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I love flying and one day soon I hope to do it again!!
Here's one from the window seat somewhere over the Java Sea en route to Singapore from way back in 2017.
Exported full size so please make it big :-)
Fuji X-T2, Fujnon XF 23/1.4, 1/600th sec at f/9, ISO 100
During the thunderstorm on the night of June 10, 2022, over central Evia isl., Greece, there were many CA (Cloud-to-Air) lightning. In one of them, it was possible to capture the corona discharge with its distinct blue/purple color. These purple filaments/streamers are created due to high values of the electric field (high enough to ionize air molecules, mostly nitrogen). In this image, I've done a "double zoom in" so one can easily observe this phenomenon. Sigma Art lens 20 mm (big frame), 85 mm (smaller frames), at f/1.4 and iso 20-40k.
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From the Big Trip 3D slide archives - 2004.
After leaving the scene of my previous shot, we arrived here in the official carpark for the sunrise at Uluru, ready to witness this amazing scene with hundreds of other early risers. It started out as quite a special event, with many people turning it into a nice outdoor breakfast. We were surrounded by some lovely Japanese tourists who had come off a tour coach, and they were enjoying a sushi breakfast. There was lots of happy chatter and talk, then suddenly the sun cast its first rays on the rock surface, and the entire crowd went utterly silent. For a minute, we were all in awe of what we were looking at, then some remembered their cameras and suddenly it was nothing but a clicking of shutters and a whirring of film motor drives. Being in the film days, I fired off a lot of shots to cover a lot of exposure settings. I think this would still have been around one or two seconds exposure time.
The colours were amazing. This slide scan is straight off the slide itself with no changes to saturation or brightness. It was a mesmerising and unforgettable sight.
(Slide scanned using Canon RP with 24-240 and Nisi close up lens. Original taken using Fuji Sensia 100 slide film)
Just wandering around downtown Los Angeles, CA, and I walk around a corner and see this. I think I just stood there for about 10 minutes before I even reached for the camera hanging around my neck. Weird building!
Thank you all so very much for your comments and faves, but most of all I thank you for just taking the time to look. I appreciate each and every one of you! Gracias. Merci. Danke. Obrigado. Grazie. Go raibh maith agat. Tapadh leat. Gratias tibi.
All photos are ©Tom Harrington and may not be used in any way without my permission. Thank you.
Lightning over the Saronic gulf. Acropolis with Parthenon on the foreground. One can also observe the temple of Olympian Zeus (lower left edge) and Acropolis Museum (the orthogonal building between the temple and Acropolis).
Taken on 21.06.2025, in Athens, Greece, looking southwestwards. Canon 5Dmk4, Sigma Art 35 mm, f/2.5, 1/25'', iso 100, ND filter used.
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From the Big Trip 3D slide archives - 2004.
Two fishing fleets riding out the storms in Albany, Western Australia - one being the actual fishing boats, and the other, this wonderful flock of Australian Pelicans (and silver gulls) sitting out the stormy weather as it passed though. This was taken from Emu Point in one of Albany's many and varied coastal harbours. Shortly after I took this, I returned to the car as it started to pour with rain once again and saw through the windscreen the pelicans all with bills wide open catching the raindrops! It was just too wet to get a shot of it, but fascinating to see.
(Slide scanned using Canon RP with 24-240 and Nisi close up lens. Original taken using Fuji Sensia 100 slide film)
Another dangerous bolt from the blue. The storm's core was 10-15 km away, behind the hills, while this bolt hit on sunny ground. On 01.06.2020, in Athens, Greece. Taken with braun nd filter.
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Panoramique des montées de gaz des cratères sommitaux de l'Etna, en Sicile (Italie).
Pour l'intérieur des cratères, voir
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Panorámica de los cráteres de la cumbre del Etna.
Panoramica dei crateri sommitali dell'Etna.
Panoramic of the summit craters of Etna.
Day 333 - 365/2023 - A Never-Ending Journey
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Severe nocturnal storm (possible spc) accompanied by stroboscopic lightning (see 4K video here: youtu.be/7qadUX00Tok) and a prominent green hailcore (shown here). This storm was going on for more than 3 hours, over Evia isl. and the Aegean Sea in Greece. I was observing it from a spot right south of it, in Artemis, E Attica, E of Athens, Greece. Early morning of the 11th of June, 2022. The large frame was shot with a 20 mm Sigma Art lens (slightly cropped) and the small frame was shot with an 85 mm Sigma Art lens. The light in the air is from an approaching plane to LGAV.
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This shot is from a few years back now and was taken on the banks of the Murray River at Mannum in South Australia. What looks like a sun is more like a false sun as it didn't rise for another 15 minutes. The sky was amazing and constantly changing. I must have filled half an SD card on this morning!
This was taken with the trusty Sony RX10 m4, and earlier this week, I was excited to find that they have given it an update after 9 years since the original release. Sadly, little was updated apart from a USB-C connector, newer subject tracking focus and a better image processor as well as a few other changes. Some of my favourite things were actually removed - like the High Frame Rates that gave super slo motion video, the easy to read exposure compensation dial and the very handy top LCD display! Even the pop-up flash has gone! The sensor and lens are carried over completely unchanged from the original camera. So, as my old one still does a wonderful job, it will continue to be one of my great all rounders and I can save a few thousand dollars!
