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Dizengoff Tower is a brutalist residential high-rise building built in 1985 in Tel Aviv as an addition to Dizengoff Center shopping mall. Designed by Morechai Ben Horin, the tower is 116 m tall. The architect wanted to maximize the perimeter of the building and allow each apartment to have a view in two directions, hence the zig-zags of its facade.
Renamed - Maximizing capacity following the curves - conversion to B&W on my walk April 8, sculpted by the farmer 👍 and captured through my lens
Thank you for commenting, favoring and visiting me on this N°311 position in today's Explore celebrating patterns! (May 28, 2025) ... proud and happy to have been selected amongst all these other great photos today
Maximizing the tulips that my daughter gave to me yesterday.
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As far as I can tell, sea otters have a well-refined process for eating crabs: (1) eat the legs first, so it can't run away (2) snap off and eat the claws second, so they won't pinch your face (3) pop off the carapace to eat all the insides and (4) rinse and repeat with new crabs until naptime. Sea otter and kelp crab, Monterey, California.
A very unique design that I had never seen before, a dual face searchlight that has all of the heads at different levels, despite direction they face. Still displaying a clear indication for CSX Q328, the train hustles through Grand Ledge, MI. as they prepare to stop and work Ensel Yard in Lansing before continuing east.
Despite unexpected conditions in its southern abode, the Mourning Dove knew what to do to maximize the R-value of its down jacket in Webster, Texas.
Maximizing the tulips that my daughter gave to me yesterday.
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The greater a photographer’s awareness, the greater his ability to function more effectively and the greater his photograph’s potential to symbolize meaning :-)
Barbara Bullock-Wilson
HBW!! Hate Will Not Make Us Great! Resist the Despicable Authoritarian Orange Cockroach and his Cabinet of Stooges and Buffoons!
zinnias, sarah p duke gardens, duke university, durham, north carolina
Maximize The Trip. On January 20, 2022, Amtrak 100 (P42DC, 50th Anniversary, Midnight Blue) brought Amtrak Train 43 (Pennsylvanian)/Norfolk Southern Corp 07T across the Susquehanna River over the Rockville Bridge in Marysville, Pennsylvanian. Both AMTK 100 and 108 had been operating on this route that week, bringing a lot of photographers trackside. Amtrak has added its 50th Anniversary logo to 7 locomotives in its fleet. A visit to the Bridgeview Bed & Breakfast was a great venue to capture the scene.
Some of the most interesting things occur when I might think nothing is happening at all. The predawn and twilight hours in the desert are often the best shooting moments, but at the time in the moment, it feels like I'm actually preparing for the pinnacle to come. What's ironic about that is that I'm sitting on top of the pinnacle and don't even know it.
This is a story of lack of sleep, coupled with an ambition to maximize a short period of time in a spectacularly beautiful place. This night we caught sunset, and shot Astro. We pulled into camp with 3 hours until the wake up call, and I planned to cowboy camp. On the way to the bathroom a scorpion and spider with 10 legs the size of my hand was discovered which ruled out cowboy camping. The spider I could deal with, but the scorpion was small, and I know those are the worst kind. Coupled with my experience on the Pacific Crest Trail I was almost positive this was a bark scorpion, which is the most venomous scorpion in north america. It's venom causes severe pain for up to 72 hours, temporary dysfunction in area stung, convulsion, loss of breath, and the sensation of electrical jolts... I think not.
My tent is ultralight and has no mosquito netting, and I had left my bivy at home, so the only option was to empty out the Jeep and sleep in the back. This was quite a chore, but it was useful because we needed to organize the chaos that was our transport anyway. We rolled out of camp, and hiked to our destination in darkness, hoping for some great sunrise lighting. The sunrise was mild at best, but arrived early enough to capture the faint blue glow of light reflecting off the rocks as the looming sunrise mixed with night.
1997 John Deere 'Maximizer' 9400 walker combine harvester
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Nikon Nikkor 18-135mm 1:3.5-5.6 G ED-IF AF-S DX
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This Greater Yellowlegs was landing in the water at Waterbird Regional Preserve in Martinez, California.
Please hit the "L" key to maximize the image size.
This triptych was made from 3 images taken with:
Camera: OM-1 Mark II
Lens: OM 150-400 + MC-20 teleconverter
Focal Length: 800mm
Aperture: f/9.0
Shutter Speed: 1/2500s
ISO: 2500
I love these windows angled in such a way as to benefit from morning and evening sunlight. Located in Richmond Centre, BC.
