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2015 Pan Am Games
Nathan Phillips Square
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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taken in basel, switzerland
Tower Bridge, London 2012 Summer Olympics
On the eve of the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro I thought I'd repost this slightly improved image as a reminder of the games that London staged.
As a nation we Brits are generally a cynical lot. From the announcement that London would be the host city for the 2012 Olympic Games right up to the start there was much pessimism nationwide. The press and media had a field day... costs would running away; tickets will be too expensive for the ordinary man; it will be a disaster; we won't win anything; the country can't afford it! The BBC even produced a spoof documentary series leading up to the games called "Twenty Twelve", which played to our stereotype of a bumbling, disorganised and underachieving nation (we don't mention England's dismal performance in the Euros as that is a given and a whole subject on its own).
However, the seedlings of optimism started to grow when Sir Bradley Wiggins won the Tour de France on the 22nd July, the week before. A glorious triumph of preparation, team working and behind the scenes man-management masterminded by Sir David Brailsford of Team Sky. But this was nothing compared to what would follow on the night of 27th July 2012.
From the moment the opening ceremony began even the most cynical could not fail to be impressed with the vision unfolding in the Olympic Stadium... a show orchestrated by Danny Boyle (the man who turned down his knighthood on the grounds he couldn't take credit for the achievements of thousands... a top man in my book). We showcased our history, culture, music, achievements - who will forget Kenneth Branagh as Isambard Kingdom Brunel and the Industrial Revolution changing the green landscape before our eyes and forging the rings that ascended into the night sky to form the five Olympic rings. The National Health Service, Sir Tim Berners-Lee - the inventor of the World Wide Web (WWW) and not forgetting Mr Bean, known the world over.
The Stadium, designed by Populous and built on time and on budget, the aquatic centre designed by the brilliant and sadly late Zaha Hadid. And not forgetting the stunning design for the Olympic Cauldron, by Thomas Heatherwick. How quickly the mood of a nation changed in those four hours and the following morning, the press and media had turned full circle with positive headlines and double page colour spreads of the spectacle that was the Opening Ceremony.
The opening day of competition saw a million people line the course for the men's road cycling race, every sport and venue packed to the rafters and when Team GB won their first gold (Bradley Wiggins - cycling time trial), we were on our way. The sporting achievements of Team GB surpassed all expectations and I couldn't do justice to them all in my little write-up but we finished the games with 65 metals (29 Gold, 17 Silver, 19 Bronze), third overall behind the superpowers of the US and China.
The London 2012 Olympics Games are our finest national moment in modern times in terms of infrastructure, organisation, support as well as the sporting achievements. 1966 doesn't come anywhere close for the simple reason these were the games for the people. Thousands volunteered not just for the two ceremonies, but to organise visitors at every event, station, tube line, railway station, the underground. London was packed with volunteers working for free to make these Games the greatest in the modern era of the Olympics and the benchmark for those that follow. Given the opportunity and the right people to lead, Great Britain once again showed the world what we are capable of achieving as a nation.
So Rio, you have a tough act to follow and the world will be watching... good luck!
gustav the crane is still working until late, late night... Hope he's enjoying his last weeks working here in basel...
taken in Basel, switzerland
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Exposure: 5 sec (5)
Aperture: f/18
Focal Length: 22 mm
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Adidas players: Barnetta (Switzerland), Ballack and Lahm (Germany), van Persie (Netherlands), Cech (Czech Republic), Charisteas (Greece), Villa (Spain), Benzema und Vieira (France), Ivanschitz (Austria) and Chivu (Romania).
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Exposure: 0.033 sec (1/30)
Aperture: f/8
Focal Length: 10 mm
Adidas players: Barnetta (Switzerland), Ballack and Lahm (Germany), van Persie (Netherlands), Cech (Czech Republic), Charisteas (Greece), Villa (Spain), Benzema und Vieira (France), Ivanschitz (Austria) and Chivu (Romania).
My first night shot at Spalentor, Basel, Switzerland
Another view of the Valencia's Port. The colours are completely different comparing with the previous shot.
