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Si algo callé es porque entendí todo.
Menos la distancia.
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En la Ciudad de México hay vistas maravillosas.
Te pueden poner de un humor único.
Pero hay que saber encontrarlas.
El silencio, el viento, el frío. La luz de la Ciudad penetrando y envolviendo por todas partes.
Apreciar así a nuestra Ciudad, con miradas lentas, recorriendo sus recovecos con los ojos, deteniendose en sus detalles, es casi algo sexual.
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Qué Torre más chida.
Más chida sería si le perteneciera a la gente y no a la mafia que ahora administra a PEMEX.
The Pak Ou Caves in Laos are a magnificent group of caves that are only accessible by boat, about two hours upstream from the center of Luang Prabang. The caves are noted for their impressive Lao style Buddha sculptures assembled over the centuries by local people and pilgrims. Hundreds of mostly wooden Buddhist figures are laid out over the floors and wall. They take many different positions, including meditation, teaching, peace, rain, and reclining (nirvana).
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except for the guy on the far left.. looks like he's tired of the same old shit.
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With a high level of biodiversity, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic has some of the most significant forest areas remaining in Southeast Asia. The country also harbors one of the largest remaining populations of Asian elephants. But Laos, once known as the Land of a Million Elephants, faces warnings from conservationists that it could lose its herds within 50 years if it does not move quickly to protect them with tourism eyed as a possible savior. Poaching and habitat loss from logging, agriculture and hydroelectric projects has caused a major decline in the number of both wild and domesticated Asian elephants in Communist Laos.
The main threats faced by elephants are poaching for ivory, being killed as a direct result of human–elephant conflict, and habitat loss. Poaching involves both local and transboundary hunters. Reports of crop-raiding and human deaths caused by elephants are on the increase in the country. Laos is thought to have only 700 left in the wild.
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) describes the Asian elephant as "being seriously threatened with extinction". There are 560 working animals left in Laos and a further 700 wild ones rapidly running out of habitat. The Elephant Festival has been organised to raise awareness of the need for action to protect the Asian elephant as part of the vital cultural and natural heritage of Laos and the countries of the region. Nowadays conservation of an important elephant population is undertaken by Wildlife Conservation Society in Protected Areas. They are trying to reduce human-elephant conflict. The working elephant is a main source of income of the people of this region especially for mahouts. Laos Elephant also attract tourist because of the facility of elephant riding and trekking. Tourism appears to be one answer with its good and bad consequences.
On our bikes we pass a little village Ban Thieng about 10km south from Vang Vieng, we cross a stream where a elephants indulge in playful water fights, squirting refreshing showers over themselves. We meet these two little mahouts (elephant handlers) taking care of their elephant like it was a puppy dog.
Laos, ooit bekend als het ”Land van een Miljoen Olifanten”, riskeert zijn olifantenkuddes binnen de 50 jaar kwijt te raken indien er niets wordt ondernomen om de dieren beter te beschermen. Een van de redders van de Aziatische olifant in Laos kan het toerisme zijn. Stroperij en verlies van leefgebieden door houtkap, landbouwactiviteiten en hydro-elektrische projecten heeft voor een sterke terugval gezorgd, zowel van werk- als wilde olifanten. Bezorgdheid over het lot van de Aziatische olifant in het conflict tussen mensen en olifanten, heeft de afgelopen jaren geleid tot oprichting van beschermde gebieden. Toerisme is ook nodig, want tot heel kort geleden werd in Laos geen enkele poging gedaan om olifanten beter te beschermen. Maar nu de toeristen komen lijkt er meer initiatieven tot bescherming van de olifanten mogelijk, want toeristen brengen natuurlijk geld in het laatje. En dat geld kan het verarmde land best gebruiken.
Mia figlia Donatella "pandora" accenna i primi passi alla Chiaiolella.
Sorprendente l' aspetto quasi deserto in pieno agosto di un posto che oggi sarebbe solo una selva di barche !
Little pandora and mother at chiaiolella in Procida.
Rolleiflex-scanner-photoshop
Amo osservare l'acqua come uno specchio...
I love to look at the water like a mirror...
(Meglio in grande - Best on large)
Youtube: Dream Factory
Photograph by Yusuf Alioglu
December 7, 2008
#16
December 7, 2008
When I find myself in times of trouble
Mother Mary comes to me
Speaking words of wisdom, let it be.
