The second attempt. In my first attempt I made some mistakes. So I did not do the same silly thing in my second attempt. Even though that made me waste one opportunity; I would take this result every time.

As you can see there is no lens information in the EXIF. This is due to the monopoly that Canon is putting in. It was taken with a Samyang 10MM Lens, and Canon doesn't let you click the shutter if it detects the contact. So a little tape covering the contact help getting the job done. Very stupid as it just creates disruption and doesn't stop anything. Canon never build such lens and I would be sure that they would never make it in future. So what is the point stopping all these and causing only inconvenience! I am seriously considering sell off all my Canon stuff and switch to Sony or Nikon Z. Running out of patience with Canon a bit.

Anyway; that 10MM gave me enough sky to capture the full spiral. The foreground was taken by stacking 16 ISO 6400 30 Seconds image at 10MM F3.5.

And the sky is with 240 2 minutes exposure on a H-Alpha modified D850.

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After 10 years of living about 2 hours away, I finally crossed one off my "Railfan Bucket List" this last Friday and made a visit to the Iowa River Railroad.

Here the railroad's current workhorse for the "mainline" trains, IARR 3802, leads 5 loaded hopper and 16 empty tank cars over a one of a series of small wooden bridges on the line south of Ackley, Iowa near 130th Street.

This roughly 9 mile shortline exists to move traffic from the Pine Lake Corn Processors plant near Cleaves, Iowa to the interchange with the CN at Ackley, Iowa. The little railroad was started in 2006 to save a section of the former Minneapolis and St. Lous mainline via purchase from the UP, from Marshalltown up to Steamboat Rock and then further north to Ackley, Iowa, primarily to serve a new bioprocessing plant at Cleaves but with the hopes of other business. The portion between Marshalltown and the plant at Cleaves was later abandoned and parts of it turned into a rail trail. But this segment is still operated regularly on weekdays as the railroad shuttles traffic to and from the CN main over an undulating and interesting stretch of track. That's the Pine Lake Corn Processor's logo on the nose of the engine, showing the ownership of this railroad and why it exists...

This was a fun little chase of a handsome looking engine and was one of those days where everything seemed to go my way... What had started out as a cloudy morning (which was okay for the northbound run that would have been nose dark anyway) has rapidly turned into a partly cloudy and soon to be mostly sunny day for the southbound return trip. And my relatively new Air 3 drone (I'm loving the 3x telephoto lens on it...) gave the opportunity to shoot a number of cool angles and somewhat work work around the pesky pole line that follows the east side of the tracks. About the only thing that didn't go my way was that the railroad's other mainline unit, GP30 IARR 3004 which faces north, appeared to be out of service or at least out of use at the Pine Lake Processors plant. More to come from this series in future postings for sure!

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The best way to describe Hong Kong is a city of contrasts:

Where East meets West,

Where Rural areas meet Urban Areas

Where Mountains (hills in strictly speaking) meet Beaches

Where Rich meet Poor,

etc..

This is most probably the last (at least until my next visit) in my short series of images illustrating the contrasts found in Hong Kong. It is also perhaps my favourite.

Where Land meets Sea.

Without the large container ships in the mid-ground, one would struggle to identify it as Hong Kong. Yet, despite all the concrete and high-rise it is indeed possible to find scenes of natural beauty.

The islands pictured on the horizon, are outside the territory of Hong Kong and are some 35km away. The visibility on this particular afternoon on High West was exceptionally good and is very very rare during the Winter Monsoon - more on this topic in future posts.

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View from our house after an overnight grass frost. Although we have had many frosts this winter, fortunately none of the garden frosts have been more severe than minus 4C. Therefore plant scorching has been minimal.

Our garden is best known for spring, summer and autumn. However, we have also wished to create a winter garden with a mass of flowers as well as colourful evergreen foliage.

Since we re-landscaped in 1994 our aim has been to create a carpet of winter flowers. Currently flowering in our late February garden, we have the joy of heather, cyclamen coum, snowdrops, aconites, hellebores, early camellias, early crocus and early daffodils. We look forward to the density of the winter flowers steadily increasing in future years.

The stems of acer Sango-kaku (acer senkaki) become red in winter and are always a delight to see. The red of the stems is intensified by moisture and by sunlight.

Despite being busy with other events in recent months, we have also somehow found time to care for the garden and take a number of garden photos. However, we are sorry that we still have not yet had enough free time to get back to Flickr ......but we are getting closer to restarting! In the meantime our very best wishes to all our Flickr friends and we wish you all a wonderful spring.

