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Photo taken from Kabataş, on a hazy night.
Kabataş Iskelesinden, biraz sisli bir gecede çekilmiştir.
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SPRİNG CLEANİNG; (30.06.2011)
352 "comments" has been erased.
Because;
-Invites without comments
-Award codes without comments
-And because of these I couldn't read the REAL comments in all that clutter,
especially due to the Flickrs New Page.
And I thank to every one who did write something,
really it made me happy to see so much..
On a beautiful morning I shot this image. It's a view on the german city Emmerich, this is minutes after the first rays of the sun hit the land. This was also the first day I had to scratch the ice of my windshield.
Just a boring little beach shot that I tried to spice up through processing.
Hope you all had a great start to the week!
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I like to photograph the kids,, this shot has been taken in the same day I shot the thunder, check out my previous post, hope you like it ;-)
Explored on Oct 18, 2009 #292
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Instantly hailed as the most important structure of its time, Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum Bilbao recently celebrated a decade of extraordinary success on October 19, 2007. With close to ninety exhibitions and over ten million visitors to its credit, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao forever changed the way the world thinks about museums, and it continues to challenge our assumptions about the connections between art, architecture, and collecting.
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Collection has a unique, yet complementary, identity from the collections at the other Guggenheim institutions, featuring works by some of the most significant artists of the second half of the 20th century: Eduardo Chillida, Yves Klein, Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist, Clyfford Still, Antoni Tàpies, and Andy Warhol, among others.
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Bilbao Titanium Colors - Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
LARGE ON BLACK (press F11 for full screen view)
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Sunset in Victoria B.C's Inner Harbour.
to get into the train - doesn't matter which one
do not care about the luggage,
do not care about the ticket
and go away
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Maryla Rodowicz Wsiąść do pociągu
Explored #213 on 15-10-2009
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It is a great idea to tell the story behind the image
so this is my story
I was driving back home, passing by a small town (Wolsztyn, Poland)where once a year in first weekend of May, the steam train parade takes place. I noticed, that they have some steam locomotives standing as an open air museum and stopped to make some pictures. Then I noticed a steam locomotive warming and slowly going away. After app. 1 km it stopped at a little station. I followed the locomotive and found out, that this steam trains are still serving a small distance line. I liked the mood of a solitude, small train station and old steam train... tried to put it in this photo.....
“...Las tropillas entabladas,
los fletes bien ensillados
es legado que ha heredado
esta Patria que es sagrada.
¡Qué lujo verla rodeada,
uno por uno agarrar,
la madrina cabrestear,
pegadita a la asidera!
¡Qué orgullo pa'mi bandera
que estamos viendo flamear!”
Fragmento de “Tropilla entablada”, de Julio Secundino Cabezas
Fuente: gauchoguacho.blogspot.com
San Antonio de Areco, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Amigos, visitem: www.visiteareco.com
Click here to see this Bamboo Fountain large!
This was shot on a tripod with my Sigma 10-20mm ultra wide angle lens attached to my Canon EOS Rebel T1i. Three exposures (-2..0..+2 EV) was processed in Photomatix. Tone mapped and detail enhanced. In Photoshop, increased overall saturation, curve adjustment, and unsharp mask.
The Kakehi (Bamboo Fountain) is a waterspout consisting of a vertical bamboo pipe in which the internal part of each node (joint) has been bored out to accept a plastic hosepipe. At the head of the vertical bamboo pipe a "Komagshira" or scorched timber joint drilled out to accept the vertical and horizontal bamboo pipes, the komagashira timber top section is either square in section or round. The" Kakehi " has a number of uses, used to feed water into a stone water basin (Chozubachi) or to trickle water into the end of a Deer Scarer (Shishi-Odoshi). The Shishi Odoshi was originally used by Japanese farmers to scare off deer and boar from their rice crops, and later it has become part of the Japanese garden
These ripples at Lake Louise provide a kind of dynamic serenity. Was able to get to the lake from Banff for sunrise last week on a trip. The quiet was palpable. The ripples were provided with a little snowball and added a sense of dynamic movement to the moment.
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Non-hdr image.
