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Isaac my grandson exploring the rocks at Niarbyl.
Sorry to say they are all on the way back to their home in Edinburgh. The two weeks have flown!
The Casual Concours
Palm Springs Charity Car Show - Great Autos of Yesteryear
October 15, 2011
Palm Springs, CA
Flickr Explore 10/16/2011
Modelo: Jessica Gómez
Make up: Irene Serrano
Pelquería: Irene Serrano
... Estilismo: Jessica Gómez
Fotografía y edición: Irene Serrano
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No, these are not my photos. I popped into Explore yesterday for some inspiration and benchmarks to guide me what is considered 'interesting' or generally, good photography - and this is what I found. These are shots from the first 3 pages I browsed (I didn't have to dig deep to catch the trend). The esteemed editorial team of Flickr (or what many believe is their super-intelligent computer algorithm) shows us the way to go. This is creative, original, artistically and technically exemplary and we should all learn: to be among the very best, you need to capture lo-fi images of Asian teenagers, or higher quality photos of... puppies and kittens. Occasionally, the unopened box of your new gadget is also top-class art. Lesson learned - I'm now out to capture my next masterpiece!
N.B. All copyright of the esteemed authors is totally respected and their works have been reproduced only once within Flickr for educational purposes and to spread the word how good they are. No changes have been made to any of the originals other than reducing size to fit into the space (and to prevent piracy by malicious art thieves). No money has been made in the process, but if any (even one) of the copyright owners asks me, I will remove the entire collage.
Uodate: Proof that it's not a machine algorithm but a human editorial crew (Yahoo / Flickr employees or external hackers, doesn't matter) - and they have a sense of humour! THIS composite image WAS in Explore for a while on the day I uploaded it - now, that's what I call sarcasm! :) ))
A Flying Flamingo - @ Pulicat Lake Bird Sanctuary - Andhra Pradesh, India.
IN FLICKR EXPLORE ON 10-02-2014.
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Pulicat lake bird sanctuary is a saline backwater lake lying along the T.N.-A.P coast; part extending to Chengalpattu district of T.N. It has an area of 481 sq.KM and it is the 2nd largest brackish water lagoon in India after Chilka lake in Orissa. The area on the TN side is 153.67 sq.km.
The Pulicat sanctuary is drained by Arni river while the Buckingham canal brings in the city’s drainage water. At the southern end is an opening on to Bay of Bengal through a shallow mouth of 200 m in width. The rest of the lake is closed by a sand bar running parallel to the Bay of Bengal in the form of the Sriharikota island.
The sanctuary has an area of 321 Sq. KM with 108 sq.KM of National Park area.
It lies within 11o 30’ N to 11o 42’ N and 76o 30’ E to 76o 45’ E.
Rainfall ranges from 800 - 2000mm. Temperature varies from 14o C to 33o C.
Altitude ranges from 100’ MSL to 1200’ MSL.
The wetlands eco system are considered as among the richest areas of bio diversity. Pulicat, by virtue of the mixing of fresh water with sea water is found to be an ideal habitat for diverse life-forms. 160 species of fish, 25 species of polychaete worms, 12 species of prawn, 19 species of mollusk and 100 speceis of birds are well documented apart from a number of other aquatic flora and fauna.
Among the most spectacular is the flamingo-a tall gaunt, white-coloured bird with a touch of pink on the wings, pink beak and legs, seen feeding in shallow water. The squat, large-billed grey pelican with gular pouch and a number of ducks are commonly seen. Flocks of sea gulls and terns circling in the sky or bobbing up and down on the water are an added attraction at pulicat. Besides, there are a number of waterside birds and waders such as curlews, stilts, plovers, sand pipers, lapwings, redshank. Egrets, herons, kites etc. are some other birds found here. The lake is also home to crabs, clams, mussels, oysters, snails, fish worms, insects, spiders, sponges, anemone, prawns, plankton and so on including rare endemic species like gilled leech, an unidentified bloodred fish, etc., Rapid siltation has caused loss of bio diversity. It is seen that mangrove opllen is found on Sriharikota Island indicating their existence some years back. Loss of mangroves may be one of the resons hastening siltation, reducing biodiversity and hence depriving fisherfolk of their livelihood.
Source : www.forests.tn.nic.in/wildbiodiversity/bs_plbs.html
Revisited.
a new little lego moc. wanted to keep it simple and use just a some pieces and a minifig and a little lego creature.
Yay .. for the very first time I've been featured on Flickr explore :)
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Moree-bound Explorer at Narrabri. The little plaque explains why the bridge is still yellow
- it appears to be a paint trial - started in the '70s.
EXPLORERS editorial for Wearethepeople
Models: Tutta & Mirka
Style: Oona Heleena
MUAH: Jannica Stelander
Thanks to GLO Hotel Art
I've got to give Mary credit for taking this photo (I merely processed and posted it). This is looking out a kitchen window at the farm on a sunny, winter morning.
Bi, Elemental bismuth.
Of interest to hobbyists are the pseudocubic "hopper" crystals that are always present on the laboratory produced specimens, they are not seen in but only the rarest of natural crystals. Hopper crystals are a unique crystallographic curiosity Just the edges extend outward from the center of the crystal leaving hollow stairstep faces between these edges. The hopper crystals form due to the disparity of growth rates between the crystal edges and the crystal faces.
My friend Michael Naimark is exploring new ideas for virtual reality experiences, in collaboration with Google and other researchers. To discuss this work, we got together with two other colleagues, Steve Gano and Jim McKee -- with whom we worked at the Apple Multimedia Lab in the eighties, pushing the envelope on related questions.
We started with a tour of the historic Sentinel Building in North Beach, home of American Zoetrope -- where Francis Coppola worked on many cinematic masterpieces like The Godfather and Apocalypse Now. We checked out the underground screening room and sound mixing room where some of that work took place, then headed upstairs to Michael and Jim’s studios, for a wonderful conversation about the new VR frontier.
Michael and his colleagues are researching how people are represented in virtual reality. Their first experiment at Google’s “Big Chairs” Park led to some helpful guidelines on how to film people for VR, by using different camera angles and distances.
They’re also investigating ‘hyper-images’ that resemble a group of people, but that are shot at different times and composited together to create both ‘credible’ and ‘incredible’ pictures. To enable more experiments like these, Michael is developing ‘IMU VR’, a new type of camera that could make it easier for communities to tell their stories in VR. More on this later.
It was great to reconnect with my colleagues and brainstorm these ideas together. It felt like the good old days, and the creative juices were flowing all over again ...
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