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The sunrises lately here in southern Brooklyn have been pretty awesome, including today's example. I enhanced some of the color, contrast, etc., but not by much. Hope you also enjoy it!
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Built in 1928 for the Ibero-American Exposition of 1929. A great example of Regionalism Architecture with elements of the Renaissance Revival and Moorish Revival.
The Registan, heart of ancient Samarkand. The ensemble of three madrasas is considered a unique example of the art of urban construction + architectural design.
The medreses not only served as academic teaching centres, but also as the most important mosques for a long time.
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Reflections of Birmingham - the Grand Central Shopping Centre at New Street Station in Birmingham, England
Leaving the static display in the Invalides, in the center of Paris, is this French Navy Panther. That is my first correct picture of that type, I'd wanted to shoot one for quite some time!
During Bastille Day, a few examples of French Air Force, Navy and Army helicopters landed in the Invalides to be visitable by the public. A great idea if you ask me.
In a country full of spectacular waterfalls, and despite the obvious drawback in that one can never expect to experience this place alone, Skógafoss has been the one to set my pulses on red alert each time I’ve visited. Ok, so that’s only twice - well three times if you count the very brief pit stop we made here on the long journey east to Stafafell - but the mere sight of it makes for a display of extraordinary power. Not only in terms of the improbable physics that are happening right there in front of you, but also in the hold that it will take on your senses as you stand here at the bottom. Sixty metres tall and twenty-five wide, this is where the highlands end abruptly as that huge curtain of water crosses the divide and plummets down to earth in a resounding crescendo right there in front of you. There are bigger waterfalls in Iceland, but you can’t stand underneath many of them like this. And this one has such pleasing dimensions, that clean and uncomplicated single drop perfectly proportioned and surrounded by clouds of vapour that make you wonder whether you should have brought some shower gel and a bath towel. And a thermos full of piping hot coffee to help with the hypothermia afterwards.
We’d come here after breakfast on our third morning in the area, having agreed that the misty grey conditions would suit the subject well. Ironic that when we’d passed through here a week earlier, there had been a bright rainbow right in front of Skógafoss. There had also been a large number of visitors, taking endless Instaselfies as they tripped from their coaches and raced excitedly towards the action. That day we had to wait for a space in the large car park, such was the popularity of the place. Finding the visitor numbers too distracting, we soon moved on, although perhaps we should have photographed that rainbow and made merry with the clone tool later. At that stage we were getting rather blasé on the subject, having spent the previous day photographing a particularly fine example at Háifoss. But there were no more waterfall rainbows for the rest of the trip, and little did we realise we’d missed our chance.
Arriving in the middle of the morning seemed to have paid off. Although far from empty, the car park was noticeably quieter than last time, and with the aid of that trusty pair of welly boots I was soon paddling about in the shallow river, setting the tripod low to bring that foreground rush of water towards the bottom of the frame. And miraculously in these moments there were chances to get the shot with only minimum numbers of stragglers to contend with. There’s always someone standing as close as they dare to, but I only had to airbrush two spectres from the scene here. Bring your wellies and you can often go to places where others can’t.
Last time we came to Iceland, on that final night before heading back to Reykjavík, I got what became my favourite shot of the trip in the form of “Sandwich Bags, Spray and Spectators,” where I was that person standing as close to the white wall as I dared to. And now, an hour after this, I took my favourite shot of this second adventure with “The Watchers.” Very possibly my two most loved images of all time in fact - from a personal point of view anyway. I’m starting to wonder whether or not it’s a coincidence the place delivers pictures that make me feel this happy. I’m quite content with this one as well for that matter. While Skógafoss keeps giving me moments like these, I’ll carry on coming back for more.
Sandwich Bags, Spray and Spectators: www.flickr.com/photos/126574513@N04/50702613408/in/album-...
The Watchers: www.flickr.com/photos/126574513@N04/52420303660/in/album-...
Eine der neuesten KLV-Züge bei TX Logistik ist seit dem Fahrplanwechsel im Dezember 2023 der "Rotterdamer", alias DGS 40559 aus Waalhaven Zuid nach Verona. Am 27. Januar konnte erfreulicherweise die grüne 193 253-2 "Shining Example For Truly Sustainable Transport" als Zuglok bei Fahlenbach fotografiert werden.
Since the timetable change in December 2023, one of the newest intermodal trains at TX Logistik is the "Rotterdamer", alias DGS 40559 from Waalhaven Zuid to Verona. On 27 January, the green 193 253-2 "Shining Example For Truly Sustainable Transport" was fortunately photographed near Fahlenbach hauling the train to Italy.
Topiary is the horticultural practice of training perennial plants by clipping the foliage and twigs of trees, shrubs and subshrubs to develop and maintain clearly defined shapes, This example was seen in the garden of The Charterhouse in Hull,
Another example of a cutting edge technology that is now obsolete, a dual band Blackberry that ran on a network that no longer exists.
Focus stack (21 images). Shot with single off-camera strobe (Godox AD200Pro/Godox XPro II L trigger), bare bulb, mounted on overhead boom above subject, bounced of what 32 inch white umbrella.
