Coucher de soleil sur la plage de la Paracou à proximité des Sables d'Olonne.

[ Sunset on the beach of La Paracou. Les Sables-d'Olonne is a seaside town in western France, by the Atlantic Ocean.]

Nikon D800E + Carl Zeiss Distagon T* 21mm F2.8 ZF.2

Lee foundation kit + GND Lee 0.75xHE

Tripode Manfrotto 190CXPro4 + rotule Markins Q3 Emille

21mm, f/16

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Nikon D800E + Carl Zeiss Distagon T* 35mm F2 ZF.2

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Trépied Gitzo Mountaineer 6X + rotule Markins Q3 Emille

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La Pointe du But à l'île d'Yeu au petit matin, la veille de la tempête.

Nikon D800E + Carl Zeiss Distagon 15mm F2.8 ZF.2

Lee foundation kit + GND Lee 0.45xHE

Trépied Gitzo Mountaineer 6X + rotule Markins Q3 Emille

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Un superbe site au nord de la Guadeloupe.

Nikon D800E + Carl Zeiss Distagon T* 25mm F2 ZF.2

Filtre polarisant Rodenstock HR Digital MC

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Nikon D800E + Carl Zeiss Makro-Planar T* 100mm F2 ZF.2

Tripode Manfrotto 190CXPro4 + rotule Markins Q3 Emille

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When I was at this spot at Wat Mahathat in Ayutthaya, I thought that the foreground was rather dark, so I took a pair of photos of this scene - one was a normal shot and the other, an HDR shot which is shown here. Although the HDR capture has the "halo-effect" around the towers and trees, it appears more detailed and cheerful. What do you think?

PS: When the Burmese attacked Ayutthaya in the past, they beheaded all these Buddha statues. A few have since been restored.

About 10 minutes after sunrise in Milan, MI, the first one of 2012.

Ricoh

105mm f/2.8

In-camera strong HDR capture

Unsharp masked and tone-mapped in the GIMP

Nikon D800E + Carl Zeiss Distagon T* 18mm F3,5 ZF.2

Lee foundation kit + GND Lee 0.6xHE

Trépied Gitzo Mountaineer 6X + rotule Markins Q3 Emille

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My first HDR capture in Sweden

Une pose longue à l'heure bleue devant de grands arbres morts couchés sur la plage de Grande Anse sur l'île de Praslin aux Seychelles.

Un endroit très inspirant !

Nikon D800E + Carl Zeiss Distagon T* 18mm F3,5 ZF.2

Lee foundation kit + filtre GND Lee 0.75xHE

Trépied Gitzo Mountaineer 6X + rotule Markins Q3 Emille

18mm, f/16

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Nikon D800E + Carl Zeiss Distagon T* 18mm F3,5 ZF.2

Lee foundation kit + GND Lee 0.75xHE + filtre CPL Lee

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Nikon D800E + Carl Zeiss Distagon 15mm F2.8 ZF.2

Lee foundation kit + GND Lee 0.75xHE

Trépied Gitzo Mountaineer 6X + rotule Markins Q3 Emille

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A combination of titles for this image. One is from this one I came across a few years ago on Flickr (www.flickr.com/photos/the-o/6177849668/in/gallery-1472333...). The other is from one of the Nik CEP 4.0 filters I used for this image. It's actually a recipe of a number of filters, but the Low Key filter is one that really brought out the look I felt best captured this mountain setting. With the bright sunlight coming out this late morning, I decided to once again try out a techniques of using an HDR capture with my Nikon D800E with multiple in-camera exposures. I then brought the image into Capture NX2 for a majority of the post-processing work before exporting a TIFF image to Nik CEP 4.0

Nikon D800E + Carl Zeiss Makro-Planar T* 50mm F2 ZF.2

Lee foundation kit + GND Lee 0.6xHE

Trépied Gitzo Mountaineer 6X + rotule Markins Q3 Emille

50mm, f/8

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Nikon D800E + Carl Zeiss Distagon T* 18mm F3,5 ZF.2

Lee foundation kit + GND Lee 0.75xHE

Trépied Gitzo Mountaineer 6X + rotule Markins Q3 Emille

18mm, f/11

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I took a whole series of pictures around the pier, and I have a feeling those better at HDR and with an artistic eye might be able to squeeze a lot me juice out of this subject, than me.

A challenge for the future may be ?

