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A lowering fog envelops the Golden Gate Bridge and Lime Point, Marin County and San Francisco, California.
Shot thru a tree in my front yard at night, towards the neighbor's garage door across the street.
At first glance the bottom half looks like a reflection of the top half. That self-similarity results from the fractal growth process that governs how the tree grows. Fractals are more than pretty pictures, they are how nature works.
(Explore, 1.14.2008--Thanks friends!)
D800 2 seconds iso50
Tamron 17-35 f/2.8-4 @ 24mm f/11
Lee 0.9ND and 0.6GNDh
The rising sun climbing out of the cloud, Claremont Pier, Lowestoft at low tide.
High up on the moors near Malham in the Yorkshire Dales. The warm light from the rising sun was diffused by the early morning fog rising out of the valley below.
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A peaceful walk up the hill with nice diffused light and a few snow flakes soon became a near white out. In the Sangre de Cristo mountains we get most of our moisture from snowfall. I'm concerned because we have had very little snowfall so far this winter season. So, I have decided to do a snow dance, like a rain dance, in hopes of getting some winter precipitation. I won't be posting that snow dance but I am posting six wintery landscape shots to perhaps persuade mother nature to bring snow to our mountains.
Nikon D3200, Flash Godox V350n with cygnustech diffuser and pentax 50mm (reversed)
Single shot at f/8
Waiting for the sun to show itself at Newton Point,Northumberland.This beautiful stretch of coast is owned by the National Trust and offers some great views of Dunstanburgh castle to the south,across to Beadnell and the distant Farne Islands to the north.
I was hoping to find a spot i stumbled across a few months back,but im sure it was underwater this morning as the whole area looked totally different.Non the less the sunrise was very nice,but very bright and intense along the horizon.A few more clouds to diffuse the light would have helped immensely.
EXIF....F8....10 SECONDS....ISO 100....11MM....LEE 0.6H + 0.6S ND GRADS
The lovely Dani and Bray, always a pleasure guys!
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The Val d’Orcia (in English: "Valley of the Orcia") towards the volcanic mountain of Monte Amiata, seen from the elevated town of Pienza, Province of Siena, Tuscany, Italy
Some background information:
Monte Amiata (in English: "Mount Amiata") is the largest of the lava domes in the Amiata lava dome complex located in the southern Tuscany region of Italy. The volcanic mountain is standing at 1,738 metres (5,702 feet) above sea level. Its trachytic lava flow, 5 km (3.1 miles) long and 4 km (2.5 miles) wide, extends to the east. Radiometric dates indicate that the Amiata complex had a major eruptive episode about 300,000 years ago.
For the last time Monte Amiata erupted about 180,000 years ago. During the Holocene no eruptive activity has occurred, but thermal activity including cinnabar mineralization continues at a geothermal field near the town of Bagnore, at the southwestern end of the dome complex. Geysers and hot springs in this area are used for geothermal energy generation and there’s even a geothermal power plant in the town of Piancastagnaio.
The main economical resources of the Amiata region are chestnuts, timber and increasingly also tourism (with ski resorts including the peak area). The lower areas are characterized by olive trees and vines. Other vegetation include beech and fir. In ancient times cinnabar was extracted there.
The Val d'Orcia, or Valdorcia, is a region of Tuscany, central Italy, which extends from the hills south of Siena to Monte Amiata. Its endless gentle, cultivated rolling hills, which are covered with grain or sunflowers in the summer and vineyards, olive groves, cypresses, beech or chestnut trees all year round alternate with medieval habitations, rural villas and castles boasting impervious towers – all of which is diffused in a tranquilly-isolated nature. This is the scenario that is laid out before the eyes of the visitor to Val d’Orcia.
In 2004, the Val d'Orcia was added to the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites. According to UNESCO the valley is an exceptional exemplar of the way in which a natural setting was redesigned during the Renaissance (in the 14th and 15th centuries), reflecting the ideals of good governance in the Italian city-state. Additionally, these splendid localities were celebrated by the painters of the Sienese School, which flourished between the 13th and 15th centuries.
The Val d‘Orcia is often described as the perfect combination of nature and culture, but it is also an ecosystem which bears witness oft he rural population that has cultivated and farmed the ground since the Middle Ages. However, also five-million years of geological history have left their mark on this territory that, today, is abundant in plant and animal species. Even the deposits of lava from volcanoes no longer active – such as Mounts Radicofani and Amiata – have contributed to the delineations and details of the area; the lava, hardened, gave form to those dark stones known as trachytes.