Als leuchtendes Beispiel für nachhaltigen Güterverkehr im Auftrage der Natur - so stellt sich die für TXLogistik fahrende 193 283 von ELL dar. Am 27. Januar 2024 bespannte sie den DGS 40559 von Waalhaven Zuid nach Verona Q.E., der sich gut und bunt beladen zeigte. Diesen Vectron bekommt man im Brenner-Verkehr recht selten zu sehen, nach meinen Beobachtungen kommt dieser eher vor KLV-Zügen zum Einsatz, die den Weg über das Rheintal und den Gotthard nehmen. Jedenfalls habe ich den Auslöser gerne betätigt, als der Zug bei Fahlenbach an mir vorbeifuhr.
ELL's 193 283, which operates for TXLogistik, is a shining example of sustainable freight transport on behalf of nature. On January 27, 2024, it hauled DGS 40559 from Waalhaven Zuid to Verona Q.E., which was well and colorfully loaded. This Vectron is rarely seen in Brenner traffic, according to my observations it is more likely to be used in front of intermodal trains that take the route via the Rhine Valley and the Gotthard. In any case, I was happy to press the shutter release when the train passed me at Fahlenbach.
Another example of sky replacement with Luminar 4. This time the bird was reasonably well exposed, but the sky was a pretty boring, featureless blue. I found it a nice complementary backdrop.
Fine example of Flemish Renaissance Revival architecture, Built 1896 and now a grade 11 listed building. It was built for the Benefit Shoe Company and is now the Premier Army Store, It is situated on Hulls Hessle Road,
Monogram is one of Robert Rauschenburg's finest examples of his "Combines",a hybrid of painting,sculpture,and assemblage.
Robert Rauschenburg (1925-2008)
Monogram (1955-1959)
-oil paper,fabric,printed reproductions, metal,wood,rubber,shoe-heel,tennis ball, on two conjoined canvases with oil on taxidermied Angora goat,with brass plaque and rubber tire on wood platform mounted on wood casters
This link explains the different meanings interpreted for the work.Sexual metaphor or a religious offering?An abstract or a joke?
www.phaidon.com/agenda/art/articles/2016/december/06/the-...
Perhaps the most magnificent, example of medieval Polish cathedral architecture, imbued inside with the rich artistic flair of Renaissance Europe.
An example of Photoshop AI Generative Fill capabilities using my image in my previous post: flic.kr/p/2oHXJMH
Not great, but pretty impressive considering the level of effort on my part. I'm impressed by the program's ability to match the mood, color, and overall composition vibe of the image.
The cathedral is one of the greatest existent examples of Norman architecture, it was begun in 1174 by William II of Sicily. In 1182 the church, dedicated to the Nativity of the Virgin Mary, was, by a bull of Pope Lucius III, elevated to the rank of a metropolitan cathedral as the seat of the diocese of Monreale, which was elevated to the Archdiocese of Monreale in 1183. Since 2015 it has been part of the Arab-Norman Palermo and the Cathedral Churches of Cefalù and Monreale UNESCO World Heritage Site.
.An example is the brick, six-story Atrium building on the northwest corner of St. Paul and Andrews streets. It was built in 1884 for Tichner and Jacobi tailors for $60,000. When the three top floors burst into flames 10 years later, attracting a throng of onlookers, three clothing manufacturers were located there.
Here you can see how early car manufacturers used lead (instead of Bondo) to fill in roof joints. Notice how sanding (file) marks are still present in the lead. More importantly, just how thick the early paint jobs had to be to cover these scratches up.
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Fuji 4791 duplicating film.
POTA developer, 12 Minutes.
This smaller Aster has a perfect example in front, the full bloom... FOR ALL THE LOVELY DETAIL, BEST View HERE On Black
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Why not view the set as a slide-show?
Also I often upload more than one image at the same time, I see a tendency to only view the last uploaded...
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(One good example of me losing out by not using some sort of grad filter. Towards the light which isn't good ).
Mellbreak at Crummock Water glows orange and mauve as the sun passes by the valley that holds Scale Force beyond the High Stile Range. This is from the Head of Buttermere. I can see where William Heaton Cooper got his fell colours from.!
This is the FAMOUS February 2008 ! Great for reflections.
An example done for my Book Review of Ink & Wash Wildflowers: 25 Watercolor & Ink Projects to Bring Native Flowers to Life.
Do you like the idea of painting flowers around you in just minutes? Then, this is the book for you. It is the third of Camilla Damsbo Brix books in this series of easy tutorials in painting loose and lovely flowers. A few flicks of the brush and a few swipes with the pen, and you’re done.
A great book for beginners, for those who want to loosen up in their work, and those who want to capture floral memories whenever they have the precious few moments to do so.
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Obidos is the finest example of a Portuguese walled town. Inhabited since the Paleolithic, the area was later invaded by Celts, Romans, Visigoths, and Moors. It was taken from the Moors by the first King of Portugal, Afonso Henriques, in 1148. It was presented to the Queen of Portugal on her wedding day, a tradition that began with Queen Urraca in 1214. Since then, Óbidos has often been patronized by the Queens of Portugal, giving rise to its informal title as Vila das Rainhas (town of the Queens).
