Time pieces at a store in christmas village, Bryant Park

There is another beautiful landscape that lies beneath the surface. A landscape that has designs and hypnotic curves that go on for miles. The flow of these canyons is a work of mother nature’s art. With the right light, the spectrum of colors come to life. You get to see the color transitions from dark to light around each corner, revealing another formation, another chamber, another sculpted design.

Oh my love for sand dunes. A subject that I’ve been photographing for some years now. My first visit to these dunes back in 2008 was overwhelming. The mesmerizing curves, the pristine untouched sand, and the hypnotic light and shadow play was something I had never seen before. The beauty was infinite, and ever since that spring day back in 2008, I made the visit to this area, every year since. For this particular scene, it took a few visits to get the right conditions. There was endless amounts of footprints 👣. But after a few months of waiting, the wind finally wipe the dunes free of footprints. So pristine, so clean, the endless curves and sharp spines of the dunes were back....only temporarily. I was just happy to see the this landscape as it was when I first visited the area 11 years ago.

From a film swap project with a dear friend.

Portra 160 we each exposed at ISO 320.

The Bloßstock is definetly one of the most famous in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains. Now it is 20 years ago since I was reaching its top. What a great memory!

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Nikon D7200; Tamron SP AF 70-300 mm f/4,0-5,6 Di VC USD

250 mm; f/7.1; 1/640 s; ISO 200

Awesome arch near the Ponte Vecchio in Florence, snapped at sunrise before anyone was around. Plus, I got a cool selfie with my tripod!

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Photo captured via Minolta MD Tele Rokkor-X 200mm F/4 Lens. Steptoe Butte State Park, a park within the Washington State Park system. Palouse Region within the Columbia Plateau Region. Whitman County, Washington. Early June 2018.

Exposure Time: 1/500 sec. * ISO Speed: ISO-125 * Aperture: F/8 * Bracketing: None * Color Temperature: 6050 K * Film Plug-In: Kodak Portra 160 VC

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Reception hall from one of the office buildings in Konepaja, Helsinki.

The amazing mesquite sand dunes inside Death Valley National Park. Happy Earth Day everyone!

I was really hoping for the sky to open up with wonderful colours during my sunrise shoots at Kiama earlier this year, however, it was not to be and I had a chance instead to play around with long exposures to catch some dramatic moods.

Shooting long exposures had another great benefit - I was able to look around during each shot and really feel the landscape and sea around me, learn the motion of the water and understand the nature of the waves and the incoming tide a little bit more.

That was a great experience in itself.

ISO 100 | f/11 | 180 sec | 16mm | Reverse GND Filter | 6 stop ND Filter

cool, cool, waters

My house is built on hallowed ground and land that was reclaimed from the sea. It suits the essence of me and calms my spirit to walk in my garden knowing that it was left for many years, an abandoned place until the house was built and the stony and sandy ground where nothing much grew except ancient plants; wild flowers that blew in on the wind. Then someone planted trees from all four corners of the earth and plants that should not have survived began to flourish as if the roots of these trees breathed new life into the earth. There have been only a few guardians of this magical place and I am honoured to be the current guardian. At first I tried to plant what I liked; tried to enforce my will on this holy place, but in time I realised something … you cannot force a garden to grow; to bend to your will. A garden evolves slowly over time of it's own accord mostly and we, as guardians, should allow it to guide us. In this way I have found peace and happiness here and I embrace the changes of my ever-evolving garden. I seldom buy anything new to plant. I wait for the winds; I wait for the seasons; I witness the changes and I grow and evolve as a person in much the same way as my garden does. It is a joy to anticipate each new season; each new wind; and to see what appears. There is always something unexpected appearing. Life is full of surprises; of serendipitous moments. I wonder sometimes about these old trees. I think whoever planted them was guided and perhaps the garden welcomed the dappled shade on what once was a desert. Certainly I feel myself sometimes directed to introduce a new species. Perhaps I am guided also by a hand that I cannot fathom. We are not meant to understand everything. If we allow ourselves to just be, we may find, without effort, how our path unfolds with relative ease. I have found this to be the case. All those years of struggle and now I can just let go … it really is that easy to be content.

p.s. I was compelled reluctantly to remove a Laburnum tree that I thought might be harmful to my cats. I had always wanted such a tree with it's beautiful yellow flowers … but in it's place a Forsythia grew with a profusion of yellow flowers. I did not plant it! Magic? Yes, I believe so! : 0)

“I like gardening. It’s a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself. “

– Alice Sebold

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IN ABANDONED PLACES - Raison d'Etre

Please enjoy the unique experience of this video.

