To recall, from the previous shot on this topic, in visiting a friend at Wellington Point (Moreton Bay, Australia), we went to the point to see the sunset... and stayed to see it progress from its first finale ( as depicted earlier) to the end point, which took quite a while and was stunning until it disappeared, as though it had been cancelled.

It is a rare plant in Taiwan,

The leaves can be woven,

The trunk can be used as building materials,

Yellow fruit can be eaten.

Thanks all friends, All The Best !

在台灣是罕見的植物，

樹葉可以編織，

樹幹可當作建材，

黃色的果子可以食用。

感謝所有朋友，祝一切順利！

Estaba totalmente segura, era magia. Incluso sin chispas ni abismos con rescates, sin la existencia de destellos ni atisbos a mi alrededor, me encontraba al límite del convencimiento de que eso era real, que mirara por donde mirase, podía notar su presencia, su olor, el movimiento de su pelo ante el viento y sobre todo, su voz, a lo lejos, muy lejos de mi. Entre una sensación y una sonrisa, ahí estaba yo, envuelta en una dulce brisa, ráfaga de aire con olor a jazmín y que, sin dudar, sabía que iba a estar allí por mucho que me lo negase. Era imposible separarnos. Era imposible que diera un solo paso más sin mi.

Por cierto, ¡Aprobé el carnet de conducir, ya tengo la L!

[ Esta foto forma parte de mi trabajo de Fotografía para la universidad. La modelo, mi hermanita peque: www.flickr.com/photos/49563181@N08/4541259405/ ]

Muchísimas gracias a: Amora Autumn [♥], Emma Espindσla y Endpoint(me) ♥ por sus testimonios, ¡me han hecho mucha ilu!

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Thanks so much to: Amora Autumn [♥], Emma Espindσla y Endpoint(me) ♥ for their testimonials, it made me very happy!

Türkiye-Sinop

Türkiye-Çanakkale

The view as I stepped on the pier

Point of return of the Chikanishing Trail.

Killarney Provincial Park, Georgian Bay, Ontario

End point (or turn back point) of the Chikanishing Trail.

Killarney Provincial Park, Georgian Bay, Ontario

End point of the Chikanishing Trail

Killarney Provincial Park, Georgian Bay, Ontario

I was once again exploring my archives. Admittedly I have no fresh photos, but there often is a good reason to get back to the archives - only, one does not know which one until she does actually see it. Well, I found a folder with an Autumn sunrise session taken at a precious location in November 2017 (see my A wordless dialogue, the only photo from that session I uploaded at that time). It was a dark season for me, so I can imagine how I could have been able to left it behind after having barely tasted it. Since I have got used to the darkness by now, I have resolved to unearth something that might be worth to be offered to the world. As a matter of fact, I have started a new journey in the unknown lands of postprocessing, but it is going to be another story - actually, an entirely different bracketing. This specific photo is the journal of a journey I cannot remember - even the native .xcf Gimp file is lost, so I can recall exactly no details about this postproc. What remains is this mysterious endpoint pic, where I can merely guess that, at some point, I have used the residual layer from a wavelet decomposition. Nothing more. But the picture existed, it was breathing in front of me, so I decided to take it s.o.o.p. (straight-out-of-processing) as it was and bring it to the regions of light.

I invite you to press L and take a little time to explore the delicate branching patterns bathed in the silky golden light.

A view looking down onto Seatown. The farmer has put up all sorts of barriers here to try and stop the sheep wandering over the edge of the cliff. Our endpoint for the walk was the Golden Cap which is in the distance which is a steep climb but the views from the top are well worth it.

