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This is my calico cat Cassie sitting on a rail on my front porch. That's her favorite place to be now as she watches the hummingbirds buzz around her... out of reach, thank goodness.
I am dedicating this photo to one of the sweetest ladies you'll ever know.... AMANDA (craftedfromtheheart). She was one of my first Flickr friends and I was drawn to her beautiful photography, her bubbly personality and her fighting spirit to face all the difficult challenges that life seems to have tossed in her direction. Despite her adversities, she keeps on going and fills our comment boxes with humor & sweet words. I admire her so much.
I chose this particular shot because Amanda loves all sorts of animals. She has possums and kookaburra that visit her daily. They know she is a gentle soul that can be trusted. How lucky they are to have Amanda looking after them.
Amanda, thank you so much for the beautiful testimony you wrote for me. You are a blessing in so many people's lives, including mine. Remember, you really ARE an angel, so stretch out those wings and keep on flying........
P.S..... If you visit Amanda's page and see her photos blacked out, fear not. She's being harassed by a coward who keeps flagging her photos. Seriously, how can a photo of a flower be considered inappropriate? It displeases me when people use Flickr resources as a weapon against other members. So sad.
Vanessa Cardui
Ordine Lepidoptera
Superfamiglia Papilionoidea
Famiglia Nymphalidae
Sottofamiglia Nymphalinae
Genere Vanessa
Sottogenere Cynthia
Last week, I returned to the exact location of my last upload to capture the morning fog lifting for the day. There are few clouds this time of year but the fog can really create some good atmosphere and light under the right conditions. The trick is to be ready before sunrise and if it has promise, head out immediately! No HDR.
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Canon 5D Mark II
Canon 24-105L @ 45
30-second exposure @F11
HOYA NDX-400 9.5-stop filter (Very dark) for the long exposure.
LEE soft ND grad (100x150mm) 0.9 + 0.75
Lee foundation kit filter holder with Lee 77mm adapter ring
No polarizer!
ISO 50
Small Slik tripod with Manfrotto Pistol-grip ball head.
RAW file processed with Capture One by Phase One
TIFF file processed with Photoshop
As usual, this light lasted for about 5 minutes or so. You don't get a second chance with fog because one moment it is too thick and the next minute it burns off to clear skies for the rest of the day! So you must be ready for when the light breaks through. And hopefully it breaks through before it gets too harsh and bright with the sun too high in the sky.
Again, I was really out to shoot the Golden Gate Bridge because there was low fog, but it was not meant to be. The fog was too thick. But that was fine because I have lots of alternative shots planned out, so I just follow the light to where it leads me.
For more on Angel island, see here:
The map shows exactly where this is. It is a short hike down a steep set of wooden steps at the end of Valley St., near Bridgeway
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Took this on the day of the Penguins Stanley Cup Parade, it was such a beautiful day!
And I SWEAR those halos weren't there when I e-mailed this to myself from my Mac. The PC at work that I downloaded them too must have put them there ;-)
I'll make sure to fix them tonight!
Thanks for the visits, and have a great weekend my friends!
Isn't this the funniest looking fish you have ever seen? So cute! Also looks like it's about to give you a kiss.
I forgot to look up what it's called. Anyone want to venture a guess? ;P
Happy Friday!
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Oh it's called a cowfish!
Su cara suroeste con el glaciar.
Pink Floyd: Brain Damage - Eclipse
Región del Biobío, Chile central.
I've been going through some really rough times for the past few weeks. I've dealt with one of my biggest nightmares and I think I am going to conquer it.
I just don't think I would have been able to do that without the help and support of some of my old friends. Always remember who your friends are... In the end, its kindness of others that makes you happy. And kids, of course :}
I took this shot last Saturday at the Lake Burley Griffin in Canberra. I recently bought a Cokin landscape filter set, so I used the Cokin P153 (ND4) for an extra long exposure and Cokin P037 warming filter to get some rich reds in the sky.
