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The access road to Hakone Gardens currently has beautiful cherry trees in bloom. This Japanese garden is located in Saratoga, California.
As for composition, I tried to get the dark road leading into infinity, highlighted by the bright cherry trees and road marking. Two curved curves makes the scene dynamic, one starting in the lower left corner, one to the mid right.
I processed a paintery and a balanced HDR photo from a RAW exposure, merged them selectively, carefully adjusted the curves, darkened the road a bit, and desaturated the result.
-- © Peter Thoeny, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, HDR, 1 RAW exposure, NEX-6, _DSC2439_hdr1bal1pai1h
The river Sieg near Schladern, Germany
Am Siegfall zu Schladern
Il fiume Sieg vicino a Schladern, Germania
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... growing different tomatoes on our roof garden.... all did well... except this one.... the fruits just did not want to grow like the others... :-(
... so I made a real effort.... and still.... lots of little fruits.... sweet ...
just the size :-(
before I wanted to yank them out... it would have been wiser to read the label...
"Currant tomatoes are unusual tomato varieties available from seed collection sites and vendors that specialize in rare or heirloom fruits and vegetables. What are currant tomatoes, you may ask? They are similar to a cherry tomato, but smaller. The plants are the likely cross of wild cherry tomato plants and develop hundreds of small, finger nail size fruits...."
right now, the bush has about 500 or more fruits... not bad... but it takes some time to pick and eat them :-))
This image was taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) and shows a starburst galaxy named MCG+07-33-027. This galaxy lies some 300 million light-years away from us, and is currently experiencing an extraordinarily high rate of star formation — a starburst.
Normal galaxies produce only a couple of new stars per year, but starburst galaxies can produce a hundred times more than that. As MCG+07-33-027 is seen face-on, the galaxy’s spiral arms and the bright star-forming regions within them are clearly visible and easy for astronomers to study.
In order to form newborn stars, the parent galaxy has to hold a large reservoir of gas, which is slowly depleted to spawn stars over time. For galaxies in a state of starburst, this intense period of star formation has to be triggered somehow — often this happens due to a collision with another galaxy. MCG+07-33-027, however, is special; while many galaxies are located within a large cluster of galaxies, MCG+07-33-027 is a field galaxy, which means it is rather isolated. Thus, the triggering of the starburst was most likely not due to a collision with a neighboring or passing galaxy and astronomers are still speculating about the cause. The bright object to the right of the galaxy is a foreground star in our own galaxy.
Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA and N. Grogin (STScI)
Currently experiencing blizzard conditions here in Washington DC and only us foolish pedestrians have taken to the streets. This is Q street near 17th.
Current River at Round Spring
Ozark National Scenic Riverway
Shannon County, Missouri
And so my astrophotography learning curve begins...
Slowing through the Huddleston curves under dynamic braking is late running loaded ORA grain service 5114S from Gladstone behind ALF22/CLP14 on Saturday the 13th of February 2021, this train would pause outside of Crystal Brook on the Eastern leg of the triangle due to opposing Intermodal traffic for the remainder of the evening before departing towards Pelican Point after sunset.
The tree line in the background remains from the original SAR Narrow gauge line, which operated through this location from Port Pirie to the state border of Cockburn from 1875 until being replaced by Standardisation and the current formation in 1970.
© Dom Quartuccio 2021.
I was sent out yesterday to shoot some interiors of a newly remodeled hotel out in Long Beach...Hotel Current. I learned so much in one day...like how fast a day goes by.
These are 3 of the shots I pulled out late last night to show you (this is not a print piece or final edits). I was glad I had my flash in my bag. Initially I thought I would just use natural light, but strobism got the better of me. All 3 were lit with one flash in 43" shoot thru umbrella balanced with the natural and ambient light.
If you haven't noticed the Canon 5d has made a debut on my stream. About an hour into the shoot the D3 battery died (my bad). So we called down to a shop to see how much a battery charger was...$180!!! Well luckily Shannen was with me with her 5D. So a lens rental later and we were back in business!
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This is a photo of the reflection of tree branches in the river current as it creates a wake flowing past a protruding reed.
While the migratory birds are departing for warmer places and the mammals grow their winter coats, the northern prairie undergoes a rapid and dramatic transformation. The green hills have turned brown and orange; red fruits appear on the buffaloberry bushes. Days are shorter, nights cooler. Change is in the air...