In preparation of a free buffet lunch I thought I'd get a little exercise cycling on my wife's battery powered mamachari (bike with large baskets) and came across this unexpected wonderful sunset.
This was taken using my wide angle lense and cropped at the bottom to remove the beach from the shot.
Slightly processed to give a nice cinematic film feel.
I just returned from a road trip to Glacier, Wateron Lakes, Banff & Jasper where there were record low temps. I think the ice and snow on this bighorn sheep represents this quite well :) All in all amazing trip though. You can't beat the Canadian Rockies for breathtaking landscape. Will slowly be adding shots to my stream. Thanks for stopping by! Explored FP & highest position 2 :)
I was looking forward to October the 2nd (the Birth of a great leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi) to dedicate this picture but unfortunately work and personal life did take most of my time . So I woke up earlier than normal time and finished it just this morning. I figured, there's no time limit to dedicate something to a great man like him, right?
I'll see you all very soon in a image near you ;-)
"Pampa - matambre esverdeado
dos costilhares do Prata
que se agranda e se dilata,
de horizontes estaqueados,
couro recém pelechado
que tem Pátria nas raizes,
aos teus bárbaros matizes
os tauras e campeadores
misturaram sangue às cores
pra desenhar três Países"
Trecho de "Payador, Pampa, Guitarra", de Jayme Caetano Braun
Rio Grande, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil
A little ride on the aquabus for tourists.
I was trying to make the colours look as good as I know how at this point in my editing software.
I sure could spend sometime with an expert to get more than just a basic knowledge of photoshop and all the many things you can use it for.
Het Steen is a historic medieval castle in the old city center of Antwerp, Belgium, one of Europe's biggest ports. Built in 1200 - 1225, Het Steen is Antwerp's oldest building.
Previously known as Antwerp Castle, Het Steen gained its current name in around 1520, after significant rebuilding under Charles V. The rebuilding led to it being known first as "'s Heeren Steen" (the King's Stone), and later simply as "Het Steen" (The Stone). The Dutch word "Steen" means "stone", and is used for "castle" or "fortress", as in the "Gravensteen" in Ghent, Belgium.
The castle made it possible to control the access to the Schelde, the river that flows through Antwerp. It was also used as a prison between 1303 and 1827. This was not the noblest time of existence of the Steen Castle. Captivity itself was not punishment - the prison was where you awaited your sentence. Very popular punishment available was; chopping of hands, heads and/or burning and quartering. The prison’s regime was not a very honest one. The rich were logged in the right wing and the poor in the left wing of the castle.
Part of the castle was later demolished to make the roads to connect the south and the north part of the port. The remaining building contains a shipping museum, with outside on displayed on the quay, some real old canal barges.
In 1890 ‘Het Steen’ became the museum of archeology and in 1952 an annex was added to house the museum of the Antwerp maritime history. Here you’ll also find a war memorial to the Canadian soldiers in WWII.
At the entrance to Het Steen is a bas-relief of Semini, above the archway, circa 2nd century. Semini is the Scandinavian God for youth and fertility (with symbolic phallus). A historical plaque near Het Steen explains that women of the town appealed to Semini when they desired children; the god was reviled by later religious clergy. Inhabitants of Antwerp previously referred to themselves as "children of Semini". An organization affiliated with historic preservation of Het Steen and Semini, Antwerp Komitee Semini in Ere (AKSIE), formed in 1986, holds annual celebrations at Het Steen as cultural events. (Source: Het Steen)
It was a rather calm day there ... I saw no other people visiting the castle. Maybe it is not so famous in Antwerp.
Worth to view Large On Black
Die Burg Steen am rechten Scheldeufer ist aus dem Mittelalter und die Stadtburg von Antwerpen, Belgien.
Die erste Erwähnung der Burg Het Steen („Der Stein“) datiert auf das 12. Jahrhundert. Damit gilt sie als ältestes erhaltenes Gebäude der Stadt Antwerpen. Die Burg war Teil der Stadtbefestigung und sollte den Zugang zur Stadt aus der Richtung der Westerschelde schützen. Im Jahr 1520 bestimmte Kaiser Karl V., dass die Burg renoviert und umgebaut werden sollte, um Artillerie aufnehmen zu können.
