Lovely sunset on my walk home. Fortunately I had my camera with me.

Völkerball is a New Deutsche Härte band based in Oberlarh near Bonn and performing exclusively Rammstein covers. The band lineup is René Anlauff (vocals), Tobias Kaiser and Björn Müller (guitars), Andreas Schanowski (keyboards), Tilmann Carbow (bass) and Dirk Oechsle (drums). Völkerball's music is basically Rammstein's music (the band bills itself as "a tribute to Rammstein") and the theatrics are a close match, so fans looking for a very similar experience on a smaller scale should give it a try. Völkerball maintains two websites, www.weichen-und-zunder.de and www.voelkerball.eu, as well Facebook, www.facebook.com/voelkerball, and Youtube presence, www.youtube.com/user/VOELKERVISION.

These photos were taken during Völkerball's performance at the Rhein in Flammen in Bonn, an annual festival of music and entertainment and fireworks display held in towns and cities along the river Rhein (in English Rhine). More in Rhein in Flammen on rhein-in-flammen.com/de/bonn.html and in a Wikipedia stub, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhein_in_Flammen.

Took in Muckroom garden, Co Kerry, Ireland.

Sunshine trough a simple leef ;-)

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From an original by notna2000 titled, Speed 3 - TimeSquared.

I thought this was a very cool photo. I used the lasso toll with a fairly strong feather and selected the lights to the right. I pasted this to a new layer and used the distort function to add more perspective and length to the streaks, then I did some motion blurring to the portion. I duplicated this a couple times and applied some soft and hard light applications with different opacities.

I also used the lasso tool to select the models face. I softened and brightened this on several layers and used the hue/saturation to try and get the heavy red cast out. I also used the lasso to brighten and contrast her eyes some. I thought they were very pretty.

Thank you notna200 for letting me work on your wonderful photo.

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from a flea market lot--my favorite of the bunch because of the ghostly bride.

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Since today is kind of a special day, so many things happening, like Valentine's day, the Chinese new years, and it also happens to be my birthday, I tried to make this shot a little bit special, too.

Bought some cake from the store and some of those little candles and set them up on my balcony table.

Closed all the shades so it would be pitch black and I could work with decent exposures.

And this here is the outcome. All of a sudden the candle started going mental and releasing those sparks every now and then. Which as we can see, turned out pretty damn awesome!

So all my Flickr buddies, happy valentines to you! And happy Chinese new years, too!

As as side note, I know that "happy birthday to me" would make more sense but I just liked the way it looks.

Oh, and as for what I want for birthday... um... getting to Explore wouldn't be all that bad. xD

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King crab salad in opened transparent plastic container. Tea towel. Light effect. High point of view.

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from an wonderful original by Manda Manners, titled, berry.

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From an original by Giusi-Gurl titled, 145468794_0536d2119a_o.

I thought this was a very cool photo. I used mostly the lasso tool and a little airbrush eraser for this. I first added a bit of red and blue to the entire image to try and tone down the yellow cast I used the lasso to select portions of her skin and softened them on a seperate layer. I then selected her shirt and darkened a bit plus added some sharpening to bring out the ribbing more.

I added some swirls of light on a couple new layers and applied them as soft and hard light mode, usng the airbrush eraser to blend them in somewhat. I selected her eye using the lasso tool with a very strong feather and lightened ot some. I reworked the eye with the airbrush tool. I also selected her earring and brightened it quite a bit to try and get a metallic look to it.

Thank you Giuis-Gurl for letting me work on your beautiful photo.

Cool light effects on dark background tutorial: mameara.com/?p=894

The idea came to me while I was watching this movie. I took the movie poster and tried to recreate it right down to the "lighted" headlights effect. I took my 1/24 scale Camaro and made the neccessary angles. Below is what the original poster looked like.

Bought a new lens yesterday! Originally I was on the market for the Sigma 30mm f/1.4, but by chance I found an ad for this lens posted on craigslist. Actually, the ad I answered was for the Sigma 10-20mm, but after speaking to the nice person on the other end of a long series of email exchanges, it turned out that the Tamron he was selling was exactly what I needed. It's comparable to the Nikon 17-55mm f/2.8; however, is slightly smaller and lighter. Which I don't mind at all. If you look up the reviews it pretty much holds it own against the Nikkor version. So overall, I am very happy with the purchase, and really glad to have met the nice gent who sold it to me :)

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From an original by By Lauss titled, Shift the future....

I started from this fix that I first did:

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You can click the link to see my descriptions there.

I then added several images of guages on new layers. I used the hue function to change colors, and added a zoom radial blur to a couple. Once the blur was done I scaled it down to give it more of a perspective. I applied these layers with hard light, and screen modes to help them blend with the image. The shots of the guages have a pure black background too. I positioned the largest one as if the logo was the hub of the guage.

Thanks By Lauss for letting me work with your awesome photo.

Car photographed in Loudon, NH, USA

New Hampshire Motor Speedway NASCAR track

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This is for the Fix My Pic Please group

From an original photograph by smallcommabig titled ladyLiberty.

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Photo fixes November 2008:

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I thought it was a beautiful image of Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty.

See the first comment for a description of the edit.

My girlfriend Amélie performing some poi.

Undergrounds rectangular tunnel network with light wells and plastered walls. Part of a lost temple complex. Roman Augustan 27 BC - 14 AD. Egnazia, Apulia, Italy. Copyright 2016, James A. Glazier.

The new Opera House at Copenhagen, Denmark, and the veteran schooner "Halmo" reflect the relaxed realtionship between tradition and progress in the Danish capital.

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