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Haven't really been out catching too much over the past couple of weeks so I'm uploading a shot I have been meaning to upload for a while from Burnham-On-Sea. This shot gives me faith that despite the weather forecast for rain next weekend when I'm in Cornwall that amazing sunsets can happen. The hours leading up to this shot were covered with lots and lots of rain and very high winds however sadly the majority of rainy days in the UK don't end with this much colour and beauty in the sky.
Anyways enjoy :)
Technical Details:
Sony SLT A33 with Sigma 10-20mm F4-5.6
Shutter Speed: 1/30 seconds
Aperture: F11 (in hindsight should have gone for bigger starburst with F16+)
ISO: 100
Focal Length: 10mm
Filters: Hitech 0.9 ND Grad Hard
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Three women were going home and I took my lunch in a road side Dhabba/hotel 1st I take three women pic from behind (will soonly upload the pic) just to get theit attractive Rajastani cloths. When my taxi move out to Ajmer from a road and cross by these women ! I just click from my car and excuse her ! It is rural dress up so charming !!!!!!!!!!!!! ( I never thought about the Age of my theme)
(Capture at unknown national highway from Chitodgarh to Ajmer )
Gracias a Bea por prestarnos amablemente su mano :-)))
Tengo tres más , pero las subiré de una en una y no seguidas para no aburrir..
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Un montón de besos ¡¡
Thank you for your visits and comments
Kisses
Taken by photographer, Eugene Clerkin, who reported that there was a Town Festival in progress on this day. Let the battle of car identification commence...
You can compare this view of Belturbet with its companion photo taken approximately 100 years earlier as part of the Lawrence Photographic Project 1990/1991, where one thousand photographs from the Lawrence Collection in the National Library of Ireland were replicated a hundred years later by a team of volunteer photographers, thereby creating a record of the changing face of the selected locations all over Ireland.
For further information on the Lawrence Photographic Project, read all about it on our NLI Blog.
Date: Sunday, 5 August 1990 at 16:15 (weather conditions - cloudy)
NLI Ref.: LPP_15A/4
Questa estate nella città catalana c'è un nuovo mezzo per trasportare i turisti: i bambini, e non solo, si divertiranno tantissimo a bordo del Corallino!!
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Fairbrook Naze, Kinder Scout, Peak District, UK
Headed up onto Kinder Scout yesterday afternoon in readiness for sunset. Kinder is a plateau which is the highest point of the Peak District. Parked at Hayfield and headed up William Clough onto the plateau then around to Kinder Downfall (impressive waterfall landmark). It was really overcast with no sign of light hitting the landscape.
So after a while I set off to the Edge (the northern edge of the plateau). I knew the position of the sun would make this a good place to be if the sunset happened. Took a short cut across the the peat bog and moorland. Relatively short section. The OS map showed that the contours were dropping away from me and I had my compass. Still, you need to be very, very careful. People do get lost when the weather rolls in. And those deep peat groughs can be very disorientating.
Anyway, I reached the Edge and headed East to Fairbrook Naze. Altough there was still no light reaching the landscape, this rock was still glowing red a little. I could see a break in the cloud behind me and Manchester was being bathed in light. So I had to wait an hour and sure enough, when the sun dropped below the cloud, the light was spectacular. A fabulous sunset followed and I snapped away as I headed West eventually reaching the car in darkness.
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I had almost forgotten how it was like to go out in the water to shoot. The water is getting warmer and warmer indeed :)
Soo.. I have very little ideas right now, and mostly all of my ideas just come very spontaneous.
On sunday I will be leaving for a school trip.. And I am trying to figure out how to post when I'm gone haha..
Saw my first Mercedes ML 63 AMG W166 some days ago in my hometown. It looks absolutely cool from all sides and I am also not disappointed by the sound of this V8!
Shot taken with my 50mm F/1.8!
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For me there are some things that are perfect. The sunset. When I see a sunset, specially the most beautiful and gorgeous ones, I catch my mind being gone. There are just some things that are so perfect in this world that I cannot describe it. We have all have those moments when we realize this world, this world is so beautiful.
In these moments, I realize we are just humans. We make mistakes, the world keeps on going around, the time keeps going. No one is perfect, but we can always embrace our surroundings, embrace the small moments.
Just breath. Life doesn't have to be as complicated as we make it.
