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My thoughts about NYC:
Of all the cities on this planet, I can't think of one which fascinates me like New York City. Pictured in a thousand movies, New York sparked my imagination ever since I was a kid. I've been thinking about photographing NYC for as long as I can remember. To finally stand in front of its colossal skyline, with my camera, was such an overwhelming feeling. I've photographed many wonderful skylines but NYC's is truly special. Effortlessly, its architecture speaks of its glorious past, present and the promise of the future. NYC's skyline is as perfect as it gets.
At least to me, New York City was and remains, the promised land.
tech: it was a perfect day for cityscape photography. Partially cloudy day presented constantly changing lighting conditions. Clouds helped to keep the sunlight in check. I was able to wait for the sun to hit just the right part of the city at the right time.
Shooting this 13-frames wide vertorama however wasn't easy. I was on the boat ride around the lower Manhattan when I snapped this panorama. It was quite windy, boat was moving in a choppy sea and just standing on the boat's deck was a challenge, let alone trying to balance the camera to remain as vertical and steady as possible.
I set my Canon 5D MK3 to Manual mode and programmed it to snap 3 bracketed shots from -2EV through +2EV in quick succession. It worked well, or so I thought.
When I imported the 3 bracketed shots into Oloneo PhotoEngine for HDR processing, I realized that the boat moved a bit too much between the 3 exposures. Oloneo's 'auto-align' usually works very well but it can't align photos which have parallax shift between them. It messes up its algorithm which is understandable. I realized that HDR vertorama wasn't going to be possible so I opted for a conventional vertorama, using only the 13x mid (0EV) exposures. I was afraid at that point that Photoshop won't be able to align the 13 photos into a panorama because it took approximately 12 seconds between the first and the last shot. Boat moved quite a lot during this period and parallax shift was noticeable. To my big relief however, Photoshop did a perfect job and no errors were reported during the automated panoramic assembly process.
Working on a panorama 21,200 x 5,700 pixels with multiple layers is no easy feat. It takes a lot of resources and my (outdated) computer was begging for mercy.
Anyway, after 6 hours of hard work on this panorama, my vision was fulfilled. I finally got the shot of NYC I always dreamed about and I'm extremely happy with the result.
Hardware: Canon 5D Mk3, Canon 70-300mm f/4-5.6L IS USM
Software: Lightroom 4.4, Photoshop 5.1, Silver Efex Pro 2, Nik Output Sharpener
*as we emerge from the love tunnel, we can't help to wonder if the promised land is nothing but a mirage"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_gp0sMRDMo
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Hana .. A Syrian little girl ..
finally she reached to the promised-land ..
where no more Hunger .. no more Seige .. no more Humiliation .. no more Massacres ..
And no more barrel bombs were dropped on her home ..
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zk3_yzyEKFU
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All things are only transitory .
Goethe
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The place where Moses saw the Promised Land.
Deuteronomy 34
"Then Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, which is across from Jericho. And the Lord showed him all the land of Gilead as far as Dan, all Naphtali and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, all the land of Judah as far as the Western Sea, the South, and the plain of the Valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees, as far as Zoar. Then the Lord said to him, “This is the land of which I swore to give Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, ‘I will give it to your descendants.’ I have caused you to see it with your eyes, but you shall not cross over there.”
Picture taken in 2004
Karol Scheibler's Palace
może pamiętacie zdjęcia z jesieni 2014 i zdjęcia Pałacu Scheiblera, tym razem wnętrza pałacu
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maybe you remember my last year's photos of Karol Scheibler's Palace, this time the interiors of the building
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Mayflower II is an replica reproduction of the 17th century ship that bought the Pilgrims to the new world in 1620. The Mayflower was headed to the Virginia colony, but rough seas caused them to anchor in what is now Provincetown Harbor, Plymouth, Massachusetts. The Pilgrims became the second permanent English settlement in North America, and first colonial settlement in New England. The English ship had 102 passengers and a crew of 30.
