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Stormy Lake Erie
Just a simple "bird in flight" image made during the gale-force storm that hit the Buffalo area a couple weeks ago. I did a mono & color version and like both well enough to publish. Cheers!
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The Seattle waterfront and harbor are abuzz with activity on any given day. This series is just a small glimpse of all that "busyness".
I chose to use textures and emphasized color to capture the details...
This is one of my favorites because of all the windows. They look out at some of the loveliest views in any American city - the Puget Sound and the Olympic Mountains...
The delicate fronds of this plant, and the purple of the thistles behind it, remind us that even the prickly things (including people) can have beauty.
Salzgitter-Ringelheim
Schloss Ringelheim
ist ein ehemaliges Kloster aus dem 10. Jahrhundert, das 1803 säkularisiert wurde. Die barocke Klosterkirche St. Abdon und Sennen ist bekannt für ihre wertvolle Orgel und das Kruzifix aus der Werkstatt des Bischofs Bernward von Hildesheim. Wahrscheinlich in der Regierungszeit des ostfränkischen Königs Heinrich I. und Mathildes von Ringelheim 919–936, wurde ein königliches Jungfrauenstift an der Innerste errichtet, möglicherweise auch erst 940 unter Otto I. durch Graf Immat aus dem Geschlecht der Immedinger. 1152 wurde die Abtei in ein Benediktinerkloster für Männer umgewandelt und dem Bistum Hildesheim unterstellt. 1523–1641 braunschweigisch und damit protestantisch, wurde das Kloster 1803 säkularisiert und ging in den Besitz des preußischen Feldmarschalls von der Schulenburg-Kehnert über.
Schlossmühle
Friedrich von der Decken kaufte 1817 das Gut Ringelheim und baute es zu einem Herrensitz um. Das ehemalige Konventsgebäude, dessen Neubau auf das beginnende 18. Jahrhundert zurückgeht, wurde zum heutigen Schloss und erhielt eine klassizistische Fassade. Der Bibliotheksflügel östlich davon wurde abgerissen, ebenso der Kreuzgang zwischen dem Konventsgebäude und der Kirche.
Lungenheilstätte
Schloss Ringelheim wurde 1942 samt Park an die Landesversicherungsanstalt Braunschweig verpachtet und von dieser als Lungenheilstätte genutzt. Später befand sich im Schloss eine Fachabteilung des Niedersächsischen Landeskrankenhauses Königslutter. Ende der 1990er Jahre zogen die Schlossbewohner ins Ortsinnere um. Es haben sich seitdem mehrere Investoren für das Schloss interessiert, darunter eine Baubetreuungsgesellschaft, eine Musikakademie sowie ein Investor, der für wohlhabende Senioren eine luxuriöse Residenz schaffen wollte. Das Schloss wurde 2002 an einen privaten Investor verkauft und blieb seitdem weitgehend ungenutzt. Bis heute (2017) ist über die weitere Zukunft des Schlosses noch nicht entschieden.
Park
1848 ließ Adolphus Graf von der Decken auf dem Gelände der alten Fischteiche der Mönche den heutigen Schlosspark als englischen Landschaftsgarten anlegen. Etwa 21,7 Hektar groß (110 Hektar mit umgebenden Grünanlagen), wird er von einem verzweigten Seesystem durchzogen, das von mehreren Brücken überquert wird, z. B. der romantischen Sandsteinbrücke mit Blick auf das Schloss (Foto). Den Park betritt man durch ein vasenbekröntes Tor am Westeingang. Unweit des Schlosses befindet sich eine künstliche Ruine.
Ferner ließ von der Decken auf einer Insel einen Obelisken errichten. Abseits der Wege, entlang des Sees, geht der Park nach Osten hin in ein kleines Waldstückchen über. Zwischen Park und Wald und Innerste schließen die Sportstätten der Ringelheimer Vereine an die Grünanlagen an.
Working on an image for framing in our dining room. It has to be blue, can't be birds or critters, and it needs to be happy.
This is one of the options, using the same base image as I posted yesterday.
This little tree sits in a brutal location on the shores of Lake Ontario. It is continually battered by waves, and winter ice, but has survived.
It has lost a limb since I first started photographing it, but it remains a monument to tenacity.