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The quickly ascending sun of a fall morning in eastern Kentucky shines rather ironically onto the valley floor at Sinks, its wide spot left from years of excavation as a limestone mine. Winding through the valley's twists and turns and carving through the solid rock when necessary, northbound CSX manifest freight Q542 22 en route to the Queen City's Queensgate Yard prepares the plunge into the darkness of the Mullins Station Tunnel at Sinks while making its way northward on the CC Subdivision, one "C" each representing the major endpoints on the line--Corbin and Cincy. Only Q542 and its southbound counterpart Q541 remain as regularly scheduled freights out here, mixing with a decreasing handful of bulk trains that ply this remotely scenic stretch of the Old Reliable.

A most charming walk in the fine spring weather goes from the small Village Port-Vendres and out to Cape Bear. Where from the endpoint you can see the rugged coastline and into Spain just some kilometer further South. In France the coast is named Cote Vermeille - after the border to Spain: Costa Brava - continuing right down to Barcelona.

Hard to believe it's the final day of Roid Week..... Thanks so much to everyone who's been a part of it, it's been utterly amazing as always.... And if you haven't yet seen what it's all about, go to the pool right now and check it out - in my opinion, it's by far the best thing in the whole of Flickr.

This Polaroid was shot for a book on London's Lost Rivers, written by Tom Bolton, to be published in September by Strange Attractor Press. It was shot at the endpoint of the River Effra, where it flows into the Thames.

The idea for a hotel in Dalen came with the expansion of the Telemark Canal in 1892. Through a series of staircase locks, the canal from Skien to Norsjø was extended to reach Bandak, with the small town of Dalen as its new endpoint. The canal was referred to as the "eighth wonder" upon its completion, and the waterway saw heavy traffic from ferries bringing passengers from the east in Oslo and Grenland travelling towards destinations in central and western Norway.

The initiative to build a luxury hotel in Dalen was taken by Skien businessman Hans Larsen along with his two associates, merchants Lars Rød and Anton Hansen from Skien and Porsgrunn respectively. The men commissioned local Porsgrunn architect Haldor Larsen Børve to design the hotel. Børve, originally from Ullensvang, was a highly trained architect, having studied at universities in Trondheim and later Hannover in Germany. After its opening in 1894, the hotel drew royal guests from all over Europe, playing host to the likes of King Oscar II of Sweden, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, King Leopold II of Belgium, King Haakon VII of Norway and his family, and several members of the British aristocracy.

During the German occupation of Norway in World War II, Dalen Hotel was used as a resort for German officers. Most of the building's interior was stripped out and sold for parts, and the building fell into disrepair due to lack of proper maintenance. After the war, the building was bought by singer and evangelist Aage Samuelsen with the intent of restoring the hotel to its former glory. Though Samuelsen failed to raise the necessary funds to renovate the building, he gave the hotel significant press exposure, and towards the end of the 1980s restoration efforts began in earnest. The hotel was reopened once the remodelling finished in 1992. In 2000, the hotel was honored with the Europa Nostra award for outstanding conservation.

Plan V 904 of the Stichting 2454 Crew provided two roundtrips on 1 March 2022 via Utrecht, 's-Hertogenbosch, Breda, Voorschoten and Hilversum. The start- and endpoint of the tour was Amersfoort. The photo shows the trainset just in front of Gilze-Rijen station.

I was rather at a loss yesterday about what to do for Sliders Sunday this week. Wonderful ideas were notable for their absence. So I thought I would have a play with that good old favourite - a dahlia pic.

There are four endpoints in this set: two are fairly well-travelled approaches and two are sheer experiment.

The first is a fairly straight rendition of the image using the Radiance and Smudge filters of Topaz Studio. The radiance lengthens and strengthens the lines while smudge smoothes surfaces. The result lends a greater sense of physicality, particularly in the petals, that works well with flowers - a bit like an oil painting. The difficulty with this approach is getting the balance right - if you look at the image in detail you can see the filters are having a real party so you need to resist overdoing it. But what is right depends quite a lot on the device and scale that the image is seen at. In other words, you are doomed :(

You can play Spot the Fly with this one ;)

The second is a mirror version created entirely in Affinity Photo. I thought I’d got over my obsession with mirroring flowers, but apparently not. This one is made setting up the adjustment with five mirrors and then searching about a bit with the origin to find an interesting image. Most of the work was in getting rid of the background.