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This picture was shot on a tripod with three exposures @ F3.5 ISO 100 (-2..0..+2EV). I used Photomatix to create the HDR with tonemapping and detail enhanced. I increased the overall saturation with Hue/Saturation in Photoshop. Curve adjustment to increase the overall contrast. Unsharp Mask.
This shot was taken at the beginning of our road trip to central Oregon. It was raining along the way. Thank goodness the weather got better as we drove further into the cascades.
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Exposure:10 sec
Aperture:f/14.0
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Droppies on the petal of same flower I posted yesterday. You gotta bear another day of pink today =P Shot with 50mm F1.8 II (mounted) + 18-55mm F3.5-5.6 (reversed) & hand held.
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- Canon 5D Mark2.
- ISO 100, f16, 17mm.
- Canon 17-40 f/4 L.
- Tripod.
View On Black to see more :)
Standard 3 exposure (+2,0,-2 EV)
Processing
Photomatix
- Tonemapped generated HDR using detail enhancer option
Photoshop
- Adjustment of hue/saturation
- Adjustment of curves to increase the overall contrast (Linear)
- Adjustment of levels
- USM on Background Layer
- Reduced noise with Noiseware Pro
- Sig/Borders Added
Thanks for all the comments, faves, views, notes and invites!
Como todos os gatos, Malaquias gosta de dormir, de preferência ao sol, na manta quentinha ou na janela, onde esteja um calorzinho e aconchego. Mas também de passear no jardim, entre as flores coloridas que ele gosta de cheirar e de correr atrás dos outros pequenos habitantes das flores e das verduras. Os seus olhinhos abrem-se de surpresa todas as vezes que uma libelinha ou uma joaninha voam perto do seu nariz. Arrebitando as orelhas dá pulos na vã tentativa de as alcançar. É assim a vida do Malaquias...
Feliz fim de semana, amigas!!!
beijinhos!!!!!!
Si è proprio così...
Non si fidano di noi, è quello che noto in prima persona.
Dopo avermi conosciuto diventano amorevoli e pieni di tanta voglia di starti vicino.
Certo ti chiedono.... sta a noi capire e dare senza stravolgere il loro modo di fare e di credere.
Io cerco di farlo nel migliore dei modi.
Questo ragazzo è quello che poi è con me nella foto.
Ogni giorno mi viene a cercare, mi trova e mi viene vicino....e in questa foto sembra dire il contrario di tutto...
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Cape Moreton Lighthouse was built from local sandstone in 1847 by the NSW Government. QLD was not declared a separate state until 2 years later….ok ok, I know what you NSW folks now say.
It was built because of the increasing traffic to the northern coast , but for a long time was the only light on the 3,236 miles of coastline.
The entrance into Moreton Bay is scattered with wrecks that attest the notoriousness of the bay.
Standing 23m high, this structure is the only example of a stone lighthouse in Queensland. Rare elements including external masonry and internal cast ironstairs cases still remain intact.
The original light source oil wick. It was converted in in 1930 to pressurised acetylene gas. This installation did not continue for long as in 1937 the apparatus was converted to 240v electricity. Today the Cape Moreton Lighthouse is fully solar powered and automated and plays an important part in the Australian east coast navigation network.
A week ago welcomed Burgers Zoo (Arnhem, the Netherlands) a brand spanking new baby Western Lowland Gorilla.
Born on the night August 24th to three-time mom N’Gayla, the newborn appears to be doing well. The baby is a girl named: N'Washi.
De Arnhemse dierentuin Burgers' Zoo heeft er een kleine westelijke laaglandgorilla bij.
De geboorte van de baby in de nacht van maandag 24 op dinsdag 25 augustus was een soort cadeautje. Verzorgers kwamen 's morgens in het apenverblijf en zagen moeder N'Gayla opeens met haar jong in haar armen.
Het dierenpark wist wel dat de 16-jarige N’Gayla drachtig was, maar dacht dat het jong ergens in september of oktober ter wereld zou komen.