Very striaght forward composition taken with my sigma 10 - 20mm. HDR capture.

Title explanation,my mate Kevin reckons all my HDR's look as though its going to rain :0)

Thor's Helmet ( NGC 2359 ) in the constellation Canis Major

This HDR image shows the bright nebula in a sea of colourful stars against a background of red from dust and HA emissions. The stars in this image range from the brightest ( bottom right, HD 56501 ) at magnitude +7.7 to more than +22. HDR capture and processing allows all of the stars to be portrayed in colour without any burnt-out highlights. The colours of the stars and nebula are as close as I can get them to the "true colours" using a "daylight colour balance" and allowing for the extinction of blue-green due to atmospheric absorption/scattering ( mean altitude during capture ~ 60deg ).

The blue star in the centre of the bubble of expanding stellar material is HD 56925 ( WR7 ) - a massive, unstable and short-lived Wolf-Rayet star that one day will detonate in a supernova.

Magnitude +11.5, RA (2000.0) 7h 15m 37s, Dec -13deg 12' 8"

Approx. 1800 light years away

Image details:

Alt. Title: " The Blue Bunny Nebula "

NGC 2359 Thor's Helmet

aka The Duck Nebula

Wolf-Rayet star #7 - HD 56925

( 11.5 mag blue star at the centre of the 'bubble' )

Haffner 6 - Open Star Cluster

( centre left of image )

Plate Solution:

Resolution ........ 1.318 arcsec/px

Rotation .......... 0.00 deg ( North is up )

Focal ............. 1398.41 mm

Field of view ..... 57' 40.8" x 38' 29.0"

Image center ...... RA: 07 18 36.509 Dec: -13 11 53.38

Telescope: Orion Optics CT12 Newtonian ( mirror 300mm, fl 1200mm, f4 ).

Corrector: ASA 2" Coma Corrector Quattro 1.175x.

Effective Focal Length / Aperture : 1410mm f4.7

Mount: Skywatcher EQ8

Guiding: TSOAG9 Off-Axis-Guider, Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2, PHD2

Camera:

Nikon D5300 (unmodified) (sensor 23.5 x 15.6mm, 6016x4016 3.9um pixels)

Location:

Blue Mountains, Australia

Moderate light pollution ( pale green zone on darksitefinder.com map )

Capture ( 18 & 19 Jan 2018 )

9 sets of sub-images with exposure duration for each set doubling ( 1s to 240s ) all at ISO 250.

116 x 240s + 5 each @ 1s to 120s

Processing ( Pixinsight - 20 Jan 18 )

Calibration: master bias, master dark and master flat

Integration in 9 sets

HDR combination

arcSinH stretch

Links:

500px.com/MikeODay

photo.net/photos/MikeODay

www.flickr.com/photos/mike-oday

Les falaises impressionnantes de Marie-Galante.

Nikon D800E + Carl Zeiss Distagon T* 25mm F2 ZF.2

Filtre polarisant Rodenstock HR Digital MC

Trépied Gitzo Mountaineer 6X + rotule Markins Q3 Emille

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Expo longue (111 secondes) au coucher de soleil à l'anse des Sables Rouis à l'île d'Yeu.

Ce soir là j'ai rencontré un autre photographe extrêmement talentueux et passionné, lui aussi inconditionnel des filtres dégradés, Hervé Dugoujon (www.herve-dugoujon.com, 500px.com/HervDugoujon), avec qui j'ai ensuite fait d'autres sorties.

[ Long exposure at sunset on the Wild Coast of l'Île d'Yeu. L'Île d'Yeu is an island off the french Atlantic coast.]

Nikon D700 + Carl Zeiss Distagon T* 18mm F3,5 ZF.2

Tripode Manfrotto 190CXPro4 + rotule joystick Manfrotto 324RC2

Lee foundation kit + filtre Lee Big Stopper + filtre GND Lee 0.9xHE

18mm, f/11, 111s

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••••••• BONNE et HEUREUSE ANNEE 2015 !!! •••••••

••••••• HAPPY NEW YEAR !!! •••••••

Nikon D800E + Carl Zeiss Distagon T* 25mm F2 ZF.2

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Found this guy stuck to a tree...

iPhone 5 HDR capture processed with iPhone app.