Symmetry in an image has a strange effect on our minds. It increases visual impact but reduces attention span. I call it the ‘wow!... boring’ effect. I still like creating symmetric flower images because it makes me look more closely at the flower and see things that I’d previously missed.

The last two I feel a bit apologetic about as they are not really finished pieces but proofs of concept. They are both made using an approach I stumbled across with my previous Sliders Sunday playtime, that of duplicating the image layer and then changing the blend mode of the top layer to Difference. That just creates a black screen (because there is no difference between the layers). The fun starts when you begin mangling the top layer.

Previously I’d just used Liquify to mangle the layer (this pushes pixels around without smudging). It’s easy to do in Affinity because the Liquify adjustment is just another layer that remains editable. But that was not enough here - having a predominantly white flower doesn’t work as well as the multicoloured one last time. So I dabbled in my diddling with Recolour, Smudge, Gradient Map and Liquify. The textured one is mainly Smudge, and the other is several Difference results together in a composite.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy some of them and that they encourage you to have a bit of fun yourself. I’d love to hear which is your favourite. I’ll post a link to the in-camera version in the first comment so that you can see where we started with this set.

Thanks for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image. Happy Sliders Sunday :)

There is something quite mesmerising about this photo, it pulls you into the disappearing endpoint. The waves just add to the dynamics, just like Kaa’s eyes the snake of the jungle book, as he sings his hypnotic song, “Trust in me”.

232 428-3 fährt mit ihrem verspäteten Zug in den Bahnhof von Baalberge

232 428-3 a few meter's before the endpoint of this train, Baalberge Gbf

24.07.2019

endpoint of walk, more at: www.dragermeurtant.wordpress.com, see 'wheeling'.

A thin guide rope stretches across the Yarra river.

two owlbrothers, flying together.

this is a bit unusual because owl are solitary birds. in flight they focus on their endpoint, so collisions in the air can happen, because they won't see eachother.

The idea for a hotel in Dalen came with the expansion of the Telemark Canal in 1892. Through a series of staircase locks, the canal from Skien to Norsjø was extended to reach Bandak, with the small town of Dalen as its new endpoint. The canal was referred to as the "eighth wonder" upon its completion, and the waterway saw heavy traffic from ferries bringing passengers from the east in Oslo and Grenland travelling towards destinations in central and western Norway.

The initiative to build a luxury hotel in Dalen was taken by Skien businessman Hans Larsen along with his two associates, merchants Lars Rød and Anton Hansen from Skien and Porsgrunn respectively. The men commissioned local Porsgrunn architect Haldor Larsen Børve to design the hotel. Børve, originally from Ullensvang, was a highly trained architect, having studied at universities in Trondheim and later Hannover in Germany. After its opening in 1894, the hotel drew royal guests from all over Europe, playing host to the likes of King Oscar II of Sweden, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, King Leopold II of Belgium, King Haakon VII of Norway and his family, and several members of the British aristocracy.

During the German occupation of Norway in World War II, Dalen Hotel was used as a resort for German officers. Most of the building's interior was stripped out and sold for parts, and the building fell into disrepair due to lack of proper maintenance. After the war, the building was bought by singer and evangelist Aage Samuelsen with the intent of restoring the hotel to its former glory. Though Samuelsen failed to raise the necessary funds to renovate the building, he gave the hotel significant press exposure, and towards the end of the 1980s restoration efforts began in earnest. The hotel was reopened once the remodelling finished in 1992. In 2000, the hotel was honored with the Europa Nostra award for outstanding conservation.

This streetcar is bound for Yunokawa.

