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This is not with the D700, this was earlier this month with my 'old set-up' the D90+Sigma 10-20mm.
Ultra wide angle + HDR, two of my 'weaknesses'.
I think I'm on some sort of quest for magic realism with these two tools... I keep searching!
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Date: Taken on December 2, 2011 at 10.24 h / 10.24am CET
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Camera Nikon D90
Exposure 3x HDR (1/60) (1/125) (1/250)
Aperture f/11.0
Focal Length 10 mm (Sigma 10-20mm)
ISO Speed 200
The Monastery of Sant Benet de Bages is a former Benedictine monastery, in the Catalan comarca of Bages. The Romanesque monastery was thoroughly restored at the beginning of the twentieth century by the Catalan architect Josep Puig i Cadafalch. The monastery was founded about 950 by the noble Salla and his consort Ricarda, of the house of the viscounts of Osona . According to the founding legend, Salla traveled to Rome to have his institution authorized, and to have it depend directly on the Holy See, the usual method for preserving the community from interference from the bishop— in this case of Vic— in whose diocese it lay. The abbey church was consecrated 3 December 972, witnessed by a gathering of notables: Borrell II, Count of Barcelona, the bishops Frugifer of Vic, Guisad of Urgell and Pere of Barcelona, the viscount Guadald of Osona, and three of the four offspring of the recently deceased founder, his son Isarn and the sisters Quíxol and Ego, at the head of witnesses both laymen and priests, in a grand ceremonial recorded in the surviving act of consecration. The community was dedicated to the Holy Trinity and to Benedict of Nursia (Sant Benét in Catalan) founder of the order, and Peter and Andrew, all guarantors of its future orthodoxy. The founder secured dispensations that the future abbots would be chosen from among their descendents, making the abbey a form of proprietary church, an agreement that would soon lead to disputes among the various branches of their lineage as to choice of abbots.
From 965, the abbey church held the supposed relics of Saint Valentine, enclosed in a wooden reliquary with plates of silver depicting miracles of Saint Valentine, which was rediscovered in 1863 in the church of Navarcles. At the beginning of the eleventh century the monastery passed under the direction of the Abbey of Saint Peter of Tomeras at Narbonne, from which the community freed itself in 1108. In 1125 Sant Benet de Bages suffered from an attack by Moors that required a rebuilding, financed by local nobles who required in return the right to be buried in its consecrated ground. The most splendid age of Sant Benet de Bages was in the fourteenth century, until the Black Death left the community with only two survivors, in a period that witnessed the beginning of its decline. On 9 November 1593, by order of Pope Clement VIII the community passed under the direction of the Abbey of Montserrat, and remained so until it was suppressed in 1820, serving as a place of retirement for Montserrat's community of monks. By the "law of desamortización" of 1835, all religious orders in Spain were required to render upo their possessions. The crumbling ancient structure attracted the interest of intellectuals who organised visits to it in the late nineteenth century. The architect Puig i Cadafalch and the painter Ramon Casas encouraged the mother of Casas to buy the property in 1907; in 1910 it passed into the hands of Casas, who commissioned Puig i Cadafalch to restore it. Since 2000, when it was purchased from Casas' heirs it has belonged to the Caixa de Manresa, a financial institution that has undertaken its maintenance.
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Noční vlaky jsou nedílnou součástí železniční dopravy v Itálii, přičemž relace, směřující z vnitrozemí na Sicílii, patří k nejvytíženějším. Jen ze samotného Říma jezdí hned dva páry spojů, doplněné o vlak z Milána, který cílů na ostrově ve Středozemním moři dosahuje až odpoledne, a i ve směru do Milána vlak odjíždí z obou sicilských destinací nedlouho po poledni. Cestujícím zejména posledně jmenovaného páru se tak naskýtají překrásné výhledy na Tyrhénské moře, neboť železniční trať je vedena v těsné blízkosti pobřeží od Sicílie až téměř po Neapol. Vzhledem ke zmíněné vytíženosti jsou všechny tři páry vlaků složeny pouze ze spacích vozů a poté, co se přepraví ze vnitrozemské italské železniční sítě přes Messinskou úžinu na tu sicilskou pomocí trajektu, se ve stanici Messina Centrale rozdělují Zatímco jedna část vlaků je vedena po severním břehu ostrova do stanice Palermo Centrale, druhá část vlaků směřuje na jih přes Katánii do Syrakus.
Na snímku vlaku ICN 1963 "Intercity Notte" [Milano Centrale – Siracusa], pořízeném dne 23. března 2024 u letoviska Praia a Mare, lze spatřit všechny tři typy spacích vozů, kterými lze v těchto vlacích cestovat. Nejpočetnější lehátkové vozy, nabízející pouze čtyřmístná a o poznání komfortnější kupé, než bývá v Evropě zvykem, představují zástupce dvou sérií, které vznikly v letech 1996–2001 přestavbou starších vozů konstrukce UIC-X ze 60. a 70. let v celkovém počtu 230 vozů. Lůžkový vůz je zde zastoupen v západní Evropě nejrozšířenějším typem MU rovněž po modernizaci. Na vzniku celkem 283 vozů během let 1963 a 1990 se podílely hned tři společnosti a vozy tohoto typu jezdily i ve Francii či v zemích Beneluxu. Zatímco zcela původní francouzské vozy dnes dožívají v Černé Hoře, všechny dnes provozované italské vozy prošly modernizací a jsou dodnes v provozu, jak se lze na tomto snímku přesvědčit. S celkovou kapacitou až 36 osob nabízí jedno-, dvou- či třílůžková kupé standardních parametrů.
