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Street sun shading in Spain...
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I was really sad to hear that Elvion and its creators chose to leave their virtual worlds but I wish them the very best in the real world.
My time didn´t allow me to explore Elvion very often, but when it did, I had the most magical encounters.
Call it magic, call it true
I call it magic when I'm with you
And I just got broken, broken into two
Still I call it magic, when I'm next to you
“Thank you...for gracing my life with your lovely presence, for adding the sweet measure of your soul to my existence.”
― Richard Matheson, What Dreams May Come
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Sometimes it is better to follow along the fence and think about whether you should jump it.
What you see might just be an illusion.
Happy Fence Friday
The obvious words that sprang to my mind when first viewing the marvelous 600 steps at the Sanctuary of Bom Jesus do Monte near Braga, Portugal was Stairway to Heaven. This basilica with its Manueline Baroque staircase is truly amazing. Penitents have been known to climb these stairs on their knees.
"There was a reason why there was only a single stairway to heaven, but an entire highway to hell." ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
"My life is a stairway to heaven, not a 'decline into decrepitude'."
~ Jane Fonda
Trees to be green soon, fog will disperse, grey will go away. Black winter ends and more vivid time comes. Soon to warm, soon to fresh, soon too soon...
Looking the away from the 12 Apostles' towards the east of the Great Ocean Road. Better view I feel as the Sun was behind me this time.
The road between Bracknell and Liffey in northern Tasmania is through prime farm land. The mountain range known as the Great Western Tiers runs along the road to our left. Straight ahead of us is the spectacular Dry's Bluff. We'll see more of that in the days ahead.
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Muniick- Dunmore Abbey Gate and Fence System
Manly Weekend (50L)!
-Hisa- Tainted Oaks
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A large non-parasitic cuckoo endemic to the Indian Subcontinent. The bird is pretty large - maybe 40-45 cms and is quite famous for its beauty. This is also known as "Lipstick bird" for its reddish beak and beautiful eyelashes.
It habitat is the dry scrub land, forest edges and is often sighted on the ground hunting for insects. The birds are quite shy and behaviours are hard to predict - so it is tough to sight them at the same location again and again. On this day though, we hit the jackpot - spent an hour roughly with 2 birds and at times they got too close to get a full length shot. Luckily they were flying perch to perch continuously, so managed to get a few good flight shots.
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3rd Floor, Flinders Street Station, Melbourne
Venue for Melbourne artist Rone's exhibition "Time"
Dilapidated and mostly sitting unused for decades, the perfect setting for Rone's evocation of and homage to a city and a life long since disappeared - almost.
Course for adventure
Hope on the way
Almost there
Ready to play
Let us go
Easy to laugh
Simple to make it so.
After a few evenings returning empty handed from various locations (weather acted up) it was nice to bag a few shots last night. I have been after some shots from the beach for a while at Trebarwith, but it is getting all the elements together at one time, tides etc.
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#sliderssunday
Or: When the half is the whole. This is what the escalator from my previous image (in the first comment) really looks like when seen from the KaDeWe's ground floor and looking up to the (amazingly dirty) glass roof of the 7th floor which houses the more buffet-style restaurant Wintergarten. My suggestion: If you happen to be at the KaDeWe and are hungry for a snack, go to the 6th floor.
I've been back to the moving staircase this Friday, this time with the Laowa C-Dreamer 7.5mm/F2 prime lens and the GRIII mounted with the wide-angle adapter GW-4 which expands the GRIII's native 28mm to 21mm. Initially, I'd wanted to take the 7-14 wide-angle zoom lens, but it doesn't handle very bright light sources all too well, and there are plenty of such lights at the KaDeWe, while the Laowa creates nice light stars. So the latter was the "safe" choice (regarding the photo output), plus it's super tiny, so it was also the safer choice regarding noticeability. Once again, it was no problem at all to take photos there, but I got noticed by an employee, and for a very short moment I was afraid that his charming remark "You've got a nice camera!" would be followed by "But you aren't allowed to take photos here." But that didn't happen. He smiled and quickly moved up the escalator. Phew.
And why am I telling you all of this when the image you see is one taken at my previous photo walk and with the LX100? Well, you will see photos taken with the Laowa and the GRIII sometime in the future, and – once again – I realised that it is almost impossible to replicate a photo even when you are in the exact same spot as the last time, and especially so when different focal lengths are involved. I also wanted to show you what I started with to create the kaleidoscoped image and how simple and straightforward it was to achieve the kaleidoscope effect – at least this time: Take the single image, copy it to a second layer in PS, flip one layer horizontally, and combine both layers to a single image. Done.
The SOOC RAW file was in landscape mode, and at first, I wanted to upload this single image in its original orientation but then decided to rotate it to the left so it's easier for you to see how the kaleidoscoped image came to be. In addition to this, this image looks much lighter and airier in portrait mode, while in landscape format the scene looks a lot denser and sort of heavy, oppressed even – which is a little what it feels like to ride this moving staircase up and down because the opposed single escalators on each floor are built in a rather compact way, and sometimes, you can even touch the underside of the escalator going to the next floor – someone did, most likely a child or a teenager, because on my Friday visit I noticed a cat sticker on the underside of one of the escalators ;)
I've taken all the LX100 photos of the escalator in 16:9 (it's the only camera where I ever change the image ratio for shooting, because it has a convenient toggle on top of its fixed lens which allows you to quickly choose between 1:1, 3:2, the native 4:3, or 16:9), and since 16:9 images look very "slim", especially in portrait mode, I've added the white frame to make it look a little "beefier". I've also added a little more colour punch to this version so it won't simply look like the previous image "cut in half".
Happy Sliders Sunday, Everyone!