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The garbage dump in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. April 2004
Children picking garbage for recycling.
I took this photo on my first trip to Cambodia, when I was starting photography, I just got my first dSLR camera and went travelling to Cambodia and by chance ended up at that garbage dump - two ladies from my guesthouse working for an NGO told me to go and see it. So I spent my last few days visiting Stung Meanchey.
I returned to that place a year later to work on my first story.
A 600 seconds (10 minutes) long exposure, using Lee Filter "Super Stopper".
The Naviglio Pavese is one of the canals making up the Navigli system in Lombardy, Italy. Once navigable, it is 33 km (21 mi) long and connected the city of Milan to Pavia, and through a flight of six locks to the River Ticino.
Construction started in 1564, but was interrupted 20 years later just outside Milan due to technical problems: the lock there is still called Conca Fallata, which in Italian means "Failed Lock". Building resumed at the beginning of the 19th century and was completed in 1819.
The canal was finally closed to navigation in the 1960s, but work has recently started to restore it back to full navigation, a link in the project to connect Switzerland to Venice by inland waterway.
Swara Lannock's tail lashed back and forth behind him slowly as he unknowingly drew that rough, pink tongue across his dark hued lips. Battered and nicked ears flicked at the voices that rose up from below, listening intently to what he could catch of the conversation as he continued to keep that unflinching stare of rust colored eyes fixed on Guin. He wondered for a moment about her reaction if she would spot him perched up here...he wasn't trying to hide any longer. Spotted fingers drifted to his belt again to pull out another small object, this time dropping it straight down below him where it would land with a dull crack. His head tilting to one side curiously.
Sebastian Ricks tilts his head. "They're the rooster crowing on top of the dungheap, bonita. Or they think they are. Makes them want to strut. Not surprised they're visiting the church. From what I know of the UAC, they don't like it when their playthings get away. Or forget their place." The soft clatter behind him makes him turn. He glances at the floor, then casually lifts his eyes to the balcony above. "Oh look, bonita," he drawls. "A furry cockroach."
Guinevere Fouroux's lips twist in a dry smile, rather enjoying the image of UAC soldiers as preening roosters... she only wishes they were so powerless. "Nothing but bullies," she mutters, but before she can say anything else something drops to the carpet behind him. Her eyes drop, brow furrowing, and she steps closer to it as she sees Bastian look up. Crouching, she reaches out with tentative fingers, then draws back sharply. "It's a bone," she whispers, then follows his gaze. Her breath catches. White... white and gray, and it's all she remembers. Everything and nothing. She stumbles back, back to her feet, eyes on the balcony. "I think... " She swallows, and blinks rapidly. "I think that's him... "
Sebastian Ricks steps past Guin. He rolls the bone toward him with his boot, then crouches with absent grace to pick it up. "Finger bone," he clarifies. It vanishes into his pocket as if it had never been. "The one who bit you?" he asks, cocking his head to eye the cat perched over their heads. With a cold, bright grin, he straightens and gives the cat a mocking wave. "Hey there, ese. Back for seconds?"
Swara Lannock's mouth drew into a wide wolfish grin as she looked up, two thick carnivorous fangs peeking out from beneath his upper lip, not the type of fangs you would expect on a neko, these were made distinctly big cat incisors. His tail swayed wildly, enough so that the tip would be seen swinging up from behind the low wall he perched on. It was apparent he gained far too much amusement from the woman's reaction. He watched with curious eyes as the finger bone was scooped up and deposited away like some trinket..his trinket to be exact. "You smell, delicious...ape" he murred in a playful, yet dangerous tone. The male's words didn't go unheard, he just chose to let them go unanswered for now.
Sebastian Ricks folds his arms over his chest in a flutter of black lace cuffs. "Eh, bonita, what are you gonna do? Like being chased down by a rabid dog, hey?" He watches the cat with a sly smile. "Just a dumb animal. Don't know no better."
I'm having problems with Flickr at the moment so my uploading is a bit all over the place. Apparently it might be a browser issue so I've logged on under MS Edge as opposed to Google Chrome which seems to help.