This is one of the many rainbows which repeat year after year in Yosemite's waterfalls, as the sun returns to the same position each year. We have a portfolio of these, so we can return each year just in time to capture them.
There are multiple techniques that we can employ to maximize the color captured on the camera's sensor. At no point was any added saturation applied during post-processing. It's simply not necessary if you know how to capture the rainbow well in camera up front.
Excerpt from oakville.ca:
Tannery Hill Beacon: Phase 2 of the Oakville Harbour redevelopment includes a pedestrian observation platform with seating, a sculptural beacon, new and reconstructed walkways, picnic area, interpretive signs, new lighting, slope naturalization plantings and restoration.
The main focus of the redevelopment is the observation platform and sculptural beacon, which are located atop "Tannery Hill", a man-made landform constructed with fill material between 1960 and 1970. The intent of the design is to provide a landmark walkway and seating to facilitate views of Lake Ontario and the Oakville Harbour throughout the year during all weather conditions. The observation platform is overhanging the existing slope to exaggerate the vantage elevation at the top of the hill and to maximize views to the lake and Sixteen Mile Creek. The beacon is a representation of "land and water", integrating compass direction and patterning of sun reflections on water ripples.
When a turkey vulture spreads its wings in the "horaltic pose," it is primarily to warm its body on cold mornings, to dry its feathers after rain or a messy meal, and to expose feathers to sunlight to help control parasites like lice. Turkey vultures lower their body temperature at night to conserve energy and need to warm up to fly again, with the spread wings maximizing solar energy absorption.
Singaporian skyline from Garden the bay east, with the Marina bay sands on the left and the Flyer on the right.
It's in 3:2 but In reality it's 5 panos of 5 images to maximize resolution.
1 Pano for the sunset sky.
3 Pano for the high lights and bluehour.
1 more to have the wheel correctly lit and static.
After missing the first two days of Texans training camp before agreeing to a five-year, $14 million contract Saturday, outside linebacker Brian Cushing is eager to get on the practice field today with his new teammates.
Cushing, the first-round draft choice from Southern California, is getting $10.435 million in guaranteed money to become the starter on the strong side and help improve a defense that ranked 22nd last season, including 23rd against the run.
“I’m just relieved and excited to have this done,” Cushing said. “I’m ready to play football and help the team win.”
Cushing (6-3, 262) was in Los Angeles when agent Tom Condon reached the agreement with general manager Rick Smith and director of football administration Chris Olsen.
Cushing’s contract could be worth a maximum of $18 million over five years.
In the fifth year of his deal, there’s a clause that could earn him an additional $4 million in an escalator bonus.
Odds are that Cushing’s contract will be extended before he enters the fifth season in 2013.
Smith and Olsen will have all eight of their draft choices under contract when the Texans take the field for the third day of two-a-day drills at their Methodist Training Center.
“It’s very important to have him signed,” coach Gary Kubiak said. “Rick and Chris were up at 3 in the morning trying to get it done. They’ve done a good job.
“Brian’s two days behind now, but he didn’t miss anything we did in the offseason program, so that’s a good thing. He wanted to be here while we were working on the contract, but he couldn’t.”
Rookies who have signed with the Texans report a week early for conditioning and meetings before practicing for the first time with the veterans. Cushing wanted to report with the rookies.
He was working out at Reliant Stadium last week when the Texans had to explain league rules that forced him to leave.
Cushing took what turned out to be a quick trip back to Los Angeles. He returned to Houston on Saturday afternoon.
Texans coaches are excited to get him on the practice field.
“We’re going to put the pads on (Sunday morning), and I know he’s chomping at the bit to get out there,” Kubiak said.
After the Texans used the 15th pick in the first round on Cushing, they inserted him into the starting lineup. He impressed his coaches in the organized team activities and minicamp.
“We like his presence on the ball,” Kubiak said, meaning Cushing has a knack for finding the ball and making plays. “He’s playing over the tight end, and we’re going to ask him to do a great deal. We think he can handle it.
“Brian’s very athletic. He’s physical against the run. He can rush the passer. He can drop into coverage. We brought him here for a reason, and we’re going to put him to work real fast.”
Frank Bush, who is in his first season as defensive coordinator, has to make calls that maximize Cushing’s strengths. The faster Cushing learns, the quicker Bush plans to utilize all his talent.
“We’re going to try to take advantage of all his talent,” Bush said. “Because he’s such a talented kid, there are a lot of things we can do with him.”
The coaches say they think Cushing has everything it takes to become a star at his position.