Später wurde die Burg als Gefängnis genutzt. Davon zeugt heute noch das Kruzifix über dem Eingang. Es symbolisiert die Stelle, an der zum Tode verurteilte Verbrecher ihr letztes Gebet vor der Hinrichtung zu sprechen hatten.
Im 19. Jahrhundert wurde die Burg schwer beschädigt, aber im alten Gewand wieder errichtet. Seit 1952 beherbergt sie ein Museum.
Wie bereits erwähnt ist Het Steen, wie die Antwerpener sie nennen, seit 1952 das Nationale Maritime Museum Belgiens. Hier können Schiffsmodelle berühmter, historischer Schiffe, ebenso Malereien, nautische Instrumente, Fotos und Dokumente besichtigt werden. Ebenso betrachtet werden kann das Original des Leichters West Hinder III.
Über den Urzustand der Burg ist wenig bekannt. Die neuere Anlage aus dem 16. Jahrhundert wurde aber nach den Maßgaben des Adels nach mehr Wohnlichkeit erbaut. Der eigentliche Bergfried existiert nicht mehr. Dagegen wurden massive, palastartige Gebäude gebaut. Über dem Haupteingang ist ein Wehrgang angebracht, der mit Pechnasen bestückt ist. Ein massiver Rundturm mit Zinnen sichert den Eingang an der rechten Seite, ein weiterer Rundturm mit Kegeldach und Pechnasen befindet sich links. Seeseitig wurden Bastionen zur Unterbringung der Artillerie eingebaut. Auffällig ist der Baustil der Anlage. Deutlich hanseatisch geprägt sind die stufenförmigen Dachgiebel. (Quelle: Burg Steen)
Es war ein ruhiger Tag ... ich keine anderen Menschen, welche die Burg besichtigten. Vielleicht ist sehr nicht sehr berühmt für Antwerpen.
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"Toute forme créée, même par l'homme, est immortelle. Car la forme est indépendante de la matière, et ce ne sont pas les molécules qui constituent la forme."
Charles Baudelaire
This photo was taken while waiting for our plane that'll bring me to Iloilo. The flight was supposed to be at 4:30am but was delayed due to some technical problems with our original plane. We were asked to transfer to another plane after the pilot and technicians confirmed that it will take time to fix the first plane's faulty mechanism.
If my memory serves me right, this shot was taken before 6 in the morning while it was raining outside and some dark clouds are coming into view forecasting the catastrophe that will fall on this city about 2 weeks later.
Shot through a glass wall of a cafe. Clone stamped away the reflections and did some DRI.
I got up at 3am to drive from Seattle to Prosser in eastern WA. Still debating whether or not it was worth it. It was pretty cool to see the 31 balloons launch at sunrise over the Yakima river. I will be offline for a few weeks on a road trip to Banff and Jasper. Thanks for checking out the photo and saying hi.
In mezzo alla rotonda di corso Regio Parco (Torino) hanno piazzato questo vecchio tram.
Verniciato d'argento ha un certo fascino.
An old tram (painted silver) seen in Turin, in the middle of a roundabout.
e vorrei dedicare questa foto a buttha, perché più la guardo più sento (ma non so bene il perché) che è nel suo stile
dedicated to buttha, i think it's a butthed shot
Itaguaçu é um bairro da cidade brasileira de Florianópolis, capital do estado de Santa Catarina. Está situado na porção continental do município, ao sul, entre os bairros de Coqueiros e Bom Abrigo e a baía sul. O nome Itaguaçu é de origem tupi e quer dizer literalmente "Viveiro de Pedras Grandes" ou "Lugar onde há Pedras Grandes". Estas pedras constituem interessantes formações de granito à beira da praia de Itaguaçu e em meio ao mar da baía sul, havendo mesmo uma lenda que conta de bruxas que teriam sido petrificadas, dando origem às pedras, uma das quais parece ter um chapéu, e também há um conjunto de 6 pedras que formam um tipo de um círculo com uma sétima pedra no meio (alusão a ritual satânico)..
“...No hay uno mal arreglao
(tal vez porque no soy manco)
tuse bajo con güen banco
y vaso bien recortao,
el lomito lastimao
a ninguno se le vé,
la cola al garrón porqué
pa mí no les queda feo
que pienso cuando cambeo:
‘tá que fiero andar... de a pié’...”
