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Digging through my archives, I found this image. This was shot in Subic Bay, Olongapo City, Philippines and this location used to be the biggest overseas US Naval Base until its closure in 1991. There are more interesting spots to shoot in this location and I know I will be back. However, the question is when?
Have a nice Wednesday to all! :)
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This is another one from this weekend' shoot! It was extremely fun/cold, and totally worth it!
I HAVENT STOPPED STUDYING SINCE NOVEMBER BUT IN XMAS BREAK. EXAMS, END NOW.
Modelo: Katy
Ha sido un lunes de fotografía muy divertido con mis amigos...
Me recordaba lo genial que era ser un niño y sentir tanta emoción por leer un cuento!! =)
Debo decir que aún me gusta leer... y mucho...
Mi libro favorito de la infancia ha sido el principito jajaja :P
saludos a todos!! =)
It was an amazing day! Monday... the day when we take photographies :)
I was thinking about how awesome it was to read a book when i was a kid...
I may say that i still love to read... :)
My favorite book used to be the little prince :P
Thank youu! have a good time
..and can we be together like this forever? Always and ever. Can you be like that kiss of dewdrops on the flower every winter morning, together forever ♥
P.S This is what I wrote in one hour, thinking thinking still thinking!
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Here is a view of Seattle’s Public Library in downtown. Alongside the Space Needle and Pike Place Market, the downtown branch of the city’s public library system is also a well-known landmark and attraction -- both its exterior and interior -- especially for photographers! Fortunately, I had my ultra-wide angle lens to capture the entire building in this instance, taken during the city’s “Fog Affair” of late January. This was on a Saturday morning, when the city was still in slumber with very few people walking the streets of downtown.
Given the fog cover and emptiness, the downtown area actually seemed abandoned to some degree, except the occasional taxi or automobile that passed by, driving through a modern-day twilight zone and serving as a reminder of the existence of other people.
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Facciamo un ultimo giro intorno ad Urla prima di andare ad Izmir (Smirne-Egeo).
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Una passeggiata e quattro chiacchiere... con mio papà al mini porto di Urla, in quella nuvolosa mattina di Dicembre..Sa che amo il mare d'inverno e quel piccolo porto.
...e mentre passeggiavamo, ci siamo incontrati con qualche furbettino :)
Dunque, i furbi si trovano sempre ed ovunque...Non amo molto i gatti , ma la loro attesa mi ha fatto ridere ..Furbetti che non altro siete...
Poi abbiamo deciso di fare i furbi pure noi con mio padre e siamo allontanati ..a bere un tè caldo per scaldarci e a giocare il tavla (backgammon)...
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C'mon let's do a last tour around Urla and then next time I'ìl take you to Izmir , to my home town (Smyrna-Agean sea).
That cloudy yet beautiful morning my dady had taken me to the small harbour of Urla. He knows that I love the winter sea and that small port. As we were chatting and walking around...we've met some smarties (waiting for ready food :) ) I don't really like so much cats, yet their awaiting seemed funny to me...Then dady and I have decided to behave smartly as well: we've walked near by to take a hot tea to heat us and and to play backgammon...
... not one of the newest fashion but Mother Nature was very creative in designing this model and ice formation on a side window of a car.
Looks like Winter, right? But the fern frost was actually taken on 2nd of April, Denver, Colorado.
Much better in Large On Black to see the details.
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ed anche scrivere con i vestiti.
sono stato fortunato.
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♬♪♭ modà ft. jarabe de palo - come un pittore ♫♪
(non resisto agli ultimi 25 secondi :)
It is a cold and freezing winter day. Glad to see a little sunset after long rainy period, at George C. Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary, Delta BC Canada.
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Model: Sony NEX-6, Shutter Speed: 1/160 sec, Aperture: f/8, Focal Length: 10mm, ISO: 100
Lens: Sony 10-18mm f/4 Wide-Angle Zoom OSS Alpha E-mount (SEL1018).
Hi I'm just gonna pretend I'm American so this counts as the 2nd week and it's not Monday yet. You can perfectly see how my Sunday night looks like as I'm facetiming the awesomest girl in NY called Gina Vasquez (known as a ballerina). Sorry for the cheezy description, it's so late and I'm ready to get a 4 hour sleep night.
P.S: I have a really important exam tomorrow morning. Yay me and my responsabilty.
Love always, Laura
Mother nature creates awe-inspiring masterpieces and very often just around the corner if one has an eye for it. Beauty of nature - ice flowers on a car window.
