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On Thursday several heavy thunderstorms hit the northern parts of Germany. I didn't catch any lightning at night, but some interesting looking clouds in the afternoon. Credit for the extra punch of colour and clarity here goes to an LR preset created by Alfred Grupstra, "Coolblue".
7DWF, Saturday: Landscapes
Thank you very much for your comments and faves, I highly appreciate them ;-) I wish you a wonderful weekend, dear Flickr friends!
Der Himmel am Donnerstag-Nachmittag, als das erste schwere Gewitter über den Norden Deutschlands hinwegzog. Am Abend gab es noch eins, ich konnte aber leider keine Blitze fotografieren, obwohl der Himmel andauernd flackerte. Dafür gab es am Nachmittag aber diese interessanten Wolken zu sehen. Extra-Farbknaller und Extra-Klarheit sind dem LR-Preset "Coolblue" von Alfred Grupstra zu verdanken.
Lieben Dank für Eure Kommentare und Favs ;-) Ich wünsche Euch ein schönes Wochenende, liebe Flickr-Freunde!
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OK..I'm starting my ''commenting round'' now ..LOL:) I'll do that until I fall asleep at the computer:)
Tamam..''yorum turuma'' başlıyorum şimdi..Bilgisayarın başında uyuyup kalana kadar devam:)
#455 Dec.27,2009
Market
Palengke
Markt
The Blaak market in Rotterdam in miniature.
Miniworld
A world of play and joy for children and grown ups.
There is so much to see and photograph in a miniature world, it seems like paradise.
Lets go back to our youth once more.
Enjoy the small indoor world , no drone used here.
A miniworld miniature , nr. 2
7DWF, Saturdays: Landscapes
Babelsberg Palace in Potsdam was built between 1835–1849 as summer residence for Prince Wilhelm (the later Emperor Wilhelm I.) and his wife Augusta (of the House of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach). It was designed in the Gothic revival style. Since 1990 the palace and park are part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site "Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin".
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babelsberg_Palace
Again (see album, please), I've used Alfred Grupstra's "Coolblue" LR preset as a starting point for the processing, but then still tweaked the settings. Since the processing added quite a lot of grain (not very pretty especially for the sky), I then smoothed out the sky with Nik's Dfine - several times.
I wonder: Can I add this to Sliders Sunday's group pool tomorrow when I've already uploaded it today?
Thank you very much for your comments and faves ;-) They are much aprecciated !!!
Das im gleichnamigen Park gelegene Schloss Babelsberg wurde als Sommerresidenz für Prinz Wilhelm (den späteren Kaiser Wilhelm I.) und seine aus dem Haus Sachsen-Weimar stammende Frau Augusta von Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Ludwig Persius und Johann Heinrich Strack zwischen 1835 und 1849 im Stil der englischen Gotik errichtet. Park und Schloss sind seit 1990 Teil des UNESCO Welterbes "Schlösser und Parks von Potsdam und Berlin".
Quelle: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schloss_Babelsberg
Lieben Dank für Eure Kommentare und Favs ;-)!
Hoch hinaus in HH - in Farbe
7DWF, Saturdays: Landscapes
As promised, here's the colour version of the Hamburg Rathaus (for the b&w version please see the first comment). As starting point for the processing I've again chosen Alfred Grupstra's "Coolblue" filter, then still tweaked the settings. My personal favourite is the b&w version (although I almost always prefer colour), as it looks more dramatical, while in colour it's a lot more "cheerful",
Have a beautiful weekend, dear Flickr friends!
Wie versprochen: die Farbversion des Hamburger Rathauses (den Link zur SW-Version findet Ihr im ersten Kommentar). Ausgangspunkt für die Bearbeitung war wieder Alfred Grupstras "Coolblue"-Filter, ich habe aber dann noch weiter an den Reglern gedreht ;-). Obwohl ich ja eigentlich eher Farbe bevorzuge, ist - im direkten Vergleich - hier ausnahmsweise Die SW-Version mein Favorit, weil dramatischer.
