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EXPLORE 2012-01-10

photo by Paul Beale at Gloucester

HBW everyone!!!

 

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Epcot 30th anniversary t-shirt in the window of the Mouse Gear shop in Future World. The things you photograph after being in line for three hours. ;;-)

 

Tip, use a polarizer filter to remove reflections when shooting window displays.

 

UPDATE: Made Explore for October 5, 2012 at #472. Thank you for all the comments and favs!

Here's my latest Explore vanity photo. Updated 9/5/10:

 

1. Cinderella's Castle (Spooky Remix), 2. Grand Floridian Reflection, 3. Rotunda 2nd Floor, Minnesota State Capitol, 4. Texas State History Museum, Austin, 5. Flamingoes in the Bluebonnets, 6. Zilker Park Kite Festival, Austin, 7. Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX, 8. Lone Star, Texas State History Museum (HDR),

 

9. St. Patrick's Cathedral Nave, New York, 10. SECC Walkway, Glasgow, 11. Driskill Christmas Star, 12. General Post Office, Manhattan, NY, 13. Empire State Building, New York City, 14. Flatiron Building, New York, 15. Shuttle Cockpit, Space Center Houston, 16. Saturn V, Second Stage,

 

17. Skull and Helmet, 18. Sanctuary, Central Presbyterian Church, Austin, 19. Wild West Store, Wimberley, Texas, 20. Glasgow University from Kelvingrove Park, 21. Capitol Corridor, 22. Austin Skyline at Dusk, 23. Stamen, 24. Tire Sculpture, Austin,

 

25. The Armadillo, Glasgow, 26. Toronto by Night, 27. Mexican Hats, 28. Allens Boots, South Congress, 29. Palmer Events Center, Austin, 30. Butterfly Drinking, 31. Circular Walkway, 32. Chevron Tower (HDR Mono),

 

33. Skyscrapers and Statue, 34. Wells Fargo Tower, 35. Lake Austin Reflection, 36. Central Presbyterian Church, Austin, 37. Cowboy Boots (Exhibition Crop), 38. Wrecked Fire Truck, 39. Smokey Smithy, 40. Barn at the LBJ Ranch,

 

41. P.E.C. Lights, Johnson City, 42. Austin Omni at Christmas, 43. Capitol Extension Staircase, 44. Lamar Footbridge, Austin, 45. Decorated Doorway, Caswell House, 46. Christmas at the Caswell House, 47. Austin City Hall Steps, 48. Sunrise from Lakeway,

 

49. Hamilton Pool (Exhibition Version), 50. Texas State Capitol HDR, 51. Texas State Capitol, 52. Soaring, 53. Bikes, 54. Cowboy Boots, 55. Old Filling Station, Driftwood, Texas, 56. Agua Through The Archway,

 

57. Cobbled Street and Volcano, 58. Volcano Agua 2, 59. Wildflower Center Tower and Arch, 60. Vine Covered Walkway, 61. Winchester Cathedral Statue, 62. Sunburst, 63. Turkey Vulture, 64. Caerlaverock Castle Interior 2,

 

65. Caerlaverock Castle Thistle, 66. Hamilton Pool Aug 2007 HDR, 67. Caerlaverock Castle HDR, 68. Hamilton Pool Composite 2, 69. Hamilton Pool, Aug 2007, 70. Falkirk Wheel in motion 2 (mono), 71. New Lanark, 72. The Falkirk Wheel,

 

73. Bonnington Linn, 74. Through the Archway, 75. Sleepy Orange on Thistle 2, 76. Ravenscraig Rolling Mill 2, 77. Hamilton Pool 4, 78. HiTech City 3, 79. Volcano and Arch

 

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ok so this is my first explore and im super sychekd!! thanks to everyone who posts and looks at my photos!

