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this morning was quite frosty, a little surprising for the middle of may.

my fingers were freezing while taking this.. and it took ages to warm them back up after holding my camera super still for a while.

but it was a lovely morning!

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Fotografo poeta y pensador

Amour

Amour, Toi qui nous transportes

Ouvres nous ta porte

Celle du Cœur

Pour que naisse le Bonheur

Amour, n’a pas de frontière

N est jamais froid, comme une pierre

C est toujours Toi, qui décides

Que l’on soit jeunes, ou avec rides

Amour, nous sommes sous ta menace

Quand nos deux corps s’enlacent

Tu nous brûles de désirs

Jusqu’ aux derniers de nos soupirs

Domi

Love

Love, You who transported us

WATTAGE us your door

That of the Heart

To be born Happiness

Love has no borders

N is never cold like a stone

It is always you, who decide

Whether you are young, or with wrinkles

Love, we are under your threat

When our bodies intertwine

You we're burning with desire

Until the last of our sighs

Domi

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9.may 2010 - Mothersday - 1.221 / 150 / 767 / 4 galleries

* mother - the shapes and colors of a role.

Within the belief systems of parenthood, of motherhood, there are dictates of what mothers should be offering to children. ...

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Happy mother's day

Today, Margreet and I went to Ghent Belgium.

It was a cold and windy day, but we had fun.

We went for coffee and a group of Spanish people came in.

Margreet (Margaretha) is from Spain, so she asked a nice man ;-))

to take a picture of us. And although this is a "snapshot",

I love the way how he captured the incoming light and the outside view!

Texture by:Temari 09: Afternoon Delight Thanks my friend!

My favorite image from a wonderful trip this last Sunday to Coal Mine Canyon. This marvelous canyon is vast, deep, and filled with amazing colors of geological layers and hoodoos. If you took a quick glance at this photo you'd think it was the Grand Canyon, but that is over to the west by about 150 miles. This location is on the Navajo reservation and you buy a permit in Cameron (at the trading post) for hiking. You are not ok to hike down into the canyon because there is a dividing line of sorts between the Navajo and Hopi and a dispute of some sort. The Hopi do not sell permits for their side of this canyon. But I can tell you there are plenty of places up on this top rim to climb about and see wonders. Some of the hoodoos there are so much like what you think of a Bryce and Zion in Utah. I highly recommend this trip. Mark and I were the only people out there on a perfect afternoon and evening for photography. Just think, hours and hours alone in this place. Yes, cobalt here was in Heaven for sure.

Excellent online article, I read it and agree with this author heartily:

www.americansouthwest.net/arizona/coal-mine-canyon/index....

Marina di Orosei

Tomada en Cala Flores (Cabo Palos) - Murcia.

Vereis, el pasado viernes cambié mi viejo monitor HP de 19" por un NEC P221W de 22" que llega a cubrir hasta un 96% del Adobe RGB, también le he instalado el software que distribuye NEC denominado SpectraView II en su versión 1.1.03 que actualiza entre otras cosas el panel LUTs de 8 a 10, y al que he calibrado hoy con un Eye-One Display 2. Es tan brutal el cambio en el color de un monitor a otro que no sé realmente lo que vosotros veis y necesito saberlo.

Ya se que esto será muy subjetivo porque cada uno tendreis un monitor diferente calibrado o no.

Mi viejo monitor HP de 19" también está calibrado pero hay mucha diferencia de uno a otro en los matices de color.

Según el histograma que me aporta CS3 no hay luces reventadas ni sombras empastadas. Cómo lo veis vosotros?

Gracias de antemano.

Por mi parte le aprecio un halo en la parte superior de la roca que choca con el cielo, pero eso no es novedad ya que lo provoca el algoritmo de reducción que aplica Flickr a todas aquellas imágenes que son mayores de 500px en su lado mayor como es el caso.

I need to know your real opinion about this shot because the last Friday I haved changed my old monitor HP 19" for a NEC P221W that covers until a 96% of Adobe RGB. The histogram is ok in CS3, but the color is very different in HP 19" or NEC P221W.