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2015 Featured in the first episode of ITV's Britain’s Best Back Gardens. Out of over 600 garden entries, Alan Titchmarsh ranked our garden in first place for achieving the impossible ……by creating a showcase standard garden throughout the year!

While visiting friends in Maine, they needed to put up their boat for the winter and graciously took me on a harbor cruise in the process. It was a pleasant weather day to be out and enjoy the sights. I had never seen these rotating bridges before, so found them fascinating. To give a sense of the experience, I framed the bridge through the rails on the boat's bow. Shooting off the boat was a different experience and I learned some things in the process to correct in future outings. In the meantime, enjoy the ride. Sheepscot River, Maine, USA, October 2018

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*The EXIF has no lens info. as I used a Samyang manual only 10mm - which is 15mm on my cropped sensor X - T10. There is no electronic communication between the two. In future, I will just add Samyang here so that your viewing of the shot is a little better informed :-)

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I spent the day with my friend in Hayfield today; he showed me this abandoned pool in the forest. The place is a photographer's goldmine!

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Edit: The size estimate for the Lucrehulk should be 3170 m. For some reason Wookiepedia claims the Droid Controll Ship smaller as the other versions of the Lucrehulk-Class..

I will correct the givin size in future iterations of that picture, when I have enough new ships for a new update.

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– Why have I chosen RSS Korolev? Every captain wants such ship. Fast. Huge. Convenient. Never mind, I m just joking. Someone else would say something about a new frontier and a spirit of discovery. As for me, it s just a new experience. You know, if you are captain, it s almost impossible to find anything except cargo ship. Or a liner for the lucky ones. It s not bad, but those routine delivery missions are too identical. Fly somewhere, take cargo, go back, repeat. This research voyage is completely different. Much more responsibility. There are larger cargo ships, but the crew is always low, a couple of dozens at the biggest ones. And all of them are captain s subordinates. Captain is a god on his ship. Here… everything is different. Hundreds of scientists are not just passengers. I have to change course if some astronomer finds some unusual star or if a biologist decides to scan particular planet for life. It s a bit annoying. Some more conservative person could find such situation real headache. But I don t want to return to the freighters.

– They can say everything they want, but NavSystems was a general sponsor of this mission. So our aim is establishing new hyperspace routes and correcting old ones. Most expansive and complicated equipment of this ship are all kinds of hyperspace scanners. Laying a new route isn t a simple task. You have to keep in mind many factors to make it fast, reliable, safe, economic. And profitable for company. Days, when ship had to have huge powerful expansive computer onboard to calculate hyperjump, are gone. Companies like NavSystem provide access to their servers to make calculations as simple as it possible. Global hyperspace beacon network collects all necessary data; servers process it and give all parameters of a jump for a fair payment. This entire infrastructure has high running cost, so we can t do it for free.

– Those bastards from the “navigators guild” think they are masters here. But most of them don t even understand that their precious hyperroutes are useless if nobody wants to use them. Every journey needs a reason. The most common and obvious one is valuable resource deposit. Humanity needs more resources for further expansion. That s why we should check every possible planet, moon or asteroid belt. Moreover, every planet is unique and can tell scientists something new and may be important. We ve already done several discoveries. But “navigators” always hurry us up if they find star system useless for them. We must do something.

– This expedition has already given us good results. We collected tons of information and statistics. It will help for new colonists a lot. Some people hope we can find one more earth-like planet. It will be a great success. However, we checked thousands of planets and none of them is suitable for human without any special equipment. We even found some samples of life, but it were just bacteria and a couple of simplest seaweeds. Space is a dead place. I hope we can change this in future.

An HDR view at 120mm of the central part of Michelangelo's dome in St. Peter's Basilica, Rome. SANCTI PETRI GLORIAE - SIXTUS PAPA QUINTUS ANNO MILLESIMO QUINGENTESIMO NONAGESIMO, PONTIFICATUS QUINTO. It would be nice if God the Father were the right side up. Oh well; may I have better luck in future!

Nikon D750, Nikkor 24-120mm.

I spent 4 1/2 hours of my day on Friday at these mountains, just sort of wandering around by myself, thinking. I was excited to see this view when I was walking and just had to use it for my photo. This is one of the first time I've shot when the sun was still up, as I shoot everything outdoors on overcast days or when the sun has gone down (or not come up yet).

I have a new blog post up about the use of texture in the editing process. It was brought on by an ignorant comment...I'm not really responding to the comment so much as I am responding to the whole (really big) group of people out there who are against texturing.

When I was doing this photo, there were a few things that were especially important to me. One was that the movement of my skirt and the line of the strawberries followed the line of the mountains in the background. I love the idea of people emulating nature, something that I plan to play with in future photoshoots.

