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What was supposed to be a relaxing late summer dive in one of the cleanest lakes in Feldberg Lake District Nature Park was turned upside down by strong winds, rain, cool 10 to 15 °C water temps and virtually zero visibility. Oh well. Those who want it cozy go to the Red Sea or Asia. For us a dark, cold world waited, in which we even could not see our own hand in front of the mask. Dimly, some diving obstacles emerged from the darkness in front of us, which now seemed all the more mysterious. The vegetation was getting ready for winter. Nevertheless, we stumbled upon large motionless pikes, perches and whole schools of rudds.
photo session at the source of the hopr, where 12 springs beat, forming the cleanest river in Europe - Khoper
This loco runs on Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil, or HVO, a replacement for traditional diesel and has been found to be one of the cleanest fuels on the market.
It is claimed to eliminate up to 90% of carbon and nitrogen oxide as well as carbon monoxide emissions.
This image was taken during a recent visit to the London School of Economics Library with fellow photographers Slawek Sondaj, Peter Li and Max Vassiades. On the last day of the university winter term we had the location -- which is visited by about 6,500 students and staff each day -- almost entirely to ourselves. Where the library's enormous atrium had been filled with sunlight during my previous visit, the scene late at night took on a much moodier tone, with the vibrant furniture on the now-renovated lower ground floor adding a cheerful splash of contrasting colour.
The set-up for the shot involved extending my tripod's neck horizontally over the spiral ramp's balustrade so that the camera was looking almost directly down. While the library had requested that the final selection of images we provided would not contain visitors, I couldn't resist leaving one student in the frame, who had made himself comfortable on one of the beanbags in the lower ground floor and who provided a sense of the scale of the enormous building.
The image is a blend of nine exposures combined in Photoshop using luminosity masks, with the darker exposures allowing me to tone down the highlights along the walls and inside the lifts, and the brighter exposures adding the cleanest possible finish to the shadows along the steps and lift shaft. Using reflective and radial gradient masks, I then used my brightest exposures to emphasise the light across the glass casing at the base of the lift shaft, as well as the overall exposure of the lower ground floor, where I wanted the viewer's eye to settle after taking in the geometric patterns along the helical ramp.
The colour-grading phase was carried out with a less-is-more approach: the blue along the spiral was desaturated, and the yellow between the seats on the lower-ground floor removed in order to simplify the overall palette to three tones: a muted blue for the spiral, a clean white for the walls, and a vibrant red for the seats. After this, I used a low-opacity monochrome Gradient Map set to Soft Light to gently emphasise the contrast across the image, and a Selective Colour adjustment to add a hint of magenta to the red furniture. Finally, inside Nik's Silver Efex Pro, I lowered the midtone and shadow structure in order to soften the texture of the walls and carpets, as well as amplifying the whites and Soft Contrast, which gave the image a softer feel without affecting the details.
The library's atrium has such a minimalist and contemporary ambience that it's easy to forget the building contains more than 4 million pieces of literature across 50km of shelving. At the same time, I like how the lone student in this image is inevitably working on a laptop, which seems to add a subtle commentary on how learning and research have evolved over the years.
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Setophaga americana singing from the canopy of the summer woods. There aren't too many places around here where I can get eye level with the canopy, but in a nearby green space there is a steep hill where I can get about 50 feet above the surrounding forest and catch a glimpse of the canopy. This might not be the "cleanest" image, but I think it gives an accurate representation of where these tiny predators spend most of their time.
The power off UP Train AASAMX 02 heads up the KCT North-South Corridor on Track 80 as they head back to UP Neff Yard after dropping their train off at Armourdale Yard. This was probably the cleanest YN2 CSX engine I ever saw. That sure was a sharp paint scheme. I wish they hadn't canned it for the underwhelming ones that followed it.