Fragmento de “De a pie”, de Alvaro Istueta Landajo
Fuente: gauchoguacho.blogspot.com/
San Antonio de Areco, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Amigos, visitem: www.visiteareco.com
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بعض البشر ودّك إذا جعت [ تاكلْه ]
من قبلته من سكّره من حلاتـه !!
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مآشآء الله
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Say masha allah plz ..
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Please do not use image without my knowledge ..
All by : Me ..
Took a bud and his daughter out camping with me and the boys this weekend in the RV. Hooked up with Bro and his family at a campground at the base of Mt. Fuji. Was absolute *perfect* weather, with a fantastic Sunset to top the day off as you can see here.
Life is good outdoors on the weekends; highly recommended with or without kids...
5xp handheld HDR rendered photo taken near sunset of my Bro's trailer, and my RV.
Japan.
Phuquoc, Vietnam
107/365
Thank you very much all my dear friends for your visits, comments and faves!
Please NO MULTIGROUP invites!
To the next stop on the tour...
Which is an epic view over the historic city of Warsaw in Poland photographed from the 70 meter high Bell Tower of St. Anne's Church that overlooks the vibrant Castle Square.
You can see the Warsaw Castle off to the right here and rising high above the old town, the green roof of St. John's Cathedral just to the left of it.
While I was up in the tower shooting it started to rain really hard, thank heavens there was a roof over my head, so I decided to stay put and keep on shooting these stunning views till the rain stopped. Unfortunately for me it didn't look like the rain was going to let up, it was raining for like 20 minutes with no end in sight (and from my great vantage point no end in sight was for a long time) So I headed down and started to make my way back to the hostel. Of course I was disappointed, this was such a unique and colourful city and I was hoping to get some shots at sunset and during the blue hour.
Upset, I walked down the steps of the bell tower and listened to the rain ruin my one night in Warsaw, then I turned and headed towards the cable cars. =(
All of a sudden like a gift from the heavens the sky opened up and the sun started to pour over and set on the city. What luck!! Could you believe it?! So of course I continued to shoot for the remainder of the night with a huge smile on my face!! =)
So in my next few photographs you will follow me on a night to remember and say goodbye to Warsaw with me.
Till next time, enjoy the view from here in LARGE. No HDR or Blending used here, just added some contrast/saturation and brightened it in Camera RAW
+++ I hope all of you have a great weekend, TGIF!! +++
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Last week, I returned to the exact location of my last upload to capture the morning fog lifting for the day. There are few clouds this time of year but the fog can really create some good atmosphere and light under the right conditions. The trick is to be ready before sunrise and if it has promise, head out immediately! No HDR.
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Canon 5D Mark II
Canon 24-105L @ 45
30-second exposure @F11
HOYA NDX-400 9.5-stop filter (Very dark) for the long exposure.
LEE soft ND grad (100x150mm) 0.9 + 0.75
Lee foundation kit filter holder with Lee 77mm adapter ring
No polarizer!
ISO 50
Small Slik tripod with Manfrotto Pistol-grip ball head.
RAW file processed with Capture One by Phase One
TIFF file processed with Photoshop
As usual, this light lasted for about 5 minutes or so. You don't get a second chance with fog because one moment it is too thick and the next minute it burns off to clear skies for the rest of the day! So you must be ready for when the light breaks through. And hopefully it breaks through before it gets too harsh and bright with the sun too high in the sky.
Again, I was really out to shoot the Golden Gate Bridge because there was low fog, but it was not meant to be. The fog was too thick. But that was fine because I have lots of alternative shots planned out, so I just follow the light to where it leads me.
For more on Angel island, see here:
The map shows exactly where this is. It is a short hike down a steep set of wooden steps at the end of Valley St., near Bridgeway
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Took this on the day of the Penguins Stanley Cup Parade, it was such a beautiful day!
And I SWEAR those halos weren't there when I e-mailed this to myself from my Mac. The PC at work that I downloaded them too must have put them there ;-)
I'll make sure to fix them tonight!
Thanks for the visits, and have a great weekend my friends!