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Hey there Flickrland! Sorry I've been away for the last few days... It's seems that when it rains it pours! I've been bombarded with tons of stuff to get done and errands to run! Hope that all is well with you all!!

This is better when Viewed On Black.

P.S. I know that the flower theme I have going is a bit long, but I haven't been able to go out shooting as of yet, so I've been shooting what I have on hand!! Lol!! I hope to get something new soon, or I'm gonna be hitting up the archives again soon! ^_^

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I often photograph feathers on a white surface but today I thought I’d try black. I have to admit it’s not my preference so I think I’ll stick to white in future.

Taken for the Treasure Hunt Theme “Feather”.

Part of the library in the British Ambassador's residence in Moscow. Not as strong an image as I hoped as I had to correct for lens distortion, having only one lens on me during the visit - no tripod with me either. I may revisit the photo in future, but it suffers from lens distortion correction in Elements.

HDR 3 shots +2-2 AEB. Processed with Photomatix 5.1.3

Location: Pahang, Peninsular Malaysia

Diameter: Half the size of my palm.

Defense mechanism: Hide in its shell, and wait for the right chance to make a run to the nearest stream/river. It sure can run fast.

So I waited for more than 10 minutes for a chance to take some quick photos. It slowly and cautiously pokes its head out then suddenly make a run for it (and reached the river in matter of seconds).

So in future, don't say tortoises are slow ok? Haha

We haven't seen this beautiful young fox in the garden before this evening but it seemed to know its way around.

No time to get the camera set up properly and a bit gloomy so a high ISO. I shall have to watch out for it in future. Taken hastily through the spare room window after my wife spotted it.

I bought some new ND filters earlier this week and today was their first outing. I'm very happy with the results the 10-stop filter gave me today. It felt so nice to finally be able to take daytime long exposure shots. I'm looking forward to taking plenty more in future.

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The newest addition to the Bridges of London Family Millennium Bridge and one of my favourites Is there a London bridge not to like? The Millennium stretches across the River Thames connecting St. Paul's Cathedral to the Tate Modern. In future posts, I will share some of my favourite London Walks which will include two ways to use this great bridge. If you want a unique visit to London adds each of the bridges along the Thames River to your list of things to do.

For now, I will say the views east or west are not particularly great, though Tower Bridge is in nice view toward the east. What I love most is being at either end of the bridge - Tate Modern side, or St Paul's Cathedral side. I especially favour this area for night photography because there are fewer people out and about after dark. I often mention exploring London after working hours as the city's population dwindles drastically. Depending on the hour you venture out onto London streets, it is entirely possible to have the town to yourself. And, here is a huge promise to you - when you are on your own in the city, you'll appreciate London more and love her even more.

Being atop the Millennium Bridge is fantastic, which I mention above. The contemporary design and airy feel of the bridge lend itself nicely to being below the bridge. If the tide is low climbing down to the banks of the River Thames is easy enough if you don't mind mud on your shoes. The mud does hold a tripod in place very nicely I might add. There are plenty of interesting perspectives for great photos towards The Shard, Tate Modern and even Blackfriars Bridge. The city lights add interesting elements to whichever scene you choose that you will only capture being directly at the water.

For night photography, this is a fantastic spot for a stunning view of St Paul's large dome. Of course, you'll want to be on the bridge and not underneath it. Get right down low, and place your camera on the bridge. Do be warned as others walk by, there is a vibration, so be sure to keep your camera steady. Patience is the key for brilliant images.

Also be aware a few people will ask you not to include them in your photographs. If you know about long exposures, then you know when the shutter is open for a length of time most people will not appear in your image. On one occasion, I proved this to a passerby. She did not like my answer after she told me not to take photos of her. My reply was - "it doesn't matter, you won't show up in my photo." So, I asked her to walk in front of the camera then return to me. She did just that and voila! She was nowhere to be seen in the image.

No matter if you are only a visitor to London or keen to capture brilliant images of the city, the Millennium Bridge should be on your list of things to do. It should be no surprise I think night time is the best time to be here.

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Thanks for everyone, who has joined my interview and after also asked their questions! I were really happy to see you all. Thank you for your support and time!

I hope also it gave you a chance to get to know me more. I will be happy to hear your feedback and also suggestions. Should I do more sessions in future? Which format?

