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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..
Taormina is a hilltop town on the east coast of Sicily. It sits near Mount Etna, an active volcano with trails leading to the summit. The town is known for the Teatro Antico di Taormina, an ancient Greco--Roman theater still used today. Near the theater, cliffs drop to the sea forming coves with sandy beaches. A narrow stretch of sand connects to Isola Bella, a tiny island and nature reserve.
**One of my good old times.
Speicherstadt Hamburg, Series: Cityscapes in der HafenCity, Hamburg
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HafenCity & en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speicherstadt
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
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is a museum of modern and contemporary art, designed by Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry, and located in Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain.
I recently went on a Cityscape course run by Nigel Forster (www.creativephotographywales.com) and using Nisi filters (www.nisifilter.co.uk). It was a lot of fun using a 10 stop ND combined with a graduated ND to create some dramatic long exposures. This was one of my favourites.