Available with either a 330 cubic inch (Jetfire Rocket V-8) or a 394 cubic inch (Sky Rocket V-8).

Museu Maritimo, Barcelona, Catalunya , Spain

CROSSVIEW

To view 3D pics cross your eyes focusing between at the pictures until both images overlap one another in the middle.

Per vedere le foto in 3D incrociare (strabuzzare leggermente) gli occhi fino a che le due immagini si sovrappongono formandone una sola centrale.

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The sky is an infinite movie to me.

I never get tired looking at what's

happening up there.

(K. D. Lang)

Weekly Theme Challenge - Sky

Smile on Saturday! :-) - SKY

(photo by Freya, edit by me)

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Toronto Climate Strike March, 2019.

High Dynamic Range - HDR

Mocking birds can be such a dramas !

High Dynamic Range - HDR

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per fare un'analogia ,

l'estensione o il divario ,tra chi seduto medita (dubitoO_O!?), e...

chi corre incessantemente ...;-)

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quale sarà delle 2 la mente più quieta?

Wings Over Illawarra 2022, Supermarine Spitfire F Mk.IXc MH603, construction number CBAF.IX.5589, VH-IXF, in the markings of 331 (Norwegian) Squadron.

Volcanic complex of Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park, East Java, Indonesia.

Swirling smoke cloud is emitting from the crater of the active volcano 'Mount Bromo'. The volcano in lower centre is 'Mount Batok'. In the rear is Semeru, also emitting a stream of smoke.

Morning mists cover the valley floor, where the Hindu Temple of 'Pura Luhur Poten', an important pilgrimage site, is visible.

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irvine beach dog walk

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Happy Thanksgiving guys! Enjoy.

Resident Pair of Terrapins basking in the morning sun at Moses Gate Country Park

Clown factory

Stitched Panorama

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A fine sunrise after days of rainy wet mornings.

Available on Shutterstock and a less "filtered" version on iStockphoto

View On Black

A friends Aventador flying low

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“You don't get heaven or hell. Do you know the only reward you get for being Batman? You get to be Batman.” ~ Neil Gaiman

I took a quick time lapse video of the clouds today. I thought it was really neat how they were dynamically created and dissipated.

Stagecoach Merseyside 34480 PX53 DKJ and 27717 PO11 BCV await to turn into Queen Square Bus Station.

After many, many attempts at getting rolls of doubles to line up I finally got one pretty much spot on. I can't tell you how much of a relief it was to get a set of prints back from the lab that weren't misaligned with frames smack bang in the middle of each other. I shot a roll of sunsets then rewound and added a second layer during a visit to London with a couple of old friends who I snapped from down low at Old Street Underground station.

Diamond Head, Oahu, Hawaii

Edegem Belgium

Dynamic Stair

A great view with a wonderful sky.

audi harajuku

This image is part of a series that was captured during a morning explore of a local woodland.

have a nice sunday... =)))

A macro photo of a Brown Zircon Crystal from Madagascar.

Zircon Crystals and the age of Earth:

Zircon Crystals in a Nutshell - the simplified story of Zircon Crystals.

How tiny Zircon Crystals - Zirconium silicate (ZrSiO4) helped determine the age of Earth (at approximately 4.5 Billion years since the crust cooled) with Radiometric U-Pb (Uranium-Lead) dating.

Zircon Crystals trap Uranium Atoms in its crystal structure and naturally repels Lead. Once the crystal structure is formed, nothing is able to get out. Over time the isotopes of Uranium starts to transmutate into other elements in what is referred to as a decay chain. An Uranium Atom first transmutates to a Thorium Atom (which takes a few billion years). Thorium is far more unstable, and in less than a month it turns into Protactinium. Within a minute Protactinium atoms transmute again, and so on. At the end of the chain, the Uranium atoms finally decay into the stable element Lead (Pb), and will then remain Lead forever. As the decay rate and times of the transmutation are constant in the Universe, it is possible to calculate the age of the crystal with Radiometric dating. As Zircon Crystals are tough, it is the oldest geological time-capsules that survived in Earth's dynamic crust since it cooled. As nothing can get in or out of the Zircon Crystal structure, it is the most accurate way of geological dating. By comparing the dating of Zircon silicate crystals on Earth, from Moon samples and visiting Meteorites, Scientists have been able to calculate that Earth is 4.54 billion years old. The error margin is 50 million years, which is small considering the time-scale.

The spin-off from trying to date the Earth, was that the Scientist Clair Patterson discovered the high amount of toxic Lead in the environment, due to the use of Lead-based fuel, paint, etc. The body needs metals like Iron in the blood to transfer Oxygen through the body. The body assumes that Lead is a good metal, but Lead not only destroys cells, but blocks the signals of Neuroreceptors in the Brain (leading to madness). After a lifetime of persistence, Clair Patterson eventually won the case and the widespread use of Lead in everyday products were banned (which is why we now use unleaded fuel).

More interesting reading:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zircon

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_lead_dating

earthsky.org/earth/this-zircon-crystal-is-the-oldest-piec...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_transmutation

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiometric_dating

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decay_chain

Thank you to my best friend Sumarie for giving me this time-capsule of Earth and our Solar System's geological history. It is a gift of significance from someone special, that knows what I value.

Photo usage and Copyright:

Medium-resolution photograph licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Terms (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). For High-resolution Royalty Free (RF) licensing, contact me via my site: Contact.

