Love to come across people enjoying our great outdoors.

The water mirror in the foreground is a natural tidal lagoon (seawater "left behind" by the ebbing tide, cut off from the open sea at low tide)

S'il s'agissait de la mer ouverte, il serait bien entendu impossible d'avoir une surface lisse à ce point pour offrir des réflexions aussi parfaites : il s'agit ici d'une lagune de marée presque naturelle, isolée (à marée basse) de la haute mer par une ceinture de rochers seulement complétée par un petit muret faisant barrage

CP train 287 flies past the Columbus, Wisconsin Amtrak station with SD70ACU 7041 second out.

Andreas Manessinger, manessinger.com, Creative Commons BY-SA

Foreground is the whaler, Charles W. Morgan (1841), the world's oldest surviving merchant vessel and the only surviving American wooden whaler from the 19th Century. It has served as a museum ship since the 1940s. It was constructed in New Bedford, Massachusetts. The boat is named after the individual that commissioned its building. In her 80 years of service, she made 37 voyages ranging in length from nine months to five years.

In the background is a square rigger named Joseph Conrad, built in Copenhagen in 1882. The 111 foot training vessel was retired in 1945 and has permanently resided at the Mystic Seaport Museum since 1947.

Snow Capped Mountains In the Background and Desert Landscape In the Foreground.

This afternoon's view from Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. The spindly plants in the foreground are ocotillo and are trees - not cacti. After the rain last week, the ocotillo have some nice orange blooms on them. These mountains are to the north.

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trinity bellwoods park

toronto

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Nikon d810a

50mm

ISO 6400

f/2.2

Foreground: 5 x 30 seconds

Sky: 22 x 30 seconds

iOptron SkyTracker

Hoya Red Intensifier filter

This is a 27 shot panorama of the Crux & Carina region of the Milky Way as it rises perpendicular to the horizon above Stirling Range National Park, 4 hours south of Perth in Western Australia.

Centre of the image is the dark CoalSack Nebula, the head of the Emu in local Indigenous culture. Hanging off that, to its immediate left, is Crux aka the Southern Cross. Just above centre is the pink coloured Carina Nebula and above that is the large, deep red Gum Nebula, made prominent thanks to the hydrogen alpha capture capabilities of the Nikon d810a, a dedicated astrophotography camera. Green and orange airglow can also be seen above the horizon.

One of the reasons I took this particular shot was to get an idea of the progress I have made over the last 8 years in astrophotography. Back in my early days in 2015 I took a shot near the same location. A single 30 second shot with a wide angle lens on a crop sensor d5100. A little bit of improvement I guess ;-)

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Olympus digital camera

Another capture from yesterday.

Mörudden, Hammarö in Värmland Sweden.

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At a remote spot near Riols.

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Beautiful setting for this old Homestead, just outside of Blanding, Utah.

St Maries going back to St Maries Idaho to have 4 empty center beams loaded for the UP in Plummer Idaho

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Well, they say you should look for foreground interest in landscape type scenes!!

totally boring self portraits

The train begins its journey onto the Browns Valley Sub, a branchline that goes (ironically) to Beardsley, just short of Browns Valley, and the part from Morris to Alberta is the most used part of the line, couldn't find any pics west of there. In the foreground, an accident memorial is seen off the highway.

First of I'd like to start by saying a huge thank you to everyone for all the accolades and comments on my recent work it really does mean a lot to know someone enjoys it, on to the shot here, the Northern peninsula just continues to provide me with stunning sunsets which is nice because most of the mornings its been gray and drab and dull, One of the things that has been a constant for me has been the enormous amount of driftwood along the entire viking trail, I decided I'd really like to use a piece in a shot and hoped i'd get the opportunity, I found myself in Plum Point as my girlfriend has some old family friends there se we stopped for a few minutes, i noticed the sky getting really nice and i gave my polite goodbyes and headed to the beach, This shot took many attempts to keep the foreground from beeing too dark without blowing out the sky but I was pretty happy with the results. I am Loading this from my campsite in the Codroy Valley, I have nowhere to plug in my laptop so I have to try to keep it short, once again thanks everyone I'm off to Rose Blanche tomorrow Hopefully the fine weather continues. Thanks again for all the comments and suggestions keep them coming and once i return home in a few days ill be glad to catch uo with everyone else's work, thanks again.

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Sunset in Plum Point Newfoundland & Labrador

Put something in foreground to create depth or to add interest.

Northern view from the slope of Big Yellow Mountain, NC.

You can barely tell but the two foreground trees are Mountain Ash with some berries still intact.

Foreground: Tomb of Isa Khan Niasi, Afghan noble in Sur Dynasty.

Background: Mosque (Sunni) of Isa Khan Niasi.

Tomb was constructed during short-lived Sur Dynasty and before Humayun Tomb from Mughal Dynasty which defeated it. Both tombs co-exist now on grounds of Humayun Tomb Complex, UNESCO World Heritage Site in Delhi, India.

Photo is scan of 35mm slide taken in 1984, so it doesn't show the renovations completed about 7 years ago.

foreground is snowplow, background wind blown snow

nikon fm2, auto dejur 35/f2.8, expired tokyo gratzy parade 100.

In the foreground is Class 43 power-car numbered 43188 leading 1B28, 11.45 Paddington to Swansea at Cardiff Central on 22 September 2015. (This HST set had been re-branded from First Great Western to Great Western Railway as part of the corporate change of name, etc. launched the previous day.)

In the background may be seen power-car numbered 43016, at the rear of 1L65 the 13.55 Cardiff Central to Paddington, this set still in the attractive FGW blue livery with 'wavy lines.'

Day 2 (v 15.0) - if you start at the back

To separate the foreground, you can use a few different ingredients. Since the background is white (unsaturated, bright) and uniform (non-edgy) you can test for each of these things separately (Laplacian for edginess) and threshold the results after doing some morphological filtering.

. . . remembering to put foreground in my landscape images.

Last fall season at Profile Lake, Franconia Notch State Park, New Hampshire. It was a nice sunset at the lake surrounded by full of fall colors. While I found someone designed the interesting foreground that I could use, a maple leaf "trapped" among the rocks.

Foreground is ripening winter wheat. Middle is spring wheat - has struggled with dry spring and bright yellow canola blooming. Hills in background are in Idaho.

I had to reprocess/ post process this photo in order for the foreground to more closely resemble what I observed. Unfortunately, that distorted the background. Wittenberg, Wisconsin, USA.

Stern of a ill-fated ship pulled on the shore of Arrecife.

Stack of 8x 10s frames, foreground and background edited separately.

Taken at Chalky Beach, Swansea Heads, NSW, Australia.

The rock structures here are varied and complex and help make a variety of compositions possible.

As always, thanks for any comments, views or favorites, they are much appreciated!

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Foreground - Horns of Alligin, middle Beinn Dearg, background - Beinn Eighe, from Sgurr Mor

Photos from my visit to the buddhist temple on River Rd. in Niagara Falls.

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