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Colossal symbol of freedom and democracy standing in front of freedom tower..! I waited and waited for a boat to arrive to create these beautiful guiding lines...:)
SUNSET - Boca Raton, Florida U.S.A.
Spring 2020 - Florida Everglades
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This panoramic has been sitting on my computer in pieces because up until yesterday, I've had zero luck stitching it together. I tried everything...Photoshop, Lightroom, third party pano apps...nothing worked. Not sure why, but major fails on every attempt.
But I updated to the latest Photoshop CC over the weekend and decided to try one more time...and BAM, it worked! Couldn't believe my eyes.
I've been dying to get this thing together, because it's one of my favorites last year and maybe all-time. Such a beastly supercell south of Lamar, Colorado on May 24th, 2015. Beautiful structure, gorgeous green hail core and toss in the road/cars to give it some scale.
We had been a few miles south watching it approach us, and then we had to race north as the rain/hail began to hit us. We stopped after a few miles to take in this incredible view before continuing on to keep in front of it.
Spring is just around the corner...
ANDAN GUAN Penelope montagnii. An Andean Guan is viewed in brilliant morning sunlight at the Yanacocha Reserve on the upper northwestern slopes of Volcán Pichincha to the west of Quito in northwestern Ecuador at 9:14 AM on July 15, 2017.
The Andean Guan is an inhabitant of the high Andes of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Perú, and Bolivia.
Una Pava Andina Penelope montagnii está vista en el sol brillante de la mañana en la Reserva Yanacocha en las faldas superiores noroccidentales del Volcán Pichincha al oeste de Quito en el nordoeste de Ecuador a las 9 y 14 de la mañana el 15 de julio de 2017.
For OPTIMAL DETAILED VIEWING of this Andean Guan, VIEW AT THE COLOSSAL SIZE (1938 x 1400) using the direct Flickr link: www.flickr.com/photos/neotropical_birds_mayan_ruins/35827...
Colossal and marvelous, the 'White Lion' Double Daffodil is rightly name! my only problem with them is they are to top heavy to stand up like the other Daffodils.
STRIPED TREEHUNTER Thripadectes holostictus. This Striped Treehunter was discovered foraging in bamboo near the top of a mountain ridge above Tandayapa in northwestern Ecuador at 12:30 PM on August 17, 2018. This furtive species is usually very difficult to see, much less photograph, but we were fortunate that this individual was working its way up a relatively isolated bamboo stem.
The Striped Treehunter is a member of the family Furnariidae and is found in southwestern Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Perú, and Bolivia.
Flickr's text just below the map incompetently indicates a town far to the west and at a much lower altitude than the true location shown on the map itself.
Un Trepamusgos Listado Thripadectes holostictus se descubrió buscando comida en bambú cerca de una cresta montañosa por encima de Tandayapa en el noroeste de Ecuador a las 12 y 30 de la tarde el 17 de agosto de 2018.
No Flash - I never use flash!
For OPTIMAL, HIGHLY DETAILED VIEWING of this foraging Striped Treehunter, VIEW At The COLOSSAL SIZE (3106 x 2000) using the direct Flickr link: www.flickr.com/photos/neotropical_birds_mayan_ruins/29172...
Palle, palle, palle di Natale..
Siamo sommersi di notizie. Radio, TV, fanno a gara a sparare annunci. Più sanguinosi sono, più fanno notizia.
Giulia e ' l' individuo ' dalla faccia da bambino un po' ebete, che aveva macchinato tutto da giorni , sempre mostrati assieme come la coppietta del giorno, ora 'fanno numero'.
Monta l'indignazione contro ' il patriarcato', con cortei, ragazze e ragazzi urlanti. Non si parla d'altro.
I massacri, le macerie di Gaza stanno già perdendo un po' di smalto. L'eccidio del 7 ottobre non si nomina quasi più.
Kiev, la guerra in Ucraina, che ci aveva sconvolto, diviso in fazioni, con insulti vari, tra pacifisti, moralisti e guerrafondai e che ha prodotto un cambiamento nel nostro modo di vivere, è dimenticata, non interessa più. Eppure si continua a combattere, tra il fango e la neve. E probabilmente noi continuamo a inviare armi e investire soldi in questo conflitto.
Presto tutto sarà dimenticato, sull'onda di qualche altro terribile delitto ( dell'uccisione di una dottoressa, la deturpazione con l'acido del volto di una ragazza e un nuovo stupro non si è neppure parlato), qualche tsunami o statistica di bambini morti.
