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Looking Glass Falls, definitely one of the most magnificent and popular falls in NC, is located within the Pisgah National Forest. If you want to photograph it in summer, you better get there early or the place will be overrun with swimmers. By 10:30 a.m. there were a couple dozen people swimming in the plunge pool. As I was leaving I wanted to get a shot of the stairs leading down to a view of the falls but it was hopeless.
April 24, 2015 on our trip to the blipmeet at Wanaka, Central Otago in New Zealand. www.polaroidblipfoto.com/browse/me
Our 2rd morning in Cromwell. We woke to heavy fog and went for a walk along Lake Dunstan before going to Wanaka.
On our way to Wanaka we called in and had a look around the The Lazy Dog Restaurant & Cellar Door. It was too early to taste wines.
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Canary Wharf, London, UK. Construction Site of the new Crossrail Station, due to open in 2018. Six stories high, the station is built in an old dock, surrounded by water. If you could lay Docklands' most prominant building - One Canada Square - on its side it would fit in this sation - it's huge!
Looking up at the ceiling in the Rotunda at the Peninsula School Of Art, www.peninsulaartschool.com/ in Fish Creek, Wisconsin.
Staring straight up the trunk of a Birch tree as the clouds float by.
We aren't known for our cloudscapes, being mostly sunny and dry or foggy and cold, but today was a really pretty day.
52 in 2021 Challenge - #48. Look Up
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Something has definitely caught this bird's eye as he looks upwards and scans the skies.
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Looking west from the slopes of Mount Chief Frank.
Taken on a trip to some peaks in the northwest end of the Beaufort Range: Mount Chief Frank, Tsable Mountain, and Mount Stubbs.
Looking up at the Ardnamurchan Lighthouse which stands proud on the most Westerly point of mainland UK.
Minuscule in size and enormous in beauty, the Drosera (Sundew) knocked my breath away, when I peered at it through my lens. I shut my eyes for a few minutes, visualized some frames and then began to shoot.. An unforgettable experience!
I have no idea how many times I've rested at this bench and never noticed the two bent trees behind me. And in case you are wondering if they are Native American trail markers, they are far too young for that. Maple Grove Forest Preserve
Quick-Look Hill-shaded Colour Relief Image of 2014 0.50m LIDAR Composite Digital Terrain Model (DSM).
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Looking up to the stars at night, the giant masts of the Maltese Falcon.
Such an incredible integration of technology and design in this carbon fiber masterpiece, the largest and fastest single-hull megayacht in the world. When it sails, the enormous boat tilts like a racing boat, dipping the lower railing into the sea. It is quite dramatic, and everything onboard has to be secured from falling over.
WIRED called it the “the most daring advance in sailing technology in 150 years. The overall look is sleek, metallic, and ultramodern, almost foreboding. When Darth Vader builds his own intergalactic yacht, it will look like this.
The genius — and risk — of the rigging is its use of freestanding masts that rotate to adjust sail trim and tack the boat. There are practically no external ropes or wires, no traditional rigging of any sort to brace the spars or control the nearly 26,000 square feet of sail. The 15 sails deploy at the push of a button, rolling out from inside each hollow mast along recessed tracks on stationary horizontal yardarms. When Dijkstra's drawings first came in, the CEO of Perini Navi, the Italian company that built the ship, muttered, "Whatever that is, it's not going to sail." Each mast is secured to the hull by two huge steel bearings. The three assemblies — mast, bearings, motors, and fittings — each weigh well over 30 tons. To measure the stress on the masts, a fiber-optic network is embedded in the layers of carbon-fiber laminate. These 0.01-inch-diameter cables contain sensors that relay real-time data about the structural health of the masts to a graphic display on the bridge. Seventy-five sealed motors, 60 for unfurling and 15 for furling, are used to manage the sails.”
You can see all that on the video I took. And here are all of my photos here on flickr.
Here's my video of them in action.