Thanks for your opinion.

Sony DSLR-A700

1/3''

F20

ISO 100

Sigma 10-20mm a 11mm

Cokin ND8 P121S

Trípod + Remote Control.

So today was the day after the party and some of my friends had a hangover haha. My friend Di and I didn't. Last night was crazy and I threw up for thr first time from drinking. It was so hard to walk home and my friend and I just collapsed on my bed when we got home. My parents didn't notice a thing haha. When we woke up we went to Mr. Tea's (the cafe we usually go to and where we had the party at) to eat and check out the place. Everything was back to normal and then we went to the park to play some ball and hang out. When everyone went to basketball practice three of my friends and I decided to go to Battery Park to hang out and eat Applebees. We stopped at some place I call the shore and skipped some rocks. I took this at seaport and we walked all the way to Applebees just to find it closed. So we decided to go to wholefoods where we just ate burgers and fries for dinner.

Ex #18 Front Page Explore :) Thanks for all the views and comments :)

Stopped of at the coast last night on the way to a party as there were some fantastic clouds around. I got some pics but I've never missed so many shots in such a short period of time, always arriving just a few seconds to late for a rainbow or whatever.

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Sevilla es una de las ciudades más importantes en la historia de España desde la Edad Antigua en que surgió un primer núcleo identificado con la cultura tartésica y que, tras su destrucción atribuida a los cartagineses, dio paso a la ciudad romana de Hispalis, junto a la que se construyó la colonia de Itálica. Durante el reino visigodo alojó en algunas ocasiones la corte. En Al-Ándalus, tras la invasión musulmana, fue primero sede de una cora y después capital de un reino de taifas. En el año 844 fue saqueada por los vikingos remontando el río Guadalquivir decidiendo el emir de Córdoba fortalecer su sistema defensivo.

Tras el descubrimiento de América en 1492, Sevilla se convirtió en el centro económico del Imperio español. Los Reyes Católicos fundaron la Casa de Contratación, desde donde se dirigían y contrataban los viajes, controlaban las riquezas que entraban de América y, junto con la Universidad de Mercaderes, regulaban las relaciones con el Nuevo Mundo.

Durante el siglo XVI Sevilla experimentó un gran desarrollo y se construyeron algunos de los edificios más importantes del centro histórico. La ciudad llegó a ser un centro multicultural lo que ayudaría al florecimiento de las artes, jugando un papel importante en el Siglo de Oro español. Destacaron entonces las fábricas de jabón del barrio de Triana, la artesanía de la seda y la cerámica sevillana.

Coincidiendo con su momento artístico más brillante, el Barroco, se vio afectada por la crisis del siglo XVII, lo que significó una decadencia económica y demográfica, al tiempo que la navegación por el Guadalquivir se dificultaba cada vez más, hasta que el monopolio comercial y sus instituciones se trasladaron a Cádiz.

La revitalización de la ciudad en el siglo XIX, con la industrialización y el desarrollo de la red ferroviaria española, coincidió con la época romántica.

Durante el siglo XX, además de sufrir la represión de la Guerra Civil y la posterior dictadura militar, presenció hitos decisivos como la Exposición Iberoamericana de 1929, la Exposición Universal de 1992 o su elección como capital de la autonomía andaluza.

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This is a beautiful place to watch the sunrise, it comes up behind you looking at Death Valley. We got up early two mornings and went there. Fortunately it's only a 5-10 minute drive from where we were staying at the Furnace Creek Ranch. It's very popular, though, I talked with a photographer from Chicago on my left and one from Toronto on my right.

Another from our recent trip to Embo, in the North East Highlands of Scotland. With the highlands, being the highlands, we got all 4 seasons in one week... you've seen one of the calm days... here's one where the sky was a wee bit more angry.

