The evening sun illuminates Downtown Seattle, as seen from the Space Needle.

Hong Kong City

The Moscow Region Government House is a complex of government buildings in the Moscow Region in Myakininskaya floodplain on the banks of the Moskva River, in the city of Krasnogorsk..

Bilbao Spain

My city

Erasmusbrug / Wilhelminapier Rotterdam

Padova, Padua

Italy

the street on the west side of the river, a reflection.../

Uppsala, Västra Ågatan, en spegling i Fyrisån.../ Uppsala, la calle en la vera oeste del río, un reflejo matinal...(DSC_6477-2)

Putrajaya, Malaysia.

reflections of sunderlands Monkwearmouth bridges on the pavement

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Brisbane, Queensland

Vancouver BC, Canada

Near Viaduct Harbour

I make this image public in the AVIF format (can be opened in the latest IrfanView, Chrome and Firefox): Link to AVIF in Google Drive

The AVIF image compression (in the HEIF container) is a very promising format as it provides good image quality in a very small package and is (in comparison to HEIC) free of any licenses. I hope Flickr as well as Google and Microsoft products will soon have full support for this innovation.

Besides the high compression efficiency the big advantage over JPEG is that a color depth per channel of 10 and even 12 bit is supported.

This sample is generated using the avifenc.exe command line encoder for windows.

I used this parameters:

avifenc.exe --cicp 2/2/1 -r limited -y 420 -j 6 --min 30 --max 40 --minalpha 30 --maxalpha 40 in.png out.avif

The result is:

- 6 threads used (for my 6 CPU cores)

- to colorspace YUV420 (422 and 444 is not supported by the Windows AV1 extension)

- 12 bit per channel

Link to Windows encoder binary

Leica 90mm F2.8

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Groningen, The Netherlands

P1870387 (3)

Beautiful view of Dubai Marina from Palm Jumeira, The first man made island in the world.

You can access my ShutterStock profile, if you want any of my photos :

www.shutterstock.com/g/amirshayani

Bangkok, Thailand, 2017

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Der Burggarten in Wien ist eine grüne Oase im 1. Bezirk, direkt neben der Hofburg. Ursprünglich als Privatgarten der Habsburger angelegt, ist er heute ein öffentlicher Park mit historischen und kulturellen Highlights.

Im Zentrum steht das berühmte Mozart-Denkmal, umgeben von einer Blumenrabatte in Form eines Notenschlüssels. Weitere Sehenswürdigkeiten sind die elegante Palmenhaus-Orangerie, die heute ein Café und ein Schmetterlingshaus beherbergt, sowie der Herkulesbrunnen.

Der Burggarten ist ein beliebter Ort, um zu entspannen, die Natur zu genießen und die imperiale Geschichte Wiens zu erleben.

Prague, Czech Republic

Dubai, UAE

Vancouver