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Krakow, South Poland.
Picture No: 2021-11-13-4789_P3_FS
Edited in Canon DPP 4:
Digital lens optimizer: Yes (50)
Diffraction correction: Yes
Chromatic aberration: Yes (100)
Color blur: Yes
Peripheral illumination: No (reduced to 0)
Distortion: Yes (100)
Brightness: +0.67
White balance: Auto (White priority)
Fine tune: Not changed (0.0 / 0.0)
Picture style: Neutral
Gamma: Auto (Not changed)
Contrast: +1
Shadow: +1
Highlight: -2
Color saturation: 0
Sharpness: Yes (Unsharp mask)
Strength: 3
Fineness: 1
Thresholt: 3
Cropping: Bit cropped
Angle: -1.00.
No photomontage.
The colors not changed
Framed in Photoshop 6
At this time of year the sun is a welcome if infrequent visitor.
Photographs taken facing into the sun have a distinctive feel, often with high contrast and lens flare. Modern lens designs and coatings have reduced "the flare" problem considerably but not eliminated it.
It can be seen as a problem or fault; however it can also be viewed as an artistic style or technique (far more in colour than black and white).
Taunton, Somerset, UK.
Now reduced to running three days a week (down from five), CN 324 has just left Taschereau Yard and is on its way to Vermont, with CN 5612 & CN 2665 for power.
Chinese gardens are constructed to recreate and miniaturize larger natural landscapes. Traditionally, Chinese gardens blend unique, ornate buildings with natural elements. Just about every Chinese garden contains architecture, like a building or pavilion; decorative rocks and a rock garden; plants, trees and flowers; and water elements, like ponds. Most Chinese gardens are enclosed by a wall and some have winding paths. Chinese gardens aren’t just thrown together. Instead, they’re deliberately designed and visitors should walk through them in the particular order that the garden was laid out.
The Chinese Garden of Friendship (simplified Chinese: 谊园; traditional Chinese: 誼園) is a heritage-listed 1.03-hectare (3-acre) Chinese garden at 1 Harbour Street, in the Sydney Central Business District, City of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Modelled after the classic private gardens of the Ming Dynasty, the garden offers an insight into Chinese heritage and culture. It was designed by Guangzhou Garden Planning & Building Design Institute, Tsang & Lee, and Edmond Bull & Corkery and built from 1986 to 1988 by Gutteridge Haskins & Davey; the Darling Harbour Authority; Imperial Gardens; Leightons; and Australian Native Landscapes. The gardens were added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 5 October 2018. The Chinese Garden of Friendship was designed by Sydney's Chinese sister city, Guangzhou in China. Sydney's Chinatown complements the area's already rich in Chinese heritage and culture. The garden was officially opened 17 January 1988 as part of Sydney's Bicentennial Celebrations and named the Chinese Garden of Friendship symbolising the bond established between China and Australia. 14913
TMB LZOS 152 + Riccardi Reducer @ F/6
Moravian G3 16200 + Chroma LRGB
Parallax Instruments HD200c
Astro-Physics 130 GTX + QUADTCC @ F/4.5
Moravian G3 11002 + Astrodon RGB
Astro Physics 1200
L: 67x600s bin 1x1
RGB: 75x300s bin 1x1
FWHM: 2.5"
Total exposure: 30h
Captured with Sequence Generator Pro
Processed with Pixinsight
MM - High Key - Mon Chéri - 2630
I had no trouble to reduce the shadows with two lights, but that almost killed the reflection. Well, reflections maybe shadows too!?
HMM everyone :)
I've been after this car for years, but circumstances have made it difficult in the past. Not entirely sure how this is still going, but it looked mysteriously clean given how old it is.
One of the downsides to these car parks running centrally down roads is those barriers either side, basically reducing the chance of any frontal shots to zero.