Looks like Winter, right? But the fern frost was actually taken on 2nd of April, Denver, Colorado.
Much better in Large On Black to see the details.
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Here is Barnard 33 commonly known as the Horsehead Nebula together with The Flame Nebula designated as NGC 2024 against the bright background of the Nebula known as IC434. Captured over several nights and completed on the 5th January 2013 in RGB for natural color together with H-Alpha from previous image.
Total Exposure time 9.5 hours
Location: Downunder Observatory, Fremont MI
Camera: QHY9M monochrome CCD cooled to -30C www.astrofactors.com
Optics: Thomas M. Back TMB 92SS F5.5 APO Refractor
Mount: Paramount GT-1100S German Equatorial Mount (with MKS 4000)
Image Aquisition Maxim DL
Stacking and Calibrating: CCDStack
Registration of images in Registar
Post Processing Photoshop CS5
Clear Skies
Terry
Part of the Orion Molecular Cloud, an immense star forming region very close to earth, The Flame and Horsehead Nebulas offer a glimpse into the process from which stars and their planets are created. The colorfully lit areas are being irradiated by the young stars which have formed in the recent past and as a result, the ionized hydrogen in the clouds glows. The dark regions, on the other hand, are areas of dusty material in the interstellar medium dense enough to obscure the glow from behind. The Horsehead is such an object and from our vantage point on Earth, it bears a striking resemblance to the head of a horse.
The bright blue star just above The Flame Nebula is the easternmost star in Orion's belt, Alnitak, also known as Zeta Orionis. It is a "blue super-giant" and the brightest such star in the night sky.
Although it appears as a single object it is actually a triple-star (three stars in orbit around each other).
Zeta Orionis is responsible for the glow of the Flame Nebula; it glows so intensely in the ultra-violet range that even at a distance of a hundred light-years, the hydrogen in the cloud becomes ionized like neon in a sign. This radiation is also speeding the development of new stars as the pressure from the radiation further compresses the material. When the density of the material becomes great enough, gravity takes over and collapses the gas into a single object where temperature and pressure increase so dramatically that hydrogen atoms are fused into helium and a new star is born.
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Explored 04-Jan-2013 (Highest Position #4 + Interestingness-page)
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Happy New Year Guys! I came back from the home town Tokyo :)
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Purple and Blue time at Ihama Rocky Beach in Minamiizu.
新年おめでとうございます。本年もよろしくお願い申し上げます。
ショットは南伊豆・伊浜の夕景で、4つ前にポストした夕陽の後のものです。
かなり暗くなってからiso320の60秒のスローにて。。
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Taken on Nov 21, 2012, 17:05.
Gear: Nikon D7000
Lens: Sigma 10-20mm F3.5 EX DC HSM
Tripod: Manfrotto 055XPROB + #410 head
Shot on focal 10mm / Aperture f9 / with C-PLw filter.
Exposure : 61 secs / iso320.
Develop by Lightroom 4 and corrected on Photoshop CS6.
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A Bombardier Dash 8Q400 of Austrian Arrows on it's way to the runway at Innsbruck airport. Will lift off to Frankfurt/Main, Germany shortly. Welcome aboard and have a nice flight, ladies and gentlemen... :D
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After I got off of work yesterday I quickly made my way out to the coast to try to catch what seemed to be shaping up to be a really killer sunset. I had plans to get farther south than this spot (San Gregorio), but there road to the coast is one lane in each direction...and I got stuck behind a big slow truck. Once I hit the coast road, I tried to hurry to get as far south as I could, but by the time I hit San Gregorio I could see the sun was quickly taking a nosedive over the horizon. Not a problem - San Gregorio State Beach is a great spot in its own right. Due to storms and unusually high tides a few weeks ago, there was A TON of wood debris on the beach. In fact, getting to the beach itself meant climbing over much of this debris.
It wasn't a super colorful sunset, but I loved the way the thick clouds broke in spots to allow rays of golden light to shine through. And the ocean looked a bit angry, so I quickly ditched the idea of taking HDR shots and instead set out to capture the drama shaping up in the sky and the ocean.
I'd like to thank the flock of seagulls for being in the perfect spot to be included in the photograph. How considerate!
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It took about twenty minutes in the middle of the night to set up in the middle of a wintery pool, wellies full of water by the end of it. Five minutes later my flash, which I'd brought out solely to test, stopped working... If anyone knows about fixing Metz flashes, please message me! It still makes noises, and the button glows, it just doesn't flash. In this case "two out of three ain't bad" ceases to apply.
