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Dramatic-Light Sunset ~ Boca Raton, Florida
South Florida ~ Florida Everglades U.S.A.
Spring 2016 ~ Palm Beach County, Florida
(one more photo 'from this night' in the comments)
No filters used, this is as taken, however it's a twin-shot panorama.
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Lost in silence beneath drifting clouds, the small illuminated pavilion emerges like a forgotten memory in the night. The image transforms an ordinary urban square into a cinematic scene suspended between solitude, mystery, and quiet nostalgia.
This was 'the start' to one of those jaw-dropping southern South Florida summer sunsets that lasted for well over an hour. The intense beauty seemed to change by the minute. Come back; to see my long sequence of shots of this colorful event that I will post over the next week. I have included four of the last images in the comments below.
It was one of the best skies of the year, so far, and maybe even one
for the ages IMHO. Thanks for looking ~ Florida Everglades U.S.A.
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The sabal palmetto (also known as cabbage palm)
is the state tree of both South Carolina and Florida
"A trembling hand, a quill dipped in ink… and the mysteries of the world recorded in forbidden pages."
"Une main tremblante, une plume trempée dans l’encre… et les mystères du monde consignés dans des pages interdites."
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The little village of Elgol is one of the most photographed parts of the Isle of Skye. Elgol is an increasingly popular destination for climbers and hill walkers of all levels due to its unparalleled access to the famous Cuillin Hills and the various smaller hills dotted around wherever you look. Elgol is a crofting and fishing village in the Strath area of the Island. The small, sparsely populated village is scattered along the final mile of the road from Broadford.
Though you may never have heard of the little fishing and crofting village of Elgol in the Scottish Highlands, there is a good chance that you have seen photos of Elgol's famous mountain and seascape scenery in postcards, Scottish books and even film scenes and television programmes. From the larger Skye village of Broadford many visitors have turned down the enchanting Elgol road completely unaware of the magnificent scenes that await them around almost every corner. The 15 mile journey over twisty single-track roads will take you past High Pastures Cave, one of the most significant archaeological finds in the area, then sweep you around the corner to the ancient, historical site of Kilchrist church
Every mile you drive on your journey from Broadford to Elgol will fool you into thinking that the scenery simply cannot be bettered. However, you will be proved wrong when you arrive in Elgol and reach the shore and the little fishing harbour. There is simply nothing on earth to compare to the site of the Cuillin Hills beyond the Elgol shore - a breathtaking view whether it is sunny or stormy.
There are various opinions as to the meaning of the name, 'Elgol' (or Ealaghol in the native Gaelic, some suggesting 'The Noble Dale' and others 'The Weeping Swan' (folklore details the story of a Viking captain who perished when his longboat named 'The Swan' came to attack the people of Elgol).
Camera Model: PENTAX K20D; ; Focal length: 13.00 mm; Aperture: 19; Exposure time: 20.0 s; ISO: 100
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Multiple Strikes of Lightning over railway tracks in Southern Manitoba
Caught in that fleeting moment where the golden desert light meets the icy peaks of the La Sals.
This view from Arches National Park reminds me how wild, contrasting, and humbling the desert can be.
Shot just as the sun dipped low, giving the sandstone its richest hues and casting deep shadows between these stoic formations.
The mountains in the distance seem like a completely different world—and yet here they are, sharing the same breath of light.
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Nikon D810 | 85mm | 3-shot pano | Processed in Lightroom & Photoshop (dodge & burn, local contrast, gentle grading)
My friend Mike
Strobist
SB600 cam right 1/4 power thru umbrella.
(second trigger decided NOT to work at all that day - junk)
Ended up using CLS
Seen in Explore. A shot taken at Lusia, close to Moena, many thanks!!
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Doo Wop palm tree wrapped in string lights lit up on on the deck of a Wildwood Crest motel right after a thunderstorm at sunset. At my back was a double and triple rainbow over the beach.
Artwork:
Almost every day during the summer (our rainy season), heat
accumulates (all day) over the inland Florida Everglades until
it builds and explodes in the late afternoon as thunderstorms.
(Above; could hear thunder & see some occasional lightning)
(two more summer photos 'from this night' in the comments)
Sunset Blue Hour ~ Boca Raton, Florida
South Florida ~ Florida Everglades U.S.A.