Nejzajímavější je ale třetí vůz na snímku – jedná se o lůžkový vůz typu T3S, který vznikl v počtu 11 vozů v letech 2007–2008 ve firmě RSI Costa Masnaga přestavbou starších lůžkových vozů typu T2S z roku 1982. Jedna polovina vozu je tvořena standardními třílůžkovými oddíly, druhá polovina pak představuje netradičně provedená čtyřlůžková kupé s vlastním WC a sprchou. Vozy tohoto typu byly mj. nasazeny v letech 2017–2020 na páru nočních vlaků Benátky–Paříž, avšak po ukončení provozu tohoto spoje v důsledku pandemie viru Covid-19 v roce 2020 byly staženy do vnitrostátního provozu a dnes jsou vozy nasazovány na všechny tři páry nočních vlaků na Sicílii, avšak pouze do skupiny vozů Miláno/Řím – Syrakusy a zpět.
Praia a Mare je obec v regionu Kalábrie, která je známá jako plážové letovisko u Tyrhénského moře. Celkem dva kilometry dlouhá pláž je částečně pokryta atraktivním černým lávovým pískem. Na jižním konci se nachází skalní ostrov Dino, kde se nachází několik velkých mořských jeskyní, přístupných malými plavidly. Na nejjižnějším výběžku pláže se na výběžku sopečné skály tyčí středověká věž Fiuzzi, postavená byzantskými silami k ochraně pobřeží.
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i was sitting on my bed in my favorite red sweats and an old hoodie
i was on the edge of the right side, the left side screaming for warmth.
the left side confused.
the left side lacking.
my phone buzzed
the only faint reminder that i was still living on this miserable planet.
"look out your window"
there was no name on the screen. this person was foreign.
i rolled over and looked at the clock
1:34 AM
i'd been laying there since 7 pm, trying to think of something new to think about, but it seemed that everthing had been covered already, at some point,
in the course of my sixteen years.
i was fading, minute by minute, away from everything i'd ever created, ever worked for, ever hoped for.
but now, i was awake.
i pulled back my anthropologie faded quilt,
and tip toed to the windows, which were outlined with smooth silver lines from the soft moonlight.
his car was outside.
him.
the boy.
the boy who was the only boy i ever felt for.
the only boy who ever new me.
and the only boy who ever left.
the boy who i'd almost forgotten.
when i reached his car i saw his face. it was silk.
his hair flowed gently across his perfectly round head.
he offered a huge grin, which lit up his eyes immediately.
the spark of the movement flew into me.
and i remembered who we were.
i climbed in, shivering, in the dark.
he grabbed a wool blanket from the back, and carefully tucked it around me, managing to make breathtaking eye contact at the exact same time.
let's escape, he said.
it's time.
all you have to do is breathe now.
all you have to do is breathe.
and we drove.
More AK EMH love! Everest peeks through ominously in the distance.
Fun photography fact: There are 6 points on the stars created by the lights because my Sigma 10-20mm lens has 6 aperture blades. If I was using a lens with 7 blades, the stars would have 14 points. 8 blades = 8 points. 9 blades = 18 points. Etc!
Technical blah blah blah: HDR from 3 exposures, processed in CS5. This is the first shot that I used CS5's "content-aware" fill to completely remove a few people and a whole tree from the foreground. I'm sure you can find where if you look close, but hopefully it's invisible at a quick glance. Pretty cool feature.
I'm now on Twitter at @CodyWDWfan
Flickriver is a great way to check out my recent and most popular Disney photos!
I don't usually do people shots, or portraits for that matter. I take and post pictures here in my stream primarily to my own liking. If I think the shot makes me happy, then that's all that matters (not that your wonderful comments and faves don't send me to flickr heaven. Oh, they do. And I always, always appreciate every single one of them. (",) you guys rock!).
Portraits are different. The idea of somebody else's --- the subject's --- opinion weighing in on the shot is too much pressure for me. What may look good in my eyes may not necessarily be so for the subject. I can be a people pleaser at times, so taking shots of others and them actually appreciating it, means so much to me.
And when they display my shots of them as profile pics on facebook, multiply or friendster, my heart dances a lil bit inside.
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by the way, this is Em, a new travel buddy I met on my last trip. She takes pretty pictures too with a camera that has way too many buttons. :D
Trying to be as objective as I can, I think this is probably the best Monochrome photograph that, to date, I have up-loaded to flickr ! So I'm Pleased As Punch !
Subjectively I know that there is a small ' hot spot ' on her nose and ear, and the glass could've been cleaner, but hey, I'm not a professional !
I think the dark space behind her head pushes the eye to the subjects delightful profile and the out of focus neon lights take care of any ' negative space ' !
An early attempt at using a new external flash Canon Speedlite 430EX II !
All Comments, Subjective or Objective, More Particually Praising, Lol, Welcomed !
Thank you for all of the views, awards, comments and faves. They are greatly appreciated.
This is a Douglas DC-3 (C-47 military version) used by the Israeli Airforce (IAF) for training paratroopers. The DC 3 was manufactured in Santa Monica, California, Long Beach, Califonia and Oklahoma City. This aircraft is currently being reconstructed by the current owner.Although it is on the apron adjacent to the Camarillo Museum the aircraft is not one that is owned by the C.A.F.
This is the only image in this set on which I did not use textured overlays. There is, however, also a textured version. If you like you can compare this original (a single RAW processed with PS CS-5 and Dynamic Photo HDR software and saved as a jpeg) with the earlier overlaid image. This is my favorite image in the series.
For those wanting the technical data as follows: The shot was hand held and taken with a Nikon d90, Tamron 18-270 lens at 32mm. Manual mode, manual focus. Exposure 1/640 of a second at f13, ISO 200 -4/3 E.V. No filters on the lens.