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My favorite scene is when calm water reflects what is around it. I found a perfect example while hiking around Lake George in the Mammoth Lake Region of the Eastern Sierra Nevada.
That is Crystal Crag on top, a rock climbers destination. On the right you can see some early fall color.
Note the log lying under the crystal clear water.
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Belton House, located in a few miles north of Grantham in Lincolnshire, is a quintessential example of a late 17th-century country estate, built in the Carolean (Restoration) style. It was home to the Brownlow and Cust families for nearly 300 years.
The house was primarily built between 1685 and 1688 for "Young" Sir John Brownlow and his wife Alice, who inherited a vast fortune from a great-uncle. They chose a fashionable yet comparatively modest design, drawing inspiration from Roger Pratt's demolished Clarendon House in London, rather than a grand Baroque palace. The design is generally attributed to architect William Winde, with construction overseen by master mason William Stanton.
The Brownlow family were a dynasty of wealthy lawyers who began acquiring land in the area in the late 16th century. Successive generations, including the Cust family who later inherited the estate and were created Baron and then Earl Brownlow, made alterations to the interiors and gardens to reflect changing tastes and social status, though the external appearance remained largely unchanged.
Following the wars, the family faced mounting financial difficulties and death duties, common challenges for wealthy English families at the time. After attempts to keep the estate viable, including opening it to the public, the 7th Baron Brownlow donated the house and most of its contents to the National Trust in 1984.
[ CPP Project example 10.04 II ]
This is yet another image that's part of my experimental CPP double exposure photo project -- the second from my recent collaboration with LaDonna Chaos.
UPDATE: I should add some info about this photo. The experiment at the point of this composition was conducted by running the same roll of film through 2 cameras. That's essentially the CPP Project -- having 2 images randomly combined to see what we can come up with. The last public showing was subtitled "cultivating accidents in the camera." With this image, you get a panorama shot mixed w/ a regular format, along with misaligned frames, creating the odd lines (that give it an almost collage-like feel that I like). I enhanced the lines a bit real quickly in Photoshop. I'm not sure if it worked. The original had severe exposure problems, so I was just playing around trying to salvage something. :)
Let's see, you can read more about my CPP project here:
www.flickr.com/photos/trona/2607352/
And here is the first L.C. collaborative piece posted @ Flickr:
www.flickr.com/photos/trona/2909861/
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Now, for our leaders / it doesn't take that much / to arrive at real cooperation / just a reduction of your Ego.
(example from foundation that recycles material for use in counties with lower level of wellfare: portagora.eu/)
The Pleiades (also known as the Seven Sisters, the Little Hen, or by the acronym M45 in Charles Messier's catalog) is an open cluster visible in the constellation of Taurus. This cluster is quite close (440 light years) and has several stars visible to the naked eye. In urban environments, only four or five of the brightest stars can be seen, in a darker place even twelve. All the components are surrounded by light reflection nebulae, observable especially in long exposure photographs taken with telescopes of considerable size.
It is noteworthy that the stars of the Pleiades are really close to each other, have a common origin and are linked by gravity.
Given their distance, the stars visible between the Pleiades are much hotter than normal, and this is reflected in their color: they are blue or white giants; the cluster actually has hundreds of other stars, many of which are too far away and cold to be seen with the naked eye. The Pleiades are a young cluster, with an estimated age of about 100 million years and a predicted life of only another 250 million years, since the stars are too far apart.
Because of their brightness and proximity to each other, the brightest stars of the Pleiades have been known since ancient times: they are mentioned, for example, by Homer and Ptolemy. The Nebra disk, a bronze artifact from 1600 BC found in the summer of 1999 in Nebra, Germany, is one of the oldest known representations of the cosmos: in this disk the Pleiades are the third clearly distinguishable celestial object after the Sun and the Moon.
Since it was discovered that stars are celestial bodies similar to the Sun, it was hypothesized that some were somehow linked to each other. Thanks to the study of proper motion and the scientific determination of the distances of the stars, it became clear that the Pleiades are indeed gravitationally linked and that they have a common origin.
The Pleiades cluster is located north of the celestial equator, therefore in the Northern Hemisphere; its declination is about 24°N, so it is close enough to the celestial equator to be observable from all populated areas of the Earth, up to the Antarctic Circle. North of the Arctic Circle they appear circumpolar, while one degree north of the Tropic of Cancer they can be observed at the zenith. In the Northern Hemisphere the cluster dominates the evening sky from mid-autumn to early spring, in the Southern Hemisphere it is typical of the summer sky.
9 hours of shooting with a color camera, l-pro filter and apochromatic triplet
Another before-and-after example of my digital retouch work. This was the only photo that this person had of their mother with her brothers and sisters together as children. I restored it to a "like new" condition. In addition to a wonderful memory restored, the process of scanning and "digitizing" old photos gives you a backup if the original print is ever lost or ruined. Click on the "All Sizes" icon above to see this image at full resolution. See me at www.johnhavel.com/treesbydesign