Locomotives: CSXT 8766, CSXT 77
10-2-09
Kansas City, MO
2021. Koh-I-Noor Triocolor and Polycolor pencils on Daler-Rowney sketch pad 9x12".
Svetlitsa is a small village near the Nilov Monastery, located on the Lake Seliger in Russia. Its name means the brightest, cleanest room of the house.
-Zaterdag 3 Juni 2023 16:20-
[NL] Na passage van de 1750 in Harselaar was er opnieuw wat tijd om te vullen want de volgende Berlijner liet zich pas over een kleine twee uur zien. Met de Kippenlijn op steenworp afstand was de keus snel gemaakt om even naar Barneveld te rijden. Zo wisten we nog een extra plaatje te maken van een Protos en dat was mooi meegenomen, want met de concessieovergang naar Keolis in het vooruitzicht houdt de lichtblauwe Connexxion huisstijl het niet lang meer uit. Aangezien we de volgende Berlijner tegemoet zouden rijden, besloten we hierna alvast door te rijden naar Assel. Vanwege de slechte bereikbaarheid van het fotopunt per auto moesten we nog een stuk wandelen, zodat de speling uiteindelijk was teruggelopen tot een klein kwartiertje. Zodoende duurde het niet heel lang meer en konden we na het fotograferen van de één-na-oudste ICMm de gewenste foto maken:
Tot onze vreugde wordt de schoonste 1700 op dat moment, zijnde de 1744, ingezet op de Berlijner op zaterdag 3 juni: één van de vier (!) junidagen dat de loc actief is geweest. Na IC 145 naar Bad Bentheim te hebben getrokken mag de loc zich bewijzen voor de derde trein van de dag uit Berlijn naar Amsterdam. Met een klein half uur vertraging doorkruist de mooi schone NSI 1744 met Intercity 146 de ingraving van Assel onder toeziend oog van vier hobbyisten.
[EN] On Saturday the 3th of Juni this year, I was able to photograph the cleanest NS 1700 on that moment. With a delay of half an hour, the NSI 1744 is seen pulling Intercity 146 through the heather landscape of Assel. As the 1744 has only been used four days of June, it was not easy to photograph this "nez-cassé" on the Intercity Berlin service.
NS International 1744, Intercity Berlijn 146, Asselseweg, Assel
©TimoTrimbos
This was my fourth year visiting London's City Hall, and of all the buildings I've visited during the Open House weekend over the years, this remains one of the most inspiring. Despite the political upheaval across the UK over the past several months, there's a prevailing sense of serenity inside the building, and although it's now more than a decade since it was built, it still feels like one of the most futuristic in London.
I was fortunate enough last year to capture the helical walkway with only a single individual, at a moment late in the afternoon when, for a few seconds, the crowds thinned out. Unsure about whether a similar moment would present itself but hopeful that I could capture lightning in a bottle again during this year's Open House weekend, I had a different composition in mind, again at the top of the spiral, but this time closer to the centre and with a clear view of the 10-storey drop through the building. This was more challenging to capture empty because of the wider visibility of the walkway, but once again I found a brief moment when the influx of visitors briefly slowed to a standstill, and a young woman walked along the steps into the centre of the frame, pausing for a few seconds at the centre of the spiral, taking in the view of the city in front of her and the immense scale and height of the building around her.
This brief moment was enough for me to capture the image I wanted, with the individual staying still long enough for me to bracket seven exposures with her sharp and in-focus in all of them. From there, the exposures were blended in Photoshop using luminosity masks, with the midtones and shadows weighted heavily towards the brighter exposures for a high-key finish that would bring out the pristine white in the building's structure and panelling. After this, I used the Pen Tool to isolate the staircase, the steps themselves, and the surrounding steel frame and windows, which were then used alongside luminosity masking to blend in the brighter exposures using the Soft Light, Screen and Linear Light blend modes. This was a painstaking process, but it allowed me to achieve the brightest, cleanest and most accurate possible finish despite shooting handheld at a high ISO, and it also made it possible to emphasise the bright and airy interior of the building without compromising exposure on the view outside of the building, where the Walkie Talkie, the Gherkin and the neighbouring high-rise buildings could be glimpsed. Striking this balance and controlling the highlights in the external view were important to me because I wanted to convey what had captivated this woman's attention while she was standing at the top of the staircase.
