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The Highlight Towers are twin office towers located in the the Parkstadt Schwabing area of Munich. With a height of 126m resp. 113m they belong to the tallest buildings in Munich.
The towers are connected by two glass/steel bridges, a double bridge at the 9th/10th floor and a single bridge at the 20th floor. Design by Murphy/Jahn (Chicago, USA).
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A lovely sunrise this morning but unable to rush out due to cracked ribs after a heavy fall on the ice onto my back last Monday which has all but laid me up.
Peonies at the UC Botanical Garden. Right on schedule for Mother’s Day!
Peonies are important in Chinese herbal medicine. These are blooming in the university's Chinese Medicinal section.
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The top floor fills with shadows of palm trees and gentle beams that bounce off the flakes of dust rising from abandoned floors and dusted furniture. Grandeur’s of memories of elegance that once was. Highlighted flakes of dust waiting to settle for the night, when the memories come to life and elegance lives again; as the haunted music of crashing waves and flamingo chirps and squawks fill the halls. Outside the peacocks watch guard over the gardens that once were and the flamingos who wonder the isolated grounds.
Featuring items from this round of Cosmopolitan Event.
GOOSE x Duvet Day x Compulsion x "sources"
For more details and LM's check out the blog post here:
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Die Züge von und zu dem Ems Werk in Domat waren im Jahr 2021 das Normalspur Highlight in der Ostschweiz, während der SBB Zug auch im Fahrplanjahr 2022 noch wie auch dem Bild zu sehen mit Re 620 verkehrt, so wurde die Re 425 der BLS bis zum Lötschberg Autoverlad zurückgedrängt, weshalb auf dem Netz der Rhätischen Bahn nur noch Vectronen der BLS anzutreffen sind.
Am 05.11.2021 war Re 620 061 mit dem SBB Zug gerade beim Verlassen des Ems werkes, als sie von mir aufgenommen werden konnte.
Late afternoon at Hambersham is always a dramatic spot especially in Fall as late afternoon sun highlights the trees and exhaust of a southbound coal train trying to climb Duff Mountain.
Shooting with the Fuji X I can imitate the Nikon photo very closely but chose to do what Fuji X does best: be creative. I started with an in camera processed JPEG image, Softened the highlights & shadows. then ran it through photoshop for a different look: this is the result
While Fuji will never replace Nikon, [but would like Nikon to be more like Fuji X]. It is a viable camera that is easy & fun to use and takes quality photos.
I shot this about an hour earlier than the original, so the light is a bit stronger, and had to compensate by under exposing by about 1 to 2 stops to bring highlights into about zone 6 /7. Then bring up the shadows & blacks in Lightroom.
I have given serious thought to trading in my Nikon gear for a Fuji XT4. WE will see.
Autumn in Melbourne is always beautiful, with many wonderful deciduous trees full of colour like these maple leaves, which are just starting to get a hint of the rich gold, orange and red tones they will soon have.
Melbourne has experienced a wonderful Indian summer this year, and as a result, not only are there still plenty of beautiful blooms about, but the Autumnal colours are starting to appear.
Botallack, Cornwall
My last upload of 2022 and another image from the Cornwall tour with Mark, Geoff and Shelly. 2022 has been mainly a series of many low points with very few highlights for me, but Cornwall was definitely the pinnacle and an opportunity to get away and do something for myself with good friends.
I’ve not posted a lot this year, in fact it’s been my second lowest output (a measly 57) since I joined Flickr way back in 2015. So, I’ll bypass all the fake New Year’s celebrations this weekend and dive head first into 2023 next week. As the song says… things can only get better!
See you all in 2023 and many thanks for all the support and comments throughout the year.
These sunlit weeping cherry leaves looked even brighter against the Japanese red maple and sky in the front yard.
Malewszczyzna, near Zamosc, eastern Poland.
