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The oaks and the pines, and their brethren of the wood, have seen so many suns rise and set, so many seasons come and go, and so many generations pass into silence, that we may well wonder what "the story of the trees" would be to us if they had tongues to tell it, or we ears fine enough to understand. ~ Author Unknown
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I always had the plan to post more shots of the wonderful Iskanderkul in Tajikistan, but it is already three years ago that I finished my trip through central Asia, and how the world has changed since then.
Beside this shot www.flickr.com/photos/115540984@N02/49221949713/in/photol..., that I posted a long time ago, there were many more.
This image was taken when we left early next morning. The scenery was gorgeous thanks to the light and the haze, and the lake got a wonderful turquoise color.
Iskanderkul is situated in the northwest of Tajikistan, in the Fann-mountains. I am not sure if it was named after Alexander the great, the stories are somewhat vague on this matter, but what is sure is that the dacha of the Tajik president is situated at the east end of the lake.
We spent two days at this lake, and although this scenery is fantastic it took me a lot of pictures to capture its grandness. Not only the lake but the surrounding mountains are so stunning you don't know where to look all the time. Enjoy!
20 September 2019 I came back from my journey over a part of the Silk Road to and through Central Asia. 4 months of traveling through 14 countries (Germany, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Turkey, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Iran) before I flew home from Teheran. An impressive journey in countries that are extremely beautiful, with lovely and welcoming people and diverse cultures and history.
Intense traveling with more than 20000 kilometers in our mobile home on sometimes roads that hardly could be called that way. We saw many villages and cities (some wonderful, others very ugly), countries that are transforming from the old Soviet era into something more related to older cultures and the way people live, often funded by oil readily available around the Caspian sea. We saw the amazing mountains south of the Black Sea, the wonderful Caucasus, and the high mountains in the far east close to China with peaks over 7000 meter, and not to forget the (Bulgarian) Alps!
We crossed the great steppe of Kazakhstan. a drive of at least 5000 km, the remnants of lake Aral, once one of the biggest lakes of the world, saw a rocket launch from Baikonur (this little part is Russian owned), we crossed many high mountains passes, and drove the breathtaking canyon that comes from the Pamir, beginning at ca 4500 meter, and going down for ca. 400km to an altitude of 1300 meter, driving for 100's of kilometers along the Afghan border.
And then the numerous lakes with all sorts of different colors from deep cobalt blue to turquoise, and one rare spectacle in Turkmenistan where a gas crater is burning already for more than 40 years. And finally and certainly not the least to mention an enormous amount of wonderful, hospitable and welcoming people. The woman often dressed in wonderful dresses, and bringing a lot of color in the streets of almost of all countries we visited.
The Esplanade Bridge leads to Merlion Park and downtown Singapore. It is a great place for a walk at night.
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I wanted to add a little twist for capturing the popular architecture, Disney concert Hall.
While I was testing and exploring the panorama composition, a woman with the dog walked by.
The dog briefly stopped and watched the hall, then they left. (I accidentally captured the scene )
I just wondered what the dog thinking about looking at the gigantic house (for him), and I wanted to put into my feeling to the image with some post process. (Maybe I projected myself to the dog.)
The dog was real, but I shifted the position of the dog (to the center), and let the owner go. (sorry about that)
710 265 leads 2J39 as it travels across the new section of track to Barking Riverside from Gospel Oak.
Montserrat is located less than an hours train ride from Barcelona and is the home of a Benedictine monastery. The quickest route to the monastery is via the cable car (Aeri de Montserrat) offering great mountain views which lasts around five minutes.
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This was taken from the Shard on a nice clear day. I was lucky too as there were not too many people there so I had the place mostly to myself.
This Image was explored, so I want to thank you all for the views as it had over an amazing 8,000 view in one day.
Thank you for the comments and favs over the last month its really appreciated.
My thoughts turn to southern Utah as we prepare for our Moab workshop next week. Well, this image is not from the Moab area but the Zion National Park. It's still in Utah though! ;-).
This is a classic Zion view from the bridge looking south over the Virgin River. No HDR here. Just a beautiful sunset in a beautiful place!
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Stairway To Heaven
Led Zeppelin
There's a lady who's sure
All that glitters is gold
And she's buying a stairway to Heaven
When she gets there she knows
If the stores are all closed
With a word she can get what she came for
Oh oh oh oh and she's buying a stairway to Heaven
There's a sign on the wall
But she wants to be sure
'Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings
In a tree by the brook
There's a songbird who sings
Sometimes all of our thoughts are misgiving
Ooh, it makes me wonder
Ooh, it makes me wonder
Went into Sydney City at 4:30am to shoot a street near Central Station in the dark. That went well, and I will post that image later..
We then took the train down to George St and did some street photography in the empty streets around the QVB.
Its been years since I photographed the spiral stairs inside this building, so decided that when in Rome...
