Panorama view out of 5 single shots.

Directly north of Boppard, the Rhine takes its greatest bend. This bow is called the Bopparder Hamm. The best known lookout point over this bow in the Rhine is the Vierseenblick, or “Four-Lake View”. This vista gets its name from the way in which the Rhine can be seen from here, or rather the way in which it cannot be seen: hills block out most of the view of the river itself so that visitors can only see four apparently separate patches of water, rather like four lakes. These are all actually parts of the Rhine; there are no lakes to be seen. The Vierseenblick can be reached by chairlift.

Panorama view of 5 single shots.

Boppard lies on the upper Middle Rhine, often known as the Rhine Gorge. This characteristic narrow form of valley arose from downward erosion of the Rhine’s riverbed. Since 2002, the Gorge has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site. A 17 km stretch of the Rhine forms the town’s eastern limit. (Wikipedia)

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Here's some Lego target practice at our house! :) The watermelon never knew what hit him.

This was built for our Iron Builder against the Erickson Brothers using the flexible green spike as an exit wound.

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Here's another Lego fruit shooting we found by Tim Simon, so check his out!

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Saturday was a calm clear evening, and the quality of the light was beautiful.

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Esta semana otra vertical, parece que últimamente me encuentro a gusto con este formato, dicen que es más complicado distribuir elementos de esta manera , pero en mi opinión si son pocos y jugando con un primer plano y un fondo interesante se pueden conseguir perspectivas con una eficaz sensación de profundidad y además se consigue siempre centrar mucho más la atención sobre lo verdaderamente interesante de la escena. No escogí el formato yo, más bien creo que el formato últimamente me escoge a mí y luego me busco la vida para hacer lo que puedo con lo que tengo delante de la cámara...no se ,divagaciones mias.....

-Técnica: Para la escena de hoy ND 64 de B&W ,más inverso de dos pasos de Hi Tech mas Black Card, ésta la utilizé poniéndola perpendicular al eje del horizonte ( para estas ocasiones tengo una estrechita de unos 2 cm) intentando reservar el cielo sin tapar en exceso los farallones.Con este tipo de escenas en las que las nubes blancas reciben la luz cálida del atardecer hay que tener cuidado con la exposición, pues la representación del histograma en la pantalla de la cámara (un jpg que realiza la propia cámara), puede aparecer dentro de gráfica pero realmente cuando abres la imagen en el procesador de RAWs, en mi caso DPP, los rojos, si hacemos una selección por canales, suelen estar quemados en las luces altas, es por esto que mi recomendación es que intenteis tender a subexponer al menos un paso, ya que después será más fácil recuperar zonas algo oscuras en edición que salvar luces quemadas.

Los datos exif los podreis encontrar en la WEB.

-COMPOSICIÓN: La compo resultó fácil en un principio, buscaba una triangulación de elementos entre las roquitas del primer plano y los farallones, tras la primera toma mi sorpresa fue descubrir que las trasparencias del agua dejaban entrever algunas formas del fondo bastante interesantes, sólo tuve que reencuadrar y controlar la exposición.Las nubes en el cielo me echaron una mano aderezando el fondo.

-Edición: En el DPP de Canon ,balance de blancos, por canales bajar un punto la exposición de los rojos,curvas.En PS contraste por zonas.

Up to the mountain

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♫ Oh Lord, my God, when I in awesome wonder, Consider all, all of the worlds Thy hands have made

I see the stars, I hear the rolling thunder, Thy power throughout the universe displayed

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Then sings my soul, my Savior God to Thee

How great Thou art, how great Thou art

Then sings my soul, my Savior God to Thee

How great Thou art, how great Thou art

How great Thou art, how great Thou art ♫

Hoje dia 19 de Agosto é o Dia internacional da Fotografia e nada mais justo que para lembrar a data, colocar um talentoso fotografo como o Amigo Alvaro em ação e com a mão na botija.

* Todas as Fotos da Sequencia estão abertas, pois já foram publicadas anteriormente.

Foto: O Fotografo e o Por do Sol - Praia de Piratininga - Niteroi - Rio de Janeiro - Brasil

Video: ♪ How Great Thou Art ♪ - Sandi Patty

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Hope you are having a great weekend :-)

My dear contacts!

I'm not able to comment on your art at the moment, and I'm not expecting you to do otherwise :))

Hope we'll continue to see each other in the autumn!!! :)))

Wish you all a wonderful summer time!

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.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pannonian_Plain

Explored on July 25, 2013

The Supermoon illuminates the empty pebble beach of El Peñón as the night falls on Salobreña (Spain). The lights of the small fishing town of La Caleta shine in the background. Playa del Peñón.

Salobreña, Granada, Andalucía, Spain.