No sunsets over the water on the east coast, so had to find a rock out in the sea to precariously balance tripod and my not insignificant frame, to shot back across the beach towards the sun. This was after the sun had dipped below the horizon. Invested in a pair of wellies after getting a royal soaking on this one :-)

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حياط خونه ما

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~Explore#

...As escolhas que fazemos podem mudar

Ou destruir

As correntes que nos prendem nesse lugar

Bem perto de você é aonde eu quero estar

Até o fim de verdade dessa vez! ♪

I'll tell you

The choices we make can change

Or destroy

The chains that bind us in this place

Right next to you is where I want to be

"...Entonce, empeço a alembrar

aqueles trastes que eu tive:

- a daga, punho de ourives,

para passear à mão-salva

e um nagão, berro de touro

e um relógio, casca de ouro,

mais certo que a estrela d'alva..."

Trecho de "Recuerdos de Tapejara", de Aureliano de Figueiredo Pinto

Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil

The concept of "foreground interest" doesn't really seem to be my thing. But, trying here to see if a very uneventful sky can be balanced by at least some kind of "event" going on in the foreground :-)

Have a great weekend everyone!

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Self Portrait...

90mm f2.8 1/60 iso 200

Sunset outing with Jeffie www.flickr.com/photos/jeffiebrown/ and also accompany by a lots of mosquitoes (lols) yesterday (its past 12am in my place now) at Tanjung Aru Beach, Kota Kinabalu Sabah.

Spiral staircase leading to the 'Café Glockenspiel' in Munich.

I took several shots of this staircase from different angles, but this one is my favorite, because of the bit of wall which is still visible on the right side (looked strange when i cut it off a few shots earlier) and because of the intersecting railings.

Technique/Processing

I took 2 shots, 2EV apart from each other. The first one already had dialed in an exposure correction of +1EV, because i wanted to retain the bright walls. The upper part of the staircase had to be replaced (manual blending) with the one from the -2EV exposure, because it was completely white.

I did NOT use a tripod, but hand held it again, having to use ISO 7200 (!!!) to get the bright look. I was really excited, that the lavender wall color came out so nicely at this high ISO setting

III Maximum speed III

III سرعه قصوى III

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canon 7D

SIGMA 10 - 20 mm 1:4-5.6 DC

F : 11

2 Seconds

10 mm

ISO : 640

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لكم مني كل الحب والتقدير

عبدالرحمن محمد القيسي

لا انسى وجود المتألق : عبدالله التيهاني خلف العدسه

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Smoking kills

personal favourites - a photoset by fifichat1 ~ offline / busy on Flickriver

Graffiti chat dans l'Albaicin à Grenade:mon avatar chat!

Cat graffiti. Albaicin area. Granada.Spain.

My buddy Icon ;))

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CaméraPanasonic DMC-LX2

Exposition0,003 sec (1/400)

Ouverturef/7.1

Longueur focale6.3 mm

Vitesse ISO100

Détection du degré d'exposition0 EV

FlashOff, Did not fire

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I returned for to Point Lobos for a wider perspective of this impressive rock! It was clear all day then I got lucky when clouds came by. They were gone after sunset. No HDR.

Free wallpaper for over 100 of my images in 6 different screen sizes is now available!

See the 1200 pixel version!

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Canon 5D Mark II

Canon 17-40L @21

1/4-second exposure @F11

LEE soft ND grad (100x150mm - 4x6in) 0.9 + 0.75 (5 1/2 stops total)

Lee foundation kit filter holder with Lee 77mm adapter ring

No polarizer.

ISO 50

Joby Gorillapod (flexible tripod so I could lay down and not fall off the cliff!)

RAW file processed with Capture One by Phase One

TIFF file processed with Photoshop

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Point Lobos, at the north end of Big Sur just south of Carmel, California (100 miles - 160km south of San Francisco) could keep a photographer busy for months or even years. It is a peninsula that has been sculptured by large Pacific waves over millions of years and the results are stunning. This is one of the western-most points of rock and is probably 50 feet tall at high tide. Sometimes waves wash over the entire rock and they did during a big set just after this photo was made. This is a wider view with more light striking the cliff face and sea than my previous attempt which is in the 2010 Nature Conservancy calendar for November.

