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Slightly further West Side of Chicago 6 am, 01/07. Travels will start taking me a little further every day, down more quiet alleys and partially lit streets.
On a slightly misty September morning I was walking up a meadow at the Ochsenkopf when I took this photo. This meadow is part of a ski slope in winter. With a height of slightly more than 1000 meter the Ochsenkopf is one of the highest mountains of the Fichtelgebirge in the north of Bavaria.
Back then I had a 3 MP Panasonic wich is pretty noisy even at the just the ISO 150 used here.
I used the gimp levels tool to move the histogram to more shadows. This avoids the purple tint that Picasa I feel lucky tool introduced in my last version of this photo.
The smart sharpening gimp fu-script detects the edges in the photo and only applies sharpening there. I think there are a lot of edges in this photo.
BW version: www.flickr.com/photos/andreas_helke/3082337299/
Slightly overdoing the PPE !
Thanks to Meatlove Butcher's.
Covid-19 Government allocated exercise walk.
LR3862 © Joe O'Malley 2020
HMM! In the back corner of a dark and hazy lounge, the stakes got ever so slightly higher...
Macro Mondays - 6/8/20 - "On a Coin"
slightly different view from the one I posted on Friday
thanks to Rowland Williams for the sepia suggestion
The Great Allegheny Passage rail trail enables riders/hikers to travel the 318 miles between Pittsburgh and Washington DC.
SN: Cycas Revoluta, Cycadaceae Family
This Palm has its origin in the Ryukyu Islands in Southern Japan. Although called Palm it doesn't belong to the Palmaceae family. Nowadays is disseminated all over. Produces a center of future leaves looking like a cabbage. It is quite attractive.
The Sago Palm is one of the most widely grown houseplants in the world because of its attractive, easy-care habit. It's a cycad, not an actual palm. The thick, shiny-green fronds have a slightly cascading appearance and they arise from a stout, brown, textured truck. When it’s container-grown, it performs well in any bright, sun-filled indoor space. This slow-growing evergreen plant is moderately cold hardy (to zone 8) and it’s native to southern Japan. Easy to care for, it prefers a well-drained potting mix or sandy soil when planted outside in southern zones. Sago Palm makes it easy to add a touch of greenery to your indoor living space.
Cycas revoluta (Sotetsu [japonés ソテツ] palma sago, king sago, la cica, palma de iglesia, o falsa palmera, es una planta oriunda del sur de Japón ejemplo paradigmático de las pseudopalmeras o cicadáceas. Se suele cultivar como planta de interior, ya que no soporta el frío, aunque en España vegeta a gusto en la zona mediterránea.
Cycas revoluta, conhecida no Brasil como sagu-de-jardim, é uma espécie de cicadófita do género Cycas da família Cycadaceae, nativa de Fujian, na China, e de Kyushu e Ilhas Ryukyu, no Japão. Esta espécie tem importância ornamental e dela é extraído amido usado na alimentação humana. É ainda usada na medicina popular. Segundo dados de 2010, a população encontra-se estável.
Cycas revoluta est une espèce de cycas du genre Cycas de la famille des Cycadaceae, originaire du Fujian en Chine, et des îles Kyushu et Ryukyu au Japon. Cette espèce a une importance ornementale et on en extrait de l’amidon utilisé dans l’alimentation humaine. Il est encore utilisé en médecine traditionnelle. Selon les données de 2010, la population est stable.
Cycas revoluta, conosciuta in Brasile come sagu da giardino, è una specie di cicadina del genere cycas della famiglia Cycadaceae, originaria del Fujian, in Cina, e delle isole Kyushu e Ryukyu in Giappone. Questa specie ha importanza ornamentale e da essa viene estratto l'amido utilizzato nell'alimentazione umana. È ancora usato nella medicina popolare. Secondo i dati del 2010, la popolazione è stabile.
Cycas revoluta is een cycadine uit de familie Cycadaceae, afkomstig uit de familie Cycadaceae. Deze soort heeft sierbelang en daaruit wordt zetmeel gewonnen dat wordt gebruikt in menselijk voedsel. Het wordt nog steeds gebruikt in de volksgeneeskunde. Volgens gegevens uit 2010 is de bevolking stabiel.
Cycas revoluta ist eine Pflanzenart aus der Gattung der Cycas ("Cycas") in der Familie der Cycadaceae. Diese Art hat dekorative Bedeutung und daraus wird Stärke gewonnen, die in der menschlichen Nahrung verwendet wird. Es wird immer noch in der Volksmedizin verwendet. Nach Angaben von 2010 ist die Bevölkerung stabil.