With the exposures blended and selections created, the post-processing on the image was straightforward. I tried to bring out the airy and surreal atmosphere inside the building by pushing towards a gentle blue hue using Colour Balance, Curves and Gradient Map adjustments, as well as desaturating some of the yellow tones in the lights and the green hue of the plants inside the offices, which seemed to distract from the centre of the image. The contrast was kept low for a softer finish, but I dipped into Colour Efex Pro and selectively applied just enough of the Pro Contrast and Tonal Contrast filters to give the building's steel structure some definition, which I felt emphasised its geometry.
The final image is a result of one of the most exhaustive workflows of any image I've worked on, but it was also one of the most rewarding.
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A pair of ES44DC's lead an empty grainer west through Christiansburg, VA. This power set was only one number off from being a sequential numbered set. The leader, 7588, was also the cleanest DC GEVO I've seen in quite some time.
6-26-2022
Taken ast a foreign car repair shop in the Blue Ash suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio
I think these coupes had some of the best and cleanest lines of their era. What a work of ar and the coupes look so much better than the convertibles. I wouldn't change a thing (other than the owner).
I chose the side view as it best shows the lines of the car.
Water quality in the River Mersey had been severely affected by industrialisation in the region, and in 1985, the Mersey Basin Campaign was established to improve water quality and encourage waterside regeneration. In 2002, oxygen levels that could support fish along the entire length were witnessed for the first time since industry began on the Mersey. Salmon are now found in the river. They can be viewed on the Salmon Steps at Woolston Weir And Howley Weir between the months of September and November. Since 2006 Atlantic Grey Seals have also ventured as far inland as Woolston.
In 2009 it was announced that the river is "cleaner than at any time since the industrial revolution" and is "now considered one of the cleanest [rivers] in the UK".
Lower than in prior years, the water flow is still impressive at Dolan Falls on the Devils River in Val Verde County, Texas.
One of CP's cleanest and one of its dirtiest units (CP 8757 & CP 9584) are paired together as they lead a 96-car CP 231 westbound on the North Track of the Vaudreuil Sub. Reportedly CP 9584 is the last 9500-series CP unit still active. CP 8757 was painted into this special paint scheme in September 2021 and it honours residential school victims.
Upon arriving at Clevedon on Thursday evening, you can imagine my excitement as I noticed these fantastic crashing waves breaking on the usually calm beach.
This was one of the last of the evening taken around 30 minutes after sunset so it was pretty dark. At f/4 ISO 4000 its not the clearest or cleanest image I've posted but still wanted to share it with you all.
The cleanest EWS livery 'shed' I've seen for ages..., 66007 (with LED headlights) has scrubbed up well passing Heywood with a 6W03 11.00 Athelney-Westbury Down yard on 03/10/21.
Miami is a seaport city at the southeastern corner of the U.S. state of Florida and its Atlantic coast. As the seat of Miami-Dade County, the municipality is the principal, central, and the most populous city of the Miami metropolitan area and part of the second-most populous metropolis in the southeastern United States.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Miami's metro area is the eighth-most populous and fourth-largest urban area in the U.S., with a population of around 5.5 million.
Miami is a major center, and a leader in finance, commerce, culture, media, entertainment, the arts, and international trade. In 2012, Miami was classified as an Alpha−World City in the World Cities Study Group's inventory. In 2010, Miami ranked seventh in the United States in terms of finance, commerce, culture, entertainment, fashion, education, and other sectors. It ranked 33rd among global cities. In 2008, Forbes magazine ranked Miami "America's Cleanest City", for its year-round good air quality, vast green spaces, clean drinking water, clean streets, and citywide recycling programs.