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It doesn't belongs to me. Last year one photographer friend Etienne Bossot ( www.facebook.com/etienne.bossot?fref=ts ) based on Vietnam came to my city and we did a photowalk together, this time he is in here again. He had his 5d mark iii and Fujifilm x T2. He knows I have a weakness on fuji stuffs. So yesterday night when I met with him he just told me to play with his toy tomorrow. And today's morning I got the opportunity with the precious toy. It feels solid and the best thing about it is it's film stimulation system. I really like this one. If in future I go with any other camera I will definitely go with a fuji stuff.

Recordant a S. Dalí . (Cadaqués - Catalunya).

Recordando a S. Dalí. (Cadaqués - Cataluña).

Fotografia dedicada a la meva estimada amiga Montse G.R. que li encantava aquest racó costaner. D.E.P.

Fotografía dedicada a mi querida amiga Montse G.R. que le encantaba este rincón costero. D.E.P.

Photography dedicated to my dear friend Montse G.R. that he loved this coastal corner. Rest in peace

Historia de la fotografía.

Estando unos días en la bonita población costera de Cadaqués (Costa Brava) a fin de poder realizar fotografías tanto de día como de noche, me encontré en un restaurante que ya solo al entrar, me fijé en este balcón, por que me recordaba una pintura de Dalí.

Cuando se levantaron los comensales de la mesa y antes de que se sentaran los nuevos, mientras el camarero preparaba los cubiertos y cristalería, aproveché para realizar varios disparos con distintos encuadres y este es uno de ellos.

Espero que os guste queridos amigos/as de Flickr.

Datos técnicos:

Cámara: Nikon D800

Objetivo: 28 mm Nikon. (Para incorporar los interiores).

Diafragma: F/8 (Para conseguir la máxima calidad de la lente y lograr enfocar tanto el interior como el exterior).

Velocidad disparo: 1/200 s. (La medición de la luz la tomé del exterior, dejando la del interior para compensarla en edición).

ISO: 100 ( Para evitar ruido en futuras ampliaciones)

Filtros: No.

Trípode: No.

History of photography.

While spending a few days in the beautiful coastal town of Cadaqués (Costa Brava) in order to be able to take photographs both during the day and at night, I found myself in a restaurant that, just when I entered, I noticed this balcony, because it reminded me of a painting. of Dali.

When the diners got up from the table and before the new ones sat down, while the waiter prepared the cutlery and glassware, I took the opportunity to take several shots with different framings and this is one of them.

I hope you like it dear friends of Flickr.

Technical data:

Camera: Nikon D800

Objective: 28mm Nikon. (To incorporate the interiors).

Diaphragm: F/8 (To achieve the highest quality of the lens and achieve focus both inside and outside).

Shooting speed: 1/200 s. (I took the measurement of the light from the outside, leaving the one from the inside to think about it in editing).

ISO: 100 (To avoid noise in future enlargements)

Filters: No

Tripod: No

I bought 5 random varieties of Hellebores last summer/autumn with no idea of what was included. They are still establishing themselves around the Bay tree in the north facing front garden and I wasn't expecting much (anything) this winter but this one has chucked out an absolute stunner of a flower and I really hope it thrives in future years.

It's a similar shot to one I took in January of a different variety next to this but I couldn't resist sharing this beauty.

During my last trip to Havana, I was able to hook up with a well known and very talented Cuban photographer who managed to set up a ballerina shoot for me in an old colonial house. Just as I expected, it was a very fabulous experience which I will most certainly include in future trips with clients. Havana is full of amazing architecture, allowing for perfect backdrops for photo shoots.

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Definitely still learning and shooting in somewhat of a panic!! BUT this is ok - need to think more about composition in future, but at least i found how to shoot in RAW today... Small steps, small steps.

Pachacútec sembrando la semilla del imperio Inca .

Pachacútec sowing the seed of the Inca empire.

De/From:

- Wikipedia:

- www.geni.com/people/Pachac%C3%BAtec-IX-Inca-Yupanqui-El-q...

- www.enjoy-machu-picchu.com/

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Pachacutec, del quechua: Pacha Kutiy Inqa Yupanki; "Inca del cambio del rumbo de la tierra, digno de estima"-

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Noveno Inca, también fue llamado "El Reformador". General valiente y hábil político, transformó el estado inca de un simple curacazgo a un gran imperio: el Tahuantinsuyo.

Nació en el palacio de Cusicancha, como hijo del Inca Wiracocha (Huiracocha o Viracocha) y Mama Runtu Caya.

