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I shot this intriguing window with my Olympus E-M1 while walking along the streets of New York City.
Once again I used an in camera processed jpeg with increased color, highligt and shadow. Ajusted white balance on kelvin scale.
帰省した際35年ぶりに倉敷に行ってみました。
いや驚きました。数倍に増幅しています。
その増幅ぶりを皆さんにご紹介しましょう。
When I returned to my hometown, I went to Kurashiki for the first time in 35 years.
I was surprised that the town was amplified fairly larger.
Let me introduce you about the amplification of this tourist area.
Looking over the gorgeous clear waters of the Allt Coir' A' Mhadaidh towards Sgurr an Fheadain and the cloudy Cuillins.
The dog-day cicada comes out during the dog days of August - typically coinciding with a stretch of very hot and steamy summer weather here in Iowa. The dog days are so-called because Sirius - the Dog Star - appears in the eastern sky just before sunrise now in late summer and sky watchers in ancient times believed the bright light from Sirius amplified the light coming from the sun rising soon after, causing this seasonal searing heat wave. That does sound like a pretty convincing scientific explanation to me. By the way, the "song" of this dog-day cicada is a very loud high-pitched whine sounding like somebody sawing wood with a chain saw. Try sleeping with a hundred noisy cicadas calling from the treetops around your house now.
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If you figured out that I used Foamy The Squirrel as inspiration, you win a hug!
at Heckscher Park is amazing... if you stand in the middle and whisper, you heard it very loud... I took my grandsons there, they loved screaming and stomping inside... I found this out by luck when I was there with a friend...
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Candid street photography from Glasgow, Scotland. With a pair of Marshall amplifiers delivering her sound I just loved the composition of this shot that presented itself. I am a little concerned about those flip-up sunglasses though, they were never a good look when they were in fashion decades ago! Enjoy.
Happiness Amplified-Above & Beyond (ft Richard Bedford)
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LR Swimsuit CoCo @Event CRAZY FASHION - Opening 10 April
Pic taken pic taken at AEGEAN sea Visit
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at Heckscher Park is amazing... if you stand in the middle and whisper, you heard it so loud... I took my grandsons there, they loved screaming and stomping inside... I found this out by luck when I was there with a friend...
Autoblog Roadtest photoshoot Lamborghini Murciélago LP670-4 SV, July 2011
I've shot the photo's for the roadtest of autoblog last July in Spain.
Normally they shoot their own photo's but for this occassion, I got the job.
The (Dutch) article and my photo's can be seen HERE!
I flew to Spain with the guys and I helped with the video-shoot by holding people back and driving the second car, the Audi S5.
The HD VIDEO can be seen HERE!!
You can also spot me at 1.19min in this video
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Amplified Purposes.
Verlichtende operaties verbazingwekkende doeleinden die drogredenen bedriegen misleiding zekerheid blinde gidsen die gevallen binnendringen die doordringen in kennis hoogste intuïtie bereikt,
مباحثوں کا سروے کرنے والے انتہائی مخلوق کے خلاصہ تصورات,
πρόσφορες προσπάθειες αναπαραστάσεις χώροι γύρω χαρακτήρες ψηλές ιδιότητες φαινόμενο κίνητρα εξηγήσεις περιστάσεις αβάσιμες εντυπώσεις,
גענוי פונקטן קענטיק פּראָפּערטיעס סטימיאַליי ז גלייך אינהאַלט מאַניפעסטאַטיאָנס ומגערן נאַטירלעך געזעצן דיסייפער כוחות אַנייאַלייטיד וועגן,
Pluralität universelle unausführbare Teile Überlegungen Reflexionen eigenartige Hände Weite Ausdrücke mystische Welt reine Zuneigung entsprechende Realität,
原因を理解する認識が現れる避けられない勝利の以前の動機決意意図読者を刺激するさまざまな苦痛かすかな目的が押しつぶされる.
Steve.D.Hammond.
image taken for the upcoming Caledon newcomer's ball
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How does it last the blink of an eye? You could measure it, if you really want to, but the truth is that we are so accustomed to blink our eyes that we are almost entirely unaware of the whole thing. Our brain compensates for it. So, in a way, we could say that a blink of an eye has an infinitesimal duration. The amazing thing I was thinking of while processing this fireflies shot - while recalling the actual experience - is that a whole, huge lot of things happen in the blink of an eye. Proteins in our cells are freshly synthetised; old, worn-out proteins are digested and reduced to aminoacids to be recycled; tiny yet powerful molecules of ATP continually bind to enzymes, allowing them to perform their "unlawful" duties at amazing rates; B lymphocytes produce and refine astronomical quantities and varieties of antibodies to fight some intruding pathogen; neurons alternately fire and rest in what we could envisage as, well, an astoundingly complex network of hyperfast fireflies. In the blink of an eye whole universes are born, and whole worlds are destroyed. We are so bound to our perception of time, to our own timescale, that it is utterly difficult for us to imagine what is happening on different timescales. In a mere hour a bacterial colony can proliferate enormously and, sadly, viruses can get huge hordes of self-copies at the expense of an unwittingly complicit cell.
There are further non-human timescales though, well beyond the microscopic word of cells or molecules. It is not by chance that for centuries people have been believing that the world had truly been created in seven days (well, actually six) and that everything - from geology to animals and plants - have remained basically unchanged since then. And that fossils were either remains of antediluvian creatures or tricks of the devil to test our faith and potentially lead us astray.