And in my hour of darkness
She is standing right in front of me
Speaking words of wisdom, let it be.
Let it be, let it be.
Whisper words of wisdom, let it be.
And when the broken hearted people
Living in the world agree,
There will be an answer, let it be.
For though they may be parted there is
Still a chance that they will see
There will be an answer, let it be.
Let it be, let it be. Yeah
There will be an answer, let it be.
Let It Be
The Beatles
Today is The feast of the Immaculate Conception
... Love is the only air I’ve ever breathed
and laughter the only language in the world that I understand
I have just dropped by on this earth, to give you a wink.
To leave something behind
like a fluttering trace.
Therefore, don’t be sad.
The only thing I care for is
to remain silly in your eyes and strangely dear to your heart.
At night, when you look up to the sky,
you give me a wink too
let it be a secret.
In spite of gray days,
when you see a comet turning the horizon red,
remember: its me
still silly flying and living.
Miroslav Antic- An immortal poem
Miroslav Antić - Besmrtna pesma
... Ljubav je jedini vazduh
koji sam udisao.
I osmeh jedini jezik
koji na svetu razumem.
Na ovu zemlju sam svratio
da ti namignem malo.
Da za mnom ostane nešto
kao lepršav trag.
Nemoj da budes tužan.
Toliko mi je stalo
da ostanem u tebi
budalast,
čudno drag.
Noću kad gledaš u nebo,
i ti namigni meni.
To neka bude tajna.
Uprkos danima sivim,
kad vidiš neku kometu
da vidik zarumeni,
upamti: to ja još uvek
šašav letim i živim.
Non-HDR shot taken a few nights ago after work. This is looking towards Tokyo Station on my way to the pool from the office.
So much nicer/modern looking now with the high rises dotted around the station. 18 years ago when I first started working here, most/all buildings were restricted to 10 floors or so around the Station.
Otemachi, Japan.
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The evening of December 5th, 2008 produced perhaps the most spectacular sunset Seattle has ever seen. A heavy onshore flow produced multiple stacks of lenticular clouds over all of the big Cascade Volcanoes from Rainier at least as far south as Mount Hood (maybe over Glacier Peak too, but I couldn't see it). As the sun set, the sky exploded in the most vivid reds and pinks I have ever personally witnessed. The color you see in this image has not been manipulated at all, there has been no boost in the saturation or hues and there has been no adjustment of the white balance of the image. This is really what it looked like that evening.
The picture itself is a composite of two frames taken about half an hour apart. One exposure for the incredible color in the sky, and another to capture the buildings with the lights on in a dark enough setting that they would stand out against the background. Processed independently in Lightroom, merged in Photoshop.
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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.
(2009-02-28: I just checked my 365days set and noticed that I forgot to add this one to the 365days pool)
I went to Zürich, met 12 people (most of them for the very first time), convinced them to go with me to a small bathroom to let me take a picture of them. There's nothing more to achieve.
You are a great bunch of people. It was fun to be part of this ZFD. I hope it wasn't my last. :-)
Please add a note on your face. If you have making of's or other shots from this session then please add them in the comments as well.
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En la cima del MUNDO :)
Una vez ascendidos los 1712 mts, nos quedamos maravillados ante la espectacularidad de las vistas.
Al fondo, justo detrás de Montserrat, se puede ver la Sierra de Prades, (Tarragona), y justo delante el macizo de Sant Llorenç del Munt, con la Mola a la izquierda y el Montcau a la derecha.
Increible.
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London | Architecture | Night Photography
London Architecture - A golden winter night...
EXPLORE # 60
This photo dedicated to Marina aka cronouille for her kind words in the testimonial. You can check her travel photos here:
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London (pronunciation (help·info); IPA: /ˈlʌndən/) is the capital and largest urban area of both England and the United Kingdom. An important settlement for two millennia, London's history goes back to its founding by the Romans. Since its foundation, London has been part of many movements and phenomena throughout history, including the English Renaissance, the Industrial Revolution, and the Gothic Revival. The city's core, the ancient City of London, still retains its limited medieval boundaries; but since at least the 19th century, the name "London" has also referred to the whole metropolis that has developed around it. Today the bulk of this conurbation forms the London region of England and the Greater London administrative area, with its own elected mayor and assembly.
