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On our visit to Central park last week we went to the Zoo for the first time, and caught this sealion cruising around. I think he must be shy as his eyes were closed in every shot I got of him :)
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#148/365 Talking about cutting it close! I didn't have a shot so I went in my daughter's bedroom turned on the light and sat her up and ask her to smile for me (the things my kids put up with!). The kids are going to Disneyland tomorrow (luckty them) with the grandparents. My daughter wanted her hair wavey...so my wife braided it for the first time. The shot is a tad overexposed but I kind of like it. Happy Snapshot Thursday!
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A spike and rail road track.
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I wanted to do a lot with this photo. I tried B&W, I tried sepia, but in the end I decided it was just better off left alone. I added an overlay to heighten the contrast and I added a selective high-pass filter. No cropping
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The ladies usually meet him during casual walks in parks… soft talk, vulnerable look and sweet blueberry eyes…
Once the first contact is established, he begins to tell his sad and sour tale…
He start by telling them that even though he looks like a lime-frog, ‘deep inside’ he’s a real prince, stranded from his true destiny by deceitful and unfortunately events in his life.
He also tells them he has a beautiful Kingdom in a far, far away land awaiting for his glorious return along with his new Queen, the women of his dreams and the one that with a kiss, has ended all his suffering and saved him from his cruel lime-frog destiny...
So far… 435 romantic women have believed in him.
However, more victims are still being accounted for…
So if you see this frog around… don't believe his apparently sweet blueberry eyes and whatever happens, don't fall for his 'kissing scam!'
...because most of the times in our lives a man is just a man, a frog is just a frog, a lime is just a lime and above all... a lime-frog is just a lime-frog.
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The Pannonian Plain is a large plain in Central Europe that remained when the Pliocene Pannonian Sea dried out. It is a geomorphological subsystem of the Alps-Himalaya system.
The river Danube divides the plain roughly in half.
The plain is divided among Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine.
The plain is roughly bounded by the Carpathian mountains, the Alps, the Dinaric Alps and the Balkan mountains.
Although rain is not plentiful, it usually falls when necessary and the plain is a major agricultural area; it is sometimes said that these fields of rich loamy loess soil could feed the whole of Europe. For its early settlers, the plain offered few sources of metals or stone. Thus when archaeologists come upon objects of obsidian or chert, copper or gold, they have almost unparalleled opportunities to interpret ancient pathways of trade.
The precursor to the present plain was a shallow sea that reached its greatest extent during the Pliocene, when three to four kilometres of sediments were deposited.
The plain was named after the Pannonians, a northern Illyrian tribe. Various different peoples inhabited the plain during its history. In the first century BC, the eastern parts of the plain belonged to the Dacian state, and in the first century AD its western parts were subsumed into the Roman Empire. The Roman province named Pannonia was established in the area, and the city of Sirmium, today Sremska Mitrovica, Serbia, became one of the four capital cities of the Roman Empire in the 3rd century.
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Explore # 405, 25. Mai 2009
Feld-Sandlaufkäfer (Cicindela campestris) gesehen in den Weinbergen
Green tiger beetle seen in the vineyards
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As some of you told me they like it when I tell how I treat my images here I go:
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Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica.
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I feel so blessed witnessing such a magnificient gift from nature. Nature never disappoint me. This sunrise in Kuala Lumpur took my breath away, the sun was emitting some serious "drop dead gorgeous" tones across the sky.
That's why it is so hard letting go of my S5 IS. It has amazing capabilities to take nature shots coupled with its megazoom and versatility. My DSLR can not even deliver me a focus of the sun's yolk. Either that, or I'm just no good? =(
I need to travel so bad! I'm thinking of an island-hop this July, maybe to Langkawi followed by Terengganu and Penang, how bout that?
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Taken at Guanlan Mountain and Lake Garden Farm
Guanlan, Shenzhen China
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Another take/frame from my night last summer at Steens Mountain, Oregon (one of the darkest night skies found in the lower 48 states). Not a bad place to be for shooting stars!
Notes: I slightly differently processed this one, focusing on keeping the sky darker than I normally do (thoughts are appreciated). Thus it might lose something in the small view, so please do view large. It was taken just after peak of the Perseid Meteor Shower so I was pretty sure it was a shooting star, but I checked due to the shape of the streak to see if it was an Iridium Flare. The online calculator at Heavens-Above Calculator does not indicate any predicted flares for the time period this was taken, thus I am going to assume this is indeed a leftover Perseid Meteor. I believe there is also at least one additional faint Perseids that you can only see in the large view as well.
Edit: in response to those who are saying it's more likely an unrelated meteor not from the Perseid Meteor Shower, you could very well be right. I continue to hedge my bets on this one. Although, as I mentioned earlier, I discount the satellite flare theory since no online calculators predicted one for this location and time (I would love if it were, they are harder to get, heh). So if you came here from the flickr blog and are now thinking, well geeze this isn't even at the peak of Perseids and it might not even be one, I offer this shot of mine from the 2009 Perseid Shower that is definitely one. ;-)))
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My plans for a photowalk yesterday was a little changed due to a passing thunderstorm :) But I managed to get a few shots after the rain had stopped. The sky could have had core contrast to it, but it was enough to work with. I shot a few similar shots, but not sure which I like the most.