Thank you so much Silje, Gabriella & Lisa for writing me testimonials ! <3
Der Hoppenlau Friedhof ist der älteste erhaltene Friedhof in Stuttgart, angelegt im Jahre 1626. Das Bild zeigt den jüdischen Teil von 1834.
The Hoppenlau cemetery is the oldest preserved cemetery in Stuttgart, Germany. Created 1626. The photo shows the Jewish part of 1834.
Seen this beautiful Common Brimstone (male) on the Red Campion during a wonderful walk through flowering meadows and fields in the lovely surrounding of Waren, Müritz National Park (Germany).
Thanks Mikul for the great title idea!
On the upper side the male is sulphur yellow and the female white with a greenish tinge but both have an orange spot in the centre of each wing.
The Red Campion (Silene dioica) is a herbaceous biennial or perennial plant, with dark pink to red flowers, each 1.8-2.5 cm across. The flowers are unscented.
Besides the aesthetic value of its flowers, the crushed seeds of red campion have also been used to cure snakebites. The nectar of the flowers is utilised by bumblebees and butterflies, and several species of moth feed on the foliage. (Wikipedia)
Recommended to view Large On Black
Den Zitronenfalter (männlich), dersich gerade an der Roten Lichtnelke labt, habe ich während eines langen Spaziergangs in der wunderschönen Umgebung von Waren (Müritz National Park) entdeckt.
Die Falter erreichen eine Flügelspannweite von 50 bis 55 Millimetern. Sie haben intensiv zitronengelb (Männchen) bzw. blass grünlich-weiß (Weibchen) gefärbte Vorder- und Hinterflügel. Die Weibchen können auf den ersten Blick mit dem Großen Kohlweißling (Pieris brassicae) verwechselt werden, jedoch kann man sie anhand der charakteristischen Flügelform gut voneinander unterscheiden. Alle vier Flügel der Zitronenfalter sind an den Spitzen deutlich zugespitzt. Beide Geschlechter haben je einen orangen Augenfleck auf ihren Flügeloberseiten, auf den Unterseiten sind diese bräunlich gefärbt.
Die Rote Lichtnelke wächst als sommergrüne, zweijährige oder wenige Jahre ausdauernde krautige Pflanze und erreicht Wuchshöhen von 30 bis 90 Zentimeter.
Interessantes zu der Roten Lichtnelke:
- In der Volksmedizin wurden die zu Brei zerstoßenen Samen zur Behandlung von Schlangenbissen eingesetzt.
- Die Wurzeln der Roten Lichtnelke wurden früher wie Seife benutzt.
- In den Haushalten Nordostitaliens werden in der lokalen Küche mit dem Kraut, zusammen mit Ricotta, auch Ravioli gefüllt. (Wikipedia)
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Single Raw HDR image of the Space Shuttle, Enterprise at the National Air and Space Museum in Virginia.
I was pretty much in awe when I saw the Space Shuttle, Enterprise. It has since been replaced by the Space Shuttle, Discovery but this gives me a great excuse to go back and discover, Discovery!
Feel free to leave a comment!
Some young people enjoying a campfire and watching the sun go down on Esch road beach, Empire Bluff Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. Gotta love Michigan's Great Lakes shorelines; you can walk hundreds of miles of pristine national lakeshores.
Camera - Nikon D700
Lens - Nikon 16-35mm
Exposure -1/200sec
Focal length - 28mm
Aperture - f/11
ISO Speed -200
Quality - raw processed in capture NX2
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"We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile."
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
...Another submission to the "Mi-Fi" microscale LEGO contest:
www.thelivingbrick.com/2012/05/meeza-thinks-weeza-gonna-b...
This jetty is 15 mins from home, this was approx. my tenth attempt at capturing some great light at this location...Finally i got some and mighty surreal it was..
It was also a bit of an issue metering it, but this is a single shot capture..
I entered a croparama of this into the Epson Pano awards this year and came away with a Bronze Award, which for my first competition attempt i was very pleased with, gives me something to aim for next year. :-)
Many thanks for looking.
Enjoy.
Check out our blog on Hera Roberts as well as a more detailed article in the museum's publication, Signals.