Se dice que Pachacútec fue recomendado a Wiracocha por los nobles como el más capaz de sus hijos para tomar la mascapaicha cuando éste muriese, pero según las crónicas, Wiracocha se había encariñado tanto con Inca Urco que siempre lo prefería ante cualquier otra persona. Aunque no había sido designado como sucesor por su padre Wiracocha Inca, dirigió una defensa militar ante el belicoso ejército Chanca mientras que éste y su hijo Inca Urco habían huido del señorío. La victoria sobre los chancas hizo que Wiracocha Inca lo reconociera como su sucesor alrededor de 1438.

Como parte de su visión de estadista y caudillo guerrero, conquistó muchas etnias y estados, destacando su conquista del Collao que acrecentó el prestigio de los incas y particularmente de Pachacútec, quien por la notable expansión de sus dominios fue considerado un excepcional líder, dando vida a historias épicas e himnos gloriosos en tributo a sus hazañas. Numerosos curacas no dudaban en reconocer sus destrezas e identificarlo como "hijo del Sol". Mientras aún vivía, su hijo y sucesor Túpac Yupanqui derrotó al señorío Chimú y continuó con la expansión del Tahuantinsuyo. Además de conquistador, guerrero y emperador, diversas crónicas afirman que fue también un gran administrador, planificador, filósofo, observador de la psicología humana y carismático general.

Pachacútec es el primer inca del cual se encuentran referencias históricas que corroboran su existencia; por cual, es reconocido como el "primer inca histórico" y con él, se inicia el Período Imperial o de Expansión de los Incas. Sin embargo, la relevancia de su figura y legado, así como el de su denominación, lleva a pensar a varios estudiosos que tiene una importancia mucho mayor que la de solo un personaje, llegando a representar el inicio de toda una época de transición y reestructuración para la sociedad inca, etapa de cambios que continuaría posterior a su muerte en 1471, por su hijo Túpac Yupanqui y su nieto Huayna Cápac.

El gobierno del inca Pachacútec se extendió entre 1438 y 1471. Fue un gobierno de grandes conquistas territoriales y muchos lo consideran el organizador definitivo del Imperio Incaico.

Antes de la derrota de los Chancas se le conocía con el nombre de Inca Yupanqui y posteriormente se le llamó Pachacútec, que significa "el que transforma la tierra". Se dice que fue hijo del inca Huiracocha y de Mama Runtu Caya, quienes lo educaron para ser un gran inca, a pesar de que su padre había designado a su hijo Urco para sucederlo en el trono. Pero las hazañas del príncipe Pachacútec lo llevaron a convertirse en el noveno Inca. Lo sucedió su hijo Túpac Yupanqui.

El jesuita Bernabé Cobo, a mediados del siglo XVII, condensaba: "Fue este rey el más valiente y guerrero de todos los incas, porque él ordenó la república con el concierto de leyes y estatutos que guardó todo el tiempo que duró de entonces a la venida de los españoles".

Su educación la inició con su ayo Mircoymana y la continuó en el Yachayhuasi. A su egreso mostraba un sólida formación en sus modales y pensamientos. Comenzó su reinado con gran beneplácito, el mismo día que se ciño la mascapaicha se casó con Mama Anahuarque.

Pachacutec eliminó a los Chancas, los enroló en sus ejércitos; mientras él pacificaba la comarca Ayacuchana su hermano el General Cápac Yupanqui era enviado a conquistar la costa del mar, sometiendo a los curacas de cada curacargo al reinado del Cusco.

Este Rey, embelleció el Cusco, reedificó el Inticanca colmándolo de riquezas y cambió su nombre por el de Coricancha, la inauguración fue fastuosa como justo homenaje a una obra de arte. La definitiva organización del Incario se le debe a Pachacutec en opinión de la mayoría de historiadores y lo sindican como un gran Legislador.

Anciano con un gran Imperio y cantidad de hijos varones, co-reinó con su primogénito Amaru Yupanqui habido con la Coya Mama Anahuarque, que obligó al padre pedirle abdicara en favor de su hermano Túpac Yupanqui el cual había permanecido encerrado en el Coricancha por espacio de 16 años.

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Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui or Pachacutec (in hispanicized spellings) or Pachakutiq Inka Yupanki (Quechua) was the ninth Sapa Inca (1438–1471/1472) of the Kingdom of Cusco which he transformed into the Inca Empire (Tawantinsuyu). Most archaeologists now believe that the famous Inca site of Machu Picchu was built as an estate for Pachacuti.

In Quechua Pachakutiq means "he who overturns space and time", and Yupanki means "with honor". During his reign, Cusco grew from a hamlet into an empire that could compete with, and eventually overtake, the Chimú. He began an era of conquest that, within three generations, expanded the Inca dominion from the valley of Cusco to nearly the whole of western South America.

