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“Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.”
Snow and ice surround the outdoor swimming pool at the Star Plunge in Hot Springs State Park located in Thermopolis, Wyoming. The Plunge’s pools are filled with hot water from the hot springs in the park. On this day the air temperature was 8°F. The water in the outdoor pool was 94°F. Nice and warm until you had to get out of the water. It's a good thing the indoor pool was open.
Captured in a fleeting instant, a tern plunges vertically toward the water, wings spread in perfect symmetry, bathed in the warm hues of sunset. A delicate balance of motion and stillness—nature’s choreography in one breathtaking glimpse.
My eldest daughter here taking the plunge into the 45 degrees F river ... a cold refreshing dip from the 100 degrees F air temperature. A nice location there at the beginning of the Grand Canyon.
Part of the Decohead Project. Yes, that's what I'm calling it.
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Night-time version of Phillip Island chicory kiln, created in Luminar 4.2. Experimental day/night swap.
As I mentioned previously while commenting on some of my photos, my artistic approach is a dynamic process and it will likely last forever. I keep redefining my landscape photography vision simply because I constantly develop in the field and switch sources of inspiration. The same compositions, identical photographic styles, non-changing photographic gurus, screaming colours or static photo locations don’t satisfy my artistic desire. So I am in a constant photographic search. My way of landscape photography execution doesn’t involve going to places and shooting the first appealing composition. Instead I like to take risks and come up with new approaches. Before I start shooting, firstly I need to feel the place. And I mean in it in a holistic approach. Each of my photos is a combination of composition, technical skills and deeper connection with the photographed location. One doesn’t exist with the other. I would never go to the place just to take couple photos, but I frequently go to places and explore them even if I don’t shoot. This photo features Brandywine Falls in BC, near Whistler. Every time when I look at this waterfall I reassure myself that it looks more interesting from its very edge than from the bottom. It was a thrilling and adrenaline boosting experience to shoot there again. By the way, it is 70 metres of that plunge.
At a total height of 88 feet, this handsome segmented plunged-based waterfall drops only once and is quite the charm for its audience. Belonging to the North Fork Nooksack River stream and the Nooksack River watershed, this beautiful fall has a dark side; since the 1940s, at least 11 people have met their fate here. More than likely, they were attempting to achieve a better view of the falls, which costed them their lives. Be sure to exercise caution in this rather easy-going environment.
Photo of the top portion of Nooksack Falls, at its drop, captured via Minolta AF-Maxxum 16mm Fisheye F/2.8 lens. Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest. North Cascades Lowland Forests section within the Cascades Region. Whatcom County, Washington. Early September 2022.
Exposure Time: 0.8 sec. * ISO Speed: ISO-100 * Aperture: F/22 * Bracketing: None * Color Temperature: 4900 K
First off you have to have that precision long pointy beak, then you need to stalk in stealth mode, then you have to be extremely patient and finally you have to be lightning quick in order to plunge for your lunch !
Pushing on that trigger is like pulling magic into my very soul...Darrell.
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Brown Pelicans feed by plunge-diving from high up, using the force of impact to stun small fish before scooping them up.
It’s a very exciting experience to observe this amazing species in action!
Sea Pines Preserve, Hilton Head Island, SC, USA
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Dettifoss, Norðurland eystra, Ísland
Standing at the edge of Dettifoss, watching the waters of the Jökulsá á Fjöllum plunge over the waterfall's basalt lip.
The abundant spring waters of Falls Creek plunge over their namesake Falls, attendant mists nurturing aromatic cedar and legions of mosses, Gifford Pinchot National Forest, Washington.
I flew to the Pacific Northwest with my oldest son to visit colleges and to surprise my mother for Mother's Day. It required a great deal of coordination to get my brother to fly out as well, and to keep mother from traveling somewhere that week. With her husband's help, my son and I walked in the door on Sunday afternoon, unannounced. My brother arrived the next day, also unannounced and with an assist from dad.