More from the wedding mrs 450 and I went to recently. There was a pretty spectacular fireworks display and despite the strong winds it looked really good. I only had the 60D and 85mm prime with me and managed to grab these handheld with the shutter at around half a second and f7.1 :o)

 

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I’ve been wanting to take a city break in summer, rather than in the cold months for a while, so rather than heading for the Lake District for a week of toil on the fells when Jayne could get a week off, we took off from Liverpool for Paris. Flight times were nice and sociable but it meant we were on the M62 car park at a busy time in both directions – it’s a shambles! I’ve stopped over in Paris a dozen times – on my way to cycling in the Etape du Tour in the Alps or Pyrenees – and had a few nights out there. Come to think about it and we’ve spent the day on the Champs Elysees watching the final day of the Tour de France with Mark Cavendish winning. We hadn’t been for a holiday there though and it was a bit of a spur of the moment decision. Six nights gave us five and a half days to explore Paris on foot. I had a good selection of (heavy) kit with me, not wanting to make the usual mistake of leaving something behind and regretting it. In the end I carried the kit in my backpack – an ordinary rucksack – to keep the weight down, for 103 miles, all recorded on the cycling Garmin – and took 3500 photos. The little Garmin is light and will do about 15 hours, it expired towards the end of a couple of 16 hour days but I had the info I wanted by then. This also keeps the phone battery free for research and route finding – I managed to flatten that once though.

 

What can I say – Paris was fantastic! The weather varied from OK to fantastic, windy for a few days, the dreaded grey white dullness for a while but I couldn’t complain really. We were out around 8.30 in shorts and tee shirt, which I would swap for a vest when it warmed up, hitting 30 degrees at times, we stayed out until around midnight most nights. It was a pretty full on trip. The security at some destinations could have been a problem as there is a bag size limit to save room in the lifts etc. I found the French to be very pragmatic about it, a bag search was a cursory glance, accepting that I was lugging camera gear, not bombs around, and they weren’t going to stop a paying customer from passing because his bag was a bit over size.

 

We didn’t have a plan, as usual we made it up as we went along, a loose itinerary for the day would always end up changing owing to discoveries along the way. Many times we would visit something a few times, weighing the crowds and light etc. up and deciding to come back later. I waited patiently to go up the Eiffel Tower, we arrived on Tuesday and finally went up on Friday evening. It was a late decision but the weather was good, the light was good and importantly I reckoned that we would get a sunset. Previous evenings the sun had just slid behind distant westerly clouds without any golden glory. It was a good choice. We went up the steps at 7.30 pm, short queue and cheaper – and just to say that we had. The steps are at an easy angle and were nowhere near as bad as expected, even with the heavy pack. We stayed up there, on a mad and busy Friday night, until 11.30, the light changed a lot and once we had stayed a couple of hours we decided to wait for the lights to come on. This was a downside to travelling at this time of year, to do any night photography we had to stay out late as it was light until 10.30. The Eiffel Tower is incredible and very well run, they are quite efficient at moving people around it from level to level. It was still buzzing at midnight with thousands of people around. The sunset on Saturday was probably better but we spent the evening around the base of the Tower, watching the light change, people watching and soaking the party atmosphere up.

 

Some days our first destination was five miles away, this is a lot of road junctions in a city, the roads in Paris are wide so you generally have to wait for the green man to cross. This made progress steady but when you are on holiday it doesn’t matter too much. Needless to say we walked through some dodgy places, with graffiti on anything that stays still long enough. We were ultra-cautious with our belongings having heard the pickpocket horror stories. At every Café/bar stop the bags were clipped to the table leg out of sight and never left alone. I carried the camera in my hand all day and everywhere I went, I only popped it in my bag to eat. I would guess that there were easier people to rob than us, some people were openly careless with phones and wallets.

 

We didn’t enter the big attractions, it was too nice to be in a museum or church and quite a few have a photography ban. These bans make me laugh, they are totally ignored by many ( Japanese particularly) people. Having travelled around the world to see something, no one is going to stop them getting their selfies. Selfies? Everywhere people pointed their cameras at their own face, walking around videoing – their self! I do like to have a few photos of us for posterity but these people are self-obsessed.

 

Paris has obviously got a problem with homeless (mostly) migrants. Walk a distance along the River Seine and you will find tented villages, there is a powerful smell of urine in every corner, with the no alcohol restrictions ignored, empty cans and bottles stacked around the bins as evidence. There are families, woman living on mattresses with as many as four small children, on the main boulevards. They beg by day and at midnight they are all huddled asleep on the pavement. The men in the tents seem to be selling plastic Eiffel Tower models to the tourists or bottled water – even bottles of wine. Love locks and selfy sticks were also top sellers. There must be millions of locks fastened to railings around the city, mostly brass, so removing them will be self-funding as brass is £2.20 a kilo.

