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Bir Ali is located on the spectacular coast road and it is surrounded by white sand dunes, green rocky mountains and black lava deposits. You can spend your afternoon swimming or relaxing on a white sand beach or spend overnight in beach huts. The surrounding coast is a mixture of volcanic landscape and occasional patches of sand dunes.
Canon EOS 400D DIGITAL, f/22, 0.6 sec (3/5), ISO 100, 18 mm
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FR Regard en clair-obscur, suspendu entre confidence et énigme.
La pose effleure le silence, chaque geste retenu comme un secret à demi révélé.
La lumière sculpte le mystère, glisse sur la peau et s’arrête dans les yeux là où tout commence, et rien ne se dit vraiment.
EN A chiaroscuro gaze, suspended between confession and enigma.
The pose brushes against silence, each gesture held like a half-revealed secret.
Light carves the mystery, sliding across the skin and settling in the eyes where everything begins, and nothing is ever fully said.
En medio del jardin, tan tranquilo.......ni ola de frio ni temporales, ciertos rosales son unos auténticos supervivientes.
Rosal Louis de Funès.
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A day of extreme contrasts with brief spells of very strong sunshine mixed with hefty wintry showers. Here a curtain of hail makes its way across the dale while the foreground as far as Holwick is lit up with sunshine. Taken from Middle Side on the morning after Storm Dave.
The photo club that I belong to, Polyphoto in San Diego, had a workshop this morning devoted to "negative space". The purpose was to help the members get an understanding of the concept for an upcoming competition on, you guessed it, negative space. As I understand it, negative space in an image helps to emphasize the positive shapes in an image, thereby drawing attention to interesting shapes and colors. I may not have fully understood the concept, but I came home and created this using an old pot of Icelandic Poppies, which I've been exploiting for some time, and a couple of strobes. I also used the Photoshop liquify tool to add some interesting (I hope) shaped curves to the picture.
Strobist info: One SB600 in a snoot behind the plant at about 11 o'clock for backlighting, and a SB700 in a softbox in front, camera left at 7 o'clock to throw a little light on the front of the plant. The strobes were in manual mode, and I adjusted the output until I got the results I liked. The strobes were triggered by the pop up flash on my D90 in commander mode.
Other plants and flowers that I've photographed using strobes can be seen in my strobe lit plant set. In the description, I list resources that I've used to learn how to do this. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157628079460544/...
This is a plant that I bought a few week ago, and find myself exploiting from time to time. I like Callas, and I have seen some beautiful images of them taken by some of the famous photographers of the past.
I went for dramatic light here and used a YN560-III in an 8.6 inch softbox positioned above and behind the plant, and pointed down at a 45 degree angle. I wanted directional light to create the shadows that show shape and texture, while, hopefully, lending an element of mystery to the image. It also provided a bit of rim lighting to the tops of a couple of leaves. I hand held a small hand mirror at camera right to bounce a little bit of light onto that side of the flower. The flash, in manual mode, was triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N.
Other Calla Lily pictures are in my Calla Lilly set. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157626082181550/...
Other plants, flowers, fruit or thingys that I've photographed using strobes can be seen in my Strobe Lit Plant set. In the description for that set, I list resources that I've used to learn how to light with off camera flash. www.flickr.com/photos/9422
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Dramatic lighting and Crepuscular Rays as a patch of bright sunshine moves towards Thwaite, Swaledale in the Yorkshire Dales National Park.
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The remote isolated hill farm at Stoney Hill, Harwood, Upper Teesdale. A hole in the cloud cover lights it up together with meadows coloured pale from recent haymaking. At the rear edge of the sunshine patch are spoil heaps from the Ladys Rake lead mine.
Organization: Tim Engle
Photography and Editing: Dirk Dreyer.
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she holds the cigarette like a thought not yet spoken — suspended, unfinished. the smoke curls into the dusk with the grace of something that remembers how to vanish. it’s not about rebellion. it’s about time slowing down just enough to breathe in stillness and exhale a whisper.
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Dramatic winter sunshine and a dark stormy sky in this view into Lunedale, taken looking over the lower part of Teesdale from Folly Top
A dramatic mountain face emerging through morning mist, with a lush alpine forest catching the first soft light. I captured this scene during a break in the weather, just as the fog lifted and revealed the textured cliffs.
A quiet, atmospheric moment where the forest, stone and clouds blend together.
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Sony A7C
Tamron 28-200mm f/2.8-5.6
150 mm — 1/400 s — f/5.6 — ISO 100
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A patch of strong sunshine lights up these farms in Harwood, with vivid yellow Buttercups and Marsh Marigolds creating a dramatic scene under a stormy-looking sky. Lingy Hill farm nearest the camera, Waters Meet and Herdship farms in the distance. Taken on the last day of meteorological spring, 31 May 2026
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Strong early spring sunshine lights up the snow covered cliffs of the spectacular Cronkley Scar and Widdybank Fell. Widdybank Farm, now a base for Natural England, stands out nicely against the hillside
Once the second‑largest slate quarry in the world, Dinorwic began operations in 1787 and powered nearly two centuries of Welsh slate production before falling silent in 1969. Its vast terraces, tramways and abandoned buildings now stand as a striking reminder of the industry that shaped Llanberis and the surrounding communities.