The Truman show va avanti.
La tentazione è di chiudere tutto, chiudersi nel silenzio.
Ma no. La vita chiama, c'è ancora tanto da fare . Nella realtà
Colossal balls
La Casa delle farfalle, Genova
On the one hand, the worship of Bagdevi ( the goddess of learning) falls today.
On the other hand, the celebration of love also clashes. Homes, schools, colleges, and universities resonated with melodious hymns dedicated to Goddess Saraswati from the early hours of the morning.
Basically the period till the middle of February is celebrated as the season of love. Somewhat coincidentally, this February 14 is even more significant.
The image of the city today is largely different due to the worship of Goddess Saraswati. Compared to other years, Valentine's camaraderie and love practically braved the overflowing crowd of youngsters at Saraswati Puja in the city today.
For two hours I stood transfixed by dancing clouds as they drifted in and out of these colossal fir trees near Mt Robson, BC.
I don't know about you, but I get a huge kick out of capturing bonus images that I never intended or expected to find.
It's even better when those bonus shots turn out to be way better than the one you're standing around waiting for.
It just goes to show that it pays to have that second camera and ideally a big old telephoto lens.
At 274mm, I had to switch on the optical stabilization of the lens to minimize the camera shake. To free up the shutter button, I used back button auto focus which was assigned to a big button on the back of the camera that I could control with my thumb.
I find it really useful to save these types of camera settings to a C3 custom setting dial on the camera. I can then instantly recall these lesser used settings with the turn of a dial giving me more time to capture the moment and less time faffing around with camera settings.
Thanks for looking
Gavin
This is an important image for me, and an important day. Much of the past year, I have been creatively unproductive due to the pandemic, which marks its one year anniversary today. Today, I am working hard to finalize my upcoming macro photography book, which should have been finished a year ago! The eBook versions are out for testing, the print editions are going through press checks, and I feel a burden lifting.
This snowflake, photographed in February, is a limit breaker for me. I am unsure of the size since the Canon MP-E 65mm F/2.8 1x-5x macro lens does not communicate it’s magnification factor in metadata to my Lumix S1R camera, but I can tell you one thing for sure: it takes the crown for the number of focus stacking slices required. Normally, the average is 40 separate images combined. My previous record, rarely ever approached, was 70 frames. This gargantuan snowflake required 86 focus slices to bring complete focus from tip to tip.
With 47MP images, this was no small task, and took over 12 hours to ensure every pixel was in the proper place. Handheld focus stacking can mean slight perspective shifts when aligning the images, and overlapping features can be problematic for the stacking algorithms. In the end, this is one of the most detailed and complex snowflakes I have ever captured – loving that Lumix S1R camera, it’s been my “daily driver” for macro work for two years now.
This snowflake is a great example of a shift in environmental variants – most probably temperature and humidity. Thick, geometric branches with strong 60-degree edges tend to grow in lower humidity environments, often at colder temperatures. If more water vapour is available as building blocks for the crystal, growth tends to be faster with more branching events. We see that towards the outer tips, but something interesting happens before that.
Notice the broadest parts of the ends of the branches? Right before the growth transition, there are white speckles. These are super-cooled water droplets that collided with the snowflake and froze on impact, later nucleating their own crystal structures on top of the main snowflake. This could have happened as the snowflake began to descend from the layer of clouds where it formed, and hit this new layer on the way down. Further down, things changed again.
If the snowflake continued to fall through a layer of slightly warmer air, the amount of water vapour it could potentially hold would be higher. If the snowflake fell through this layer in one primary direction, the growth would accumulate on the falling edge of the snowflake. We see exactly this. One side has much stronger growth to the lower left, but even the upper right side shows some subtle growth favouring this direction as well.
You can tell the entire history of a snowflake if you can spot the clues! This is something I will never tire of doing. More of these to come before we officially enter into spring. :)
If you’d like to know how to photograph these gems, as well as nearly every macro subject inside and out, I encourage you to check out my upcoming macro book. Now complete, it’ll start shipping in less than a month:
Hardcover: skycrystals.ca/product/pre-order-macro-photography-the-un...
eBook: skycrystals.ca/product/pre-order-ebook-edition-macro-phot...
(prices in Canadian dollars, and the prices go up to the full price as soon as I take delivery of the physical copies!)