Wood pilings along the Potomac River in Leesylvania State Park. Shot in manual with a Rokinon 12mm f2.0 lens @ f18.----- #FlickrFriday #LeesylvaniaStatePark #Wood #waterfront #riverfront #!35 #abstract #VanishingPoint #Flussufer #riverain #abstrait #abstrakt

Wall painting "Separated but safe" by artist Daniil Vyatkin.

It is dedicated to sisters Zāra Frenkel and Regīna Rudiņa (née Frenkel), who escaped from the Riga ghetto and found a safe haven during the Holocaust with the Latvians Auguste Bērzina and Edgar and Emīlija Ozoli.

The Lipke Memorial, which is actually not so small, may become Riga’s best hidden museum. This concealment is not only factual but also symbolic for this place used to serve as a hideaway.

In the yard that is the endpoint of the tiny street, an underground bunker had been dug out. That is where Žanis Lipke had made a hiding place for people saved from the Jewish ghetto. One exit from the bunker was under a doghouse, the other on the northern hillside. During the Second World War, eight to twelve people used this 3×3 meter hole in the ground as a shelter, often for long periods of time. The visitor should note that it was impossible to build the memorial above the actual bunker, for then it would be located right in the yard of the Lipke family. Above the hole, that has since been filled in but after the war served Žanis as a pit for fixing his car, the family now keeps their firewood. It is important to stress that the German police never found this shelter, Lipke was never caught and none of the people involved was ever betrayed. If that had been the case, there would be no Lipke family here today.

lipke.lv/en/house-of-courage/

I almost deleted this shot while I started to clean out my crammed hard drive. But instead of pressing the delete, I pressed the Photoshop button. And then I started to play. With no real endpoint in mind, this is where I ended up – a chaotic Photoshop file full of random layers.

Layer 1 – The basic image of the mill. This has a strong colour cast due to the Hitech 10-stop filter I used.

Layer 2 – An “empty ” layer I use to clone out dust spots, etc.

Layer 3 – A Curves layer where I adjusted each colour channel in modify the colour cast (in the end, this had relatively little effect on the final image as I quite like the whole blue-cast thing)

Layer 4 – A Gradient Map set to 60% opacity to partially desaturate the scene

Layer 5 – A concave Curves layer, masked for the sky, to balance (darken) the exposure

Layer 6 – A strong convex Curves layer, masked for the building, to make it much lighter and become the focal point (it was lost into the background, otherwise).

Layer 7 – My attempt at the Orton effect layer. I have to warn you; this is not the textbook way of doing it. If you plan to use the Orton effect, find a good online tutorial and follow it. What I did is not very efficient... Shift-Ctrl-Alt-E to create flattened copy of all the layers below. Gaussian Blur filter added (can’t remember the exact radius – probably around 10px). Blend mode set to Screen. This created the effect, but also resulted in a bright image so I had to darkening this layer (Image – Adjustments –Curves)

Layer 8 – Last layer... a masked Curves layer to darken the reflections in the water area.

Final step - give up and have a cup of tea. Experiment over. Keep or delete? My two most trusted critics (my wife and 9-year-old son) said “Keep”, so here we are.

Equipment: Nikon D7000, Nikkor 10-24mm @ 10mm, ISO 100, F16, 60 sec, Hitech 10-stop ND Filter. Manfrotto tripod

Kovalam was the endpoint of our tour in South India before we picked up our driver and headed off on our own adventure. This photo was taken off the balcony from our room.

Looking out from the entrance of the tunnel. There is a street directly above the endpoint, and I walked about a city block to where another street was above [I heard traffic]. I may have simply heard traffic noise coming from the entrance, however.

The actual size of the tube: 22-foot (6.7 m) wide, 19-foot (5.8 m) tall, and 12,280-foot (3,740 m) long. As I've said, it can easily accommodate a vehicle.

This is the endpoint for the Royal Arch trail in yesterdays post. On the end of a ridge, the arch offers great views of Boulder and off to Denver on clear days from a vantage point 1200' above the plains.