Valencia, Spain, 2007 America's Cup Host City.
Canon Powershot Pro1.
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View on black: 'Valencia's harbour at dawn: photo # 2' On Black
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wonderful days today and yesterday for me - Blocher the ultra-conservative federal council of switzerland has not been reelected and displaced by Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf..
wonderful! thanks!
taken in basel, switzerland
City lights at night along the France-Italy border, Europe are featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 23 crew member on the International Space Station (ISS). The brightly lit metropolitan areas of Torino (Italy), Lyon, and Marseille (both in France) stand out amidst numerous smaller urban areas in this dramatic photograph. The image captures the night time appearance of the France-Italy border area between the mountainous Alps to the north (not shown) and the island of Corsica in the Ligurian Sea to the south (top). The full moon reflects brightly on the water surface and also illuminates the tops of low patchy clouds over the border (center).
This image was taken by an ISS crew member at approximately 11:55 p.m. local time when the station was located over the France-Belgium border near Luxembourg. Crew members orbiting Earth frequently collect images that include sunglint, or sunlight that reflects off a water surface at such an angle that it travels directly back towards the observer. Sunglint typically lends a mirror-like appearance to the water surface. During clear sky conditions reflected light from the moon can produce the same effect (moon glint) as illustrated in this view. The observer was looking towards the southeast at an oblique viewing angle at the time the image was taken; in other words, looking outwards from the ISS, not straight down towards Earth.
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that was a very long cold night my collegue and I had to wait and sit and watch over a civil protection building from midnight till 8 in the morning...
we saw foxes, hedgehogs and finally a superb sunrise...
taken in basel, switzerland, last year
This image of Europe, and the Middle East at night is a composite assembled from data acquired by the Suomi NPP satellite in April and October 2012. The new data was mapped over existing Blue Marble imagery of Earth to provide a realistic view of the planet.
The nighttime view was made possible by the new satellite’s “day-night band” of the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite. VIIRS detects light in a range of wavelengths from green to near-infrared and uses filtering techniques to observe dim signals such as gas flares, auroras, wildfires, city lights, and reflected moonlight. In this case, auroras, fires, and other stray light have been removed to emphasize the city lights.
Instrument: Suomi NPP - VIIRS
Credit: NASA Earth Observatory
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Adidas players: Barnetta (Switzerland), Ballack and Lahm (Germany), van Persie (Netherlands), Cech (Czech Republic), Charisteas (Greece), Villa (Spain), Benzema und Vieira (France), Ivanschitz (Austria) and Chivu (Romania).
Sochi, Russia Winter Olympic Sites (Coastal Cluster)
The Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia, is the warmest city ever to host the Winter Olympic Games, which open on Feb. 7, 2014, and run through Feb. 23. This north-looking image, acquired on Jan. 4, 2014, by the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) instrument on NASA's Terra spacecraft, shows the Sochi Olympic Park Coastal Cluster -- the circular area on the shoreline in the bottom center of the image -- which was built for Olympic indoor sports. Even curling has its own arena alongside multiple arenas for hockey and skating. The Olympic alpine events will take place at the Mountain Cluster, located in a snow-capped valley at the top right of the image. Sochi itself, a city of about 400,000, is not visible in the picture. It's farther west (left) along the coast, past the airport at bottom left.
In the image, red indicates vegetation, white is snow, buildings are gray and the ocean is dark blue. The area imaged is about 15 miles (24 kilometers) from west to east (left to right) at the coastline and 25 miles (41 kilometers) from front to back. Height is exaggerated 1.5 times. The image was created from the ASTER visible and near-infrared bands, draped over ASTER-derived digital elevation data.
With its 14 spectral bands from the visible to the thermal infrared wavelength region and its high spatial resolution of 15 to 90 meters (about 50 to 300 feet), ASTER images Earth to map and monitor the changing surface of our planet. ASTER is one of five Earth-observing instruments launched Dec. 18, 1999, on Terra. The instrument was built by Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. A joint U.S./Japan science team is responsible for validation and calibration of the instrument and data products.