Anyway, having set up I figured I'd just trying gelling my flashlight/torch instead, and ended up with a shot I'm happy with and some neat lessons around lighting a scene.
Lighting is from a Lenser MT7 flashlight - first with a turquoise gel beneath the water (in a zip lock freezer bag), then with an amber gel aimed along the wall from the right, and vertically down on the scene from the top of the wall. I've included a flat white lit shot of the scene in the comments so you can see how it transformed things - without the lighting, this was pitch black bar a tiny sliver of moonlight on grey rock and brown water.
More to follow from the location in future. Hope every one is having an amazing Christmas/holiday run.
A Ponte Presidente Costa e Silva, popularmente conhecida como Ponte Rio-Niterói, localiza-se na baía de Guanabara, estado do Rio de Janeiro, no Brasil, e liga o município do Rio de Janeiro ao município de Niterói.
O conceito de seu projeto remonta a 1875, visando a ligação entre os dois centros urbanos vizinhos, separados pela baía de Guanabara ou por uma viagem terrestre de mais de 100 km, que passava pelo município de Magé. À época havia sido concebida a construção de uma ponte e, posteriormente, de um túnel.
Entretanto, somente no século XX, em 1963, foi criado um grupo de trabalho para estudar um projeto para a construção de uma via rodoviária. Em 29 de dezembro de 1965, uma comissão executiva foi formada para cuidar do projeto definitivo de construção de uma ponte.
O Presidente Costa e Silva assinou decreto em 23 de agosto de 1968, autorizando o projeto de construção da ponte, idealizado por Mário Andreazza, então Ministro dos Transportes, sob a gestão de quem a ponte foi iniciada e concluída.
A obra teve início, simbolicamente, em 9 de novembro de 1968, com a presença da Rainha da Grã-Bretanha, Elizabeth II e de Sua Alteza Real, o Príncipe Filipe, Duque de Edimburgo, ao lado do ministro Mário Andreazza. As obras tiveram início em janeiro de 1969.
O banco responsável por parte do financiamento da obra foi N M Rothschild & Sons. Não foi permitida a participação única de empresas inglesas no processo de licitação da fabricação dos vãos principais de aço. Para concretizar a realização da obra, o Ministro da Fazenda, Delfim Neto, o engenheiro Eliseu Resende e a Rotschild & Sons assinaram, em Londres, um documento que assegurava o fornecimento de estruturas de aço, com um comprimento de 848m, incluindo os vãos de 200m+300m+200m e dois trechos adicionais de 74m, e um empréstimo de, aproximadamente, US$ 22 milhões com bancos britânicos. O valor destinava-se a despesas com outros serviços da ponte, totalizando NCr$ 113.951.370,00. O preço final da obra foi avaliado em NCr$ 289.683.970,00, com a diferença paga pela emissão de Obrigações Reajustáveis do Tesouro Nacional. Em 1971, o contrato de licitação para construção da obra foi rescindido devido a atraso nas obras, e a construção passou a ser feita por um novo consórcio das construtoras Camargo Correa, Mendes Junior e Construtora Rabello designado Consórcio Construtor Guanabara, sendo concluído três anos depois.
Extensão: 13,29 km (8,26 mi);
Inauguração: 1974
Limite norte: Av. do Contorno em Niterói, RJ
Limite sul: Av. Brasil no Rio de Janeiro, RJ
Concessão: CCR Ponte norte
> Trânsito sobre a Ponte
A ligação rodoviária foi entregue em 4 de março de 1974, com extensão total de 13,29 km, dos quais 8,83 km são sobre a água, e 72 m de altura em seu ponto mais alto, e com previsão de um volume diário de 4.868 caminhões, 1.795 ônibus e 9.202 automóveis, totalizando 15.865 veículos. Atualmente é considerada a maior ponte, em concreto protendido, do hemisfério sul e atualmente é a sexta maior ponte do mundo. No ano em que foi concluída, era a segunda maior ponte do mundo, perdendo apenas para a Causeway do lago Pontchartrain nos Estados Unidos. Ela continuou no posto de segunda maior ponte do mundo até 1985 quando foi concluída a Ponte Penang na Malásia. Na época de sua construção a sua travessia era gratuita, não existindo a cobrança de pedágio, implantado anos depois. a promessa era que o investimento fosse quitado por recursos obtidos do pedágio num prazo de oito anos, mas que o usuário deveria continuar a pagar o valor após a liquidação da dívida do Estado. Ao ser inaugurada, o pedágio da ponte custava Cr$ 2,00 para motocicletas; Cr$ 10,00 para carros de passeio, Cr$ 20,00 para caminhões, ônibus e caminhões com três eixos e rodagem dupla Cr$ 40,00, e Cr$ 70,00 para os caminhões com seis eixos e rodagem dupla.