According to a 2009 UBS study of 73 world cities, Miami was ranked as the richest city in the United States, and the world's fifth-richest city in terms of purchasing power. Miami is nicknamed the "Capital of Latin America" and is the largest city with a Cuban-American plurality.
Miami has the third tallest skyline in the U.S. with over 300 high-rises. Downtown Miami is home to the largest concentration of international banks in the United States, and many large national and international companies. The Civic Center is a major center for hospitals, research institutes, medical centers, and biotechnology industries.
For more than two decades, the Port of Miami, known as the "Cruise Capital of the World", has been the number one cruise passenger port in the world. It accommodates some of the world's largest cruise ships and operations and is the busiest port in both passenger traffic and cruise lines.
Metropolitan Miami is the major tourism hub in the American South, number two in the U.S. after New York City and number 13 in the world, including the popular destination of Miami Beach.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgewater_(Miami)
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What was supposed to be a relaxing late summer dive in one of the cleanest lakes in Feldberg Lake District Nature Park was turned upside down by strong winds, rain, cool 10 to 15 °C water temps and virtually zero visibility. Oh well. Those who want it cozy go to the Red Sea or Asia. For us a dark, cold world waited, in which we even could not see our own hand in front of the mask. Dimly, some diving obstacles emerged from the darkness in front of us, which now seemed all the more mysterious. The vegetation was getting ready for winter. Nevertheless, we stumbled upon large motionless pikes, perches and whole schools of rudds.
3 photo panorama. Mount Roland is adjacent to Sheffield, Tasmania. This scene is typical of much of Tasmania. Forests have been cleared for raising livestock. The mountains retain the flora that was once everywhere on the island. Lots of hills everywhere as well. Quite the idyllic scene with the usually cloud covered mountain behind standing guard over the valley. Sheffield is a small country town with a small main street and not much of anything else. Tasmania boasts of having the cleanest air is the world and that is probably true but the climate is temperate and rather cold in the winters.
a nice Sunday visit in front of the kitchen window:
Kris Kristofferson - Sunday morning coming down
Well, I woke up Sunday morning
With no way to hold my head that didn't hurt
And the beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad
So I had one more for dessert
Then I fumbled through my closet for my clothes
And found my cleanest dirty shirt
And I washed my face and combed my hair
And stumbled down the stairs to meet the day
I'd smoked my brain the night before
On cigarettes and songs that I'd been pickin'
But I lit my first and watched a small kid
Cussin' at a can that he was kicking...........
Have had some great interactions with eagles lately, with several of them letting me get right up next to where they are perched overlooking the river. This eagle has the cleanest beak I have ever seen - they are usually streaked with black or have some sort of damage.
A bit of information on this lake for those who don't know. This lake was formed some 7,700 years ago when a 12,000 ft. tall volcano collapsed following a major eruption. The eruption may have been the largest in North America in the past 640,000 years. Later eruptions formed Wizard Island, a cinder cone near the southwest shore.
This is the deepest lake in the United States, fed by rain and snow, but not rivers or streams. The lake is considered to be the cleanest large body of water in the world. The water is exceptional for its clarity and intense blue color.
Lake depth: 1,943 ft.
Lake width: 4.5 to 6 miles
Tasmania is an island state of Australia, widely known for having the cleanest air in the world. It boasts stunning scenery, unique wildlife—including the white wallaby and Tasmanian devil—and a rich history. Hobart, the capital of Tasmania, is situated at the base of Mount Wellington. The Aboriginal people of the area referred to the mountain as kunanyi, and in 2013, the Tasmanian government officially adopted the dual name "kunanyi / Mount Wellington.”
This photo was taken at the summit of the mountain, overlooking the city of Hobart and Greater Hobart. A cruise ship was visible docking at Macquarie Wharf. The wharf is an excellent location for night photography of Hobart Harbor, with beautiful reflections in the water. I had considered capturing the lunar eclipse there on the evening of March 14, 2025, but ultimately did not do it.