One of three operational ferries remaining in Tennessee, this Ferry shuttles vehicles and passengers across the Tennessee River between Houston and Benton counties. Which also makes a passage from Middle to West Tennessee. I was impressed at the maneuver which allowed the ferry to shift its wheel and powerhouse around at the start of each journey. Here if is about 3/4 of the way through the maneuver. When underway she is back against the side of the cargo deck. A fun ride at only $1 per car, and I am told locals have a cheaper daily rate.
Presqu'île de la Magdalena, Santander, Espagne.
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This is a little boat dock by Sky View Lake in Promised Land State Park, Pennsylvania. We were driving along the bumpy and worn park road past a tiny bridge when the horizon started to glow with warm color. We stopped to watch as the sky and lake changed tones several times while the sun set, surprising us with a final display of neon pink and purple before it faded away into evening.
Beating with life you promised life,
security, happiness.
Unfortunate son cornered,
cowering in the pit of
circling panes of glass that
surround and reveal the ever present "It".
"It" is my move, my every look,
interpreting gestures,
informing other
what's undercover and
lurking beneath my mask
of this year's featured model.
Is this too much?
Close your eyes.
Care to look inside? I am I!
What may appear
might easily be explained,
but given the situation
of info saturation,
what you feel can never go away.
Steering perception? I am!
Inviting contradiction? I am!
It's my insistence
you keep your distance
from the glare behind my stare.
So this is the way
the game is played.
You can leave now...
but I think you'll stay.
I AM I!
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I am I - Queensrÿche
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Modern day shrine atop Siyagha, where Moses spent his last days. Mount Nebo, Jordan
Mount Nebo, known as Pisgah in the Bible. It is where the Bible says Moses lived out his remaining days and viewed the Promised Land which he would never enter. Mt. Nebo offers a fantastic view westward, with a vista that includes the Dead Sea,the West Bank, the Jordan River and on a clear day Bethlehem and Jerusalem.
There are actually two peaks on Mt. Nebo, Siyagha and al-Mukhayyat. During the 6th century AD, a Byzantine monastery was built at Siyagha. It was built on the foundations of an earlier chapel, which was built by monks from Egypt during the 3rd or 4th century. Although little remains of the buildings that housed them the mosaics can be seen in the shrine.
Of Cow (Vaca) airlines. Viação Aérea Canarana. Tongue-in-cheek name of the four DC-3 airplanes used to ferry colonists to the settlement project in Canarana, Mato Grosso in the early 1970s.
THIS is a sampling of the fantastic work by ROBERT and SHANA PARKEHARRISON. I posted it here to share their work with all flickerites. see more on their website: www.parkeharrison.com.
The first image is my favorite, called "Forest Bed" (1998), by Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison.
I had the pleasure of seeing their work at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, The Architect's Brother, showing from March 25 to June 11, 2006.
Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison work together on an innovative approach to picture making that draws upon the use of the paper negative and collage to construct stories of healing and restoration amid landscapes scarred by technology and overuse. At the center of each of the pictorial tales is a lone individual—Robert as “Everyman” — the “Architect's” brother. This suit-clad figure patches holes in the sky, creates rain machines, chases storms to create electricity, and communicates with the land to learn of its needs. The titles of the five sections of the exhibition reflect this: “Exhausted Globe,” “Industrial Landscapes,” “Promisedland,” “Earth Elegies,” and “Kingdom.”
“The ParkeHarrisons' innovative approach addresses environmental concerns in a haunting format, raising important questions about our stewardship of our greatest resource, the earth,” said Nancy E. Green, senior curator of prints, drawings, and photographs at the Johnson. “There is both hope and despair in these images, offering concrete choices for our future.”
The ParkeHarrisons received a Guggenheim Fellow in 1999 and an Artist Grant in Photography from the Massachusetts Cultural Council in 2001 and 1996, among other awards. The Architect's Brother has been published as a monograph by Twin Palms Press and accompanies the exhibition. The exhibition has been organized by George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film in Rochester, New York.
dedicated to Susan
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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
~ Socrates ~
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