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Heavenly Swing Set.
Milky Way galaxy above a swingset in the water off of Bombay Beach at the Salton Sea. This art installation is in the Bombay Beach community of the Salton Sea and is the work of @ssippi on Instagram.
I've been wanting to shoot the Milky Way over this swing ever since I learned about it being installed here earlier this year. This past Friday July 5th the conditions were just right: no wind, calm & reflective water, and clear skies. This is a blend of a tracked exposure of the sky and another exposure of the swing, lake, and mountains in the background. As with all my composite shots, everything is where it really was at the time. This took several hours of processing to get the colors, edges of the horizon, masking out the swing from the tracked sky exposure, and more.
Exposure time for the tracked sky was 240 sec f/4 ISO 400 and the for the swing, water, and mountains in the distance, 180 sec f/4 ISO 400. Due to the 85° F temperatures, there is a bit more noise here than my recent milky way shots I've done in the mountains.
The bright blob of light on the top left of the swing is due to a solar lamp mounted here.
Though the lake is drying up due to famers using much more efficient crop irrigation methods (that results in much less runoff water flowing into the sea), several eccentric artists have begun flocking to the area in recent years. This is one of many
fascinating art installations in the area.
I've been intrigued (maybe obsessed as well) with the Salton Sea ever since I saw an exhibit about it at the San Diego Museum of Photographic Arts several years ago.
The Salton Sea is a shallow, saline, endorheic rift lake located directly on the San Andreas Fault, predominantly in the U.S. state of California's Imperial and Coachella valleys.
The lake occupies the lowest elevations of the Salton Sink in the Colorado Desert of Imperial and Riverside counties in Southern California. Its surface is 236.0 ft (71.9 m) below sea level as of January 2018.[1] The deepest point of the sea is 5 ft (1.5 m) higher than the lowest point of Death Valley. The sea is fed by the New, Whitewater, and Alamo Rivers (though just a trickle), as well as agricultural runoff, drainage systems, and creeks.
Decades ago, the Sea had its heyday and was booming with tourists, fishermen, boaters, swimmers, water skiers, yacht clubs, and hotels. In time, however, the salinity of the water began killing off the fish by the millions. Also, algae blooms would boom and bust and the stench of the decaying algae would give a a sulphur (rotten egg / sewage) smell and drive tourists away. Despite all this, the Sea is still an amazing and beautiful lake and is worth preserving.
Just the other day, the United State House of Representatives passed H.R. 2740, an appropriations bill in support of a federal agreement to allot $30 million for projects which would address the environmental and health crisis at the Salton Sea. While this bill still needs approval from the president before being enacted, this is some great news. #saltonsea #bombaybeach
Honestly, this is probably one of my prettiest flower shots ever... and if it isn't, I still like it the most... hahaaaa
I hope you like it toooooo. :)
In case you are wondering, this is a natural shot.
I also try to respond to the light in terms of what it's really trying to show in and of itself. I try to use the light to its best advantage. Thus, the subject matter is not the only consideration. -- Huntington Witherill
I'm posting this image for the sixty-four colors group. The assignment for this week is magenta and this is probably far from an exact match...but I confess here and now that I don't like magenta and if I were processing this image for any other reason, these berries would be a totally different shade of red.
Textures used:
Skeletal Mess "Grunge Box TOTD #112"
Flypaper "RainbowTrout"
Heavenly Gardens - live your dream today.
This one has a touch of the dystopian to it. I didn't originally intend to go for the run down look but a lack of sand green tiles led me to mix in some olive green and I decided to go with it. The once state of the art complex has fallen into disrepair. One of the shops in the ground floor arcade is closed for good and garbage has piled up in the alley behind the building.
The build started off as an exercise in trying to build a freestanding exterior stair at this scale. I'm reasonably happy with the result. Though I couldn't come up with a compact way to represent the actual risers.