Em 1995 foi feita uma concorrência para concessão da administração da ponte para a iniciativa privada, que foi vencida pelo consórcio Ponte S/A, atualmente, empresa do Sistema CCR.
Cinco operários morreram durante a construção do vão central da ponte, devido à altura em relação ao nível do mar.
> Projeto
O projeto da ponte Rio Niterói foi preparado por um consórcio de duas empresas. A firma Noronha Engenharia, sediada no Rio de Janeiro, preparou o projeto dos acessos no Rio de Janeiro e em Niterói, assim como a ponte de concreto sobre o mar. A firma Howard, Needles, Tammen and Bergendorf, dos EUA, projetou o trecho dos vãos principais em estrutura de aço, incluindo as fundações e os pilares.
Os engenheiros responsáveis pelo projeto da ponte de concreto foram Antônio Alves de Noronha Filho e Benjamin Ernani Diaz[1] e o engenheiro responsável pela ponte de aço foi o americano James Graham.
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O canteiro principal da Ponte Rio de Niterói do Consórcio Construtor Guanabara se localizava na Ilha do Fundão, pertencente à Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Havia, também, canteiros secundários em Niterói. As firmas executoras da superestrutura em aço foram Dormann & Long, Cleveland Bridge e Montreal Engenharia. A estrutura foi toda fabricada na Inglaterra em módulos, que chegaram ao Brasil por transporte marítimo.
A fabricação final da ponte de aço, com os elementos pré-soldados da Inglaterra, foi feita na Ilha do Caju, na Baia de Guanabara. A montagem das vigas de aço também foi feita pelas mesmas firmas fabricantes da estrutura.
Location: Malsha Para, Sirajganj, B A N G L A D E S H.
A group of bengali kids hanging out at their village near Sirajganj, Bangladesh. More than 60 million children live in Bangladesh. They don't get enough foods, shelter, education, protection, but still they are happy. Because happiness doesn't come from luxury, it comes from the freedom of your soul. This image was captured at a small village in Bangladesh.
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Chamonix is dominated by the white majestic dome of Mont Blanc, at 4,810m the highest mountain in western Europe.
Every year the summit of Mont Blanc becomes the ultimate objective for mountaineers the world over, all striving to stand on top of the roof of Europe and look down on all of the major summits of the Alps.
To climb Mont Blanc from Chamonix, people normally chose one of the two most common routes. Slightly more technical, the route from the Aiguille du Midi, over Mont Blanc du Tacul and Mont Maudit is generally quieter, and highly dependent on conditions.
The slightly easier and more reliable option is via the Tramway du Mont Blanc to the Nid d'Aigle, then up the Aiguille du Gouter and the Bosse ridge.
While not technically challenging, ascending Mont Blanc requires a high level of physical fitness and experience using crampons and an ice axe.
My video of Mont Blanc climbing is here : youtu.be/3xAeVLIcFKw
Beautiful autumn canopy from below in backlight in Stuttgart Rotenberg, Germany.
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Wolfgangsee is a lake in Austria that lies mostly within the state of Salzburg and is one of the best known lakes in the Salzkammergut resort region. The municipalities on its shore are Strobl, St. Gilgen with the villages of Abersee and Ried as well as the market town of St. Wolfgang in the state of Upper Austria. The town and the lake are named after Saint Wolfgang of Regensburg, who, according to legend, built the first church here in the late 10th century.
The Wolfgangsee stretches about 10.5 kilometres from the northwest to the southeast. It is divided into two parts by a peninsula, called die Enge (the Narrow), situated roughly in the middle of its southern shore opposite St. Wolfgang, where the breadth is no more than 200 metres. The western portion of the lake at St. Gilgen is known as the Abersee.