Lieber Rolf, ich denke du wirst diesen Film zu schätzen wissen! : 0)

“We leave our footprints in a place to mingle with the echoes of all that went before; our heartbeats; our rhythm; the patterns of our lives.” - AP

I wander in the wilderness

my garden of delights

a jungle by the turquoise sea

a land so flat; the moon at night

shines down with silvery fingers

and touches the ground with magical spells

and come the breaking dawn of morning

all ills are banished and all is well

the dark and mysterious creatures

who loiter in the dusk

emerge in brilliant sunshine

with all-seeing eyes; an elephant tusk

protrudes and scythes the longest grasses

parts the meadow like the ancient sea

leaving behind a trail of crimson

flowers of sorrel and sweet harmony

reigns here as the King of the Jungle

seeks solace in the afternoon siesta

ignores the urban sounds outside

these walls; these trees; a back-firing Fiesta

alerts the songbirds from their idle rest

they flitter and flutter from tree to tree

and as I lie within the striped hammock

I swing and sing low to the sound of the breeze

a mist arises suddenly; springs up from the sea

settles a cloak; an air of mystery

around the shoulders of myself and the limbs

of the ancient trees as I sip my Pimms

I can barely keep my eyes from closing

the warmth of the air so cloying and deep

I find myself falling gently to the humming of bees

as I lapse now into a soundless sleep

I awake to find the blue sky black

lit by a billion diamonds or more

an infinite guide is laid out before me

the wisdom of ancient celestial stars of yore

some say when we see them

they have already died

long ago before our ancestors

what does this imply

do our eyes deceive us

or are we psychic or perhaps

we are more knowledgeable than we realise

all we need falls easily into our laps

but still we often ignore

the instincts that are given

override them; divide them

dilute them; we're driven

to only see clearly to the end of our noses

we fail to stop often to smell the scent of the roses

take stock; stand still

absorb the nature of all living things

for in this garden I discovered

nature brings happiness and happiness brings

peace of mind; plentiful bounty

the sweetest fruits of the earth

the love that will bind us

circumnavigate the world's girth

here I find every day all that I need

the flora; the fauna; all that set seed

and I've no desire to be anywhere else

as much as I desire to be here

in this garden full of Heaven

there is love; there is goodness that I hold dear

from the humblest of creatures

find the beauty in a fly

sing so loud like a blackbird

view the world through a child's eyes.

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My artwork is a blend of 4 of my photographs taken in my garden

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Colorful facade of the optical shop in Ikebukuro, Tokyo.

Perhaps the shopkeeper likes to do something foolish seriously.

Roughly speaking, more than 3000 sunglasses are displayed for the entire facade. This strange shop has become so famous that sightseeing buses sometimes stop by.

It’s a nice question to ask why this shop has so many glasses.

Management policy of the shop is to get a large quantity of glasses from bankrupt companies, or to buy the entire inventory from other shops to sell them at a bargain price.

Now glasses are too numerous to sell, I heard that part of reading glasses are donated to the needy people around the world.

If you are interested in the location, see the google map: 35°43'32.5"N 139°42'48.1"E

Grand Canyon

Infinite Waves

We are just about a month and a half away from my Death Valley workshop where we will also be making a side trip into the Eastern Sierras for one of the days. There are still 2 spots available for anyone interested!

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Ginza, Tokyo

Nov, 2013

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An above-the-ground gas line in Bellingham Bay, Washington State

Riserva Naturale Orientata delle Casse Di Espansione Del Fiume Secchia (Modena, Italia).

Natural Reserve, Secchia river high-water bed park (Modena, Emilia Romagna, Italy).

Created to regulate river flooding, the high-water bed quickly became a nature site of great interest. It covers approximately 200 hectares and is characterized by permanent pools of water of varying sizes which are interspersed with small islands and peninsulas which are periodical submerged. Here, a rich spontaneous vegetation quickly developed. Numerous animals are present and, in particular, various species of birds stop and nest here. The Secchia river flows by this high-water bed, its banks covered with a dense vegetation. The Reserve Area was founded to protect this environment at the heart of this park, but also to upgrade and reorganize the entire surrounding territory, including agricultural areas, sand and gravel pits, water sports and recreation areas, large communications infrastructures, buildings of historic-architectural interest and the areas containing wells for drinking water.

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Iceland, Route 1

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A journey upward, where each step leads to the unknown. The stairway stretches endlessly, vanishing into the shadows, a metaphor for the paths we choose, and the ones that remain unseen. The interplay of light and dark invites reflection on the nature of progress, both seen and unseen

Lit by hand in 4 seconds, with Kim Henry. This is created on the largest mirror of our planet, the Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia. I've never see the milky way so bright before. Even the Magellanic Clouds were super visible with the naked eye. Check out the behind-the-scenes video on youtube.com/ericpare

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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Sculpture by Robert Engman

I wish you all a wonderful 2017 with many new opportunities and a wide horizon. And of course good light!

This photo was taken in 2015 in Death Valley. I am not a starskape pro, and this one was challenging for me because there was absolutely no visible feature in the landscape to focus on, it was pitch black dark! I had to focus by taking picutres of the sky and judging on the camera display where the best spot was. Nothing new to some of you, I am sure, but a novel experience for me!

An older session I'm editing in quarantine.

In Explore: Apr 10, 2016 #132

Best position: #78

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"Capì che il nulla che cercava era il tutto, sorpreso in un istante di momentanea assenza"

City

A. Baricco

Sharp ravine look...!!"

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