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What an incredible few days it has been in the Bay Area with all the low elevation snow. Here is a panorama from the Henry Coe area as the sun's last light illuminates the the snow covered trees and mountain tops. Great shooting all day with John Fox!
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Some of you might have seen this build already at Legoworld Utrecht last month, but now I finally found the time and energy to take the photo's.
This one was quite an interesting build as the composition is quite different compared to the usual 'buildings' stuff I make. This time the center is 'empty' but still the main focus of the build where it all started.
It was quite tricky to really capture the colours in the digital edit, but I am quite pleased how this one turned out :)
Oh, and no, this doesn't resemble a specific DnD area, but I have played some Baldur's Gate 3, so there sure is a lot of inspiration from that world.
Anyway, that's is for this one; I will be back for some Brickscalibur stuff soon!
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A small shelter with a barbecue area at Svarte Mosse in Kungälv
Nikon D750 | Sigma 24-105mm f4 ART | 1/125s | f/14 | ISO 800
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View from the lookout atop the limestone cliff escarpment at Rockwood Conservation Area, Rockwood, Ontario.
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I like to think this section of the Bay Area between Oakland and San Francisco including the Interstate 80 corridor from the Carquinez Bridge down through Emeryville as the center of the known Bay Area, Northern California. I'm sure others who have grown up farther south in the region may disagree with my geography. I love it here. This is home.
This is six images stitched together in camera raw. I shot this last month at twilight from Battery Spencer. I hope you enjoy this image.
Photographed 10 February 2023, Bueng Boraphet Non-Hunting Area, Nakhon Sawan, Nakhon Sawan Province, Thailand
Bighorn Canyon Reservoir looking toward the Bighorn Mountains at Barry's Landing in Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area in Montana.
Explore - Highest Position #190
This one takes me back, over 10 years apparently?! Tony Immoos and I spent that day in the Bay Area, starting the morning overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge and ending in Point Reyes.
A Bolete as 🆔 by a friend. There are a number of them growing along a downed log. My best guess is that it's possibly a Larch bolete. Western Larch trees will be some of the first trees to repopulate an area that burns or is logged as the sky (sunlight) has been opened. (in my area along the coast range of Oregon). Another thought would be a Bluefoot bolete if that's a spruce tree on the ground.
After a week when temperatures across the UK have hovered above a sweltering 30C/85F, I found myself longing for the chill and fog of early spring, and revisited a shot which I captured at the centre of Richmond Park in early April. On many mornings I'd hoped for calm conditions that would bring heavier fog, and before this particular sunrise the low wind speed and near-freezing temperature near the Pen Ponds created fog so dense that, for a couple of hours, visibility dropped to about 20 metres. As the sun finally crept above the woodland and created various shades of orange and pink on the horizon, I came across the bare branches of an oak tree, and next to it the remains of a broken tree trunk, part of which now lay on the ground. Something about this scene captivated me, so I stopped to capture it.
The image is a blend of seven bracketed exposures, and proved to be a fun editing project because of the contrast between intense foggy light around the sun and deep shadows covering the trees and foreground. I began by blending my exposures using luminosity masks, bringing up visibility of the tree trunks while toning down brightness around the sun. I then refined my own masks in order to select and intensify the fog in the background. This was achieved by duplicating the blue channel in the Channels Panel and using a Levels adjustment to increase the channel's contrast between Darks and Midtones, effectively removing the trees and grass from the selection. After extracting the highlights around the sun using a selection from my Brights luminosity masks, I was left with a selection of just the foggy background, where I blended in my brightest exposures using a combination of linear and reflective gradient masks.
Colour-grading the image was very straightforward, as the mixture of early-morning blues across the landscape and intense warm tones in the sky only needed a little emphasis. Using Colour Balance adjustments with Apply Image as a layer mask, I gave the midtones and shadows a colder finish, and targeted the brighter area around the sun to increase the reds and magentas in the highlights. Setting two low-opacity Colour Lookup adjustments to Soft Light, I then used the Foggy Night preset for the foreground and the Soft Warming preset for the sky.