Voor moeder N'Gayla is het de derde nakomeling. N’Gayla mocht twee dagen na de geboorte met haar enkele decimeters grote gorillababy naar buitenverblijf. Vader, zilverrug Bouwi, mocht ook mee, maar bleef op eerbiedige afstand van moeder en kind.
Het babyaapje, een meisje met de naam N'Washi, is helemaal gezond.
"Het drinkt goed, slaapt goed en is ook vaak wakker. Net als een gewone baby".
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Thank you so much guys for all the wonderful wishes & prayers yesterday, and thanks to v1nz for lil b'day party she threw here on Flickr & Rachel for the sweet dedication *hugs* =)
Well some people kinda got bored with my rose series so here's something different for a change, now these drop shots are gonna haunt you for lil while =P
Shot with 50mm F1.8 II + 18-55mm F3.5-5.6 reversed & hand held.
Happy Pinkalicious Tuesday everyone! =)
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Finally I had this Dragonfly Portrait which is one of my dream shots... hope you like it.
Thanks for the view,faves,notes and comments!
#243/365 It's was so hot today I wasn't very motivated to take pictures. I did manage to take the d40 to lunch with us to get this. Should have saw the people staring at me while taking this. I also just noticed I didn't center the 245..lol...oh well. I've been so busy lately I haven't done any portraits in a while. Hopefully I can get one this week.
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Here it is. Sunrise at Sunrise Point on Mt Rainier from this past Wednesday. This was the first time I had ever traveled to Sunrise on Mt Rainier. My normal stomping grounds on this mountain is at Paradise. I got up at 3:00am to get here at 5:30am. Plenty of time as the sun is rising later, around 6:15am. As it was going to be a warm day, I wore shorts and a t-shirt. Not prepared for 36 degrees at Sunrise!
Well, the spectacular sunrise warmed me up. This point is at about 6,800 feet, the highest point you can drive in Mt Rainier National Park. Paradise sits at about 5,400 feet.
I combined three exposures -2,0,+2 in Photomatix, some tone mapping and then compressed in Photoshop. I adjusted the saturation only a small amount, as the color you see here was really painted by Mother Nature herself!
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SOOC = Straight Out Of the Camera. In other words, no editing (although in this case, I did have to convert from RAW and reducing the size).
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mais um pedaço meu...
Alguém me pediu uma foto dos meus pés...
mas não lembro quem..
aqui está!
Obs: não gosto dos meus pés...
Feet ...
one more piece of me ...
Someone asked me a picture of my feet ...
but do not remember who ..
here it is!
Note: do not like my feet ...
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Fuku takes control of this wave making it his own world.
Roadhakurukuranings @ Raalhugandu on 25 Aug 2009
"...Por isso é que habito
no arreio sovado
tal fosse um centauro
sem lei nem consolo,
metade campeiro,
tropeiro ou soldado
e a outra metade,
o cavalo crioulo..."
Trecho de "Alma crioula", de Rodrigo Bauer
Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil
A lot of shots I like seem to have some kind of texture added. If done right I think this is a very cool way to add extra interest to a shot. Until I got my dSLR this year, my Photoshop skills were limited to cropping and adjusting brightness and contrast. Slowly I have been picking up different skills with a touch of googling and all the wonderful tutorials out there :) For this shot I used two textures from the Totally Free Textures Group, an invaluable resource. Armed with my textures, I used this tutorial: How to Use Textures to Enhance Your Photographs. And voila!
Have to say I am my worst critic, but I was quite pleased with how this turned out. Hope you like it too.
Some trivia courtesy of Wikipedia:
The Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign is a Las Vegas Strip landmark funded in May 1959 and erected soon after by Western Neon. In a nod to Nevada's nickname as "the Silver State," across the top of the sign are white neon circles, designed to represent silver dollars. On the back or north side, the sign reads "Drive Carefully. Come Back Soon".
On October 4, 1999, the sign went dark for about a month when the company that had been paying the power bill was bought by another company who did not pay the bill. When the problem was discovered, payment of the past due amount, under $60, was made, and power was turned back on.