Thanks to everyone for their support through a very tough year. More great images to come as I get back into the creative groove. :)
For the 6th round of RogueOlympics, for the theme attack/Attacke. More details and part breakdown on Roguebricks.
BLACK VULTURE Coragyps atratus. There were five Black Vultures perching together in a treetop on a beautiful sunny morning along the Vía Cunuco, about one mile north of Mindo, in northwestern Ecuador at 9:00 AM on February 11, 2020. Three of them are shown in this image.
The Black Vulture belongs to the family Cathartidae and occurs from the southern United States through Central America to Uruguay, central Argentina and central Chile in South America.
Tres individuos del Zopilote Negro también llamado Gallinazo Negro Coragyps atratus están perchados en la copa de un árbol por la Vía Cunuco unos 2 kilometros al norte de Mindo en el noroccidente de Ecuador a las 9 de la mañana el 11 de febrero de 2020.
In Brazil, Coragyps atratus goes by the common name Urubu-de-cabeça-preta.
For OPTIMAL VIEWING of these Black Vultures, VIEW AT THE COLOSSAL SIZE (3488 x 2100) using the direct Flickr link: www.flickr.com/photos/neotropical_birds_mayan_ruins/49605...
Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada
I've been going through a series of photos I took in 2015 in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada. I'm discovering I had some great shots in there that were just crying out for a five year older advanced eye to crop them to where I feel they should be.
PALE MANDIBLED ARAÇARI Pteroglossus erythropygius. This Pale-mandibled Araçari is perching on a limb about 4 meters away from the nest hole with an insect in the tip of its bill. Shortly after this photo was taken, the araçari visited the nest to deliver the insect to young inside the nest cavity. The nest is in a large tree on a mountainside just south of Mindo in northwestern Ecuador and the photo was taken at 10:40 AM on August 20, 2019.
Species that are cooperative breeders have adult offspring from a previous clutch of eggs that act as helpers in that they help their parents to raise their siblings. The helpers bring food to the nest and may also help to guard it from predators.
At this nest we could hear what sounded like multiple young in the nest but the adults feeding them inserted their heads almost completely into the nest cavity to give the young food indicating that the young at this date were still relatively small.
At one point we sighted three adults simultaneously, each with food in its bill, waiting to deliver the food to the young. And four adults were seen at one time either with food in their bill or perched within 30 meters or so of the nest hole. Food delivered included fruit and insects.
The Pale-mandibled Araçari belongs to the family Ramphastidae and is found in western Ecuador and Perú. It is considered by some workers to be a subspecies of the COLLARED ARAÇARI Pteroglossus torquatus erythropygius.
Un Arasari Piquipálido Pteroglossus erythropygius está perchado en una rama a eso de 4 metros de su nido con un insecto en la punta del pico en un árbol grande en la faldas de una montaña al sur de Mindo en el noroccidente de Ecuador a las 10 y 40 de la mañana el 20 de agosto de 2019. Poco después, el arasari entregó el insecto a los jovenes en el nido.
For OPTIMAL DETAILED VIEWING, of this Pale-mandibled Araçari with Insect near nest, VIEW THE COLOSSAL SIZE (1829 x 1200) using this direct Flickr link: www.flickr.com/photos/neotropical_birds_mayan_ruins/48620...
The colossal red granite statue of Amenhotep III is a granite head of the 18th Dynasty ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Amenhotep III. Dating from around 1370 BCE, it was found in the temple enclosure of Mut at Karnak in Upper Egypt. Two parts of the broken colossal statue are known: the head and an arm. Both parts are now in the British Museum.
The statue is made of red granite. It is fragmentary: only the head and an arm are known to have survived.
The statue is thought to have been erected by King Amenhotep III, one of the huge number of statues that he had ordered to be built in ancient Thebes (Luxor).
It is uncertain whether it was originally erected at its findspot at the Temple of Mut in Karnak, or if it came to be there having been removed in antiquity from Amenhotep's massive mortuary temple on the West Bank of the River Nile at Kom el-Hitan. Other colossal statues of Amenhotep III include the two Colossi of Memnon, which still stand at his mortuary temple at Kom el-Hitan.