In October my friend George, the film maker, came down from Swift Current for a screening of his documentary, Wild Prairie Man, at the Palais Royale Theatre in Val Marie. The next morning he came by my house in the pitch dark and we headed out to Grasslands, watching as the southeastern sky began to glow and brighten, and then looking for a good spot to get out as the first direct rays began to sweep the prairie.
We stopped somewhere between the former Dixon and Walker ranches, now part of the national park. Here the broad plateau was broken by gullies that drain snowmelt each spring into the Frenchman River, seen here as a dark band of shadow near the top of the frame, but not far away, lined with small trees and shrubs. I used a wide angle lens to emphasize the foreground - in fact this shot is 75% foreground, and the distances look greater than they really are.
Nevertheless, it's a large valley; behind me, the hills rose up just as they do on the far side. I often imagine this place in early post-glacial times, when much of this valley would have been filled with water: the Frenchman rolling southward into the Missouri drainage, as it does today with far less volume. What a privilege to be here, now, in a place filled with wildlife, on the relatively untouched prairie, with only the breeze making small sounds through dry grasses, and sometimes carrying distant coyote voices. But my fingers were numb with the cold. Soon I'd be breaking out the winter parka, boots, gloves, mitts, and wool hat.
* Don't believe the map. This is Canada, not the United States.
Photographed in Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2022 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
I'm supposed to be conserving my phone battery, but I can't sleep, had to visit everyone's great photos.
Earlier in the evening my husband brought me one of my favorite herbal teas and I thought it was funny that it should be in this cup (no caffeine in this herbal tea).
Apparently, even though sleep deprivation has been proven to contribute to illness, heart disease, etc. throughout the world, hospitals haven't gotten the memo!
So, after being awoken to yet again more poking and prodding, I grabbed this shot for Happy Monochrome Monday!
I viewed as many images as possible, made limited comments, now going back to conserving battery energy so I can call my son when I'm finally discharged later today!
Have a great day, stay warm, stay safe ❤️
Cumberland Falls, sometimes called the Little Niagara, the Niagara of the South, or the Great Falls, is a waterfall on the Cumberland River in southeastern Kentucky. Spanning the river at the border of McCreary and Whitley counties, the waterfall is the central feature of Cumberland Falls State Resort Park and is part of the Office of Kentucky Nature Preserves designated Wild River System.
Currently on a wee holiday with very limited access to WiFi. Will catch up soon. No computer with me either...arghhhh
I think we can confidently call this pair of Prothonotary Warblers (Protonotaria citrea) as fulfilling the "C" breeding code for the current Pennsylvania Bird Atlas project. Conneaut Marsh, Crawford County, Pennsylvania.
the house is buried up to the rafters on its east side, and the snow-wave is closer on both the north and west sides of the house. one more storm forecast for tomorrow afternoon, hopefully a break after that. i’m shoveling snow on the front/south side of the house, preoccupied with thoughts of Ukraine, and full of sadness for the world…
Hagia Sophia is a mosque and former church serving as a major cultural and historical site in Istanbul, Turkey. The last of three church buildings to be successively erected on the site by the Eastern Roman Empire, it was completed in 537 CE. The site was a Greek Orthodox church from 360 CE to 1453, except for a brief time as a Latin Catholic church between the Fourth Crusade and 1261. After the fall of Constantinople in 1453, it served as a mosque until 1935, when it became a museum. In 2020, the site once again became a mosque.
The current structure was built by the Byzantine emperor Justinian I as the Christian cathedral of Constantinople for the Byzantine Empire between 532 and 537, and was designed by the Greek geometers Isidore of Miletus and Anthemius of Tralles. It was formally called the Church of God's Holy Wisdom and upon completion became the world's largest interior space and among the first to employ a fully pendentive dome. It is considered the epitome of Byzantine architecture[8] and is said to have "changed the history of architecture". The present Justinianic building was the third church of the same name to occupy the site, as the prior one had been destroyed in the Nika riots. As the episcopal see of the ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople, it remained the world's largest cathedral for nearly a thousand years, until the Seville Cathedral was completed in 1520. Beginning with subsequent Byzantine architecture, Hagia Sophia became the paradigmatic Orthodox church form, and its architectural style was emulated by Ottoman mosques a thousand years later. It has been described as "holding a unique position in the Christian world" and as an architectural and cultural icon of Byzantine and Eastern Orthodox civilization.
