Well the final processing on my Wyoming images is pretty much exhausted. This one was captured a few minutes before my previous post. I liked this composition at the time because it included the colorful foliage and flowers in the foreground. Looking through the viewfinder I liked the line of layers from foreground to background.

This is five bracketed exposures merged in Photomatix...then edited in Capture NX2 and NIK Color Efex Pro.

Please take a moment and click on the image to see it large on a black background. It really looks nicer that way and thank you in advance for looking at my work and for any comments, critiques and favorites. :)

© Angela M. Lobefaro

taken in Pompei, December 2006

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Dear Friends

I am very busy with my being a volunteer

I am organizing again a fund raising event in Biella (my home town) for:

this project:

STOP AIDS AT BIRTH

The major Cesvi campaign to defeat Hiv/Aids in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Now my project is on line on the official CESVI site! wow!:

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Therefore when I will visit your great shots, often I will just leave a fave, with no comment nor invites.

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textured landscape - viewing the Pyrénées, France with the 'Stone Barns of Cominac' in the foreground

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This view, taken from a boat very close to the rugged coast of Capraia (a beautiful island of parco nazionale arcipelago toscano, shows the mysteryous tower of Zenobito (1516), a timeless tower put up in ancient age on the beautifullest spot of this little island, a birdwatching paradise.

Once I spent here one night in a canopy. It was february, and a strong north-east wind blown, stirring everything. But staring at the dark waters of the raging sea, standing on the natural red lavic theatre just beside the silent tower, has been something my soul will never forget.

There's a poem about this place in my second book. Here it is in italian.

Torre dello Zenobito

Ad incontrarti per la prima volta

ci si chiede, in te trovando parziale risposta,

quale sia il linguaggio del mare,

spavalda torre.

Venti sbriciolano la tua esposta corazza,

brecciando per penetrare.

Feroci, vòrticano intrappolati

nel cilindro senza tempo,

anche loro

ansiosi di risposta.

Grattacieli di sale,

schiumando su scale di lava,

tentano di lambirti, torre, bestemmiandoti

nelle ore di bufera.

Ciurme alate, avvistandoti,

correggono rotte immutate,

barlumi d'astri minerali

sul tuo faro mai spento una bussola.

provvisorie mura od epoche.

From Il formicaio, 1998

Welcome Back to SL, Love

" Throughout 8 years of good and bad times, that we both loved and quited. You are always the man who never gave up on me, still maintaining your original value and "us" with your unbelievable emotional intelligence. You make me unable to stop admiring and being proud of you. "

Saphira & Kera

Venice, Italy. San Giorgio Maggiore, viewed across the Canale di San Marco.

For contemplation and reflection...

© Jeff R. Clow

Along the Potash Road just west of Moab, Utah.....and seemingly a million miles from civilization.

I hope you'll press "L" on your keyboard and view this at the larger size. I personally think it is significantly better when viewed large.

Thanks - as always - for stopping by my photostream today.

Blende 8

Punch and Judy show, Bognor Regis.

Actually taken in 2017 and then processed to give is a much earlier feel.

two images from my latest blog post at steevselby.com

From Lake Illawarra on a grey afternoon.

Piume nel cielo,

sopra terre vulcaniche,

silenzio antico.

Tenerife, Canarie, 2024

Buon sabato

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#LandaSelvaggia #WildLandscape

#FotografiaBiancoENero #BlackAndWhitePhoto

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Created for KP Oct. 2024 contest, Mirror Art.

And for DU Contest Nov. 2024.

Starter image Vintage Gazebo, mine.

Art Nouveau & BG flower image, mirror, both purchased from Dover.

Woman, a painting from Wiki.

There's NO Ai on this image.

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All rights reserved. This image may not be copied, reproduced, distributed, republished, downloaded, displayed, posted or transmitted in any form or by any means, including electronic, mechanical, photocopying & recording without my written permission. Thanks.

~ Thank you for visiting my photostream, for the invites, faves, awards and kind words. It's all much appreciated. ~

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leather buckle - HMM!

An impressionistic interpretation of an original iPhone photo of wildflowers growing on a wall by the gothic windows of Ely Cathedral. The image was edited with iColorama and DistressedFX on an iPad Pro.

"Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wild flowers will come up where you are." --Rumi

My mother's rose gold watch - irrepairable but impossible to discard.

One can imagine what life was like years ago on the open ocean....

Freedom of the mind.

This is one of those places where time stands still and your brief blip of existence of the planet is put into perspective.

One of the top 10 most amazing places I've ever been to experience. Scary standing on the edge of sheer cliff with howling wind, and if you fall you have 10 seconds for life to flash before your eyes before you hit the bottom... but incredible too.

Crissey Field State recreation Site, Ore.

Copyright 2020 Nick Kanta

All Rights Reserved.

Kayak launch skid.

Hansom Cabs at

Grand Army Plaza

Central Park NYC

Taken at Borneo

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The Witcher 3:

- NVIDIA ANSEL

- RPL Lighting Mod by rafaperlau

For your nights of a timeless summer, under the pergola on top of a rock with breathtaking views .....

Villa Positano in Camp Italia is tinged with romantic weekends with sunny afternoons by the pool, and long nights under the light of the stars sipping your favorite wine.

Alone, with your partner, with friends, the formula is now consolidated: live your virtual Summer within the infinite time of your most beautiful evenings.

Camp Italia is only in Second Life.

SLurl:

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Blog:

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Golden Canyon Summit, Death Valley Nat Park, California

Finally the sky cleared and the Aurora showed up for the first time in 3 months.

The forecast was expecting medium Aurora activity. So out I went, drove to the mountains where there was snowy foreground. The Aurora started to appear, I stopped the car but to my horror I realized I had forgotten my tripod in all the excitement of finally going out and shooting Aurora. I tried to put the camera on a stone, the hood of my car. But the results where terrible.

So I had to go home again, looking at all the beautiful Aurora out of my car window unable to capture in on my camera.

When I had the tripod again I went to the nearest location. No snowy foreground but the results where fine because the light pollution from the nearby city lit up the house and foreground a bit too. So it all ended well

I took this near Straumur Art center. Just a little down the road behind Straumur there are a few old buildings.

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Dress: Rose Petal Creations Crochet French Slip Dress

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Pantyhose: Vannie's Rose Harmony

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Heels: KC Couture Robin Heels

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Earrings & Necklace: EarthStones Flight of Fancy

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Bracelet: EarthStones Monarch Fantasy Bracelet

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Iowa Traction steeple cab 50 was lapping its younger sibling 51 on its way around Mason City.

50 was built by Baldwin in 1920 and the 51 a year later. And they are still going strong.

Today my cousin and I, the same guy whose room we raided, went to the basketball court here in our village. He uh played around while I took some shots. FINALLY, A FENCE. IT'S A DREAM COME TRUE. Lol. More photos from the big yellow bush and the basketball court shoot in the days to come. Hope you all had a good weekend! :)

EHBD!! :)

Explore!! THANKS :)