سيكاس ريفولوتا، المعروفة في البرازيل باسم ساغو الحديقة، هو نوع من السيكادين من جنس سيكاس من الأسرة Cycadaceae، الأصلي إلى فوجيان، الصين، وجزر كيوشو وريوكيو في اليابان. هذا النوع له أهمية الزينة ومن ذلك يتم استخراج النشا المستخدمة في الغذاء البشري.
لا يزال يستخدم في الطب الشعبي. ووفقا لبيانات عام 2010، فإن عدد السكان مستقر.
ソテツはソテツ科ソテツ属のソテツの一種で、中国の福建省、日本の九州、琉球列島が原産です。この種は観賞用として重要であり、人間の食品として使用するためにデンプンが抽出されます。それは今でも伝統医学で使用されています。 2010 年のデータによると、人口は安定しています。
I have visited New York City only twice now and it wasn't until the second visit that I made the trip over to see the Statue of Liberty (aka Liberty Enlightening the World). I am always a bit skeptical of such popular landmarks. On one hand, they are popular destinations for very good reason. The Statue of Liberty is pretty amazing to see in person. On the other hand, the hype that can build up around such places, if not managed carefully, can lead to disappointment. It is like how people talk about seeing the Mona Lisa in person for the first time and being disappointed by its small size. I found the experience of the Statue of Liberty well worth the trip but I approached with some degree of caution, trying very hard to go to it with an open mind and not expecting anything of it til I saw it.
I would also say that approaching such tourist destinations much also be done with caution because of the tourists themselves. It is easy for the crowds to be a factor in how one perceives or enjoys such a place. Yes, it could be easy to scoff at the vast numbers of people who come to such an important symbol just so they can make Instagram images that look like they are holding Liberty in the palm of their hands. There can be a shallowness to how we take in such places. But then again, that is not really my place to either judge or concern myself with. I don't have any control over how others want to experience Liberty, nor should I. I merely have control over how I experience it and therefore I find it much more effective and beneficial to focus my thoughts toward that end. I will add that being so into long exposure photography has given me a tool with which to look at crowds and now one thing I really enjoy about such crowded tourist destinations is making long exposures of the people there... even if my slightly miscalculations in reciprocity failure mean you cannot really see them. So it goes.
I do think that photography has taught me to look at places differently, if not more critically. And that has helped, in turn, inspire me to think about those things more critically. I am sure my experience at Liberty would be different if not for photography. But whether that would be different in a good or bad way, I cannot say. I just know it would be different is all.
On a last note, the tour of Liberty also can include a trip to Ellis Island. While I did most of my photography at the Statue of Liberty, I was most moved by Ellis Island with its stories and history. If you have yet to go and find yourself in a position to go, I'd recommend seeing both.
Hasselblad 500C
Rollei RPX 100
A slightly mind-bending optical illusion created by the concave shape of the facade of the now iconic Future Systems designed Selfridges building.
I didn't get many daytime shots of this building during my day in Birmingham a few weeks back as I only had a small window of opportunity for sunshine. I have taken many before so this may not be a bad thing........
Click here for more shots of this and other Future Systems buildings : www.flickr.com/photos/darrellg/albums/72157623570903396
From Wikipedia "The Selfridges department store forms part of the redeveloped Bullring shopping centre on the edge of the city centre, and was the only part of the new development designed by architects other than Benoy Ltd. (the firm responsible for masterplanning the scheme). The building is a prime example of the early 21st century movement referred to as "blobitecture", and has been compared to Peter Cook's Kunsthaus in Graz, Austria, who in a 2004 interview discussing his work and Future Systems said he would "rather be with the Blobbies than the Boring Farts!""
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I'm sitting here drinking my morning coffee and looking at this photograph I made a few days ago. I guess its starting to grow on me a bit. It's a lovely little waterfall in northern California called Mossbrae Falls. Actually it's pretty good sized, but I decided to concentrate on one small corner of it. My buddy Silas and I apparently missed the peak fall color by about a week but there was still some color left along the edges of the waterfall. The main section of the falls are just out of frame to the right. Most of the leaves were dead on the ground leaving only a smattering of color way off to the left end. You might say the leaves were "mostly dead". And as you know, according to Miracle Max in the movie The Princess Bride, "mostly dead is slightly alive". So I focused my attention on the slightly alive parts.
Fall is sneaking away quickly so get out there and enjoy it while you can!
Another shot of three seagull chicks in St. John's harbour. Taken handheld with my new (to me) Canon 300 2.8 IS lens. Slightly cropped.
Slightly late running 22991 Bandra Terminus (BDTS) - Mahuva (MHV) LHB Superfast Express crawls as it approaches Vadodara with exactly colour matching Loco BL WAG - 5 #23720.
Location : Near Vadodara Railway Station.
Date : 05/06/17
"Why are you taking a photograph instead of opening the door for me?"
(p.s. I did open the door but she did not come in.)