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Loch Clair at sunrise this morning was a wonderful place to be. The ever-stunning backdrop of Liathach was further enhanced by some great dawn light, colour and low cloud.
At the pinnacle point of Oia is the ruined castle which was the seat of the Argyri family under the Venetians and serves as a lookout point with a complete 360-degree view. It is also called Fort Londsa. One of the most recognisable buildings in the town is an old windmill, which often appears on postcards.
Oia. Santorini Island (Greece)
Over the past month or so the weather has been quite rubbish so a few glimpses of the sun are always appreciated.
I am off to Germany for Christmas to see family and friends. I hope everyone is having a nice break and hopefully there will be some better weather in store in January.
From Bert and me Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
The setting is the beach car park at Cley nature reserve. It is a great place to watch birds, and somebody's gone to the trouble of painting a bird on the hut. Today we've had the rain but not the light!
10.01.2016. -24°C.
Green-winged Teal (male) / Tavi (koiras)
It's a migratory bird and now it's here, in Finland. It migrates south in winter (in August from Finland).
PS. I've never seen it before here, even in summer.
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I've been putting up quite a few river, stream, and waterfall shots lately. So, I decided I should add this different kind of river.
This is a shot from the ever popular 12th Ave bridge in Seattle. I normally shoot from further over, but scooted over to get the oncoming I-90 traffic as well. I kinda like this new view. Well, new to me. I'm sure it's still been done a million times. :)
falconry display at an event in Hamburg called 'British Flair'
For more photos from the British Flair have a look at the set on facebook:
This is a merged image of 3 sets of HDR. Since the low fog changed rapidly and HDR can present its 3D effect. Lake Kawaguchi Bridge is showing in the fog.
拍攝富士山雲海時，發現HDR比較能呈現雲海立體的感覺，所以拍攝了三組各七張的相片，組合成這張全景，下面若隱若現的是河口湖大橋。
~天下茶屋前, 河口湖, 山梨県, 日本
Lake Kawaguji, Japan
- ISO 100, F16, 1/80~1/2 sec(3 sets of 7 shots HDR), 70 mm
- Canon 5D MarkIII with EF 16-35mm f/2.8 L lens
- Sunrise @ 6.16am (112º) / Shot @ 6.45am
- Visibility 0.21km @ 7.00am/ Humidity 100% @6.50am
- Temperature 11.1ºC @ 6.50am
Lesson learned while making this image. I'm from Wyoming and was visiting Austin, Tx on a business trip. Notably, the climate is different from what I am used to. The humidity and heat was most unpleasant. So, as I slept in my hotel room the night before at a comfortable air conditioned 68 degrees/low humidity and then arrived at this location at 6 am with 90 degrees/high humidty, I discovered a new challenge in photography (for me that is). My camera being well insulated in my Mindgear pack was also a cool dry 68'ish degrees. As soon as I took it out of the bag and changed out lenses, everything including my sensor was fogged up. It was at least 20 minutes before I was confident the moisture haze had lifted from my images. An unexpected weather issue to say the least.
De Bahama pijlstaart leeft in de zoete en brakke wetlands van Zuid-Amerika.
Hij eet er kleine waterdieren, algen en waterplanten.
Hoewel mannetje en vrouwtje op het eerste gezicht sterk op elkaar lijken, kun je ook enkele verschillen zien.
Het mannetje is iets groter en wat feller gekleurd.
Ook is zijn staart iets langer.
"Hij maakt een piepend geluid, terwijl zij kwaakt"
Kasteelpark
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Mont Vélan (3,727 m alt.) and the Glacier of Valsorey Canton of Valais. Switzerland. No. DSC_3395.
Mont Vélan
Mont Vélan as seen from Grand Combin
Elevation3,727 m (12,228 ft)
Prominence621 m (2,037 ft)[1]
Parent peakGrand Combin
Location
Mont Vélan is located in Alps Mont VélanMont Vélan
Location in the Alps
LocationValais, Switzerland
Aosta Valley, Italy
RangePennine Alps
Coordinates45°53′35″N 7°15′03.8″ECoordinates: 45°53′35″N 7°15′03.8″E
Climbing
First ascentAugust 31, 1779 by Laurent Joseph Murith
Mont Vélan is a mountain of the Pennine Alps, located on the border between Switzerland and Italy. At 3,727, metres Mont Vélan is the highest summit lying between the Great St Bernard Pass and Grand Combin. Two large glaciers cover its northern flanks: Glacier de Tseudet (west) and Glacier de Valsoray (east). The Glacier de Proz, lying on the west side, was traversed during the first ascent.
The mountain is located south of Bourg-Saint-Pierre in the canton of Valais and north of Etroubles in the Aosta Valley. The Petit Vélan is a lower summit in the same massif lying north to the main summit.
Le mont Vélan est un sommet des Alpes pennines (3 727 mètres) sur la frontière entre l'Italie (Vallée d'Aoste) et la Suisse (canton du Valais). Il se trouve à proximité du col du Grand-Saint-Bernard, le long de la ligne de partage des eaux entre le Valpelline et la vallée du Grand-Saint-Bernard.
Der Mont Vélan ist ein 3731 m hoher Berg in den westlichen Walliser Alpen. Über den Hauptgipfel verläuft die Grenze zwischen der Schweiz und Italien. Damit liegt er in der italienischen Provinz Aosta und dem Schweizer Kanton Wallis.