Anyways, having got the Met Line to Amersham on Saturday 25th with the bike I wanted to check out some locations not previously tried, to photograph the Met Line Heritage workings. These were terminating here in Platform 1 over the weekend. As it turns out the public footbridge that crosses the station was a pretty good spot. It's linked to the station footbridge as it happens but the connecting doors were padlocked shut. But with the sun in the right place, I shot Met Electric No.12 'Sarah Siddons' bringing in Train 746 on one of the afternoon workings from Watford. Right behind her is the LT Observation Saloon 'Florence Nightingale' with the LT 4TC set behind her. 20 142 'Sir John Betjeman' is on the rear. Sarah Siddons was one of 20 Metropolitan Line Electrics that were built between 1922 and 1923 making her over 100 years old! The only other example is No.5 'John Hampden' currently in the LT Museum in Covent Garden.
Darth Vader: Impressive. Most impressive. Your lightsaber is invincible!
The Emperor: Patience, my friend. In time you will understand the true power of the Dark Side.
Darth Vader: As you wish.
Darth Vader: [Darth Vader's mechanical breathing here]
Yeah, it was fun to do this. Seriously! And all this is all in-camera, except the watermark on the left corner...
When shooting butterflies at the Haga Ocean butterfly house in Solna, Sweden, I can't use a flash as it is prohibited. This means either using high ISO (whcih I don't like) or circumventing the problem with a tripod (which works great). The thing with tripod photography is that pressing the shutter release induces shake so I want to use a wired shutter release.
I have one of those, but the thing is that it only works occasionally which is very annoying and forcing me to use the camera's self-timer with either a 2 or a 10 second delay.
The butterfly in this photo is a rusty-tipped page (Siproeta epaphus) and it is fairly obvious where it got that name from. In German, this one is called " Schokoladenfalter" which I really like as well as it means "chocolate butterfly".
Anyways, after taking this shot, I was hoping to get another one with the wings closed but since the wired shutter was not working again, I went with the self-timer and I watched it count down from 10 and whe it came to 2 - the butterfly opened the wings again.
When I got home, I started looking for replacement wired shutter-release and then I sort of stumbled on the solution: The camera has to be turned off when the wire is connected! If I connect it, take a shot and then wait too long before taking the next shot so the camera goes into standby - it won't work when I wake it up again. It needs to be switchd off completely in-between shots.
While I'm glad to have found a solution, I can't help thinking this is poor engineering on Canon''s part. Why make standby mode effectively meaningless when shooting with a wired shutter release?
Here is another shot of this one from a different angle: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52719788021/
Estou um pouco sem tempo para posta fotos,e um pouco perdidas com alguns problemas,quando eu conseguir me organizar volto a colocar fotos!Bjus!!
A bonus "Friday Face" this week. I don't understand Japanese. However, it was quite possible to interpret what was going on in this photo.
I saw the passenger get up from her seat, but too late to get off the train at her stop. She had probably nodded off as so many people do on Japanese public transport. She walked down the train to find the conductress. The conductress very politely invited her to sit down opposite us and came back a couple of minutes later with information that she should get off at a particular station to connect with a service going the opposite way. Something was then written on the ticket which I imagine gave the lady a free ride back down the line.
Flickr Explore # 397 Sunday, May 8, 2016
Just posted this as there was a discussion going on a FB page about waders having problems with bivalves clamping on to their bills (and feet) and I'd be interested to know if anyone else has seen the same. This bird was taken at Blackness Castle in late October 2012
La Ciudad de Santiago tiene un serio problema con el tráfico vehicular en ciertos sectores. Con un parque automotriz estimado en torno a los 2,000,000 de vehÃculos conviviendo en un área metropolitana de casi 7,000,000 de personas, algunos caminos, calles, avenidas y/o autopistas simplemente colapsan en hora punta (bueno, incluso ya no solamente en la hora punta), tal como expresa esta fotografÃa tomada en plena comuna de Las Condes, en la Avenida Manquehue, y especÃficamente cerca del barrio Nueva Las Condes, donde muchas empresas han relocalizado sus instalaciones.