© Lawrence Goldman 2011, All Rights Reserved
This work may not be copied, reproduced, republished, edited, downloaded, displayed, modified, transmitted, licensed, transferred, sold, distributed or uploaded in any way without my prior written permission.
Lighting Info:
SB800 in Shoot Thru Brolly Camera Left
Sun Behind Camera Right as Rim
Nikon D300
Nikkor 50mm 1.4
Pocket Wizard Plus II
This is probably my favorite portrait that I have taken, it is not a great photo or some kind of masterpiece, but it speaks volumes to me. I have a younger brother that is my best friend, I have always felt this need to really watch over him. You see, my parents did not speak English when they first came to this country. The culture and country was completely new to them, me and my brother felt lost sometimes. Me and Steve saw these young brothers walking home from school, they had just gotten off the bus. The youngest one, Dee, had his ice cream cone and it was melting and running down his hands. His older brother, Darrell, took the ice cream cone and fixed it up for him and then handed his brother a napkin to clean his hands off. He then put his arm around him and they began walking. I watched all this and was reminded of the many times I did the same for my younger brother. It was a very endearing and awesome scene to watch unfold.
Enjoy,
Hector
Rio Dulce
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Light show in Beaubourg by Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist, called "A la belle étoile". The 10mn show will be projected every night from 7pm to 8am until Feb. 26. Tip: pretend you're going to the restaurant on the 6th floor and stop at the 5th floor, which is opened and from where you can see the show from above without any glasses interfering :-) The previous link is also offering a webcam of the show.
Part of A la belle étoile
His eyes Large On Black are unreal!
Arco is my co-workers 6 month old weinheimer.
This is probably my favorite photo from the Dog Shoot this morning. This is also probably my favorite of the black and white shots I've taken so far. The sky was overcast and everything was muddy from the rain last night so it wasn't ideal shooting conditions. I used the 70-200mm f/4.0L IS exclusively for this photo shoot. Using a telephoto takes a little getting used to, but I think it is worth it.
My fees for my work this morning? A Pizza from the Neapolitan Pizzeria downtown, yum!
All comments and feedback are greatly appreciated. I'd also like to know what you think of this black and white filter I used. If you'd like to see the "before" shot let me know and I'll upload it.
wow, I can still see after all that work! (see last photo if you do not know what I mean...) but now I am off to another 12 hour shift... shudder... at least I love my job taking care of these 6 elders!!! They are like my moms and dads!
update... it is now 9am on Monday, and I am running away once more to the mountains, and no work today or "fingers crossed" Tomorrow! woo woo, more time to play... and next coming up in Bird Creek Meadows we are starting to see RED foliage on the low growth alpine huckleberry plants! oh dear... so pretty, but it means SNOW is right around the corner up there, and no more trips to my fave spot after another month!
so I am gonna run and enjoy it all... thank you all SOO MUCH for the wonderful comments, awards, faves, invites... sorry I am not taking time today to put it in all the groups, but the mountains are calling my name! You understand....
so see ya in a couple days! **beaming love to my Flickr Friends"
and thanks to all of you for this being in Explore Aug 26 #162!
Mattina ore 6 circa,altra levataccia per cogliere quello che la luce al tramonto, due giorni prima, non mi ha regalato.Forse il fatto di essere li da solo...in verità ci sono altri due pazzi come me, ma il silenzio e l'atmosfera sono tali che riesco ad isolarmi.A tu per tu con la natura, uno di quei momenti che solo certi posti riescono a trasmettere.Il gruppo del Latemar si specchia nel lago di vetro, una carezza per lo sguardo...
About 6 a.m., I wake up early to catch what the light at sunset two days before has not given me. Perhaps the fact to be alone them...in truth there are other two crazy persons as me, but the silence and the atmosphere are such that I succeed in isolating me. A face to face with the nature, one of that moments that only certain places succeed in transmitting. The group of the Latemar is mirrored in the lake of glass, a caress to the eyes .. .( sorry for my bad translate )
I was looking through Barry Hutton's website and made a realisation that I can't post anymore colour shots of Buttermere! This guy has done an incredible job in capturing some stunning light and colours of Lake district, specificly Buttermere! So I am sticking to monochrome! :)
This was a calm but rather dull morning!
Canon 5D, 17-40L @23mm, f/22, 4 seconds, ISO-50,used a 2 stop SE GND
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Dear Friends,
This is an image I took last December while out with Joel Tjintjelaar and Kees Smans in Rotterdam.
I don't think my photographic life will ever be the same; Joel introducted me to architecture and I have been extremely impressed by how beautiful is shooting buldings.
After finishing the project I'm working on now, I will devote myself to architecture: many ideas about that!
By the way, this is my first ever attempt at architecture.
Details
- CANON 5d Mark II ir, TS-E 24, f/7.1, 183 s, ISO 100
- Mirror Lockup, Remote Shutter
- Lee Big Stopper (10 stops ND filter)
- Tripod
The shot
Rotterdam, Netherlands
The Processing
Photoshop:
- Added many soft light layers to adjust light;
- Added a few curves to improve contrasts;
- Applied Noise Reduction
- Resized for the Web (1200px);
- Applied an Unsharp Mask to slightly improve contrast;
- Smart Sharpen + More accurate (On luminosity 'blending mode', at low opacity, building only);
- Framing and Signature.
Take a look at it, LARGE on Black :
@ You all
Comments and faves are always welcome!
Hope your 2012 started great!!!
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[...] The sky is eternity. And "sun, moon and five stars" are "the manifestation of the time, which imitate eternity and a number of law following turn, are the moving images of eternal being who is" alone and not the will obey. What we see with our senses, is not heaven, not the original eternal being itself, solely by God's Spirit West. If we "want to live in the light of eternity," therefore, we need to get into the spirit of God.
