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East of Buford, Wyoming, Union Pacific's original transcontinental line utilized a convenient, natural sloping ridge in the landscape to ascend the Continental Divide. This feature was known as "The Gangplank", and is still used by the modern UP in its ascent of Sherman Hill- one of the few places where route changes over the years have not taken the rails away from their original 1860s location. In evening light, a westbound intermodal cruises up the 'plank- though this is a relatively easy grade for a what is technically a mountain railway, the power still gets a workout on the hill here with today's extremely long PSR freights.
Death Valley, California
Standing on a hill above the Artist’s Drive road, we have a clear view across Death Valley of a bajada (compound alluvial fans) at the foot of the Panamint Mountains. Much less visibly, we are standing on another bajada at the base of the Black Mountains behind us.
ascend to the heights
This was from a set I took for a Macro Mondays challenge; edge.
EOS M2
Fotodiox Pro adapter
Tamron 60mm f/2 macro
I'am wearing :
Alice cardigan with Tank Top - Ascend
Capris Jeans - The Sin
TOKIWA - Dark Browns - ARGRACE
Leaf - Autumn colors *Bento* - She_Avi Poses
Catwa Appliers Taylor - DeeTaleZ
Pulled Back Hairbase - L'Etre
Pic was taken at Luanes World
Love me like you do
You're the light, you're the night
You're the color of my blood
You're the cure, you're the pain
You're the only thing I wanna touch
Never knew that it could mean so much, so much
You're the fear, I don't care
'Cause I've never been so high
Follow me through the dark
Let me take you past our satellites
You can see the world you brought to life, to life
So love me like you do, lo-lo-love me like you do
Love me like you do, lo-lo-love me like you do
Touch me like you do, to-to-touch me like you do
What are you waiting for?
Fading in, fading out
On the edge of paradise
Every inch of your skin is a holy grail I've got to find
Only you can set my heart on fire, on fire
Yeah, I'll let you set the pace
'Cause I'm not thinking straight
My head's spinning around I can't see clear no more
What are you waiting for?
Love me like you do, lo-lo-love me like you do (like you do)
Love me like you do, lo-lo-love me like you do
Touch me like you do, to-to-touch me like you do
What are you waiting for?
Love me like you do, lo-lo-love me like you do (like you do)
Love me like you do, lo-lo-love me like you do (yeah)
Touch me like you do, to-to-touch me like you do
What are you waiting for?
I'll let you set the pace
'Cause I'm not thinking straight
My head's spinning around I can't see clear no more
What are you waiting for?
Love me like you do, lo-lo-love me like you do (like you do)
Love me like you do, lo-lo-love me like you do (yeah)
Touch me like you do, to-to-touch me like you do
What are you waiting for?
Love me like you do, lo-lo-love me like you do (like you do)
Love me like you do, lo-lo-love me like you do (oh)
Touch me like you do, to-to-touch me like you do
What are you waiting for?
my Photo with my Partner Kaeng Takeda
Danke mein liebe!♥
favorite song:
Love me like you do - Male Version
Beautiful light on the stairwell leading to the lighthouse. Old Point Loma Lighthouse built 1855. Cabrillo National Monument San Diego California. Looks like the inside of a Nautilus Shell.
I was fortunate enough to be among the first group of photographers to capture the interior to St Paul's Cathedral a little over two years ago, when St Paul's organised its first photography evening. Despite three hours inside the building, the architecture is so vast and so stunning that the time vanishes, and it wasn't until recently, during one of several of the Cathedral's late-night events, that I was finally able to visit and photograph the Dean's Staircase in the southwest tower.
Sir Christopher Wren's spiral staircase was completed in 1705 and is made from 88 steps of Portland stone, with each step set 150mm into the wall and carefully shaped to rest on the step directly beneath it. The staircase leads from the Cathedral floor to the Triforium, where the the dean and chapter's library is located, and although the steps leading down to the crypt were roped off, I was able to sneak down to the end of the staircase and capture a look-up of the 50-foot tower in which Wren's sweeping and geometrically flawless staircase ascends.
This image is a blend of eight exposures, combined in Photoshop using luminosity masks to control the highlights and to bring out the detail in the shadows. In the end I still opted for a darker finish towards the end of the staircase, as I felt this added to the moody tone I was aiming for, as well as allowing me to emphasise some of the lovely early-evening light as the sun was going down. The main challenge was the bright light coming through the window on the immediate left. I was able to rein much of this in with highlights from darker exposures, but the light was also leaking into the midtones along the window's grate and edges, and creating a small amount of lens flare along the steps directly below the window. To overcome this, I had to refine a luminosity mask and blend in light from my darkest exposure (which was -4 stops), and then incorporate the grate from the second-to-darkest exposure and the steps from my third-to-darkest exposure, using radial gradient masks to ensure each of these exposures would seamlessly combine with the surrounding walls and steps for a balanced finish.
The other challenge was how much of the building's texture to retain. While the Cathedral floor is one of the most pristine interiors I've ever photographed, the walls surrounding the Dean's Staircase have a wonderfully gritty and high-contrast texture. I very much wanted to keep as much of this original detail as possible, but felt it would distract from the pattern of the staircase and the drama of the warm light falling against the walls. To tone this down, I isolated the walls using the Pen Tool and used Nik's Silver Efex Pro to gently lower their midtone and shadow structure. Inside Nik's Colour Efex Pro, I then applied the Pro Contrast filter to the steps to emphasise the light along their edges, as well as small amounts of the Glamour Glow and Sunlight filters to play up the soft, dreamy light streaming through the windows.
The final editing adjustments were minor clean-up for cracks and imperfections at the end of the staircase, brightening of the ceiling, and lastly three low-opacity Colour Lookups set to Soft Light and using the Foggy Night preset targeted to the Shadows, Candlelight for the Midtones, and Edgy Amber for the Highlights. This helped to bring out the warmth of the sunlight throughout the tower and a cold, muted finish in the shadows. While the workflow was extensive, the end result hopefully conveys the elegance and simplicity of the architecture and the drama of the fading evening light, which made this staircase an absolute joy to photograph.
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Re-working some older images, taking advantage of new hardware and LR's Denoise feature.
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Midnight Ascend
She stands in the alley, poised and free,
A vision wrapped in mystery.
The city hums a gentle tune,
Beneath the stars, beneath the moon.
Sparkles dance upon her skin,
A quiet strength that glows within.
Silver gleams where light embraces,
A soul untamed, no need for traces.
The stairs ahead may lead to air,
Yet she climbs without a care.
For every path, though yet unknown,
Is hers to take, is hers alone.
The night is vast, the world is wide,
But she moves forth with fearless pride.
A dreamer’s fire, a heart so bright,
Glowing softly in the night.
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