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-Sony a300 w/ 18-70 kit lens
-Handheld
-18mm
-ISO 100
-F5.6
-Tonemapped in Photomatix 3.2 using a single RAW file
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What Wiki Says.. Random Fact: One of my photos is featured on the wiki page for the Legislature. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Columbia_Legislative_Buildings
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The British Columbia Parliament Buildings are located in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada and serve as the seat of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia.
HDR image at twilight
The Speaker and the Sergeant-At-Arms are amongst those responsible for the legislative precinct, which by statute include the Parliament Buildings and grounds.
The Neo-baroque buildings face north on Belleville street facing the Inner Harbour and diagonally across from The Empress Hotel. A large statue of Queen Victoria stands on the front lawn as well a statue of a soldier to commemorate the province's World War I, World War II and Korean War dead. Atop the central dome is a gold-covered statue of Captain George Vancouver. Free guided tours of the facility are offered year- round.
From 1856 to 1860 the Legislature of the Colony of Vancouver Island sat at Bachelor's Hall at Fort Victoria. From 1860 to 1898 it was housed in the first permanent building at Legislative Hall or Birdcages (burned down 1957).
The main block of the Parliament Buildings combines Baroque details with Romanesque Revival rustication
History
Construction of a new Parliament Building was first authorized by an act of the provincial legislature in 1893, the Parliament Buildings Construction Act. The province, anxious to show its growing economic, social and political status, was engaged in an architectural competition to build a new legislative building in Victoria, after outgrowing the previous wooden building, colloquially known as "The Birdcages" because of their shape, which were notoriously drafty and leaked in wet weather.[3] Francis Rattenbury, a recent English immigrant entered and signed his drawings with the pseudonym "A B.C. Architect", he progressed to the second round signing his drawing "For Queen and Province" and eventually winning the competition, despite being only 25 years old.
Despite many problems, including going over budget—the original budget was $500,000 the final amount was $923,000—the British Columbia Parliament Buildings were officially opened in 1898[4]. The grand scale of its 500-ft (152-m) long andesite façade, central dome and two end pavilions, the richness of its white marble, and combination of Baroque rigorous symmetry, use of domes and sculptural massing with the rusticated surfaces of the currently popular Romanesque Revival style contributed to its being an innovative and impressive monument for the young province. Its success garnered Rattenbury many more commissions in Victoria and other parts of the province, including the Legislative Library 1913-1915, the design of The Empress Hotel, the Crystal Gardens indoor swimming pool nearby, and the Vancouver Court House (now the Vancouver Art Gallery). The andesite of the British Columbia Parliament Buildings is from Haddington Island in the Alert Bay Volcanic Belt. The granite used to build the buildings came from Nelson Island, at the mouth of Jervis Inlet, on the Sunshine Coast.
Besides the elected Members of the Legislative Assembly, two organizations have been granted the privilege of using the Legislative Chambers during the legislature's December recess: the British Columbia Youth Parliament (since 1924, except during its sessions in the late 1940s and early 1950s) and the British Columbia Universities' Model Parliament.
During the 1994 Commonwealth Games, free music concerts were held on the front lawns of the buildings, attracting up to 40,000 people. Similar-sized crowds have gathered on the front lawn over the years, ranging from political protests and rallies, such as during the Solidarity Crisis of 1983, to celebrations of various kinds, including the BC 150 ceremonies.
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Canon EOS 7D
Canon EF-S 17-55mm f/2.8 IS USM
NO HDR
Adobe CS4
Topaz Adjust for de-noise
Viveza 2 for enhance details
Viveza Color Efex Pro 3.0 for b/w conv.
Taken in City Park in sunny day:::))
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Thanks to all visitors and contact for your visit and comments!!!
Bokeh is the way, lens renders out of focus, points of light... right? ... WRONG !!! ... I believe that nature emits bokeh from all things beautiful AND here is my example to prove the point.
... just kidding, the picture was taken from an angle that bokeh could be seen just over the rose. I had to keep changing angles to get this effect. ;-)
The Story
This mother and cub (child) was passing by while we was doing some climatic research in the Fram Straight. I think the scene was a bit interesting with the birds in the background. The colors up here is really special. The Polar Bear is the biggest of all bears. This day we saw 19 of them. This mother and cub was close to a big male bear. That is unusual to see. The male Polar Bear is known of killing the cubs so he can get the mother interested in him. But nothing happened, not as long as we was there.