He was the ninth ruler of the Inca state who, from ruling a simple chiefdom came to rule a great empire, the Tawantinsuyu. Although he had not been designated as successor by his father Viracocha Inca, he led a military defense against the warlike army of Chanka while his father and his brother Urco Inca fled the manor. The victory over the Chankas made Inca Viracocha recognize him as his successor around 1438.

As part of his vision of a statesman and warrior chieftain he conquered many ethnic groups and states, highlighting his conquest of the Collao that enhanced the prestige of the Inca Pachacutec. Due to the remarkable expansion of their domains he was considered an exceptional leader, enlivening glorious epic stories and hymns in tribute to his achievements. Numerous kurakas do not hesitate to recognize his skills and identify him as "son of the Sun".

He conquered the provinces of Colla-Suyu and Chinchay-Suyu. Along with his sons, Tupac Ayar Manco (or Amaru Tupac Inca), and Apu Paucar Usnu, he defeated the Collas. Additionally, he left garrisons in subjugated lands

Pachacuti, son of Inca Viracocha, was the fourth of the Hanan dynasty. His wife's name was Mama Anahuarqui, or Quya Anawarkhi (Coya Anahurque). He had three sons, Tupac Ayar Manco, Apu Paucar, and Tupac Inca Yupanqui.

Pacachuti had his two brothers, Ccapac Yupanqui and Huayana Yupanqui, killed after the military campaign against the province of Chinchay-Suyu. He also killed his sons Tilca Yupanqui and Auqui Yupanqui.

Amaru, the older son, was originally chosen to be co-regent and eventual successor. Pachacuti later chose Tupac Inca because Amaru was not a warrior. He was also the first one to retire.

Pachacuti's given name was Cusi Yupanqui and he was not supposed to succeed his father Inca Viracocha who had appointed his brother Urco as crown prince. However in the midst of an invasion of Cuzco by the Chankas, the Incas' traditional tribal archenemies, Pachacuti had a real opportunity to demonstrate his talent. While his father and brother fled the scene, Pachacuti rallied the army and prepared for a desperate defense of his homeland. In the resulting battle, the Chankas were defeated so severely that legend tells even the stones rose up to fight on Pachacuti's side. Thus "The Earth Shaker" won the support of his people and the recognition of his father as crown prince after the death of Urco.

Pachacuti rebuilt much of Cusco, designing it to serve the needs of an imperial city and as a representation of the empire. Each suyu had a sector of the city, centering on the road leading to that province; nobles and immigrants lived in the sector corresponding to their origin. Each sector was further divided into areas for the hanan (upper) and hurin (lower) moieties. Many of the most renowned monuments around Cuzco, such as the great sun temple Qurikancha, were rebuilt during Pachacuti's reign.[3]:66–69,75

Despite his political and military talents, Pachacuti did not improve the system of succession. His son became the next Inca without any known dispute after Pachacuti died in 1471 due to a terminal illness, but in future generations, the next Inca had to gain control of the empire by winning enough support from the apos, priesthood, and military to win a civil war or intimidate anyone else from trying to wrest control of the empire.

Pachacuti is also credited with having displaced hundreds of thousands in massive programs of relocation and resettling them to colonize the most remote edges of his empire. These forced colonists were called mitimaes and represented the lowest place in the Incan social hierarchy. The Incan imperial government was highly authoritative and repressive.

He sent his son Tupac Inca Yupanqui an army to repeat his conquests and tyranny, and extend his realm to Quito. Pachacuti then built irrigating channels, cultivated terraces, made roads and hospices. The Road of the Inca stretched from Quito to Chile.

Pachacuti was a poet and the author of the Sacred Hymns of the Situa city purification ceremony. Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa attributed one song to Pachacuti on his deathbed "I was born as a lily in the garden, and like the lily I grew, as my age advanced / I became old and had to die, and so I withered and died."

i have been close to stabbing this weekend - i shall remember to keep a pomegranate handy in future - very satisfying red oozing - i shall fantasize about that - and sharpen my knives for next time ......

Sunset view of Edinburgh and Calton Hill, Scotland

First photo from my recent trip to Edinburgh: Sunset view of the old town from Calton Hill. When going to Edinburgh I was sure it's gonna rain all the time, because well it's Scotland :). But the weather was mostly really nice during my whole 5-day stay there. So stay tuned for more shots from Edinburgh in future!

📷: Nikon Z7 + Nikkor Z 24-120mm f4, no AI, no sky replacement

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time ..November 24,2006, evening

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very windy day.. and cold day.. the branches were dancing.. it was hard to catch,, so this shot is out of focus.

and I know,, I never seen such dramatic Japanese maple and light in future

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Gandhi Ashram, Sabarmati.