On December 8, 2008, a small parking lot was opened in the median of Las Vegas Boulevard to allow official public access to the sign for the first time. Prior to the parking lot's construction, visitors to the sign were forced to cross the northbound or southbound lanes of Las Vegas Blvd. without the benefit of any traffic signal or crosswalk. While no one is known to have been killed while trying to access the sign, increasing traffic at the south end of the Strip has made a crossing increasingly dangerous. The new parking lot provides 10 standard parking spaces, two handicapped spaces, and two large spaces for buses or limousines.
Explore, Highest Position #145
202 sec. @ f4.5...... Indian Head Cove, by the light of the fullmoon.....
an evening stroll to Indian Head Cove does have it's rewards....... but the return hike through bush, where the moon don't shine, is be a bit taxing on the nerves......
Have you done this? Pleasantest thing Kids can ever do with this flower is to BLOW :)
Thanks to everyone for your visit, favs and comments.
Explored #264 23Aug09
A view of the Fairy Glen from the other side of the Butte. Can you pick-out the cosmic circle of stones. Can you spot any naked ladies dancing in the centre of the spiral? If not then read on! The steep path leads right up into that cleft in the butte and onto the top of the geologic feature. From there you can be the King or Queen of the Fairy Castle!
The Faerie or Fairy Glen, is an area of otherworldly appearance, located close to Uig in the northwest of the Isle of Skye. It is a quiet place, except for bleating sheep, and is often described as fairy-like, yet relaxing. It is wild and far out, covered with something in the region of over 360 strangely shaped little conical hills. It is a pleasant natural spot with more than a hint of mystery. The hills are erosional features and geologists say that the distinctive landforms have been caused by a large landslip similar to the ones responsible for other parts of Skye’s unique topography e.g. the larger-scale Quiraing Area.
The area of the Fairy Glen is reported to be more than 15,000 square metres and contains numerous small, conical-shaped hillocks rising 2 - 10 metres in height. These hillocks are overgrown with thick, green turfy grass, are covered with bleating sheep and strange yellow mushrooms of unknown power and use. There is a brook running through the glen, with a little lochan and on the side of one of the slopes is a small cosmic spiral of stones, overgrown with grass. According to local legend, girls who dance naked on the spiral will have their dearest wishes fulfilled... or perhaps that should read: if girls dance naked around the spiral, local shepherds will have their dearest wishes fulfilled?
Wednesday 19.08.2009 was a big day for cycling fans in Oslo. Lance Amstrong participated in the Oslo Grand Prix.
About:
The Oslo Grand Prix was arranged for the first time. 1,5 hours through the streets of Oslo on a 1 kilometer criterium track. The city was packed with spectators and Thor Hushovd won a big victory.
On Twitter we spoke about meeting and shooting the event, so I got together with Oddne, Øystein and Stian and found a fine spot in one of the corners.
I have previously uploaded photos of Thor Hushovd and Lance Amstrong today Kurt-Asle Arvesen is in the pipeline :))
Check out this other shot of Kurt-Asle Arvesen
These guys ride incredible fast around the corner, panning my 40D on 1/15 sec shutterspeed was enough to blur everything out. The flash was then used to freeze the rider :))
Color, saturation and such was enhanced in Lightroom, a little retouching in Photoshop and that was it :))
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♪♫♪♫ Napul'è ♪♫♪♫ mille culure
Napul'è mille paure
Napul'è a voce de' creature
che saglie chianu chianu
e tu sai che nun si' sulo...... ~ Pino Daniele ~
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The gang on the Friday meetup.
Lincoln, Hong Kong Ghost, Arndsan, edgarleo + friend, expat.37, Nicky, Brian Chu. Not in the frame were Kiwi, Lipjin, Clement and Flying Vlieg.
Warm welcome to edgarleo and friend from Hungary, and Flying Vlieg from Guangzhou.
I wish you an amazing weekend!
Thank you so much for all the comments and faves on the last photo - i'm overwhelmed by the response!