"Is that possible?" You might ask. But, it's not about the possibility of achieving this goal - but the need.
Otherwise we would not even be able to only this to our time-bound and living in days and nights, months and years, measured life.
What is needed, however, which must be possible.
If the eternal, refuses to manifest in the "Forms of Time", then left it to the forms of time but not helpless themselves
If the Eternal is the moving, changing, sentient forms of the time denied it burrow yet in them. [...]
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[…] Der Himmel ist die Ewigkeit. Und „Sonne, Mond und die fünf Sterne“ sind „die Erscheinungsformen der Zeit, welche die Ewigkeit nachahmen und einem Zahlengesetz folgend sich drehen“, sind die sich bewegende Abbilder des ewigen Wesens, das allein „ist“ und nicht dem Werden gehorchend. Was wir mit unseren Sinnen sehen, ist nicht der Himmel, nicht das ursprüngliche ewigen Wesens selbst, das allein Gottes Geist durchwest. Wenn wir daher „ im Licht der Ewigkeit leben wollen“, müssen wir in Gottes Geist eindringen.
„Ist das möglich?“ könnte man fragen. Allein, es geht nicht um die Möglichkeit, dieses Ziel zu erreichen – sondern um die Notwendigkeit.
Andernfalls wären wir nicht einmal in der Lage, auch nur dieses unser an die Zeit gebundenes und nach Tagen und Nächten, Monaten und Jahren gemessenes Leben zu leben.
Was aber notwendig ist, das muss möglich sein.
Wenn das Ewige, sich weigert, sich in den „Formen der Zeit“ zu manifestieren, dann überließe es die Formen der Zeit dennoch nicht hilflos sich selbst.
Wenn sich das Ewige sich den bewegten, wechselnden, fühlenden Formen der Zeit verweigert, so verbärge es sich dennoch in ihnen. […]
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Source: D.T. Suzuki, „Der westliche und der östliche Weg“ (The Western and Eastern Weg),
Chapter: „Leben im Licht der Ewigkeit“ (Living in the Light of Eternity)
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|| Wikipedia: D. T. Suzuki || Plato ||
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Seven years on from this pic: flic.kr/p/7Qjwzh.
Amazing difference.
Cunit, Tarragona (Spain).
ENGLISH
The Bignoniaceae, or Trumpet Creeper Family, is a family of flowering plants comprising of about 650-750 species in 116-120 genera. Members of the family are mostly trees and shrubs, and more rarely lianas (Podranea and Macfadyena) and herbaceous plants in 116-120 genera. As shrubs, they are twine climbers or tendril climbers, and rarely root climbers.
Other common names for this family include jacaranda family, bignonia family or catalpa family. This family is commonly found as ornamental plants due to their large and often colorful flowers. Important members include the calabash tree (Crescentia cujete) and many genera cultivated in horticulture: Campsis, Catalpa, Jacaranda, Kigelia, Pandorea, Spathodea, and Tabebuia.
More info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bignoniaceae
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CASTELLANO
La familia Bignoniaceae, o familia de las vides trompeta es un taxón de plantas de flor compuesta primordialmente de árboles, arbustos, lianas, y de unas pocas hierbas. Los miembros de la familia se distribuyen ampliamente, tanto en el viejo mundo como en el nuevo mundo, distribuidos mayormente en los trópicos y subtrópicos, pero además con un número de especies de zonas templadas.
Más info: es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bignoniaceae
Volcano Crater. Garrotxa. Catalonia.
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The Santa Margarida Volcano (Catalan: Volcà de Santa Margarida) is a volcano in the comarca of Garrotxa, Catalonia, Spain. The volcano has a perimeter of 2 kilometers and a height of 682 meters and is part of the Garrotxa Volcanic Zone Natural Park. The hermitage of Santa Margarida, after which the volcano was named, is inside the crater of the volcano. The building was destroyed in 1428 during the 1428 Catalonia earthquake and rebuilt in 1865.
Questions, questions, questions - as long as you feel you are the luckiest girl on Earth... For you, My Love
I don’t put a smile upon your face no more
I can’t make your heart shine like it did before
You don’t listen to my stories anymore
You can’t comfort me the way you did before
Was I too loud, was I too bad
Was I too open
Was I too high, was I too fast
Was I too close
I don’t feel your lips like the first kiss
I’d rather run away than sit to face the truth
Was I too proud, was I too hopeful
Was I too needing
Was I too crazy, was I too long
Was I too giving
No matter how far, no matter how long
I will be there
Cádiz (Spain).
ENGLISH
The expression “to have elf” (tener duende) is used mainly in the Community of Andalusia to designate to the person whom has a special enchantment (synonymous, also of the lexicon Andalusian, to have angel) or whom is enabled for the art in some of its manifestations. The inspiration has often been compared with “elf” hidden that lives in some place of the soul of the artist, to whom it puts in grace state, and that is the one that activates the creative process.
The expression “to have elf” became very popular after its use by the poet Federico Garcia Lorca in a famous speech that had like subject “'duende' in the flamenco art” and in that it praised the artistic virtues and almost magicians of the famous flamenco singer Niña de los Peines.
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CASTELLANO
La expresión "tener duende" se utiliza sobre todo en la Comunidad de Andalucía para designar a la persona que tiene un encanto especial (sinónimo, también del léxico andaluz, de tener ángel) o que está capacitado para el arte en alguna de sus manifestaciones. La inspiración se ha comparado muchas veces con un “duende” escondido que habita en algún lugar del alma del artista, al que pone en estado de gracia, y que es el que activa el proceso creativo.
