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Just a beautiful day in Florida! This shot taken with my cell phone, no filters, no editing! This is exactly how beautiful it was!
The water was extra high. I talked to a few of the state park rangers for a bit, they said the water level was so high because it was high tide + King tide + Full Moon. But it made for a beautiful scene!
Hydrangea is a common name for the genus Hydrangea from the Hydrangeaceae family. It mainly concerns evergreen and deciduous shrubs and climbing shrubs and a single tree. Together involves nearly 100 species growing in America and in China and Japan.
The crop is usually a striking inflorescence. Some species bloom with large, pyramidal panicle, the other with a flattened screen or a more globular inflorescence with many sterile, sterile florets. Aimed to attract the insects which then take care of the nectar in the fertile, fertile flowers in the middle of the inflorescence.
The most famous is the Garden hydrangea Hydrangea macrophylla. The many cultivars have pink, white, red or even (purple) blue inflorescences. The rise is the Hydrangea arborescens 'Annabelle', a cultivar with huge, spherical composite inflorescences, also known as snowball.
The plant is named after a woman, but it is not known with certainty which. It is often referred to Hortense de Beauharnais, daughter of Empress Joséphine de Beauharnais France, but who was not yet born when the crop around 1771. This name was provided by the botanist Philibert Commerson. It is suspected that the said Hortense was really Hortense de Nassau, daughter of Charles Henry Nicolaus Otto, Prince of Nassau-Siegen, who has taken part in an expedition around the world.
Is it to play in? Is someone going somewhere? I want to go! I think I will hide back here and watch. www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=1474324182792231
Blizzard is clearly not your ordinary, run-of-the-mill Rock Dove. She/he attached him/herself to our local flock about a year or so ago and has been a regular ever since. The really strange thing is that Blizzard has never, not even once, flown down from our house roof to feed at our feeders with the rest of the flock. Not sure what Blizzard lives on but it's certainly isn't our bird feed! The early morning sun provided the nice warm white to Blizzards feathers. I see no leg band—which adds some mystery to where he/she came from as clearly he's not a wild bird (and check out those nice feathered feet!).
Years ago I was friends with a fellow who raced pigeons and occasionally he would get calls from people who found one of his birds at their home (all the birds have bands identifying their owners with contact information). They would call him up and ask what they should do with the bird and his answer was always "Eat it!" Once the shock wore off a bit he would explain that these are homing racing birds and the bird they had never made it home—it was useless as a racing bird so they might as well keep it as a pet (or supper) since he had no use for it.
This is for all you people who think Brighton just as a stony beach. On the ultra low tides there can be a hell of a lot of sand!
Checkout more images of Brighton swimming club on my website here. I also have big set of Brighton Swimming club photos in this Flickr set.
Taken with the new Samsung Galaxy NX. Which is like a cross between a DSLR and tablet (it runs Android). Read my review of the Samsung Galaxy NX to find out more. You can also see photos I've taken with the Galaxy NX in this Flickr album.
Processed with VSCO for Lightroom. I love Lightroom, in fact I am a long time user and written several tutorials on it's use check them on on my blog here.
Ice fog and clouds rolling down Athabasca Glacier. This was a very cold day.
I've been away from Flickr, and -to a large extent- from photography for a while. Good to be back!
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Coode Island is a former island at the convergence of the Yarra and Maribyrnong Rivers, 4 km west of central Melbourne, Australia. The island was formed by the excavation of the Coode Canal in 1887, and became connected to the mainland in the 1930s. Today the low-lying land is part of the Port of Melbourne, and is used as the site of Swanson and Appleton Docks and their associated container storage and rail yards, as well as a number of chemical storage facilities.
Coode Island isn't really an island, but it was once the site of a major industrial fire in August 1991 that caused chaos around Melbourne for several days.
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One of many ongoing approaches, where I move through the world as a harvester of images stumbling, strolling, lurching, equal parts accidental, and intentional. My concerns circumnavigate around questions that resist easy answers: time as texture, presence as performance, possibility as glitch. I trace the contours of decay and growth, hope and entropy, searching for the quiet collisions where meaning might emerge. Each image is less a document than a provocation an invitation to reconsider what we 'see', and what we ignore.
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This is the last picture from the photowalk downtown. Took this one outside of Fifth Avenue place downtown that has a few little, albeit expensive shops; I've never venture in, but it just looked so lively inside compared to that of the gloomy sky!
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Judy hasn't been around lately for some health issues and I miss her a lot.. her cheerful spirit fills my stream everyday with sweet comments and her beautiful photos are such an inspiration..
I'm praying for you my sweet friend.. we all are!
My prayers also goes to Riena whose house was effected by a terrible flood that hit Malaysia few days ago.. Her cheerful spirit is definately missed around here.. be safe my friend and come back soon..
lets pray for both of them..