The broad spectral coverage and high spectral resolution of ASTER provides scientists in numerous disciplines with critical information for surface mapping and monitoring of dynamic conditions and temporal change. Example applications are: monitoring glacial advances and retreats; monitoring potentially active volcanoes; identifying crop stress; determining cloud morphology and physical properties; wetlands evaluation; thermal pollution monitoring; coral reef degradation; surface temperature mapping of soils and geology; and measuring surface heat balance.
The U.S. science team is located at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. The Terra mission is part of NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C.
More information about ASTER is available at asterweb.jpl.nasa.gov/.
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NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team
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KLAX (Los Angeles International Airport) - 01 JAN 2016
Emirates A6-EOF (FLT UAE216) departing RWY 25L en route to Dubai Int'l (OMDB/DXB).
First flight: 27 AUG 2014
Test registration: F-WWAM
Delivery to Emirates: 30 JAN 2015
Sochi, Russia Winter Olympic Sites (Mountain Cluster)
The 2014 Winter Olympic ski runs may be rated double black diamond, but they're not quite as steep as they appear in this image of the skiing and snowboarding sites for the Sochi Winter Olympic Games, acquired on Jan. 4, 2014, by the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) instrument on NASA's Terra spacecraft. Rosa Khutar ski resort near Sochi, Russia, is in the valley at center, and the runs are visible on the shadowed slopes on the left-hand side of the valley. Height has been exaggerated 1.5 times to bring out topographic details. The games, which begin on Feb. 7 and continue for 17 days, feature six new skiing and boarding events plus the return of the legendary Jamaican bobsled team to the winter games for the first time since 2002.
In this southwest-looking image, red indicates vegetation, white is snow, and the resort site appears in gray. The area imaged is about 11 miles (18 kilometers) across in the foreground and 20 miles (32 kilometers) from front to back. The image was created from the ASTER visible and near-infrared bands, draped over ASTER-derived digital elevation data.
With its 14 spectral bands from the visible to the thermal infrared wavelength region and its high spatial resolution of 15 to 90 meters (about 50 to 300 feet), ASTER images Earth to map and monitor the changing surface of our planet. ASTER is one of five Earth-observing instruments launched Dec. 18, 1999, on Terra. The instrument was built by Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. A joint U.S./Japan science team is responsible for validation and calibration of the instrument and data products.
The broad spectral coverage and high spectral resolution of ASTER provides scientists in numerous disciplines with critical information for surface mapping and monitoring of dynamic conditions and temporal change. Example applications are: monitoring glacial advances and retreats; monitoring potentially active volcanoes; identifying crop stress; determining cloud morphology and physical properties; wetlands evaluation; thermal pollution monitoring; coral reef degradation; surface temperature mapping of soils and geology; and measuring surface heat balance.
The U.S. science team is located at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. The Terra mission is part of NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C.
More information about ASTER is available at asterweb.jpl.nasa.gov/.
credit:NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team
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This nighttime panorama of much of Europe was photographed by one of the Expedition 30 crew members aboard the International Space Station flying approximately 240 miles above the Tyrrhenian Sea on Jan. 25, 2012. Most of the country of Italy is visible running horizontally across the center of the frame, with the night lights of Rome and Naples being visible to the center and right center, respectively. Sardinia, and Corsica are in the lower left quadrant of the photo, and Sicily is at lower right corner. The Adriatic Sea is on the other side of Italy, and beyond it to the east and north can be seen parts of several other European nations.
Credit: NASA
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Auroral Rocket in Norway -- Photographers captured these digital photos of a four-stage Black Brant XII sounding rocket on December 12, 2010, during the NASA-funded Rocket Experiment for Neutral Upwelling (RENU). The rocket was launched from Andøya Rocket Range near Andenes, Norway, and carried instruments about 200 miles (320 kilometers) into the atmosphere to observe the aurora and the associated flow of heat, particles, and electromagnetic energy.
The ground-based photograph of the rocket was taken by Kolbjørn Blix Dahle of Andøya Rocket Range.
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The Thematic Mapper on the Landsat 5 satellite captured this image of Vancouver on September 7, 2011. Flowing through braided channels, the Fraser River meanders toward the sea, emptying through multiple outlets.