The stairs and escalators were gated off until 7:30am, so we grabbed brekky and waited for security to remove them, which they did just as we were finished stuffing our faces.
This is quite a difficult composition to get right using a tripod.
I had shot for a while hand held, and had bumped the iso right up, and opened up the aperture quite wide, but I was getting too much noise and the images were rather soft at the edges due to the open aperture, so I persevered with the tripod option.
Hanging your camera over the edge of a stairway on a tripod that isn't secured properly to the floor is not fun, but where theres a will, theres a way.
This is also the first time I have ever posted an image, where I think the colour image is equally as impactive as the B&W.
So, I will post the colour version later in the week, as I really like that too.
Hope you like "Stairway To Heaven"
Cheers, Mike
But nowadays invaders come in the shape of tourists off-loaded from cruise ships . This is the view from Fort George at St George`s , Grenada. built in 1705 - 10 at the top of a steep promontory . There are a collection of ancient cannons aiming at our cruise ship .......we come in peace .
We made eye contact and parted ways; I was in no position to be of any assistance. :)
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Haithabu / Schleswig-Holstein / Germany
Haithabu (Hedeby) was an important Viking city in the Middle Ages (8th to the 11th centuries) and now an UNESCO World Heritage Site with open-air museum. Before and after this time, it was just a beautiful piece of land.
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This was shot back in 2014 In Austria, on our way to the top of the Edelweißspitze, which at the height of 2572 m is the highest point of the spectacular Großglockner-Hochalpenstraße.
The sun was setting giving some wonderful colors to the clouds and the surrounding mountains.
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This cheap pack of recycled pencils, still my favourites to write with... was brought into the studio, props for 'GOING BACK TO SCHOOL' advert, ahem...
I also saw the possibilities of some 'creative' imagery, so I asked to keep them, more (useful) props.
I love the way this came together as a 'flower', a wave.
Have a fun day, I did, and thank you, M, (*_*)
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The road to Northern California's Castle Lake has a lot of trees and curves which create framed views of the hills and mountains of the area. My favorite view is the one of Mount Shasta framed between the trees. In this photo the late afternoon sun is shining on this beautiful volcanic peak.
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What to do on a Saturday afternoon... make pasta again, this time black pepper tagliatelle, rolled by hand and cut using a chitarra pasta cutter. Chitarra means guitar in Italian so imagine a wooden frame with thin wires stretched across it. Once you've rolled your pasta dough really thin, you place it on top of the wires and press down using rolling pin and there you go... tagliatelle done. You can even pluck the wires and play some music if you feel like it.
None left now!
I know I said I wanted to take a break from the gloomy shots now that Scotch is healing and my gloomy outlook is improving, but I kept meaning to post this one all last week since I thought it was very cool and different from most of my posts. That dark overcast day at venice was a lot of fun, even if I only got a whimper of a sunset. The light was there--i took plenty of shots where extremely bright sunlight poured through holes or gaps in the blue and gray clouds--but it was just well smothered by the cloud cover and I suppose I've gotten accustomed to clouds dispersing around the time of the sunset but not on this day. So many trips would end in frustration when the clouds I followed towards my location slowly disappeared until I had a blank sky at at arrival and at sunset. On this day, I kept waiting and waiting for even a small break and it never happened.
The bit of sunset above the crashing wave was about it and I didn't find it particularly interesting enough to really make a focal point of any of the images. Actually that's entirely true. I did spend about 4 minutes following a sailboat on the horizon as it passed by the strip of sunset but that was mostly it. Instead, I focused on single frame and panoramas and alternated between interesting waves and of course the reflections on the long shore.
Normally, I will at least quickly check surf conditions, either on weather.com app or on some fairly detailed surf report site I came across once. I started checking this at the end of Spring when cloudy days became more and more infrequent and I was searching for any reason to go somewhere and shoot. If it wasn't going to be cloudy or colorful, maybe it would at least be bright with huge surf that I could use a quicker shutter on. Now with winds starting to pick up more and cloudy days more reliable, perhaps I will start using these surf reports more often to help me choose a location. As of now, really cloudy has generally meant venice because of the reflections but it would be nice to have reasons to head elsewhere on occasion.
Anyway, the surf was very interesting on the afternoon. It had the feel of a storm coming but it remained fairly dry and even with storm clouds far off in the distance just above the horizon, the highlights besides the reflections were the waves. Until this trip, I really didn't enjoy shooting the waves because I was so obsessed with long exposures but it was hard to ignore the large, slowly forming waves breaking in front of an extremely dark and moody sky. I had the polarizer on the lens but mainly left the 10 stop in the bag and was too lazy to use any of the less opaque filters. In retrospect, I'm a bit disappointed I shot so few long exposures because the consistent blue and subsequent reflections might've been interesting to see completely smoothed out. I shot a few random long exposures before and during the sunset but mainly waited until after dark so I could shoot the pier.