London is one of the world's leading business, financial and cultural centres and its influence in politics, education, entertainment, media, fashion and the arts contribute to its status as a major global city.Central London is the headquarters of more than half of the UK's top 100 listed companies (the FTSE 100) and over 100 of Europe's 500 largest companies. The city is a major tourist destination both for domestic and overseas visitors, with annual expenditure by tourists of around £15 billion.
Greater London contains four World Heritage Sites: the Tower of London; the historic settlement of Greenwich; the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; and the site comprising the Palace of Westminster, Westminster Abbey and St. Margaret's Church.
London's population draws from a wide range of peoples, cultures, and religions, and over 300 languages are spoken within the city.As of 2006, it had an official population of 7,512,400 within the boundaries of Greater London and is the most populous municipality in the European Union. As of 2001, the Greater London Urban Area had a population of 8,278,251 and the metropolitan area is estimated to have a total population of between 12 and 14 million. The public transport network, administered by Transport for London, is one of the most extensive in the world, and Heathrow Airport is the busiest airport in the world for international traffic.
The surrounding East London area saw much of London's early industrial development; now, brownfield sites throughout the area are being redeveloped as part of the Thames Gateway including the London Riverside and Lower Lea Valley, which is being developed into the Olympic Park for the 2012 Olympics.
London has hosted the Summer Olympics twice, in 1908 and 1948. In July 2005 London was chosen to host the Games in 2012, which will make it the first city in the world to host the Summer Olympics three times.
A series of coordinated bomb attacks were carried out by Islamic extremist suicide bombers on the public transport network on 7 July 2005—just 24 hours after London was awarded the 2012 Summer Olympics.
London Night - Marble reflection in perspective...
oh ehh another sunset ^_^ ..Happy Sunday everyone~!
To my wonderful friend Sharaff..i hang it already in my room..will show you later ^_^ ~!
Don't plan to catch up on your reading. There's too much to take in, too much to talk about on your Pan Am Jet Clipper flight.
Question: Which retail space commands the highest selling price in the world?
If you answer Ginza or 5th Ave, think again. The answer is Ben Thanh Market, in downtown Saigon, now Ho Chi Minh City. As of August 2006, a stall in this traditional market commands a staggering price of 177,000USD per square meter according to The Guardian (UK).
Lower those raised eyebrows and allow me to qualify in Haggling at Ben Thanh in colloidfarl.blogspot.com/
typical busy traffic at Le Loi St along Ben Thanh Market, Saigon, Vietnam
Music: Mia - Mein Freund
Komm her und tanz mit mir, hin und wieder mal. La di da da da dam, da da Komm her und tanz mit mir.
Shot:
Pentax K100D, Tamron 18-250, 50mm (35mm equivalent: 70mm), 3 Shots -2EV; 0EV +2EV, tripod
Software used for this image:
Photomatix Pro 3 ( Details Enhancer ), Adobe Photoshop CS3
Criticism is welcome and appreciated!
Explored Nov 24, 2008 #216
My favorite sound in the entire world (as of this point in my experiences) is the sound of snow crunching underfoot as you walk through it. This is because of two reasons:
1) It is snowing, and I love snow.
2) In order to hear this crunching, it has to be quiet and whenever it snows, things get really quiet. It does not matter if it is out in the Gorge or in the middle of downtown. Snowy mornings are almost always quiet mornings.
This was the case this morning a few years back. Though there were ample signs of life continuing on in the foot prints and tire treads cutting through the snow, I saw nary another soul in this hour or so I wandered downtown. Eventually I found myself on top of a parking garage, which seems to happen with alarming regularity since I got into photography. I liked the pattern in the tire marks as they cut through the intersection and got this shot with my Nikon FM2. Actually I really really like the flow of travel amongst all the trails left by both pedestrians and motorists. It is interesting to see where people turned, where they swerved, etc. Maybe that is just me.
I have few qualms about living in Portland. It rains a lot. The city is green. It is close to the mountains, the gorge and the beach. The people are ... interesting. What is not to love? Well the fact that we get one good snowfall every other year in town. If we had more practice at driving in the snow, maybe we would not all panic the moment we got half an inch of the stuff. ;-)
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finally have a bokeh one...
it's the north BOKEH from the hilltop... :)
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Yes, here it is, a view from above the Czech town of Český Krumlov that took my breath away for hours. I could have spent days shooting from this viewpoint which is in a tower on Castle Hill, part of the Krumlov Castle which you'll see views of soon.