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The biggest hazard is getting low enough to have the tops of the rock rise above the horizon. Then you must literally hang off the cliff to get an open view around the right foreground rock. So the Gorillapod allowed me to lay on the rock and not fall in! Also, I had to wait for a seagull to land on the top of each rock, though I made some with no seagull just in case. In a big print, the seagull really helps.

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Google Earth

earth.google.com/

Simply the best way to scout out locations that there is. You can see sun angles and pre-visualize light under lots of different conditions. Sometimes you can actually pre-compose your shots! This has saved me many thousands of vertical feet of climbing by avoiding spots with blocked views etc.

Satellite imagery (choose 'National' for a local US region or use your fave website)

www.wrh.noaa.gov/satellite/?wfo=mtr

Tide charting and preditions: (chose your area in US, other countries have similar websites)

tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/tide_predictions.shtml?gid=235

Wave Heights (I choose 'North Pacific from Global')

polar.ncep.noaa.gov/waves/main_int.html

Or Here:

www.opc.ncep.noaa.gov/shtml/RP1bw.gif

Photos of every inch of the California coastline from a small plane. Excellent for close in detailed views.

www.californiacoastline.org/

The map shows exactly where this is. It is an easy <1 mile hike from a small parking lot.

See my Flickr profile for a link to my newly designed website.

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HaPPY GoRGeouS GReeN THuRSDaY !!!

I will be away for some days.

Hope your spring is beautiful.

Have all a fantastic weekend ahead…………….

Thank you JoesSistah for the texture.

Play it loud and………

♪♪♫ L I S T e N ♪♪♫♪♪♫

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HaPPY FLoWeRY THuRSDaY !!!

The last day of Songkran festival is here.

Thailand is wet and ready for a new year.

This man here is working on the Erawan Shrine in Bangkok.

The most important shrine for the thais and you can believe me, tons of flowers, candles and incense sticks are laid down all day by the thai Buddhists, coming to this place to pray for good business and success.

So this man is doing an important job, he grabs all flowers and the other stuff and making space for new ones.

I like the hand of him, I catched in this shot.

HaPPY GoRGeouS GReeN THuRSDaY all of you !!!

Look here for more information about the eRaWaN SHRiNe.

Miss me……..

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Kerala State In INDIA celebrates VISHU ( MALAYALAM NEW YEAR ) tomorrow..

Advance Happy Vishu To All Of You mY Dear Friends and Flickr !!:)

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A dollhouse store in Minneapolis called ‘Little Enchantments’ let me take some pictures of there awesomely detailed miniature stuff - check them out: www.littleenchantments.com

Seen on a church wall in Prague

Only developed from RAW and then color processed (curves adjustment)

:)

Let's move from Prague to Munich :)

After Prague we went to Munich on short notice

Station Georg-Brauchle-Ring of the U1 line.

Info

Georg-Brauchle-Ring is an U-Bahn station in Munich on the U1. It is located below the Georg-Brauchle-Ring, part of Munich's Mittlerer Ring ring road system. It opened on 18 October 2003. Artist Franz Ackermann produced two coloured walls for the station entitled The Great Journey and consisting of 400 panels, each wall weighing 30 tons

Technique/Processing

Handheld - only 1/15s this time - so no problem at ISO 1000 - i really love the ISO Auto function of the D700 - you can concentrate on the subject instead of having to adjust your exposure/ISO every time.

Developed from RAW in Photoshop - one exposure for the lights (especially the clocks - they were completely white out of cam) and one for the rest and then combined them by layer masking.

A little contrast added, by applying a slight S-curve.

After that i added some 'glamour glow' to the lights on the ceiling and their reflections to make them look softer.

Batu Bolong, Canggu Tua - Bali

Canon EOS 50D + EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM

EXIF: 2 sec • f/13• 12 mm • ISO 100

Exposure Mode + White Balance: Manual

Filters: Hitech 2stops RG +Singh-Ray 3stopsRG.

Software: Digital Photo Pro + Adobe Photoshop CS3.

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Thanks everyone for your visit, comments, critiques, fave,invite..etc. I really appreciate it.