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My Japanese Maple again ... well, this is right after rain
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Okay so this is my first shot processed with Lightroom. I messed up things there pretty good... i mean bad.. haha! =D
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Ok, something different today. Enough of these shots with old abandoned places and creepy green tiles :-) They will continue soon enough.
I am currently running out of new material and ideas. That's not too bad, because I still have a vault full of pictures from Russia, New Zealand and USA :-) This one is another one from Chuzhir, Lake Baikal, Irkutskaya Oblast, Russia, Asia, Earth....
We spend there four nights. And I always tried to capture the sunset... On the first night it was already dark when we reached the little island in the lake (Ol'chon). The other 3 nights I always tried to get the photos, but usually we were too late... Though this day I was just about in time to get a photo of Kai before the sun was setting behind the mountains. (We had this one place that we went to all the four evenings)
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There are some juxtapositions that you just don't see every day.
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OK, days after posting I will add some context. Beside a fire station in downtown Toronto there is a gay bar called "The Pump House", which seems to be decorated with fire station artifacts and "hunky fire fighter" pictures. I was walking past one day, and it kind of caught my eye that there was a huge slobbering camel there on the patio, with a crowd around. That kind of thing does tend to grab your attention. As it turned out, the bar had done some fundraising (or something like that) for the Toronto Zoo. For reasons I don't fully understand, the camel, complete with his/her own keeper, was there visiting the bar. It seemed to be worth snapping a few photos. The camel's tongue was hanging out almost constantly, and while taking pictures I happened to notice the "hunky fire fighter" poster on the fence behind. So I started shooting to try and get this juxtaposition. The "old sepia photo" treatment was used partly because it's amusing for this, but mainly because the picture wasn't very sharp and vivid. But I thought I had to post something from that day: how often do you see a camel on the patio of a gay bar, sticking out its tongue with a pin-up poster behind? Not every day, that's for sure. :-)
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It is amazing what cloud layers moving in different directions for three minutes can do to a sky! 10-Stop circular ND. No HDR! Trinidad Beach, just north of Eureka, California! High tide.
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Bare feet (soft sand)
See my first upload of the series for the trials and tribulations of getting to this spot at this time.
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So, as the sunset continued on, the colors became more intense. I usually wait to go for the long exposure once it is too dark for my shorter ones, but I have my new 10-stop filter so I have to give it a go. So why not use it while there is still good light in the sky? This exposure started about 5 minutes before sunset. The lower layer of cloud was moving one way while the higher clouds were moving another way. I had no idea it would turn out like this. I like the long streaks from a long exposure, but here, a streak would begin and then get erased by another cloud moving in to block it. The higher layer had all the colors, so the lower clouds would stop the streaks of colors. I'm going to experiment with crossing cloud layers more, now that I see what they do.
It was getting a bit darker, so I bumped the ISO up to 200 because my usual ISO 50 would have meant a 10 minute exposure perhaps. I studied where the waves broke on average, so I would know where to put the tripod so that over 3 minutes, a reflection would be visible.
I knew that in order to get reflections, I'd have to get hit many times by waves, so before starting the exposure I dug the tripod into the sand about 1 foot and let a few wave cycles wash through to stabilze the tripod. The full res image is totally sharp.
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"I could stay there for a lifetime"
Better days with brighter sunshines are coming. Everyone's "Woohoo !" !
- This title also tries to make a comparison between the ephemeral poppies, and our human condition, which is ephemeral as well, but in another way(s)... -
This afternoon, i came back home earlier than usual. After two fruitless hours in front off my tv, i decided to look out the window.
The weather was cloudy and we almost couldn't see the sun. I had to wait before going outside with my camera.
And there was not much to do inside. Actually i didn't really check out what i could do because i wanted to breathe some refreshing and sunny air, and maybe to take some pictures as well...
But i hoped this was not going to last long.
Twenty minutes later, without asking myself more questions, i opened the door and jumped outside.
Sometimes you easily become aware of things, habits you'd always like to live with... Your will can change everything without a lot of efforts.
I decided to ride my bike if ever the clouds would have liked to wring themselves.
Though despite that i put rain clothes into my bag, nothing happened.
In fact, i couldn't know that the bad weather that persisted this entire week was going to change into a beautiful and sunny afternoon allowing me to find my smile back.
At that moment of the day, when the sun suddenly appeared from behind the clouds now disapearing, i found a wheat field full of poppies. The first one this year !
I couldn't even dream of it !
The horizon was immense, i couldn't see anything but wheat, and wheat, and poppies... And the sun was wonderfully reflecting on the wheat dancing with the wind... The sun was not so hot on my skin, and sometimes the wind was a little cold. But it was an intense feeling, only the fact of being here, lost in the immensity.
