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Mount Rushmore National Memorial is a sculpture carved into the granite face of Mount Rushmore near Keystone, South Dakota, in the USA. Sculpted by Danish-American Gutzon Borglum and his son, Lincoln Borglum, Mount Rushmore features 60-foot (18 m) sculptures of the heads of four United States presidents: George Washington (1732–1799), Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826), Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919), and Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865).
Canon EOS 5D Mark III
Canon EF 24 70MM L F2.8 II
Lee Soft GND 1.2 (For Sky)
Lee Soft GND 0.9 (For Lake)
Heliopan Circular Polarizer
3:1 Panoramic image with 9 vertical images stitched together in Photoshop.
We had a very good summer this year. With clear sky and lovely weather most of the days. In many cases the weekend still remained cloudy and patchy. I never understood why the weather always stays bad here in the weekend. But that is the case including today!
However; the summer was one of the best in last few years. So in one of those days me and my friend Luca went out to Chamonix region of France; the home of mighty Mont Blanc; the highest pick of Alps. This is only 4,809 m (15,778 ft); which is nothing compared to the Himalayan giants I used to visit in my childhood with my father. But it is still pretty attractive and above all very easily accessible.
As usual we reached there early. Took a good spot for camping our tent. Spend few hours enjoying the bright sunshine. Around 18:00 we started building the tent and by 18:20 we were already near the lake ready to shoot.
It was an amazing day for photographing this location. There was absolutely no wind. So the lake was like a perfect mirror. The little movement you can see on the right side of the image was man made. Some people started swimming in the lake at the wrong time. They probably don't care about others taking picture or they don't understand! I am not sure; but it was really annoying! I have some images of few minutes before and after with perfect mirror. However; this color of the mountain only stayed for few minutes and that was the swimming time!
Any way; this is a stunning region and not so far from where I live; so I can always go up there in coming days. As a whole it was a great time out relaxing on the mountain along with good chance of photography.
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The sundogs (see earlier image) had gone but I had to do another wheat close-up shot as I love the texture of the heavy ears of wheat.
Silver Lake Viaduct in Pittsburgh's Larimer neighborhood is a prominent fixture showcasing a bygone era of masonry skills, being built for the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1902. Seeing and photographing a train across it had personally been one of my most sought after photos to get. On the morning of March 7th, I was able to accomplish that when the Norfolk Southern took a unit frac sand train down this on again, off again used piece of railroad to the Allegheny Valley Railroad interchange near the Allegheny River. Train movements prior to the fracking sand boom were extraordinarily rare, and movements across the Brilliant Branch in whole were even rarer.
When commuter trains were still was a regular thing in Pittsburgh, the Brilliant Branch stretched 4 tracks wide, featuring a flyover ramp build over top of the busy mainline in nearby Homewood. The flyovers purpose was being utilized by commuter trains and freight traffic bypassing the busy Penn Station at downtown Pittsburgh. The Pennsylvania Railroad commuter trains came to an end in the early 1960’s and the flyover ramps were removed not there long after, going hand in hand with the greatly diminished use of Union Station. In 2025, the branch line which once played a critical role in keeping the railroads fluidity at their peak is down to a singular track and a wye at the junction of the Pittsburgh mainline. The branch has found use in more recent years, with trail activists along with the City of Pittsburgh's green initiatives pushing to turn this into a bike trail. An effort that later succeeded into accomplishing. Sometime in 2025 during the warmer weather months, this rail line will be removed for yet another hiking/biking trail connecting from nowhere to nowhere.
Monarch Butterfly attracted to a Butterfly Weed.
Orange butterflies are a symbol of imagination and creativity. They remind us to use our imaginations to come up with fun and exciting ideas. They can also be a good omen. Some cultures believe that orange butterflies can bring good luck and positive changes to our money and work.
Allen's Hummingbird
Selasphorus sasin
Member of Nature’s Spirit
Good Stewards of Nature
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I got to watch the New Year's Eve fireworks over Bangkok from my hotel at the Lebua State Tower. This was so surreal for me! It almost felt like the fireworks were just a few feet away from me.