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The image was captured in a nearby wildlife park. The animals live free in a big area and can be feeded by the visitors - which can be useful for us photographers ;)
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From the series: One Day in Amsterdam
Been busy lately and will be even more, but managed to upload this shot... checking out the new flickr looks now... still can't get used to it cus I 'm searching around the page every time I wanna do someting and it started with how to add a comment. I'm feeling lost, but I also like it...
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There's something really nice about sitting around a bonfire listening to this kind of music on a summer night ;o))
Ain't No Sunshine - Daryl Hall with Finger Eleven
Exploring light. Steuben house. Dutch architecture. Served as military headquarters throughout much of the American Revolution. New Bridge Landing was the site of a pivotal bridge crossing the Hackensack River, where General George Washington led his troops in retreat from British forces at the Battle of Fort Lee in November 1776. Taking advantage of golden hour frontlight which gave a nice mood to the space
One of the nicest locations in Ireland for me. Dingle feels so traditionally Irish because it's part of a Gaeltacht, a region where the government subsidizes the survival of the Irish language and culture. While English is everywhere, the signs, chitchat, and songs come in Gaelic. Even the local preschool boasts that it's "All Gaelic." So I think it has something with my country, Catalonia, trying to defend our culture and language being proud of our roots.
Some say front light is to harsh but under the right conditions we can use it to our best advantage.
Some people wouldn't think of turning around at sunrise, with your back to it but try it you'll be surprised.
Looking down on Wetton Village as the sun rises behind me
I was positioned side onto the wind and it was causing shake on the lens, so I had to change the settings just to get that little bit faster shutter speed, all of the lower shutter speed shots are not as sharp as this one, even if it does have a shallower depth of field.
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Portrait of Madline with backlight. I love the lens flares in the picture. Post: Photoshop Lightroom
This is a scale model of the Aston Martin DB11. It has the folowing features:
- Independent suspension on all wheels
- Steering with functional steeringwheel and HoG in the back
- Swiveling frontlights (right lamp turns right when steering right, left light turns left when steering left)
- LED lights front and rear
- Sequential gearbox operated with paddles next to the steering wheel and HoG in the rear. It is an 8D+N+R gearbox (ie eight speeds forward, one reverse and one neutral).
- Highly detailed V12 fake engine
- Adjustable front chairs (forward, backward and tilting backrest)
- Aerobrake in the back coupled to the gearbox
- Opening doors, bonnet and tail
Instructions are available at
Placing the D300 on the Mercedes dashboard with a wideangle lens, gave this result after a loooong exposure.
Geotaging posed a problem since it was taken over a long distance :-)
The Farol de Santa Marta (in English: "Santa Marta Lighthouse") and two palm trees at the tip of the cove of Santa Marta, Cascais, Portugal
Some background information:
The Santa Marta Lighthouse is situated to the south of the centre of Cascais, at the tip of the rocky cove of Santa Marta and on the estuary of the River Tagus. It provides a light for the Cascais Bay and for the town's new marina. The lighthouse is a quadrangular masonry tower covered with white tiles, with blue horizontal stripes and a red lantern. It was completed in 1867 on the grounds of the Santa Marta Fort, which now houses a lighthouse museum.
A report from 1897 stated that the lighthouse had a fixed red light, given by a dioptric lens directed by a catoptric apparatus. This light was replaced by a 5th-order, fixed-light catadioptric system in 1908. In 1936 the tower was increased in height by 8 meters, due to new buildings in the vicinity that impeded the existing light. In 1949 a foghorn system was installed featuring three seconds of sound followed by seven seconds of silence.
The lamp was electrified in 1953, and an automatic light source backup system was also installed, operated by acetylene incandescence. In 1964, a generator was installed thus negating the need for acetylene. Between 1980 and 1981 work was carried out on the complete automation of the lighthouse, which was included in the telecontrol network of the approaches of the Port of Lisbon, and in 2000 a new monitoring system was added. In 2007, the lighthouse museum was opened, providing general information on the history of Portuguese lighthouses, but also focuing on the Santa Marta lighthouse through the ages.
