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Needed a monochrome for week 5 of my weekly challenge this scene was almost one when I captured it! Just tweaked it a bit with Topaz Adjust 5 using the Black Rose preset. It was taken just outside of Dalby looking south west. The main headland is Bradda Head with the Calf of Man in the background.
Explore : Highest position: 164 on Saturday, February 2, 2013.
Thanks for your interest, comments and favs they are all appreciated.
I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow, the million moving shapes and cul-de-sacs of shadow. There was shadow in bureau drawers and closets and suitcases, and shadow under houses and trees and stones, and shadow at the back of people's eyes and smiles, and shadow, miles and miles and miles of it, on the night side of the earth.
Sylvia Plath.
my camera is practically broken.
my mother and I are trying to find somebody to fix it ASAP.
this is nothing.
i'm not really around anymore.
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El uno / The one
El Tao engendra el Uno,
el Uno engendra el dos,
el dos engendra el tres.
El tres engendra todos los seres.
Todos los seres llevan la sombra a sus espaldas
y la luz en los brazos.
Y el aliento de la nada resuelve la armonía.
Fragmento del Tao Te Ching (XLII)
The way begets one;
One begets two;
Two begets three;
Three begets the myriad creatures.
The myriad creatures carry on their backs the yin
and embrace in their arms the yang
and are the blending of the generative forces of the two.
Fragment of Tao Te Ching (XLII)
A very slight change of our habits is sufficient to destroy our sense of our daily reality, and the reality of the world around us.
George Moore
Frosty bites come to town this weekend. It is freezing cold outside. I have my meditation again with these lovely crystals.
Wish you a great weekend and stay warm!
Fuji X-T1 camera
Fuji XF 60mm F2.4 macro lens
Une promenade sur la côte pleine de surprises... voici la deuxième :)
Merci pour votre visite !! bonne semaine !
A walk on the coast full of surprises ... here is the second :)
Thank you for your visit !! good week !
Captured in: North Topsail Beach, NC.
Pictured here is the remnants of a severe thunderstorm shortly after it rolled over North Topsail Beach and passed offshore. The cell that moved through was pretty intense, with some very heavy downpours, strong wind, and a fair amount of cloud to ground lightning.
By the time I ventured outside to capture this shot, the lightning had already stopped, and the worst part of the storm was well out to sea -- My intent was to wait it out, as I had no interest in getting zapped on the beach! ;)
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"Something Wicked That Way Goes" is a b/w HDR image constructed from 3 bracketed shots - 2 stop differential between each image.
Image processed w/ ACR, Photomatix, and finished in Photoshop (includes the use of Topaz Labs plugins -- Denoise, Clean, Adjust, Clarity, and Detail).
Paisaje guipuzcoano con el monte Txindoki. Salí sin mi cámara así que tuve que utilizar mi móvil.
No camera at hand, I had to use my phone.
9 vertical shots to create a large 7954x2651 pixel panorama of Cregennan Lakes with snow on Cader Idris in the distance.
This is morning theater you could enjoy if you visited Bromo-Tengger-Semeru National Park in the morning. Come early, even in week-day, spectators already chasing for front rows as early as 4.30AM.
Enjoy the show and thank you for visiting my capture. Kindly drop your note and comment. Have a good week-end to all of you !. Cheers, HH
The Cerro Paine Grande is the tallest peak in the Cordillera Paine massif in Torres del Paine National Park (2884 m, 9462 ft). Its glacier covered shoulders dominate the western side of the spectacular Valle Francés, and until 2011, it was thought to be 66 meters higher than it now is accepted to be. The height was adjusted in 2011 after the mountain was successfully summited for only the third time in recorded history, which provides an inkling of the difficulties associated with ascending it. Though I’ve never harbored any foolhardy ideas about attempting technical mountaineering routes myself, I was compelled to study the face for some time, trying to comprehend just how one might scale the summit and descend again alive.
