trip & I'll be visiting you all as soon as I possibly can but please be patient as it looks as though you have all been busy with your cameras so I have lots of lovely photos to view :))
TRNC meadow
Explored 29/05/09. Thanks for spotting it Len.
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
© Copyright Arielle Kristina
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)
EXPLORED #90 Thank you for your daily visits, your kind and supportive comments and fav'ing my photographs. Your comments are exciting to receive and appreciated.
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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.
ツ
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Building Details
Client: Chinese Olympic Committee, 2008 Summer Olympics
Cost: 3.5 Billion Yuan
Area: 250,000 square meters
Height: 69.2m
Length: 330m
Width: 220m
Program seating for 100,000 spectators at the 2008 Olympic Games.
#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
EXPLORE #1 FP and by tomorrow who knows - hehehe.
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Copyright© Firdaus Mahadi 2009
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Location : Darul Qur'an, Kuala Kubu Bharu, Malaysia
3 exposures tone mapped HDR
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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
Have a wonderful and "stress free" weekend to all!!!!
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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. ;-)))
Explore #69, May 22, 2009 - Thank you :) !
I simly love the little Daisy like here in a flower meadow (Bellis perennis)!
Found in the garden of Hohenheim (Stuttgart, Germany).
It's worth to View Large On Black.
Ich liebe einfach diese Gänseblümchen wie hier in dieser Blumenwiese!
© 2009 Ursula Sander - All rights reserved.
Sushi take away is the best food for a picnic ;)
Twitter Photo Challenge #TwPhCh
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Assignment: Food
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My plans for a photowalk yesterday was a little changed due to a passing thunderstorm :) But I managed to get a few shots after the rain had stopped. The sky could have had core contrast to it, but it was enough to work with. I shot a few similar shots, but not sure which I like the most.
Check out this version and give me your thoughts about which vversion you like the most.
Discussion
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#142/365 Post Process Fridays episode #17. This week featured photo is from my buddy Ian (Wedlock). He captured several awesome shots of what looks to be a old school house, which instantly reminded me of "Little house on the Prairie" (the best show ever!). I went back and forth on how I was going to process it. In the end I decided to do something completely different than I ususally do for PP fridays and went with a vintage look. I'm still editing on my laptop so I'm not a 100% sure on the tone but make sure you look at it large because you can't really tell how nice the house looks in the small version. Hope everybody has a great friday!