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A quick stopover at home.
I've driven past these willow trees at least 100 times in the last few years, as they're located just a hundred meters from the highway (A4 between Ottendorf Okrilla and Pulsnitz). And almost every time, they called to me, and I knew I had to take a closer look at them sometime. Well, finally, sometime was last week.
And even though the weather was rainy and gray all day (basically, all week), I was lucky that the clouds parted shortly before sunset, and I was blessed with this magical view.
So I didn't even care that I came home with wet feet again because of the deep, rain-soaked grass I had to walk through.
Ein kurzer Zwischenstop in der Heimat.
An diesen Weiden bin ich in den letzten Jahren schon mindestens 100 Mal vorbei gefahren, denn sie stehen nur hundert Meter von der Autobahn entfernt (A4 zwischen Ottendorf Okrilla und Pulsnitz). Und so ziemlich jedes Mal haben sie nach mir gerufen und ich wusste, die muss ich mir irgendwann einmal genauer ansehen. Nun. Irgendwann war schlußendlich letzte Woche.
Und obwohl das Wetter den ganzen Tag über (im Grunde die ganze Woche) regnerisch und grau war, hatte ich Glück, dass sich kurz vor Sonnenuntergang die Wolkendecke öffnete und ich mit diesem magischen Anblick beschenkt wurde.
Da war es mir dann auch egal, dass ich, wegen dem tiefen regennassen Gras durch das ich laufen musste, mal wieder mit nassen Füßen nach Hause gekommen bin.
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I have driven by this set of old farm buildings many times.This old buildings show so much character in their "golden years",something that probably can't be said when the modern steel buildings of today reach these years...
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Credit for this one has to go to Westofscotlandbuses of this parish; a fine spot, apparantly automatic too and driven like tomorrow wasn't coming.
The scientific name of Great Crested Grebe is Podiceps cristatus, which translates literally as Crested Arsefoot. The bird was known as Arsefoot in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries before arse was considered vulgar. And I was pleased with this photograph because the water was still and clear enough to see why the name came about. You can see the legs emanating from the arse region as opposed to most other waterbirds (Ducks, Geese, Swans Coots etc) where the legs emanate from the middle of the belly. The grebe system (also used by Loons/Divers) is wonderful when in the water but really clumsy when the birds are on land.
Great Crested Grebes are now common and widespread birds with about 4,600 pairs. But this was not always the case. The Victorian fashion for using their underbody feathers (known as grebe fur) for muffs and hats led to them being driven to near extinction in Britain. At their lowest point in the late Nineteenth Century the entire British population was thought to be fewer than thirty pairs.
I photographed this one having a shake at Ingbirchworth Reservoir in South Yorkshire.
A picture taken on mine and Graham's Scotland mini road trip last year.
It was so starry I had to actually pull down the brightness of the star trails - it was absolutely amazing.
Flashed from both left and right with subtle yellow gels. 100, 30 second exposures stacked - no other editing.
This picture was the last one from the whole weekend, I'd driven about 600 miles in 2 days on absolutely no sleep whatsoever and the drive back from Dumfries was just gnarly - really shouldn't have been driving!
Moment from past. After 1820 kilometers driven , three times being ditched, twice caught by severe snow storms with hurricane like wind speeds it was my first trip to Iceland and it was love at first sight.
Shot taken in December, 2015. It was a perfect day. A beautiful sunrise, sunset and clear night sky with amazing auroras. All paved way for what was to become the worst winter storm of last 20 years in Iceland.It's true what they say: it is always calm before the storm.
Setup:
- Canon EOS 5D Classic
- Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 20mm f/1.8G ED - f/1.8
- ISO 1250
- 20 seconds
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Guin tests her shoulder, then hoists herself up on the bar, reaching over for the other glass and lifting it toward him. "You do know what I'm involved in, don't you?" she asks quietly. "The work I do?"
Charles leaned forwards to join the conspiritorial whispering, his eyes looking left to right and then he leaned closer and said in a low voice. "Choir practice?"
Guin just blinks at him for a moment, then starts to laugh. "Yup, that's right. Choir practice." She lifts her glass even higher, in a mock toast. "That's all I do... sing hymns."
Charles tilted his head to her. "Not all you do," he said with a wink and raised his glass joining in the toast and knocking the glass back. "An ya sing pretty.....people need thet..ain no small thang."
Excerpt from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axolotl:
The axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum) is a paedomorphic salamander closely related to the tiger salamander. It is unusual among amphibians in that it reaches adulthood without undergoing metamorphosis. Instead of taking to the land, adults remain aquatic and gilled. The species was originally found in several lakes underlying what is now Mexico City, such as Lake Xochimilco and Lake Chalco. These lakes were drained by Spanish settlers after the conquest of the Aztec Empire, leading to the destruction of much of the axolotl's natural habitat.
A sexually mature adult axolotl, at age 18–27 months, ranges in length from 15 to 45 cm (6 to 18 in), although a size close to 23 cm (9 in) is most common and greater than 30 cm (12 in) is rare. Axolotls possess features typical of salamander larvae, including external gills and a caudal fin extending from behind the head to the vent. External gills are usually lost when salamander species mature into adulthood, although the axolotl maintains this feature.[15] This is due to their neoteny evolution, where axolotls are much more aquatic than other salamander species.
Their heads are wide, and their eyes are lidless. Their limbs are underdeveloped and possess long, thin digits. Males are identified by their swollen cloacae lined with papillae, while females are noticeable for their wider bodies full of eggs. Three pairs of external gill stalks (rami) originate behind their heads and are used to move oxygenated water. The external gill rami are lined with filaments (fimbriae) to increase surface area for gas exchange. Four-gill slits lined with gill rakers are hidden underneath the external gills, which prevent food from entering and allow particles to filter through.