La expresión “tener duende” se hizo muy popular tras su utilización por parte del poeta Federico García Lorca en un célebre discurso que tenía como tema “El duende en el arte flamenco” y en el que alababa las virtudes artísticas y casi mágicas de la famosa cantaora Niña de los Peines.
Fuente: www.elpelao.com/letras/1240.html
Best Viewed On Black or view in Fluidr
One of my favorite things is to drive up and down the Northern California
Pacific coastal highway looking for new areas to photograph. I have
collected a number of shots of the Pigeon Point Lighthouse and swear I will
avoid it this next time but inevitably I stop and take more images and it
seems to always pay off.
As you head south from San Francisco you first get a glimpse of the
lighthouse as you pass around a bend in the road. It grabs your attention
as the area is generally flat. A flashing Coast Guard light replaces the
magnificent 24 beam first order Fresnel lens. Fortunately each November
they revert back to the days of old and light the main 24 beams of light
which extend to the horizon. The lighthouse is one of the tallest on the
California coast and was constructed after the Carrier Pigeon and several
other sailing ships ran aground on the rocks just off shore. Modern
technology has since made the structures obsolete and there is not much of
any effort by the government to maintain the lighthouses. Pigeon Point now
belongs to the State of California and is in a sad state of disrepair which
is why you see the unattractive chain length fence surrounding the base.
When I first visited the lighthouse it was open to the public and I took my
then young kids to the top for a view they still remember to this day. It
was quite a climb to the top up the spiral staircase but once there the view
was stunning. Point Arena Lighthouse looked exactly like this one at
Pigeon Point unit it was destroyed in the San Francisco earthquake. It has
since been replaced by a large cement structure that while functional lacks
the beauty of design seen in the Pigeon Point Lighthouse.
This image makes a great Windows (and probably Macintosh) desktop
background.
Click here to view the lighthouse on the California Coastal Records Project
Enjoy!
Darv
© Darvin Atkeson
...paraísos distantes, realidad paralela, ¿dónde se darán la mano?.
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Madrid, Octubre 2008.
Best Viewed Large - 'Winter Straight Ahead' On Black
Goodbye to you, my trusted friend.
We've known each other since we're nine or ten.
Together we climbed hills or trees.
Learned of love and ABC's,
skinned our hearts and skinned our knees.
Goodbye my friend, it's hard to die,
when all the birds are singing in the sky,
Now that the spring is in the air.
Pretty girls are everywhere.
When you see them I'll be there.
We had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun.
But the hills that we climbed
were just seasons out of time.
Goodbye, Papa, please pray for me,
I was the black sheep of the family.
You tried to teach me right from wrong.
Too much wine and too much song,
wonder how I get along.
Goodbye, Papa, it's hard to die
when all the birds are singing in the sky,
Now that the spring is in the air.
Little children everywhere.
When you see them I'll be there.
We had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun.
But the wine and the song,
like the seasons, all have gone.
Goodbye, Michelle, my little one.
You gave me love and helped me find the sun.
And every time that I was down
you would always come around
and get my feet back on the ground.
Goodbye, Michelle, it's hard to die
when all the bird are singing in the sky,
Now that the spring is in the air.
With the flowers ev'rywhere.
I whish that we could both be there.
We had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun.
But the stars we could reach
were just starfishs on the beach
Terry Jacks
another ispiration of a photo that didnt think was that well......so I brought it back into raw mode and tweeked as per my mentor and then had to throw a teture on here from Lenabem www.flickr.com/photos/42396059@N07/4782619856/ (thanks for the use of your texture) and here is the result.....thanks for your looks and thoughts.........
B/W version 1st commet | Large on black | Link to prints available on my profile page
Yesterday I returned to the scene of the crime to see if that big puddle was still there and if there would be anything nice reflected in it again. It was quite a different scene then the two days before, and I was absolutely delighted to find that this time I didn't need to stand in the puddle in order to get a nice reflection shot, and also that I could shoot in the opposite direction and get a more interesting background (with the closer oak trees and such)
It was kinda crazy, but I literally got out of my car, walked over to this spot, set up the tripod, fired off the camera ... and this is the first shot I took. OMG! It was the first shot I took and when I looked in the viewfinder I couldn't believe how sweet it was. I don't think I got another great shot all afternoon but I really didn't care.
This was also my first time using a tripod for landscape work. Wow. Can't believe the difference. Doesn't it look sharper than my other landscapes? I used to do everything hand-held, then very recently moved on to using a monopod, then after my last sunset shoot I was really wishing I had a tripod so I ordered a good one yesterday (decided to spring for a manfrotto after reading all the reviews). The tripod I used yesterday was my friend's that I borrowed. It was cheap and I was grateful to have it but it made me so happy that I had sprung for a higher-quality one!!
Using a tripod also made me think a LOT more about each shot, and whether or not it was really worth it, which I think will be good for me. I tend to take a lot of mediocre shots just because I can and then when I get home I have to wade through so much junk and do a lot of culling. If I am forced to be more selective about what I shoot I think that will be an improvement!
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Happy Friday Everyone!
No, I am not celebrating a week's end by having cupcakes for my breaky.
This is to call attention to Cupcake Camp Montreal being held this Sunday at the Bitoque Restaurant in Montreal.
For a $10 donation at the door, you get to indulge in 3 mouthwatering cupcakes and coffee. And, 100% of the proceeds go to "Kids Help Phone", a very worthy cause.
Kids Help Phone is Canada’s only toll-free, national, bilingual, phone and web counselling, referral and information service for children and youth. Whatever the problem, from abuse to the death of a parent, Kids Help Phone is there with professional phone and web-based counselling services, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Cupcake Camps have been held around the world to resounding success. With many talented pro bakers in Montreal, like my friend Clever Cupcakes donating their cupcakes for the event, I am sure Montreal's will be a not-to-be-missed event, too.