Well my friends, somehow this photo has reminded me that the world - both the micro- and the macroscopic - is something unutterably complex, almost beyond our grasp (almost being the key of everything). The quest for its understanding is a collective, neverending adventure. I often feel so small that even these fireflies, with their wonders, humble the feeling of being part of the species who believe to be master of the world. My mind is a minute firefly lost in a vast expanse of darkness. Yet I cannot give up. We cannot give up, since we "were not made to live [our] lives as brutes, / but to be followers of worth and knowledge" (Divine Comedy, Inferno, 26). Maybe our lives are the blink of an eye in the unutterable spatial and temporal vastness of the universe. But they are well worth living.
It has always been one of my unfulfilled dreams to photograph fireflies, which, sadly, are becoming a rarity in our countryside; the positive effects of the lockdown for the environment have probably favoured a blooming this year, so I decided to have a try. I followed the advices of a master of fireflies photography, the Bulgarian photographer Hristo Svinarov. However I will eagerly accept hints and positive criticism from everyone who will be so kind to offer it.
In my second fireflies session I have become a little more confident in my possibilities. I have tried to lower the ISO below 1000, and this is by itself a huge step towards better photos; moreover I have somehow dared more in composition. I am forced to use my Samyang 14 mm, which is the only fast-aperture lens I have in my gear, so I ventured nearer and nearer, until I was literally surrounded by dancing fireflies.
I have stacked 15 5-second photos with the Gimp. As the basic layer I used an image I have obtained by averaging the photos with John Paul ChaCha's Chasys Draw IES Artist: the fireflies themselves were almost obliterated but the landscape were effectively denoised, while the details were improved. In this photo I have processed separately the image which would have been the basic layer, just in the same way as any other photo - luminosity masks, and so on. When I was satisfied with the landscape I faced a new problem: it was just like I wanted it to be, so the 15 layers to be blended (those actually containing the fireflies) should not alter it - they should only add the precious fireflies. After a good bit of trial and error I developed my own workflow: a) duplicate one of the fireflies layers; b) extract LAB L component; c) in the bw image so obtained play with levels to force all the dark tones to black, then lower the light tones slider to better the fireflies signal; d) manually paint out the sky and the trees, and the other unwanted parts still visible (e.g. the water in the ditch); e) use this image showing only the fireflies as the layer mask of the original photo; f) set the blending mode to Addition: at this point the fireflies appear in the scene; g) duplicate 4 times the layer and then merge down the copies to get only one layer with the fireflies signal very naturally amplified; h) proceed in this way for all the (gasp) 15 shots; i) after all this, you can inspect the contribution of every layer to the result and, if needed, you can duplicate it and blend with Addition or Dodge to amplify it.
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Candid street photography from Glasgow, Scotland. Captured some time ago with my then broken 50mm f/1.8 lens. Since being knocked on the street my cheap plastic nifty fifty suffered from horrible chromatic aberration and the bokeh in this shot is misshaped away from it's usual beautiful roundness - Just a small knock from a passer-by must have jarred something out of alignment. Still, a slightly imperfect shot but an image that I love. Wishing you all a wonderful weekend ahead.
Abstract artwork on the basis of a particular old-school type of Light Amplification. The structural details are irrelevant: All that matters is Light. Light causes darkness and despair to disappear and it facilitates finding one’s way into following the path of Life.
The image was inspired by Vangelis’s Light And Shadow song in “1492 – Conquest of Paradise” album.
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Candid street photography from Glasgow, Scotland. Some serious headphones and I wonder if they are designed for hearing loss - having two amps strapped to the head! I had to keep this in colour for those lovely purple tints in her hair. Wishing all of my Flickr friends a fantastic weekend of photography. Enjoy!
Something there is about soft, gently falling snow that makes silence all the more present. You can stand for moments and not hear a thing but the rhythm of your breathing, the beat of your heart, the woodpecker's tapping. Despite all of my complaints about Wisconsin winters, a walk in this amplified silence is a treasure. Lovely short poem, by the way.
How is it that the snow
amplifies the silence . . .
—from "How Is It That the Snow," by Robert Haight
(for Poetography, Theme 206—Snow; Literary Reference in Pictures)
Street performer, amazing singer, € 5.00 CD, if I love you, street of Dublin, Ireland, Late Fall 2010.
Woodpeckers tap to find grubs under dead wood and bark. The sound here tends to be stop-start. When a woodpecker is in the mood for love, it will find a dead branch or tree and make it resound, sending a sonar signal far and wide to let potential partners know that there is vigor in the air. Low populations of man during the ages of prehistory were rarely individuals lost in the disordered woods of time. Reindeer runs opened wide 'motorways' north south and more; many coastlines offered fast path along beach or matted dune, animal tracks to rivers and lake might be opened with the snap of a twig and river paths kept free as winter sodden trees fell for fire wood. Even away from paths, man might copy nature and make sonar signals learning the rules of amplification via the experience and observation of dead wood and rock cavity. Emulating and perfecting natural sources of amplification being a simple jump of logic to be repeated and assimilated through the Mesolithic, Neolithic and ages of metal. Seeing an alcove carved smooth with acoustic properties would simply be an expected subplot within man's great journeys.
Taken with a vintage 135mm, I think the Takumar 1:2.5.
AJM 06.05.14