The lake has an area of about 12.9 to 13.1 km² and is completely surrounded by the Salzkammergut mountain range. On the northern side, the Schafberg is located. A rack railway, the Schafbergbahn leads up to the summit at 1,782 m. Due to the steep shore at its foot only a footpath connects St. Wolfgang and the village of Ried with St. Gilgen along the Falkensteinwand, the set of the Bergpsalmen ("mountain psalms") lyric anthology written by Joseph Viktor von Scheffel in 1870. In the south and southwest of the Wolfgangsee lies the Osterhorngruppe, with heights up to 1,800 metres. Directly south of St. Gilgen rises the Zwölferhorn (1,521 m), which can be visited by cable car.
The settlements around the lake, especially St. Wolfgang and St. Gilgen are popular resort towns, mainly in summer. The Gasthaus Weißes Rössl at St. Wolfgang is the set of the famous 1897 operetta The White Horse Inn by Ralph Benatzky, performed throughout the world and filmed several times. Furthermore the area around the lake was the location of several Heimatfilm movies, suggesting an untouched alpine idyll. As the Wolfgangsee has been the vacation resort of former German chancellor Helmut Kohl for many years, the film director Christoph Schlingensief made the lake a site of his Chance 2000 project of 1998 when he invited "Germany's four million unemployed" to take a bath in the lake and flood Kohl's residence.
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The Alps (French: Alpes; German: Alpen; Italian: Alpi; Romansh: Alps; Slovene: Alpe) is the name for one of the great mountain range systems of Europe, stretching from Austria and Slovenia in the east, through Italy, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Germany to France in the west. The word "Alps" was taken via French from Latin Alpes (meaning "the Alps"), which may be influenced by the Latin words albus (white) or altus (high) or more likely a Latin rendering of a Celtic or Ligurian original.
The highest mountain in the Alps is Mont Blanc, at 4,808 metres (15,774 ft), on the Italian-French border. All the main peaks of the Alps can be found in the list of mountains of the Alps and list of Alpine peaks by prominence.
The Alps are generally divided into the Western Alps and the Eastern Alps. The division is along the line between Lake Constance and Lake Como, following the Rhine. The Western Alps are higher, but their central chain is shorter and curved; they are located in Italy, France and Switzerland. The Eastern Alps (main ridge system elongated and broad) belong to Austria, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Slovenia and Switzerland.
The Alps are a classic example of what happens when a temperate area at lower altitude gives way to higher elevation terrain. Elevations around the world which have cold climates similar to those found in polar areas have been called alpine. A rise from sea level into the upper regions of the atmosphere causes the temperature to decrease. The effect of mountain chains on prevailing winds is to carry warm air belonging to the lower region into an upper zone, where it expands in volume at the cost of a proportionate loss of heat, often accompanied by the precipitation of moisture in the form of snow or rain.
While walking on the glacier, In that ice cleft, I could cleary see a figure.
Can you?
Pareidolia (pron.: /pærɨˈdoʊliə/ parr-i-doh-lee-ə) is a psychological phenomenon involving a vague and random stimulus (often an image or sound) being perceived as significant. Common examples include seeing images of animals or faces in clouds, the man in the moon or the Moon rabbit, and hearing hidden messages on records when played in reverse.
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Questa è la leggenda più affascinante sul girasole...
"Clizia era una giovane ninfa, innamorata persa del Sole, pertanto lo seguiva tutto il giorno mentre lui guidava il suo carro di fuoco per tutto l'arco del cielo. Il sole, dapprima fu lusingato e un pochino intenerito da quella devozione... credette di esserne a sua volta innamorato e decise di sedurla cosa non difficile per lui!
Ma ben presto il Sole si stancò dell'amore di Clizia e le diede, come suol dirsi... il benservito rivolgendo altrove le sue attenzioni.
La povera ninfa pianse ininterrottamente per nove giorni interi. Immobile in mezzo a un campo, osservava il suo amore attraversare il cielo sul suo carro di fuoco.
Così, pian piano, il suo corpo si irrigidì, trasformandosi in uno stelo sottile ma resistente, i suoi piedi si conficcarono nella terra mentre i suoi capelli diventarono una gialla corolla; si era trasformata in un fiore bellissimo color dell'oro... Il girasole...
Ma anche nella sua nuova forma la piccola ninfa innamorata continua tuttora a seguire il suo amore durante il giro nel cielo".