The religious and spiritual centre of the Eastern Orthodox Church for nearly one thousand years, the church was dedicated to the Holy Wisdom. It was where the excommunication of Patriarch Michael I Cerularius was officially delivered by Humbert of Silva Candida, the envoy of Pope Leo IX in 1054, an act considered the start of the East–West Schism. In 1204, it was converted during the Fourth Crusade into a Catholic cathedral under the Latin Empire, before being returned to the Eastern Orthodox Church upon the restoration of the Byzantine Empire in 1261. Enrico Dandolo, the doge of Venice who led the Fourth Crusade and the 1204 Sack of Constantinople, was buried in the church.
After the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Empire in 1453, it was converted to a mosque by Mehmed the Conqueror and became the principal mosque of Istanbul until the 1616 construction of the Sultan Ahmed Mosque. Upon its conversion, the bells, altar, iconostasis, ambo, and baptistery were removed, while iconography, such as the mosaic depictions of Jesus, Mary, Christian saints and angels were removed or plastered over. Islamic architectural additions included four minarets, a minbar and a mihrab. The Byzantine architecture of the Hagia Sophia served as inspiration for many other religious buildings including the Hagia Sophia in Thessaloniki, Panagia Ekatontapiliani, the Şehzade Mosque, the Süleymaniye Mosque, the Rüstem Pasha Mosque and the Kılıç Ali Pasha Complex. The patriarchate moved to the Church of the Holy Apostles, which became the city's cathedral.
The complex remained a mosque until 1931, when it was closed to the public for four years. It was re-opened in 1935 as a museum under the secular Republic of Turkey, and the building was Turkey's most visited tourist attraction as of 2019.
In July 2020, the Council of State annulled the 1934 decision to establish the museum, and the Hagia Sophia was reclassified as a mosque. The 1934 decree was ruled to be unlawful under both Ottoman and Turkish law as Hagia Sophia's waqf, endowed by Sultan Mehmed, had designated the site a mosque; proponents of the decision argued the Hagia Sophia was the personal property of the sultan. The decision to designate Hagia Sophia as a mosque was highly controversial. It resulted in divided opinions and drew condemnation from the Turkish opposition, UNESCO, the World Council of Churches and the International Association of Byzantine Studies, as well as numerous international leaders, while several Muslim leaders in Turkey and other countries welcomed its conversion into a mosque.
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Architecte : Jacques-Germain SOUFFLOT ( 1761)
Edifié depuis le moyen âge par une progression architecturale, ce lieu a une fonction d'hôpital. François RABELAIS y a été nommé (1532) médecin avec une vingtaine de religieuses. Soufflot réalise le bâtiment actuel qui en 2015 devient un hotel de luxe, une offre de bureaux et commerces ainsi qu'une cité de la gastronomie.
Ages by an architectural progression, this place has a hospital function. François RABELAIS was appointed (1532) doctor there with around twenty nuns. Soufflot is building the current building which in 2015 became a luxury hotel, an office and retail offering as well as a city of gastronomy.
This is a photo that I made while canoeing of the current in the river flowing over a submerged rock. The image has been mirrored and copied twice to be symmetrical. The detail is best seen full screen.
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Though the temperature of 10º Celsius is not really low compared to snowing countries, it is still called "cold current" in Taiwan. I stayed at home and avoid being outdoor in such a cold and rainy day.
攝氏十度對很多下雪的國家而言，實在不算是冷，但是對台灣而言，就已經是「寒流」等級。
當然，我這怕冷的，完全避免出門，在家翻舊庫存。
PS. 標題出自宋代，陸游的「漁家」。
~東華聖宮, 新店區, 新北市
Donhwa Temple, Taipei, Taiwan
- ISO 160, F8, 30 sec, 70 mm
- Canon 5D Mark III with EF 70-200 mm f/4 L lens
- Sunset @ 6.10pm (275º) / Shot @ 6.51pm
- Visibility 10 km @ 5.45pm
The current City Hall for the city of St. Louis, having housed city government since 1898, is a landmark by appearance, reputation and city designation (since 1971). Efforts to build what would become the current City Hall (seen above) got underway in May 1888 when the City Hall Commission was formed. On April 4, 1889, an ordinance was passed to authorize the Commission to advertise for bids for the building. The original cost was not to exceed one million dollars. The commission chose the design of George Richard Mann, of the firm Eckel & Mann of St. Joseph, from the 37 national entries. His design was titled "St. Louis 1892", obviously expecting it to be completed by 1892. A French-style plan, inspired by the Hotel de Ville or City Hall of Paris, with ornamental dormer windows and former towers, it also recalled architectural elements of the Chateau de Chambord on the Loire River in France.
