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Stark and beautiful.
This photo was taken by an Asahi Pentax 6 X 7 medium format film camera and Super-Takumar/6X7 1:2.4/105mm lens with a Zenza Bronica 67mm SY48•2C(Y2) filter using Rollei RPX 400 film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop.
Flickr Friday: Remote
MSH August 2022: Family/Friend/Coworker
My nieces and nephews three years ago. Time flies, and yet it feels so slow when you can't see them because of the pandemic...
Working on the hills along this remote stretch of coast, I had all day looking out to the clouds forming over the ocean hoping and anticipating what could be at the end of the day. Needless to say I was not disappointed.
A rather remote cottage in Glen Fruin which is adjacent to Loch Lomond and runs over the hills to Clyde Submarine Base at Faslane. May have been taken in high summer but it was a grey and wet day!!
Best viewed in LARGE (Contacts only, sorry).
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My photoshop tutorial on Layers, Masks & Selections
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Explore (113) : Highest position #22
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My previous shot went to EXPLORE FRONT PAGE, whoohooo !
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This is my 6th upload from our trip to Paris last weekend.
Somebody left a comment on my previous shot of the Notre-Dame Cathedral telling me it went to number 1, no such luck, but I am real pleased with the 5th place in explore and a front page appearance of course !!! ;-)
This is the interior of the Sainte Chapelle church, a very small church very near to the Notre-Dame cathedral with a splendid interior.
I've taken this on a tripod, although that was not allowed, We've paid 2x7.5€ to get in, there wasn't a notice anywhere that warned us that the usage of a tripod was forbidden, not on the ticket sales office, not on the tickets themselves, not on the entrance, really nowhere.
So I was quite upset that from the moment I put my tripod down to take a shot a lady of security came running to me waving no signs at me, she went right back to her seat aswell, well away from the crowd to avoid a discussion I guess. I call this teft, be clear about your rules before we pay a whopping 15€ to get in. So I decided they could stuff it and watched an appropriate moment to hide between a group with guide and set my tripod up in the narrowest configuration that would allow it to stand.
What is your opinion on such practices ???
The shot
Standard 3 exposures HDR [-2,0,+2EV] in RAW/ISO100 at f/9.1 using the Sigma 10mm fisheye lens on a tripod.
Photomatix
Tonemapped using the detail enhancer.
Photoshop
° Small rotation and stretched horizontally to get it dead straight and to lose a bit of the fisheye deformation
° Clone stamped away the blue ribbon that is used to keep the tourist to get too close.
° Curves masked away on the darkest areas.
° Desaturation of the reds.
° Deepening the blues ( more saturation and less lightness ).
° A bit of dodging on the darker areas and on the highlights.
° A Smart sharpen filter.
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All comments, criticism and tips for improvements are ( as always ) welcome.
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Harbor Seals at Sandy Hook, NJ
The Harbor Seal (Phoca vitulina), also known as the Common Seal, is a true Seal found along temperate and Arctic marine coastlines of the Northern Hemisphere. The most widely distributed species of Pinniped (walruses, eared seals, and true seals), they are found in coastal waters of the northern Atlantic and Pacific oceans, the Baltic and North Seas.
For more info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbor_seal
Seal Watching on Sandy Hook
The following is a blog entry from naturalist Joe Reynolds:
The seals are back!
Each winter dozens of seals, mostly Atlantic Harbor Seals, arrive from their breeding areas on beaches in northern New England and Canada to tidal sandbars, rocky reefs, and remote beaches and islands in Lower New York Bay and Sandy Hook Bay.
The seals appear in the urban wilds of the New York metropolitan region, in the shadows of tall skyscrapers and near four-lane highways, to rest and feed after a busy season of raising young and molting.
But also to compensate for the limited winter habitat in ice-filled harbors and bays, and increased completion for food up north…
For more info: patch.com/new-jersey/rumson/seal-watching-on-sandy-hook
Hi everyone todays painting is of something I heard some friends talking about that I found interesting its something I don't believe in, its called (Remote Vewing) they say a person can gather information about a distant or unseen target using paranormal means, in particular, extra-sensory perception (ESP) or sensing with the mind.I don't know alot about remote viewing because to be frank I think its just wasting time, then again may bee I can see what your doing right now in the comfort of my living room,and just let me say I think your curtains don't match your carpet or is that a rug? steve. p.s. you can watch the you tube video here to learn more www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN9nIMgdpuw
Taken on a remote shoot with Artemis © Craig Lindsay 2024. All rights reserved.
Model: Artemis Fauna
Wonderful narrow mountain roads lead through the almost green Gran Canaria countryside with its huge rocks.