There are several plausible routes upward, at least at first glance, but I had to discount my amateurish speculations almost immediately when we observed repeated calving of massive chunks of ice off of the glacial band that sits maybe ⅔ of the way up. As the ice broke and fell, it boomed, and the sound waves echoed through the valley like a thunder with no apparent storm. No laughably puny rope and climbing helmet setup would save a person struck by one of those falling bergs. My hat is off to the three humans on the planet brave and foolish enough to make it up, and then back down, this humbling work of nature. In an academic sense, it would be interesting to know which routes have proven successful, and least likely to end in tragedy.
My previous post from the Valle Francés was looking south, just outside of Campo Italiano. For this photograph, I walked some ways north from camp up the Río Francés, toward a large boulder I discovered the previous evening that contained a small pool in its jagged top. Wind is an ever-present companion in Patagonia, at least in my brief experience there, and I hoped that the relatively protected pool would be free from ripples and offer a reflection of alpenglow on the mountain’s south-facing visage. The very tip of the mountain looks like a snowy cockscomb, and as I re-traced my previous evening’s steps to the boulder, I tried to hurry as I watched the first pink shades of light strike the comb. By the time I reached the small pool, the light had already moved from pink to orange, and I was delighted to find a perfectly mirror-like surface. Most of the time I spent hiking I used the ever-capable (if not fantastically sharp) 24-120mm lens; however, it was here I was grateful that I had packed the 16-35mm and carried it over all the previous miles and days. The Paine Grande looms so imminently above the valley floor that it is really impossible to convey with a simple photograph, but perhaps this begins to get the idea across.
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One of my personal favourites, this image was shot on Prelude Lake, along the Ingraham Trail outside of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. Photographed on the best aurora show I've ever experienced, February 25, 2006.
For more images of the north and the Aurora Borealis, please check out my new website, www.arctic-photo.com/
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This is a shot I took a couple of weeks ago in Nuuksio National Park, located just outside the metropolitan area in Espoo. We went out for a morning shoot and had good luck with the weather. I will be publishing more images from the north, but thought this would be a nice weekend snack :)
Final image is a manual blend of a 7 exposure HDR and some single exposures. It was nice to really play around with different software again. I might challenge this edit with a manual blend version just to see the difference... let's see, if I'll have the time... Have a great weekend everyone!
My Favorite Landscapes (set) | Digital Blending (set) | HDR (set)
Still have lots of vacation shots to process! Waves were coming in pretty strong when I took this! I caught a calm wave here but the next one almost knocked me over! Not a good place to be when your camera is not waterproof!!!
Was busy last week packing my son up for college. Our youngest moved up to Radford University yesterday! At least he's only an hour away and so may come home for a visit now and then :)
Thanks so taking a look at my photo!! Hope everyone is having a relaxing weekend :)
Just over 2 years ago I took a series of shots of a family walking along the beach. I've come back to those shots quite a few times but have never been quite happy with them. Now after some more playing I think it's time for them to come back into the light.
>> more of my beach pics on flickr :-)
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Nature goes on with her daily tasks of creation. This beautiful reflection is at Sacramento's prettiest park. Lots of trees for shade and natural decoration. Get outside today and let the breeze caress your cheeks. Remember to plant at least one tree during your lifetime and give back to nature>
PS : Ask Siri, Spotify, Alex and Amazong to play some music by JOHN WILLIAM HAMMOND (use all 3 namrs) Great music.
BE A HERO - DONATE BLOOD Takes 30 minutes & SAVES LIVES! REALLY - Call you local blood bank - blessings!.
Der Salzsee ist Lebensraum für Zugvögel und kleine Wassertiere. - The salt lake is a habitat for migratory birds and small aquatic animals
Citroen GTbyCitroen, Bugatti Veyron and Porsche Panamera FAB Design, parked outside Harrods Knightsbrigde London.