Ich wünsche Euch ein tolles Wochenende, liebe Leute ;-)!
Holy Island causeway just as the blue hour approaches. A truly magical place indeed.
Thanks for looking.
Best viewed large on black (Press 'L')
Canon 5D Mk II
Canon 17-40 f4 L
Lee 10 stop ND
Lee 0.9 soft grad
f16 @ ISO 200 for 212secs @ 17mm
An a cool, still, quiet, atmospheric morning walk I had though for this scene and was lucky enough to have the lighting and the conditions on myside. The cool blue tint creates an atmosphere I'm really pleased with.
Wasdale during my recent trip to the Lake District. Some amazing lighting in this valley as the sun crept out of the rain clouds and lit up the foreground stones.
Thanks for looking.
Best viewed large on black (Press 'L')
Canon 5D Mk II
Canon 17-40 f4 L
Lee 10 stop ND
Lee 0.9 soft grad
f16 @ ISO 100 for 32secs @ 19mm
20190905-1981
Ze doen hun best om het mislukte megalomane New Babylon nieuw leven in te blazen. Ik denk niet dat ze met nieuwe lampen het tij zullen keren. We zullen het zien.
Webwinkel Cool Blue heeft ongeveer de helft van alle winkels overgenomen zodat je hier ook kunt kijken wat je kunt kopen.
Misschien toch een idee voor andere grote webwinkels?
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My wife always said that some of her favorite pictures of mine are from our 3.5 month 2006 Summer road trip. She graduated college, I quit my job, and we camped in a tent for over 90 days around the country. We went from New York to Alaska and back, traveling over 20,000 miles.
This is the famous Moraine Lake in Banff National Park in the Canadian Rockies. An amazing place!
A brief snap of winter on Saturday morning. Not a huge amount of snow, but enough to transform the landscape for a few hours.
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Hiking the shore of Lonetree Lake, I found myself on a grassy hill, scanning for birds. At that moment, all the birds in view were some distance away, and while considering my next strategic move, I happened to notice this row of plants in the shallows.
I try to keep a fluid mind. Years ago, I vowed to act on every idea and not allow a photo op to slip away - and to turn off that negative inner voice telling me, "No, that's no good; that will never work!" It's a self-defeating mechanism that tends to keep us in a safe zone, repeating what we already know we can do well. To be willing to risk failure is really the beginning of the creative process.
And so, I shoot a lot of bad photos. Really. Countless thousands. It doesn't matter, especially in the digital age when we're no longer looking at $4.95 or $12,50 or $20 per roll of film. But even then, I poured a lot of hard-earned money down the drain by shooting unlikely subjects: trash cans in alleys, weeds in a vacant lot, landscapes in light so poor that there was no chance of getting a decent image. That's how I learned. Boxes and boxes of old slides from those years attest to my failure rate. I am finally tossing them out by the thousands.
The point of all this? Have no fear. Push your limits. Break through limitations imposed by others - or that nagging, inner voice - and shoot any which way you feel inclined.
And what are these plants? Well, I don't know. I suspect they may be Western Water-plantain, in their pre-flowering stage, but I can't be sure. I like the cool blues and ragged shapes springing up from the still water, and I'm glad I took the time to frame this shot. It didn't cost me a penny, and it didn't detract from my bird quest that day - as you will see over the next few uploads, starting tomorrow.
Photographed at Lonetree Lake, near Bracken, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2022 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
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I'd like to make use this opportunity to wish you and yours a wonderful happy and warmly Christmas time!
I'd also like to thank all random and regular visitors of this stream for watching my photographic work. Without your time, efforts and energy my work wouldn't be exposed to a wider audience like you. Again, thank you very much dear visitor!
And... I'm sorry I haven't been in touch with your lately very often - or not at all - because of tight business-related design-production schedules this time of year. My promise to watch your work more often still stands!
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Continuing with my efforts from my home town of Long Eaton.
