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Locked in on some north pacific humpback whale activity in Mamala Bay.. off the southern coast of Oahu Island, Hawaii.
Stanier Black Five 45305 emerges from Loughborough with great style on a positioning move to head the 11.15 departure
Before the latest snowicane hit our beloved state, my wife and I made a quick sojourn to see how various wildlife was anticipating what was to come. For whatever reason, within a few miles out of town, we were able to spot a half dozen eagles flying about. A couple of them were carrying Florida maps, not sure what that was about.
I saw one eagle flying toward our vehicle but by the time I had stopped, grabbed my camera and opened the door, all I was able to snap was an in-focus shot of his posterior. But before I could climb back into our vehicle, this one came from out of the western skies and I was a little better prepared.
When I photograph flying eagles, I try to get different positioning of their wings. If I am close enough like for this photo, wings in an open position show off the wonderful texture and color of their feathers.
Not everyone shares my enthusiasm for eagles. I laughed one time when I posted an eagle shot on a site and a fellow from Alaska was not very impressed. He said in their area eagles were considered a nuisance and looked on as just more colorful crows.
(Photographed near Cambridge, MN)
Highest position: #396 on Saturday, January 16, 2016
Clouds over Straits of Juan De Fuca , taken from the old Checkerboard House in Beacon Hill Park .
Highest position # 2 - thank you!
Haven't been doing very well with my 52 wks project thus far, but I was immediately inspired and motivated by this theme! :)
A young Thai teenager paddles his flat boat into position along the canals of Damnoen Saduak Floating Market near Bangkok, Thailand.
Highest position: 470 on Monday, February 13, 2017
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America first
German second?
We built a great german wall.
Just built it!
And we made the russians pay for it
So great! I totally love it.
And by the way, when you push the red botton to destroy Germany with nuclear weapons, this is how Germany looks like on map.
Fake
lol
fun
German Comedian Launches Global Trump Roast
Another view while still positioned below the Lower Bridge.
The Falls of Bruar are a series of waterfalls on the Bruar Water in Scotland, about 8 miles from Pitlochry in the council area of Perth and Kinross. They have been a tourist attraction since the 18th century and were immortalized in a poem by Robert Burns, The Humble Petition of Bruar Water to the Noble Duke of Atholl, supposedly from the river itself entreating the Duke to plant some trees in the then barren landscape. The falls were probably formed some time in the last 10,000 years, after the retreat of the glaciers at the end of the last ice age. The waters slowly cut through the rock which had been pushed up by the geological forces which formed the Scottish Highlands some 500 million years ago. The layering of the rocks means that the water has cut a meandering path through the softer rock and left the harder rock untouched. This has led to the creation of deep pools, outcrops and, in one place, a natural arch. The falls consist of two large falls and a number of smaller drops. The water is often coloured brown from the peat through which it flows. Nowadays, the A9 Perth to Inverness road passes near the foot of the falls in Glen Garry, and there is a shopping centre and car park from where visitors may access the falls. A circular footpath leads up to the Lower Bridge, close to the natural arch, and continues on to the Upper Bridge, about 1/2 mile from the car park, before returning down the opposite bank. The total drop of the falls is about 60 metres. The narrowness of the gorge means that the falls are most impressive after heavy rain, but since the construction of a hydroelectric power scheme in the late 1940s, water is extracted farther up the river and the falls no longer reach the volumes they once did. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falls_of_Bruar
A gull perches atop a riverside pier in downtown Chicago, Illinois.
Nikon D5100, Tamron 18-270, ISO 400, f/6.3, 250mm, 1/250s
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Explored #255 : Highest position 163
The shot
3 exposures [-2,0,+2Ev] in Raw
Photoshop
° Converted to black and white with the corresponding filter, this works much better than the desaturation filter, since you can perfectly control how all colours convert to their grayscale equivalent.
° Used the tint option to about 5%
° Used the mask of the adjustment layer created above to selectively get some more colours where the lamps are shining.
° High pass sharpening, see below.
° My photoshop tutorial on Layers, Masks, Selections & Channels.
° Channel mixer tutorial to remove lens flare spots.
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I'm currently reworking some of my images to a near black & white version or at least a dimmed version, sometimes with a dash or spot of colour, just like here.
This is the 5th of the new batch.
Mechelen train station.
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Thanks everyone for my 254 explore entries !!!!
It was early in the morning,and a little bit raining.
Many frogs appered at the lotus pond.
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Highest position in Explore = #2 on April 6th, 2009, thank you for all comments and support!
This is a shot of a surfer taking on a big wave in the famous “Pipeline” area of the North Shore on Oahu. I was just fascinated with the surfers on the North Shore and spent 2 whole days on my last vacation there. The ocean was chaotic this day and there was a big swell that had moved in that had many of the waves reaching about 15 feet in size! The waves were very difficult to judge and many of the barrels would close on the surfers before they could make it out. I also heard on the news that there were several injuries this day. Glad to report that this guy took on one of the biggest waves I saw and made it out cleanly! It was just awesome to watch and I really like how you can see the spray as he put his hand out to touch the wave, almost like he was feeling it.
For this shot, I used my 70-200mm f2.8 lens with a 2x extender on my Nikon D300, which allowed me to get the equivalent focal length of about 600mm. This is a pseudo-hdr created from 1 RAW file. Then, just standard post processing (levels, curves, contrast) in Photoshop. Hope you all have a fantastic week!
Explore highest position 277 on Saturday, December 20, 2008, Thank you!
No invitation to this picture please as it is only me myself ;-), all alterations (especially scales and other wormy signs on my skin!) done by my partner -Marcin.
thanks for all your comments and never ending support. It means so much to me.