Using Nik's Colour Efex Pro, I brought out a little of the tree trunks' texture using the Detail Extractor filter, and at the same time softened the detail in the sky using the Sunlight filter, which helped to bring out the hazy glow across the scene when I'd captured it. While I thought that viewers' eyes would gravitate to the sun emerging between the tree's branches, the tree and the trunks among the fog were what drew me to the scene, and I felt it was important to try to emphasise their weathered texture and, ultimately, their "character". There was something hopeful about the colour spreading across the horizon as the sun rose, but at the same time something poignant about a scene that seemed to tell a story of nature's brutality and illustrate how certain things, once broken, can't easily be healed or repaired.
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Tokaanu Thermal Walk (20 minutes)
This short walk provides an interesting glimpse of a natural thermal area. See steaming hot mineral pools set in sinter basins and spluttering mud pools amidst the native bush.
For hundreds of years, Maori have used the geothermal resources of this area for cooking, bathing and leisure. Share in this tradition by having a therapeutic and relaxing swim at the nearby Tokaanu Thermal Pools.
Rainbow trout can often be seen here in the cold Tokaanu stream that flows beside the thermal area
Hot pools range in hues of turquoise blue and rich green to burnt orange and sulphuric yellow, making the steaming waters a must-see!
The vibrant colors are caused by miniral and sillicate interference .....
Yellow - Caused by Sulphur
Orange - Is due to antimony
Green - Sulphuran ferrous Salts
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Plas Cadnant first views through the large gates.
Lawned area and pyramids.
Plas Cadnant Hidden Gardens
A historic garden under restoration, situated between Menai Bridge and Beaumaris on the Isle of Anglesey.
In 1996, the present owner bought the 200 acre Plas Cadnant Estate and work began on the restoration of the historic garden and grounds. Since then large parts of the gardens have undergone a spectacular transformation and have been restored to their former glory.
Described as one of North Wales best kept secrets is the hidden world of Plas Cadnant Gardens, situated at the side of the Menai Strait, hidden from view near to Menai Bridge on the Isle of Anglesey.
Former owners of Plas Cadnant were related to the Tremayne family of Heligan House, now famous for its Lost Gardens.
A new garden is being created on an historic site, becoming a plantsman's paradise. Now considered amongst the liveliest twenty gardens of Wales, and featured in a new book 'The Finest Gardens of Wales' by Tony Russell'. Also featured in 'Discovering Welsh Gardens' written by Stephen Anderton and photographed by Charles Hawes.
There is still much work to be done and we hope you will visit us in person or use the website to keep informed of our ongoing progress.
Three gardens in one
Three different gardens have been discovered, including an unusual walled garden with curving walls and pool, a secret valley garden with three waterfalls and river, and an upper woodland garden with stone outcrops and the remains of a 19c. folly.
Ein Ergebnis unseres Workshops in Görlitz.
Ich danke Danilo Eberhard Strauß & Nicole Friedrich für die perfekte Betreuung und allen Teilnehmern für das Interesse; ihr wart großartig!
Single exposure Light Art Photography, no layers, no tricks, only moving lights in the darkness... and some pyro stuff :-)
Trigger: Erik
Lights: Marla Singer & Sven Gerard (perfect teamwork)
Model: Sven Gerard
While many of the trees in this area can survive drought by dropping leaves and becoming almost dormant, many can not substain.
Beckoning off to the side (explore another time?) I saw a path to a small waterfall tumbling down a boulder-strewn stream bank, my last look at this truly scenic area; from here, driving the Oscar Wigington Memorial Highway (State Rd S-37-413) in Sumter National Forest, we continued to Whitewater Falls Road (SC-130), crossed over the border from South Carolina into North Carolina (NC-281), and passed Whitewater Falls Lane [35.027789, -83.017671] with its scenic Upper Whitewater Falls Trail Access, on our way to the Rosman Highway (US-64), and back to Brevard
Wigington Overlook – 2021APR13 – SC Highway 413, SC:
The Oscar Wigington Scenic Byway overlook is a highlight, one of the most spectacular overlooks in South Carolina's Upstate.
We stopped as evening set in, accompanied by a light drizzle.
The best of our 848 captures are in a mini-themed album:
• Outing to Oconee State Park, SC – 2021APR13
◦ Moody Spring – 2021APR13 – SC Highway 107
◦ Oconee State Park – 2021APR13 – Mountain Rest, SC
◦ Wigington Overlook – 2021APR13 – SC Highway 413
Hope you don't overlook our best dozen Overlook captures!