Second night,Ayg. 12, 2020 was supposed to be the peak with 50m/h. the north star and the perseids are included. This is a very large image, so click "L" then "Z" twice to view large and see if you can find the 8 meteors that were captured within this field of view....Hint: most are just above the horizon. in a few days I will post an image with all of them marked. Tech stuff: Stack of 400 images, Nikkor 10-20mm DX zoom on D500 at 10mm, f4.5, 20 sec exp with 1sec interval. stacked with StarStaX, cleaned with TopazAI, gigapixal enlarged. Dew accumulation on the lens stopped by wrapping the lens with chemical hand warmers...Note that compared with last night (previously loaded image), the clouds early on created light pollution on the left which reduced the number of trails. see the marked meteors below in comments or in the next image on my stream www.flickr.com/photos/rkop/50227190351/in/dateposted-public/
Tangier is a town in Accomack County Virginia on Tangier Island in the Chesapeake Bay. The island's landmass has been reduced by 67% since 1850. Due to sea level rise the town will likely need to be abandoned in the next 50 years as much of the remaining land is expected to be lost. Print Size 13x19 inches. Happy Fence Friday
The pics clearly show his right eye was markedly sunken and could impair his site, and perhaps the ability to accommodate distance was reduced.
The Orion constellation shot under Bortle 3 sky.
Equipment:
- Nikon D300 modified
- Nikkor AF-S 105mm f/1.4 ED
- Skywatcher StarAdventurer
Frames:
45 frames x 120sec at ISO 800.
Preprocessed in APP and Pixinsight and post-processed in Lightroom.
Old data, re-edited.
Lake Needwood is a 75-acre (300,000 m2) reservoir in Derwood, Maryland. Located east of Rockville, in the eastern part of Montgomery County, it is situated on Rock Creek. The lake was created by damming Rock Creek in 1965 with the goal of providing flood control and reducing soil erosion. The Rock Creek Trail begins at Lake Needwood and can be followed along the course of Rock Creek, ending at the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. (Source: Wikipedia)
The giant otter (Pteronura brasiliensis) is a South American carnivorous mammal. It is the longest member of the Mustelidae, or weasel family, a globally successful group of predators, reaching up to 1.7 m (5.6 ft). Atypical of mustelids, the giant otter is a social species, with family groups typically supporting three to eight members. The groups are centered on a dominant breeding pair and are extremely cohesive and cooperative. Although generally peaceful, the species is territorial, and aggression has been observed between groups. The giant otter is diurnal, being active exclusively during daylight hours. It is the noisiest otter species, and distinct vocalizations have been documented that indicate alarm, aggressiveness, and reassurance.
The giant otter ranges across north-central South America; it lives mostly in and along the Amazon River and in the Pantanal.
Its distribution has been greatly reduced and is now discontinuous. Decades of poaching for its velvety pelt, peaking in the 1950s and 1960s, considerably diminished population numbers. The species was listed as endangered in 1999 and wild population estimates are typically below 5,000. The Guianas are one of the last real strongholds for the species, which also enjoys modest numbers — and significant protection — in the Peruvian Amazonian basin. It is one of the most endangered mammal species in the neotropics. Habitat degradation and loss is the greatest current threat.
The giant otter shows a variety of adaptations suitable to an amphibious lifestyle, including exceptionally dense fur, a wing-like tail, and webbed feet. The species prefers freshwater rivers and streams, which are usually seasonally flooded, and may also take to freshwater lakes and springs. It constructs extensive campsites close to feeding areas, clearing large amounts of vegetation. The giant otter subsists almost exclusively on a diet of fish, particularly characins and catfish, but may also eat crabs, turtles, snakes and small caiman. It has no serious natural predators other than humans, although it must compete with other species, including the neotropical otter and caiman species, for food resources.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_otter
I was really happy to see them in the wild! It was one of my dreams and goals of my last trip to Pantanal!
Wishing everyone a wonderful Tuesday!
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The Bogeyman (or Boogeyman) Nebula is a dark cloud of dust and hydrogen that stalks the constellation Orion. In this orientation I reveal that is in fact Elmo who has been doing the stalking!
Happy Halloween!
See on Fluidr
OTA: PlaneWave CDK14
MOUNT: Software Bisque Paramount ME-II (no AOE)
CAMERA: SBIG STX-16803
GUIDER: Astrodon Mega MOAG
GUIDE CAMERA: Starlight Xpress UltraStar
REDUCER: na
SOFTWARE: The SkyX, SGP, PhD2, Pixinsight, Photoshop
FILTERS: Astrodon LRGBHα
ACCESSORIES: na
LOCATION: SRO
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The Krämerbrücke, here a look inside the Krämerbrücke, is a bridge in the Thuringian city of Erfurt in Germany which is covered with inhabited, half timbered buildings on both sides. It is unique in Europe north of the Alps. The footbridge spans the Breitstrom, a branch of Gera River, connecting Benediktsplatz and Wenigemarkt.
