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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.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Western_Tiers

To the lighthouse! by Ole G

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Wood End Light, Provincetown.

You'll note the poison ivy up in front of the picture. There was a lot on or near the trail 😬

to the Alex by dasfotowerk

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Berlin, Alexanderplatz, Germany

To Get Lost by Cristina_BL

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Somewhere in Italy...

To the Moon by Nic Voxel

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Digital Art -Cammino e Vivo Capovolto

maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Retrospect/121/83/21

To the future by Jeff Chartier

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To The Ballroom by Jovan511

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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.

To Rotterdam by Jorge Gómez

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• (to) mono • by M

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Taken at maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Aride%20Isle/102/24/36

To The Rock. by Brian Pedlar

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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.

Thank you for looking, I really value your comments and feedback.

To Boldly Go by Donna Chiofolo

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Course for adventure

Hope on the way

Almost there

Ready to play

Let us go

Easy to laugh

Simple to make it so.

Listening To Life by Photographybyjw

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Listening To Life they keep me from being distracted, I use a lot while on the computer.

What you got to say about us, don't you see this all leads to games by Bastian Bauer

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Link in my blog

to livations by Bramdas

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i dont drink btw

to the rescue by Ing. Cuevas

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al rescate

To the Ochils by KENNETH BARKER

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To the Ochils

To Aylesbury by Philip Hale

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To Hell... by michel1276

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Zeche Zollverein...

Stairmaze To Heaven by Silke

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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!

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