Before California, my experience with shooting beaches was limited to my trip to Martha's Vineyard last summer and honestly, I had zero idea what I was doing back then. I had ordered my first cheap set of ND filters just before the trip and probably spent 90% of the time with them attached to the lens. Back in Maryland, my exposure to water came in the form of countryside creeks, waterfalls and a few trips to Harper's Ferry to shoot the Shenandoah River which, while interesting, is nothing like staring out into a body of water with no end in sight. Growing up a baseball player, I always sort of measured distances by whether I could throw a baseball from one side of something to the other. I know how far I can throw and can generally tell if a distance is within that range or close to it and I know I can throw a baseball across the Shenandoah River. While other beaches are fun to shoot out here, Venice is totally unique. The feeling of standing on a slick, reflective shoreline with the vastness of sea in front and the full reflections surrounding me and the tripod is surreal. I always catch myself turning and looking around since the reflection acts like a mirror and suddenly it feels like I'm floating above the water. It's hard to explain maybe, but you've seen the reflection shots I've taken here and it completely fills the frame. It's also because I keep the camera about a foot off the ground and am able to get all of the reflection I can into frame.
This shot was one of the better waves I got on the evening and I was fortunate to have the settings and focal length in a good spot for this particular wave though it would've been nice to have the other side of that golden reflection seen in the foreground in the sky as well. One of these days I will finally drag myself to Laguna or another new interesting beach but until the conditions are right and I'm able to leave early enough to explore, there's worse places in the world to have as a "safety" location than Venice Beach. My favorite beach to shoot happens to be the closest/easiest destination as well and I've now been enough times to arrive somewhat efficiently and quickly find legal parking nearly my preferred place on the beach. I just know to stay away on the hazy cloudless days, but that generally applies to everywhere out here.
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سألته الصديقة :
هل ما زلت يا أيها الفنان تحلم
فاجأه السؤال .. فالحلم قد بات في أيامه حلما
أن يغلق عينيه ويرى الوجوه والأماكن
والأقمار والأوراق والأشجار والأزهار والمآذن
أن يحدد الضوء فيصل إليه
أن يغني بأعلى صوته .. ويفرد نفسه فيطير
أن يصافح الجميع .. وأن يزرع البسمة فوق وجه الأرض الضال .. فيخرج من ضلاله
أن يجمع بين النقائض .. وأن يبني جسرا يصل بين الشمس والقمر بشكل سريالي مباشر
أن يقفز بين الكواكب فلا يضيع في أتون المسافة .. ولا يتفتت في جحيم البرودة
أن يرزكش الكلمة .. فتبقى كلمة ..
وأن يناور الصورة فتصبح قصيدة
أن يقرأ كتابا فيصبح عازفا خلال دقيقتين
أن يبني قصرا من موسيقى جميلة
ومرجا من حروف تعشق بعضها
أن يهدم البوابات وتصبح الأسوار ملاصقة دوما للتراب
أن يعانق كل من اشتاق إليه دون أن يحتاج إلى غباء المبررات
أن يسير دوما بعكس العقارب
أن يقف على جغرافيا المشارق
وأن يراقب صامتا كل المغارب
أن يفهم فقه الظل حتى يصبح هو ظلا
أن يحلم كما كان يحلم ..
كم هو حلم بعيد أن يعود إلى الحلم ..
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سألته الصديقة :
هل مازلت يا أيها الفنان تحلم
فسكت .. وحلم بدمعة
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I'm wearing the Charm Banshee gacha set from Zenith, while Jem is in a currently vintage skin and outfit named Solaris, from Fallen Gods. (Word is that it's on the schedule to be updated with current-generation elements.) More details at the article.
I got to thinking about this as alternative versions like Schrodiger's cat so we have here the final version, just below center while all the other possible versions drift off like smoke. I recall some physicist using an expression like "the collapse of the alternative" so I have borrowed that. If it's your expression send me a letter because I haven't had a letter from a physicist since I did graphics for the Department of Physics at the University of Illinois. There is, by the way, a nasty green spot in the middle, but I haven't found an adequate substitute for it.
113/365
This is dedicated to Kiara, who finished her 365 project today - so proud of you! ♥
Ohh it was a crazy day.
This wasn't taken with my D600, I'm spending some time getting to know the settings (and all the buttons! There are so many compared to my D3000 :D) So tomorrow I can't wait to go out and properly shoot with it!! EEP
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Not the stairway to heaven, more like the forgotten stairs. I spotted this while hiking on Bull Creek. I couldn't help but wonder if the creek was ever that high. I know it is when it floods, but that's the only time I've ever seen it that high. Anyway, I forgot about this image and spotted it today while I was deleting some, that I couldn't even figure out why I had save them. And, some I'm just tired of looking at. So, now I'm down to about 2000 images..;)
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