Clean
The cleanest I´ve been
An end to the tears
And the in-between years
And the troubles I´ve seen
Now that I´m clean
You know what I mean
I´ve broken my fall
Put an end to it all
I´ve changed my routine
Now I´m clean
I don´t understand
What destiny´s planned
I´m starting to grasp
What is in my own hands
I don´t claim to know
Where my holiness goes
I just know that I like
What is starting to show
Sometimes
As years go by
All the feelings inside
Twist and they turn
As they ride with the tide
I don´t advise
And I don´t criticise
I just know what I like
With my own eyes
Sometimes
The Königssee is a lake located in the extreme southeast Berchtesgadener Land district of the German state of Bavaria, near the border with Austria. Large parts are comprised by the Berchtesgaden National Park.
St. Bartholomä and Watzmann
Lying within the Berchtesgaden Alps in the municipality of Schönau am Königsee, just south of Berchtesgaden and the Austrian City of Salzburg, the Königssee is Germany's third deepest lake. Located at a Jurassic rift it was formed by glaciers during the last ice age. It stretches about 7.7 km (5 mi) in the north-south direction and is about 1.7 km (1 mi) across at its widest point. Except at its outlet, the Königsseer Ache at the village of Königssee, the lake similar to a fjord is surrounded by steeply rising flanks of mountains up to 2700 m (8900 ft), including the fabled Watzmann massif in the west.
The literal translation appears to be "King's Lake", however while German: König does indeed mean "king", there had been no Bavarian kings since the days of Louis the German until Elector Maximilian I Joseph assumed the royal title in 1806. Therefore the name more probably stems from the first name Kuno of local nobles, who appear in several historical sources referring to the donation of the Berchtesgaden Provostry in the 12th century; the lake was formerly called Kunigsee.
In 1944 a subcamp of the Dachau concentration camp was located nearby where Heinrich Himmler had a residence built at Schönau for his mistress Hedwig Potthast.
The lake is noted for its clear water and is advertised as the cleanest lake in Germany. For this reason, only electric driven passenger ships, rowing and pedal boats have been permitted on the lake since 1909. Due to its picturesque setting, the lake and surrounding parklands are very popular with tourists and hikers. In addition, the lake's position surrounded by sheer rock walls creates an echo, which is known for its clarity. On boat tours, it has become traditional to stop and play a flugelhorn or trumpet to display the echo; formerly demonstrated by shooting a cannon, it could be heard reflected up to seven times.
Got my new len`s today :)
sigma 10-20mm f/4 .
I got out for a couple of hours tonight to check it out :)
Pleased so far , just wish i had cleaned my sensor before i went , this was about the cleanest of around 200 pics :(
oh well , plenty of time to put it to good use :)
(with a clean sensor !!)
77mm B+W110 on its way :)
Camera: Canon EOS 40D
Exposure: 0.025 sec (1/40)
Aperture: f/11.0
Focal Length: 10 mm
Exposure: -0.15
ISO Speed: 100
Exposure Bias: -1 EV
EXPLORE #87 11/13/08
Not the cleanest shot..
Still trying / learning to catch flying insects. Funky looking nose :)
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The Winner of our first Contest "Reflect your Week #31"
A turbulent late afternoon with massive clouds and thunderstorms.
Just a single exposure, no HDR nor multiple blendings or whatsoever. Just based on a perfect exposure - I realize that's subjective.
Pre-processing: Pre-sharpened and tone-corrected during pre-processing stage.
Post-processing: Local colour contrast enhancement with the Color Balance-, Selective Color-, and Curves Adjustment Layers in post-processing stage.
Final touch-ups: A slight post-sharpening with the Unsharp Mask Filter and a slight reverse High Pass adjustment for a slight Soft Focus effect on the sharpest edges. Finally a super fine medium format Fuji Velvia 50 grain on 40% Opacity at Soft Light layer mode has been added because I love it.
