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Flat White drifting up the Derwent River towards the finish line of the Sydney to Hobart yacht race. After all the storms at the beginning of the race journey I wonder if this almost complete state of stillness is welcommed or considered a burdon. I was standing by the shoreline for a while and they were moving slowly in the right direction. I imagine they will probably finish late tonight.
Death Valley, California
That’s not snow on the ground. It is dried salt near the edge of Cottonball Basin in Death Valley. I was photographing the salt flat when I noticed this vivid sunrise developing behind me.
Explored March 11, 2023
The Flatiron Building at the south corner of Madison Square, where Broadway intersects 5th Avenue, is one of the best known skyscrapers of New York City and certainly belongs to the list of most photographed buildings in the world. Completed in 1902 it was designated a New York City landmark in 1966. Today, it is an office building, but there are plans to turn it into a luxury hotel.
In this scene I like the arrangement of the taxicabs, giving depth to the image. The dark-blue of the sky (thanks to Photoshop!) is intended to provide an agreeable contrast to the yellow of the cabs.
Spruce Flats Falls is a very photogenic waterfall in the Tremont region of Great Smoky Mountains National Park. This particular shot was taken about a month ago, after several days of heavy rain in the park. The rain significantly raised the water level in the creek, while also injecting quite a bit of mud and debris. Even though the higher water eliminated some foreground opportunities, it also added some nice, almost reddish hues to the water - a tone note often seen in these Appalachian waterfall pictures. I'm really looking forward to getting back out here in the fall. I've been trying to keep my October very open!
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Eastern Gulf of Finland National Park. The National Park includes the outer archipelago of the easternmost coastal municipalities. The hundred islands and islets of the park are scattered onto a large open sea area, which is 60 km wide, and far from the mainland or the inhabited islands. Gulf of Finland National Park is included in the network of the most important protected areas in the Convention on the Protection of the Marine Environment of the Baltic Sea Area. On the Russian side of the border, Gulf of Finland National Park is being planned, which will add to this complex.
Late spring season brings many shades of green to the grasses and trees at the Carl Sandberg historic site, Flat Rock, North Carolina.
Whites, reds, golds, yellows and greens on the salt flats near Whitehorse in southern Yukon. This is a low lying area of mud flat/salt flat not far from the Takhini river. I wasn’t sure what the red plant growing from the mud was while I was there, but on my return home, I did some research and discovered that it is called Boreal Saltwort (Salicornia borealis), and that it is considered critically imperilled in Canada. This makes me think that hiking around the Takhini Salt Flats should only be done with great care so as to avoid disturbing these amazing plants. All of that said, perhaps it is the erosion caused by animal and human activity in the area that keeps the grasses from overrunning the Saltwort altogether. Who knows? It would be nice to see some work done on this, and signs posted accordingly.
Photo taken with the Canon EOS R and RF 24-105mm f/4.0 L. Image processed from raw in Adobe Lightroom. The image was straightened slightly and cropped in just a little from the left. Otherwise, it has not been modified except for basic adjustments to exposure, colour, and light to make it as natural as possible. Like a couple of my other images from the day's outing, this would have been a wonderful photo to process as a focus stack, but in the end, it is a single exposure shot at f/8 to maximize depth of field without inducing diffraction.
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The city took its name from the hill. Mandalay Hill is known for its abundance of pagodas and monasteries, and has been a major pilgrimage site for Burmese Buddhists for nearly two centuries. At the top of the hill is the Sutaungpyei iterally wish-fulfilling Pagoda. A panoramic view of Mandalay from the top of Mandalay Hill alone makes it worthwhile to attempt a climb up its stairways. To get a sense of Mandalay’s pancake-flat sprawl, climb the 240 metres hill that breaks it. The barefooted walk up covered stairways on the hill's southern slope is a major part of the experience passing through and around a colourful succession of prayer and shopping opportunities. The climb takes a good 30 minutes, but much longer if you allow for stops en route. The summit viewpoint is especially popular at sunset when young monks converge on foreigners for language practice.
Just outside the North of downtown, Mandalay Hill which summit is 240 m above the surrounding plain is the natural watch-tower for the visitors to watch sunrise or sunset over the city plains. Every one who arrived in Mandalay, the ancient capital of Myanmar, usually goes to Mandalay Hill, the landmark of Mandalay, which overlooks the city.
Mandalay is de op een na grootste stad van Myanmar en ligt aan de voet van de 240 m hoge Mandalay Heuvel. In vroegere tijden was Mandalay echter niet de hoofdstad van deze streek. De legende vertelt dat de Boeddha zelf een voorspelling heeft gedaan dat onderaan de Mandalay Heuvel een machtige stad gesticht zou worden. Echter pas in 1858 besloot koning Mingdon om gehoor te geven aan deze legende en ontmantelde hij de toenmalige hoofdstad Amarapura en verhuisde alles naar Mandalay. Vandaag de dag is Mandalay weer opgebouwd tot een machtige stad die de verbinding vormt tussen alle handel tussen Noord- en Centraal-Myanmar. Ook is Mandalay een religieus centrum, waar u duizenden pagoda’s, tempels en kloosters kunt bewonderen. De allerbelangrijkst is echter de Maha Muni Pagode, waar een kolossaal boeddhabeeld bedekt met een dikke laag bladgoud te bezichtigen is. Daarnaast is een beklimming van de Mandalay Hill, vlak voor zonsondergang een unieke ervaring. Via een trap van meer dan 1700 treden is deze beklimming een ware uitdaging, maar de beloning is groot. Vanaf dit hoge punt heeft u een uitmuntend uitzicht heeft over het landschap, waartussen de Irrawaddy rivier zich een weg kronkelt.
Life just seems so full of connections. Most of the time we don't even pay attention to the depth of life. We only see flat surfaces.
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This sculpture by Judy Millar is called Call Me Snake.
The sculpture is made of five intersecting flat planes of wood on a steel frame. The panels are clad in printed photographs of brushstrokes created by Millar and magnified by ten. It is Millar's first public artwork and will be on the city centre site for two years.