Abandoned building somewhere in france

HDR capture

Nikon D800E + Carl Zeiss Distagon T* 21mm F2.8 ZF.2

Lee foundation kit + GND Lee 0.75xHE

Trépied Gitzo Mountaineer 6X + rotule Markins Q3 Emille

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HDR capture of the odds and ends laying around in the staff shop at Mystic Seaport, CT.

La célèbre et puissante chute de Skógafoss en Islande haute de 62 mètres.

Nikon D800E + Carl Zeiss Distagon T* 21mm F2.8 ZF.2

Trépied Gitzo Mountaineer 6X + rotule Markins Q3 Emille

Lee Foundation kit + filtres GND Lee 0.75 + filtre Lee Big Stopper

21mm, f/16, 10s

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We were very fortunate to spend this year's 4th of July holiday with family & friends, and we had an absolutely fantastic time! We also had a rare opportunity to attend a fireworks show as a guest of the team responsible for running the event.

Just wanted to say thank you to Doug, Brian, and the rest of the team for giving us the opportunity to see how a professional fireworks display is choreographed and executed. The show was outstanding, and will be remembered by us for a long time to come.

Here's a few of my favorite fireworks shots that I took at their show... These are all non-HDR captures, and have been finished in Photoshop.

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This is the waterfall at the end of the gorge trail at Conkle's Hollow in Hocking Hills OH. At first sight, the recess cave appeared to be an inky black hole. The sunlit water was pure white in tone. This has to be the most extreme range of contrast I have encountered in a landscape setting. Image was compiled from a 9 exposure HDR capture in PS HDR Pro. A 32 bit tif was saved out of HDR Pro, then processed in ACR with final touches applied in PS.

Nikon D800E + Carl Zeiss Distagon T* 25mm F2 ZF.2

Filtre polarisant Rodenstock HR Digital MC

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25mm, f/11

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Nikon D800E + Carl Zeiss Distagon T* 21mm F2.8 ZF.2

Lee foundation kit + filtre CPL Lee + filtre GND 0.75 hard

Trépied Gitzo Mountaineer 6X + rotule Markins Q3 Emille

21mm, f/13

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Un superbe site au nord-est de la Guadeloupe.

Nikon D800E + Carl Zeiss Distagon T* 25mm F2 ZF.2

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About 310 km from Scarborough, Algonquin Provincial Park is located between Georgian Bay and the Ottawa River in Central Ontario, mostly within the Unorganized South Part of Nipissing District. Established in 1893, it is the oldest provincial park in Canada. The park is considered part of the "border" between Northern Ontario and Southern Ontario. The park is in an area of transition between coniferous forest and deciduous forest. This unique mixture of forest types, and the wide variety of environments in the park, allows the park to support an uncommon diversity of plant and animal species.

This was taken on an overcast afternoon. The colours were subdued and harmonious.

white nights impressive sunset taken on the north of ladoga lake

Vue de Bienne depuis Macolin, juste avant le lever du soleil, avec les Alpes en fond.

Fusion HDR de 3 photos (+/-2 stops) sous Capture One 22.

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View of Biel from Magglingen, just before sunrise, with the Alps in the background.

HDR merge of 3 photos (+/-2 stops) in Capture One 22.

Nikon D800E + Carl Zeiss Distagon T* 35mm F2 ZF.2

Lee foundation kit + GND Lee 0.75xHE

Trépied Gitzo Mountaineer 6X + rotule Markins Q3 Emille

35mm, f/11

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Location:- Bogda Shan (Tian Shan), in Fukang City, Xinjiang

Coordinates:- 43°53′9.7″N 88°7′56.6″E

Basin countries:- China

This was taken on an overcast autumn afternoon. It was a bit breezy: the ripples adorned the otherwise smooth surface.

Tianchi (Chinese: 天池; pinyin: Tiānchí, Uyghur: بوغدا كۆلى) is an alpine lake in Xinjiang, Northwest China. The name (天池) literally means Heavenly Lake and can refer to several lakes in mainland China and Taiwan. This Tianchi lies on the north side of the Bogda Shan ("Mountain of God", Bogda is a Mongolian word meaning "God") range of the Tian Shan ("Mountain of Heaven"), about 30 kilometres (19 mi) south of Fukang and 45 kilometres (28 mi) east (straight-line distance) of Ürümqi. It is an alpine drift lake shaped in the Quaternary Glacier period.

Formerly known as Yaochi ("Jade Lake"), it was named Tianchi in 1783 by Mingliang, the Qing Commander of Urumqi Command.