Santiago has a problem with the traffic in certain places. With 2,000,000 cars in our metropolitan area, some roads, avenues and motorways collapsed at rush hour, like this picture taken in Las Condes neighbourhood, where is placed the new financial district.
C'era qualcosa lassù che col passare del tempo divenne per me sempre più importante: il silenzio. E' un'esperienza a cui non siamo pià abituati. Lassù faceva da sottofondo a tutte le esperienze.
(...)
Meraviglioso, il silenzio! Eppure noi moderni, forse perchè lo identifichiamo con la morte, lo evitiamo, ne abbiamo quasi paura. Abbiamo perso l'abitudine a stare zitti, a stare soli. Se abbiamo un problema, se ci sentiamo prendere dallo sgomento, preferiamo correre a frastornarci con qualche rumore, a mischiarci a una folla anzichè mettereci da una parte, in silenzio, a riflettere. Uno sbaglio, perchè il silenzio è l'esperienza originaria dell'uomo. Senza silenzio non c'è parola. Non c'è musica. Senza silenzio non si sente. Solo nel silenzio è possibile tornare in sintonia con noi stessi, ritrovare il legame fra il nostro corpo e tutto-quel-che-ci-sta-dietro.
(da Un altro giro di giostra - Tiziano Terzani)
[la post-produzione è di Lola che è stata bravissima a crearla esattamente come la volevo. GRAZIE, per questo e per il resto! :) :*]
Over the last 24 hours I have received no notifications of any new photographs you may have added to your photo steams. Hopefully it will soon be sorted and I will be able to catch up with you all.
Have a wonderful weekend x
.....with a long and sharp beak design (see one image earlier) is that food has to be swallowed whole.
Interesting facts: The Great Blue Heron is the largest N.American heron.
Average size : L 46"(117cm) with a wingspan of 72"(183 cm.).
Herons have been known to choke on prey that is too large.- Wikipedia encyclopedia
Forth & Clyde Canal
This is an image from our day trip to Glen Coe a week ago, when lets say we had one of the best days photography for a long time. The weather was perfect, the only problem was we left before the stunning sunset that evening, after thinking it wasn't going to turn into anything.
As we were heading back towards Helensburgh and Dumbarton the skies started to do something, going through every possible sunset colour there is. I decided to try and find a subject somewhere nearby and after living in the area for six years I knew a couple of spots. I chose the Forth & Clyde Canal near Bowling.
This was one of those times when the stop paid off and the shot worked out.
Please feel free to share with your friends and family if you would like to.
© Brian Kerr Photography 2015
Almanacco del 10 dicembre :
Molti problemi nascono dall'agire senza pensare.
E molti dal continuare a pensare senza agire...
La foce del torrente Impero, da cui deriva il nome della città , in una fredda giornata d'autunno
Imperia, Liguria
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Rabbits were introduced to New Zealand in the 1840s for food and sport but as there were no predators they soon became a pest, reaching plague proportions in some areas. I was told to look for a huge rabbit in this Wellington garden and sure enough ...
Most people living in the UK will have a good idea of what my home county holds for the visitor, even if they've never been here. "Hmm, Cornwall," many of them say to us when we're on our own travels. "Long way down the country to get there. Nice beaches. We went to Newquay one year," or "We like to go to Stein's in Padstow. Have you been there?" In spite of the fact that we have been in possession of an unused voucher for the place since July last year, we still haven't been there. It may be a statistical fact that half of the celebrity chefs in Britain have a restaurant somewhere within 30 miles of where I live. Personally I favour Greg and Lou's fish and chip shop in Redruth, two miles from home, or Manha Spice in Illogan. As far as I'm aware, neither of the proprietors of these establishments have held down a regular slot on prime time television, but then their prices don't involve parting with family heirlooms to pay the bill and their fare is more than good enough to please my simple palate as well. Nobody has ever mentioned Redruth or Illogan in one of those awkward moments on foreign soil when strangers attempt to engage us in conversation about where we come from. I like it that way. I should stress that I have no affiliation with either establishment and will not benefit financially or otherwise if you take this as a recommendation to visit them. Although they could do me a chip butty and a Chicken Jalfrezi if they like. Not at the same time though - I'm not entirely unrefined.