The Koninklijke Marine (Royal Netherlands Navy) including HNLMS JAVA, HNLMS EVERSTEN and HNLMS DE RUYTER arrived in Sydney on 3 October 1930. The ships berthed at the Oceanic Steamship Company wharf and Burns Philp and Company Wharf in West Circular Quay. The Sydney Morning Herald reported on the 'unfamiliar spectacle' of the Dutch squadron arrival.
On 10 October, the squadron hosted a reception on board JAVA 'as a return for the hospitality they had received while in Sydney'. The SMH reported that distinguished guests were greeted by the Dutch Consul-General Petrus Ephrem Teppema, Madame Carmen Delprat Teppema and Rear-Admiral Kayser.
This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872-1953) was a Sydney photographer with a passion for ships. His 60-year career spanned the romantic age of sail and two world wars. The photos in the collection were taken mainly in Sydney and Newcastle during the first half of the 20th century.
The ANMM undertakes research and accepts public comments that enhance the information we hold about images in our collection. This record has been updated accordingly.
Photographer: Samuel J. Hood Studio Collection
Object no. 00034778
Check out our blog on naval visits to Sydney bit.ly/MTtR5H
per favore, clicca sulla foto, per vederla GRANDE e su FONDO NERO: io dico che merita!
click on it, to see it LARGE and OB BLACK, thanx: I think this is worthwhile!
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("le parole dimenticate" - 100 storie per quando è troppo tardi - feltrinelli)
tutti sapevano dove trovare le parole dimenticate.
bastava andare dietro al capanno del signor martin, e lì, proprio vicino ai sacchi di semi, potevi trovare il baule delle parole.
finivano tutte lì dentro quelle che le persone dimenticavano, così, se avevi bisogno di ritrovarne qualcuna, bastava avere la pazienza di cercare bene e sicuramente, prima o poi, la tua parola sarebbe spuntata fuori.
c'erano parole che si fermavano qualche giorno, e parole che invece erano lì dentro ormai da anni: quelle che nessuno ormai cercava più.
sparviero, lestofante, ramuncolo, palandrana e girino erano le più vecchie, e così, mentre qualcuno cercava elefante, ecco che subito lestofante si metteva lì davanti e non c'era verso di farlo spostare.
oppure, cercavi mirino e se non stavi attento finivi col ripetere: girino, girino...
però, se facevi attenzione, e non ti lasciavi incantare dalle rime, allora le potevi ritrovare tutte, le parole che avevi dimenticato.
così, se per esempio stavi raccontando a tua mamma che mentre tornavi da scuola ti era caduto il... il... allora potevi dirle di aspettare un momento e correre al capanno, aprire il baule, spostare masso e materasso, prendere quella giusta, tornare di corsa a casa e dire "compasso"!
tutti sanno ancora dove trovarle, le parole dimenticate: dal signor martin, dietro il capanno.
basta solo che nessuno perda la chiave.
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(guardatelo, per piacere: 2' 20" spesi bene - take a look, please: just 2'20" wery well spent...)
5XP HDR shot of St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan, New York.
Initially, I disliked the construction scaffolding attached to the facade of the Cathedral but I've grown to appreciate it since it highlights the base via the additional light. Didn't know that the roof of the Cathedral also forms a Cross when seen from above~ gotta see if I can find that POV one day!
Feel free to leave a comment!
4 x 5XP HDR panorama of the Navy Pier in Chicago, Illinois.
Chicago's Navy Pier offers a cool sunset skyline setting!
Feel free to leave a comment!
A view along along Yan'an Elevated Road over the buildings of Huangpu District towards the supertalls of Pudong's Lujiazui Financial District.
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This photo was taken in the late 19th century, probably by Robert French, chief photographer of William Lawrence Photographic Studios of Dublin. It features a laughing, or at least smiling, policeman!
Compare this view of Bagenalstown with its companion photo taken by photographer Padraig J. Laffan (approximately 100 years later) as part of the Lawrence Photographic Project 1990/1991, where one thousand photographs from the Lawrence Collection in the National Library of Ireland were replicated a hundred years later by a team of volunteer photographers, thereby creating a record of the changing face of the selected locations all over Ireland.
For further information on the Lawrence Photographic Project, read all about it on our NLI Blog.
Date: 1900?
NLI Ref.: L_ROY_10417
Taken by photographer, Padraig J. Laffan, who noted: "Catholic Church is on left where tress are, building in distance (Clerys) now gone."