Cascais is a city in the Lisbon District of Portugal, located about 25 km (16 miles) to the west of Lisbon at the Atlantic Ocean on the Estoril Coast. The municipality has a total of 214,158 inhabitants. Cascais is an important seaside resort. Its marina hosts events such as the America's Cup and the town of Estoril, part of the Cascais municipality, hosts conferences such as the Horasis Global Meeting.
Since the 1870s, Cascais has been a popular tourist destination, after King Luís I of Portugal and the Portuguese royal family made the seaside town their residence every September, thus also attracting members of the Portuguese nobility, who established a summer community there. Cascais is known for the many members of royalty who have lived there, including King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, King Juan Carlos I of Spain, and King Umberto II of Italy. The municipality is one of the wealthiest in both Portugal and the Iberian Peninsula. It has one of the most expensive real estate markets and one of the highest costs of living in the country.
Roman interventions in the area occurred with the settlements of Freiria and Casais Velhos. In Roman times, Cascais was the location of a salting factory for fish. The Visigoths and later, Muslim settlers also left their marks. Several individuals, who were buried there, were verified as being of Berber origin.
The development of Cascais began in the 12th century, when it was administratively subordinate to the town of Sintra, located to the north. In its humble beginnings, Cascais depended on the products of the sea and land, but by the 13th century, its fish production was also supplying the nearby city of Lisbon. The toponym "Cascais" appears to derive from this period. It’s a plural derivation of "cascal", which signified a "mountain of shells", referring to the abundant volume of marine mollusks harvested from the coastal waters. During the 14th century, the population spread outside the massive walls of its castle.
In 1364, Cascais received town privelege from King Peter I and hence, became independent from Sintra. In 1370, King Ferdinand donated both castle and town to Gomes Lourenço de Avelar to administer them as a seigneurial fiefdom. These privileges were then passed on to his successors, among them João das Regras and the Counts of Monsanto, and later the Marquess of Cascais. Meanwhile, despite its conquest and sack by Castilian forces in 1373, and the blockade of its port in 1382 and 1384, Cascais continued to grow beyond its walls.
From the Middle Ages onwards, Cascais depended on fishing, maritime commerce, and agriculture, producing wine, olive oil, cereals, and fruits. Due to its location at the mouth of the Tagus estuary, it was also seen as a strategic post in the defence of Lisbon. In 1488, King John II built a small fortress in the town, situated by the sea. However, the town's medieval castle was inadequate to repel invasions, and in 1580, Spanish troops led by the Duque of Alba took Cascais during the conflict that ended with the union of the Portuguese and Spanish crowns.
At the end of the 16th century, the fortress was enlarged by King Philip I (who also held the title King Philip II of Spain), turning it into a typical Renaissance citadel with the characteristic flat profile and star-shaped floorplan. Following the Portuguese restoration in 1640, a dozen bulwarks and redoubts were constructed to considerably reinforce the strategic defences of the coast. In 1755, the Great Lisbon Earthquake destroyed a large portion of Cascais. During the invasion of Portugal by Napoleonic troops in 1807, the citadel of Cascais was occupied by the French.
In 1870, King Luís I decided to make Cascais his summer residence. Until 1908, the Portuguese royal family from the House of Braganza-Saxe-Coburg and Gotha spent parts of the summer in Cascais, turning the quiet seaside community into a cosmopolitan address. But Cascais also benefited from the construction of a better road to Sintra, a bullfight ring, and a sports club. Subsequently, many noble families built impressive mansions in an eclectic style commonly referred to as "summer architecture". Another important step in the development of the area was made in the first half of the 20th century with the building of a casino in the neighbouring town of Estoril.
Due to Portugal's neutrality in World War II and the town's elegance and royal past, Cascais became home to many of the exiled royal families of Europe, including those of Spain (House of Bourbon), Italy (House of Savoy), Hungary and Bulgaria. Nowadays, Cascais and its surroundings are still a popular vacation spot for the Portuguese as well as for the international jet set and regular foreign tourists, all of them drawn by the city’s fine beaches. Futhermore, the town hosts many international events, including sailing and surfing.