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It was quite a difficult place to get in, unless you plan way ahead of coming and obtain the necessary tickets, otherwise, good luck. Even with ticket, with some specific reserved time, it was confusing where to go and what to do since once you get to the ticket office, you'd need to exchange your online tickets with the real tickets and there were lines of people lining up and which lines are which...(a long walk uphill to the ticket office where you'd get in). If you missed you reserved time, then you'd not be able to see some of the main places inside. All in all, quite a hassle, but I think if you go to Granada, then I believe that you'd want to visit this place.
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From Wikipedia:
The Alhambra (/ælˈhæmbrə/; Spanish: [aˈlambɾa]; Arabic: الْحَمْرَاء [ʔælħæmˈɾˠɑːʔ], Al-Ḥamrā, lit. "The Red One"),[Note 1][Note 2] the complete Arabic form of which was Qalat Al-Hamra,[Note 3] is a palace and fortress complex located in Granada, Andalusia, Spain. It was originally constructed as a small fortress in AD 889 on the remains of Roman fortifications, and then largely ignored until its ruins were renovated and rebuilt in the mid-13th century by the Moorish emir Mohammed ben Al-Ahmar of the Emirate of Granada, who built its current palace and walls. It was converted into a royal palace in 1333 by Yusuf I, Sultan of Granada.[1] After the conclusion of the Christian Reconquista in 1492, the site became the Royal Court of Ferdinand and Isabella (where Christopher Columbus received royal endorsement for his expedition), and the palaces were partially altered to Renaissance tastes. In 1526 Charles I & V commissioned a new Renaissance palace better befitting the Holy Roman Emperor in the revolutionary Mannerist style influenced by Humanist philosophy in direct juxtaposition with the Nasrid Andalusian architecture, but which was ultimately never completed due to Morisco rebellions in Granada.
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Taken with my "cheap" Nikon 24-85mm...
A species in the difficult Chrysis ignita group.
Size: 7-8 mm
Posting this from my hotel room one day before the opening of my biggest exhibition yet at ABECITA Museum of Modern Art in Borås, Sweden. This image is one of 62 large format prints (averaging at above 100cm).
This particular image is also featured in my most recent book "Livet som minimonster" ("Life as a mini-monster") – a children's book focusing on the fascinating life cycles of insects and spiders (see comment section).
Stacked from 178 exposures in Zerene Stacker.
Sony NEX-7, Mitutoyo M Plan Apo 10/0.28, 170mm tube-lens ("morfanon"), Nikon PB-6 bellows, Cognisys StackShot.
Fuji X-Pro1 plus 7Artisans 35/1.2 plus a 16mm macro extension tube. A flower it is, but at macro level it is difficult to distinguish from, say, a hairy spider. The flower seems to be shape-shifting - like Proteus himself.
Social distancing hasn't been that difficult to be honest. We live in a remote place in a sparsely populated area, and we're not really the most sociable pair in the world. Add to that I'm an accountant who does landscape photography to deal with the slings and arrows of an oddly chosen career - I was good at maths at school but lacked the imagination to do anything more interesting or rewarding - and you get the picture. Like many of us, I'm happiest when alone, or in the company of a very small number of carefully chosen companions.
Still, social distancing for the last 8 weeks has meant not going out with the camera, and I resigned myself to that fact happily, in support of those who are doing far more important and often dangerous work to keep the nation operating in some sort of way, and to save lives of course. Finally, we are allowed to head out, with caution of course, but it's in the nature of many of us as photographers to head for places at times when we can spread out and point our cameras at views like this.
It was nice to catch up with Lee, who I've not seen since we headed down to the tip of Cornwall at the beginning of March to scope out Kenidjack Valley. This time last year we were planning an adventure to Iceland with enormous excitement. Now, we're just pleased to be at large on our own stomping grounds. It might be all we get to do this year, with plans for wider adventures on hold, but I won't complain. How could I when I have places like this half an hour's drive from the door?
St Michael's Mount rewarded us for two months of patience, with the setting sun over nearby Penzance lighting the subject beautifully. A chance to revisit old haunts and see them anew.