Summer 2016 ~ Palm Beach County, Florida
n the arkaded side of passeig de mallorca, a woman walks through one of palma’s sharpest patterns of light and dark. she doesn’t pause, doesn’t notice. but for a second, her dachshund floats mid-air, legs stretched like shadows themselves. the pillars frame the scene like a stage. and for the length of a breath, everything aligns.
I posted another picture of these silos today because I was trying to stick with the black/white theme but if I am being true to my project this is the photo I should have posted. Sorry for a double post today.
This is an image of a setup in our living room at night. The angel is part of an ornate lamp. The magical flowers on the right are from an LED flower-box decoration I placed near the lamp. Then the ghostly "apparitions" were created by light painting with a flashlight. Some additional adjustments were made in Lightroom.
There’s a moment after sunset when the sky forgets whether it’s night or day.
The horizon still burns — molten light spilling over the sea, painting everything in amber and rose.
The islands in the distance fade into silhouettes, and the world feels suspended between fire and calm.
Captured along Thailand’s coast — where silence and light meet at the edge of the sea.
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The Dead Sea (Hebrew: יָם הַמֶּלַח, Yām Ha-Melaḥ, "Sea of Salt"; Arabic: البَحْر المَيّت, al-Baḥr l-Mayyit, "Dead Sea") is a salt lake between Israel and the West Bank to the west, and Jordan to the east. It is 422 metres (1,385 ft) below sea level, and its shores are the lowest point on the surface of the Earth on dry land. The Dead Sea is 378 m (1,240 ft) deep, the deepest hypersaline lake in the world. It is also one of the world's saltiest bodies of water, with 33.7 percent salinity. Only Lake Assal (Djibouti), Garabogazköl and some hypersaline lakes of the McMurdo Dry Valleys in Antarctica (such as Don Juan Pond and perhaps Lake Vanda) have a higher salinity. It is 8.6 times as salty as the ocean. This salinity makes for a harsh environment where animals cannot flourish, hence its name. The Dead Sea is 67 kilometres (42 mi) long and 18 kilometres (11 mi) wide at its widest point. It lies in the Jordan Rift Valley, and its main tributary is the Jordan River.
The Dead Sea has attracted visitors from around the Mediterranean basin for thousands of years. Biblically, it was a place of refuge for King David. It was one of the world's first health resorts (for Herod the Great), and it has been the supplier of a wide variety of products, from balms for Egyptian mummification to potash for fertilizers. People also use the salt and the minerals from the Dead Sea to create cosmetics and herbal sachets.
My trip to Jordan was extremely rewarding with an amazing light and scenes. The weather was bit different than many people imagine Middle East is like. It was extremely windy and stormy, not the blue sky we all have in mind for place like Jordan.
Camera Model: Canon EOS 5D Mark II; Lens: EF17-40mm f/4L USM; Focal length: 28.00 mm; Aperture: 6.3; Exposure time: 1/80 s; ISO: 100
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As the sun fades, silence settles over the graves. Shadows stretch, whispering stories only the wind remembers.
Alors que le soleil s’éteint, le silence s’installe sur les tombes. Les ombres s’étirent, murmurant des histoires que seul le vent se souvient.
I was inspired by an online talk from the wonderful photographer Les Forrester to revisit this shot, taken some time back when visiting a friend in Barcelona. Can't understand why I didn't see the potential in it before.
Every time I come home to Southern California via the Grapevine and Interstate 5, I notice how beautiful the rolling hills of the San Emigdio mountains are as you approach the Tejon Pass from the north--and also note that it's a tough spot to get a good pic, and I never seem to time it when the light is really good. This weekend, however, storm clouds moving over the mountains in late afternoon cast some nice dramatic light, and the hills have begun to green up (as they do in the winter) from all the rain we've had recently. I found a good spot where I could take aim at the edges of Tejon Ranch, and made the most of the light before continuing on home.
A sepia-toned macro of glossy spheres resting on a woven surface, with tangled wire shapes above. The tight perspective pulls out the texture and turns the highlights into little constellations.
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Haraz mountains is about 85 kms (a good 2-hour drive) from Sana'a. It reaches to 2300 meters above sea. As far as you can see there's mountains, smaller ones, bigger ones, and about 90 percent of these mountains are covered with terraces for agriculture. Not all of them are used anymore, because lots of locals have moved to the capital and there's just not enough people left to work all the fields. On every hilltop or big rock a town was built, for protection against enemies in the past, incredible constructions, it is mind-boggling how they managed to build them all ... and then : the fields and hillsides are so green, it seems unreal, as if it was painted on.