“Brian can turn and run with the tight end,” Bush said. “He’s big and strong enough to strike them at the line of scrimmage and nullify some of their speed down the field, so we’re comfortable with him in coverage.
“His ability also gives us a chance to be aggressive toward the quarterback. He’s a big guy who’s shown he can get there.”
Ramadan Crescent Moon & Venus Almost Like Pakistan Flag Symbols Above Saint Petersburg & Tampa Bay Florida At Breathtaking Early Spring Dusk - IMRAN™
To get this stunning capture I took 4 separate iPhone 14 Pro Max photos to maximize the colors and detail. I merged them as a panorama even though it is just a square view.
If you know the Pakistani flag, it has a crescent moon next to a solo star. Obviously, that is not to scale compared to what we see in the sky. But on this night the new moon of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, and I believe Venus in the early night sky above it, combined in the right order to remind me of my motherland.
The molten gold and orange lava clouds flying across the horizon are typical magic of Tampa Bay sunsets silhouetting Saint Petersburg across from my blessed home in Apollo Beach, Florida. The deep-blue waters of not-that-deep Tampa Bay complete the contrasting effects of both words and colors. A moment of pure blessings and absolute bliss, of complete gratitude, and amazing grace.
© 2023 IMRAN™
The DJIA only lost 312.30 points today. But this song was still in my head all day.
When Black Friday comes
I'm gonna dig myself a hole
Gonna lay down in it 'til
I satisfy my soul
Gonna let the world pass by me
The Archbishop's gonna sanctify me
And if he don't come across
I'm gonna let it roll
When Black Friday comes
I'm gonna stake my claim
I'll guess I'll change my name
Gorgeous autumn colours and blue sky refelcted in the pond of the Japanese Garden at Lauriston Castle, near Edinburgh, Scotland to make an abstract pattern (almost like a stained glass window).
I needed to set the circular polarizer to maximize the reflections from the water.
I know I am going crazy for this minimalism when it comes to the maximum strength?
This stalk is less than 1 cm long and it has four drops on it i.e. two more than the last one. I was thinking it may not be as minimalistic as the last one? :o)
The meaning of minimalism is the meaninglessness and emptiness ….
Have a great Friday and great weekend! We will have rain through the days!
The hardest thing in photography is to create a simple image. – Anne Geddes
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By the 1650s, the line of battle had developed as a tactic that could take advantage of the broadside armament. This method became the heart of naval warfare during the Age of Sail, with navies adopting their strategies and tactics in order to get the most broadside-on fire. Cannon were mounted on multiple decks to maximize broadside effectiveness. Numbers and caliber differed somewhat with preferred tactics.
At this point they arrive at the maximum speed. It is the strongest braking point. Panning at slow shutter speed to maximize the sense of speed.
I couldn’t help myself – I had to edit another “classic” snowflake. This one taken with the tiny but mighty Lumix GX9! Tons of detail to explore in this one.
A trick I sometimes use to maximize the resolution of a snowflake is to magnify the crystal so much that I cut off the tip of one of the branches vertically to maximize the horizontal amount that the snowflake fills the frame. To recover this tip, I make sure that on a subsequent pass over the snowflake for focus stacking purposes, I shift the camera slightly to cover that tip, but losing the opposite one. That’s exactly what I did here. Only a few extra frames are needed to recover the missing information, but overall the snowflake has more detail to explore!
The magnification is achieved with the Canon MP-E 65mm macro lens via a Metabones adapter – no optics, just the ability to control the aperture which I generally leave fairly wide open. This was shot one stop down at F/4, ISO 200 and 1/160sec (the maximum flash sync speed for this camera) and illuminated with a K&F Concept KF-150 set to a manual exposure, probably 1/64th power. You don’t need a lot of light on a snowflake when you find that perfect angle that sends it all back to you as a reflection, like glare on a window.
This classic “stellar dendrite”-type snowflake is the one we’re likely most familiar with in popular culture, and it seems to find a nice balance, all tied together with the geometric center. You can see a slightly brighter hexagon in the center that is somewhat faded and obscured – this is a protruding element on the reverse side of the snowflake, in much the same way that Snowflake 63 in this series ( www.flickr.com/photos/donkom/47291006642/ ) showcased how the details of different sides of a snowflake are quite separate, I opted for this smoother surface side, even though I wouldn’t be able to see that hexagon shape more clearly. Call it an artistic choice: what side of a snowflake do you find most beautiful?