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NASA Earth Observatory image created by Robert Simmon and Jesse Allen, using Landsat data provided by the United States Geological Survey.
Instrument: Landsat 5 - TM
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this is a HDRi made by bracketing 3 exposures (1/250, 1/640, 1/1600) at f4.5/18mm
taken at the port of basel, switzerland
last night I came across the former gynecological hospital in basel, switzerland. there was fascinating light and a huge deconstruction maschine at work. so I quickly fetched my tripod and went taking pictures.
a cool sky and a wide angle lense do not make a good picture. you're probably right, but today I simply was in the mood of posting some photo... I seem to be addicted :-))
nothing very special, but cool sky :-)
taken at the Rhein, Basel, Switzerland
In this mostly cloud-free true-color scene, much of Scandinavia can be seen to be still covered by snow. From left to right across the top of this image are the countries of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and northwestern Russia.
The Baltic Sea is located in the bottom center of this scene, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the north (in the center of this scene) and the Gulf of Finland to the northeast.
This image was acquired on March 15, 2002, by the Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), flying aboard NASA's Terra satellite.
Image courtesy Jacques Descloitres, rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/ MODIS Land Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC
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This is my FIRST ever MANUAL night shot !
I tried manual shots before and was always disappointed and would switch to the "night setting"
On friday night I got really annoyed and read several threads on flickr how to take a night shot and finally cracked it !!!
There was allot of activity outside the Stadium in the afternoon I saw them put up big silver shiny balls and there was a BIG football sitting at the edge, then at night there was a party with VERY loud music and coloured strobe lights ..cant find anything about it on line ..
April 1, 2004, was a sunny spring day for most of Scandinavia and the Baltic States, though a region of hazy air lurked offshore to the west and to the south. The cloud-free skies gave the Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS) on the OrbView-2 satellite a clear view of the Baltic region. On the left, the lingering snow highlights the varied geology of the Scandinavian Peninsula.
The thick snow that clings to Norway's mountains provides a stark contrast to the dark fingers of water, fjords, that cut into the land, making it appear even more formidable. To the east, the snow has largely melted, remaining only in Sweden's northern highlands. The forests of the south are bringing hints of green to the winter-brown land.
Green and brown clouds of sediment taint the waters of the Gulf of Riga and the Gulf of Gdansk, as much a sign of spring as the disappearing snow and greening landscape. As the temperatures climb, melting snow swells the rivers that snake through the Baltic lowlands, sweeping dirt into the Baltic Sea.
The sediment colors the water brown where the dirt is concentrated, and green, when it is dispersed. Here, the Daugava River is sending a muddy plume into the Gulf of Riga in Latvia, while to its south, Poland's Wisla River is only clouding the Gulf of Gdansk enough to color the water green. Alternatively, the clouds of green could also be caused by spring phytoplankton blooms, microscopic plants that grow on the surface of the water. Such blooms are common in the Baltic this time of year.
The Baltic States line the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea: Estonia in the north, Latvia in the center, and Lithuania in the south. Because of their position on the Baltic Sea, the original settlers of these countries, the Balts, remained culturally isolated until the 9th Century, when Vikings invaded, followed by German knights in the 12th century. As a result, Lithuanian and Latvian are among the oldest and most unchanged Indo-European languages. More recently, the Baltic States were caught in the Cold War tug-of-war between east and west. They became part of the former Soviet Union in 1940, and regained their independence in 1991. This week, on March 29, the three countries joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). On May 1, they are scheduled to become part of the European Union.
NASA Identifier: S2004092120529
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The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Aqua satellite captured this stunning view of Japan’ four largest islands on February 20, 2004. The snow-covered southern arm of Hokkaido extends into the upper left corner. Honshu, Japan’s largest island, curves across the center of the image. Shikoku, right, and Kyushu, left, form the southern tip of the group. Japan is mostly mountainous, and, as the dusting of snow in this image shows, is cold in the north and more tropical in the south. A single red dot marks the location of an active fire.
Credit: Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC
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