I began 2014 with a train journey to the north east of India. A region I had never visited before. I boarded a long distance train after many years. The train journeys of my youth were conducted in simple non air-conditioned trains. An odyssey of overcrowded compartments, dirty loos, hawkers, beggars, and unexplained delays at nameless stations. But great and interesting adventures happened nevertheless. Because the sights, sounds, sensations and smells of a vast, heaving, pushing, moving land of fantastic diversity are an education which no art can fully replicate. Traveling by an air-conditioned train was in comparison a tame and boring experience. It is impossible to make a connection with the places you are passing through if you can't open the windows in a train. The weather was cold, grey and monotonous. I felt depressed because the light was not good and my camera mostly remained in the bag. I wondered why I had ventured on the journey. I thought that in future I would google for information about light condition before buying a train ticket.

I began 2015 with a train journey to the north west of India. Fortunately it was warm and sunny. The light was good and I spent many happy days traveling and photographing colorful and beautiful new lands.

“But the true voyagers are ones who leave

Just to be leaving with hearts light like balloons

They never turn aside from their fatality

And without knowing why they always say "Let's go!"

Those whose desires have the form of the clouds

Those who, as a raw recruit dreams of the cannon,

Dream of vast voluptuousness, changing and strange

Whose name the human mind has never known!”

- Charles Baudelaire

I love photographing deserts. There is something about it that attracts me a lot. It kind of shows the power of masses. Sand is probably the most insignificant particle you can find in nature. A microscopic element that has almost no real existence. But when you would get to a desert; you would feel the power of masses.

A desert is probably the example of the most rugged landscape of nature. Dry, hot, bright and cold everything together. Yes, afternoon in desert can get really uncomfortably hot and night can be uncomfortably cold.

But the desert is a fantastic subject for photography. It is hard to access deep desert, and you wouldn’t find many common tour companies taking you there. So, it stays pristine and untouched from mass tourism.

Footstep free desert is what we like to experience and this desert of M’hamid was nothing different. As usual we had spent camping 3 nights in the middle of Moroccan Sahara and the experience was priceless. We found many unique photo locations that I would probably explore more in future. Specially the night sky.

In the process we did capture some fantastic light in golden hour as well.

Here is one such evening that we enjoyed from a high sand dune looking towards one of the highest “erg” (sand dune) of the region. Yes, it is not the famous Erg Chigaga. The reason why it was empty and remained only for us!

I have made a short film to record our journey to this incredible place; you may be interested in watching. Click here to get amazed with the beauty of this special region of Morocco.

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A modification on my Bentley build, I wanted to give it more of a flashy custom look, this was my first attempt at doing decals (simply paper and glue) and I added classic racing decals to the body. The shark mouth design was a nice touch too, giving it a fighter plane look. I think I will in future try and get some custom printed sticker decals to use for this. But it was mainly an experimentation to see if my ideas would work.

Yellow Empress has been an idea I've used a number of times and most likely will revise slightly over time. Her creation was used for my Insurgence story. About a young man named Arthur who lives in a dystopian 1920s Britain ruled by a right winged fascist dictatorship known as the New Albion Empire after being wrongly imprisoned for being a homosexual, Arthur would be rescued by Nemo's daughter Janni Dakkar (who is the second captain nemo) Onboard The Nautilus Arthur would meet Nemo's group of outcasts, Including Thomas Paragon (the former of the Paragon motoring company, where Chitty chitty bang bang was created). Joining Nemo's crew in fighting the injustice of the New Albion Empire, Arthur would be taught in the ways of swordsmanship, whilst forming a close bond with Paragon, who both work together in building a highly advanced automobile (Dubbed Yellow Empress). The car features an array of weapons and gadgetry, and would be used after Arthur's departure from The Nautilus, where he would go on to investigate the paranormal activity of the world, fighting monsters and ghosts along the way.

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Until relatively recently, this large construction project has simply been referred to as the New Wear Crossing. Now it has a name and will in future be known as the Northern Spire.

This latest image is showing the bridge across the River Wear almost completed (it is scheduled to open in the Spring of this year).

Vernissage on a painting of "Gadekæret in Skovlunde"

by the artist Marius Djurslev (painted approx. 1890). The painting by the relatively unknown, local artist will in future hang at the town hall together with more well-known painters such as Peter Brandes and Sámal Joensen-Mikines. Also present at the vernissage were former mayor Ove Dalsgaard and Marius Djurslev's granddaughter (the nice lady who reveals the painting).