I’m really happy to say that this image was produced with a compact micro four thirds camera. I want this subject to be more approachable to people, as it definitely makes winter more tolerable to me! It’s funny though, with the extreme macro lens, ring flash, and external battery source (this season I’ve been using the Bolt P12 and loving it: www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1311109-REG/bolt_cbp_12c_c... ), the camera seems so small. All of the extra equipment is so much larger than the camera body, it almost feels unbalanced like a bigger body would be easier to handle in the field, but hey – you can’t argue with the results here!
For more snowflake photographic techniques, I wrote what many consider to be the best resource on the topic available: skycrystals.ca/product/sky-crystals-unraveling-the-myster... - there is still a few extra days of winter weather coming our way for you to make the most of!
Flamingos are very social birds; they live in colonies whose population can number in the thousands. These large colonies are believed to serve three purposes for the flamingos: avoiding predators, maximizing food intake, and using scarce suitable nesting sites more efficiently.[16] Before breeding, flamingo colonies split into breeding groups of between about 15 and 50 birds. Both males and females in these groups perform synchronized ritual displays.[17] The members of a group stand together and display to each other by stretching their necks upwards, then uttering calls while head-flagging, and then flapping their wings.[18] The displays do not seem to be directed towards an individual but instead occur randomly.[18] These displays stimulate "synchronous nesting" (see below) and help pair up those birds who do not already have mates.[17]
Flamingoes form strong pair bonds of one male and one female, although in larger colonies flamingos sometimes change mates, presumably because there are more mates to choose from).[19] Flamingo pairs establish and defend nesting territories. They locate a suitable spot on the mudflat to build a nest (the spot is usually chosen by the female).[18] It is during nest building that copulation usually occurs. Nest building is sometimes interrupted by another flamingo pair trying to commandeer the nesting site for their own use. Flamingos aggressively defend their nesting sites. Both the male and the female contribute to building the nest, and to defending the nest and egg.[citation needed]
After the chicks hatch, the only parental expense is feeding.[20] Both the male and the female feed their chicks with a kind of crop milk, produced in glands lining the whole of the upper digestive tract (not just the crop). Production is stimulated by a hormone called prolactin. The milk contains fat, protein, and red and white blood cells. (Pigeons and doves—Columbidae—also produce a crop milk (just in the glands lining the crop), which contains less fat and more protein than flamingo crop milk.)source wikipédia
Since the birth of our daughter one year ago my time trackside has been limited to a a few short hours in the month. With sunny skies finally in the forecast, I stole a couple of hours after work to intercept westbound A411 near Lamont Alberta. With a short train behind the single SD75I, A 411's crew will make it into Edmonton in good time, while I head for home after making the most out of the short time I had on this fall evening.
After not seeing the sun for at least a couple of weeks, I wasn't going to let frozen fingers keep me from capturing some nice sunrise images. I promise that this is the last sunrise photo for awhile :)
A coffee cup being used as an ashtray.
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Zuiko OM 35mm f/2.8 + Olympus OM-2sp : Kodak Tri-X 400 : Epson Perfection V850 Pro Photo Scanner.
Mobile phone cameras go along way towards making photography simple and easy, but as with any camera, there are a number of ways you can improve the quality of your results. Here are some of the steps I take with my iPhone 5S:
1. Control the exposure. Touch the part of the screen where you want the camera to sample it.
2. Leave HDR mode turned on. The small sensors in cell phone cameras have small pixels, so they don't gather a lot of light and don't operate well in low light. That reduces the dynamic range, of mobile phone cameras, the range of light that they can resolve detail in. In a single exposure you'll often end up with blown out white highlights or blackened shadows, but HDR mode takes multiple exposures and tries to bring detail from the lighter and darker exposures into a single image. If the single exposure works, by all means use it, but it's great to have the additional HDR result as a backup in case it handles shadows and highlights better.
3. Just like with film and DSLR photography, post-processing is important. For quick field editing and online sharing, try Google's excellent and free Snapseed app., which enables you to make critical adjustments to brightness, shadows and contrast, and you can post the results to a number of social media sites or for sites not yet supported, save the adjusted images to your iPhone's Camera Roll. For even more control once you get back to your computer, bring your iPhone images into Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and adjust them on a high resolution PC monitor, using even more features such as noise reduction which can help bring your image up to a printable quality. If you don't already have Lightroom, version 5.3 is available as a free trial.
Those are just some basic tips on getting a decent image, but the most important thing in your photography is your subject, and the composition you capture it with. So for even more photographic freedom and more compelling results, exercise as much control as possible over composition, as described in the rest of this post on my blog:
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