Technical data

Nikon D800 | Nikkor AF-S 14-24 mm f/2.8G ED at 16mm | Induro AT213 tripod + BHL2 ballhead

151s (2min 31s) | f/11 | ISO 100

This was shot over 3 or 4 nights during June-July. I only decided to make a mosaic after shooting the Lagoon and Trifid nebs and thinking it would be pretty awesome to show the whole area off as there is so much going on! Unfortunately, with the spur of the moment decision to take this on, i was left with no time to complete it before the Milky Way sank out of reach. I intended to make this a 15 panel mosaic but only managed 4! But i will be better prepared next year :)

This was a hard one to process. Its my first long exposure astro mosaic so i struggled with trying to make everything blend together seamlessly. Each panel being shot on a different night at different temperatures didn't help either. Especially one panel which i only managed 45 minutes on due to cloud ruining a lot of the frames. I had to stretch it first and then bring the rest of them up to the same point. If i had managed the same amount of exposure time on each one, i could of probably stretched a bit further!

Exposure Details:

3 panels contains 1 hour 20 minutes worth of 120 second exposures, the other 44 minutes worth, f3.2, ISO 800, calibration frames, 200mm

Stitched with Microsoft ICE, Processed in CS5

Taken with a Canon 1100D and a EF200L lens on an Astrotrac TT320X-AG

Explored on July 20, 2013

A not-so-well-known aerial view of Granada at sunset.

Carretera de Murcia.

Granada, Andalusia, Spain.

Technical data: Nikon D800 | Nikkor AF-S 14-24 mm f/2.8G ED at 22mm | Induro AT213 tripod + BHL2 ballhead. 1/13s | f/11 | ISO 100.

Processing: Lightroom 5

♫ Manhã, tão bonita manhã, na vida, uma nova canção

Cantando só teus olhos, teu riso, tuas mãos

Pois há de haver um dia, em que virás!!!

Deste amor ♫

Deixo com vocês André Rieu com essa antiga e bela canção com o desejo para as Pessoas de Boa Vontade, uma semana ricamente abençoada, livre do mal, repleta de saúde, alegrias, paz e prosperidade.

Foto: Cristo Redentor - Corcovado - Rio de Janeiro - Brasil

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After I was taking the photos with the ND filter, the sun came out for a really short time. I liked the contrast between the warm light on the rocks in front, to the cold, metallic look of the background.

Here is the first one:

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Día despejado en la Piedra del Águila del Parque Nacional Nahuelbuta, con vista de 400 kms. de los Andes de la zona central de Chile, desde el Nevado de Longaví hasta el Choshuenco.

Región de la Araucanía, Chile central.

Una noche contemplando las estrellas con los amigos Javi Benedito, Emilio Pérez y con mi chica Carmen Pla

On the way to the Isle of Skye we chose the route via Glen Coe. The Buachaille Etive Mòr (gaelic for "the great herdsman/shepherd of Etive") is a distinctive mountain at the entrace to Glen Coe.

Single Raw HDR image of the Space Shuttle, Enterprise at the National Air and Space Museum in Virginia.

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He de reconocer que soy un enamorado de Lastres y mas si uno puede disfrutar de un amanecer como este que espero sea de vuestro agrado.

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I have uploaded an almost similar one before, but looking at it again, I wasn't too happy with the result. So here's another go.

In Explore: #223

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We visited the Ladies' Bathing Place at Portrush, Co. Antrim a while ago, but this "Bathing Place" seems to be for all inhabitants and visitors to Portrush.

Looks as if they're waiting for a Punch & Judy Show, or some form of children's entertainment from the chap in tights with the fiddle/violin?

Date: 1900??

NLI Ref: EAS_0692

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In Birmingham Cathedral (Anglican) they display the white ensign worn by HMS Birmingham at the Battle of Jutland.

The is my interpretation; I have tried to convey the silent sense of sadness …

... for "Working Toward A Better World"

... el aislamiento no es la solución, es el problema!!! / ... the isolation is not the answer, it is the problem!!!

... salud, buenas luces y muchas gracias a todos / as!!! / ... health, good lights and thanks so much to all!!!! ... xo♥ox ... =:o)))))

... Music: "Another brick on the wall" (Pink Floyd) cover by Korn ( included in the OST of "The Faculty" by Robert Rodriguez) ... a hard version for a hard times!!!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qns99goEHRU

... NoTa: ... cielo y gaviotas añadidas con PS!!! / ... sky and seagulls added with PS!!!

My ✞ Alfie is 4 years today!

About 2 years on three paws and still "going strong"

He is so sweet, even more than in his "younger years" ;-))

He is talking to us in his own language our darling Prins.

Although he looks quite disturbed here, he Always give us smiles!

