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A shot taken outside the Adelaide Goal. This railway track has no barrier throughout so anyone can just walk onto the track but of coz not when the train is coming :P This track links to the main train station where maintenances or repair of the carriages are carried out.
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The Railway Crossing over at North Adelaide
The Shot
Standard 3 exposures shots (-2..0..+2EV) handheld using the Canon kit lens EF-S 18-55mm lens and a polarized light filter
Photomatix
- Tonemapped generated HDR with detail enhancer option
Photoshop
- Added a layer effect of 'curves' to slightly increase the contrast
- Added a layer effect of 'saturation' of yellows for the sun reflection & greens for the grass
- Applied dodging for the railway crossing pole & sign
- Used 'unsharp mask' (as always) on the background layer
You
All comments, criticism and tips for improvements are (as always) welcome.
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Over the weekend we went to nearby Hakone Gardens, a beautiful Japanese garden in Saratoga, California. The wooden arch bridge is a center piece, inviting you to stop and reflect.
I processed a realistic and a paintery HDR photo from three RAW exposures, blended them selectively, carefully adjusted the color balance and curves, and desaturated the image. I welcome and appreciate constructive comments.
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-- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, © Peter Thoeny, Quality HDR Photography
After an eventful four days on the river it was time to get back to civilization. VIA's Sudbury-White River service has at its core always been about connecting the remote communities of northern Ontario. The "flag stop" train allowing passengers to hop on or off just about anywhere in between - and so of course that's what we did - throw a red life jacket on the front of the canoe and wave while #186 eased into Pogamasing beneath the towering rock cuts (view from the top pictured here flic.kr/p/2qxHr8L).
Veteran Budd RDC-4 #6250 leads the way, built way back in 1955 for the Canadian Pacific and is acting as the baggage car for the trip. The RDCs are perfect for this type of service being able to stop quickly and accelerate rapidly, while doing passenger speeds in between. It will be interesting to see how much longer these are in service, but it was a pleasure to be able to both ride and capture them in their element over the course of the trip.
One final aside, the back track here is 100 lb rail from Algoma Steel dating back to 1932. There are a number of these backtracks on the Nemegos and White River Subs that used to house specialized school cars dating back to 1926. Commissioned by the Ontario Ministry of Education, the CPR brought the schools on rails to children living in remote areas with students attending classes for five days straight before being given three weeks of homework until the train's rotation returned. Apparently the school cars registered near perfect attendance with students who went on to traditional schools and universities excelling. These were retired in 1967 with over 4,000 students having received their education on the rails by then.
- MP 20 CPKC Nemegos Subdivision.
Beautiful Poem- Stop and smell the flowers
Current mood: peaceful
This poem was written by a terminally ill young
girl
in a New York
Hospital.
SLOW DANCE
Have you ever watched kids
On a merry-go-round?
Or listened to the rain
Slapping on the ground?
Ever followed a butterfly's erratic flight?
Or gazed at the sun into the fading night?
You better slow down.
Don't dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won't last.
Do you run through each day
On the fly?
When you ask How are you?
Do you hear the reply?
When the day is done
Do you lie in your bed
With the next hundred chores
Running through your head?
You'd better slow down
Don't dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won't last.
Ever told your child,
We'll do it tomorrow?
And in your haste,
Not see his sorrow?
Ever lost touch,
Let a good friendship die
Cause you never had time
To call and say,"Hi"
You'd better slow down.
Don't dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won't last.
When you run so fast to get somewhere
You miss half the fun of getting there.
When you worry and hurry through your day,
It is like an unopened gift....
Thrown away.
Life is not a race.
Do take it slower
Hear the music
Before the song is over.
(My texture)
You can help put a stop to the cruelty that billions of animals suffer every single day.
For a Landscape Photography with mighty clouds
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S10 video capture
stopped my car: to click
automobile Citroen Grand C4
stopped briefly for the photo
listening to Status quo CD
Citroen C4
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Shot with Canon EOS 5D Mark II + Canon 50mm f/1.8 II
I am back home, after a trip with some complications.
I got hit by the third snowstorm while travelling within the past 6 weeks, what are the odds?
The first delayed my arrival in the US by one day, the second would have almost got me stuck on the highway when taking a bus to Detroit and now the third that almost got me stuck in Chicago. Luckily, it only delayed me by 6 hours.
Now its time to get adjusted back to german time. At least germany is at least a tad warmer than the U.S. =)
Today shot is one that I took on 5th Ave in NY, and I especially enjoyed the tension that was created by the smoke. Yes, that is real smoke =)
A holiday pop-up from Winners at 400 Front Street West in Toronto, featuring the bold message “STOP WONDERING” from the Stop Wondering. Start Gifting. campaign. The oversized installation briefly transformed the sidewalk into an immersive seasonal retail experience.
Photographed trough the window of our car, driving in the direction of Mount Robson Provincial Park, Canada. I'am always astonished when I see this, why they are not using traffic lights?
Thank you for taken your time to visit me, comments or faves are always much appreciated!
This was a fantastic storm that chased me from Madison, Nebraska to Fremont.
The storm just rolled along as you could hear the thunder clap across the plains at each stop I made to shoot a few photos, then blaze on ahead of it.
Good times
At the end of the same dive with the flame lobster (previous post), we stopped in the shallows to search for grass squid.
Expectations were low. These squid are tiny - think the size of your pinky fingernail. They are floating in a soup of sargassum bits and pieces, so they are well camouflaged. And to top it all off, we are in shallow water (2-3m) with waves rolling through to slosh this slurry of stuff back and forth. Placing them in the viewfinder is hard but even if you can do that, you still need to get the camera's autofocus to lock on to the right thing. I have plenty of blurry pics and a bunch of sharp pics of seaweed fragments. But all you need is one to work!
Note, this was shot with ambient light (because we were so shallow). Without strobes, the shutter speed could be raised above 1/250th, which was definitely helpful.
Please, please, stop the killing of innocent people, poor little children .... It's a tragedy ....
Russia should be ashamed of their government .... we certainly are!
How can a situation like this happen in the Twenty first century, it's like the middle ages.
Makes me cry when I think of this horror happening in Europe.
Let's hope peace returns once again very soon.
Love & Peace! Everyone
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Next stop on our Roatan Island tour was to Mayan Eden Eco Park.
The park is located in Roatan’s dense rainforest canopy.
The park has a small collection of parrots, macaws, and toucans acquired as rescue birds.
Here they come - 4 bird shots.
une pensée pour ceux qui souffrent à Orlando, dans l'espoir que demain soit un jour meilleur pour tous sur notre planète...
Way behind on your streams but I am looking forward to catching up!
This rain and humidity have got to stop!!
A stop sign on 45th Street, in Savannah, Georgia..... The very last one in Savannah... And, doubtless pretty rare elsewhere.... Used in the early twentieth century, until the familiar red stop sign on a post was adopted almost everywhere.
One wonders if this little sign made anyone stop....but vehicles were slower then..!
I have finished loading and making public all the photos in my album of Wormsloe State Park Plantation.... A great place to visit... Very near Savannah.... And I will put this photo in that album.... To give you an easy link.