I volunteered to take photos at this charitable event... so expect more sweet pics! =D
If you're in Montreal this Sunday, why not drop by and join us, for the cause, the fun and the yummies. Bring the whole family to this kid-friendly event... make a date to meet your friends there, or make some new ones.
To find out more about Cupcake Camp Montreal, go to www.cupcakecampmtl.org
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In other news, I am racing to get things done, in order to hopefully attend a lighting seminar given by Gary Fong in Old Montreal today... will catch up with your streams, later! Have a great one and as always, thanks so much for stopping by my stream! xx
"Dances With Birds" www.flickr.com/photos/printmaker_1/
The Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus)
is a passerine bird of the family Icteridae found in most of North and much of Central America. It breeds from Alaska and Newfoundland south to Florida, the Gulf of Mexico, Mexico and Guatemala, with isolated populations in western El Salvador, northwestern Honduras and northwestern Costa Rica. It may winter as far north as Pennsylvania and British Columbia, but northern populations are generally migratory, moving south to Mexico and the southern United States. The Red-winged Blackbird is sexually dimorphic; the male is all black with a red shoulder and yellow wing bar, while the female is a nondescript dark brown. Seeds and insects make up the bulk of the Red-winged Blackbird's diet.
The Red-winged Blackbird nests in loose colonies. The nest is built in cattails, rushes, grasses, sedge, or in alder or willow bushes. The nest is constructed entirely by the female over the course of three to six days. It is a basket of grasses, sedge, and mosses, lined with mud, and bound to surrounding grasses, or branches.[7] It is located 7.6 cm (3 in) to 4.3 m (14 ft) above water.[13]
A clutch consists of three or four, rarely five, eggs. Eggs are oval, smooth and slightly glossy, and measure 24.8 x 17.55 mm (1 x .7 in)[13]. They are pale bluish green, marked with brown, purple, and/or black, with most markings around the larger end of the egg. These are incubated by the female alone, and hatch in 11 to 12 days. Red-winged Blackbirds are hatched blind and naked, but are ready to leave the nest 11-14 days after hatching.[6]
Red-winged Blackbirds are polygynous, with territorial males defending up to 10 females. However, females frequently copulate with males other than their social mate and often lay clutches of mixed paternity. Pairs raise two or three clutches per season, in a new nest for each clutch.[6]
Predation of eggs and nestlings is quite common. Nest predators include snakes, mink, raccoons, and other birds, even as small as marsh wrens. The Red-winged Blackbird is occasionally a victim of brood parasites, particularly Brown-headed Cowbirds.[9] Since nest predation is common, several adaptations have evolved in this species. Group nesting is one such trait which reduces the risk of individual predation by increasing the number of alert parents. Nesting over water reduces the likelihood of predation, as do alarm calls. Nests, in particular, offer a strategic advantage over predators in that they are often well concealed in thick, waterside reeds and positioned at a height of one to two meters. Males often act as sentinels, employing a variety of calls to denote the kind and severity of danger. Mobbing, especially by males, is also used to scare off unwanted predators, although mobbing often targets large animals and man-made devices by mistake. The brownish coloration of the female may also serve as an anti-predator trait in that it may provide camouflage for her and her nest (while she is incubating).[14] Owls and diurnal raptors are both regular predators of adults.
The Château de Chambord in the Loire Valley is a impressive sight and the largest château in the region. Originally built as a hunting lodge the Chateau has only been lived in for a handful of years throughout its history. It is particularly famous for its double helix staircase in the centre of the keep (you can just see it at the top in the centre).
Taken with a 10x stop ND (3.0) and GND filters, giving an exposure time of ~48 secs. Minor editing (levels, sharpening, etc) in Capture NX.
© Scott Thistlethwaite 2009. All rights reserved.
Absolument View On Black
... atteindre le sommet du " Géant de Provence ", le mythique mont Ventoux!
Du haut de ses 1912 mètres, il règne en maître. De son sommet, il fait découvrir l’un des plus vaste panorama d’Europe, dominant la Vallée du Rhône, les Baronnies et le plateau du Vaucluse. Son sommet, aux pentes dénudées et caillouteuses est couronné d'un observatoire, ce qui le rend reconnaissable à plus de 100 km à la ronde.
Paysage aux milles facettes, le Ventoux est surtout un lieu de légende pour les cyclistes que l'on rencontre, le souffle court dans la montée, et le visage marqué, mais épanoui par le défi relevé dans la descente.
En faire l'ascension à pied, lorsque le soleil baisse à l'horizon, à la fin d'une journée lumineuse mais froide d'un début de mois d'avril, c'est à celui qui sera le plus fort....
Granada (Spain).
ENGLISH
Granada Cathedral (Cathedral of the Annunciation) is a cathedral in Granada, in the Autonomous Region of Andalusia, Spain, designed at the peak of the Spanish Renaissance. In 1529 Diego de Siloé outlined the Renaissance lines of this building upon its Gothic foundations, with a triforium and five naves instead of the usual three. Most unusually, he created a circular capilla mayor rather than a semicircular apse, perhaps inspired by Italian ideas for circular 'perfect buildings' (eg in Alberti's works). Within its structure the cathedral combines other orders of architecture. It took 181 years for the cathedral to be built.
In 1667 Alonso Cano altered the initial plan for the main façade, introducing Baroque elements. The magnificence of the building would be even greater, if the two large 81 meter towers foreseen in the plans had been built; however the project remained incomplete for various reasons, among them, financial.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granada_Cathedral
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CASTELLANO
La Catedral de Granada es un templo católico de la ciudad española de Granada, sede de la diócesis de la ciudad. El templo es una de las obras cumbres del renacimiento español.