Canon EOS 400D DIGITAL, f/8, 0.003 sec (1/320), ISO 200, 162 mm
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he mountains have stood for a very long time. this is a fact.
they carry the weight of the sky without complaint.
for a moment, the sun isolates a small piece of the world, a few houses on a hill.
it is not a miracle, it is only physics. a brief, improbable geometry of light.
the people inside the houses do not notice. they are busy with their lives.
I wasn't planning on going to Fred Howard Park a couple of days ago, but for some reason I felt like I might get some better pictures then rather than wait a week when I was planning to go. Just a hunch... no real reason - I hadn't checked the weather.
Ironically, it was stormy on and off during the day of the shoot, but then as I was heading to the beach, I could see some amazing cloud formations. I had to go fast to try to get there before I missed all the beautiful cloudscapes transforming before my eyes. I did miss some spectacular light rays piercing through the clouds, but there were more beautiful shots in store.
Some good fortune occurred the moment I arrived at the beach. I was getting ready to pay the $5 for parking, when someone who was leaving the beach offered to give me his full-day parking pass. Sure, why not? That's serendipity!
When I arrived at the shore and took my camera out, my lens fogged up horribly, the product of the cold air from my car's air-conditioner.. I took a few dozen "fogged-up" shots - it was an interesting effect but maybe there was one decent shot in the bunch, but nothing I did cleared up the fog. Then I opened up the lens to f 1.8, and just like that, the fog evaporated. I decided to keep shooting at f 1.8, because I liked the look coupled with my 6-stop neutral density filter.
Out in the distance, there was lightning and pyrotechnics happening, but it wasn't overhead so I kept on shooting. Then the sky lit up with an incredible orange glow as if out of a sci-fi movie... as if an alien space ship was landing. I kept shooting and shooting to try to capture the right moment.
Right after sunset, the lightning intensified and it started raining. Hurriedly, I stashed my camera into my camera bag and scurried back to my car.
Sometimes you have to go with your hunches! :)
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A B&W image from the 3p20 Parcels Group charter with the Severn Valley Railway's visiting Stanier Mogul 13268 hauling the East Lancashire Railway's LMS freight stock. The first run pasts at Burrs Country Park weren't blessed weatherwise but one burst of autumnal sun did create some dramatic light.
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Rannoch Moor as a place of wonder, one of the last really wild places in Scotland. Imagine a triangular area, stood on its apex, about 10 miles across its base and about 10 miles from top to bottom. Imagine that this 50 square mile inverted triangle is a roughly level plateau that sits at an altitude of a little over 1000ft. Imagine that its surface is dotted with innumerable lochs, lochans, peat bogs, and streams; that it is surrounded by mountains that rise to over 3000ft to the south-east and the west and to over 2000ft in the north. And, finally, imagine that this area is crossed by a railway line, running a little inside the south-east side of the triangle, and a single road, running a little inside the south-west side of the triangle. Congratulations: you've just invented Rannoch Moor.
Most people first see Rannoch Moor when driving north from Bridge of Orchy. Near Achallader the main road and the railway line diverge and the road makes a sweeping climb up to the Rannoch Moor plateau. What you find there can be a glory of heather and lochan surrounded by distant mountains. Or it can be a grey cloud-shrouded landscape through which you catch occasional glimpses of an other-worldly landscape. If Achallader marks the southern apex of Rannoch Moor's triangle, then the other two are equally distinctive. In the north-east lies Rannoch Station and the end of the public road in from Pitlochry, 40 miles to the east.
Camera Model: PENTAX K20D; ; Focal length: 20.00 mm; Aperture: 6.7; Exposure time: 1/60 s; ISO: 200
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The Museum of Islamic Art is a museum located in the Qatari capital Doha and designed by architect I. M. Pei. The museum draws much influence from ancient Islamic architecture yet has a unique design. It is the first of its kind in the Persian Gulf and will have a very large collection of Islamic art, plus a study, a library, and several restaurants. The museum has a total area of 45,000 m2 and lies on the edge of Doha harbour at the south end of Doha Bay. Construction of the structure reached completion in 2006, but the interior was subjected to a variety of changes thereafter. The museum celebrated its VIP opening on November 22, 2008, and opened to the general public on December 1, 2008.
Canon 5D Mark II, f/22.0, 25 sec, ISO 100, 28 mm
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