Daily Tip: Note that the High Pass filter is often used to sharpen the edges of an image. To achieve the reverse effect to soften the edges to create a more controllable Soft Focus effect, hit Ctrl + I once to invert the gray High Pass layer to reverse the effect and set the layer mode to either Overlay-, Soft Light-, or Vivid Light mode and play with the Opacity . In this context another useful advise would be to Desaturate the layer right before you apply he High Pass filter to get the cleanest effect. Try it out if you haven't allready..
Download the Action here [PS CS3 WinXP]
I don't know if anyone appreciates the introduction of a daily Photoshop Tip along with a new post of mine, but I thought it would be handy as a reminder for myself as well. Please let me know, yours humbly...
Exposure settings: f/4, 0.02 sec (1/50), ISO 250, 12 mm
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Taken on my cell phone on my way back from a graduation party late yesterday evening, so not the cleanest of an image, but, I found this broken barn composition interesting and decided to stop my car to get a shot of it.
Has to be seen LARGE. Listening to 'Ray & Damien' again..
This shot is dedicated to Zoe for her birthday tomorrow although i know she hates misty water shots. Sorry.
This is not far from where we were trying to get to last time we walked here past Avon Dam. I still didn't manage to get a shot of the clapper bridge around the corner...this was my last shot before my batteries died. I knew i should have charged them last night. Oh well, i guess it means i'll have to return for the 4th time to get the shot.
This is actually one of my favourite shots i've taken, its simple i guess..but it sums up why i love Dartmoor so much. The sense of solitude and space, the light & colours, the wind, the bleak beauty, the continuous flow of water in rivers like the Avon and Dart, the rocks, the silence and the cleanest air in the world.
In front of my kitchen window, my little friend wishes you a nice Sunday with my favorite singer...........)))))
listen:
Sunday Morning Coming Down · Kris Kristofferson
Well, I woke up Sunday morning
With no way to hold my head that didn't hurt
And the beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad
So I had one more for dessert
Then I fumbled through my closet for my clothes
And found my cleanest dirty shirt
And I washed my face and combed my hair
And stumbled down the stairs to meet the day
I'd smoked my brain the night before
On cigarettes and songs that I'd been pickin'
But I lit my first and watched a small kid
Cussin' at a can that he was kicking.......
The O BIRTOP flings through Widler, KS on the BNSF Topeka Subdivision. This is the nicest and cleanest looking T4 Gevo I have seen. I've never seen handrail reflection on the nose.
Ruins of a medieval fortified church are located above the village of Lúčka, situated at the border of the Slovenské rudohorie mountain range and the national park of Slovenský kras. The village had been known since 1409 as part of the Turňa Castle Estate donated to Pál Besen by King Sigismund.
According to the testimony provided by the local church, however, the village dates back to at least the half of the 13th century. The church itself was built as an early-Gothic church of the Gemer style. In the first half of the 15th century, it was surrounded by a defensive stone wall with a watchtower situated in the front. The small fortress was captured by Jan Jiskra’s troopsand is commonly called the Hussite church by the locals. Only the external walls of the church and the considerably lowered defensive wall with the tower that later on served as a belfry have been preserved up to the present. The quadratic tower used to have two floors in the past, with three windows on the first floor and three loopholes on the ground floor that served to watch the surroundings and to protect the fortress from three sides: the west, the south, and the east. The top of the slope upon which the church was built provided for the natural protection from the north.
The area where the church stands counts among the ecologically cleanest territories in Slovakia. It provides for exceptionally good conditions for recreationin a peaceful natural setting and for short walks in the basin of the Čremošná, to the lake of Lúčka, as well as to the surrounding beech and fir forests. Moreover, the unique natural reserve of Zádielska dolina is located in close distance, lined with plateaux where traces of fortified prehistoric settlements were confirmed by archaeological surveys.
skies and forest fire smoke finally cleared enough to capture the milky way last night. too much wind for anything serious so i went wide. not the cleanest image, lots of airglow to clean up. 3 panel mosaic of the northern summer milkyway, left and center panel 1x300s, right panel 16x300s. canon ef-s 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 @ f/3.5, rebel sl1, skywatcher star adventure
LT50 passes through the bus wash at SW. This bus must’ve gone through more than 10 times, probably the cleanest bus in England now!