Keep well everyone - keep safe.
A difficult day today. Very dark light meant a low iso and wide apertures resulting in long exposures.
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The Eiffel tower is a difficult subject, but at nightfall, placed in front to a black and heavy stormy sky, illuminated with red and gold, after a rain storm, can be more interesting than usually.
One of the most difficult things we have to manage as photographers is our own expectations. It's inevitable to have preconceived images of what we would like to capture when planning a shooting session. Occasionally, things do not turn out the way we imaged upon arrival. It's easy to get disappointed or frustrated and write the whole effort off. However, I have found it's much more fruitful to re-adjust my expectations and reframe my goals.
I had planned a few days in Mt. Rainier during peak wildflower season this summer. Unfortunately, it poured for three straight days. Instead of driving home, I decided to shoot some waterfalls until the storm passed. It requires some patience as you need to wait for moments of clearing and the light to hit where you want it Since it was midday, I used a polarizer and 10-stop ND to achieve a 20 sec exposure. Soft filtered light poked through the clouds and illuminated the middle ridge but it wasn't harsh enough light to blow out the waterfall. I used a set of Gobe filters for this shot and I've been impressed with their quality and reasonable price!
Cette difficulté d’être dans l’abondance démontrerait à elle seule, s’il le fallait, que la prétendue « naturalité » du désir de bien-être n’est pas si naturelle que ça –sinon les individus n’auraient pas tant de mal à s’y faire, ils sauteraient à pieds joints dans la profusion. Ceci devrait nous faire pressentir qu’il y a dans la consommation autre chose de tout différent, peut-être même l’inverse –quelque chose à quoi il faut éduquer, dresser et domestiquer les hommes- en fait un nouveau système de contraintes morales et psychologiques qui n’a rien à voir avec le règne de la liberté. Le lexique des néo-philosophes du désir est significatif à cet égard. Il n’est question que d’apprendre aux hommes à être heureux, de leur apprendre à se consacrer au bonheur, d’aménager chez eux les réflexes du bonheur. L’abondance n’est donc pas un paradis, le saut par-delà la morale dans l’immoralité rêvée de la profusion, c’est une nouvelle situation objective régie par une nouvelle morale. Objectivement parlant, ce n’est donc pas un progrès, c’est tout simplement quelque chose d’autre.
Jean Baudrillard
A couple picks there way over the rocky breakwater to the lighthouse at Wisconsin Point on Lake Superior.
A very difficult theme this week, I never tried taking photo's by candlelight only !
This is part of a Christmas bauble with glitter on it.
Don't use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission !!!
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It’s difficult to believe that more than half of Lassen Volcanic National Park has burned in the Dixie Fire this horrendous wildfire season. I’m wondering what the park will look like when I’m able to return. I’ve intended to revisit the magical landscape of the painted hills and lava beds on the east side of the park but for now, will revisit some of my images taken in 2019 and hope that the landscape is still as it was.
Difficult to show this in all it's dereliction ! I wanted to focus on the state of the beautiful old Victorian Pier here in Weston super Mare. High key and long exposure taken with with little stopper and 6nd grad filter.
Kosñipata Valley, Southeast Peru
Photographing primates in a tropical rainforest environment is notoriously difficult and frustrating due to the nature of the habitat, the amount of vegetation you’re trying to avoid and, of course, the lack of light penetrating the canopy. And that’s assuming that you’ve found some monkeys in the first place that are at a lower level and remaining in the area, rather than just making their way through the tree tops. I was therefore delighted to find that the first lodge we stayed at on this trip had a local group of Tufted Capuchins that could often be seen in a clearing early in the morning and occasionally late afternoon. I had three very memorable encounters with them that allowed me to capture a good variety of images.
Grooming is a serious affair and an important part of any primate's daily routine, and if you can find a pair fully engrossed in the task as these two were, you’ll usually find that they’ll remain quite still, which obviously helps keep the shutter speed and resultant ISO as low as possible.
Not so difficult once understood the trick, anyway a result possible only with your support, so THANKS A LOT TO ALL OF YOU!