EXPLORE September 19 2011 #284
PRIZES, AWARDS
The best picture in 2011 In the group Ice Age Icefields, Glaciers, Icebergs, The Blue Ocean And Ships
Rank 4 in Best of the year 2011 at FlickrDiamond
Rank 5 in Best of the year 2011 at The Best Bravo
1st prize "Picture of the month" for September 2011 contest at My Gear And Me
1st prize "Picture of the month" for September 2011 contest at Flickr Diamond
1st prize "Picture of the month" for October 2011 contest at Damn I Wish I'd Taken That
1st prize in October 2011 in Are You Ready - Wild Animal contest
1st prize Frontpage contest at It's a wonderful world
1st prize ◕‿◕SONIAGALLERY◕‿◕
2nd prize October, November 2011 contest at Artist of the Year
2nd prize September 2011 contest at Colors Of the Heart
Jury prize for November 2011 at ROYAL Gr☮up
Picture of the month in "Polar Bear International" and published on the frontpage of their e-letter PBiNews (10 000 subscriptions each month.)
Admins Choice October 2011 at The World Through My Eyes and featured in their blog
Picture of the week November 2011 at Great Images
Picture of the week October 8 2011 at The best nature shots on Flickr
Special choice award Nominated to the "Picture of the year." at the group Passage to Beauty
Admins Choices of the week At the group Nature's Prime
Admins Choices of the week At the group Outstanding Pictures
Featured in the blog at breathtaking group
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My favorite part of our Florida trip... Kennedy Space Center NASA!
This may look like a funny robot face with green eyes and huge smile!
But this is one of the Saturn V (with five F-1 engines ) rockets of the Apollo Program
that succeeded in landing human on the moon and bringing them back to earth safely.
On July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 landed the first men on the moon,
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin.
(I lost my notes and can't identify which Apollo this is... 8, 10, 11or 13?)
Camera: Canon EOS 50D
Manual
Exposure: 0.025 sec (1/40)
Aperture: f/4.5
Focal Length: 17 mm
ISO Speed: 1000
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# 183~365 Work with textures
The original photo was taken @ Flamingo Garden and Wildlife Sanctuary
Davie, Florida, USA
October 24th/2009
Nikon D5000
Textures by: SkeletalMess square-49 Thanks a lot dear Jerry !
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277/365 Work with textures
I took the original image @ South Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL. USA on October 4th/2010.
Textures with my gratitude to Emma_Cox: texture 129 Thank you so very much !!
and I also thanks to Florabella for her wonderful textures !!
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Another breathtaking sunset at Remic Rapids on the Ottawa River! Do you see the sweet little
ducks on the water?
L’Opernhaus au centre de l'Augustusplatz, de Leipzig, Land de Saxe, Allemagne.
Bâti de 1956 à 1960, cet opéra est reconnu pour son excellente acoustique.
L’Augustusplatz (« place Auguste », d'après le premier roi de Saxe) est une place publique dans l'est du centre de Leipzig. Elle est construite en 1785 selon les plans de Johann Carl Friedrich Dauthe sous le nom de Platz vor dem Grimmaischen Thor (« place de la porte de Grimma ») à l'emplacement d'une porte sur l'ancienne enceinte de Leipzig. Sous le régime de la RDA, elle était connue sous le nom de Karl-Marx-Platz avant de faire l'objet d'une rénovation complète et d'être renommée sous son nom actuel le Jour de l'Unité allemande le 3 octobre 1990.
Elle fait aujourd'hui 40 000 m2 de superficie et regroupe quelques-uns des monuments les plus marquants de la ville dont, au centre, l’Opernhaus (opéra) bâti de 1956 à 1960 à l'excellente acoustique avec, au nord de l'édifice le parc avec l’étang Schwanenteich (le Lac des cygnes). Au Sud, se dressent le gratte-ciel moderne City-Hochhaus, la salle de concert Gewandhaus, ainsi que la partie centrale de l'Université de Leipzig. À l’ouest, on peut admirer la Krochhaus, le premier « gratte-ciel » de la ville, élevé en 1928-1929 et couronné d'une réplique des automates Maures de Venise.
Leipzig est une ville-arrondissement d'Allemagne centrale, au nord-ouest du Land de Saxe. Elle est la ville la plus peuplée d'Allemagne de l'Est après Berlin, et la dixième ville du pays. Leipzig obtint ses privilèges municipaux en 1165 et acquit très tôt une vocation commerciale. Ses grandes foires d’automne et de printemps créées depuis plus d’un siècle, attirent chaque année de nombreux visiteurs.
Depuis la création de son université en 1409, la ville est aussi un important centre intellectuel, Renommée pour ses éditeurs, elle renferme la Deutsche Bücherei, la Bibliothèque national allemande fondée en 1912. Par ailleurs, la cité où Jean-Sébastien Bach passa près de 30 ans de sa vie accorde une grande place à la musique : l’orchestre du Gewandhaus et la chorale Thomanerchor jouissent d’une grande réputation.