I could stay there for a lifeftime.
I only stayed two hours, or more. I don't know. In fact i don't even remember.
I was feeling alive for the very first time this year :D
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My first attempt at HDR imaging, handheld shot of boats on the Carenage, in St. George's, Grenada. I'm loving this already...
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I love how the other ones are (or seem to be) watching him!
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A Scoglitti, per la festa di S.Giuseppe, la gente prepara immense tavole imbandite ("le tavolate di S.Giuseppe) e le donne fanno "il pane di S.Giuseppe", a forma di mano, di bastone, di palma, ecc.
Le case vengono aperte al pubblico, che ammira le tavole ricche di cibi di ogni tipo..e il pane di S.Giuseppe viene offerto a tutti i visitatori.
La mattina della festa il cibo viene benedetto dal parroco del paese, e un uomo e una donna, vestiti da Maria e S.Giuseppe, girano per la case, bussano alle porte ('a tuppuliata) e alla terza "tuppuliata" viene loro aperta la porta.
Si siedono alle tavole e viene loro offerta pasta e legumi, e il pane.
Il cibo eccedente viene poi regalato ai poveri, o venduto all'asta, i cui proventi vanno poi alla chiesa principale del paese.
Il significato della festa si perde nella notte dei tempi, ma in genere gli studiosi di tradizioni popolari spiegano che l'offerta di cibo ai santi, e ai poveri, rappresenta l'offerta di cibo (simbolo di vita e di calore familiare) ai propri cari che non ci sono più.
Le donne con cui ho avuto modo di parlare in quei giorni, mi raccontavano inoltre che le tavole fino a pochi anni fa erano molto più povere, e che i cibi offerti erano cibi semplici, pasta e legumi, ortaggi, pane.
Mentre oggi il desiderio di mostrare a tutta la città la tavola più bella, ha trasformato questa consuetudine in una sorta di "gara" alla tavola più ricca. Dolci tipici e pesce, anche pregiato, hanno cominciato a prendere il posto dei cibi offerti in passato.
Sulle tavole però sono rimasti fino ad oggi alcuni cibi presenti da sempre, in particolare agrumi e carciofi, cibi aspri e amari, simbolo delle asprezze e amarezze della vita.
Spring grows in all shapes and colours.
A small pink tree blossom from my quick outing this afternoon.
It's always great to see the Spring season in full action like it's been in the last week, and these blossoms are the type of little things I like to capture during the Bloom & Bug months.
Canon 40D, 90mm Tamron Macro w/ 3X filter, 430EX flash w/ lightchute.
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I certainly hope everyone's Tuesday was excellent and that we're all off to a perfect week ahead with a wonderful Wednesday.. ( Almost middle week already?...)
To all flickr friends around the World, Big Hello from Ottawa, Canada
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PS. Poem by Mowlana,Tthe Great Persian Philosopher-poet.
I watched these two "love" birds for about half an hour. They would be close like this and then swim quite far apart and then call each other and swim back to one another again.
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Eilean Donan, Scottish Gaelic for Island of Donan, is a small island in Loch Duich in the western Highlands of Scotland. It is connected to the mainland by a footbridge and lies about half a mile from the village of Dornie. Eilean Donan is named after St Donan, a Celtic saint martyred in the Dark Ages. The original castle was built in 1220 for Alexander II as a defence against the Vikings. This century it has become one of Scotland most photographed castles thanks to its picturesque setting on an islet in Loch Duich by the main road to the Isle of Skye. In 1984 it featured in the movie Highlander with Christopher Lambert and Sean Connery.
We just got back from our holiday from Scotland. Despite the rain, rain and rain we had a great holiday. We visit the two cities Edinburgh, Glasgow and went hiking in the Highlands of Scotland on the beautiful isle of Skye. We all go soaking wet everyday but our fireplace at our cottage and Scottish Whiskey kept me warm. Many new photos but have to finish my photo book too ;-) Above photo taken on our way the Isle of Skye. The famous Eilean Donan castle captured just before the start of heavy rain fall.
Eilean Donan Castle is een van oorsprong dertiende eeuws kasteel, gelegen vlakbij Dornie, op een eiland in Loch Duich in de Schotse regio Highland. Aan het begin van de achttiende eeuw werd het kasteel opgeblazen. Aan het begin van de twintigste eeuw werd Eilean Donan Castle uitgebreid gerestaureerd en opengesteld voor publiek. Waarschijnlijk werd pas in de vroege dertiende eeuw een kasteel gebouwd op het eiland, ter verdediging tegen de Vikingen. Vanaf het midden van de dertiende eeuw vormden de westelijke hooglanden tezamen met de westelijke eilanden min of meer een eigen koninkrijk onder de Lords of the Isles. Deze eeuw is het één van Schotland meest gefotografeerde kasteel te danken naar zijn schilderachtige setting op een eilandje in het meer van Duich langs de weg naar het Eiland Skye. In 1984 kwam het in de film de Highlander met Christopher Lambert en Sean Connery voor.