A pilot, lit by sunlight, lands a single engine bush plane (Piper Super Cub, I think) on a small gravel road next to a sedge grass meadow frequented by Alaskan brown bears. Similar to British Columbia, in the rugged roadless terrain small planes (and boats) are the best way to reach remote areas. Alaska has 6 times as many pilots and 16 times as many aircraft per capita as the rest of the US. Lake Clark National Park.
14/09/2024 www.allenfotowild.com
Located in the remote village of Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert (the name itself says how remote it is...!), in the modern-day département of Hérault, the Benedictine abbey of Gellone was founded around 800 by Guillaume (William), former Count of Toulouse and a close friend to Emperor Charlemagne. William, later canonized, was enticed to do so by saint Benoît (Benedict) of Aniane, the great spreader of the Benedictine rule after its creator saint Benoît of Nursia three centuries earlier. Benoît’s own abbey of Aniane was but a couple of leagues away.
Owner of a piece of the True Cross given by Charlemagne, William of Gellone soon turned his abbey into a venerated place of pilgrimage, and his own sainthood only added to the prestige and reputation of the place, which had become a renowned halt on the Path to Compostela (Via Tolosana).
The abbey was indeed powerful. On top of its fragment of the True Cross and the relics of Saint William its founder, it possessed fragments of clothing having belonged to the Virgin Mary. In 1090, the abbey obtained the privilege to depend directly from the Pope, and was thus exempted from the jurisdiction of the local bishop of Lodève. This was a rare privilege. Its standing was such that pilgrims on the more northerly Via Podiensis were drawn to make a détour to Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert to honor the saint and the relics in the abbey church.
Of the original church built by Guillaume in the 800s there is nothing left. The current church was built soon after Year 1000 in two distinct campaigns, as is evidenced by the stylistic differences between the nave on the one hand, and the apse and transept on the other. The bell tower is from the 1400s, a period during which the abbey’s decline began.
Most of the cloister was built between 1025 and 1050.
When the French Revolution came in 1789, only six monks remained. The abbey was sold to private owners, changed hands several times and was, like so many other such monuments, used as a stone quarry for most of the 19th century, even though it was included on the first list of Historic Landmarks in 1840. Many of the cloister’s sculptures were sold to an American collector and can be seen today in The Cloisters museum in New York.
The abbey of Gellone remains a major monument of Western Christendom and a thorough visit is a must for all Mediævalists.
The aisles are markedly lower than the main nave, and very narrow. Yet their Romanesque harmony of proportions is unmistakable.
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A conspicuous show of tribal power by Mursi boys with Kalashnikovs. The Kalashnikov symbolizes wealth, status, and power. Above all, the Kalashnikov provides protection during cattle drives and fire-power in armed conflicts with neighbouring tribes.
The value of a Kalashnikov can range from five to thirty-five cows and often figures into the bride-wealth or payment made by the husband’s family to the bride's family.
This semi-nomadic pastoral Mursi settlement is situated high on the bank of the Mago River, a tributary that joins the essential Omo River in the remote southwestern corner of Ethiopia. Shot under the noonday sun near the end of a long hot dry season regularly exceeding 40°C in the shade.
Spears and other traditional weapons in the region were replaced with automatic assault rifles in the 1980s when they became more accessible during the decades-long civil war in neighbouring South Sudan. A surplus of automatic weapons circulating in the larger Horn of Africa is also accessible through other channels, including the flow of small arms and ammunition from longstanding wars across the border in Somalia and nearby northern Uganda. SKS and AK-47 assault rifles were easily available, relatively cheap, and easy to use.
Large numbers of automatic weapons were also imported from the USSR to Communist allies around the world during the Cold War, including Ethiopia. SKS semi-automatic Russian-made rifles were a precursor to the AK-47 and were widely available after the fall of the Derg, the Communist military junta that ruled Ethiopia under Mengistu Haile Mariam from 1974 to 1987. The consequent disbanding of the Ethiopian army and police force produced a flood of automatic weapons on the market. They became accessible, in part, through established tribal links with arms dealers in the Ethiopian highlands further to the east of the Omo Basin and elsewhere.
The Mursi are semi-nomadic farmers and herders who depend on shifting hoe-cultivation (mostly drought-resistant varieties of sorghum) and cattle herding for their livelihood. They number less than ten thousand today. Most Mursi live in small settlements dispersed across Mursiland, a remote territory of about thirty by eighty kilometres between the Omo and Mago Rivers in southwest Ethiopia near the border with South Sudan and northern Kenya. The terrain varies from a volcanic plain dominated by a range of hills and a major watershed to a riverine forest, wooded grasslands, and thorny bushland thickets. expl#33
The now disused 'Our Lady of the Braes' Roman Catholic Church, aka Lochailort Chapel or Polnish Chapel.
Built to serve the now deserted townships of Ardnish and Polnish, this lone monument to the former inhabitants of the empty landscape has a poignant significance. (M Miers) The church also featured in the film Local Hero starring Burt Lancaster.
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