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Shot during a trip last year to White Sands National Monument. We camped over night in the Monument, and we had the park to ourselves. It was a moonless night, so a good time to shoot some star trails. This was shot looking north, and it looks like some city lights on the horizon. However, I can't think of what city/town that would be. Alamagordo is to the east and not in the picture.
Update 3/23/2007
Strobists: I think this qualifies for the Strobist group. Left shutter open until battery died (see comments below) and walked over to the tent and popped my Sigma 500 Super DG on full power while inside. Then went to bed.
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Down at the sea in Shankill looking across Killiney Bay in south county Dublin as the light is finally fading.
A lot of the super wealthy and famous have grabbed a piece of land here.
This is a 30 second exposure and I've used a torch/flashlight to illuminate the rocks.
This shot made it to #19 on the Flickr Explore/Interesting pages for 24 January 2007.
Published in Discover Magazine 2007
Used by NASA to promote the SOFIA Program in 2009
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McNaught Comet over Big Swamp South Australia.
Discovered by Australian Robert McNaught in August 2006.
Canon 5D
2007:01:22 21:42:10
24-105mm @ 24mm
30 sec, f/4
Mode: Manual
Metering: Evaluative
ISO: 800
AF mode: Manual Focus
Drive: Single frame shooting
Self-timer: 10 secs
White balance: Daylight
Flash: Off
File size: 10.8MB
Image size: 4368 x 2912
Color space: AdobeRGB
Saturation: Normal
Sharpness: 3
Contrast: Normal
Sharpness level: 3
Tone: Normal
Custom Functions:
CFn 2: Long exposure noise reduction: On
RAW converted in Breeze Browser Pro.
Why 24mm focal length?
Photographed the week before with a 100 - 400mm and missed most of the tail.
Wanted to give the comet a sense of scale/size by going wide and including the two trees (living and dead) and the swamp.
Watch out for a future copy of Discover Magazine (USA) with this photo as it Masthead Image, Horizons 9th Edition in 2009 and the Kodak Bill Board in Times Square New York :)
Getting a different take of the frenzy of the street dancing is not easy. The performers always move too fast. That I am partial to shots clean of extraneous elements like the crowd and the ever present photographers angling for the same shots compound the challenge. So when I got a clear shot of the ever flashinhg hand of the lead dancer, I took it. This, for me, is a representation of grace in action.
at the Sinulog street mardi gras, Cebu City, the Philippines
be entertained by scenes from Sinulog 2007 in colloidfarl.blogspot.com/
Filtered sunset, puffy clouds making puffy reflections.
See the notes in the photo for a little fun...
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Sanshiro take a seat and clean himself. After cleaning, he was sitting by this way. And he always look at everything around him with curious eyes. Still on his great learning phase of life. Raising him, I learn to understand and read cat mind, if he want to go to toilet then he bites my shirt and pull. He always pursuade us to play with him. Now he plays much with rabbit but he enjoyed alone while young rabit just jump and jump. In my car, he always move towards me, I think he is hungry but when he reach me, he then sit still and sleep on my lap. He is the cat that need love very very much.
We all fall in love with him.
At home, Nonthaburi
Thailand
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Thalankuppam is a small fishing hamlet, at the extreme north of Madras city. A river - called variously the Kourtaliayaar, Mogathwaram, Thalankuppam - meets the sea here, at Thalankuppam. A wide, sandy beach, broken piers, fishing boats, and more make for a great way to spend the evening.
Thalankuppam, otherwise just a small dot in the map of Madras, has one little thing going for it. Fresh fish. Locals and people from far flock to the daily and weekly fish market here. Fish here is sold in big lots, and buyers bid for it.
Apparently, the British Raj too bought its fish from here. They would board their ships at the Fort St. George, sail north for 17 kilometres, and buy their lord's favourite here, 200 years ago.
More about Thalankuppam, from my post on Metroblogging Chennai
A view of the intercoastal...
