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Story : Man look to the Festival In the University alnajah .
Date 12/06/2009
Location : Nablus
Camera : canon 400 D
I actually shot this location 10 years ago, so I thought it was worth another visit. Funny thing is, the image looks very similar to that original. This is Saint Johns Bridge in Portland, my favorite place in Portland hands down. This is blue hour with an ND filter and hundreds of images waiting for the perfect light trails. Let me know what you think.
Another Gertrude Jekyll rose from my garden. She has been absolutely gorgeous this year !
As you’ll probably spot, she’s attracting quite a few (unwanted) guests, but they don’t spoil her impact too much.
Podere Belvedere, San Quirico d'Orcia, Val d'Orcia, Tuscany, Italy.
This image is from my Tuscany series. Please view my other Tuscany images in my Tuscany set.
Podere Belvedere is an iconic Tuscan farmhouse located less than 1km east of San Quirico d'Orcia, in the Val d'Orcia, known for being one of the most popular photographic subjects in the area. Situated on the road to Pienza, it offers a suggestive spectacle at sunrise, especially in spring and autumn when mist covers the surrounding hills and cypress trees.
If there's one image that is associated with Tuscany there's a good chance it is of the Podere Belvedere. This location has been photographed extensively and, on the day I made this image, there were a line of photographers capturing the scenery.
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I originally put this on Flickr in colour, but I decided that this photo would look better in monochrome. I was just about to get in my car and leave, when I saw this couple just enjoying the day. I quickly grabbed my camera and took the shot.
Normally the pictures are home long before we are, such is the marvel of modern cloud storage. At some point after each session I’ll log onto the hotel Wi-Fi and upload the raw files into the invisible hard drive in the troposphere. A fourth layer of insurance and a decisive one too - as long as the cloud doesn’t fall out of the sky at any point. But when the onboard Wi-Fi package costs eighteen pounds a day, the digital path to the heavens is cut off for the duration of the trip by the law of simple economics, and three separate storage devices will have to suffice until we get home. Eighteen pounds a day for goodness sake! Are the clouds that float above the ship gold plated? Do the signals have to be beamed to the USS Enterprise and back?
Still, the camera holds two cards which record everything simultaneously, and then there’s the external hard drive to back them up with. I tried storing them on the laptop itself as well, but I’ve taken so many pictures that it soon started to grumble about space constraints, especially if I started trying to work on any of them. Run a denoise routine - and there are plenty of shots that needed a bit of help when taken handheld at nearly four hundred millimetres - and the thing starts whirring furiously and throwing out more heat than a nuclear reactor. I’d hate to lose images from any trip, let alone one that offers the huge number of unique views this one was rewarding us with. You can say what you like about cruising, but there isn’t really any other way to see the land from this kind of perspective unless you’ve got a drone the size of a small helicopter. Or preferably a large helicopter and a pilot so you can sit in the passenger seat and concentrate on the views. But all of that sounds very drastic, and besides which the chances of there being a buffet on board are probably non-existent. Up here on deck, you’re never more than a hundred yards from a cup of tea and a chocolate brownie.
We were heading west out of Alesund at the end of a warm and sunny afternoon, making our way out to open sea before turning south towards Stavanger, the final Norwegian port of the trip. I spent an hour or two up on the sun deck, moving around from the bow to the stern, from port to starboard and back again, not wanting to miss a thing. It’s really quite something, sailing along such a dramatic and beautiful coastline. Every few minutes opens up a brand new view, or changes one you’ve already seen so drastically that you end up looking at it all over again with fresh eyes. Suddenly a gap might appear and reveal a huge fjord that until now was hidden between headlands where the shoulders of white mountains plunge down towards the sea. With the landscape changing as each minute passes, there’s no time to overthink compositions. You’re never sure what’s coming next, but the chances are it’ll be worth waiting for. All you can do is keep taking pictures and hoping that at least some of them will be up to scratch when they’re opened up on a larger screen later.
For a while there had been a series of islands and skerries of various sizes popping up along the starboard side, but as we began to move further out from the port we came to a point where nothing remained except for open sea. So I went down to our port facing cabin, where I could pull up a chair on the balcony and watch the passing of what landscape remained before moving further out to sea. And while I was there, out came the laptop. I’d stop now, settle with what I had already taken and get everything saved onto that third storage device. With this last session backed up on the hard drive, I shut the computer down and put everything away. And then a few minutes later everything was out again, as a shaft of late evening sunlight brushed a soft glow over one small area of the landscape with the subtlety of a Rembrandt. Better to have the camera within arm’s reach at all times until it’s completely dark, because there’s always another moment waiting for after you’ve switched off, and it doesn’t usually last for long.
This bay at Levenwick, on Shetland, caught my eye as a good lunch stop. As we walked around the bay to try and find a sheltered spot we spotted a delightful little cemetery.
Looking at this flower from the stem to the ruffles of the petals gives me a sense of a bug's eye view.
Yet another stray cat turned up starving on my doorstep about 2 months ago, so I started feeding her just enough so she could survive as I could see she had kittens hidden away some place.
And lo behold, she turned up yesterday with with 2 kittens, a repeat of last year's rescue
I will trap her and get her spayed in about a month's time when her kittens can fend for themselves.. but I wish people would stop dumping their unwanted cats here, I cannot afford any more cats. I already have 5.
Cat shelters do not exist in this country, cats are allowed to breed as much as they can and die of starvation or other diseases, and NO, the town council does not sterilize the stray cats for free. I have done my research.
#AdoptDon'tShop
#SpayAndNeuterYourPets
Here's another grouse that I saw on the North Twentymile Peak trail (Okanogan County, WA).
I saw 13 grouse on this 12-mile hike. I saw this one withing the first few miles and my feet didn't hurt yet and my legs were still 100% operational.
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kay, so i'm thinking there's a lot of lady bugs around this year... cause i saw several yesterday...
certainly not as posed as saturday's though... but i like this cool plant/weed it was crawling on. :)
happiest monday!!
Can you believe there is another world located below the surface of the water, one that is full of life. There is an abundance of life, Dolphins, Manatees, Sting Rays, and crabs to just name a few. While this young man is simply looking for one fish.
RKO_0375.
Many dives are unsuccessful and many of my shots either too late, too early or out of focus!
But that's the challenge when trying to get a good shot of a diving Kingfisher!
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On this day when the sun came up there was a bit of fog. if gave me the chance to take some really nice images of the trees.