El colirrojo tizón (Phoenicurus ochruros) es una especie de ave paseriforme de la familia Muscicapidae.Es común en jardines de pueblos y ciudades; suele encontrarse, en medios más naturalizados, en laderas rocosas con piedras y peñascos. Se trata de un ave de 14 cm de longitud y 24 cm de envergadura, de color negro con una cola de tono rojizo-anaranjado en los machos, en primavera; en hembras e inmaduros, el color es gris, más pálido. Posee un comportamiento característico de oscilación de la cola cuando percha sobre tejados y muros.
My take on this iconic shot. Eh not much different than the other jillion shots of this boathouse. But since I woke up a 4AM yesterday to take this by God I am gonna post a few!
THanks for the comments and faves- a front pager!
This shot is a little fuzzy, but I like the composition and colors. The ducks add interest for me, too.
This is where I would walk my dog and I could see the potential but it meant getting out of bed during the winter time, so.....
Namibia is a big charcoal producer. I discovered this "factory" next to a farm road near Otjiwarongo.
The giant sugar bags had caught my eye…
Have a great day and week, everyone!
Happy Monochrome Monday. 😊
The Rising Sun, back to the tree again this morning after seeing the promise of a misty morning in the Eden Valley. I had a couple of other options for the morning that I was planning to do, but when you see this kind of view it sort of makes your mind up for you.
The Tree, Great Salkeld, Cumbria
Today is Easter Sunday, and I've been back in NYC for almost a week at this point...
I've managed to unpack my suitcases and get more-or-less caught up with the stuff that accumulated in my absence ... but today was the first day that I was able to get back outside with my camera, to resume the "streets of New York" street-photography project that I carried out during much of 2013 and 2014.
Because I have a strong desire to let the photos sit untouched for a month before I start editing them (which involves far less discipline than the late Gary Winogrand, who apparently waited a full year before he got any of his film processed!), I won't be able to inspect any of these street-photography shots until early May.
(For another perspective on waiting a long time before uploading photos, see Eric Kim's March 23, 2015 blog titled, "What I Learned Processing 164 Rolls of Film After Waiting a Year," which you can find on the Internet at erickimphotography.com/blog/2015/03/23/what-i-learned-pro... )
And that means I'll have to spread out my remaining Florida sunrise shots, and probably upload only one new one each day ... unless some other photo project comes along in the next couple of weeks...
Meanwhile, I will continue uploading the old photos from the 1950s in separate batches. I'll be starting a new batch from 1950 tomorrow, and will then have another large bunch from various places I lived in the 1940s ... before uploading some photos taken by my grandparents in the 1920s and 1930s, out in the American West.
If you have any alternative suggestions, please let me know.
Note: this photo was published on Flickr's "Explored!" list, as #116 on the list, for Apr 6, 2015.
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I spent the winter months of 2014-2015 in a warm spot on the beach in Indialantic, FL in order to escape what turned out to be a really brutal winter in the Center of the Universe, as well as most of New England. I'm now back in NYC, but I still have a backlog of Florida shots to edit and upload.
On most of the mornings I was there, I manage to get up about an hour before sunrise every morning, and be out on the beach for a morning walk just as the sun peeked up above the horizon.
On the very first morning, and every morning thereafter, I noticed that I was not the only person on the beach. There werejoggers and walkers out getting their exercise, and *lots* of fishermen casting their lines out into the surf. But down by the 5th Avenue boardwalk -- where you can park your car and get a cup of coffee/latte/whatever from the local Starbucks -- there were lots and lots of people who clearly came down here just to watch the sunrise. This was particularly true after the beginning of Daylight Savings Time, for we then "sprang forward" and celebrated the arrival of dawn about 7:30 AM, instead of 6:30-ish.
These are some of the morning scenes that I saw -- the birds, the people, the long empty beaches, and the glorious sunrise...
The Dark Hedges, just outside Stranocum; a road full of curvy trees like a tunnel. See the map for the location, if you want to check it out.
HDR of 9 exposures, taken when it was pissing with rain, just before the rain soaked through the trees and destroyed me.
#1 on Explore on 11th September 2008. Wow :)