A chilly but very still evening along the Sawley cut waterway a few evenings back gave me the opportunity to capture the billowing steam from Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station rising straight up, smoke flowing from various boats moored close by and fabulous reflections of it all
2 image landscape format stitch panoramic
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike.
~ John Muir
I never get tired of playing around with my old archival shots of Moraine Lake - which was taken on a very special evening in 2006. Sorry in advance if people are sick of seeing it, but it is a slightly different composition from my previous one!
Moraine Lake at sunset
1.13.18 - Almost 12 years after I took this photo it's still my most popular on Flickr. I decided finally today to replace the old 700 pixel photo (lol) with something more attuned to today's display technology!
Update: Since this is my most popular photo, many people have asked me if I photoshopped the hell out of it or how I got the colors so vibrant and captured the range of exposures here. For one - I used a circular polarizer that allowed me to keep the shutter open longer - which obviously saturates the photo, and really added to the reflection you see in the lake. The lake really is that color, mostly from the amount of glacial silt that is suspended in the lake. I used a very light graduated neutral density filter for the top part of the image to keep the range intact, but the light on the mountains really looked that beautiful and soft.
As for photoshop, I added a slight amout of contrast, while just barely lighting up the darker elements.
Thank you all for your wonderful comments.
happy holidays to every one
Camera Nikon D300
Exposure 15
Aperture f/5.6
Focal Length 56 mm x 2
ISO Speed 1600
This is two portrait shots stitched vertically to produce a vertical panorama
The temp was -8 But to be honest I never even noticed how cold it was
An a big thank you to ever one who takes the time to comment and fave my shots
This is an art exhibit that is part of the Panza Collection at the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC. The young woman observing the exhibit seemed quite mezmerized by the neon lights!
The Panza Collection just opened at the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC. This piece, designed by artist Doug Wheeler, is about perception and appears to change as you watch it (though it does not really change). It is really quite amazing to see. I think the people discussing the piece added to the photo.
A slightly different composition of my Moraine Lake shot, touched up from a RAW shot in HDR. I brought out more tonal range but tried to keep the HDR to a minimum
Stocks Reservoir, rather early in the morning all calm and peaceful later it was cold and choppy, love these Cool blues
I am a repeat offender. This is similar to an earlier post, but different enough to warrant posting. This is a close up of a tree that has fallen over a waterfall. Some of the branches did not cooperate with the long exposure and vibrated slightly adding some blur.
Any comments/positive critique welcome. I would really like to improve my photography
I actually planned to take this shot in the blue hour, but I got there a little too late because I had been shooting other parts of the city at first light. Well, here’s a view of London buildings, framed with the Walkie Talkie building on the left and the Gherkin to the right. An “almost” blue hour shot with a splash of colour courtesy of the rising sun.
Three of these are my new Nike Gatorades...Grape, Cool Blue and Orange. The other is called Hyper Blues
#RigsRocks #Nike #AirJordans #AJ1s #Gatorade #Kicks #NBA #MichaelJordan #Jordans #BeLikeMike #NikexGatorade #Flavorways #Retro #HyperBlues #HighTops #Grape #CoolBlues #Orange
Since many will be standing (or sitting) around the tube tonight to watch the superbowl, I thought I would post something with a similar theme. Actually, this is an art exhibit that is part of the Panza Collection at the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC.
Sunset ~ Florida Everglades U.S.A.
South Florida ~ Palm Beach County
(two more photos from this night in the comments)
'Between Heaven and Earth'
Captured during the most entertaining aerial shooting session I've ever done. Burj Khalifa, shot from the Bell 412 helicopter though an open door. Onboard the aircraft were Trey Ratcliff and Rene Smith who visited Dubai for the first time as well as the amazing Sebastian Opitz on behalf of Dreamcore.
Many thanks to Tom Lowe and Dubai Film Production for making this shoot possible.
I used Canon 5D Mk3 and Canon TS-E 24mm lens.
EXIF: f4.0, 1/40s, ISO 4000
One of My Favorite Colors ~ Cool Blues
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