Hopefully all of you are hanging in there during this challenging and difficult time. So much has happened since my last post. I made another trip up the coast during my Spring/Winter break at the end of February and drove right through virus country when it was taking off and then went right back to teaching after arriving home. A week later I traveled to a convention in Salt Lake and when I returned, I may or may not have had COVID-19. I had all the symptoms and dutifully contacted Kaiser about the possibility of getting a test but was turned down, presumably because they didn't have enough tests in the early days of the pandemic. Not to be deterred, I headed in for a flu test so I could rule out the virus, but the flu test came back negative. And they STILL wouldn't give me a COVID-19 test. So....after two weeks of coughing and a fever that kept coming back...I'm symptom free. Whatever I had is now gone. :)
Along with almost all of my classes. :( My online classes are still going strong, but my on campus ensembles were all cancelled for the semester...which now has given me quite a bit of extra time. What to do? Well...I guess it's time to start digging through the thousands of shots that I haven't had time to get to for the past 8 months or so.
So I thought I should probably start with a shot that represents the reason I dropped everything and made the 2000 mile round trip to the Oregon Coast last December. I had seen a couple of other shots from Shore Acres toward the end of November and I promised myself if I ever had the opportunity to head up there with the right conditions, I would jump on it. After checking the forecast and seeing a high surf warning with high winds and waves approaching 25 feet, I was in the Prius and heading North the next day.
After spending most of the day shooting facing North with a hardy crowd of photographers who didn't seem to mind the gale or the rain, I began to wonder what this section of beach looked like from the opposite direction. Either way you look at it, this particular section of the Oregon Coast is simply awe inspiring if you show up on a day with a high tide and a high surf warning. From what I have seen, the coastal rocks in this area must form some sort of ramp and as large waves approach and crash, they are launched dozens of feet into the air....possibly over 100 feet at times. It's like the fourth of July with 20,000 cubic feet of water.
Granted this isn't the cleanest photo I've ever taken as the air was full of mist and it was still raining off and on while I was shooting, but it's one of the larger explosions that I witnessed over the two days I shot there. If you look closely, you might be able to see the ant sized people standing just to the left of this massive wave.
Later that week I made the trip up to Cape Disappointment before turning around and heading home. I was hoping for similar conditions on my February trip, but unfortunately, the sun came out for several days which must have been awesome for the folks who live up there....but not as much for wave junkies like me.
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Another shot from a wander around Bodmin Moor a couple days after the NYE snowfall...
After enjoying the sunrise at "The Cheesewring" on top of Stowes Hill, I took a direct route east to "Gold Diggings Quarry." Well, kind of direct as I negotiated the steep rocky hillside and then the boggy "Withey Brook."
After leaving the quarry, I took the path back towards the "Hurlers Stone Circles." Right next to the path, I saw this large icy puddle. Or perhaps it would be better described as a pond. The ice may not have been the cleanest, but I thought it was worth a photo - mostly due to the rarity of these conditions local to me.
I composed the photo with the camera low to the ice, and with The Cheesewring in the distance.
Canon 6D MkII | 24-105mm lens at 24mm | ƒ/16 | 1/15 sec | ISO 100 | Tripod | No filters | Taken 02-12-2020 at Minions
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From Wikipedia.
Reykjavík is believed to be the location of the first permanent settlement in Iceland, which Ingólfur Arnarson is said to have established around AD 870. Until the 18th century, there was no urban development in the city location. The city was founded in 1786 as an official trading town and grew steadily over the next decades, as it transformed into a regional and later national center of commerce, population, and governmental activities. It is among the cleanest, greenest, and safest cities in the world.[5][6][7]
This shot, taken just before blue hour, is the very wet town of Strahan on Tasmania's west coast. Some of the cleanest air in the world is down this way, but it is also one of Tasmania's wettest towns with an average of over 1.6 metres per annum and some rainfall on 231 days of the year. Despite the rain, it is a wonderful place to visit and head off on one of the many river cruises to explore the Gordon River and historic Macquarie Harbour. The harbour-front here has many interesting little attractions and woodcraft galleries. I did actually purchase some pieces of Huon pine here which I still use for carving small wooden ornaments.