You can compare this view of Bagenalstown with its companion photo (taken approximately 100 years earlier) as part of the Lawrence Photographic Project 1990/1991, where one thousand photographs from the Lawrence Collection in the National Library of Ireland were replicated a hundred years later by a team of volunteer photographers, thereby creating a record of the changing face of the selected locations all over Ireland.
For further information on the Lawrence Photographic Project, read all about it on our NLI Blog.
The photographer recorded conditions as cloudy, but bright.
Date: Thursday, 16 May 1991 at 16:05
NLI Ref.: LPP_77/21A
Mammatus en el desierto de las Bardenas. (a través del espejo)./ Mammatus in the desert of Bardenas.
Un fin de semana de madrugones y decepciones, pero la vida nos regaló este cielo mágico en las Bardenas.
♫ BECK - Everybody's gotta learn sometimes. ♫
Imagen inspirada en esta canción de la película; Olvídate de mí. A veces es mejor olvidar todo para empezar de nuevo.....Dedicada a una gran amiga, ella sabe quién es.
Las nubes mammatus no son realmente nubes, sino la parte inferior de otras más grandes, que debido a corrientes verticales descendentes, forman una especie de bolsas o mamas. Unas formaciones especialmente espectaculares si el sol las ilumina lateralmente.
Las Bardenas son un paraje natural semidesértico de unas 42.000 hectáreas que se extiende por el sureste de Navarra (España). Sus suelos son de arcillas, yesos y areniscas y han sido erosionados por el agua y el viento creando formas sorprendentes en las que destacan los barrancos, las mesetas de estructura tabular y los cerros solitarios, llamados cabezos.
Image inspired by the song of the film; Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Sometimes it's better to forget all to start over..........Dedicated to a great friend, she knows who she is.
Mammatus clouds are not really clouds, but the lower part of larger structures, due to downward vertical currents which form a sort of bag or breast. A spectacular formations especially if the sun illuminates the side.
Bardenas are a natural semi-desert of some 42,000 hectares that extends to the southeast of Navarra (Spain). The soils are clay, gypsum and sandstones have been eroded by water and wind creating surprising ways in which stress the canyons, plateaus tabular structure and lonely hills, called seamounts.
.Kiss from a rose-Seal.... ♫ ♫
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Muchas gracias por vuestras visitas y comentarios
Un montón de besos ¡¡
Thank you for your visits and comments
Kisses
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Today its 17th of May. Norways national day. Every single 17th of May since I was borned I have been celebrating this day. Except today, today I stayed home to sleep to 11 o'clock, then going out to shoot this and then having a barbecue with my friends. So today was not the traditional celebration that I am used to. I decided I wanted to make a photo dedicated to Norway, my country. I am norwegian, and proud to live in this beautiful and good country.
Gratulerer med dagen nordmenn!
This is "my" tree because I just love him. The walnut tree is only 5 minutes from my house and I walk there often through the fields.
In my comment you can see the reverse side of the tree with blue sky.
Much better in View On Black
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About The Milky Way:
The Milky Way is the galaxy that contains the Earth. This name derives from its appearance as a dim "milky" glowing band arching across the night sky, in which the naked eye cannot distinguish individual stars. The term "Milky Way" is a translation of the Classical Latin via lactea, from the Hellenistic Greek γαλαξίας κύκλος (pr. galaxías kýklos, "milky circle").
The Galaxy has this appearance because it is a disk-shaped structure that is being viewed from inside. Earth is located within the Galactic plane of this disk, around two thirds of the way out from the center, on the inner edge of a spiral-shaped concentration of gas and dust called the Orion–Cygnus Arm. The concept of this faint band of light being made up of stars was proven in 1610 when Galileo Galilei used his telescope to resolve it into individual stars. In the 1920s observations by astronomer Edwin Hubble showed that the Milky Way was just one of around 200 billion galaxies in the observable universe.
The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy 100,000–120,000 light-years in diameter containing 200–400 billion stars. It may contain at least as many planets, with 10 billion of those orbiting in the habitable zone of their parent stars.[14] The rotational rate of the Galaxy is once every 15 to 50 million years. The Galaxy as a whole is moving at a velocity of 552 to 630 km per second, depending on the relative frame of reference. It is estimated to be about 13.2 billion years old, nearly as old as the Universe. The Milky Way is part of the Local Group of galaxies, which forms a subcomponent of the Virgo Supercluster.
