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Exploring Washington Backroads Exploring Washington backroads provides you with hidden gems you will never see from a freeway. Here, you will discover wildlife raising their families, migratory birds that linger in the valleys on their way home, and fish that delight the fisherman. There are so many roads that seem to go almost […]
Best rank #131 in Explorer on 26-10-2011
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No photoshop for lights!!!
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Merci Ć Ducati Rennes pour le prĆŖt! :-)
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Session de lightpainting avec ma tite femme Marine.
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Setup/Strobist:
Sony A350,ISO 200, F/32,192s, Three Flashs with Cactus Triggers: on the left, on the right, on the front
The Zinnias attrack a lot of butterflies, bugs, and birds. I like playing with exposure and speed for different results. Below are 2 more shots of the Tiger Swallowtail.
OhioFoothills--Challenge entries are due today--Family Fun. Hoping to get some shots today at our family reunion.
is the underestimation of content more than double the overestimation of our wildest dreams?
getting an image explored used to be my main adjudicator of a successful photo. i also became obsessed with the individual stats of the photo, and seemed to get hung up on all statistical trimmings. but i've since realised the concept and the way a photo makes us feel is so much more important than what flickr decides is good by exploring it. photography, like art is subjective, so if no one else likes it, even better.
L'homme se plaint-il de vivre ! N'a-t-il pas des mains pour caresser la fourrure des chats !" T.Gautier
Chatte d'une amie.
Andamooka. Population 260.
These Kokatha lands had a salt lake called Andemorka which was the name adopted by the first pastoralist, Charles Burney Young, for his sheep station in the 1870s. Prior to this the first white man to explore this area, with the help of an Aboriginal youth, was Charles Swinden who returned home with some alluvial gold. He fell ill at his Riverton home and died there before he could tell anyone of its location but it was in the Andamooka region. At that time Swinden of Riverton, had his main station at Woolundunga north of Port Augusta. Andamooka station had its difficult times and in the early 1890s a station worker murdered his wife. The police trooper was sent a message to come and arrest the man which he did. The worker was taken to Port Augusta for trial but a jury acquitted him as it was decided that his poor wife died of heat stroke. Charles Burney Youngās venture at Andamooka was taken over by his son but it always lost money and eventually the Bowman brothers took it on for some time.
Opals were discovered here in 1930 when two station workers discovered opals whilst sheltering from a thunderstorm. No town existed for decades but miners or noodlers camped at the site including some local Aboriginal people. The town emerged slowly from the miner camps. The first Post Office opened in 1947 and was named Andamooka. By 1959 Andamooka had 300 residents for which a third were Aboriginal people. Opal mining increased in the 1960s and more town facilities were established as mines created more ādug outsā for their homes. Opal mining was mainly done by individuals and the town gained a reputation for independence and a dislike of government regulation. The opals also attracted miners from diverse cultural backgrounds. At its peak in the 1960s Andamooka had 2,000 residents. In 1978 when the first town newsletter was published it was printed in three languages- English, Hungarian and Yugoslavian.
Historic buildings in the town include several dugouts in the hill side to keep them cool in the long hot summer:- Frank Albertoniās house in 1931 which is the oldest house on ten mine field as Andamooka opal was only discovered in 1930; Tom Bradyās dugout built in the late 1930s with other rooms nearby and the outside toilet on the hill top behind the dugout; Mrs Perryās kitchen built in 1951 but it replaced an earlier hut built in 1931; and Andy Absalomās house built in 1942 and he was the father the Broken Hill artist Jack Absalom. The town also has a mining machinery museum on the drive into the town and there is a cafĆ© in the local galvanised iron public hall. Behind the hall is the Andamooka Primary School ā high school students are bussed into rOxby Downs Area School. Further along the main street is the Post Office, opal gallery and small museum. In front of it is the famous bottle house made of used beer bottles. Nearby by is an Aboriginal gallery and the Long Bus opal shop. Andamooka is only a short distance from Lake Torrens and it is directly west from Leigh Creek but there is no access across Lake Torrens. To get from Andamooka to Leigh Creek one would have to travel by roads through Port Augusta or Marree. Interest in opal jewellery is increasing at the moment and Andamooka opal has always been known for its rare and exceptional opals. Andamooka opals have flashes of red, orange, green, blue and purple and a distinctive vein structure making them very desirable.
2013 365/164
Spent a wonderful day at the British Wildlife Centre with the camera club.
Numerous images to sort through, but this one gets my vote for the 365. I know its not sharp enough, but it makes me giggle.
Explored #127
Went out for a short photo excursion in the snow yesterday. I decided to photography The Wickland Home since I had zero photos of this place in the Winter. I got some great pics of the house and the horses on the neighboring farm.
Nice entcounter with a local inhabitant, while climbing to the Regue de Nice, in the Mercantour mountains.
Sept. 2011.
The funky look is caused by a combination of age-related oxidation and apparent water damage. It seems the filter layer has become insoluble.
Hasselblad 500 c/m Zeiss CE T* 50mm f/4. Kodak Veracolor type S 30 years past expiration date, water damaged film. ML-012 process. Nikon CS 9000 ED. No software tweaks.
Shot this at home , used the RAW processing tool of photoshop and I must admit its better than the RAW processing which the Canon software does.
Let me know what you think
#Explore 111
Two damselflies, making more damselflies. Likely Rambur's Forktails... Boca Ciega Millenium Park, FL
The 26m dish at Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory.
When I took this photograph, the Radio Telescope was observing a MASER (an acronym for: Microwave Amplification by Stimulation Emission of Radiation).
Why do we use Radio Telescopes?
The human eye can only see about one ten trillionth of the Electromagnetic Magnetic Spectrum of light (between 400-700nm, with diminished sensitivity at both ends). Radio Telescopes can detect a much wider range of Electromagnetic Radiation including Radio waves, Microwaves, Terahertz waves, Infrared, Visible light, Ultraviolet, X-rays, and Gamma rays).
A big thank you to Heystek Grobler from HartRAO for showing me around.
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