Axolotls have barely visible vestigial teeth, which develop during metamorphosis. The primary method of feeding is by suction, during which their rakers interlock to close the gill slits. External gills are used for respiration, although buccal pumping (gulping air from the surface) may also be used to provide oxygen to their lungs.[15] Buccal pumping can occur in a two-stroke manner that pumps air from the mouth to the lungs, and with four-stroke that reverses this pathway with compression forces.
Axolotls exhibit diverse color variations driven by mutations in their pigmentation genes. These genes play a crucial role in determining the coloration of these unique creatures.
PARAGON (2016), replay editor
4800x2700 (SRWE), resized to 1440p
-Saturaion tweaks added in Photoshop
-ReShade v1.1 (*tested some ambient light settings)
My wife and I were on our way to the Sonoma coast last week to photograph the heavy surf and weather. We've driven Highway 37 many times and spotted this oddity along the North side of the highway. Every time we passed it in the past we were wishing we had a long lens to capture it. This trip we both had long lenses. Ale remembered last minute and grabbed her camera. It was pouring down rain but she rolled the window down anyway and managed to capture this. I'm driving at 55mph and she's looking through the viewfinder... "Where is it? Where is it?" and I'm thinking "Really?!"
My Spirit Is Never Broken
But there are scars present in life
I've seen things with my eye
Walked, driven, flown, and rode
Experienced a journey, but never arrived
Finding the peaks filled adventure
But taking joy in the valleys in between
The extraordinary does not disappoint
But life is more than a park
There is trudging through life
As this is my home
I will immerse myself and discover
To recreate and explore
Year around but never forgetting now
A strong nod to the past but welcoming what comes next
Off I go...or rather continue.
Another work of short poetry or prose to complement the image captured one morning at an Airbnb location I stayed with a friend in the Weaverville area just outside of Asheville, NC. The view is looking to the southeast to ridges and peaks of the nearby Central Blue Ridge Ranges and Great Craggy Mountains that I had a chance to take in. In composing this image, I chose to zoom in to one section to my front. What I loved about the setting was the way the sunlight added a texture to the trees and mountainside with the light and haze, while other parts remained in shadows.
I later worked with control points in DxO PhotoLab 7 and then made some adjustments to bring out the contrast, saturation and brightness I wanted for the final image.
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Westinghouse J34-48 jet engine that was originally used in the North American Buckeye T-2A aircraft with 10,000 pounds of thrust
As HDR is getting more popular among technology driven devices, photography is one of the originals to use this technique for enhancing the available colors. This is Chicago Skyline from the famous Willis Tower Observatory. Note: This is a not full scale HDR but tone-mapped version. As a result very similar to original HDR "High Dynamic Range"
Another photograph from my walk around a location this newly discovered location (new that is, for me).
Don't know how many times I've driven past this place and never knew it was here, although that might be because it's behind Durham's high security prison, HMP Frankland. It's surrounded by trees too, so it's well and truly hidden.
I had driven some 6 1/2 hours to get to Steptoe Butte and the sublime Palouse Hills and was mildly disappointed to find the air saturated with a heavy haze that strongly diffused the golden hour light. I was concerned that it would defeat my best efforts at manual focus and that the gusty breeze buffeting my tripod would finish off whatever detail might remain.
Magically, what I got was "painterly" with enough retained detail to show I was not being lazy and that my gear was competent.
BlueBerry - The Sturday Sale
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Photoshoot: Aston Martin DB9, in coöperation with Van Zuijlen Auto's
I recently shot this car and therefore got to drive it almost all day, and I loved it!
I was really impressed by the performance of the car, due to it's subtle and elegant lines.
She's such a beauty, but like the owner told me when I picked up the car: "She drives like a dragon, especially when she's cold."
I know the car has a V12 engine that puts out 470HP, but it still impresses me how mean this car sounds as you start it up, while she looks so classy.
The attention you get is not what I expected at all, I've driven the LP670 SV and that's a screamer so I had expected to be rather discreet in this car but she turned out to be quite a neck-twister aswell. I had a blast driving and shooting this car, so you'll be seeing more of this shoot soon.
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Explore, Highest position: #230 on Saturday, October 15, 2011
The cold fingers of a winter storm grope across the Continental Divide and feel their way into Rocky Mountain National Park, as seen from the vantage point of the summit of Lily Mountain (9,734 ft; 2,967 m), near Estes Park, Colorado.
As I recall, the storm front was driven by a stiff, probing wind that seemed to revel in removing heat from the fingers. The wind was also bursting with wild, loud opinions with which it buffeted us, making any sort of normal discourse impossible. Truculent Uncle Wind, holding forth at great volume. The clouds moved swiftly, and given the angle of approach and the angle of the winter sun, the edge of the front closest to us mingled warm rays with wind-driven snow. Though the scene was captivating, lingering overly long felt unnecessary.
“Building the psychic vessel of containment, which is another way of speaking of soul-making, seems to require bleeding and leaking as its precondition. Why else go through that work unless we are driven by the despair of our unstoppered condition? The shift from anima-mess to anima-vessel shows in various ways: as a shift from weakness and suffering to humility and sensitivity; from bitterness and complaint to a taste for salt and blood; from focus upon the emotional pain of a wound – its causes, parameters, cures – to its imaginal depths; from displacement of the womb onto women and ‘femininity’ to its locus in one’s own bodily rhythm.” J.Hillmaan
Anyone who has driven the eastern US on Interstate 95 would most likely remember seeing this Richmond Virginia landmark. The clock tower of the old Main Street Station rising above the elevated I-95 James River bridge.
This shot is dedicated to my friend Twitchris who has a tattoo of this landmark on his arm.