 

As for the sights we saw, well if it was on the map we tried to walk to it. We crossed the Periphique ring road to get to the outer reaches of Paris. La Defense – the financial area with dozens of modern office blocks – was impressive, and still expanding. The Bois de Boulogne park, with the horse racing track and the Louis Vuitton Centre was part of a 20 mile loop that day. Another day saw us in the north east. We had the dome of the Sacre Couer to ourselves, with thousands of tourists wandering below us oblivious of the entrance and ticket office under the church. Again the light was fantastic for us. We read that Pere Lachaise Cemetery or Cimitiere du Pere Lachaise was one of the most visited destinations, a five mile walk but we went. It is massive, you need a map, but for me one massive tomb is much the same as another, it does have highlights but we didn’t stay long. Fortunately we were now closer to the Canal St Martin which would lead us to Parc de la Villette. This was a Sunday and everywhere was both buzzing and chilled at the same time. Where ever we went people were sat watching the world go by, socializing and picnicking, soaking the sun up. As ever I wanted to go up on the roof of anything I could as I love taking cityscapes. Most of these were expensive compared with many places we’ve been to before but up we went. The Tour Montparnasse, a single tower block with 59 floors, 690 foot high and extremely fast lifts has incredible views although it was a touch hazy on our ascent. The Arc de Triomphe was just up the road from our hotel, we went up it within hours of arriving, well worth the visit.

 

At the time of writing I have no idea how many images will make the cut but it will be a lot. If I have ten subtly different shots of something, I find it hard to consign nine to the dark depths of my hard drive never to be seen again – and I’m not very good at ruthless selection – so if the photo is OK it will get uploaded. My view is that it’s my photostream, I like to be able to browse my own work at my leisure at a later date, it’s more or less free and stats tell me these images will get looked at. I’m not aiming for single stunning shots, more of a comprehensive overview of an interesting place, presented to the best of my current capabilities. I am my own biggest critic, another reason for looking at my older stuff is to critique it and look to improve on previous mistakes. I do get regular requests from both individuals and organisations to use images and I’m obliging unless someone is taking the piss. I’m not bothered about work being published (with my permission) but it is reassuringly nice to be asked. The manipulation of Flickr favourites and views through adding thousands of contacts doesn’t interest me and I do sometimes question the whole point of the Flickr exercise. I do like having access to my own back catalogue though and it gives family and friends the chance to read about the trip and view the photos at their leisure so for the time being I’m sticking with it. I do have over 15 million views at the moment which is a far cry from showing a few people an album, let’s face it, there’s an oversupply of images, many of them superb but all being devalued by the sheer quantity available.

 

Don’t think that it was all walking and photography, we had a great break and spent plenty of time in pavement bistros having a glass of wine and people watching. I can certainly understand why Paris is top of the travellers list of destinations

Today is the three week anniversary of the Sept 12, 2008 Metrolink train crash in Chatsworth. This photo was taken in Carpenteria, CA which is further north on the same Amtrak train line upon which the crash occurred. (That is the Carpinteria Amtrak train station in the far distance, past the train crossing arms). ...

 

This was the second train accident this year to hit close to home. ...

 

My home, my hearth, and my community suffered the loss of Arieh who was tragically killed by an Amtrak train this past spring just days before he was due to come home from college. ...

 

I knew Arieh for a number of years. he was a well liked and very giving young man who always had a kind word on his lips. This is for you Arieh. ...

 

This photo made it to Explore! #487 on 2008-10-03. ...

 

You can also view it with B l a c k M a g i c. ...

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Exploring the abandoned railroad tunnels of Donner Pass

My 'In Explore' Flickr images so far.

bom diaa! mais uma quinta-flower..desejo a todos um ótimo findi ..já que aqui em Criciúma é feriado amanhã..dia 04/12 dia de Sta. Bárbara.

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1. The Best Way to Start the Day, 2. Little Madrid - EXPLORED - Thank You, 3. La Hora Azul en Madrid - EXPLORED - Thank you!, 4. Bay Watch - EXPLORED - Thank you!, 5. The Colours of Villajoyosa - EXPLORED - Thank you!, 6. Visions of the Future - EXPLORED - Thank you!, 7. Mi Tierra, 8. Córdoba Cathedral,

 

9. Santa Pola Star Trails, 10. Tranquility, 11. Reflections of Sevilla - EXPLORED! - Thank you, 12. Reflections of Granada - EXPLORED - Thank you!, 13. Basilique du Sacré-Cœur - EXPLORED - Thank you!, 14. Welcome to Paradise - EXPLORED - Thank you!, 15. Clouds Reflected, 16. Alicante Night,