The construction of City Hall started July 19, 1890, with Mayor Edward Noonan's daughter Zoe, breaking ground. The cornerstone was laid on June 6, 1891. No bond issue was passed to finance construction of the new City Hall, explaining the 14 years required to finish the building. Funds came from general revenue and the sale of city property. Every year or two, the Council, would authorize an average of $110, 000 to continue construction. An ordinance was passed on Sept, 10, 1893 to limit the total cost at two million dollars. Though the building was not completed, it was finally occupied on April 11, 1898 when Mayor Henry Ziegenhein headed a ceremonial parade of city officials from the old building to their offices in the new City Hall. In 1904, the final portions of the building were completed, the Rotunda, the Tucker Boulevard vestibule and the grand staircase, using the design by the St. Louis architectural firm of Weber & Groves. The building was officially completed on Nov. 5, 1904 when Mayor Rolla Wells held an open house for the residents of St. Louis. The final cost of the building was $1,787,159.16. However, the exterior of City Hall was never quite finished. All sides of the building have ornamental dormers called belvederes, each having bare spaces of limestone. These were meant to have carved decorations, yet remained untouched probably due to lack of funds. Despite its incomplete state, City Hall was praised for its "splendid architectural composition," and called "an impressive period piece of craftsmanship". Unfortunately, a poorly executed acid cleaning and years of exposure to coal smoke has left the original pink and orange exterior tarnished.
www.stlouis-mo.gov/government/about/history-of-city-hall.cfm
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
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I may not be a mother in the literal sense but... in honour of my status as "oldest bitch in the house," I was granted a not-so-rare but very-much-appreciated day of my own designing yesterday. Mike took care of Echo and... for the first time in ages... I walked my old regular camera route. I passed the same things I see every day but... without little Echo... the difference is I'm free to stop and sniff and explore what interests ME!
I spotted this heron fishing off a rocky beach and slowly, stealthily, sneaked up on it. For what seemed a long time we both stood (okay, I was crouching) motionless, waiting for the same thing - for fish to come along, and the heron to grab one. I was thinking "action shot."
But the fishing was apparently not so good. And the heron flew off to another beach where he picked at barnacles and other foodstuffs that can't run or swim for their lives. Of course I followed him. And sneaked up even closer. And was able to get some tighter shots of his hairdo - which was changing dramatically and crazily in the gale-force gusts. I almost felt bad when I got home and did the download - he just looks so undignified. I'm tempted to do a multi-shot conglomerate that shows all his different do's... each one cuter than the last.
I also got some great shots of him in flight. And... for all the years I've been watching herons... I was kind of shocked to see big bright patches of pinky red on his (her?) wings. I had no idea they had this colouration. You can't really see it except when the wings are out.
"Manta Point" sits in a powerful current stream. We got a boat to drop us off at one end and pick us up when we got to the other. Taking the pictures was a physical challenge as swimming against the current requires a lot of energy. It didn't help that they were so deep. The key was to spot them early, arrest my movement by turning and kicking, get the air and go. Take the shot and then just give in to the current and slowly float up. Easier said than done, as at the point of spotting, the manta could have been completely on the wrong side of me.
The mantas on the other hand were happy to just maintain position in the current, letting the water (and presumably plankton) filter through their mouths.
Note the second one in the background!
A pair of recently rebuild SD40-2s are seen dropping ballast on the Swift Current Sub on a perfect October day.
New Zealand - Huka Falls (Taupō)
27.11.2019
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This might not be the most spectacular photograph on Flickr, however, in these bizarre times,
a throwback to one of my very happy moments....
Look at that water; so powerful, invincible, pure, elegant.
In the situation we are in, and how we handle it -
Let's be like this current.
[viewing in large is recommended!!]