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Tourists and locals:
It can be all too easy to go from tourist to victim.
Take care, be sensible and don't advertise wealth. Not advertising wealth may seem odd to some of us, but remember there are many who can't even dream of a foreign holiday.
Organised gangs operate in some areas; so don't wear that new "Rolex" for a stroll down the "wild side of town".
At the point of life threatening conflict, just give them what they want. They assume you are covered by holiday insurance and you probably are (medical cover may be no consolation if you end up in a hospital bed for your holiday).
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I chose this format because I wanted to exclude surrounding buildings and focus on the interaction between the top of the tower and the clouds. Stratus clouds are essentially the same thing as fog, except the cloud base lies a few hundred meters above ground level.
Canon 6d
16-35 2.8L II at 35
f/8, ISO 100
1/320
It’s not recommended to touch wild animals but in this case we had to rescue the little guy from the cat… and make sure he would take off flying again.
2016-04-14 1116-CR2-L1O2
I went to the fair on Thursday night with a couple things on my mind. One was getting the movement of the rides/lights and the other was getting in some street/people photography. There wasn't as many people there as i had wished but then again I was not fighting the crowds. I kept standing by this vender cart trying to get the shot I wanted, as the girl was on to me and my photo taking. But I stuck around as I liked the light and the elements of what was going to be in the shot.
I am really starting to enjoy this type of photography as there is so much to learn about street photography and I know I need to get better at it, That's the fun of it, try, try, try.
Enjoying the evening sun and spending peaceful time after dinner, this is vixen mother red fox and one of her young kits.
Combination of 15 liter tank, nitrox and relaxed diving rules imposed by S.M.Y. Ondina helped me to enjoy one of the best 20 minutes underwater I ever had - everyone in the group surfaced after dive near manta cleaning station, I was only one remaining and enjoyed really close interaction with one black and one white mantas, swimming together with them just less then half meter apart - I was trying to get in front of manta for frontal shot, but it was not letting me, by increasing speed to match mine and to stay close. It was great fun. Typically if many people are underwater simultaneously mantas are really shy and don't want to play, and divers try to keep low profile not to scary off mantas. This time I had luxury to be in the water just by myself for extended period of time, and was allowed by these giants to swim together, not just to sit on the floor.
In addition to that it was fist time I saw black mantas - they are more difficult to photoghraph due to lack of contrast white belly provides, but nether less are very magnificent animals.
This is color version of the photo.
Work in progress - in collaboration with another artist to themes of: Abstract, Creative Source, Flow of Energies, Magic of Blue ~
monoprint and batik on habotai silk
Auf der Austellung: "The Concept of Lines" in den Deichtorhallen in Hamburg - Haus der Photographie. Eine sehr interessante und sehenswerte Ausstellung, die eigene Sichtweisen erweitern kann.
Okay took me a couple of tries. This one is not SOOC. I had to lighten and desaturate the blues in the water and saturate and lighten the yellows in the skies. I also brought out the shadows in the rocks quite a bit. Thanks to everyone at Life thru the Lenz our discussions and interactions have had me take a few extra minutes to review my cropping choices , framing and contrast choices. I think that has helped me make better images ...
I went to visit the exhibition of the works of Noke Yuitza ... beautiful ... but I did not resist and I put myself as part of his work.
(exhibition at the La Maison d'Aneli land)
Besides the rose-ringed parakeet (Psittacula krameri) this bigger but similar species of parakeets has become resident in Cologne for some years now. Their numbers seem to increase and they can be found in parks and cemetries quiet easy.
As one man who I met that day said, everyone who visits the wood gravitates towards the stream and this day was no exception.
Paths run either side, so sometimes I'm not even aware that someone's there until I look up from what I'm doing.
Given that they probably don't often see a man there in his wellies doing strange things with rocks, I guess it does make them (and their dogs) curious.
This particular work, one heavy upright stone balanced point down in the stream bed with a rock arch to the bank and a simple arrangement of 10 or so other stones balanced on their ends around it got quite a bit of attention.
One man asked "what are you doing man?"
"Playing" I replied.
Three woman were a little grumpy that what were once stepping stones were now upright, but mostly people were very complimentary and politely asked if they could take photos.
One man told me proudly of his work with numerology and a young couple congratulated me on my work, the woman saying that she was going to post images of it all over social media that night. I'd moved downstream by that point and was working on another balance.
The late afternoon sunshine was a nice touch, particularly on these very short days.
~ alignments ~ (thanks to my nephew Dylan for the song choice)
Size 3734 × 4667 DSC_8338
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Balancing rocks in public places is sometimes a challenge ... but an important lesson in keeping focused even if there distractions.
Here my friend and I were approached by four young boys who became fascinated by what we were doing and eagerly started passing rocks to us to work with.
They seemed to like my singing too "We're busy doin' nothin'
Workin' the whole day through
Tryin' to find lots of things not to do ....."
NGC 3718, also called ARP 214, is a galaxy located approximately 52 million light years from Earth in the constellation Ursa Major and has a diameter of about 110,000 light years. It is either a lenticular or spiral galaxy.
NGC 3718 has a warped, s-shape. This may be due to gravitational interaction between it and NGC 3729, another spiral galaxy located 150,000 light-years away.
NGC 3718 is a member of the Ursa Major Cluster.
To the right of NGC 3718 is the remarkable Hickson Group 56. The Hickson Group 56 is made up of five interacting galaxies and is more than 400 million light years away.
Detail about equipment:
TS PHOTON 8" 1000mm f5
EQ6 PRO belt modded
ZWO ASI 1600MM PRO
ZWO ASI 120mini
ZWO EFW
Ts 80mm Guidescope 600mm
PegasusAstro Ultimate Powerbox V2
one of the two first conceptual shots I have created with an absence of people in the frame, although there is a sense that they are present. Using the theme 'Collection' in a more dramatic and dark approach.
“Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.”
― Langston Hughes