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Fall is my most favorite season, I am still trying to figure out how to capture the natural beauty through my camera. I am trying every year to do better. You will be able to tell me how am I doing. Currently I will be posting fall leaves with bokeh. Hope you will enjoy them as much as I loved capturing them.
Only flowers can bring positive emotions now, when it's snowing outside, when everything's so dark.....
The mood of sadness inspired by the song from the past:
- i've come to realize it'll never be the same, ever.
This is the last upload for today. I'm posting too many pictures a day; and it's getting annoying, i know. This picture has so much meaning, it basically symoblizes what's going on in my life right now. I'm so sick and tired of waiting for something that is never going to happen. I'm tired of waiting around for a miracle, you make me think that miracles aren't even real. Thanks. So from now on i'll just wait until you realize that what's done is done. If you want to start over, great. If you don't, see ya.
Love always,
Chantel Tilly Baggley
PS - I gotta' stop with all the vintage/soft photos. I'm so addicted.
My name is Carey and besides Photography my passion is music.
I am a singer/songwriter and if you enjoy my photos I would love hear what you think of my music.
If you go to www.Jango.com , an internet radio site,and put in Carey Newton as the artist you can listen to some of my songs.
I also have a free download of the song Enchanted Mountain at
www.cdbaby.com/cd/careynewton
Can also be found on iTunes
Pose is Del May Group Gift
Here I was trying to create those powder paint effects by using cloud brushes.... Still a raw idea.
Here is another July sunrise at Lake Wassookeag in the Central Maine Highlands. (image m1a3398) Please also visit: acadiamagic.com.
NOTE: All images are Copyrighted by Greg A. Hartford. No rights to use are given or implied to the viewer. All rights of ownership and use remain with the copyright owner.
"This is patrol twenty-one, we need an Evac pronto! We've got mortar fire hitting everywhere and a group of Vietcong hell-bent on killing us!"
"Squad leader Crowe, please repeat what you just said, you broke off."
"I REPEAT, WE NEED AN EVAC OR WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE."
"Alright, we gotcha that time Lieutenant Crowe. Evac on the way"
For my MOC-off with [Renegade].
Seen here: www.flickr.com/groups/1959373@N22/
Also for the BAF 'Nam contest.
PS is a dream. Live yours Large.
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Hi there everyone!
Varun has come over from kota and is one of the rare flickr friends that I have met in real life. We had loads of fun together and while discussing what PS could do to a shot, we made this.
I feel this is kinda inspired from this image from Matt Hansen that I saw an year ago. Though I liked his image much better than this. He is a genius. :) I hope you like this, Matt.
Its amazing how Photoshop can make you realise your vision of photography and reach whatever point you want from any start.
And I hope you all like this too.. Thanks for soooo much love on my previous uploads. I'm overwhelmed and it went a long way in inpiring me for creating something like this.
Loads of love,
2k
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What I had for starting with this pic is in the first comment. Yes, just that. :)
I used some of my other pics to create elements that weren't hand drawn in this shot, created custom reflection and everything else.
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This waterfall is located just west of Lauterbrunnen in the Bernese Highlands, south of Interlaken. The waterfall drops 297m from a hanging valley that ends in overhanging cliffs above the Weisse Lütschine.
The stream, on reaching the verge of the rocky walls of the valley, forms a cascade so high that it is almost lost in spray before it reaches the level of the valley. After rain, and early in the season (as seen above) when fed by melting snow, Staubbach Falls is very striking. The force of the stream above the fall at such times is sufficient to carry the water clear of the precipice, and the whole mass descends in a condition of liquid dust, between spray and cloud, that sways to-and-fro with the gentlest breeze. In a dry summer, when the supply of water is much reduced, the effect is comparatively insignificant.
The building in the foreground, in the village of Lauterbrunnen, would appear to be apartments. I cannot find it on that the street view element of that well-known online mapping tool - replaced in the 30+ years since then...?
But it is 52 degrees raining, and Brrr outside. Good day to stay in and fiddle around with flickr. lol.
From my archives.
All comments, faves, constructive criticism and suggestions are always welcome. Thank you!
Love is not a thing to understand.
Love is not a thing to feel.
Love is not a thing to give and receive.
Love is a thing only to become
And eternally be.
My nephew
“Love is like swallowing hot chocolate before it has cooled off. It takes you by surprise at first, but keeps you warm for a long time.”
I'm running out of witty titles with all the uploading. Which is kind of too bad since this is rather purdy.
"Who is this irresistible creature who has an insatiable love for the dead?"
Living Dead Girl!
"What are you thinking about?
What are you thinking about?"
"The same thing you are"
Rage in the cage
And piss upon the stage
There's only one sure way
To bring the giant down
Defunct the strings
Of cemetery things
With one flat foot
On the devil's wing
Crawl on me
Sink into me
Die for me
Living Dead Girl
Crawl on me
Sink into me
Die for me
Living Dead Girl
"What are you thinking about?
What are you thinking about?"