I had intended to wait a little longer for a slightly darker blue hour, but the rain set in once again!
Original colour slide was taken between 2007 and 2009 with a 3D World medium format stereo film camera using Fuji Provia 100F (or in this case, possibly Velvia) colour slide film. Scanned with a Canon R10 with RF24-240mm lens and Nisi close up attachment.
A wider angle on a photo I already posted from North Sioux City, but, with more emphasis on the classy SD40-2. From an outsiders point of view, this railroad is one of the cleanest I've ever seen. The former Milwaukee Road trackage is extremely well maintained, the locomotives are nearly spotless, and even the L.G Everist owned rolling stock is free of graffiti.
With that being said, on a cloudy spring afternoon we see five sharp D&I EMD's leading the railroad's northbound job out of Sioux City, Iowa, crossing the Big Sioux River and into North Sioux City, South Dakota. Lot's of "Sioux" going on here!
May 2021
North Sioux City, SD.
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Puerto Princesa is the capital of the island province of Palawan. The city has been acclaimed several times as the cleanest and greenest city in the Philippines. It is said it's thanks to mayor Edward S. Hagedorn - politician that locals seem to love and admire (and mention in every occasion). With a wide range of attractions ranging from beaches to wildlife reserves, Puerto Princesa is a nature lover's paradise.
People come to Puerto Princesa not only for the dive sites that abound in the area, but also for its wonderful festivities, amusement sights, beaches, water sports, and nature trails.
Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park - more commonly known as the Underground River. At over 8 kilometers in length, is reputably the longest underground river in the world. With its crystalline waters and spectacular cave formations, the Underground River is possibly Puerto Princesa's most popular attraction. The site was also declared a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1999. The winding path of the river is navigable via small pumpboats that depart from Sabang Beach. Travel time from the city proper to Sabang is about 1.5 hours.
Honda Bay - consisting of several islets with beautiful beaches, Honda Bay is the place to go to for swimming, snorkeling as well as beach and island hopping. Accessible via the Sta. Lourdes wharf which is 25 minutes away from the city. Pumpboats at the wharf can be hired to take visitors to the various islets on the bay.
Explored: Highest Position: 115
CN 5351 currently wins the award for the cleanest SD40-2 currently assigned to the Scotford Alberta Area.
Built new for the CN in 1980 the Stick" as the SD's are called by the railroaders that run them will soon depart for a day of switching on the Beamer Industrial Spur.
The Königssee is a lake located in the extreme southeast Berchtesgadener Land district of the German state of Bavaria, near the border with Austria. Large parts are comprised by the Berchtesgaden National Park.
St. Bartholomä and Watzmann
Lying within the Berchtesgaden Alps in the municipality of Schönau am Königsee, just south of Berchtesgaden and the Austrian City of Salzburg, the Königssee is Germany's third deepest lake. Located at a Jurassic rift it was formed by glaciers during the last ice age. It stretches about 7.7 km (4.8 mi) in the north-south direction and is about 1.7 km (1.1 mi) across at its widest point. Except at its outlet, the Königsseer Ache at the village of Königssee, the lake similar to a fjord is surrounded by steeply rising flanks of mountains up to 2700 m (8900 ft), including the fabled Watzmann massif in the west.
The lake is noted for its clear water and is advertised as the cleanest lake in Germany. For this reason, only electric driven passenger ships, rowing and pedal boats have been permitted on the lake since 1909. Passenger services along the length of the lake, calling at various points, are operated by the Bayerische Seenschifffahrt company.[