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Highlight Towers - Munich - Germany
The Highlight Towers are also called "the northern gate", because the towers are located at the end of Highway Nr. 9 (Berlin - Munich).
The Highlight Towers are twin office towers located in the the Parkstadt Schwabing area of Munich. With a height of 126m resp. 113m they belong to the tallest buildings in Munich.
The towers are connected by two glass/steel bridges, a double bridge at the 9th/10th floor and a single bridge at the 20th floor. Design by Murphy/Jahn (Chicago, USA).
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- On The Way to here... Up Ahead You See The 4-Peak-Mountain-Tops filled with Snow... Route 87, AZ. -
As seen from the "Park" area of the Parkstadt Schwabing.
The Highlight Towers are twin office towers located in the the Parkstadt Schwabing area of Munich. With a height of 126m resp. 113m they belong to the tallest buildings in Munich.
The towers are connected by two glass/steel bridges, a double bridge at the 9th/10th floor and a single bridge at the 20th floor. Design by Murphy/Jahn (Chicago, USA).
© All Rights Reserved - you may not use this image in any form without my prior permission.
The highlight of the treetop path. An observation tower with a stainless steel slide.
www.baumwipfelpfade.de/schwarzwald/
Thank you for the inspiration to Karl Stanglahner with his photo Bad Wildbad, Baumwipfelpfadturm to pick out my somewhat older photo.
A Green heron feeding in the canal, along the tow path. This particular area is under a tree canopy, creating some great light effects. Wildwood lake, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
The new growth found on the ends of coniferous trees, is often a much lighter hue of green than its older sibling. Add a little highlight to that same branch and the color stands out even more.
It is always tough to choose a “favorite” when I look back on the year. The expected, and the unexpected, experiences from the the field are always fun to reflect on. The one that particularly stands out in my mind is this photo of the Apache Railway’s Alcos smoking it up rolling out of Snowflake, AZ. We lit out to go find them in the morning, tracked them back to snowflake, and then waited. And waited, and waited, and waited some more, for them to be done with their interchange work. There’s not a lot of heads up when they leave, so you really have to commit to setting up and hanging out. Thankfully, the longer we waited, the better the weather was getting, and it was peaceful sitting in the desert and waiting. After a while, we heard the distinctive horn and Alco growl. Not long after, they rolled around the corner in this gorgeous afternoon lighting smoking ’em up, and putting on a show befitting of their power. What a day, what a scene, what a memory.
shot with a fujifilm x-s10 and a sigma 150-600mm contemporary telephoto zoom lens, using a fringer ef-fx pro ii smart adapter
Peonies at the UC Botanical Garden. Right on schedule for Mother’s Day!
Peonies are important in Chinese herbal medicine. These are blooming in the university's Chinese Medicinal section.
botanicalgarden.berkeley.edu/collections/chinese-medicina...
Continuing my look back over the last year and posting some of the shots that didn't make it first time around. Part 4: Autumn
No Review of the year could be complete without yet another shot of the fabulous Red Backed Shrike that graced Newhaven for 12 days from 21 September. What an amazing bird, surely a feature in the 2016 highlights of every Sussex birdwatcher.
A selection of my favourite images from 2016 can be seen here
This Eurasian whimbrel (numenius phaeopus) was highlighted by a narrow shaft of sunshine from a mainly grey sky. The effect was to make the bird's plumage appear a lighter shade of brown. Photographed near Belle Mare, in Mauritius.
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Realizada en sillería de piedra caliza, en buen estado de conservación. Posee una bóveda única, con embocadura de doble rosca y estribos con aleta en rosca. Posee una imposta consituida por una hilada de sillares resaltados, y pretiles sobre rasante. La luz del arco, es de 6,8 m.
Destaca la cuidada labra y la homogeneidad de su fábrica de sillería, así como la integración en el entorno.
Existe una leyenda popular sobre el origen de este puente, según la cual fue construido por los caballeros de Isabel la Católica en una sola noche. La reina iba en campaña a la conquista de Baza y habiendo salido por la mañana de Quesada hizo noche en el paraje donde ahora se encuentra el puente. Como el río bajaba crecido por las lluvias de otoño y siendo imposible vadearlo, los caballeros del séquito de la reina construyeron durante esa noche este puente.
También se cuenta que a lo largo de esa noche, los caballeros herraron los caballos al revés para confundir el sentido de la marcha a los ememigos que venían persiguiendo a la Reina.
Made of limestone ashlar, in good condition. It has a single dome, with double threaded mouth and thread fin stirrups. It has an impost consituida a highlighted row of blocks, and parapets above ground. Light from the bow, is 6.8 m.
Stresses the careful styling and factory homogeneity of stalls as well as integration into the environment.
There is a popular legend about the origin of this bridge, under which was built by the Knights of Isabella in one night. The queen was in campaign to conquer Baza and having left the morning of Quesada became night in the place where the bridge now stands. As the river was swollen by the rains fall and being impossible to wade, the Knights of the suite of Queen built this bridge that night.
Also note that throughout the night, the Knights shod horses backwards to confuse the direction of travel to coming chasing ememigos Queen.
Shooting with the Fuji X I can imitate the Nikon photo very closely but chose to do what Fuji X does best: be creative. I started with an in camera processed JPEG image, Softened the highlights & shadows. then ran it through photoshop for a different look: this is the result
While Fuji will never replace Nikon, [but would like Nikon to be more like Fuji X]. It is a viable camera that is easy & fun to use and takes quality photos.
I shot this about an hour earlier than the original, so the light is a bit stronger, and had to compensate by under exposing by about 1 to 2 stops to bring highlights into about zone 6 /7. Then bring up the shadows & blacks in Lightroom.
I have given serious thought to trading in my Nikon gear for a Fuji XT4. WE will see.
Autumn in Melbourne is always beautiful, with many wonderful deciduous trees full of colour like these maple leaves, which are just starting to get a hint of the rich gold, orange and red tones they will soon have.
Melbourne has experienced a wonderful Indian summer this year, and as a result, not only are there still plenty of beautiful blooms about, but the Autumnal colours are starting to appear.