Elvis Presley - You've lost that loving feeling

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Photographer Joi on the edge of the crater of the erupting volcano in Fimmvörðuháls/Eyjafjallajökull. Iceland april 2010. While observing this photo I was amazed how relaxed he ectually is standing there wile the volcano spreads the melting lava around the area. I guess the lava is about 1000-1200°C at this point.

Several newspapers and magazines around the world published this shot.

Fine art print available, ordered by an email skarpi@skarpi.is

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On this occasion, the wally was me! Why? For forgetting to take my Lumix off the rock on the bottom right of the image when I was taking it :p I've cloned it out now of course :)

Also cloned out the big buoy between the island and mainland (see previous picture), as well as the dust bunnies I've got, and had to straighten the lighthouse as well as the 10-20mm at 10mm doesn't half have some distortion :)

Oddly enough the colour is the one thing I've not touched in post-pro, I spent far too much time (ok 10 minutes) cloning out the camera, buoy and straightening the lighthouse that I was fedup already by then).

HiTech 0.3Grad SE ND, + 0.9ND

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Sometimes we only live for the here and now. Sometimes we're lonely. Sometimes we feel we need a place to be grounded or fly away again.

I feel rain pouring down. I wait to rot away. Live again, here forever. The spiral never ends. Run away, live again, here forever, the spiral never ends.

It never ends.......

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Aperture f/6.1

Exposure Value 1/15 Sec,

Focal Length 75mm

ISO 100

Camera Canon EOS 450D

Lens Canon 17-85mm IS USM f/4.0 - 5.6

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Fisherman at mediterranean sea.

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One of my favourite walks is through the port, watching the names and origin ports of ships, exotic names for me: Varna, Odessa, Vladivostok, Nassau... It makes me dream of far travels abroad. Today we had this fine collection of vessels in the closest dock to the city. The three-masted ship is a replica of the spanish flagship at Trafalgar, it is permanently anchored in Málaga and used as a floating restaurant.

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A parting photo from Ireland

EXIF: 200mm | ISO:100 | 1/80th @ ƒ/18 | Lee 0.6s Lee 0.9h GND's

This is one of the old buildings little m and I saw on our road trip to eastern WA this past weekend. Did some blurring of the clouds to make this amazing structure stand out. Had some help from expert editor vinny , thanks Vinny! Out of all the old structures we saw, I have to say this was in my top two for interest. I will be photographing some spring flowers soon for all you color lovers out there. Will be stopping by your streams tomorrow. And as always thanks for your visit :) Don't forget to play a trick on someone you love today!

San Miguel de Allende.

Estado de Guanajuato. Mexico

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It is so strange to see the B.C Legislature building at night without it's thousands of little white lights. I've lived in Victoria nearly my whole life, and have only seen this a couple of times.

...seguro que le quedó bonita

Puesta de sol playa de Sancti-Petri

Desde el Punto Mágico.

Autora: Loli Estrada

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flickr meeting + rain = beers

Panographie du pub le Frog&Rosbif (montage numérique façon "David Hockney", c'est à dire avec une multitude de photos superposées à l'arrache, non retouchées, non courbées, non assemblées entre elles avec un logiciel de panorama, ...) réalisée avec 65 photos prises avec un compact numérique.

- Panography from the Frog&Rosbif pub (digital montage made in the style of David Hockney, i.e. with many detail shots overlayed carelessly, non-bended, non-blended, non-stitched, ...) made with 65 point&shoot digital camera photos .

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Some weeks ago, I made a weekend trip to Las Vegas. Felt a bit like in the movie "21" while flying from Boston to Las Vegas for the week end ;-)

I do not need to tell anyone that this is an unbelievable place. Especially for photographers it is great, because everywhere are lights in different shades and colors. The buildings are made to impress and they do. In the next time, I will post continuously some of my best shots and there are still a lot, which are waiting for post-production.

One of my favorite casinos is New York, New York. I think it is awesome to rebuild a city in city.

If you are interestinged in the underlyning technique of this shot, please visit my blog: www.werner-kunz.com/world/2010/03/how-to-las-vegas-the-di...

watch in black

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