Sending you hugs and joy.

in friendship, Addy

Alfie has passed away ♱ on August 5th 2021

Goodbye my Heart♥

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Happy Mother's Day

Seen and photographed on an Osaka sanpo with Fukuda-san, hyossie-san, Kome, Maeda-san, Makio-san, Minoru-san, Mitsuru-san, nansya-san and Hitomi-san, Roger, Taizo-san, Teruhide-san, Toshi-san, Yoshi-san, and Yuki-san. Chuo-ku, Osaka, Japan. February 16, 2013.

A few of us came upon these Barred Owls grooming each other while we were doing a spring bird survey. It was fascinating to see how they were being so gentle with each other. I was hiding behind a tree so as not to disturb the birds.

The light was terrible and I don't use flash on owls, so I had to crank up the ISO and hope for the best. Handheld at 1/60 sec.

Orange County, Florida, USA

Happy Valentines Day

Canon Rebel XSi and Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM

A picture taken the same evening as this one: www.flickr.com/photos/gautfro/8660328008/in/photostream/l... And as in the pano picture you can here see the auroras play over the Landegode island, Jupiter is bright on the left side, in the top right corner you can see comet Pan-STARRS and the M31 Andromeda galaxy. The flare in the top left corner might be a meteor or a iridum flare from a satellite. The picture is best seen in large on black background. All coments are appreciated.

Le Mont Blanc a été mesuré à 4810,02 m le 14/09/13 dernier (CF www.lexpress.fr/actualite/sciences/le-mont-blanc-perd-42-... ) . Il a perdu 42 cm par rapport à la mesure précédente faite en 2011

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Whiter than white

The Mont Blanc was measured 4810,02 m high last 14th september 2013.

It lost 42 cm since last measure in 2011.

Ontem aproveitando o Feriado do Dia do Trabalhador, estive com alguns amigos aqui do Flickr, juntamente com a minha prima Bia e alguns amigos dela, passando uma tarde muito agradavel com pessoas de primeiro escalão em fotografia e convivio na Praia de Itacoatiara e como sempre acontece quando saimos juntos para fotografar, a tarde não foi feita apenas de grandes imagens, mas grandes momentos de alegria e confraternizaçao.

* As fotos da segunda sequencia estão abertas, pois ja foram publicadas anterioremente, elas foram tiradas em outra ocasião.

Foto: Piscina Natural - Praia de Itacoatiara - Niteroi - Rio de Janeiro - Brasil

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Esas mosquitas son muy divertidas........siempre hay varias por esta época en cada flor de Arenaria montana y cuando notan que se acerca la cámara se esconden rapidamente bajo sus pétalos, asi que normalmente siempre que las fotografío aparecen como mucho dos.......pero esta vez se ve que las cogí despistadas.

Titulo alternativo : Polinización de Arenaria montana por moscas del género Hybos.

Mi galeria en Flickeflu

After roaming around the south hill one night in search of a good vantage point high enough to get an unobstructed view of the city, I finally stumbled upon this spot, which is probably about as good as it gets for full viewpoints of downtown. The wide angle made it seem small and diminutive, so I opted for a 9-shot panorama instead and this was the result.

Camera: Nikon D90

Lens: Nikkor 18-105mm f/3.5-5.6G VR

Location: Cliff Drive viewpoint in Spokane, Washington, USA

Knaan - Waving Flag

Stormy clouds over Kinderdijk (We were there for a few minutes only after disembarking our ferry from England)

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To see the extraordinary panorama of Lake Garda, nothing is better than the hiking path from Campione to Prapione. A view on Mount Baldo - 2218m in the clouds with a spectacular panoramic terrace overlooking Lake Garda. Mountain hiking or trekking is an adventure and an experience that brings you in contact with the mountains and nature. Since some itineraries can be difficult for an amateur or untrained excursionist or mountain climber, caution is advised. Starting out from Campione, along the right banks of the Campione River, is trail nr. 267 of the Bassa via del Garda - Lower Garda Route with a series of steps that lead to a tunnel, make sure you have a flashlight with you and a communication trench between a canal and a deep ravine. Leaving the metal bridge to your right, you proceed along trail nr. 266 for Prabione, which is right up against the rocks. Gradually, the panorama opens on the valley. Due to the influence of Lake Garda's climate, the mountain is home to many different natural environments: from Mediterranean shrubs and bushes to Alpine pastures and rocky peaks. This is why Mount Baldo covered in clouds is called The Garden of Europe and is a genuine link between the Alps and the Mediterranean.

Lake Garda hiking is brilliant with so many spectacular places to go for a hike. The stunning mountains around the top part of the lake offers awesome views. Photo of the hiking path Prabione to Campione. Total difference in height round trip: 940 m - duration 4 hrs. See map.