The bridge was built next to a ford and was part of the west-eastern trade route Via Regia. Originally constructed from wood, it was first mentioned in 1117 after its destruction by one of the many fires. Its first documentary evidence as “pons rerum venalium” dates back to 1156. Already on this wooden bridge grocers had erected stands on both sides.
Because of repeated fires in 1175, 1178, 1213, 1222, 1245, 1265, and 1293 the municipal administration acquired all bridge rights from the monasteries in 1293 in order to build a stone bridge, which was finished in 1325 with uninhabited half-timbered stands on top of it. At both bridgeheads stone churches with gate passages were erected, at the western end St. Benedicti and at the eastern end St. Aegidien, which had existed as a bridge chapel in beforehand (first mentioned in 1110).
The 79 m long arch bridge has been erected in lime- and sandstonework and since then consists of six visible barrel vaults with diametres from 4.8 m to 7.8 m.
After a city fire in 1472, which destroyed nearly half of the city and the stands on the bridge, it was reconstructed in its current form with then 62 half-timbered buildings. To make the three-storey houses of 13 m to 15 m height habitable, the deepness of the buildings was extended by the wooden “Sprengwerke” next to the arch vaults. The width of the bridge finished in 1486 since then amounts to 26 m with a space of 5.5 m between the two rows of houses. At the latest since 1510 the name Krämerbrücke (which means "grocers' bridge") was commonly used.
Till the 18th century the number of houses on the bridge had been reduced to 38, due to unification and reconstruction caused by fires. The church St. Benedicti was sold in 1807 and demolished in 1810 in order to build a new house. In 1895 its tower had to give place to the newly built “Rathausbrücke” (town hall bridge), which crosses the river parallel. For this project it was discussed to pull down the entire bridge.
Because of its special importance for the history of Erfurt and history of architecture in general, the Krämer Bridge was granted special preservation in GDR-times. All buildings were restored from 1967 to 1973 and extensive repair works were done to the vaults in 1985/1986 and 2002. Since then the bridge may be used by cars up to a weight of 11 tons.
Trying some off-camera flash to see if I can reduce shutter speed and ISO. I haven't got the flash settings down just yet but I was pleased with the flash freezing the subject. With my settings, the image would have been almost black otherwise.
This is a detailed, 121 megapixel panorama of the San Francisco holiday skyline, shot on December 28 2016. I've been working on making as sharp and as detailed as possible; you can make out exit sign lights above doors at the SFMOMA 2.4km (1.5 miles) and 555 California 3km (1.9 miles) away and individual lights on the Bay Bridge 5.5km (3.4 miles) away. Thanks very much to Florian Kainz for all of his advice to get this as good as it could be :]
You can check out the full resolution version here: www.flickr.com/photos/captin_nod/32066278265/sizes/o/
The hardware used was nothing particularly special - a Canon 7D with the cheap, standard canon 70-300mm zoom lens at 260mm. I shot individual pictures at f/11, ISO 400 with a 1 second exposure (which underexposed most things about a stop). The panorama itself is shot from 46 individual images; and each one of these images consisted of locking off the camera and taking 4 photographs. In photoshop, these are exactly aligned and median filtered to reduce noise, remove motion artifacts from moving lights and recover a little dynamic range. I'd periodically switch the camera into live view to check that the focus of the lens was sharp. The process of shooting the images - the setup, calibration, checking focus and of course actual exposures - took a little under an hour.
After stitching, the image is around 50,000 pixels across. As expected, I wasn't able to completely eliminate all the things that could contribute to softness - nailing the focus, intrinsic shaking of the tripod & camera due to things like wind, and distortion due to heat haze and atmosphere. In the original panorama, there are large parts of the image that can be downsampled, resized back up and placed back in without any significant loss in quality. This 'empty resolution' means that I could wholesale resample the image to half it's size; this also had the effect of improving the signal to noise ratio a little, reducing the noise in the final image.
For the interactive panorama on Facebook (www.facebook.com/bjoshi/posts/10154212269427423), I used a modified version of Eric Cheng's fantastic PSD templates (www.facebook.com/notes/eric-cheng/editing-360-photos-inje...) to create a 6000 pixel wide, 300-degree-wide cylindrical panorama version of the image. It requires a little manual messing around with the XMP metadata to get it exactly where I wanted it (my image is not very tall); ping me in the comments below if you want more details or help figuring it out.