After its discovery, the statue was originally ascribed by scholars as a statue of King Thutmose III. The confusion has arisen from modification of the head by later rulers; it was common practice in Ancient Egypt for pharaohs to usurp statues of earlier rulers, modifying and re-inscribing them. The lips have had their corners drilled to suggest a smaller mouth, and the heavy cosmetic lines around the eyes, suggestive of the style of cosmetic fashion in Amenhotep III's time, have been largely erased. It is now thought that the alterations were made in the time of, and to represent, Ramesses II.
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Jorenji Temple (乗蓮寺).
Established : 1394 (創建：1394年).
Relegion : Jodoshu, buddhism (宗派：浄土宗).
Location : 5-28-3 Akatsuka, Itabashi Ward, Tokyo, Japan (所在地：日本国東京都板橋区赤塚5−28−3).
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He is called "Tokyo Buddha(東京大仏)". He is one of the three greatest colossal Buddha in Japan. :) 1st:Nara, 2nd:Kamakura, 3rd:Tokyo.
head from a colossal figure of the god Ptah
New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, c. 1370 BC
Staatliches Museum Ägyptischer Kunst, München, Deutschland / State Museum of Egyptian Art, Munich, Germany
Today, the Parthenon, which functions as an art museum, stands as the centerpiece of Centennial Park, a large public park just west of downtown Nashville. Alan LeQuire's 1990 re-creation of the Athena Parthenos statue is the focus of the Parthenon just as it was in ancient Greece. The building is a full-scale replica of the Athenian original; and the statue of Athena Parthenos within is a reconstruction of the long lost original to careful scholarly standards: she is cuirassed and helmeted, carries a shield on her left arm and a small(6 foot) statue of Victory in her right palm, and stands 42 feet high, gilt with more than eight pounds of gold leaf; an equally colossal serpent rears its head between her and her shield. Since the building is complete and its decorations were polychromed (painted in colors) as close to the presumed original as possible, it is arguably a better representation of what the Athenians would have seen than is the current ruin of the Parthenon on the Acropolis of Athens.
This replica of the original Parthenon in Athens serves as a monument to what is considered the pinnacle of classical architecture. The plaster replicas of the Parthenon Marbles found in the Naos (the east room of the main hall) are direct casts of the original sculptures which adorned the pediments of the Athenian Parthenon, dating back to 438 BC. The originals of these fragments are housed in the British Museum in London.
This colossal seated Buddha in monochrome metal faces Charoenkrung Road in the Bangrak district. It's flanked by two life-size demons.
Wat Sutthi Wararam
Bangkok, Thailand
Here's my microscale castle entry for Brickscalibur and Colossal Castle Contest.
A castle overlooking a small seaside village.
I tried to use some interesting parts, in particular I think the capes and the teacups worked out pretty well. I'm also quite satisfied with the design of the dragon and the sailboats.
Here you can check out the video:
Christ the Redeemer, Portuguese Cristo Redentor, colossal statue of Jesus Christ at the summit of Mount Corcovado, Rio de Janeiro, southeastern Brazil. It was completed in 1931 and stands 98 feet (30 metres) tall, its horizontally outstretched arms spanning 92 feet (28 metres). The statue, made of reinforced concrete clad in a mosaic of thousands of triangular soapstone tiles, sits on a square stone pedestal base about 26 feet (8 metres) high, which itself is situated on a deck atop the mountain’s summit. The statue is the largest Art Deco-style sculpture in the world and is one of Rio de Janeiro’s most recognizable landmarks.*
*https://www.britannica.com/topic/Christ-the-Redeemer
So we've seen a couple of lignite trains and been through several dying villages with boarded up houses and churches so we thought it time to take a look at the Hambach mine. This is a stitch of three shots taken from Nordrandweg and it's breathtakingly huge at over 27 square miles, take into account that the machines stripping off the overburden and cutting the coal are 100 metres tall and we could count a dozen of them.
to me colossal mind , amazing man....
I agree with NASA , that: “His theories unlocked the universe of possibilities that we & the world are exploring. … May you keep flying like superman in microgravity.”
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Jorenji Temple (乗蓮寺).
Established : 1394 (創建：1394年).
Relegion : Jodoshu, buddhism (宗派：浄土宗).
Location : 5-28-3 Akatsuka, Itabashi Ward, Tokyo, Japan (所在地：日本国東京都板橋区赤塚5−28−3).
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He is called "Tokyo Buddha(東京大仏)". He is one of the three greatest colossal Buddha in Japan. :) 1st:Nara, 2nd:Kamakura, 3rd:Tokyo.