1. tulipano, 2. Teatro Civico di Tortona, 3. angelo, 4. Teatro civico di Tortona (AL), 5. Racconigi, 6. dolce pasquetta, 7. The Abominable Snowman's daughter!, 8. I wish you a sweet easter,
9. fontana delle tartarughe, 10. Noi e Gorby, 11. scorci romani, 12. stazione centrale, Milano, 13. Stazione Centrale, Milano, 14. lucernai, 15. Milano, 16. Ebe,
17. croco, 18. tramonto a Basaluzzo, 19. la finestra sul cielo, 20. altare della patria, 21. in viaggio, 22. Il Vittoriano, 23. colosseo, 24. a sunny sky on the snow,
25. gruzzolo, 26. che poi.., 27. tris di cioccolati, 28. Teatro Eliseo, 29. maschera, 30. javier marin, 31. luna sul Vaticano, 32. fontana di trevi,
33. rialto, 34. il cielo su Lugano, 35. la fortuna di prendere il bus, 36. Lugano, 37. P, 38. natale a Venezia, 39. Sona (vr), 40. venezia,
41. Alessandria, 42. rialto, 43. lights!, 44. venezia, 45. happy new year!, 46. un nebbioso canaletto, 47. venezia, 48. Piazza Garibaldi vestita a festa,
49. pomodori, 50. venetian, 51. sul vaporetto, 52. solitudine, 53. auguri! best wishes!, 54. inusual venice, 55. birra, 56. Venezia,
57. osteria dal ponte, 58. allegria, 59. Isola San Giulio, 60. sull'orlo della sera, 61. Solvay Solexis, 62. lago d'Orta, 63. isola san giulio, 64. winter view,
65. isola san giulio, 66. celle, 67. snowy sunset, 68. arnaldo pomodoro, 69. Arnaldo Pomodoro a Orta San Giulio, 70. edicola affrescata, 71. scorcio, 72. ciclamini
73. love me fender, 74. fili d'erba, 75. elettrocitta', 76. in the mist, 77. crisantemi, 78. la boheme, 79. 'o babbasone, 80. Ciclamini,
81. stati d'animo, 82. Betty Boop, 83. semaforo rosso, 84. leone, 85. nebbia, 86. tramonto, 87. mollette multicolor, 88. accendini,
89. gialla, 90. luce d'autunno, 91. foliage, 92. scorcio romantico, 93. cicogne, 94. fuochi d'artificio, 95. sauternes, 96. cielo,
97. St Agricole, 98. archi e contrafforti, 99. attraverso una monofora
So difficult to capture in flight.
Male Kingfisher skimming the river (female has orange beak on lower side, like lipstick)
See my birds album
www.flickr.com/photos/whitecontrail/albums/72157720241880539
A wonderful morning on the summit of Hawksbill Mountain with Tommy White, watching a new day come to Linville Gorge and also enjoying a day starting without rain and thunderstorms. The roar of the river can clearly be heard from atop the mountain, even above the stiff gust of wind blowing around, making it difficult to steady the camera on a tripod. This morning had some special light, reflecting off the rising mist and fog covering the Catawba and Hwy 221 valleys…
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Difficult choise between the Aventador Nasser Edition and the SLR Mansory Renovatio.
Manuel Magaña © 2013
It was difficult to include a sense of scale with this image which is why I included the out of focus basil leaf. The piece of bread with the cheese is just over half the length of my thumb, about two and a half inches and was torn from a standard size bread roll. It was delicious, a very tasty morsel. Hmm
Turns out the most difficult image for AI to generate is a beast, a wagon, and a man. In that order. I have yet to get a good image of a man ploughing a field, and I am hoping the more recent AI models have a better sense of how objects relate to each other. This is a training image. It captures some of the essence of how man and beast work the fields, but I think you would have to say the story is that the cow is pulling a wagon. I saw that in a Ruth Goodman re-enactment, but it looks like I am going to have to resort to my digital painting skills to make the most common activity of a middling sort husbandmen in the field, ploughing, part of my early modern England world. I do like the NC Wyeth dynamism of the image. Maybe I should have said that first.
