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Fun photoshoot taken this morning at a small town about 40 minutes drive from Kuching City. Enjoy the series of photos of this talented young lady, Shefflene and have a prolific weekend my flick friends...
Talent : Shefflene
Location : Siniawan Town, Bau
Nikon D700 + Nikon 80-200mm f/2.8 AF-D + Reflector + Handheld
It's all about light...Took this picture of a friend while on a wedding assignment last Saturday...Have a great weekend and thank you for viewing my stream...
Nikon D90 + Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G AF-S VR II + Available light + Handheld
Crocus vernus 'Pickwick'; translated: Spring Crocus 'Pickwick' ( 'Pickwick' denotes the hybrid name, but I have no idea why it is called thus; I can hardly imagine a connection either to Dickens or to the syndrome of the same name). Anyway, this crocus belongs to the Iridaceae, and the name is derived from the Latin Crocatus back via the Greek form to Hebrew, Persian and Arabic forms such as 'kurkam', all meaning something like 'saffron', refering to the yellow stamens.
The crocus is said to have been introduced to Europe through the efforts of Ogier Ghiselain de Busbecq (Augerius Gislenius Busbequius; 1520/1521-1592), the illegitimate son of a nobleman from the northern French town of - yes! - Bousbecque. A smart young man who had studied at the famed Leuven university, he entered public and diplomatic service under the Habsburg Emperor Ferdinand I. For many years the Empire's ambassador at 'The Sublime Port', otherwise known as Istanbul, the seat of the Ottoman Emperor Suleiman the Magnificent, he wrote a series of letters to a friend in Flanders. These letters outlined not only politics but also all kinds of anthropological, historical, linguistic,biological and botanist discoveries which Augerius made in his travels throughout Turkey. The modern publisher of the letters and Busbecq's biographer lives in Haren, where the Hortus is that gave life to the pictured exemplar. He named his eldest son after his hero.
Busbecq sent bulbs of the crocus to Holland, among others to his friend Carolus Clusius (1526-1594) who, after having established a Hortus in Vienna around 1573, had now found hospitality in Leiden at the Hortus Academicus. The crocus thrived under his care and soon spread throughout western Europe. Actually, Clusius is more famous for his cultivation and scientific study of the tulip (also imported from Turkey), which led to the so-called Tulip Craze (Tulpimania) which caused stock market values for tulips to rise to unprecedented levels. They then suddenly fell, losing enormous sums of money for their owners.
The Haren Hortus goes back on the univeristy Hortus of Groningen, which was established in 1626 (twelve years after the founding of that university) by Hendrick Munting (botantist and apothecary; 1583-1658). It was moved to Haren in 1967 and it is the largest botanical garden in the Netherlands.
With a glint in his eye!
Bald Eagle at Colvill Park, Red Wing Minnesota. Photographed February 1, 2008
See more photos at www.lhrimages.com.
Playing with some interesting images, but using some of the editing software from Zoom Browser EX by Canon.
All image in this series have been played with and edited. "Perceptual Distortion"
Teeny tiny mushrooms. At least that's what I'm calling them. I found these while gardening in the backyard.
Donde hace muchos reinos cayeron los muros, se abatieron las rejas....
Pero seguimos aquÃ, sin avanzar un paso, ya no hay guardias ni celadores.
The old world charm
Photo car: www.freestockphotos.biz/
4 texture
Photoshop: pen tool
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A burnt out fallen tree after the fire at Thompsons Point near the mouth of the Fitzroy River.
After a year of record rain in 2008 we are approaching a 6 month dry spell. Australia has an awful record when it comes to bush fire tragedies. We need rain.
C'est le tango des forts en thème
Boutonneux jusqu'à l'extrême
Et qui recouvrent de laine
Leur cœur qui est déjà froid
C'est le tango des forts en rien
Qui déclinent de chagrin
Et qui seront pharmaciens
Parce que papa ne l'était pas
C'est le temps où j'étais dernier
Car ce tango rosa rosae
J'inclinais à lui préférer
Déjà ma cousine Rosa
Rosa rosa rosam
Rosae rosae rosa
Rosae rosae rosas
Rosarum rosis rosis
J. Brel
This is a single bloom of beautiful free flowering "Florabuna" rose, however this rose can and in most cases has many blooms per stem, very bright and showy in the garden...
Purmamarca - Jujuy - Argentina
Cerro de los Siete Colores
La Quebrada de Humahuaca es patrimonio cultural de la humanidad y figura entre las contadas maravillas del mundo.
Producto de una compleja historia geológica, sus distintas capas de colores son el resultado de los sedimentos marinos, lacustres y fluviales que desde hace 600 millones de años se fueron depositando en la zona, y que luego, por movimientos tectónicos, adquirieron la ubicación actual.
Su increÃble belleza hizo de él la imagen de difusión de la Argentina turÃstica en todo el mundo y sirvió de marco a innumerables comerciales y espectáculos nacionales e internacionales.
Fuente: www.cerrodelos7colores.com.ar/
Otras fotos del Cerro sacadas por mi:
www.flickr.com/photos/obfotito/2372757076/
www.flickr.com/photos/obfotito/3410148393/
Purmamarca
Este pueblo está a 2190 metros sobre el nivel del mar y dependió originalmente de la parroquia de Humahuaca.
La prosperidad relativa del lugar tuvo relación con la ruta hacia el altiplano, pero la importancia de ésta disminuyó en el siglo XXl.
Por esto, la fisonomÃa general corresponde a un poblado de siglo XIX que se mantuvo casi intacto.
El gran marco escénico del lugar está formado por los cerros del borde de la quebrada, los de Siete Colores y otros menores, también de arenisca rugosa y rojiza.
El conjunto lo completa la traza rectilÃnea del pueblo, con el cementerio en uno de sus costados y el volumen de la iglesia y su plaza-jardÃn en lo alto.
2.8.08 -dedicated to Franz !! who wanted to see the bloom of the tiny lille bud - see the other foto " yellow bud" + the red seed pods...
the bloom is just a centimeter in diameter.
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view also on black+large : View On Black
elikozoe comments: The colors! Like a shiny golden lemon pie :)
Golden Dahlia - For Tom
Thank you, Tom, for your testimonial and kind words about me. I think the highly photogenic Dahlia flower has created quite a fervor around here as so many of us love to capture its unique beauty...go see Tom's stream at TLPhotography66 if you are as crazy about this flower as we are. It is loaded with all kinds of gorgeous Dahlias!
so I had a date night with my hubby while my mom watched Logan... what does a girl to bring on a date?! tripod, her camera and a speedlight lol....
we had fun though:)
I vignetted the original pic. Not sure if I like it as much, but I love the colors that came out in the "portal"!
From my "Sugar Mill Gardens 2"m "My Favorites" and "Dark Vignettes" sets- Please visit!
View On Black (Large)
Explore #219, Nov. 28, 2008