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The view from the landing at old Fulton Street in Brooklyn is a killer. Just below the Brooklyn Bridge and overlooking the East River, the marina boasts of not just the Manhattan skyline but also of the incredible Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory. I could not have enough of their homemade treat- a cold treat even in such a cold time.
taken at Fulton Landing in front of the Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory, Brooklyn, New York, the US
exhibited, crowd-curated and shortlisted in Brooklyn Museum's Click photoexhibit (June 27 to August 10, 2008); published in the coffee book of the same name.
waxed romantic in the Brooklyn Bridge in colloidfarl.blogspot.com/
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La Coruña (Spain).
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Thes last rays of sun before the rainstorm begun at the Groenburgwal canal and the Zuiderkerk church. Amsterdam
HDR from 3 exposures - f/7.1 - 1/200s - ISO 200 - 27mm
Nikon D80 with 18-200 VR
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Even best things finish. For all of you, enjoy every single remaining minute of this crazy year. Cheers. Nico. (Russia, Moscow, Red Square, July 2006)
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Shot from a flight over Monument valley.
Another 2 photographs from the valley and time are in my landscape set.
After the rainstorm - It was one of the most awesome sunsets I had ever seen. After a shower the clouds opened and the light and colors were unvelibable. There are more pictures to come :)
Some people viewing 'beacon' were asking for a wider shot, so here it is :)
Pigeon Point Lighthouse @ sunset. The crowd are gathering for the annual relighting of the first order Fresnel lens.
Thanks to the author/s of Digital Photography School for featuring this shot in the "Photographing Coastlines" article.
See the colour really pop as: 'Pigeon Point' On Black
FYI - 'beacon' is not a crop taken from 'Pigeon Point'. They are entirely different photos :)
"I used to be crustacean
In an underwater nation
And I surf in celebration
Of a billion adaptations
I feel the need
planted in me
Millions of years ago
Can't you see the oceans size?
Defining time
and tide arising ...
I scream in affirmation
Of connecting dislocations
And exceeding limitation
By achieving levitation
Got me a big wave, ride me a big wave, got me a big
wave..."
Director Anthony Minghella called the light in Italy "roasted".
RIP Anthony Minghella. Your vision will be missed.
Abajo, el lago Laja. Al fondo, los Nevados de Chillán. Región del Biobío, Chile central.
Respira, respira en el aire
No tengas miedo de que te importe
Deja pero no me dejes
Mira alrededor y escoge tu propio terreno
Por lo largo que vivas y alto que vueles
Y las sonrisas que darás y las lágrimas que llorarás
Y todo lo que tocas y todo lo que ves
Es todo lo que tu vida será
Corre, conejo, corre
Cava ese hoyo, olvida el sol
Y cuando al fin el trabajo está hecho
No te sientes, es tiempo de cavar otro
Por lo largo que vivas y alto que vueles
Pero solo si montas la corriente
Y te balanceaste en la ola más grande
Corres hacia una tumba temprana
Breathe - Pink Floyd
Four seconds. That was how long I opened the shutter at 2 full stops of (over)exposure. Night was dark and the flaming lamp was basically the only light source at the backstage of the arena where the popular kecak dance was held.
Rife with frenetic dancers scurrying for positions, the area was actually off-limits but it was Idul Fitri Hari Raya and the performance was sold out. Somehow we convinced the box office tenders that we only wanted a peep. Little did they know that for me, this free spot is the best.
Pura Uluwatu, Nusa Dua, Balu, Indonesia
more pics and journeys in colloidfarl.blogspot.com/
Into the light. ... Trafalgar Square is the most photographed square in the world !
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Every castle in the world is unique in some way. No two are the same.
But this one - even though it's rather small and humble compared to some - is unique in more than one way. Probably the only one in the world, really integrated in a cave system - actually the second largest cave system in Slovenia.
It's located 9km from Postojna (where another cave is located - world-famous Postojnska jama - one of the largest in the world).
Its name Predjamski grad literally means Castle in Front of the Cave. And the village in front of it is also named Predjama.
