Around the Earth / Rund um die Erde
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NEPAL, Himalaya - Machapuchare, der Fischschwanz.
NEPAL, Annapurna-Massiv von Pokhara aus ,Das Annapurna Himal ist ein bis zu 8091 m hohes Gebirgsmassiv in Nepal.
Es ist Teil des Himalayas; zu ihm gehören mit den Bergen Annapurna und Annapurna II (7937 m) zwei der höchsten 16 Berge der Erde.
Annapurna is a massif in the Himalayas in north-central Nepal that includes one peak over 8,000 metres (26,000 ft), thirteen peaks over 7,000 metres (23,000 ft), and sixteen more over 6,000 metres (20,000 ft)
The massif is 55 kilometres (34 mi) long, and is bounded by the Kali Gandaki Gorge on the west, the Marshyangdi River on the north and east, and by Pokhara Valley on the south. At the western end the massif encloses a high basin called the Annapurna Sanctuary. Annapurna I Main is the tenth highest mountain in the world at 8,091 metres (26,545 ft) above sea level.
So now we finally get to the picture why I came to San Quirico D'orcia in Tuscany and why I'm standing here in the field in a pretty icy wind for more than an hour. With what feels like a 10 cm thick layer of loamy earth on and under my boots, which luckily I brought with me.
By the way, the name of this picture is the name of this old typical Tuscan stone house in the foreground. I think this is the most photographed building in this part of Italy. But be careful if you only feed the navigation system with this name. There are other places with the same name. I got to know one of them the day before, 130 km away from here.
For the picture I waited until the sun was a little bit higher and had gained a bit of power, because I wanted to see the fields glowing. To my great joy, this was then made possible for me.
So nun kommen wir endlich zu dem Bild, weswegen ich nach San Quirico D'orcia in der Toskana gekommen bin und warum ich hier für mehr als einer Stunde in recht eisigem Wind auf dem Feld herum stehe. Mit mit einer gefühlt 10 cm dicken Schicht aus lehmiger Erde an und unter meinen Stiefeln, die ich zum Glück mitgebracht habe.
Der Name dieses Bildes ist übrigens der Name dieses alten typisch toskanischen Steinhauses im Vordergrund. Ich glaube das ist das am häufigsten fotografierte Gebäude in diesem Teil Italiens. Doch Vorsicht, wenn Ihr das Navi nur mit dieser Bezeichnung füttert. Es gibt noch andere Orte mit dem sellben Namen. Einen davon habe ich tags zuvor kennen lernen dürfen, 130 km von hier entfernt.
Für das Bild habe ich gewartet, bis die Sonne ein klein wenig höher stand und etwas an Kraft gewonnen hatte, denn ich wollte die Felder leuchten sehen. Zu meiner großen Freude wurde dies mir dann auch ermöglicht.
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Durchgang zum Meer. An der Küste treffen diese 3 Elemente aufeinander und verleihen diesem Platz einen ganz besonderen Zauber.
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Diameter of the coin: 2,7 cm / 1,06 inches
Oh dear, oh dear... What a journey. Actually I wanted to skip, because I really had no idea what to put on a coin that would even remotely make sense. I knew which coin I wanted to use, yes, but... However, as I rummaged through my drawers in search of something small that would go well with my coin of choice, I stumbled upon a few larger pins. Immediately one of those tourist or underground station city maps that depict your current location ("You are here") came to my mind. Since the coin shows a kind of map of Europe and Africa (and also the planets of our solar system), my original idea was to put the pin approximately where Berlin/Germany would be on that "map". But how should I fixate a metal pin on a metal coin? Glue? Didn't work. Modeling clay? But how should I hide the modeling clay? And how should I position the pin so that it wouldn't cover most of the "map"? By the time I had figured out how to do it (I "glued" the pin onto the coin's blue polymer ring with a small piece of blue modeling clay, at an angle that would let you see the map, too, while hiding the modeling clay), it was evening, and I didn't feel like shooting any more. There was a movie I wanted to watch on TV, and I was fed up with coins and pins in general ;-) I decided to continue the next day.
No sooner said than done. And easier said than done, too. On Monday, I placed the coin and pin on a small glass table and my tablet under the glass table. I opened Google Maps and chose a satellite view of North and South America (the Panama Canal region, simply because it looked nice as background). Numerous focus stacking / Helicon focus attempts followed. When I checked the time I realised that it already was four o'clock in the afternoon and I still had to write my description and tags. So I quickly had to choose one of the photos, and process it. Which is what you see here. Sigh.
Now for the coin itself: It is a 5 Euro collector's coin ("Blauer Planet Erde" - "Blue Planet Earth"), and it also is legal tender (in Germany only, however), officially issued by the Deutsche Bundesbank / the Federal Government (link: www.bundesbank.de/en/tasks/cash-management/euro-coins/col...). Not that I would like to use it as means of payment, since I have hopes that it will make me rich one day (hopeless now that I have scratched its valuable surface with a pin) ;-)
A Happy Macro Monday, Everyone, stay safe and well!
Urban Angel - Encounter 1
Location: Vixen's Creative Studios
Photographer & Model: Michaela Vixen (VampBait69)
Set Design & Creation: Michaela Vixen (VampBait69)
of course i could have deposed of those bottles i found near the lake, but i thought of the beautiful phoenician, egypt bottles found ...
ich hätte natürlich die flaschen entsorgen können, die männer einfach überall wegschmeissen /hirten, jäger/ aber ich dachte an die schönen phoenizischen, ägyptischen flaschen die gefunden wurden...