Le fond de la Bocca Nuova, un des cratères sommitaux de l'Etna en Sicile, Italie.
Pour un zoom sur cette ouverture rougeoyante voir
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These palms are very tall. A wide-angle lens would have bent the trunks and curved the light pole. I shot this in a vertical panorama, bottom to top ⬆️ 📷
The Chevrolet Super Sports (SS) are great drivers and fast as hell, whether they be a Camaro, Chevelle, Nova, or Impala. I've owned and driven three of those four.
Thank you all so very much for your comments and faves, but most of all I thank you for just taking the time to look. I appreciate each and every one of you! Gracias. Merci. Danke. Obrigado. Grazie. Go raibh maith agat. Tapadh leat. Gratias tibi.
All images are ©Tom Harrington and may not be used in any way without my permission. Thank you.
The sea is getting slushy, maybe it will freeze by January. However, our temperatures are forecasted to go above 0°C, this week.
Clouds often form over the crest of the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California. The mountain passes are at elevations around 10,000 feet above the foothills, where this was taken.
Winter Solstice sunset, :10 days ago, was at 4:51 P.M. PST.
A newscaster said on New Year's Eve that the decade begins 01/01/2021. However, dictionaries found on "Dr. Google" say it is a period of ten years, such as 2020 through 2029.
Following on from the first shot, here the wait produced some great rides on the northerly swell that led the surfers right into the mouth of the Mersey River.
This is where a lot of ships, including the Spirit of Tasmania passenger ferries make their way down into the heart of Devonport's harbour.
These two shots were almost too much of a challenge for the big 3D World stereo camera. It was designed more for static scenery or landscapes and only had a maximum shutter speed of 1/500th of a second. Combined with being stuck with film that was usually just 100 ISO, it did not like dull cloudy days like this for action photography! Both of the shots were in reality almost unviewable as they were very dark and underexposed, so quite a bit of rescue work was needed in post.
Original colour slide was taken around 2007 with a 3D World medium format stereo film camera using Fuji Provia 100 colour slide film. Scanned with a Canon R10 with RF24-240mm lens and Nisi close up attachment.
Ref. DSCF6193 Fujifilm FinePix L50 ISO 200, no flash, no retouching because it was all there at disposal of the watcher.
Editing: gamma light adjustment to exclude black noise.
Res. 96x96 dpi . No flash.
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Always plenty of angling going on at the end of Brighton Jetty on Adelaide's wonderful coastal area. The sunset put on a nice show for ten minutes and was ever changing in colour and intensity.
From the old Canon SX40 archives - my second ever digital camera.
After one of those "red sky at night is a sailor's delight" sunsets tonight, it was only a matter of an hour or two later and we suddenly had this lightning storm. Not sure the sailors would be loving that! Lots of lightning and thunder but sadly not much of the badly needed rain for this dry part of the world. It even started a grassfire somewhere causing the smoke through the centre of the image. It was quite a show with the lightning flashing every 5 or 10 seconds. while I could, I just kept taking lots of pictures over the fence from the safety of our laundry (and through a slightly dirty window).
Green hailcore entering the city. Canon 70D, Sigma Art 35 mm. Athens, Greece, Oct. 15, 2021.
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Afternoon storm with a triple lightning in this shot. Lightning strike leaves a burn scar on the ground of a nearby hill. I went to search the point where it hit. I've found it and you can see photos from the burned trees and bushes as well as Lichtenberg figures inside the tree*: antisimvatikos.blogspot.com/2021/10/blog-post.html. Canon 5Dmk4, Sigma Art 14 mm, f/1.8 @ f/3.2, 1/25'', iso 100, NiSi ND64 nano filter. Athens, Greece, Oct. 11, 2021.
* Well, this might not be the case after all. As Hubert Polacek commended "... patterns you have photograhed were made by beetle larvae...". So, I would like to thank him for identifying this correctly. This is how coincidence (CG on the same place) and a lack of experience at figures and patterns on tree trunks can lead to a wrong conclusion.
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Back in 1988, Brisbane in Queensland was the host city for World Expo which ran for 6 months from April to October. I was lucky enough to visit in the middle of the season and remember it as wonderfully bright (despite this rainy day), colourful and exciting. I remember queues too and standing in long lines to see all the wonderful exhibits, but it was all worth it. This shot was taken from the Expo site on the South Bank of the Brisbane River and shows the Brisbane skyline as it was back then. I just looked at this view on Google Streetview and it is as you might expect, considerably different now some 35 years later.
We stayed until night time on several occasions and the large white shapes in the river were wonderfully and brightly lit from within and added a huge amount to the bright night-time splash of colour from all the neon lighting that was all through the site.
I was at this time living in Adelaide, but a little seed must have been planted by our visit here and within 3 years, we had moved to live on the Gold Coast, and I found myself driving buses from there to Brisbane on a daily basis and travelling along the riverside expressway on the right of this image!
This colour slide was scanned with a Canon R10, 24-240 zoom lens with Nisi close up attachment. Cool white LED backlighting.
Original camera was a Pentax Zoom 70 using Kodachrome 100 colour slide film.