The evening sun illuminates Downtown Seattle, as seen from the Space Needle.

An aerial cityscape capture of Singapore.

Taken, June 2012.

I will be away/offline from Oct 25 to Oct 28. To my contacts and visitors: if you were to leave me a comment and/or fave my photo during the Oct 25 to Oct 28 window, do note that I will not be able to visit your photostream immediately. However, you can be assured that I will visit your photostream on Oct 28 or shortly after that.

Please do not download or use any of my photographs without first getting my approval.

Hong Kong City

The Moscow Region Government House is a complex of government buildings in the Moscow Region in Myakininskaya floodplain on the banks of the Moskva River, in the city of Krasnogorsk..

My city

Erasmusbrug / Wilhelminapier Rotterdam

Padova, Padua

Italy

Segovia Spain

Segovia, Spain

reflections of sunderlands Monkwearmouth bridges on the pavement

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Brisbane, Queensland

Vancouver BC, Canada

I make this image public in the AVIF format (can be opened in the latest IrfanView, Chrome and Firefox): Link to AVIF in Google Drive

The AVIF image compression (in the HEIF container) is a very promising format as it provides good image quality in a very small package and is (in comparison to HEIC) free of any licenses. I hope Flickr as well as Google and Microsoft products will soon have full support for this innovation.

Besides the high compression efficiency the big advantage over JPEG is that a color depth per channel of 10 and even 12 bit is supported.

This sample is generated using the avifenc.exe command line encoder for windows.

I used this parameters:

avifenc.exe --cicp 2/2/1 -r limited -y 420 -j 6 --min 30 --max 40 --minalpha 30 --maxalpha 40 in.png out.avif

The result is:

- 6 threads used (for my 6 CPU cores)

- to colorspace YUV420 (422 and 444 is not supported by the Windows AV1 extension)

- 12 bit per channel

Link to Windows encoder binary

Sunset over the Thames

Groningen, The Netherlands

"L'ARTE STA IN FAR CHE TUTTO SIA FINTO E PAIA VERO"

Maurizio Fecchio on Roomtheagency

Maurizio Fecchio on gettyimages

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contrast program, Series: Cityscapes in der HafenCity, Hamburg

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From the Archives

downtown building

Dubai, UAE

Shooting from a vantage known as Rochor Center which will be demolished to make way for the construction of the North-South Expressway.

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Tokyo