Still, one thing the wider world is right about is our coast. Surrounded by the sea on three sides and attached to the rest of England by a handful of miles in the north east corner it's stunning, whatever the season. Wild, windswept and remote it's a place that visitors have been coming to for far longer than any of us have been on the planet. Enormous sandy sweeps backed by dunes, small rocky inlets and coves, and pretty harbours filled with fishing boats draw them in their droves. Generally speaking, people know we have a coastline.
What we're less famous for is our rivers. The country isn't long, wide or flat enough to have many broad sweeping meanders plotting their way through sunlit meadows past nodding willows and sleepy villages. But some of the ones we do have are spectacular. The River Fowey (pronounced Foy - just to set you on the right foot with the locals) crashes down from the wilderness of Bodmin Moor, making its way southwards until it meets the sea at the town of the same name (also pronounced Foy). I can sit and watch it happily for hours.
And that's exactly what I did on Saturday at Golitha Falls. I was here a couple of months earlier in the same position, taking more or less the same picture. When I got home I was disappointed by the glare on the surface of the river and decided I must have forgotten to spin the polariser. Cursing myself for a schoolboy error I vowed to return, only to find that the problem persisted. I'd evidently done everything I could have the previous time, but failed to appreciate that the filter wasn't going to remove all of the glare. I guess it's something we're all just going to have to live with.
In a couple of weeks I'm going to head there again. While many of you live further north in the UK and are seeing the colours change already, the leaves are still mostly green down here in the far South West. I want them to be red, brown and gold, but it seems I need to wait a while longer. I love having a reason to need to go back.
Taken @ Serendipitous Sands
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One for the money, two for the show
I never was ready, so I watch you go
Sometimes you just don't know the answer
'Til someone's on their knees and asks you
"She would've made such a lovely bride
What a shame she's fucked in the head, " they said
But you'll find the real thing instead
She'll patch up your tapestry that I shred
And hold your hand while dancing
Never leave you standing
Crestfallen on the landing
With champagne problems
This is a concept I dreamed up about people that solve problems all day, people issues, technical issues. Spending your whole day solving problems! This is how I feel most days! hence the epitome of puzzles.. behold the Rubix breakfast! Solving problems from the moment you wake!
Problem with Flikr this evening, your photos posted today (18/03) are not displayed. I hope to be able to view them (and comment
on them) as soon as possible.
Problème avec Flikr ce soir , vos photos postées ce jour (18/03) ne s'affichent pas . J'espère pouvoir les visionner (et commenter) dès que possible .
Do light pollution filter improve astro imaging from moderately light polluted sites?
The theory is clear: These filters help to reduce the sky glow from warm light sources, especially sodium vapor streetlights, but they will not help much against the newer generation of LED lights. While you therefore cannot expect wonders, you should be able achieve better contrast from sites with a fair amount of older streetlights.
On the other hand, I have never done a comparison of what I can achieve with and without one of these filters. While taking my first Milky Way core shots of this season from a Bortle class 4 site, I took the chance and shot same panorama back to back, first without and then with my light pollution filter.
During post processing, I independently processed both panoramas with my normal workflow. The results show that it is possible to correct moderate light pollution during post processing to a big extent, but processing the unfiltered image was more difficult and there still is slightly better contrast in the filtered image.
In the filtered image however, the brightest stars and Jupiter on the very left have slightly more glare and if there is stray light, I have a hard time controlling reflections, as I cannot attach the lens hood with my 150mm filter holder in place.
Another drawback of any filter is that it reduces the light arriving at the sensor. With the light pollution, I lose about halve an f-stop and have to expose about 50% longer. This is not a big problem if you are tracking the sky, but might be a deal breaker if you shoot from a fixed tripod
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So wat do you think? Are light pollution filters worth the price and hassle?
EXIF
Canon EOS 6D, astro modified
Samyang 24mm f/1.4
iOptron SkyTracker Pro
Low Level Lighting
nachtlicht° light pollution filter
5 x stack of 3 images @ ISO1600, tracked for the sky
30s filtered / 20s unfiltered