I have shots wider than this in which I'll be posting soon enough, I just wanted you to see this end of the city first. So make sure you see it large, please!!!
Thanks for the view, comments and faves are always greatly appreciated. :D
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As the 1/4 moon rose 1 hour after sunset about 1 year ago, this scene presented itself in the darkness on Rodeo beach just north of San Francisco in Marin County, California.
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Settings etc.:
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30-minute exposure @F5 (ISO 50) with no filters
(I had to guard the camera every second because the waves were big!)
Canon 5D
Canon 17-40L @ 19
RAW file processed with Capture One by Phase One
TIFF file processed with Photoshop
The dark and clear conditions allowed the moon to light the seascape much as the sun does during the daytime, but over a long period of time. The waves have been reduced to a haze and the star trails indicate how much each star had moved during the exposure.
It was a warm night and after a while, my eyes became used to the darkness and I could see the faint blue in the sky. This is how it felt to be out here, alone at night in an alien place.
In order to get a properly exposed photograph at night, a lot of experimentation is required. In previous outings at night with strong moonlight, I tried exposures from 5 minutes to an hour. 30 minutes is just about right with this amount of moonlight and the aperture nearly wide open at F5 with ISO 50. Under a quarter moon, perhaps an hour is necessary. Changing the ISO to 200 reduces the exposure time and also
produces less heat sensor noise, which is different than regular ISO noise. I use ISO 200 now as long as I can get an exposure of at least 10 minutes, to show movement in the stars.
Now I use ISO 200 on exposures over 10 minutes and turn on auto-noise reduction, which takes a second picture of equal duration (60 minutes total in this case) with the shutter closed so only noise is recorded. Then the noise is subtracted, leaving the original image with just a hint of noise.
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Explore #1, wow... Saturday, November 22, 2008
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many thanks to my friends :))
Its another… taken a few seconds later, the sun is centered here :)
i used 1 bare Canon Speedlite 580EX @ 1/2 power down n front models Transmitted by Canon STE2 Speedlite Transmitter
Technical Specs :
Camera: Canon EOS 30D
Lens: Canon EF 400mm f/5.6L USM
Focal Length: 400 mm
Aperture: f/5.6
Shutter: 1/4000s
ISO: 200
Exposure: manual
Other: handheld
Lighting : 1 bare Canon Speedlite 580EX @ 1/2 power Transmitted by Canon STE2 Speedlite Transmitter
I cannot tell you how scary having a powerful, 23in collie running at you full pelt when you're sitting on a steep hill holding a camera is! Mostly when Barney runs to me, he either stops or turns off at the last second, but sometimes well, he just keeps running! My reactions have got pretty quick, I usually manage to put a hand out, to stop him but in this case I realized too late so he crashed straight into me... much to my dad's amusement (blurry person in the background is my dad)
The hardiness of my little camera is remarkable, it has been bitten (by the dog - not me!), dropped, bounced off the pavement, run into on many occassions, taken out in the rain and slung in my bag or coat pocket everyday for weeks on end... it may be a little point and shoot but it still does a fantastic job even after nearly 4 years of serious abuse :) yep its a good little camera!
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To get rid of poverty, the farmers have started cultivating fish on their paddy fields to maintain their livelihood. Fish breeding in paddy fields encouraged. Considerably raising the per-hectare yield of rice and fish production In the rainy season throughout this region many small fish can be caught in the paddy fields and small ditches: an environment highly familiar to the Lao people. The small fish are used to make a dish called Pa dek. It is a kind of fermented salted fish, and to the people of Laos, this food is second only to rice in importance. The dish is made by mixing together rice bran, fish, and the salt harvested from the earth. The mixture is allowed to stand for over three months and is then ready to eat. A specialty of this region and an extremely important element of the culture.
I think the best way to explore Laos is by bicycle or feet. Meeting friendly Lao people in the small villages along the way and enjoying its countryside. I had to stop many times to make a photo. A beautiful scenery of rice fields next to the limestone hills. This woman was working in the paddy fields nearby Vang Vieng.