The lake is 1,907 metres (6,257 ft) above sea level, covering 4.9 square kilometres (1.9 sq mi), 105 metres (344 ft) deep at the deepest point.

The lake is classified as a highest level scenic area by the China National Tourism Administration.

天池，是天山山脈東段博格達山主峰博格達峰北麓處的一個冰磧湖，位於中國新疆昌吉州阜康市南30公里，省會烏魯木齊東45公里處，為著名旅遊勝地。天池形狀狹長，南北長約3公里，東西最寬處1.5公里，總面積4.9平方公里，湖面海拔1907米，湖最深處105米。該湖得名自烏魯木齊都統明亮於乾隆四十八年（1783年）所作的《靈山天池統鑿水渠碑記》。

2000年，天山天池被國家旅遊局評定為AAAA級風景區。

2007年，天山天池被國家旅遊局評定為國家5A級旅遊景區。

2013年，天山天池進入國家地質公園行列。

2013年，被列入聯合國教科文組織世界遺產名錄。

Sunset over Torquay Harbour in this HDR capture using 3 bracketed shots and blended with Photomatix Pro 5 and adjustments in Lightroom 5.

This image is included in 3 galleries :- 1) "PAISAJES INCREÍBLES.PAISAJES DE ALUCINE XVLVXXVXXVXXXX." curated by Lagarto (miguelitoiglesias21), 2) "MEGALITHS AROUND THE WORLD" by digitalbyKJ and 3) "Beautiful Landscapes" by Karen Valentine.

The Bakers Oven is a spectacular natural attraction located along the famed Great Ocean Road in Port Campbell, Victoria, Australia. This stunning site features dramatic coastal cliffs and unique rock formations that provide a breathtaking backdrop for visitors.

The namesake may also due to the oven-like hole in the island and a small rock, shaped like a loaf of bread that once sat on the ledge - according to Rodney Hyett.

This image was taken on a summer afternoon, the sky was adorned with an interesting wavy cloud formation. In the overcast light, the island looked like a gigantic, luminous precious stone. This was taken during one of the occasional calm moments. Beyond the horizon is Bass Strait.

( Explored : Mar 10, 2025 #30 )

This image is included in 2 galleries:- 1) "The Eternal Whispered 2" curated by thanks 173rd Airborne and 2) "Couchers et/ou levers de soleil - Sunsets or sunrises" by Rick The Zoo.

Lake Tyrrell (also known as Lake Tyrrell Wildlife Reserve) is a shallow, salt-crusted depression in the Mallee district of north-west Victoria, in Australia. The name 'Tyrrell' is derived from the local Wergaia word for 'sky', the Boorong Aboriginal people of the area being distinguished for their interest in star-lore. The Boorong, with their astronomical traditions, told stories connected with constellations in the night sky.

In the mid-2010s, the lake became a tourist mecca, particularly for Chinese. It is a popular location for photographers and social media users, who take snaps of the lake's mirror-like surface (天空之鏡) during winter, when ground water percolates to the surface and inflows arrive from the Avoca River/Tyrrell Creek system.

At more than 20,800 hectares, Lake Tyrrell might hold the title of state’s largest salt lake.

During dry periods, people can walk on to the lake area by using places where salt has formed a solid surface.

This was taken on an Autumnal dawn during dry season. Here the salt on the lake surface is drenched in the beautiful colours of a spectacular dawn clouds.

( Explored: Jul 2, 2025 #36 )

This image is included in a gallery "PAISAJES INCREÍBLES.PAISAJES DE ALUCINE XVLVXXVXXVXXXXVXVIII." curated by Lagarto (miguelitoiglesias21).

The Hopewell Rocks are located in New Brunswick, Canada, within one hour of the nearest airport in Moncton, N.B.

An UNESCO site, the Hopewell Rocks, also called the Flowerpots Rocks or simply The Rocks, are rock formations caused by tidal erosion in The Hopewell Rocks Ocean Tidal Exploration Site in New Brunswick. Carved by melting glaciers, then sculpted by the world's highest and most artistic tides, these stacks stand 40–70 feet tall. They are located on the shores of the upper reaches of the Bay of Fundy at Hopewell Cape near Moncton.