"The same thing you are"
Raping the geek
And hustling the freak
Like a hunchback juice
On a sentimental noose
Operation filth
They love to love the wealth
Of an SS whore
Making scary sounds
Crawl on me
Sink into me
Die for me
Living Dead Girl
Crawl on me
Sink into me
Die for me
Living Dead Girl
"What are you thinking about?"
Psyclone jack
Hallucinating hack
Thinks that Donna Reed
Eats dollar bills
Goldfoot's machine
Creates another fiend
So beautiful
They make you kill
Crawl on me
Sink into me
Die for me
Living Dead Girl
Crawl on me
Sink into me
Die for me
Living Dead Girl
Blood on her skin
Dripping with sin
Do it again
Living Dead Girl
Blood on her skin
Dripping with sin
Do it again
Living Dead Girl
~Rob Zombie
Song: Living Dead Girl
There is beauty in all things that grow on earth. Even the wild grass is alight in splendid golden light as the sun sets earlier on the horizon. Autumn has arrived, and winds of change come. We wish for more peaceful days for everyone, and all people.
“It is only with true love and compassion that we can begin to mend what is broken in the world. It is these two blessed things that can begin to heal all broken hearts.”
― Steve Maraboli
This photo is for sale in my #instaprints gallery at e-franzetta.instaprints.com
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A rare picture of maxxxi taking a photo with her new mobile phone taken by me with my new mobile!!
It was father day and the weather was beautiful so I popped up to my dads allotment to try out my new camera phone on dads lovely veg……… there’s a small area put to one side for mum to grow flowers…there I found these amazing seed heads next to some panes of cloche or greenhouse glass. I was trying to capture the multiple refracted reflection of the seeds in the glass ……didn‘t realise till I uploaded to my computer that I‘d captured myself too !!! ……oh well never mind!
maxxxi.
“love is of all passions the strongest,
for it attacks simultaneously the head,
the heart and the senses.”
~ lao tzu
"Love is the flower you've got to let grow." - John Lennon
Since I didn't find time to take pictures of our beautiful lilies this year, I thought that this image from last year is worth sharing. Everytime I upload pictures from our garden it reminds me of my mum who passed away two years ago at the beginning of August. And even though one of the most important people in my life disappeared, the love she gave us does not seem to have disappeared. It seems like it has been planted in another special person, where it has grown more and more in both of us and I hope that it will grow on forever :)
Most of them are gas and dust clouds, but this is a rare capture of an elusive oil-type nebula - I was doing some mount tracking tests on Sirius a few days ago and didn't bother taking off, or cleaning, the UV filter I use to keep the thing from getting damaged when I crawl through bushes.
Single 120s shot on an iOptron SkyGuider Pro mount that finally works right now that I took a screwdriver to it, Canon 800D at ISO 800, Canon 400mm f5.6 lens at f6.3, 10bux no-name filter I touched as I was putting the camera on the mount. Processed in PixInsight as follows:
***Linear processing
*Debayer
*DBE
*PCC
*Denoise using Jon Rista's method (jonrista.com/the-astrophotographers-guide/pixinsights/eff...) and the EZDenoise script
***Nonlinear
*Initial stretch: EZSoftStretch
**Denoising:
*ACDNR denoise - chrominance only, lightness mask 2 wavelet layers, mids 0.4 shadows 0.2 highs 0.8. Stdev 4 iterations 6 structure 5
*EZDenoise - TGV str 5 edge protection -3, MMT default
**Starless/stars processing:
* split with starnet in starless + stars, split looks super clean so we will process these separately
**Starless:
* LHE kernel 64 contrast limit 1.5, 25% mix with original
* curves: s-shaped contrast in RGB/K, sat boost
* histogram: shadows 0.1
* denoise: for a mask, extract luminance, make it only cover Sirius and the flare. Then apply MMT with EzDenoise settings, on chrominance only
**Stars:
* SNCR green
* boost saturation heavily
* star reduction, Adam Block method implemented by EZSuite, using own luminance as mask
* curves contrast and sat boost
* Merge
* MMT sharpen layers 2-6 (biases 0.05 0.025 0.025 0.012 0.005), 0.2 mix with original
Final tweaking of nebula colors and extra denoising in Darktable
Was raining in my heart
Falling deep inside of me
Drowning in my soul
This silence rushes over me
I am breath against this fire
And I will not turn away
I'm waiting for time to carry me
Like a tempest to the sea
Standing strong
Watching over
Love will keep me believing
Thru the dark...can you hear me calling
Holding on when I'm dreaming
Love is all...Love is all
Thundering on high
Love was all I knew before I fell
And now the shots of man
Are echoing inside myself
I am breath against this fire
And I will not turn away
I'm waiting for time to carry me
Like a tempest to the sea
Standing strong
Watching over
~from Love Is All / Yanni~
Please listen (here) if you have time - Vann Johnson's performance is fantastic.