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Remastered 7/4/2010:
The sun was off-center and the horizon was crooked - I fixed that. Also, I decided to uncrop a little bit extra on the left and right
Explore 24.08.13 #354
My last Paris upload I have decided. Well from this trip anyway. A magical city, for me no other compares and I will not wait as long to return next time. The Eiffel Tower doing what it does best, looking great! With La Defense on the horizon.
Thank you, thank you all!
Yesterday I started my quest for Winter inspiration. It was -5 degrees and I was ridiculously cold. I found I am very ill prepared for this venture in terms of the OBVIOUS like gloves and something for my ears. I felt like I was trudging through a blizzard. I've already started my online shopping so I can continue my winter adventures in a much more warmer (and yes dignified)manner. (suggestions are welcome btw!) On my way back to the outside grounds of our condo, the sun had began to set and the skies were a soft blush of pink and light lavender. The tall fence that gates our community was covered in a glittery veil of snow and the sun was barely peeking over. But enough so that it's rays were beautifully crisp and visible. It made it seem as if something warm and beautiful was just over the fence. Wouldn't it be nice if lost loved ones were "just over the fence"? There's a country song I love by Justin Moore called "If Heaven Wasn't So Far Away." It always pulls on my heart and imagination. I hold onto my memories of Rebekah like tightly kept secret. In that aspect she is always on my side of the fence. <3
No filters used. Only minimal corrections in Capture One. The photos are made only using the right exposure and aperture to create the effects.
by Grundner Christian (grundi1) all rights reserved
“When I admire the wonder of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in worship of the Creator”
---Mahatma Gandhi---
Appalachian Mountains
The mountain range is mostly in the United States (U.S.) but it extends into southeastern Canada, forming a zone from 100 to 300 mi (160 to 480 km) wide, running from the island of Newfoundland 1,500 mi (2,400 km) southwestward to Central Alabama in the United States.[discuss] The range covers parts of the islands of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, which comprise an overseas territory of France. The system is divided into a series of ranges, with the individual mountains averaging around 3,000 ft (910 m). The highest of the group is Mount Mitchell in North Carolina at 6,684 feet (2,037 m), which is the highest point in the United States east of the Mississippi River.
The term Appalachian refers to several different regions associated with the mountain range. Most broadly, it refers to the entire mountain range with its surrounding hills and the dissected plateau region. The term is often used more restrictively to refer to regions in the central and southern Appalachian Mountains, usually including areas in the states of Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, Maryland, West Virginia, and North Carolina, as well as sometimes extending as far south as northern Alabama, Georgia and western South Carolina, and as far north as Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, and parts of southern upstate New York.
The Ouachita Mountains in Arkansas and Oklahoma were originally part of the Appalachians as well but became disconnected through geologic history.
Origin of the name
While exploring inland along the northern coast of Florida in 1528, the members of the Narváez expedition, including Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, found a Native American village near present-day Tallahassee, Florida whose name they transcribed as Apalchen or Apalachen [a.pa'la.t??n]. The name was soon altered by the Spanish to Apalachee and used as a name for the tribe and region spreading well inland to the north. Pánfilo de Narváez's expedition first entered Apalachee territory on June 15, 1528, and applied the name. Now spelled "Appalachian," it is the fourth-oldest surviving European place-name in the US.[11]
After the de Soto expedition in 1540, Spanish cartographers began to apply the name of the tribe to the mountains themselves. The first cartographic appearance of Apalchen is on Diego Gutierrez's map of 1562; the first use for the mountain range is the map of Jacques le Moyne de Morgues in 1565.[12]
The name was not commonly used for the whole mountain range until the late 19th century. A competing and often more popular name was the "Allegheny Mountains", "Alleghenies", and even "Alleghania". In the early 19th century, Washington Irving proposed renaming the United States either Appalachia or Alleghania.[13]
In U.S. dialects in the southern regions of the Appalachians, the word is pronounced /?æp?'læt??nz/, with the third syllable sounding like "latch". In northern parts of the mountain range, it is pronounced /?æp?'le?t??nz/ or /?æp?'le???nz/; the third syllable is like "lay", and the fourth "chins" or "shins".[14] There is often great debate between the residents of the regions as to which pronunciation is the more correct one. Elsewhere, a commonly accepted pronunciation for the adjective Appalachian is /?æp?'læt?i?n/, with the last two syllables "-ian" pronounced as in the word "Romanian".[15]
Our view heading home from the farm. It was a quiet night on the highway and it allowed me time to grab this centerline shot.