The valley is not only traversed by the river Orcia, but also by the rivers Asso, Formone, Vellora and Vivo. Furthermore the historic road Via Francigena and the Roman road Via Cassia pass through valley that covers and area of altogether 61,188 hectare (151,200 acres). Occasionally the landscape is broken by gullies and picturesque towns and villages such as Montalcino, San Quirico, Pienza, Castiglione and Radicofani. In the northwest the Val d’Orcia borders the Crete Senesi landscape while in the northeast it is flanked by the Val di Chiania.
Until 1250, the Val d’Orcia was under the rule of the noble family Aldobrandeschi, but subsequently noble families of the nearby town of Siena took control of the valley. They were attracted by the continuous transit of men and commerce along the fundamental pathways Via Francigena and Via Cassia. The most notable of these families was the family Piccolomini, which also provided several popes, among them the famous Pius II. It was him who commissioned to transform the little village of Corsignano into the town of Pienza and hence into a place which he thought is the "ideal town". However, after the mid-1500s, Val d’Orcia became a valuable part of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany and thereby of the Florentine orbit – solely for its agricultural aspect. Thus, it was the family Medici that improved the valley’s infrastructure in the years that followed.
Within the Val d'Orcia is a strip of land following the Orcia river that is used as a wine-growing area between the DOCG zones of Brunello di Montalcino and Vino Nobile di Montepulciano. Here the Sangiovese and Trebbiano-based wines are produced under the Orcia Denominazione di origine controllata (DOC) status. The DOC red wine is composed of at least 60 percent Sangiovese with other local varieties, such as Abrusco, permitted to fill in the remainder of the blend. The dry white wine and Vin Santo style DOC wines are composed of at least 50 percent Trebbiano with other local varieties filling out the rest of the blend. All grapes destined for DOC wine production are limited to a maximum harvest yield of 10 tonnes/hectare with the finished wines required to have a minimum alcohol level of at least 12 percent.
But the region is also very rich in other high quality local products such as the "Pecorino" cheese of Pienza (a typical cheese made with sheep's milk), the genuine olive oil, saffron, mushrooms, (including truffles), sweet chestnuts, honey and a lot of other specialties.
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New South Wales, Australia
52 weeks of 2022/week 34
Light modifiers are devices that can improve or redirect the lighting in photos. You can use a modifier to change the ambiance of a scene, flatter a subject, soften harsh light, or produce split lighting...
The focus this week is on unusual modifiers
I spotted Charlie and her boyfriend walking across the road and I loved her style so without hesitation ran over to say hello and ask for her picture. I wanted to shot the image under the bridge in Camden as there was some amazing light falling in a natural and diffused way.
Charlie was super excited immediately and told me she runs a fashion blog and goes out weekly to do the same sort of thing as I was doing - I think she was thrilled to be asked instead of being the one asking this time! I asked her not to smile and she told her boyfriend to tun around as he makes her smile - which was super sweet!
A lovely encounter and a joy to meet. I was really pleased with the shot despite having no reflector, shooting in jpg medium by mistake and having a general off day.
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Diffuse sunlight in Thanet Lee Wood, Towneley Park
Burnley, Lancashire, UK
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This is a 360º panorama of the auroral arc during a Kp4-5 display on February 21, 2026, from home in southern Alberta on a chilly -20º C night. But it was very clear! The aurora appeared just as a diffuse green arc across the north, with a touch of red visible to the camera.
North is near centre; south is to the far right.
The waxing crescent Moon is bright at left. The Big and Little Dippers are at centre. Orion and the winter stars are at right. Jupiter is the brightest object at right in Gemini.
Technical:
This is a panorama of 4 segments, with the manual 7Artisans 10mm full-frame fish-eye lens, at f/2.8 on the Nikon Z8 at ISO 800 for 15 seconds each. The camera was turned to landscape orientation but the lens is wide enough to include the horizon up to past the zenith even when turned landscape. I only roughly guessed at the segment spacings when taking the shots, turning the camera about 90º between frames. It stitched perfectly in PTGui, with equirectangular projection.
What beautiful find in the leaf litter this was, a stunning Orange Ladybird shot with the Canon MP-E65mm macro lens, and the MT24-EX Twin flash fitted with my custom diffusers.
One more on the last day of National Tree Week...this is one from my 10 mile from home project.
I very nearly didn't even capture this as it had telephone wires running right across it.....thank goodness for the clone tool.
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