You can visit my zenfolio page, where i've uploaded more photos from NY:
Technique/Processing:
1 shot with the Sigma 50mm f/1.4, converted to b/w with Silver Efex, adding a slight blue toning.
Where?
Staten Island Ferry Terminal while waiting for the Ferry back to Manhattan.
Info:
Staten Island is a borough of New York City in the southwest part of the city. Staten Island is separated from New Jersey by the Arthur Kill and the Kill Van Kull, and from the rest of New York by New York Bay. With a population of 487,407, Staten Island is the least populated of the five boroughs but is the third largest in area at 59 sq mi (153 km2).
The Borough of Staten Island is coextensive with Richmond County, the southernmost county in the state of New York. Until 1975, the borough was officially named the Borough of Richmond. Staten Island has been sometimes called "the forgotten borough" by inhabitants who feel neglected by the city government.
Staten Island is overall the most suburban of the five boroughs of New York City. The North Shore, especially the neighborhoods of St. George, Tompkinsville, Park Hill, and Stapleton, is the most urban part of the island; it contains the officially designated St. George Historic District and The St. Paul’s Avenue-Stapleton Heights Historic District, which feature large Victorian homes. The South Shore has more suburban-style residential neighborhoods and is home to the two and one-half mile long F.D.R. Boardwalk, the fourth longest in the world. Historically, the central and southern sections of the island were once dominated by dairy and poultry farms, almost all of which disappeared in the 20th century.
The borough is accessible to Brooklyn via the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge and to New Jersey via the Goethals Bridge, Outerbridge Crossing, and Bayonne Bridge. Staten Island has Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) bus service and an MTA rapid transit line, the Staten Island Railway, which runs from the ferry terminal at St. George to Tottenville. The free Staten Island Ferry connects the borough to Manhattan and is a popular tourist attraction, providing views of the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island and lower Manhattan.
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"Climbing is the only cure for gravity."
My NOTES: Two things I want to do very soon. 1 - Watch the movie UP (it opened just this week here in the Philippines). 2 - Go wall climbing again, perhaps with some friends in Singapore.
Don't have any fancy strobe lights. So just used two halogen lamps to light this. One behind the figure as a back light and one right on top of it. My sister Dorothy had to hand hold the other so she gets part of the credit.
EXPLORE #148 (August 21, 2009)
~Muhammad Ali
Congrats again Pens!
And thanks to all my flickr friends for your views and comments!
Explored August 19, #269
Explored #413 - Thank you! The spectacular Cliffs of Moher have made it to the final stage of the “New 7 Wonders of Nature" campaign. The 700ft sea cliffs are vying for one of the seven top places with 27 other finalists. The seven locations will be chosen by votes from the public all over the world over the next two years and the winners will be announced in 2011.
Explored. Highest Position: #10
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As I continue to crawl my way back onto Flickr after my long break I share with you another view of the Prague Skyline looking toward the East Bank of one of our favourite cities in all of Europe.
This is as wide a view as I could get as I enjoyed the sunset from Strelecký Ostrov on the Vltava River looking towards the Old Town in Prague, Czech Republic. The first mention of this island was in the 12th century back when it was given the elegant name of Lawn.
If you haven't already done so, you can take a look at a closer view right here. This was one of my most enjoyable sunsets on our travels. It doesn't get much prettier than this for me. I will showing you one more view next.
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I hope everyone has a terrific weekend ahead the summer is winding down although it's still like 40 degrees here in Chatham and hot. Thank heavens for pools and basements.++
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..Vi dirò, questa foto non mi piace per niente, e più la guardo, meno mi convince, però sto facendo i gli esperimenti con i panorami.... devo pur fare un po' di gavetta. :D
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-EI-yid1NY Shakedown street
B l a c k M a g i c classic truck 1955 gmc stepside
Isola bella is a small isle in front of Taormina, Sicily.
This classic postcard-like shot was taken late in june this year. Very minimal editing also for this photo. Have a nice day :))
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