Durante el barroco, Andalucía, al igual que Galicia, conformará un centro artístico independiente del estilo predominante en el resto de la península, el herrerianismo.
Con el reinado de Carlos I de España se llevarán a cabo numerosas construcciones en la ciudad de Granada, dada la intención del monarca en convertir a la urbe en el modelo de ciudad del siglo XVI. Así la construcción de la catedral de Granada será coetánea a las de el palacio cristiano de la Alhambra, la Universidad y la chancillería (tribunal supremo).
La obra es concebida en 1523 por Enrique Egas tomando como modelo la Catedral de Toledo. Sin embargo será Diego de Siloé quien, en 1529, se encargará de las obras, que se concluirán en 1537. El autor traza las líneas renacentistas de todo el edificio sobre los cimientos góticos, con girola y cinco naves en lugar de las tres habituales. Combina en su estructura elementos de otros órdenes arquitectónicos.
Con la llegada de la política centralista de Felipe II y, especialmente, con la expulsión de los moriscos de 1609, la región perderá gran parte de su fuerza económica, quedando relegada frente a otros centros locales. Sin embargo, sí se continuarán desarrollando proyectos artísticos de importancia. Es el caso de la reforma de la fachada principal emprendida por Alonso Cano (1601 – 1667) en 1664 en la que se introducen elementos barrocos.
La magnificencia del proyecto hubiese sido aún mayor si se hubiesen erigido las dos grandes torres de 81 metros de altura previstas en los planos. El proyecto no fue terminado por diversos problemas, entre ellos la muerte de Alonso Cano en 1667, y otros económicos, por lo que finalmente, en 1684, la Catedral quedó con una torre, formada solo por tres cuerpos en lugar de los seis previstos y con un total de 57 metros de altura.
En 1706 Francisco de Hurtado Izquierdo y posteriormente su colaborador José Beda construyen el actual sagrario de la catedral. En él, el autor rompe su tendencia rococó, respetando la sobriedad de líneas y la estructura clásica del resto del templo.
Más info: es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catedral_de_la_Encarnaci%c3%b3n_de_...
'after sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. within decades we must close our eyes again. isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? this is how i answer when i am asked—as i am surprisingly often—why i bother to get up in the mornings.' - richard dawkins, unweaving the rainbow: science, delusion and the appetite for wonder
(about the book, dawkins says: my title is from keats, who believed that newton had destroyed all the poetry of the rainbow by reducing it to the prismatic colors. keats could hardly have been more wrong, and my aim is to guide all who are tempted by a similar view, towards the opposite conclusion. science is, or ought to be, the inspiration for great poetry.)
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it pays for people to know your personal obsessions. i woke up late yesterday morning and started puttering around the house, internet and flickr, minding my own (and the world's) business, when i got an urgent call to rush outside with the camera to capture an ice crystal halo, specifically a circumscibed halo!
i spent about an hour outside from about noon to just past 1:00, trying to find spots to see the halo entirely and a decent post to hide the sun itself... but in vain. i resorted to using my lens cap.
i've sent these over to les cowley at atmospheric optics, a website which analyzises rainbows, halos, glories, coronas, rays and shadows -- anything to do with light in the atmosphere -- to get an idea of the structure of the halo. i also had a chat with my friend, jonathan shock, who believes this halo includes a infralateral arc and a parhelic circle.
EDIT: i just got word from les that he's going to feature these this week on atmospheric optics' picture of the day! :-))
EDIT again: it's up on opod (atmospheric optics of the day)! (opod permalink)
hit it while it's hot! woohoo!
i had captured another halo in beijing in january 2008. its set on flickr is here and its 'anatomy' is here.
jonathan has some wonderful captures himself: two over santiago and one thrilling specimen over the eiffel tower!
cross-posted on the blog: toomanytribbles.blogspot.com/2009/05/unweaving-ice-crysta...
i'm feeling a bit ill today and don't have the energy to process a whole lot of my more recent images -- the best i can offer today is this image of a tavern that's hidden away at the windmills area in chios (tolis has a beautiful gallery). i couldn't see it from the road -- i spotted it only when i was walking around the windmills themselves.
i don't know how, but my train of thought led me to imagine a huge party for flickr friends and contacts, with everyone holding a camera, shooting each other and looking for something interesting.
i'll try to get around to your streams today -- (it cheers me up!) -- but i hope you forgive me if i don't succeed.
on the blog: toomanytribbles.blogspot.com/2009/09/friends-of-gold.html
EDIT: hey, look where my moon candy landed! www.focus.it/natura/gallery/10092009-1252-113-astronomi-p...
See where this picture was taken. [?]
No tripod needed for this one. There's a nice chest high wall that's plenty deep enough to rest a camera on. A beanbag certainly helps and is one of the most useful things in my camera bag... The reason the log at the top of the hill is "frozen" even though this is a 30sec exposure, is ride's flash for the on ride photo. If you look really closely at the "stream" towards the bottom of the picture you can see the blur from other logs coming through.