 

17. Reflejos de La Seu - EXPLORED! Thank you :-), 18. Reflejos en Port Sóller- EXPLORED! Thank you :-), 19. La Iglesia de Sant Bartomeu, 20. The Last Light, 21. Morning Has Broken, 22. Reflejos en Port de Sóller - EXPLORED! Thank you :-), 23. Una Tarde Perfecta en Port de Sóller - EXPLORED! Thank you :-), 24. Leaving Palma - EXPLORED! Thank you :-),

 

25. Buenas Noches!, 26. Orbital Manoeuvres in the Dark - Explored! Thank you, 27. Warp Factor 9 - Explored! Thank you, 28. Reflejos de Los Baños de Doña María de Padilla, 29. Moulin Rouge!, 30. Electric City, 31. Iluminado, 32. Blue and Gold,

 

33. Buenos Días Desde Alicante! - Explored! Thank you, 34. Santa Pola Sunset, 35. Alicante Mono, 36. Desde el Castillo de Santa Bárbara, 37. This is Alicante, 38. Van, 39. Spider, 40. Scarab,

 

41. Alicante Sunset - EXPLORED, THANK YOU., 42. Alicante Mon Amour, 43. Untitled, 44. Untitled, 45. To Infinity.....

Early morning fog in the campsite near Mt. St. Helens provided a great movie scene atmosphere.

 

I searched for those little 5 pointed compound symbols hanging from the trees, guess I'm too old ;)

 

Explore September 2009

Macro Monday theme Transparency

A willow warbler (Phylloscopus trochilus) in a small oak tree.

 

Fitis in eikenboompje

 

Explored on 17/6/11 at # 190

My granddaughter Sophia. Tired after a long day playing with her cousins.

 

Explored, January 30, 2021.

Brookhaven physicist Dennis Perepelitsa is exploring the mysteries of nuclear physics at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) PHENIX experiment and at the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN). Read more...

 

1. Tunnel Of Gods Love 2.He Is The Light 3.His Glory 4. Resting In Him 5.Blue Heaven

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Explore Photo #492 9/21/2008 WOOHOO!

I just realised that I have now had 80 photos in Explore! It is a nice round number, so time for a new one of these... According to the Stats on Flickr, I have had 188,850 views.

 

1. Douglas Quay at Night - Aderney, 2. Chapel Detail - Winchester Cathedral, 3. Winchester Cathedral at Night, 4. Mooloolah River Reflections, 5. The Sunrise reflecting from the overcast clouds - Alderney, 6. Coolum Beach - Queenland, 7. Supercell Storm!, 8. Mooloolaba Rocks,

 

9. Mooloolah River Sunset 2, 10. Mooloolaba, 11. The Mooloolah River - Queensland, 12. Mooloolah River Sunset, 13. Alderney Fireworks, 14. Cape Town Waves., 15. The Twelve Aspostles - Cape Town, 16. Food? Huh? Food?,

 

17. Cape Town Beach, 18. last flight out of Alderney, 19. Winchester Cathedral Chancel, 20. Another Sunset on Alderney, 21. Winchester Cathedral, 22. Silent Watchers, 23. Another Sunset - Alderney, 24. The edge of the Mediterranean,

 

25. The Clear, Cold Waters of Walchensee - Bavaria, 26. Reflecting on a long week - OXO Tower, 27. Winchester Great Hall, 28. Then & Now - Le Huret Alderney, 29. Running Repairs, 30. Alderney Sunset, 31. The King and the Skytrain - Bangkok, 32. Buddha at Wat Phailom,

 

33. The Clock Tower - Alderney, 34. Alderney Chook! What are you looking at!!!, 35. A Park in Manila, 36. Mountains behind Makati City - Manila, Philippines, 37. Makati City - Philippines, 38. Flowers & Rocks - Alderney, 39. Geographic Uplift - Isle of Wight, 40. Dawn Over Braye Beach - Alderney,

 

41. The Lion Gate - Tower of London, 42. Night in London, 43. Guard Tit!, 44. Beachy Head, Light house & reminders, 45. Beachy Head, Light house & reminders, 46. Winter Trees & Winchester Cathedral, 47. Winchester Cathedral - Early Morining Boxing Day, 48. London at Dawn,

 