This was a Saturday when I had a couple of hours to spare in between shopping at ASDA and going home to watch the FA Cup Final. Being in the harshest light of the afternoon, I wasn't expecting a great deal, but when I saw this interesting cloud pattern in an otherwise clear, blue sky, I knew that I had the potential for a mono infra red. Unfortunately , there was to be no heavenly, silver-lined cloud for Hull City.
I haven't been around for a few days. Funny how life throws a curve ball at you, and suddenly there's no time for Flickr haha! I'm off to check out all of your wonderful photos! Hope you're having a great weekend everyone... :-)
a heavenly macro shot of a yellow rose....dat i find perfectly heavenly flawed..just like me..i am *unique*...
^i^
*perfectly flawed* ~ song lyrics by otep
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ej4uAtX7SCE
If you do this
If you do this
If you do this you’ll never have a chance to try again
If you do this you’ll never have a chance to try
It’s the same sound
The same sting
The same collapse
Of everything
It’s the same slice
Same blade
The same lie
Same old vein
My weight, my face
My height, my race
I’m a mistake
My weight, my face
My height, my race
I’m such a disgrace
You’re perfectly flawed
You’re perfectly incomplete
Like cracks in the glass
And faded photographs
You’re perfectly flawed
You’re perfectly incomplete
Let them condemn
Imperfections make you unique
Nothing left to lose,
Just try again
Nothing left to lose,
Just try again
It’s the same doubt
The same dream
It’s the same sabotage
`Cause I’m the enemy
It’s the same night
The same day
It’s the same parasites
Feedin’ on the betrayed
My weight, my face
My height, my race
I’m a mistake
My weight, my face
My height, my race
I’m such a disgrace
You’re perfectly flawed
You’re perfectly incomplete
A work in progress
Imperfections make you unique
A disguise of self deception
Hides my secrets perfectly
I’m rejecting my reflection
`Cause I hate the way it judges me
Don’t you do it,
You’re not even you yet
Don’t you do it,
You’re not even you yet
You’re perfectly flawed
You’re perfectly incomplete
Like cracks in the glass
And faded photographs
You’re perfectly flawed
You’re perfectly incomplete
A work in progress
Imperfections make you unique
For the Monday challenge group. The challenge is the letter H. This may not be everyone's idea of heaven, but that's what it makes me think of when Iook through my lens and see this view.
Shadow and light late afternoon in one of the many heavenly valleys in Ladakh. Dodging the rain storms wad key. It took me three attempts for this, shot just before sunset, while looking night sky spots.
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We have had a lot of rain in Maple Ridge recently but last week the rain stopped for two days. I took advantage of the dry days and got out for some walks and photos of some great fall sunsets.
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Photo taken on : 12.04.2014
Place : Gangtok, Sikkim, India
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It's a new season. A perfect opportunity to do something NeW. something BoLd and something BeAuTiFuL.
~Had a drive to check on the gorgeous Autumn colors changing in Pagosa Country this morning on Tuesday, 2020...it's perfect for visiting Mother Earth in all her golden glory ❤.#pagosasprings,#pagosaspringscolorado,#pagosa,#colorado,#colorfulcolorado,#pagosaspringscolorado.
Evening light at Skógafoss, south Iceland.
Skógafoss is a spectacular waterfall situated in the south of Iceland at the cliffs of the former coastline. After the coastline had receded into the sea (it is now at a distance of about 5 km from Skógafoss), the cliffs stayed behind parallel to the coast over hundreds of kilometers, creating together with some mountains, a clear border between the Lowlands and the Highlands of Iceland.
With a width of 25 metres and a drop of 60 metres Skógafoss is one of the most impressive and beautiful waterfall of Iceland.
Skogafoss in the evening video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUjJeEDh4LM
More pictures of Skógafoss:
www.flickriver.com/photos/little_frank/tags/Sk%C3%B3gafoss/
The Wonders of GOĐALAND: waterfalls, volcanoes, cliffs, glaciers...