This was a lot more difficult to manage with the D200 because I'm still a little baffled by the different auto focus modes. The D50 made these easy.
I ,a shy and quiet boy since young, was a target of the bullied throughout my 8 years of childhood. The memories of being bullied continuously have had a little or more effect on my confidence and activeness. I shut myself off from the society, claimed myself a weak person and brought myself with a gloomy, tired and scary look.
I’ve never believed in myself…
I came to photography when my dad lent me his camera when I was 6. From the first clicks, I already felt "this is where I belong". Photography helps me recreating the world seen through my eyes and felt by my soul, helps me remembering faces, smiles, memories of a passing time. And it even reminds of the things which are supposed to be forgotten.
I chose dark art because dark art is a fine illustration of the world I am seeing - a world of melancholy and sadness. Through dark art, I can dig deep into the darkest place of a human, right there, people are living in the own nature: weak, crazy and also vulnerable. Being an introvert person, dark art is also a way of relieving the soul, showing people who I am, what I am and what I’m capable of - something that I rarely share with anybody. As a result, I became more open with everyone, gave more laughs and talked more to the people around me. "You look way more better then?" - my friends said in satisfaction.
I never stop doubting myself ...
I’ve been reeling from my "what should I do" and "I’m not good enough" thinkings, which makes me deviate from my original path. Always wish to be like other photographer pals: big relationships, big interacts and having a support team while I am alone all the time,… I gradually forget that I’ve lost myself, forgotten that my path was different from all of them. I am an independent existence, I exist uniquely and I should’ve not been anyone’s copy. It’s been a difficult time right now, I was once again separated myself from everyone, even the ones I love so much. Always bringing suspense and fear of any situations. And even when writing these words, those emotions are making my hands shake and my heart beats so fast.
I know that there aren’t any obstacles that cannot be overcome if I dare to face, and I know that nothing can stop me if I truly believe that I can do it in my heart. However, "How?", "How can I really believe in myself?”, "How can I become more confidence?", "How can I make this? "How can I do that ...?", “How…?”, “How…?” and "How ...?". I’ve spent a great deal of time resting, thinking and rearranging things that were still unfinished. Those fears are still here, those thoughts are still here, and the answer I still cannot find out but at least this time I will try, something at least makes me feel better. And I hope someday I can find my own answer and be happy with it.
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Fotografiar limícolas en vuelo es un reto, pero hacerlo además mientras realizan giros y piruetas es casi una cuestión de suerte.
Chorlito gris ( Pluvialis squatarola) girando en vuelo sin perderme de vista
Photographing waders in flight is a challenge, but doing it while doing turns and pirouettes is almost a matter of luck.
Black bellied plover (Pluvialis squatarola) turning in flight without losing sight of me.
This is the start of several photos I will share from the amazing museums of London. As you may know, museums, with all the people, difficult angles and distractions, make fine-art photography difficult. Nonetheless, I will try to present several images that capture the magnificent history and collections of the UK's finest.
This photo is of the Assyria - Nimrud panels. I guess I was lucky as the room was closed off but one could still peer inside from the hall. Thus, there were no visitors to clutter the image. The plates are from the Northwest Palace of Neo-Assyrian King Ashurnasirpal II (883-859 BC) at Nimrud (northern Iraq).
It's a difficult question. I love to look at the skyline of the city but the wide open expanse of Lake Michigan is attractive in its own right. Fortunately I don't have to choose. My favorite place to cycle is a one mile loop that offers great views of the city and the sea (as I think of it). I can ride around in circles for hours there as I enjoy the subtle changes in light and color as the sun nears the horizon. This is the companion shot to "Above the Plains," which I posted earlier in the week. Here's a link if you'd like to compare: www.flickr.com/photos/55959716@N08/6815812204/
Both shots are far better on black.
Linhof Technikardan S w/6x12 back
210mm Nikkor-W
Polarizer and 3 stop ND
Fuji Acros 120 at ISO 100
f/22 at 1 second
Developed in Microphen 1:3 using a Jobo Processor
Another start to a beautiful day in paradise. These are a group of islands in Sulawesi Indonesia, very remote and difficult to reach, but well worth it. Home to sea gypsies giant land crabs and a fresh water lake full of non stinging jelly fish and a dormant volcano. Its a magical place as yet untouched by the hoards of tourist's go Google it people!