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Thank you dear friends for your support, and for your faves and kind comments, very much appreciated - deaR♥‿♥
-EXPLORED- Best Position #125
Little Blue Heron (Egretta Caerulea)
Taken with a Sigma 50-500mm laying on the ground. I got on my stomach and scooted toward this fellow for a half hour so I could get him in full frame without cropping. I did this because of all the tiny detail in the wings that is hard to see when something is the same color all over. Well I did not realize it at the time but I was crawling through a mine field of goose $#!*, so there went that shirt. I hope everyone enjoys this photo because the next time I crawl through crap the subject I am trying to catch better be something more interesting that a heron.
The excavated remains of the Forum can be seen in the foreground. In the back ground is the replica Roman Town House constructed using traditional tools in 2010/11 for a Channel 4 documentary series.
For more photographs of Wroxeter Roman City, please click here: www.jhluxton.com/England/Shropshire/Wroxeter-Roman-City/
Roman Wroxeter, near the end of the Watling Street Roman road that ran across Romanised Celtic Britain from Dubris (Dover), was a key frontier position lying on the bank of the River Severn whose valley penetrated deep into what later became Wales, and also on a route south leading to the Wye valley.
Archaeology has shown that the site of the later city first was established about AD 55 as a frontier post for a Thracian legionary cohort located at a fort near the Severn river crossing. A few years later a legionary fortress (castrum) was built within the site of the later city for the Legio XIV Gemina during their invasion of Wales.
The local British tribe of the Cornovii had their original capital (also thought to have been named *Uiroconion) at the hillfort on the Wrekin. When the Cornovii were eventually subdued their capital was moved to Wroxeter and given its Roman name.
This legion XIV Gemina was later replaced by the Legio XX Valeria Victrix which in turn relocated to Chester around AD 88. As the military abandoned the fortress the site was taken over by the Cornovians' civilian settlement.
The name of the settlement, meaning "Viroconium of the Cornovians", preserves a native Brittonic name that has been reconstructed as *Uiroconion.
Viroconium prospered over the next century, with the construction of many public buildings, including thermae and a colonnaded forum. At its peak, it is thought to have been the 4th-largest settlement in Roman Britain, with a population of more than 15,000.
Following the Roman withdrawal from Britain around AD 410, the Cornovians seem to have divided into Pengwern and Powys. The minor Magonsæte sub-kingdom also emerged in the area in the interlude between Powysian and Mercian rule. Viroconium may have served as the early post-Roman capital of Powys prior to its removal to Mathrafal sometime before 717, following famine and plague in the area.
The Roman city was rediscovered in 1859 when workmen began excavating the baths complex. A replica Roman villa was constructed in 2010 for a Channel 4 television programme called Rome Wasn't Built in a Day and was opened to the public on 19 February 2011.
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Highest Position in Explore #88 December 17, 2010 Thank You!
I have always wanted a shot of the Mukilteo Lighthouse with it's Christmas lights on. I really wanted some snow on it, but the lights were not on it when we had our last snow in November. I usually will not do a straight on shot of a building because of the distortion that is created by the camera lens, which I fixed somewhat in Photoshop with a perspective crop.
As I might create a Christmas card out of this, I did not want one of the Washington State Ferries in the shot. I have another from my usual side angle that has a ferry in it, but I thought it would distract from the lighthouse in this case. Here is one of my older shots: www.flickr.com/photos/fresnatic/4832194029/
This is three exposures (-2,0,+2) merged and tonemapped in Photomatix 4.0. Oh how I love the new de-ghosting tool in Photomatix 4.0. The wind was blowing at a good clip, so those icicle lights were moving during the lengthened exposures. I perspective cropped in Photoshop CS5 and erased some of the ghosting that Photomatix did not take care of. Added the Vignette in Lightroom 3.0.
Thank you for the views, comments and faves. I appreciate them. I also want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Highest explore position: 372 on Tuesday, February 24, 2009
è arrivato, il tempo di percorrere la fondamenta dell'isola, per arrivare di fronte alla torretta, guardare lontano e poi sparire...
Duart Castle positioned on a high crag at the end of a peninsula jutting into the Sound of Mull. The Keep was built by Chief Lachlan Lubanach Maclean and on the vulnerable landward side is 29 feet high and 10 feet thick. The walls facing the sea are less thick ranging from 5 to 9 feet. The castle dates back to the 13th century and is the seat of Clan MacLean and is still lived in by the 28th Chief of the Clan. The castle was closed when I was there, but is open to the public and often used as the venue for a wedding. There has been scaffolding here for quite a while, hopefully it will soon be repaired and removed.
Sweet ballerina feet from years ago. Ran across this image when I was cleaning up the art room again this morning. 💕💕💕Made my heart happy.
Male Cuckoo on top of a dead tree on the other side of the river.
They adopt this wing and body positon when calling 'Cuckoo!'.
Did a bit of research - one study found that male cuckoos adopted a certain posture, wing drooping, and tended to keep their tails up more frequently in areas with the highest versus lowest host nest densities. This is consistent with these behaviours acting as potential signals (to females) codifying information on nest abundance in the area.
On the side of a huge square rock on Breakwater falls is this rock cap fern just clinging to life. It's only a couple inches wide. Check out that all the fronds are producing spores - I guess when under pressure, life goes all out!
Explored! Highest Position: #84
Let's take a step off the island and make our way a little south to the Highlands of Scotland.
I simply couldn't get enough of this country's breathtaking landscapes and incredible cities. Thus making it my second favourite country that we explored while abroad.
This is a scene I photographed while we drove towards Isle of Skye in the Highlands. Definitely one of the most memorable drives of my life.
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