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If I held in my hand
Every grain of sand
Since time first began to be
Still, I could never count
Measure the amount
Of all the things you are to me
If I could paint the sky
Hang it out to dry
I would want the sky to be
Oh, such a grand design
An everlasting sign
Of all the things you are to me
You are the sun
That comes on summer winds
You are the falling year
That autumn brings
You are the wonder and the mystery
In everything I see
The things you are to me
Sometimes I wake at night
And suddenly take fright
You might be just fantasy
But then you reach for me
And once again I see
All the things you are to me
You are the sun
That comes on summer winds
You are the falling year
That autumn brings
You are the wonder and the mystery
In everything I see
The things you are to me
All the things you are… to me
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I keep telling myself to get out and get more sunrises and sunsets so this morning I set the alarm and went for it.
I almost didn't get out of bed and went back to sleep for 10 more minutes, very naughty.
Got out of bed, got ready and headed for Beachy Head but not to jump off oh no, to try and get some colours in the morning sky.
The colour was hidden behind this band of moody clouds which ran along the horizon but the rest of the sky was clear so I zoomed in to crop out the bland part of the sky and capture all the sunrise colour.
I used my Lee 0.6 Hard ND grad to darken those clouds and bring out the colours, to enhance this more I underexposed as well.
I really like how the tankers are along the horizon and lit by all that orangey goodness with the Beachy Head lighthouse warning them not to come any closer.
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Lake Manyara National Park is a national park in Arusha Region, Tanzania. The park consists of 330 km2 of arid land, forest, and a soda-lake which covers as much as 200 km2 of land during the wet season but is nearly nonexistent during the dry season.
Lake Manyara National Park is known for the flamingos that inhabit the lake. During the wet season they inhabit the edges of the lake in flocks of thousands but they are not so present during the dry season.
More than 400 species of birds inhabit the park and many remain throughout the year. Because of this Lake Manyara National Park is a good spot for bird watching. Visitors to the park can expect to see upwards of 100 different species of bird on any day.
Leopards, lions, elephants, blue monkeys, dik-dik, gazelle, hippo, giraffe, impala, and more inhabit the park and many can be seen throughout the year. There is a hippo pond at one end of the park where visitors can get out of their cars and observe from a safe distance. The leopards and lions are both known to lounge in the trees while not hunting for prey.
I recall this morning vividly. How breathtakingly beautiful the sky was, all lit up with the morning sun coming up behind me. When I opened up the images at home ... I was a bit underwhelmed to say the least. See the SOOC in comments.
Instead of tossing the images, I pulled out my digital paint palette and set to work painting a dream ... painting what I 'thought' I saw!!
Happy Sliders Sunday Everyone!!
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P.S. Going offline in 5 minutes! Doing a big move today! Will catch up tonight at the new place!
As a result of doing the H-Alpha only image I also decided to re process my last image of Andromeda with an emphesis on it's HII regions.
The image consists of 2 minute combined with 5 and 10 minute exposures for the luminance, 5 and 10 minute exposures for the RGB, 15 minute exposures with QHY9C one shot color CCD and finally 22 x 20 minute exposures using H-Alpha filter with QHY9M monochrome CCD Camera.
Clear Skies
Terry
Total Exposure Time 22 hours.
Clear Skies
Terry
Image Information
Location: DownUnder Observatory, Fremont MI
Date of Shoot August 13, 21, 22 and 23, September 29th 2012
Exposures:
QHY9M mono CCD
Luminance
RGB 6 x 5 min, 9 x 10 min
26 x 2 min
23 x 5 min
18 x 10 min
H-Alpha 22 x 20 min
QHY9C one shot color CCD
13 x 15 min
all sub exposures un binned.
QHY9M monochrome CCD cooled to -30C
Thomas M. Back TMB 92SS F5.5 APO Refractor
Paramount GT-1100S German Equatorial Mount (with MKS 4000)
Image Aquisition Maxim DL
Stacking and Calibrating: CCDStack
Registration of images in Registar
Post Processing Photoshop CS5
M31 was one of my first deep sky targets, it is also my most photographed target, you can see here my earliest attempts through to my very latest.
Ese dia salimos en busca de Amanitas para fotografiar alguna, pero no hubo suerte, no encontramos ni una sola, pero si ésta seta pequeñita que llamaba la atención debido a la luz que le daba en ese momento....
Muchas gracias por vuestras visitas y comentarios
Un montón de besos ¡¡
Thank you for your visits and comments
Kisses
Spaziergang auf der herbstlichen Neckarinsel in Tübingen
Walk on the autumn Neckar Island in Tübingen / Germany
Press L for a better view in the LightBox
Thanks for your visit and comments, I appreciate that very much!
Don't use this image without my explicit permission. © all rights reserved.
Regards, Bram (BraCom)
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