Picture 2021-11-12-4439_P_FS
Edited in Canon DPP 4:
Digital lens optimizer: Yes (50)
Diffraction correction: Yes
Chromatic aberration: Yes (100)
Color blur: Yes
Peripheral illumination: No (reduced to 0)
Distortion: Yes (100)
Brightness: +0.83
White balance: Auto (White priority)
Fine tune: Not changed (0.0 / 0.0)
Picture style: Neutral
Gamma: Auto (Not changed)
Contrast: +2
Shadow: +1
Highlight: 0
Color saturation: 0
Sharpness: Yes (Unsharp mask)
Strength: 3
Fineness: 1
Thresholt: 3
Cropping: Not cropped
Angle: 0.00 (Not changed)
No photomontage.
Framed in Photoshop 6
Dieses etwas gequälte Lächeln gehört zu einer Figur, die wir unlängst in Valencia bewunderten. Dort findet jedes Jahr im März drei Wochen lang ein Festival namens Fallas statt. Dabei werden in der ganzen Stadt bis zu 30 Meter hohe Figuren aus Holz und Pappmaché aufgestellt, die alle (bis auf eine, die von den Einwohnern ausgewählt wird) beim Höhepunkt des Festes am 19. März verbrannt werden. Jetzt ist wohl klar, warum dieser Sultan so gequält lächelt !! 😉
This rather pained smile belongs to a figure we recently admired in Valencia. A festival called Fallas takes place there for three weeks every March. Figures up to 30 metres high made of wood and papier-mâché are placed throughout the city, all of which (except for one, which is chosen by the residents) are burnt at the highlight of the festival on 19 March. Now it's clear why this sultan is smiling so painfully !! 😉
Smile on Saturday: SMILE AND SHOW YOUR TEETH
We're still coated with ice and now 8 inches of snow, as well. A most beautiful way to end the year. This Red Twig Dogwood entirely coated in sparkling ice.
After some heavy rain, the cleanliness and perfection of these anthers were even better highlighted by the rain drop.
Spent some time this week putting a ton of miles on the car in Colorado. I have been wanting to visit this site for awhile now and I finally had the chance to do it. The day we arrived, the weather provided blue skies but the weather can change quickly in a valley like this. I’m told this is the most photographed spot in Colorado. These “Bells” or mountains are both 14k feet high. This one lone stray cloud came swooping in while I was setting up this shot. We hiked past the lake for a little bit but never made it to Crater Lake down the path. The Aspens were in full bloom this week. I kept studying which week might be best to see it. Some of my research was to look at hotel prices to see when they were spiking. This proved to me a good measuring stick. Overall I was extrememly happy with my travels. We covered alot of ground and this was one of the highlights. I have to say this rivaled the Tunnel View of Yosemite for me in terms of being an impressive view to witness in person.
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Mike D.
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wild cherry ~ prunus avium
The late afternoon sun caught this tree branch and lit it up. After another damp dreary day it was quite a sight.
Looking down the two levels of an aged rusty staircase at Z Ward.
Z Ward was a separate building at the Glenside Mental Hospital that catered for the criminally insane. Built in 1885, it is now empty and preserved by the National Trust.
The highlight of my ramble through nature yesterday, in the Cullinan Conservation Area, was this Raccoon who scrambled out of a trash can as I was just 2 feet away. He scared the living daylights out of me! But as consolation he was curious to see who had interrupted his foraging and posed for pictures just a few short feet away.
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Shot taken in Gatlinburg Tennessee where we was taking some vacation time. The car is not ours....its apart of a new exhibit they have down there. All the cars are inside but this one had a background to create a more realistic shot out in the mountains. It was also the only one you was allowed to get close to or set in. Some of the cars was worth several million dollars! Crazy ...... my wife and I enjoyed seeing them but they were not impressive enough to us for that cost lol!!
Its "very" nasty in our area right now and we will have somewhere around 20 inches of snow by this evening in 24 hours!
So I decided to post another brighter more colorful perspective just to brighten things up... Gonna surprise my wife too 😎👍
Thanks for visiting everyone!! I appreciate it and take care out there to all those getting this storm 🙏