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A fierce confrontation on a cold winter’s night under harsh stadium lights. One player holds his ground, eyes set, as his opponent charges — determination meeting impact in a frozen moment of youth rugby. The black-and-white tones strip away distraction, leaving only form, force, and focus.
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Field End farm, Newbiggin, Teesdale lit by a break in the cloud cover.
Organization: Tim Engle
Photography and Editing: Dirk Dreyer.
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Summer Sunset ~ Florida Everglades U.S.A.
South Florida ~ Palm Beach County, Florida
Six-Shot Summer Spectrum Sunset Series
(five more photos of this night in the comments)
The lights spilled softly through the room,
turning darkness into bloom.
Across her skin the shadows played,
like living patterns gently made.
No paint was needed on her face,
the light itself became the trace.
Lines and curves in silver streams,
painting her softly like a dream.
She moved beneath the glowing rays,
wrapped in shadows’ quiet maze.
Sensual, still, yet full of fire,
a body shaped by light’s desire.
And in that room of black and white,
the shadows learned to dance with light.
Until the model, calm and slow,
became the art the darkness chose.
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A patch of very strong autumn sunshine lights up a barn in the distance in this view looking towards Keld, Swaledale in the Yorkshire Dales National Park.
Winter Light Over the Lofoten Fjords
Description
A cinematic winter journey through the dramatic coastal landscapes of the Lofoten Islands, where snow-covered mountains rise sharply above deep Arctic fjords, quiet fishing villages, wooden piers, red cabins, icy roads, and reflective waters. The collection captures the raw beauty of the Norwegian north at golden hour, blending warm sunset light with cold blue shadows, stormy clouds, rugged peaks, frozen shorelines, and traditional Nordic architecture.
These images evoke a sense of remote wilderness, silence, maritime heritage, and arctic solitude, combining panoramic mountain views, intimate harbor scenes, coastal cabins, snowy beaches, glassy fjord reflections, and dramatic northern skies. The visual atmosphere is peaceful yet powerful, with strong contrasts between the warmth of wooden houses and the austere grandeur of the surrounding winter landscape.
The images have been generated by Artificial Intelligence.
Minneapolis, MN
Canon 5d Mark II
Canon 50 1.4
AB800 Boomed in a Gridded PCB Beauty Dish triggered via Pocketwizards II
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Here's an old shot that I somehow never got around to sharing... captured shortly after sunrise just over a year ago... in the dunes of the De Hoop Nature Reserve.
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Nikon D800, Nikkor 14 - 24 mm at 16 mm, ISO of 100, aperture of f/14 with a 1/4th second exposure.
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A quiet moment suspended between reality and magic.
She walks through a glowing garden where light dances in the air and every step feels like a dream.
Strength and softness coexist in her gaze — untamed, distant, and beautifully present.
A scene where nature whispers, time slows down, and magic becomes visible.
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Dramatic lighting on Middleton-in-Teesdale briefly lit by sunshine through a hole in the cloud cover, taken from Whistle Crag.
some test shots while the model i was shooting was in hair and make up and turned out to be fun hehehe . . . my buddy Jon with nerf guns that brought us back to our childhood
strobist info: modified V-lighting one AB-800 camera right with large softbox and one 1AB-400 with small softbox camera left balanced for the same output and triggered via pocket wizards
Sunset ~ grackles ~ South Florida U.S.A.
Baca Raton, Florida ~ Florida Everglades
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Butterfly: likely a glasswing / clearwing butterfly, probably Glasswing Butterfly — Greta oto or a closely related ithomiine clearwing.
Confidence: moderate. The transparent wing panels, brown-orange venation, and delicate elongated wing shape fit glasswing-type butterflies, but the angle shows mostly one folded wing, so exact species is not certain.
Plant: likely Norfolk Island pine — Araucaria heterophylla or a related Araucaria species.
The dark green, rope-like, scale-covered branchlets and layered whorled growth are typical of Araucaria foliage.
Description
A small clearwing butterfly hangs beneath a dense conifer-like branch. Its wings are folded, showing transparent pale panels divided by warm brown-orange veins and borders. The butterfly is positioned low left of center, partly isolated against a deep black-green background.
The surrounding foliage is glossy, dark, and sculptural. The Araucaria branchlets curve and overlap, creating a tunnel-like structure. The image has strong contrast: the butterfly is warm and translucent, while the foliage is nearly black with bright green highlights.
Discussion
This is primarily an image of camouflage, fragility, and enclosure. The butterfly is visually small but important because its warm color and translucent wing catch the eye against the heavy green mass. The branch structure dominates the frame, almost like an architectural canopy or cave.
The lighting is dramatic. Highlights on the foliage create a wet, polished texture, while the shadows are very deep. That makes the butterfly feel suspended in a dark tropical interior rather than merely perched on a plant.
Compositionally, the butterfly’s placement near the lower left works because the curved branches guide the eye toward it. The open dark space around the insect helps separate it from the dense foliage. The image depends less on documentary clarity and more on atmosphere: hidden life inside dense vegetation.