Beaver County Oklahoma
this mornings walk...a hand held 3 shot bracket processed with Photomatix then I selected & sharpened the path in Photoshop.
It's a dull, grey overcast cloudy day today; a good reason to post a photo with a SUN...
Have a nice day everyone!
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More shots from the Veluwe in this set.
Happy Thanksgiving to all of my American friends. And thanks to all for your visits, comments, faves and suggestions.
Explored- Highest Position March 3, 2010 #35.
This image was inspired by many people on Flickr. Lately I have been seeing the most amazing light ray images. I had to go back through a couple of years of photos to find this one but I knew I had it somewhere. This was taken in June of 2008.
Just wanted to say thanks to all my Flickr friends for sharing their images and keeping me inspired. I also, want to thank everyone for the visiting my stream and leaving all your nice comments.
Large View - www.flickr.com/photos/21202229@N08/4403620067/sizes/l/
Thanks everyone and have a great Wednesday :)
Canon 40d
Canon 50mm 1.8II
Single exposure @ 50mm
ISO 100
f/5.6
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If you are planning to hike up the Kleiner Mythen, check out my blog post and hike report on the best vantage points on this hike.
I went back to the Kleiner Mythen for Sunset this weekend. This shot was taken about an hour before sunset.
The first time I hiked up the Kleiner Mythen, I came across a couple of good vantage points on the way up. This is one of them, I think it's called, and it's called Zwüschet Mythen. The lake in the middle is Lake Lucerne.
Panorama made of 4 vertical images.
Here's another capture from my stream sessions earlier this fall. I've played around with different water levels (after rains) and it's interesting how more water in the streams can drastically change a scene. It definitely helps to do some experimenting to find that right amount of flow!
Morning has broken like the first morning
Blackbird has spoken like the first bird
Praise for the singing, praise for the morning
Praise for them springing fresh from the world
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In cruise flight at 10,000 ft from KHXD to KCLT near Chesterfield SC.
Thunderstorms
What is a thunderstorm?
A thunderstorm is a rain shower during which you hear thunder. Since thunder comes from lightning, all thunderstorms have lightning.
Why do I sometimes hear meteorologists use the word “convection” when talking about thunderstorms?
Usually created by surface heating, convection is upward atmospheric motion that transports whatever is in the air along with it—especially any moisture available in the air. A thunderstorm is the result of convection.
What is a severe thunderstorm?
A thunderstorm is classified as “severe” when it contains one or more of the following: hail one inch or greater, winds gusting in excess of 50 knots (57.5 mph), or a tornado.
How many thunderstorms are there?
Worldwide, there are an estimated 16 million thunderstorms each year, and at any given moment, there are roughly 2,000 thunderstorms in progress. There are about 100,000 thunderstorms each year in the U.S. alone. About 10% of these reach severe levels.
Source: www.nssl.noaa.gov/education/svrwx101/thunderstorms/
Crepuscular rays
Crepuscular rays /kr?'p?skj?l?r/ (more commonly known as sunbeams, sun rays, or god rays), in atmospheric optics, are rays of sunlight that appear to radiate from the point in the sky where the sun is located. These rays, which stream through gaps in clouds (particularly stratocumulus) or between other objects, are columns of sunlit air separated by darker cloud-shadowed regions. Despite seeming to converge at a point, the rays are in fact near-parallel shafts of sunlight. Their apparent convergence is a perspective effect, similar, for example, to the way that parallel railway lines seem to converge at a point in the distance. The sun rays do converge to the sun, but the sun is much further away than the rays might make it look like.[2]
The name comes from their frequent occurrences during twilight hours (those around dawn and dusk), when the contrasts between light and dark are the most obvious. Crepuscular comes from the Latin word "crepusculum", meaning twilight.[3]
Thanks to iws-stock.deviantart.com/ for the tree, bushes and dragonfly. Main shot/background is Alaska.
Conditions were excellent last sunday, some snow, low sun and mist were present at the Speuderbos in the Netherlands.
Hayfield sunrise with long shadows in the mist, Derbyshire, England.
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