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Poppy / Mohn (Papaver) - Large On Black

May 08 in our garden - Frankfurt-Nordend

in Lisbon, Portugal

east [basic] inca @ bits'n'pieces 2012

Having decided on an 'elements' theme, my second image was for 'Air'. The water’s movement reinvigorated my photography, but also changed the way that I look at the land. The appeal of the conventional diminished. As landscape photographers we tend to go to extremes – short shutter speeds to freeze the moment, or long exposures of several minutes. The new land that interests me is the area in between.

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Vista hacia el suroeste desde el Sagrado Corazón - HDR de 1 solo archivo RAW, generado por Dynamic Photo HDR, y editado con Photoshop - 9 de noviembre de 2007

A view towards south-west from the Sacre Coeur - HDR from 1 RAW file, created in Dynamic Photo HDR and editd with Photoshop - Nov 9th 2007

The Swedish furniture store 🇸🇪 framed by autumn trees in Tachikawa, Tokyo, Japan.

Device: Samsung Galaxy A21 Simple SCV49.

Edited with GIMP.

High Dynamic Range - HDR

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❆ Magica Terra, sei il simbolo della perfezione, sei il mio canto della Vita, sei il mio buongiorno di ogni di, non ho contato i miei passi sul tuo suolo poiché infinite sono le tue bellezze.

Mia terra, amare è assai poco, tu sei beneficiare di tutte le creature, tu sei una madre eccellente!

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❆ I try to find something special in their gaze that I cannot find in the eyes of my peers!

❆ cerco nel loro Sguardo ciò che non trovo in quello dei miei simili!

❆ Je cherche dans leur regard ce que je ne trouve pas dans celui de mes semblables

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❆ Se riuscirai ad aspettare senza stancarti di aspettare!

❆ If you can wait long enough, without getting tired of waiting...

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❆ Osservare tutto questo è un dono, innAMÒRarsene una ricchezza!

❆ observing Nature is a rare gift. for sure, falling in Love with it is a treasure worth even more!

❆ Avoir le don d’observer la Nature est un immense cadeau.

En tomber amoureux représente une richesse encore bien plus grande!

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❆ preoccupiamoci della Natura, il nostro futuro dipende da

essa!

❆ let's take good care of Nature, because our future depends

on it!

❆ préoccupons-nous de la Nature, notre avenir en dépend!

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❆ prendetevi del tempo per Sognare, ogni immagine racconta una lunga storia...

❆ take some time to dream, every image tells a long story...

❆ prenez le temps de Rêver, car chaque image raconte une

longue histoire...

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❆ ho cercato in ogni passo ciò che più desideravo!

❆ at each step I search what I most desire!

❆ À chaque pas que je fais, je cherche ce que je souhaite le plus trouver!

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❆ in vendita - on sale - à vendre - zum

Verkauf

❆ la Natura che si fa Poesia - scattare foto sembrava quasi diminuire tempo all'esigenza, alla necessità e alla passione di ammirare ciò che mi circondava!

esultanza di Bellezza e Serenità, un tripudio di perfezione e pienezza.

non avrei voluto essere altrove

❆ Estote parati commoveri Naturā - Siate pronti a lasciarvi emozionare dalla Natura

We all love photography judges who give us first place, but when our photos slide past unnoticed, well, the judges are simply Philistines. Can't they recognise our brilliance!

There is a part of me that would prefer not to judge photography competitions because all I can offer is a subjective opinion. And often I am asked to provide a comment or suggestion as to how a photograph could be improved or strengthened. Essentially I am being asked how I would have photographed or presented the image to get a higher score. Should I be doing this?

Recently, I listened to judges discuss one of my prints which had a grainy, black and white finish. One said that he didn't know why I had applied the finish as it wasn't something he would have done – and maybe it would be better without the finish.

This set me thinking: does this judge mean that unless I create photographs the way he does, he won't give me a high score? And if this judge doesn't like grainy black and whites, does that mean he will never score such entries highly?

To be fair to the judge in question, he was trying to be helpful by making a suggestion as to how the image could be improved.

So let me give another example. I am not a big fan of HDR (High Dynamic Range) photographs, but I gave an HDR photograph first place in a competition not so long ago. Personally, subjectively, I didn't like the photograph much, but as an example of its kind, it was superlative.

I think that from time to time, judges have to step aside from their biases and judge the photograph as an example of its kind. Perhaps the judge looking at my photo should have assessed it on the basis that the entrant chose to submit a grainy black and white print: was this a good or bad example of its kind?

So, what's different when I'm critiquing a photograph that I think could be improved? For instance, I find a white sky incredibly distracting, so I suggest that the photographer could have found a different camera angle, crop the image, or somehow darken down the sky to improve it. What's the difference between this advice and suggesting that a photograph would be better if it wasn't a grainy black and white?

Context.

In the first situation, the judge seemed to acknowledge that the underlying technique was good, it was the final finish he didn't like. He didn't say the finish was over done or poorly handled, just that it wasn't necessary. So perhaps he didn't judge what had been presented, rather he judged what hadn't been presented.

In the second situation, the base photograph with the bright sky was not communicating correctly and a different approach was required. (In my opinion, I know.)

The difference is subtle and it's not always possible for a judge to know if an entrant is investigating a genre of photography or just doesn't know any better. That's the problem with judges – and for judges. Often we just don't know.

So while a part of me doesn't like judging, on the other hand it's something I greatly enjoy. I love being exposed to different styles of work and new ideas. It is incredibly inspirational and so are photo competitions. Of course, you probably don't expect me to say anything different. Our inaugural International Landscape Photographer of the Year Award has had around 2000 entries, but if you missed out, we'll be announcing our annual Better Photography Photograph of the Year Award later this month!

So, the problem with judges is what?

Visit www.betterphotography.com to decide which works the best? The photo with or the one without stars?