Lens: Rokinon 14mm f/2.8

Leaves.

I posted a shot for Sliders Sunday last week. It was one of a set of variations on the theme all based on one original picture.

I didn’t have time to publish the rest at the time so I’ll do it now, in case it interests anyone.

The fun for me is in creating these different endpoints and seeing which ones work and which don’t. It’s always interesting to hear which you prefer too as that often surprises me.

The original image is linked in the first comment. I did about ten variants in all but I’ll only share the ones that I like for some reason or the other.

I like this one for its emphasis on the light, and particularly the shadows, while keeping the cell structure in the leaves. Quite gritty you might say. It's one of my top three favourites.

Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the images (and don’t get too bored!)

[This one was made using Topaz Studio 2 starting from the Coming Night preset and then tweaked and processed from there.]

Where one side gave the impression of a mysterious endpoint at the top of the trail, looking backwards really rooted us in the city. The view was spectacular - I love the criss-crossing of the various roads and paths, intertwined with the bits of nature poking through. Then, in the background, that wall of sleepy towers. Bliss.

Looking at this image so long after taking it, I’m reminded of the poor, rather drunk man we met along the way. As we passed him, he started to chat to us, talking about how his friends had left him in the middle of nowhere and he couldn’t find the way back to his hotel. We offered him help but he wasn’t too keen- too shy, I think. I hope his evening ended better than it was going when we passed him.

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I know, I know. Hong Kong, again! I’m not wealthy- I just keep spending all my money on going there. I don’t think they say ‘Fourth Times the Charm’ but this trip was just that - a success. For almost the entire time I kept my mental health issues at bay. It was a good trip. After three disasters - It is really nice to say that.

This went through so many apps I can’t remember them all. There was a base image of eggs and that was abstractified by one of the AI art programs. The endpoint was converting to vectors.

This was one of the most beautiful and lonely roads we drove in 2024. In this photo you see a fairly passable stretch of road. In the previous photo you can see what most of the track looked like. It wasn't even a Froad and I couldn't find the name of it. The track was about 50 km and it took us hours to reach the endpoint west of the Kárahnjúkar reservoir. It was a fantastic drive and there was no man or animal to be seen. YES!!!

For those interested: the coordinates of the starting point are 65°06'42.1"N 15°58'50.2"W

The mountain in the photo is Mt Snæfell (East Iceland). To get there there is also a beautiful road (F909, Snaefellsleid

Leaves.

I posted a shot for Sliders Sunday last week. It was one of a set of variations on the theme all based on one original picture.

I didn’t have time to publish the rest at the time so I’ll do it now, in case it interests anyone.

The fun for me is in creating these different endpoints and seeing which ones work and which don’t. It’s always interesting to hear which you prefer too as that often surprises me.

The original image is linked in the first comment. I did about ten variants in all but I’ll only share the ones that I like for some reason or the other.

I absolutely love this one for the graphic illustrative look. I especially like the sedum flowers up in the top left, and the surreal twirliness of the small leaf veins.

Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the images (and don’t get too bored!)

[This one was made using Topaz Studio 2 starting from the Melting preset and then tweaked and processed from there.]

Took my parents to see the "Sensorio, Field of Light" in Paso Robles last night. Fiber optic threads sprouting to endpoints via octopus tentacles connected to buried bulbs - 58,000 of them planted in rolling hills amongst craggy oaks. Scrambled to get there before evening light disappeared, and barely made it. Definitely not part of the Central Coast thing growing up! Really unique experience. iPhone snaps - we'll see how the camera shots turn out later (though they ban tripods, so that was a separate challenge).

Took my parents to see the "Sensorio, Field of Light" in Paso Robles last night. Fiber optic threads sprouting to endpoints via octopus tentacles connected to buried bulbs - 58,000 of them planted in rolling hills amongst craggy oaks. Scrambled to get there before evening light disappeared, and barely made it. Definitely not part of the Central Coast thing growing up! Really unique experience. iPhone snaps - we'll see how the camera shots turn out later (though they ban tripods, so that was a separate challenge).

