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Near the ruins of the old Santa Fe, Prescott and Phoenix rail station. The trail is a reclaimed rail line that meanders through some beautiful desert scapes. It's not a hard trail, maybe 6 miles RT and relatively flat, but it has many surprise for the eyes along the way.
I'd go back tomorrow if there was time enough. I want to catch this place in the morning light.
Camping at Rock Point Provincial camp ground for the August Civic Holiday
Sony A3000 with a Konica Hexanon AR 135mm f3.5 lens at f16
Point Reyes, nördlich von San Francisco" ist eine wilde Halbinsel. Berühmt berüchtigt ist sie u.a., weil der Andreas-Graben, der das schwere Erdbeben von 1906 verursachte, mitten durch dieses Gebiet läuft.
nous suivions les rails pour aller au collège, le cœur battant du danger que l'on défiait. L'odeur du métal nous faisait penser au sang, alors nous nous allongions, l'oreille posée sur le métal pour débusquer le prochain train. Puis le sol se mettait à trembler, notre cœur à battre, nos jambes à se dérober. Nous restions debout sur la voie. Le péril avait des contours flous, réel mais pas véritable. L'ombre de la locomotive grossissait dans le froid et le noir du matin d'hiver. le bruit s'amplifiait, la catastrophe s'annonçait. C'était au dernier qui resterait. nous sentions qu'il 'y avait bien chaque fois un fou parmi nous qui irait trop loin. alors nous cédions en nous jetant sur le bas coté bien avant de sentir le souffle de la locomotive. Le cheminot nous apercevait, l'air éclatait tout à coup du klaxon, et le train passait en nous soufflant sa chaleur dans le fracas de la sirène mêlé au grincement des essieux. Submergés de peur, de bruits et de fureur, nous dévalions les cailloux en éclatant de rire.
Twelve majong tile each with a Zodiac animal display at the outdoor plaza of Chinatown Point for the Chinese New Year festival.
View from Dead Horse Point State Park Utah. Adjacent to Canyonlands National Park. Photo was taken at sunrise standing on the edge with 1000 foot drop off.
I went to scout out some areas for later photo sessions today. My travels took me to the shores of Lake Erie, specifically to Rock Point Provincial Park, just South-East of Dunnville, Ontario. The point is aptly named, as the sedimentary rock shelves project out from the park into Lake Erie, representing a significant navigation hazard in the already very shallow lake. As luck would have it, Rock Point has a big boulder on the 'beach'. I believe it is an erratic, i.e a rock carried here by glacial action some 10,000 years (or so) ago. The composition of the rock appears to be granitic, unlike the local sedimentary rock formations. Mother nature was not particularly cooperative today, bringing periodic snow flurries in the sub-zero (Celsius) temperatures as heavy clouds obscured most of the sky, but kindly providing a small break for the small 'god-beam' phenomenon seen out over the lake. On the shore near the camera position, you can see a heavy deposit of what appears to be gravel, but which is, instead, shells of zebra-mussels. This invasive species is believed to have been introduced in ballast from European sea vessels in 1988 and now is well established in Lake Erie (among other lakes and waterways). - JW
Date Taken: 2014-12-29
Tech Details:
Taken using a tripod-mounted Nikon D7100 fitted with a Nikkor 12-24mm lense set to 12mm, ISO100, Aperture priority mode, f/11 (to get depth of field required), 1/80 sec. PP in free Open Source RAWTherapee: bring up shadows, reduce highlights slightly to preserve detail in 'god-beam' area, slightly increase black level, boost vibrance, apply noise reduction, sharpen. PP in free Open Source GIMP: load image twice as layers, bottom layer for sky and top layer for shore, adjust the shore layer tone curve to get a good looking shore area disregarding the impact on the sky, adjust the tone curve of the sky layer to get good contrast and highlights disregarding the impact on the shore area, use a soft edged eraser tool to remove the sky from the top/shore layer revealing the better sky in the layer below, create new working layer from the visible result, increase saturation to bring out the colours in the boulder, slightly boost contrast and reduce brightness to get a more natural (to me) look), sharpen, add fine black and white frame, add bar and text on left, scale to 1800 wide for posting.
Cadet Mike Viti stands uncovered in formation behind his classmates during the Graduation Parade at the United States Military Academy at West Point on Friday, May 30, 2008. Vitti, a cadet regimental commander and captain of the football will graduate tomorrow. Times Herald-Record/CHET GORDON
A sunset view of Sea Point promenade, facing the Atlantic Ocean at Cape Town, South Africa, with Lion's Head in the background.
More South-African seascapes, landscapes, nightscapes and fantasyscapes on my website: giampierotorello.smugmug.com/
I captured this image of the Point Arena Lighthouse during a recent trek through Point Arena, California.
We didn't expected it but when returning from North Ronaldsay the ferry didn't go between the islands but around Sanday so tried to take a few shots as the sea was wild at that time.
Coach Point: (A16 CPX) a Van Hool Alizee bodied Volvo B10M-62, painted in all white livery with fleet names, when it was captured here parked on the Hertfordshire County Showground site whilst attending the 2019 Showbus event
© Christopher Lowe.
Date: 29th September 2019.
Ref No. 0041090.
"When the whole universe weighs upon us there is no other
counterweight possible but God himself--the true God, for in
this case false gods cannot do anything, not even under the name
of the true one. Evil is infinite in the sense of being indefinite:
matter, space, time. Nothing can overcome this kind of infinity
except the true infinity. That is why on the balance of the cross a
body which was frail and light but which was God, lifted up the
whole world. 'Give me a point of leverage and I will lift up the
world.' This point of leverage is the cross. There can be no other.
It has to be at the intersection of the world and that which is not
the world. The cross is this intersection."
~ Simone Weil
Gravity and Grace
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*Photograph composition was created for the Our Daily Challenge topic:
A BALANCING ACT
Architects: Rosemary Stjernstedt, A.W.Cleeve Barr and Oliver Cox of the LCC's Housing Division, 1955. Point block with in-situ concrete frame, the floor plates providing horizontal banding. Curved services enclosure on flat roof. Projecting balconies, with original panelling according to Grade 2 listing. Alton East Estate, Roehampton, London Borough of Wandsworth.
(CC BY-NC-ND - credit: Images George Rex)
This is a quiet place near the echo point. Lover’s paradise and a good place for photography.
Venue : Echo Point, Near Mattupetty dam, Munnar, Kerala, India
Lens : Canon 18-55mm F3.5-5.6 IS
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The remains of on old jetty at Cleveland Point in South East Queensland. Shot with a Tokina 12-24mm f/4 lens using a B+W 0.9 ND filter and a 3 stop soft grad Lee Filter.
Point and Shoot - Nikon P100
HDR Effex Pro
Topaz DeNoise
Silver Effex Pro
Was lucky enough to catch this on my beach walk during the winter months.