Natuurlijk is het Gardameer uitermate geschikt voor watersport, maar ook lange wandelingen in de natuur. De keten van het Monte Baldo gebergte rondom het Gardameer is één van de belangrijkste van de Vooralpen. Beide hellingen van de Monte Baldo hierboven in de wolken aan Veronese zijde zijn verschillend. Het westelijke deel is kaal, stijl, vol spleten en met weinig mooie bossen. Het oostelijke deel is minder stijl en heeft langgerekte dalen met groene weiden en bossen. Vanaf de nabijgelegen dorpje Prapione heeft u een adembenemend uitzicht over het Gardameer. Je kan dit dorpje te voet bereiken vanaf Campione langs verschillende bergweggetjes. Langs de rechter oever van de rivier de Campione, is weg nr. 267 van de Bassa via del Garda - Lagere Garda route. De weg voert door het bos langs een muur via smalle, maar goed begaanbare treden naar een uit de rotsen geklopte tunnel zorg voor een zaklantaarn, bij een buizensysteem dat bij een waterkrachtcentrale die vroeger de katoenspinnerij van Campione verzorgde hoort. De bergen aan de linker- en de rechterzijde vormen een wilde, romantische kloof, waar-over na nog eens 20 minuten een brug voert. Na het verlaten van de metalen brug rechts van je, ga je verder langs parcour nr. 266 richting Prabione, die recht omhoog gaat tegen de rotsen. Geleidelijk aan opent het panorama van deze prachtige vallei vanwaar men een grandioos uitzicht heeft over het Gardameer en op Monte Baldo - 2218m. Je wandelt hier langs olijfbomen en kastanjes, langs steile afgronden of naar hoge bergtoppen. De natuur is afwisselend en het uitzicht is vaak adembenemend.

Střelecký ostrov :

is an island in the Vltava Prague. It lies roughly in the middle of the river and is connected with both shores Legion Bridge. Land belongs to the Old Town. Its area is about 2.5 hectares, about 750 m length and width at the widest point, the Legion Bridge, around 140 meters.

cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/St%C5%99eleck%C3%BD_ostrov

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Manhattan is broken up into three distinctive areas - "Uptown", "Midtown" and "Downtown". This shot is mainly of Midtown and home to some iconic buildings, which include the Empire State Building (from which this is shot from), the Chrysler Building (to the right), Rockefeller Center (labeled), and Times Square (down and to the left). Geographically speaking, it's defined as south of 59th Street, East of the Hudson and West of the East River. The southern border is somewhere between 14th and 30th... so 22nd?

Midtown is has everything - working offices, hotels, apartment towers, retail establishments, tourists, residents, student, commuters... You name it and you've got a great slice of the population concentrated in this tiny area.

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Those clouds looked really creepy, as they slowly swallowed the whole landscape... Unfortunately the sky was rather dull, so I had to add quite a bit of processing to get some blue out of it...

I'll also show a photo taken from the top (yup, we climbed it).

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The Storr is a rocky hill on the Trotternish peninsula of the Isle of Skye. The hill presents a steep rocky eastern face overlooking the Sound of Raasay, contrasting with gentler grassy slopes to the west.

The area in front of the cliffs of the Storr is known as the Sanctuary. This has a number of weirdly shaped rock pinnacles, the remnants of ancient landslips. The most famous of these, and by far the largest and most apparent when approaching from the south, is known as the Old Man of Storr (Bodach an Stòir).

In January 2012, production of the science-fiction film Prometheus moved to the Isle of Skye, with filming taking place at the Old Man of Storr.

It is located rue Mouffetard, the street led Lacépède and Cardinal Lemoine and is a focal point of the district as it is the center of the four administrative districts that are Saint-Victor, Jardin des Plantes, Val-de -Grace and Sorbonne.

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Ubud Market @ Bali, Indonesia.

Isola di Filicudi - Eolie

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Povera patria! Schiacciata dagli abusi del potere

di gente infame, che non sa cos'è il pudore,

si credono potenti e gli va bene

quello che fanno e tutto gli appartiene.

Tra i governanti, quanti perfetti e inutili buffoni!

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Si può sperare che il mondo torni a quote più normali

che possa contemplare il cielo e i fiori,

che non si parli più di dittature

se avremo ancora un po' da vivere...

...la primavera intanto tarda ad arrivare.

Povera Patria - Franco Battiato

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Mi piace la gente che non guarda se l’erba del vicino è più verde, bensì cura con amore il proprio giardino.

Mi piace la gente che ogni giorno ringrazia il mondo d’avere il pane sulla tavola pensando non sia poi così scontato…

Mi piace la gente che prega per i propri affetti, ma anche per i propri nemici, affinché trovino la strada della luce.

Mi piace la gente che sa scrollarti di dosso la fatica con un sorriso…

E infine, mi piace la gente che non ha bisogno di troppe parole perché con gesto, mi sa riempire un silenzio.

Anna Biason