Once mother's blood pressure returned to safe levels, we made plans to enjoy the few rainless hours we could find forecast for the week, and to visit various places in the Gorge together. Falls Creek joins the Wind River not far downstream from here, and the Wind River makes its way dutifully to the Columbia River after some 15 more miles. This past April was the wettest April ever recorded in the Portland area, and the waterways responded by burgeoning with delight. The landscape is a place of such wonder that one hopes old Gifford was proud to have his name attached to it by the U.S. Government.
Technical notes: Hand-held, single exposure, couldn't sit down due to nearby downed tree and slippery steep rocks. I like Rich Border's monochrome version of this falls better than what I've contributed here, but it's a magical spot so I thought I'd have a go anyway. You should check out Rich's version though, he did an incredible job.
I couldn't believe that such a beautiful waterfall was right under my nose all this time when my brother showed me it recently.. It has this circular plunge pool which I find really pleasing to the eye.
Il sole accenna una forma ad omega, causata dalla rifrazione, prima di immergersi nell'oceano atlantico
Buona giornata
More than 1,040 Plungers jumped into the icy waters in Rochester to raise more than $218,000 for Special Olympics Minnesota on February 11, 2012.
Plunge, by Michael Pinsky
“As a child, I grew up near a reservoir in Scotland. On particularly hot summers, when water was in short supply the level of the reservoir would drop revealing the spire of a church, the highest point of a village which was submerged for a secure clean water supply. This image of a submerged bell tower has stayed with me ever since. If we do not prevent the predicted effects of climate change from occurring this will become the prevailing image of London, towers and monuments encircled by an ever-expanding Thames.”
Michael Pinsky, 2010
Plunge is a simple, elegant statement placed on three monuments in central London. A string of low energy blue LED lights wrapped around each monument marks a time, 1000 years in the future, when sea level rises have changed the city beyond recognition.
The monuments are ones that are passed every day by hundreds of thousands of people, whether tourists who stop to photograph them, or commuters who walk by every day without seeing them. Plunge offers an opportunity to see them in a new light, to think about their place in our history and their place in the city.
Together, the Plunge monuments create an arc across central London, following the line of a future Thames that has swallowed much of the capital in its wake.
Plunge has been created by Michael Pinsky and produced by Artsadmin and LIFT as part of the Imagine 2020 network programme. Supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England, the European Culture Programme, Trust Greenbelt, WWF-UK and the Big Give. In partnership with Royal Parks, Seven Dials Trust and Paternoster Square Management Limited.
Paternoster Square Column, all lit up.
The column was designed by Whitfield Partners, as part of the rejuvenation of the site.
Wren's St Paul's Cathedral, possibly the quintessential example of English Baroque.
Built following the Great Fire of London, when the old cathedral was destroyed, the foundation stone was laid in June 1675, the first service held December 1697, 'topped out' October 1708 and officially declared complete 25 December 1711. The 36 years may seem like a long time, but the previous St Paul's had begun in 1136, consecrated 1240, and completed in 1314 (not helped by a change to the design programme halfway through. So in comparison, Wren's design was almost overnight.
Wren (born 1632) live to see his work complete, dying 25 February 1723. He was buried in St Paul's, in the south-east corner of the crypt.
The inscription, reads:
“ SUBTUS CONDITUR HUIUS ECCLESIÆ ET VRBIS CONDITOR CHRISTOPHORUS WREN, QUI VIXIT ANNOS ULTRA NONAGINTA, NON SIBI SED BONO PUBLICO. LECTOR SI MONUMENTUM REQUIRIS CIRCUMSPICE Obijt XXV Feb: An°: MDCCXXIII Æt: XCI. ”
“ Here in its foundations lies the architect of this church and city, Christopher Wren, who lived beyond ninety years, not for his own profit but for the public good. Reader, if you seek his monument - look around you. Died 25 Feb. 1723, age 91"