Due to the extreme tidal range of the Bay of Fundy, the base of the formations are covered in water twice a day. The formations consist of dark sedimentary conglomerate and sandstone rock. The large volume of water flowing in to and out of the Bay of Fundy modifies the landscape surrounding it. Each day 160 billion tonnes of seawater flows in and out of the Bay of Fundy during one tide cycle, more than the combined flow of the world’s freshwater rivers! After the retreat of the glaciers in the region following the last ice age, surface water filtering through cracks in the cliff has eroded and separated the formations from the rest of the cliff face. Meanwhile, advancing and retreating tides and the associated waves have eroded the base of the rocks at a faster rate than the tops, resulting in their unusual shapes.

Because the Fundy Bay is funnel-shaped - wide and deep at one end and shallow at the other, tides are pushed increasingly higher as they move up the Bay. By the time they reach "The Rocks" they are over four stories high! Although the tides vary from day to day, the high tide can be as high as 16 metres (52ft) and an average of 10.7 metres (35ft), giving the Hopewell Rocks one of the highest average tides in the world.

We only had barely over an hour's time there because the tide was coming in very fast. This was one of the last couple of shots taken before we were able to retreat to higher ground. Luckily the light was reasonably good.

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Lee foundation kit + GND Lee 0.75xHE

Trépied Gitzo Mountaineer 6X + rotule Markins Q3 Emille

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This day I hiked up to a waterfall of the "Lavant Dorfbach". It was the time to make some experiments with ND-Filer, Pol-Filter and HDR. In this pictures you will find no HDR capture, because I found out that these seems to "artifical" to me. The do not express my impressions at the waterfall.

Nikon D800E + Carl Zeiss Distagon 21mm F2.8 ZF.2

Lee foundation kit + GND Lee 0.75xHE

Trépied Gitzo Mountaineer 6X + rotule Markins Q3 Emille

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This image is included in 4 galleries:- 1) "My dream exhibition 246" curated by Escape & evasion - Capture the moment!, 2) "Paysages (36) : mes coups de coeur ♥ !" by Miss-Louly, 3) "54. August_25. MORE SUMMER PICTURES" by Nicola Smith (NickyFay) and 4) "Beautiful Journey V" by Waldgeist (tofacethe).

This was taken on a warm summer's evening. The weather was unstable and changing fast. This was captured at a rare moment when the sun broke through the cloud covers. The stratus/cumulus cloud formation was quite interesting.

Previously known as Island Archway, they are about 160 metres from Loch Ard Gorge. The arch collapsed in June 2009 and the two remaining rock pillars have since been officially named Tom and Eva after the two survivors of the Loch Ard shipwreck.

Australian's European history has numerous stories of shipwrecks, and one of the worst tragedies was that of the Loch Ard, wrecked on Mutton Bird Island reefs in 1878, just off the Shipwreck Coast in Victoria, Australia.

The Loch Ard was an iron-hulled three masted clipper ship, whose name came from a lake just west of the village of Aberfoyle in Scotland. It was on a non-stop voyage from London to Melbourne with passengers that included members of the Carmichael family. Three months out from London, after days of fog and haze, Captain Gibb had trouble calculating his position for the critical pass into Bass Strait's western entrance (a 90 km passage between the coast and King Island). On the 1st June, 1878, the captain tried to take evasive action when he saw how close they were to the cliffs. This was to no avail when the ship struck the reefs of Mutton Bird Island, just off the coast. The mast and rigging smashed, some of it onto the deck and trapping some people, others were washed overboard, then the ship began to roll. It took only fifteen minutes for the Loch Ard to sink. Of the 54 passengers and crew, there were only two survivors, Tom Pearce, a member of the crew and 18 year old Eva Carmichael, who was travelling with her family. Tom, clinging to a overturned lifeboat, was washed into a deep gorge, that now bears the name the Loch Ard Gorge. Eva, who could not swim, managed to cling to some wreckage from the ship, which drifted through huge twin cliffs into a small bay of the gorge. She was very exhausted, and Tom saw her in the waves and despite being exhausted himself, swam out to rescue her, and after an hour long struggle managed to bring her safely back to land. Tom took Eva to a cave at the end of the gorge, then climbed the cliffs to get help, not seeing the steps that were already cut into the cliff face. He ran into a party from nearby Glenample Station who returned with him to rescue Eva. After their recovery they never saw each other again, as Eva returned to Ireland and later married. Tom eventually became a ship's captain. (Sourced from Internet)

( Explored: Aug 22, 2025 #8 )