Pictured:
Splash Mountain
Frontierland
Magic Kingdom
Walt Disney World Resort
Bay Lake, Florida
November, 2008
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Maybe Tomorrow
-stereophonics-
I've been down and
I'm wondering why
These little black clouds
Keep walking around
With me
With me
It wastes time
And I'd rather be high
Think I'll walk me outside
And buy a rainbow smile
But be free
They're all free
So maybe tomorrow
I'll find my way home
So maybe tomorrow
I'll find my way home
I look around at a beautiful life
Been the upperside of down
Been the inside of out
But we breathe
We breathe
I wanna breeze and an open mind
I wanna swim in the ocean
Wanna take my time for me
All me
So maybe tomorrow
I'll find my way home
So maybe tomorrow
I'll find my way home
So maybe tomorrow
I'll find my way home
So maybe tomorrow
I'll find my way home
So maybe tomorrow
I'll find my way home
So maybe tomorrow
I'll find my way home
[fr]: Les jardins du Chateau de Fontainebleau, Seine et Marne, France
[image info]: NOT HDR - Nikon D200 - Nkkor 18-200mm F/3.5-5.6
[Level of Retouching]: 15% (levels, general and local curves, light use of blending modes) - total processing time: 20 minutes
[more...]: THIS IS NOT HDR! ;-)
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Camera : Pentax K-7
Lens : Sigma 50mm f/1.4 EX DG HSM
Exposure : 0.017s (1/60)
Aperture : f/1.4
Focal Length : 50 mm
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Luc Planson, a friend of mine, and I are making a 50|50 in the same time !!!
Please, take a look to his 50|50 Set
Taken @ Upper Peirce Reservoir right before the storm.
Can see the storm is brewing, and had get myself an umbrella tag along just in case it rains...
Well, in this image, I was using the railing to lead the viewing eye though it is not pointing to the 'right' cloud formation direction; while keeping the symmetry of the railing from overlapping each other.
And the cloud is so determine to formed a massive formation though the wind is blowing pretty swiftly and was like wanted to 'eat' out the left over lights during this image where taken...
This is what came to my mind and hope it does tells a story of how determined the cloud is...am I thinking too much already? or talk to much? lolz!
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La estatua ecuestre de Carlos III, considerado popularmente como el mejor alcalde de Madrid, está situada en la Puerta del Sol. Es una reproducción en bronce de Miguel Ángel Rodríguez y Eduardo Zancada de una obra de Juan Pascual de Mena conservada en la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando.
La marca Tío Pepe fue registrada por vez primera en 1888, aunque ya por entonces era conocida y respetada por los exportadores, sobre todo del Reino Unido.
El prestigio del fino “Tío Pepe” fue creciendo hasta que en la tercera década del siglo XX tuvo una expansión inusitada, contribuyendo a ello el ingenio creativo de Luis Pérez Solero, quien en 1935 vistió la botella con chaquetilla roja y sombrero, creando el icono publicitario que hoy es el símbolo de la empresa.
En el año 1935 se solicita el anuncio luminoso de La Puerta del Sol. En un principio no se utiliza el logotipo del Tío Pepe, sino una copa apoyada en la letra G de González Byass y el lema “Vinos Jerez Coñac”. Años después se repara el anuncio y se cambia su diseño por el que podemos ver hoy en día. Desde 1975 se han sucedido diversos intentos de regular la publicidad en la Puerta del Sol quitando los anuncios luminosos que alojaba.
Por unas razones u otras el anuncio de González Byass, el Tío Pepe, ha sobrevivido a estos intentos, por ser considerado parte importante del paisaje de la Puerta del Sol.
En 2009, se declara por el ayuntamiento como patrimonio histórico de los madrileños.
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Epithemia es una diatomea de casco primoroso. En su silueta de galeón de cristal se marcan y transparentan mil cuadernas labradas como en un trabajo de arquitectura minuciosa y casi imposible, escultura y orfebrería a la vez. Quizá por eso Epithemia no navega como lo hacen otras diatomeas y prefiere reposar sobre la superficie de otras algas, algas verdes para recibir la luz del sol.
Las dos piezas del cascarón de Epithemia encajan como la tapa y la base de un estuche que encierra una vida muy especial, la línea de ese encaje es el rafe y en Epithemia es muy característico pues en el centro de esa línea de unión se dibuja de manera nítida el signo de una V, es el sello que llevan todas las hermanas, no muchas, apenas diecisiete especies, todas ellas delicadamente talladas y todas ellas barcos en reposo al abrigo de otras algas mayores que hacen de puerto.
La especie de hoy es una de las mayores de este género singular, se trata de Epithemia turgida , puede superar las cien micras de longitud y suele aparecer en manantiales y riachuelos próximos al mar. Nuestra Epithemia procede también de una muestra recolectada por África en el Barranc Fondo en el Coll D’Alforja en Tarragona y gracias a ella la vemos hoy aquí fotografiada a 400 aumentos con la técnica de contraste de interferencia.
Con nuestra gratitud para Pilar Gil por la publicación en Qúo, a Antonio Martínez Ron ...y también Paul/
Puedes tener otra infomación en la exposición LA VIDA OCULTA DEL AGUA
Y en este catálogo
También en la galería de Fotolog
Y nuestro granito de arena por la Paz
Digamos que esta es de las foto que más me gusta de esta noche, ya que es una simple composición de rocas y cielo, pero la verdad que con luz de luna y la contaminación lumínica de bolnuevo ayuda baste, ya sé que la foto es un poco irreal, le he dado ese color al cielo para simular lo que no es, pero bueno a todos nos gusta soñar un poco con poderlo ver alguna vez, seguramente la próxima foto que suba será la original de esta foto -Playa de Cueva de los Lobos – Bolnuevo.
Nota: Os quiero comunicar que mi estado de baja ya llega a su fin, y que el jueves me incorporo de nuevo al trabajo, asique ya no tendré tanto tiempo para estar por aquí.
Cámara: D40
Modo De Exposición: Manual +Trípode
ISO: 200
Velocidad: 175 Segundos
Hora: 00:03:26
Focal: 18.0 mm
F/ 5.6
Objetivo: 18.0-55.0 mm F/ 3.5 -5.6
Procesado: Light room 2
Camera Raw 4.3
Photoshop Cs 3
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