The variety of landscape traversed by the north end of the West Virginia Secondary is unlike many other active lines in Ohio. Between the line's endpoint at Bannon interlocking in Columbus and the former block station at New Lexington fifty miles south, you transition from the urban, to the suburban, to picturesque farms, to the rolling hills and tunnels that the line is mostly known for.

Having left the edge of Appalachia behind, KN381 now rolls north across Central Ohio farmland turned tundra outside of Pleasantville, OH. Black and yellow rebuilt SD45s (now SD40M-2s) and red barns stand out among the bright white snow as the train ambles slowly toward Columbus.

Chrysanthemum flowers.

This processing was more complicated though still using blend ranges and an underlying white fill layer.

I then used a Curves layer in LAB mode to change the colours and by dipping and diving the luminosity L channel created the solarised effect. You can see the underlying layer now looks blue-grey.

Finally a bit of brightness adjustment and a soft dark vignette.

This is my choice for Sliders Sunday :) It was an interesting thing to try, though perhaps not the most enthralling endpoint.

I'll link the in-camera original in the first comment so you can see how far we came.

Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image. Happy Sliders Sunday

Solotvino in southeastern Ukraine is the endpoint of the broad gauge track directly on the romanian boarder. Today, there is much more foot traffic on the tracks than rail traffic. The only long distance train D651 arrives in the morning and sits all day long parked until it returns in the evening.

Meanwhile many locals such as these pupils use the inner-city short cut across the tracks for their daily walks.

I was rather at a loss yesterday about what to do for Sliders Sunday this week. Wonderful ideas were notable for their absence. So I thought I would have a play with that good old favourite - a dahlia pic.

There are four endpoints in this set: two are fairly well-travelled approaches and two are sheer experiment.

The first is a fairly straight rendition of the image using the Radiance and Smudge filters of Topaz Studio. The radiance lengthens and strengthens the lines while smudge smoothes surfaces. The result lends a greater sense of physicality, particularly in the petals, that works well with flowers - a bit like an oil painting. The difficulty with this approach is getting the balance right - if you look at the image in detail you can see the filters are having a real party so you need to resist overdoing it. But what is right depends quite a lot on the device and scale that the image is seen at. In other words, you are doomed :(

You can play Spot the Fly with this one ;)

The second is a mirror version created entirely in Affinity Photo. I thought I’d got over my obsession with mirroring flowers, but apparently not. This one is made setting up the adjustment with five mirrors and then searching about a bit with the origin to find an interesting image. Most of the work was in getting rid of the background.

Symmetry in an image has a strange effect on our minds. It increases visual impact but reduces attention span. I call it the ‘wow!... boring’ effect. I still like creating symmetric flower images because it makes me look more closely at the flower and see things that I’d previously missed.

The last two I feel a bit apologetic about as they are not really finished pieces but proofs of concept. They are both made using an approach I stumbled across with my previous Sliders Sunday playtime, that of duplicating the image layer and then changing the blend mode of the top layer to Difference. That just creates a black screen (because there is no difference between the layers). The fun starts when you begin mangling the top layer.

Previously I’d just used Liquify to mangle the layer (this pushes pixels around without smudging). It’s easy to do in Affinity because the Liquify adjustment is just another layer that remains editable. But that was not enough here - having a predominantly white flower doesn’t work as well as the multicoloured one last time. So I dabbled in my diddling with Recolour, Smudge, Gradient Map and Liquify. The textured one is mainly Smudge, and the other is several Difference results together in a composite.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy some of them and that they encourage you to have a bit of fun yourself. I’d love to hear which is your favourite. I’ll post a link to the in-camera version in the first comment so that you can see where we started with this set.

Thanks for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image. Happy Sliders Sunday :)

Bridge to Meudon