For those of you that have grabbed the original image from Flickr with the intent of printing or using commercially - please don't, and buy the image or hire me instead. I shoot high quality imagery at very reasonable rates. I'm easy to find, drop me a line.
Just in case this alone doesn't deter you, in the online copies of the photograph I've hidden (in plain sight) in a range of highly offensive imagery that would be extremely embarrassing and difficult to explain to a client. Have fun trying to find it all because I guarantee you can't :]
Barnard 344 and friends are dark molecule clouds in the constellation Cygnus. Their distance is about 1800 lightyears. The background of the image is lit by Ha emissions and some OIII from the huge Gamma Cygny complex.
ASI2600mm-pro and TS Photoline 130/910 mm with TSRED379 reducer.
06.10.22 16 x 300 s Ha
07.10.22 40 x 300 s Ha
06.10.22 5 x 300 s OIII
08.10.22 35 x 300 s OIII
06.10.22 30 x 30 s red
06.10.22 30 x 30 s green
06.10.22 30 x 30 s blue
Poznan, Poland
Autumn
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On the evening of May 10th 1989, a lite helper set was in the process of crossing from track two to track one utilizing the hand-throw cross over at Summit Ave in Gaithersburg. The trouble is, they had opened up in front of the westbound Millville Rock Runner. Luckily, speed had been reduced prior to impact and nobody was seriously hurt. The damage was bad enough to CSXT 6047 on the rock runner that it was retired, making it one of the first GP40-2s retired under CSX...although it was later purchased and rebuilt for a shortline. These pictures were taken the morning after the wreck. I believe Bill Bench was the engineer on #6047. I have never figured out the cause of this one, whether or not the helper set crew didn't wait for the signal to time out at Derwood, or ignored an instruction to open up behind the rock runner. No photographer listed, JL Sessa collection.
Some of the contents of a large plastic box in our kitchen drawer where we put our recyclable items such as plastic bottles, magazines, flyers, food tins and drink cans. When it's full I take it out to the garage & tip everything in a big wheelie bin. This gets collected by a private company fortnightly, the other week they take our actual rubbish (trash) away, thankfully we don't produce much of that so often that wheelie bin only goes out once a month. Glass has to be taken to a bottle bank. I use to take gardening & bird watching magazines to our GP surgery for others to read but those days are gone.
We compost all our newspapers, cardboard packaging/toilet rolls etc & I reuse suitable plastic food trays to stand plant pots in. All available windowsills currently have trays with small pots containing tomato/chilli/pepper/courgette & sweetcorn seedlings, waiting for the current cold snap to pass so I can plant them out in the polytunnel.
For Macro Mondays theme "Trash" HMM!
11th December 1982
Derby Class 108 50976 & 56224 depart Lytham for Blackpool South shortly before the route was reduced to single track operation
Getting out & hiking into a place like this is always good for the mind, heart, & soul. At least it is for me! My son & two of my nephews went with me to Turkey Foot & Mize Mill Falls Saturday. Great day to be in the woods.
The Spring of Endless Light
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The Milky Way over Trona Pinnacles, CA on a very hot August evening. The pinnacles are tufas left from an ancient lake bed. I used a warm white light from a handheld Zhiyun FiveRay FR100C RGB LED tube light to illuminate the tufas while the camera's shutter was open during the long exposure night photo.
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(Plate 2992) Nikon D750/Irix 15mm f/2.4 lens. 25 photos "stacked" to reduce noise. Each photo 20 seconds f/2.5 ISO 4000. 24 August 2022.
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I shot this from the hotel in Boerne where we took refuge after losing all delivery of power and water at the house.
I took the H-Alpha and Oxygen-III data back in July and then I forgot about it, but last night I took the Sulfur-II data and here's the final composition! Exposure times are quite a mess:
Ha - 36x600s at -15ºC
OIII - 30x600s at -15ºC
SII - 30x300s at -20ºC
Equipment:
ASI183MM Pro
Baader Ha, OIII and SII filter
TS80 Triplet Apo with x0.79 reducer
NEQ6 Pro II Modified mount with autoguiding