Om armoede van de hand te doen, zijn sommige boeren begonnen met het kweken van vissen op hun rijstvelden. Zo hebben de boeren aanzienlijk meer opbrengst per hectare van rijst en vis productie. In het regenseizoen worden in dit gebied vele kleine vissen in de rijstvelden en de kleine beekjes gevangen: De kleine vissen worden gebruikt om een schotel te maken genoemd Pa dek. Het is een soort vergiste gezouten vis. Naast rijst is deze schotel van groot belang voor de inwoners van Laos. De schotel wordt gemaakt door rijst, vis en het zout samen te mengen. Het mengsel moet drie maanden gisten en is dan is het klaar om te eten. Een specialiteit van dit gebied en een uiterst belangrijk element van hun cultuur.
Porto canale di Rimini...........................mare e cielo uniti
Compiendo poi quel rito inevitabile e abusato,
corremmo coraggiosi e scalzi lungo la battigia:
di un verde di bottiglia era quel mare affaticato, l' aria una stanza grigia...
Scoprimmo che oggi il mare lascia un povero relitto,
naufragi di catrame e di lattine arrugginite:
parlare era soltanto un altro inutile delitto contro le nostre vite..
F. Guccini
Rimini 13 . 11 . 2008
When I think about how well I am doing in photography and how to improve, I consider my task as five steps, or decisions that I have to make. I think this is true for any of us.
1. Where and when to go, and why? Location, location, location. If you travel around the world, de facto you have a lot of content possibilities, and if you stay in your house all the time, a lot less. Of course we can find great content in our house and boring content in a distant place, but all else being equal, it helps (but is not necessary) to go to places on purpose in order to find interesting content. And if you are a Flickrite, you know that sometimes photographers go to great dangers to get where they want to go.
In my initial post, I forgot an important aspect of the question: why to go? What's your purpose? What do you want to communicate?
2. What equipment to use? Just remember expensive equipment is nice, not necessary, and often not needed or even inappropriate. Don't buy into the megapixel myth. A far greater percentage of pictures taken by my $10 Vivitar Ultra Wide and Slim have been in Explore than with my digital cameras.
3. What pictures to take?At locale with equipment in hand, what are you going to click at and how? The clicking or even camera preparation is a small component here; what matters is how good an eye you have. What I have been doing recently is pretending like I always have a camera, looking for an interesting shot.
4. What shots to keep?Some shots get tossed, some get kept but not shown, some get shown. I think this is an often over-looked "skill". I think this requires both constraint and judgment, which in part can be developed by looking at other people's works.
5. How to present image? This includes post-processing, framing, as well as a decision as to where to show it.
For me right now, I am trying to work on #3, especially by paying attention to light-dark contrasts.
Il Castello di Donnafugata
Il Castello è situato nell’omonima contrada del comune di Ragusa a 308 metri s.l.m.
Donnafugata deriva dall’arabo “ayn as-jafaiat” che vuol dire “fonte della salute” giustificato dalla presenza di una sorgente di acqua purissima.
Le sue origini documentate partono dal 1628 con un atto di vendita, con cui la famiglia Cabrera vendeva il feudo comprensivo di una tenuta di caccia, con antica torre di avvistamento Arabo-Normanna, alla famiglia Arezzo, che ne terrà la proprietà per tre secoli, fino al 1982 quando verrà acquistato dal comune di Ragusa.
La famiglia Arezzo avviò una lunga opera di trasformazione del nucleo originario, che culminò alla fine dell’800, quando il Barone Corrado Arezzo de Spucches (1824.1895), diede alla struttura l’attuale immagine di Castello con la sua varietà di stili dal gotico-veneziano al tardo.rinascimentale. La struttura occupa una superficie di 2500 mq, circondato da otto ettari di parco. Conta in tutto 102 stanze, anche se quelle visitabili sono quelle del piano nobile (circa 28). L’eclettismo degli stili che caratterizza la facciata del Castello, si riflette anche negli ambienti interni e nei mobili che per la maggior parte datano metà ‘800 e ‘900.
Nel giugno 2002 è stato aperto riaperto al pubblico dopo cinque anni di lavoro di restauro.
HDR image processed with photomatix
Altri scatti del Castello sono qui sul mio sito
Traditional timber-framed houses in the 'Petite France' area, Strasbourg, France.
In Explore - Highest position #31
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