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Car: Spectre R42.
Years of manufacture: 1995 to 1998.
Date taken: 13th March 2016.
Location: Queen Square, Bristol, UK.
A Brocken spectre (aka, morning glory, glory, Brockengespenst, Brocken bow, mountain spectre, or spectre of the Brocken) that was visible around our shadow yesterday morning.
The shadow of my flight BA561 cast by the sun on the clouds
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Warsaw, Poland
Church of the Holiest Savior
Kościół Najświętszego Zbawiciela
Winter
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This was taken around lunchtime so the sun was high in the sky - hence the angle. It was mist and rain most of the day but the sun came out for about 10 minutes so I rushed to the rim of the corrie and was rewarded with this!
Ghostly atmosphere at the South Stack lighthouse almost an hour after sunset. Built in 1809 to allow safe passage for ships on the treacherous Dublin-> Liverpool sea route, the lighthouse is located at the most northwestern end of Wales.
We had a sky full of many constantly changing lenticular clouds today. They took on various shapes, sizes and textures as the afternoon transpired. It was fascinating to observe.
A Brocken spectre above the village of Hayfield in the Derbyshire Peak District. Taken from Mount Famine.
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Workshops & Tours... My Peak District 1 on 1 tution workshops are now back on.
I was delighted to photograph my first glory a week before this event last January. So I was speechless, apart from whooping for joy, when I got this broken spectre in the most surprising location of National Trust Castle Drogo over looking the Teign Gorge. One crossed off my bucket list!
This past weekend was the 25th annual Open House event, when hundreds of buildings across London open their doors to the public. City Hall remains one of the most popular and photogenic locations in London, but my itinerary during my fifth year attending the Open House weekend meant that, for the first time, I wasn't able to be at the location during its final hour of the day. I'm looking forward to sharing images from several new locations, but in the meantime I've re-edited a shot taken two years ago from the top of City Hall. While it's the first time I've revisited a shot to produce a second edit, I thought it would be fun to see whether two years of changes to my workflow would produce a different finish.
My aim with this image -- as with previous takes on the location -- was a clean and futuristic finish that would emphasise the streamlined design by Foster and Partners and the visual impact of 7,300 square-metres of triple-glazed glass. The lone individual who walked into the frame and paused to capture the scene around her with a point-and-shoot was a happy accident, but I still feel that she brings the architecture to life as well as providing a sense of scale. Five bracketed exposures were captured handheld from the tenth level of the building's helical staircase, and once again these were manually aligned and blended in Photoshop using luminosity masks for a clean and balanced finish. The emphasis was on the brighter exposures to raise the midtones and shadows, but I was also able to refine these masks to isolate the individual on the steps as her darker clothing was largely made up of shadow detail against the brighter staircase. This in turn enabled me to edit her with a separate workflow, lifting the shadows and controlling the noise levels and colour balance without affecting the rest of the image.
At the colour-grading stage, I opted for a palette that featured less cyan and aqua tones and one that was instead somewhere between monochrome and a soft light blue. This was achieved using a mixture of Curves, Colour Balance, Hue/Saturation and Selective Colour adjustments, desaturating the majority of the image and then using luminosity masks to selectively tone the shadows, midtones and highlights.
One detail I'd never been happy with in my original edit was the finish along the panels in the lower-right of the frame, which looked a little dark and gritty next to the pristine glass. For this edit, I created a selection of the panels using the Pen Tool and lifted them into Nik's Silver Efex Pro, where I lowered the midtone and shadow structure, increased the brightness and raised the Soft Contrast, which helped to emphasise the tonality across the panels. I then converted the adjusmtent to the Luminosity blend mode in Photoshop to retain its original colour. Inside Colour Efex Pro, I added sparing amounts of the Tonal Contrast and High Key filters to amplify the whites and give the highlights more definition, as well as the Glamour Glow filter set to reduced opacity, which gently softened the image and created an airy glow that I felt would complement the bright and spacious location.
The final result is a different take on an image that remains a personal favourite, and hopefully an update on the initial edit that does justice to the immense size and sculptural grace of the location.
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🌟 Meet S.I. Aspirant: Jovita Vogue 🌟
For Jovita, SPECTRE Idol is more than a contest — it’s a celebration of creativity and professional excellence. She believes in the power of fashion to inspire and elevate the SL community.
The Vogue is real.
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My daughter and I spent an evening singing. 'Writings On The Wall', as you can see, was on the menu!
Ever since I got the Queen Anne's Revenge, which was almost 10 years ago, I've been wanting to build a dark brown hulled ship. I had to wait for various plates and slopes to become available in this former rare colour. Now I have plenty… Some dark brown jumpers would have made my life a whole lot easier though…
She's a barque although I did not fit any square sails, these might come later.
This could very well be my 50th ship although I can't be sure because I lost my archive when Mocpages.com went down.
At full capacity she runs 24 guns, a series of 12-pounders on the main deck and a few 3-pound swivel guns on the quarter.
Something that may catch your attention, or better yet, not at all, is that she's not all that fancy. No galleries or ornaments and a pretty dull colour scheme. Yep, ships like that existed too and they were much greater in number. One might get the wrong impression that the fancy, decorated warship was the common one, looking to MOC ships.
My main sources of inspiration where the Lady Washington and HMS Bounty.
Some of the highlights include zip line handles and Harry Potter wands used in the rigging.
I’m glad I finally got this thing posted, I was beginning to think that I was going to be stuck in lost WIPs and unfinished creations forever.
I've posted a couple more pictures at Eurobricks.
Coming across a Brocken Spectre whilst out on the hills is a relatively rare occurrence and one I haven't seen often.
This rather poor image captures one observed whilst crossing Esk Pike.
For those who may not be aware, a Brocken Spectre is formed when the sun is over the shoulder of the hiker and projects their magnified shadow on to clouds below. The moisture in the clouds helps create a circular rainbow around the shadow.
You don't always have to climb to see one as such effects can also be seen from an aircraft when its shadow is projected onto clouds below.
🌟 Meet S.I. Aspirant: Gaia Macpherison 🌟
Gaia is stepping into SPECTRE Idol with a clear goal: to be active, visible, and vibrant in the modeling world. Sometimes, all it takes is one step to ignite momentum.
Welcome to the runway, Gaia.
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