49. Boulevard de Rochechouart with a full Moon, 50. Sacre-Coeur church in Montmartre, 51. Braye Sky - Alderney, 52. Royal Oak Passage - Winchester, 53. Another Atlantic Sunset, 54. Braye, After the Rain - Alderney, 55. God Begot House - Winchester, 56. Winchester Cathedral Crypt,

 

57. Winchester Cathedral - Smoke in the Sun, 58. City Mill - Winchester, 59. The Bonfire - Alderney Week, 60. Coastal Cliffs - Alderney, 61. Offshore Rocks - Alderney, 62. Longis Beach- Anti-Tank Wall Alderney, 63. Longis - Alderney, 64. Fort Tourgis Bathroom - Alderney,

 

65. Lighthouse & Fog Horn - Alderney, 66. Building near the harbour - Alderney, 67. Goodbye Bishan Park - Singapore 5, 68. Shop Houses - Back - Arab Street Singapore, 69. Clouds looking out - Singapore, 70. Buddha Tooth Relic Temple - Singapore, 71. Andaman Sunset 5 - Phuket, Thailand, 72. Andaman Sunset 4 - A final "wink"

 

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All my car audio can play latelly (almost on FULL MAX) is:

Basshunter - Dota

And now one of my cellphones does the same!

 

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Explore #241 on July 19, 2008

   

05/22/2008

allen ein großes Dankeschön !!!

I thought the number very appropriate considering my infatuation with a graffiti figure of the same name. This poster shows the last 72 of the 101 that made it to Explore. Thanks to everybody for the comments, faves and helpful suggestions - you know who you are.

 

It's been a fun trip so far and hopefully it will continue to be as much fun - I never stop being amazed by the photos you people take and I'll never stop learning from you.

 

1. Black tulip (well, almost), 2. Snow White and the 7 dwarfs (HDR), 3. Dandy lion clock / Pusteblume, 4. I miss you..., 5. Darmstadtium or Titanic?, 6. Watery heart / wässeriges Herz, 7. I don't do people..., 8. Iridescent blue feathers,

 

9. Emergency exit/Notausgang, 10. Froggy went a-courting, 11. Big yellow machine, 12. Wir fahren, fahren, fahren auf der Autobahn!, 13. Giving me the eye, 14. Sea urchin/Seeigel, 15. Cowardly dragon/Feige Drache, 16. Snowy-owl / Schnee-Eule,

 

17. The name of the rose, 18. Goldfinger 1985, 19. Darmstadtium (element 110), 20. The White Rose - Die weiße Rose, 21. 101 as Groucho Marx, 22. 0:, 23. Floodlight (ii) -Flutlicht (ii), 24. Stairway to heaven?,

 

25. Sunshine, you are my sunshine!, 26. Raindrops keep fallin' on my head..., 27. Duck aerobics, 28. Not talking to each other..., 29. Spring has sprung, 30. Heiner is watching you, 31. Red cross, 32. Harped angel - Engel mit Harfe,

 

33. Skylight? Sky dark!, 34. Platforms 9 and 10, 35. 24 storks - 24 Storche, 36. Scary teacher, or Big Brother is watching you, 37. Staatstheater Darmstadt iii, 38. Campari light, 39. Staatstheater Darmstadt, 40. Here rest in love and peace,

 

41. The snake and the butterfly, 42. Moon walk, 43. Sun dial/Sonnenuhr, 44. Moon over Darmstadt 16.02.08, 45. Fruity physicists, 46. Studded door, 47. Cresent moon over Darmstadt, 48. Sedilia in the Ludwigskirche (HDR),

 

49. Rue des Embruns - St.Guénolé, 50. Eye wide open (HDR), 51. Bronze angel (HDR), 52. Old in new (HDR), 53. 1773 - it's Batskull!, 54. Set the controls for the heart of the sun..., 55. 21 Seagulls, 56. Adventurous seagull,

 

57. My first sunset, 58. Foggy reflections, 59. Polychrome fresco (ii), 60. Excuse me, you've got something green in your nose..., 61. Yawn!, 62. Mirrored boats, 63. And who do you think you are looking at?, 64. Soaring seagull,

 

65. Castle Frankenstein revisited (full size is must), 66. Christmas market in a bauble, 67. Making tracks in the dark, 68. Wet cobble stones, 69. Always fly first class, 70. 5:02 in the afternoon..., 71. Tree carving, 72. Mythical beast

 

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