Als Nebengipfel umfasst der Berg sodann die nördlich und nordöstlich in der Schweiz liegenden Pétit Vélan, 3202 m, und Mont de la Gouille, 3212 m, sowie im Weiteren auf dem Grenzgrat westlich zum Großen St. Bernhard die Les Rayons de la Madelaine, 3051 m und östlich zum Col de Valsoray (in Richtung des Grand Combin (4314 m)) den Mont Cordine, 3329 m. Nach Süden fällt der Mont Vélan über 1000 m mit einer steilen Wand ab, im Norden ist er durch den Valsoreygletscher und den Tseudetgletscher vergletschert.
the wonderful Skjelfjord on the Lofoten islands, where we found many abandoned things like a small wharf, a decaying pier, a sunken boat and an overall sense of time just passing by outside this fjord.
On a Sunday afternoon, just on the edge of getting sucked into an afternoon of NFL TV, I asked my wife, Cindy, if she would like to go for a drive. First she said yes, then she said no. Then she said yes.
We took a trip to William B. Bankhead National Forest to see how the color was coming along and to see if we could see or smell any evidence of the "Big Tree" Wildfire in the Sipsey Wilderness Area of the Bankhead Forest (we could not).
Just outside the National Forest we stopped at country store where I went in and got us two "handmade" Ham Sandwiches on white bread with mayo and lettuce & tomato. Some pringles and Milo's Sweet Tea helped round out the redneck lunch.
Then on into the forest where we visited the Sipsey Wilderness Recreation Area and Brushy Lake Recreation Area.
This particular photo is from the Brushy Lake Recreation Area.
Explored: #53 on Tuesday, October 27, 2015
At the last minute, my friends Paul, Mike, Miguel, and I raced to the inner valley of California to escape the haze that was fast accumulating. We decided to settle in at this decommissioned nuclear power plant outside of Lodi. To get to it we had to walk through what Mike called the Geiger Family vineyard. Radioactive grapes were not a concern however as the sky cleared and the moon went into full eclipse.
Zuiko Digital ED - 12-60mm - f/2.8-4 - SWD
Deeply hidden in the Belgium forest lays this abandoned manor. Utterly vandalized and ruined. Resting together with it's private land including a lake with a little island in the middle of it. The manor counted 4 fireplaces and a brick kiln outside. A basement as big as the house itself including a triple garage, 2 bathrooms and at least 7 bedrooms. Upstairs many parts of the floor had gone unstable and were inaccessible because parts were missing. Once a very special place, Now but a ruin.
From this summer captured in the area around Tranøy lighthouse. Rapid changes of weather and no midnight sun this night. Though there were moments when you thought the sun would shine through. 4 captures blended for the blurred effect.
Après avoir acheté mon nouveau objectif canon EF-100 2.8 macro, je l'ai essayé dans mon jardin et voici le résultat. A vous d'en juger.
yup...can't complain...this is how it is looking outside this weekend here in miami..80 F , nice and sunny and smells like spring..ok i won't tease you guys much...getting back to my last post and question about Mac or PC... here is what i found...70% of my friends who gave their valuable suggestion already have a Mac... other 20% are considering to buy it and only 10% are actually happy with their PCs.. .one of my friend has 5 Macs in his house..some said they have recently switched and enjoying it. another friend is looking to buy a Mac right now as we speak, i know she will get it by the end of the day...she is very determined :)
Everything outside was basically frozen during the ice storm a couple weeks ago. While taking some macro of the ice drips, the sound of ice covered trees cracking and shackling above gave me an intense nervousness.
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This is made up of three shots. Photos merged and blended on Photoshop CS6.
f/9 1/30 sec ISO 360 18mm
The Susitna River and some of the Alaskan Range are pictured, visible from the Denali Highway. I drove the full 135 miles of this gravel road, taking countless stops for photos. Before the Parks Highway was completed in the early 1970s, the Denali Highway was the only road access to Denali National Park. I expected the road to be very lightly travelled from what I'd read. However this being the opening of moose & caribou hunting season, pretty much every one of the numerous pullovers were occupied by hunters. The road was actually very busy... Driving the Denali Highway had been on my bucket list ever since my fist visit to Alaska 3 years ago. I'm so glad I did it this time! Despite being mostly gravel, conditions of this road weren't nearly as bad as reviews I'd read on trip forums led me to believe. A few areas had pot holes, but I've been on much more primitive forest roads than this. The views and the Autumn colors were amazing. No wildlife spotting the whole way this day due to the hunting, but the landscapes were spectacular.
Wishing everyone a great Sunday and thanks for the views!
This squirrel was so intent on his meal of acorns that he didn't seem to mind me crouching down beside him and snapping away!
Thanks for all the lovely comments and favs on yesterday's Chinese Lantern shot. They are very much appreciated.
Un'effimera illusione.
Sorriderò prima di andare ...
... basterà un soffio e sparirò...
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Dubai Marina, da Dubai "The Palm".
due foto e pp
The winter is not going to last forever... Ice slowly moves away... But it's still cold and windy outside. I hardly look out for something poetic in winter for so long.
The view reminded me the song, that I love:
It's getting cold outside! Here's a warm thought! What are your favorite beaches? This one is near Grand Haven, Michigan; and it is probably my favorite, or second to Ludington, Michigan's extensive beaches!
View of two Thai monks sitting on the base of the Vat Pha That Luang, Vientiane, Laos.
That Luang, or the Great Stupa, in Vientiane is a national symbol - its image is on Laos’ official seal - and also the most sacred monument in the country.
From the outside That Luang looks more like a fortress surrounded by high walls an it features two temples with the main stupa, the top of which is covered with gold leaf.
King Setthathirath built this great sacred stupa in 1566. Its central structure is 45 meters tall and echoes the curving lines of an elongated lotus. The original stupa was said to contain relics of Lord Buddha.
The beautiful architecture is in Lao style, influenced by Buddhist beliefs-these include finely-gilded, red-lacquer doors, pointed lesser stupas, many Buddha images and beautiful flower and animal images.....