This castle wasn't built in one go. First written records exist from 13th century, though the first part (left wing) was probably built in the first half of 12th century. Middle part was added in renaissance, and the right wing was build around 1570. Some things were added and changed later, but since 1990 renovation work is in progress, restoring it to the original 16th century look.
A medieval knight's tournament is held each summer in front of the castle and it's really worth a visit (though it's quite crowded then - as far as I heard).
Castle changed quite a few owners, but probably the best known was notorious rogue knight Erasmus Lueger, aka Erazem Predjamski. In 15th century, when he lived, only the first part of the castle existed. And it more resembled a robber's den than a castle. Wasn't very large or comfortable - but virtually impregnable.
Erazem was once a guest of Austrian emperor Friederich III. When one of emperor's friends (or relatives, as some sources state) insulted one of Erazem's good friends, Erazem drew the sword and killed him. For this, he was sentenced to death, but managed to escape and made it back to his stronghold.
Then he started attacking caravans, robbing whomever and whenever he seemed fit and generally acting as a major pain in emperor's behind. Therefore Triest's governor Ravbar was ordered to find and kill him.
Legend says that none of Ravbar's men knew where Erazem's stronghold was. So Erazem himself, cheeky as he was, put on a diguise and offered to lead them to it. Be as it may, as they found out the location, they laid the siege to the castle for months. When they froze their bums off in the middle of winter, Erazem mocked them and allegedly even catapulted a roasted ox from the castle and wished them good appetite. (Could be that the Monty Python crew borrowed this legend for their French Taunting sketch - or perhaps it's just a funny coincidence.)
When the next spring arrived, Erazem started to send them freshly picked cherries. Ravbar was thoroughly puzzled by this. There were rumours among his men, that there was a sort of paradise land in the caves behind the castle, that yields all sorts of crop throughout the year...
Little did they know, that there's a passage through the cave, which exits on the other side of the hill. Probably this passage and the elaborate cave system were the main reason why the castle was built there in the first place.
Though Ravbar received these fruity gifts from Erazem, the siege itself proved fruitless - until the summer of 1484, when Ravbar managed to bribe one of Erazem's servants. This servant told him, that though castle's walls can easily withstand cannon fire, the walls of the outhouse (see notes on the photo) are quite another matter. A well aimed cannonball could penetrate its wall and kill whomever is using it at the moment.
So, when Erazem was relieving himself, the servant gave Ravbar's men a signal and they fired at the outhouse. The cannonball passed right through and missed Erazem. But when it hit the back wall, an avalanche of rocks buried Erazem beneath it, ending his rebellion.
(That's the official version anyway. Another source (see here), states that he was killed by "sniper fire" through a window, after the treacherous servant placed the lamp so that it outlined Erasmus' silhouette in the window.)
Legend also says that Erazem is buried under a huge (and really weird looking) lime tree, beside the village church.
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Here is the night view.
And here all my pix of this place.
Oh, and BTW: On May 7th, 2009 Oddee placed this castle third among
"10 Most Fascinating Castles and Palaces" in the world.
They even borrowed the first part of my text above in their description.
LOL I'm flattered! :-)
(And since they didn't ask for permission, nor quoted the source, I'm quite grateful they didn't "borrow" my photo as well.)
While conical hats are common in Asia- think of the rattan woven version of the Philippines and the bamboo ones in Indonesia and China- the Vietnamese non la are unique for its extreme lightness. Extracted from an indigenous variety of bamboo, the young leaves are first softened by exposure to damp air overnight. Flattened and then sown by hand into 16-18 rims, the leaves are given a final coat of transparent tar to keep the hat shiny and weather-proof. Several years ago I brought home 2 hats for my mom and they still are durable and yes, eye-catching.
Unicorn Island, Mekong Delta, Vietnam
more pics and journeys in colloidfarl.blogspot.com/
But now in September the garden has cooled, and with it my possessiveness. The sun warms my back instead of beating on my head ... The harvest has dwindled, and I have grown apart from the intense midsummer relationship that brought it on."
- Robert Finch