Landing in San Diego is difficult. SAN is listed as one of the worlds 10 most extreme / difficult airports to land at (depending on which list you find).
You have to fly over this hill (Balboa Park), then get the plane down before you run into the next hill (Point Loma).or before you run off the end of the short runway. So the runway is in this sort of valley, and it can be VERY difficult for pilots at times. It is a very difficult approach because of the steep angle required over the hill. There are no jumbo jets regularly flying in here like at other major airports ie LAX, JFK, DFW.
I love flying aircraft, I love aviation, so therefore, I posted this video. It is really amazing and incredible to get this kind of footage of a plane landing in San Diego.
I previously wrote about how exactly I got this video including some of the difficulty involved. But I decided to be more discreet, to edit out that part, to leave you guessing.
You can imagine the 'powers that be' discourage a lot of looky-loo's from hanging around the approach end of runways.
I suppose a fascination with the machines of transportation has long been a human thing. I remember when I was a kid, I would take my younger brothers by bicycle to the local Hicksville train station to see the mighty train engines up close. That was a regular part of our Sunday routine. First stop was church, then afterwards to the train station, last stop was Baskin-Robins for ice cream.
Church and ice cream make sense. But the train station? Why did we go there? I remember so vividly for some reason the elevated platforms of the Hicksville train station. For some reason it was just an interesting place to hang around for a kid.
I'd say it's about fascination with the machines of transportation.
Trains and Planes. Big fancy machines that move people from point A to point B. But fascinating for some reason in how they do it.
So fascinating I suppose, that I even managed to make a career out of the business. And what form of human transport could be more fascinating that a flight in a hot air balloon? Going only where the wind carries you? No steering, just riding with the wind! What a concept.
So to tie it all together, landing a balloon is difficult, extreme, and fascinating. And it all started out because my father made me take my brothers to church, and for entertainment afterwards we would go check out the trains. Go figure. Like this could really all be tied together, but perhaps.
I did not really have a key point to make with all this. It is just a sort essay on my thoughts as to why I got this video of the plane landing. I hope someone reads this and enjoys it. Maybe I'll get my brothers / sister / mom to read this since they come here sometimes, they might appreciate the references to life growing up and the Hicksville train station
With a maximum working distance of just 10.1 cm the Canon MP-E65mm isn't the best tool for chasing damselflies like this variable bluet (Coenagrion pulchellum) as it is both difficult to fit the entire damsel in frame as well as not scaring them away as you have to get so close.
This was taken at 1:1 magnification which is a s far away as you can get and only by framing it with the body diagonally, I was able to fit it in frame. As for why it didnn't fly away this particular time, I have no idea - but I am not complaining!
Also, don't you think the wings seriously look like they were made out of plastic on this one?
- Charles Dickens.
It's been a while since I posted an image on Flickr. It has been a busy Christmas season and finding time to select, and process images have been difficult. A couple of days ago, I had a chance to go through some of my old photos, and I happened across the image of the day. This image was taken at mono lake, an area that I can always count on for exciting sunset and sunrise light. While we were there this evening, I saw the initial signs of a lenticular cloud forming. I was still in the early stages as a photographer, and this was the first time I have ever witnessed the formation of a lenticular cloud. So, in short, I panicked and started to run around and take as many photos as I could while muttering about people walking into and ruining my frame.
Initially, I had planned to spend some relaxing sunset shoot exploring some of the distant tufa formations away from the main section at south tufa beach. Needless to say, that plan didn’t get executed. I was disappointed with myself, but the photos had unique colors, incredible cloud formations, and fantastic geological formations. They looked terrific, but I was disappointed with the compositions. This image had some horrible chromatic aberration that I couldn’t get rid off at the time, but with my improved post-processing skills, I tried my luck again, and I believe I did a decent enough job this time around. In the meantime, I wish you all a Merry Christmas.