Interesting facts about Light Pollution:
Light pollution has caused one-fifth of the world's population – mostly in mainland Europe, Britain and the U.S. – to lose their ability to see the Milky Way in the night sky.
"The arc of the Milky Way seen from a truly dark location is part of our planet's natural heritage," said Connie Walker, and astronomer from the U.S. National Optical Astronomy Observatory in Tucson, Arizona.
Yet "more than one fifth of the world population, two thirds of the U.S. population and one half of the European Union population have already lost naked eye visibility of the Milky Way."
Star-free night
The phenomenon, caused by the reflection of manmade light by the Earth's atmosphere, impacts astronomical research and can even affect human health, warned Walker, who will present her research on Wednesday at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Pasadena, California.
The effects of light pollution on human health can be as mild as the disruption of the circadian rhythm leading to problems sleeping, but it can also be serious, she said.
One study of 147 Israeli communities, published in 2008 in the journal Chronobiology International, found some evidence for an increased risk of breast cancer for women living in areas with the most light pollution. This is thought to be due to unnatural light at night affecting levels of hormones such as melatonin and estrogen.
Light pollution comes in a variety of forms such as 'over illumination', 'light trespass' and 'sky glow' – the orange glow that hangs over cities and is produced by upwards directed light.
Walker's research has found that cities using light fixtures that direct just 3% of their light upwards can almost double the sky glow experienced by astronomical observatories 100 km away. "Allowing 10% direct uplight increases this figure to 570%," said Walker, who is chair of the U.S. Dark Skies Working Group, part of the Dark Skies Awareness program, a global citizen science effort to raise awareness of light pollution.
I reprocessed this to add a little bluer cast to the image and sharpened the boat and added a slight vignette. I like this photo for the mood it elicits in me and thought it deserved the extra work. I hope you like it. Have a great day!
View large in lightroom...(Press "L")
This evening I decided that it was nice enough weather to go up Crib Goch. I have done 3/4s of this route before but turned back due to bad weather. Crib Goch is one of the more challenging walks up to Snowdon and requires a fair amount of scrambling.
Shooting directly into the sun is extremely difficult. I used a pair of neutral density grad filters on the sky to try and bring back some of the highlights but as you can see the sun is still blown out.
While on the ridge I met a very nice bloke who offered to show me the North Ridge route down. This is a very fun decent that involves a good scree run half way down.
Anyway back to the shot.... This is one image, no HDR, edited in camera raw and the de-noised in Photoshop. There are no massive edits on this shot at all.
Thanks for looking!
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Sky above me
Earth below me
Fire within me
I have no idea where that quote is from, but whatever. :)
I really like this project so far. So far it has pushed me out to shoot, pushed me out to explore and pushed me to think ideas. Yesterday I was exploring one part of where I lived, today I explored the other side. And I remember this place, last time I was here was in august when I just had gotten a little more interest of photography. I know now, that if I were there in august right now I would take so many different photos. I have a completely different mind now :)
And it took me forever to edit the flame! But at least now I know how to make a flame in photoshop! :D
More photos from this series can be seen in the first comment box. (Click on "View ## previous comments.)
Taken in my yard in Central Florida.
Canon Rebel XSi and Canon 75-300.
Ce couple ont 4 petits comme dans la photo originale , j'ai ajouté le cinquième qui est sur le dos de son "papa" pour le fun :-)
Bonne semaine !
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This shot was taken a few weeks back and have been meaning to upload for a while, have been confused between two versions that I had captured.
Hope to upload the other version soon, would love to have captured the same in landscape mode, will have to re visit when the time is right.
Hope you all had a great weekend.
Thanks for all your comments and feedback.
The beams from the fallen towers and the Empty Sky memorial now point across the water to the new World Trade Center construction. One WTC (The Freedom Tower) and 4 WTC are brightly lit in the foggy skyline of New York City. It is a sad place, but with it's upward design, it has an overall atmosphere of respect, hope and recovery.
Ignacio and our new friend photographer Qi Lin emerged from the walkway during my exposure. I laughed at the coincidence and the man next to me asked "What, too many people getting in the way?" I just smiled and told him "No, I know these two." But it occurred to me that the visitors are part of the memorial, the more people, the better.