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work of Jelena Radonjic and me has been selected for exibition and we are still waiting the final results. The final stage and announcement of the winners will be at 28th May in SKC.
a little house in saskatchewan, where i might add jim told jack he was going to leave me there!!....:( just like the old ford laying in the pond!!!
This colour image shows the Hubble Ultra Deep Field region, a tiny but much-studied region in the constellation of Fornax, as observed with the MUSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope. But this picture only gives a very partial view of the riches of the MUSE data, which also provide a spectrum for each pixel in the picture. This data set has allowed astronomers not only to measure distances for far more of these galaxies than before — a total of 1600 — but also to find out much more about each of them. Surprisingly 72 new galaxies were found that had eluded deep imaging with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
More information: www.eso.org/public/images/eso1738a/
Credit:
ESO/MUSE HUDF collaboration
Much to my dismay as I suffer quite badly from hayfever, the farmers are now starting to cut the fields to collect the grass for hay or silage. As much as this effects my condition, it does have its advantages in the way of photo opportunities, which is just the thing I chose to do two nights ago when we had a particularly lovely sunset. There was this particular spot I wanted to go to as I knew there was a tree I wanted to photograph - at the time I was only there for the tree - however when I got there I realised the parallel lines of grass on the field were too picturesque to ignore, and I got this shot. The tree in question is in the background of this shot, and I have used it in other photos including a self portrait that i will upload shortly.
Finally found a nice lonely field tree with decent color as the setting sun casts a nice soft light. Taken between Skaneateles and Owasco Lakes
Sorry - no athletes on screen ;-)
Februay 2009: I started a new group Reinhardswald to show the whole area.
Seriously:
"Beberbeck" is part of an agricultural area utilized for farming. This area is located in Hessian in the middle of a forest which is called "Reinhardswald". Many people (but not crowded) use this area for local recreation like hiking.
Only a few people do live there, most of them in an old people`s home.
Now the goverment plans to build there a big hotel resort with round about 6.000 beds. Golf courses shall be created, lakes and stuff like this.
If realized it would be the biggest resort in Germany.
Conservationist fear that this plans will destroy the nature. They worry about that lot of water would be needed for hotels and golf courses. That could lower the groundwater level. Thousands of people around get their drinking water out of this area.
There are only small streets through the forest - not big enough for the upcoming trafic.
It's questionable if 6.000 beds can be filled. It's not a sunny area, no golf sport is possible during winter season.
The old people's home would be closed, they do not fit the modern world.
At the moment the goverment is looking for investors. More than 2.000.000 Euro are gone for questionable preliminary work.
Looks like we change intact nature into a dubious project followed by ruins of abandoned hotels.
Guess, what I would prefer?
Für die Deutschsprachigen gibt einen sehr schönen Link der weitergehende Infos zu dem geplanten Projekt liefert.
Möge sich jeder selbst ein Urteil bilden!
Was riding my bike in the rice fields near my house when I took a break. I turned around and my photo was there.
I imported this pic to my iPad using the camera connection kit and edited it use several mobile apps and a wonderful free texture from Eddi van W.
Valley Forge, Pennsylvania is best known as the home to General George Washington's Continental Army for the winters of 1777-1778. Back in those days, large scale combat wasn't conducted during the winter since snow and cold weather presented a logistical nightmare so armies would build up large camps where they could spend the winter. Despite popular belief, the winters during these years weren't especially harsh (the belief that they were is mostly due to America's romanticism of this period). The winters however were full of disease which plagued the troops who were in extremely close proximity to one another. During those two winters at Valley Forge, the Continental Army trained and became an even stronger unit.
I had visited Valley Forge once before (shortly after I graduated high school) but for some reason didn't remember it well. Walking around the park in the summer's high heat and ridiculous humidity was worth it. It's a beautiful place that's fully of amazing history.
ABOUT THE SERIES
In June 2010 Michelle and I traveled to Philadelphia (and surrounding areas) for a summer vacation and to visit her extended family. I'd been to Philadelphia twice before, once in eighth grade and once during college but I only remember bits and pieces of each previous trip. The trip during college was during the 2010 Republican National Convention (I wasn't there for the convention) and I remember the entire city resembling a police state with police everywhere due to all the protests.
Anyway, it was great to return to the city and see some of the surrounding areas I hadn't explored before. We visited during a heatwave (90 degree heat with intense humidity which apparently is a little unusual in June but typical in August) but it was well worth the trip.
Lavender (Lavandula) fields in the Cotswolds, the smell of Lavender was unbelivable while I was here shooting this.
Found two of my husband's grandfather's ledgers in a drawer in the garage. It reminded me so much of the Field Notes notebook, I had to photograph them together. However, Grandpa's "Field Notes" has much more cred containing, as it does, all kinds of planting and farming tables in the back, and tractor info. Mine contains dirty stories and notes on the bathroom tile.
Just thought I'd add more info in light of the additional visitors the past few days: Grandpa was a real farmer right here in Los Angeles before it got so crowded. He immigrated in 1908 from the Basque country on the border between Spain & France. He started with a dairy farm in the neighborhood of El Sereno for about 20 years, then moved to Alhambra (so his four lovely daughters would have easy access to the big city) and ran a hay farm in the nearby neighborhood of Monterey Park. There's no evidence anymore of these farms other than photos, these ledgers, and a few milk bottles and scraps of rather terrifying cattle equipment in the back of our garage.
My husband and I live in the 1936 house in Alhambra that grandpa bought to be closer to the hay farm. A friend of mine lives just down the road in what used to be the middle of the farm. It's so fascinating to me to imagine what Los Angeles used to be like - say when Grandpa arrived from France in 1908, or when his daughters were running around in 1930's LA, making shopping trips, going to movies in the old movie houses, riding the Red Cars, going over the border to Mexico for some partying.
i drive past this field on my way to and from school each day -- i love watching it change through the seasons...
press L on keyboard for larger view without distractions, cheers Ed
A little bit of an aged look applied
First I want to thank my wife for this shot. :)
The wife and I enjoy taking hikes whenever we get a chance. I usually leave my camera gear at home, but this time she asked me to bring it. She also chose this location as well. I actually wanted to try the double exposure technique with her that is starting to get popular, but when we got here all that changed. Landscape mode kicked in once i saw the abundant fields of lupine. She was also patient enough to let me wait until sunset even though the sweet light didn't quite make it and spread out as i hoped.
Anyway here is vertical of the lupine patch tumbling down the water. This was one of the most technically challenging shots as the wind seemed to get stronger as time passed by. It was impossible to get a decent shutter speed without having to give up adequate DOF or a low ISO. So I decided to focus stack and hoped the wind wouldn't make it too difficult to blend later. At the end this is a combination of 6 seperate focused shots blended in CS5. Foreground stack was taken at f/5.6. Even then I couldn't get a fast enough SS to 1/100+ without having to go over ISO 800. Luckily my 5D3 has much better noise handling then my T2i.
Feedback and C&C always appreciated.
Did some Urbexing this weekend. This is the original Air Traffic Control Tower from when the airfield was operated under the U.S. Navy during WWII.
I grew up behind this airfield and my father worked here for 20+ years. Grumman built various aircraft components including pylons for the DC-10 fleets of which my father worked on.