Seagulls are constantly on the prowl for food. This fellow is checking me out as I approached... looking for dinner.
I've posted shots of these three trees at Bronte Harbour before taken during the changing seasons.
This is a quick shot taken with my phone camera and post processed in Lightroom and Google's Nik Collection.
When the waters of the marina go still, the reflections are intriguing.
... for a Happy Blue Christmas Monday !
Chrysanthemum, still blooming in our front garden, Frankfurt-Nordend
I took this photo during the 1st Annual St. Pete Vintage Summer Bash at the Hollander Hotel in downtown St Petersburg.
Ruff Waters 531 - launch
Again, playing a bit with the "rules."
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The polished, tortured rock at Kerling, Dritvíkurbarð, Snaefellsnes, Iceland. September 2017.
The beach - Djúpalónssandur - is comprised solely of black, basalt shingle that gets flung at the rocks in any kind of sea. Both shingle and country rock are well rounded and polished.
Since posting I've been informed that the pebbles are known as the black lava pearls of Djúpalón and are protected by law and cannot be carried away!
A misty drizzly day. Perfect. The second frame from this position - slightly different framing and wave action.
Fuji X-T2, XF14/2.8, 7 secs at f/9.0, ISO 400
Like crystalline diamonds flung across the bright sky
the spray flew as the jockey made his mount fly.
A fantail pulled in new directions
from a boat sent into the heavens.
- a fragment
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I couldn't quite decide if this photo should be black and white or its original colors. At first I thought it would be perfect for b&w. And it actually looks very good in b&w. But I finally opted for color since the wall actually had this gritty texture and feel which does come across in this version.
Berrington Hall is a country house located about 3 miles north of Leominster, Herefordshire, England. During the 20th century it was the seat of the Cawley family. It is a neoclassical country house which was designed by Henry Holland in 1778-81 for Thomas Harley. The house has been in the care of the National Trust since 1957. Wikipedia
"A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?" - Khalil Gibran
Contemplating a break from the heat in Puerto Rico.
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This shot was right around dusk when it wasn't pitch dark yet but the sky had that dark blue, almost violet hue. Barcelona is so pretty with so many plazas, fountains, trees and interesting architecture that there is a great potential shot in every corner.
Kudos to the Sony a6000 which did a marvelous job at 3200 ISO but I still had to work a good amount in post edit to get to this result. After adjusting the basics with Lightroom, I had to go to Photoshop to remove unwanted objects including a very prominent pedestrian on the bottom right corner of the shot.
I used Nik Collection Dfine to further reduce high ISO noise and Color Efex Pro to improve contrast and detail. But the overall look, feel and color balance is pretty much the same as the original RAW image.
Quel que clicher du coucher de soleil de cette superbe soirée, il en reste quatre.
Le terrain récréatif de la Grève Morency
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Mount Santubong shrouded in cloud in the distant along the banks of Sungai Santubong River. Jungle kisses the river bank the full length of this peninsula.
Santubong, Nr Kuching. Borneo. Malaysia
Malarrifsvítí Lighthouse - AKA Lóndrangar.
The light is right at the southernmost side of the western end of Snæfellsnes Peninsula. The tower stands about 20m in height and replaced the first (built in 1917) around 1947.
The station takes its name from the abandoned farm of Malarrif.
We had been stooging around the foreshore - another smooth pebble beach called Sandvík - having lunch when the sun broke through the clag and lit up the lighthouse for only a few moments. A lucky break!
Fuji X-Pro2, XF55-200/3.5-4.8 R, 1/950th sec at f/8.0, ISO 250.
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Striding out of her warm embrace
I embrace the world before me.
The night obscures both time and place
But I know ther is much to see.
- a fragment
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Just love these odd shapes, broken and beaten by the waves, slowly turning into parts and pieces of the islands that they protect.
Technical Info
D800E with 24-70 f/2.8 lens
13 stops and a 3 stop soft grad of Formatt-Hitech ProStop IRND filters
Processed with Silver Efex Pro 2 and Adobe Photoshop CC
Grateful for the early morning colours in the sky, holding the promises of a new day.
For the My Gratitude Journal group challenge with We're Here.
Day 131-365
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