The town hall, Ballerup.

A shot from our first trip outside our immediately local area since the 'stay at home' rule was lifted. Coaley Peak is a surprising little spot - we even stumbled upon a neolithic burial mound (will look to shoot this at night in future)!

Here I'm learning to shoot a little more confidently with the XF 90. Edited in Capture Pro 20, with a few adjustments to colour and contrast.

Ian came to hang at the CRIB today. So happy to ~reconnect~ with old friends.

Let me know in the comments if you guys want to see Ian in future vlogs... he may not admit it but he would be HONORED.

I love this area in early fall as it is not only beautiful, but it is close to my house. That gives me the opportunity to go back often even with a busy schedule. I will share more of this area in future posts.

Green things that goes in to the night - little did you know that they dance, wiggle and Mesmerize you !!!

this shot has so many elements to it..

the eerie tree, the broken log, the possessed scarf.. Green Eye Candy as one might say..

Ashley is my Senior Student Representative, we will be doing many more shoots in future.. but for now.. this will have to do

Strobist info:

Camera:Canon EOS 5D Mark II

Exposure:0.008 sec (1/125)

Aperture:f/7.1

Focal Length:35 mm

ISO Speed:500

i did some lighting on this one. !! a 430ex to light up the tree, and 580EXII with green gel to light up the scarf and my Senior model (ashley)

and AB1600 with a boom with 64 PLM to front light ashley..

There are quite a few older files I have not posted for no particular reason lurking on my computer..

Here is one of them..!! I think I shall post more of these under the "Friday Files" tag in future to clear up some drive space..! All of these will be at least 6 months old..

Enjoy..💋

This is everything, and it all costs a lot more than my wallet can handle (RIP wallet)!

Anyway, good luck to everyone in future releases!

Warp is a in/future art installation by Gareth Lichty.

The Ontario Place silo is perfect for the monumental scale of this exhibit. As I wandered between the ribbons, I imagined the artist's inspiration came straight from the heavens.

~ Mad world

OMFG. I hate my scanner.

I'm sorry for all the grain, but this was the best I could get out of this and I wanted to upload a photo like this so badly.

I hope I can do some better ones in future.

Thanks to this lovely girl for telling me how to do this at all. ;)

+ original in comments. [shame on me]

reached 7.000+ stream views today. wooohoooo. :)

Cat scones.

At christmas, Zooplus sent customers dog and cat cookie cutters. Thought I'd try cat cheese scones - pumpkin seed eyes, mushroom nose, celery mouth and cheese and paprika stripes.

Needs a bit of work, but would probably work better as flat cookies in future, I hadnt bargained on what would happen to the faces as the scones rose....🙀 😹

'Rydw i'n hoffi coffi'...the one welsh phrase that everyone (including the English) seems to know.

Thanks Gaz for suggesting to do this one in Welsh. Sorry I couldn't do a play on words for this one but I'll definitely try to do that in future ;)

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High speed train Flytoget Type 78.

Built by CAF in Spain. Here on test drive in northern Germany. In future, he will connect Oslo Airport Gardermoen with the Norwegian capital.

Alpha 7 MkII, CZJ-Prakticar 1.4/50mm

A wildfire can often create its own weather, like this Red Rock Fire is doing in the Gros Ventre drainage, near Grand Teton National Park on Monday, August 22, 2011. That "cumulus" cloud is condensing water vapor from the wildfire. The smoke and ash is the brownish-gray cloud below the white cloud of vapor. This wild fire had consumed 2,835 acres (of lodgepole pine, aspen, fir and meadows) by Monday night, and a total of 6,718 acres by Thursday afternoon (Aug. 25).

For a richer experience, click on the image to view it LARGER and on black.

Effects on my photography: As you can see below, the smoke and haze from this fire really effects the looks of the Teton and Jackson Hole area. During the time the typical tourist takes photos (from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM) the Grand Tetons look awful because of this smoke and haze -- greatly obscuring the view and lowering contrast. However, near sunrise and sunset shooting times the scenery is often enhanced due to the prismatic and filtering effect of the fine ash in the smoke -- as you'll see in future photos that I will post next week...

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Prairie Auction, continued. My friend Madonna is never happier than when she has scored a big box of books. At Maurice's auction, she went home with two - many of them filled with pictures she may use in future collages. When she isn't writing, or performing. She lives her art; it infuses each day of her life.

Just through those trees on the right were hundreds of people. Assorted clamour, many voices, including that of the auctioneer. Two barn swallows watched the proceedings from a wire. The horses stayed as far out across the adjacent field as possible.

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