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We were up in the Houston area for a wedding shower and decided to check out the famed bolivar peninsula. We got up early and headed out to high island. This sunrise backlit shot of a great egret was one of the first shots I took after setting up.
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When you see how fragile and delicate life can be, all else fades into the background.
~ Jenna Morasca
“Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern.
Everyone looks through a particular color,
but the candle is always there.”
~ Mohammed Naguib ~
I had some fun with this one and learned some Photoshop tricks while I was doing it. As soon as I get another boarder staying here I'm going back to the coast. Just seems like there's just a lot of cool adjustments I can do to coastal shots.
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Like many other churches in the area, the colonial church of Chinchero was built on ancient Inca ruins like many churches
RKO_3642. Gotcha (4). Fishing Common Kingfisher! Last upload of this series!
As you can see the Kingfisher's eye is protected by a membrane (knipvlies in Dutch). Despite the membrane the Kingfisher can stil see under water.
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Like silk, so soft, transparent, this flower seems Magic
It amazes my Soul
Comme de la soie, si douce, transparente, cette fleur semble Magique
Pour vous
Domi
i like Minneapolis a lot, and this is a particularly nice place. in the heart of the city. The famous St. Anthony Falls are by now a completely artificial hydrotechnical contraption. But the might of the river is still quite evident. The falls used to be the place where Mississippi stops being navigable, and served as the source of wealth for Minneapolis, providing power to its numerous mills.
BUT IT`S NOT MY FAULT !!!!!!!
If you don't know who the loreley was just listen to the song :-)
Dschinghis Kahn - Loreley www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx1pPJZQ9OE
the Mont Blanc cableway offers two very different scenarios in less than half an hour:
the photo above: the arrival
the photo below: the departure
Tune ~~ Phoenix
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I have never known hunger like these insects that feast on me
A thousand teeth and yours among them, I know
Our hunger's appeased
Our heart beats becoming slow
**
(Falling in fields - 3)
LIKE ONCE. In some areas of the Alps where off-road vehicles do not arrive, shepherds use horses and mules for their activities. Surroundings of the Varrone Bivouac in the Lourousa Valley, Gesso Valley, Piedmont, ITALY.
#sliderssunday
Another cherry blossom from last year's visit to TV Asahi Cherry Blossom Alley at the Mauerweg between Berlin and Teltow. This year's cherry blossom has only just begun because we're having a fairly cold spring (with the exception of this weekend, but the cold will return tomorrow), and in a small street around the corner that is lined with lovely cherry trees, the blossoms are only just about to fully open.
I've photographed this blossom with the GRIII. The 28mm focal length GR lens is very sharp and it's also an amazingly good close-up lens, but at f2.8 as the widest-open aperture, it can be tricky to get a nice background blur. Here, the blossom was popping out amidst many other blossoms, so the backdrop was very busy and distracting. Since I liked how the blossom itself had turned out (apart from the fact that there's a good amount of blur right at the center – Sharpen AI dealt with that in a satisfying enough way so it's pleasant to look at, I think), I had to do something about the background. I didn't simply want to blur it out in LR or even completely remove it in PS because I liked the springy-fresh colours of the background, so I created two layers in PS, one with the blossom only, the other with the complete image, and opened the latter in Analog Efex where began to play around with the Zoom filter and the Dust and Scratches filter palette. As finishing touches I added the thin image border and hit the Primary Color sliders in LR. I hope you like this candy-coloured cherry blossom slider :)
Happy Sliders Sunday, Everyone!
Like North Falls further upstream, Middle North Falls has certain characteristics which one could argue give it an edge when comparing it to the park's main attraction, South Falls. Despite being considerably shorter, Middle North Falls is a markedly amorphous waterfall which changes physical shape in a very dramatic way as the volume of water in North Silver Creek changes. The 106 foot tall falls take the form of a narrow column of water during the summer months, funneled to perhaps 5 feet wide at most by a narrow runnel in the bedrock. With greater stream flow in the winter and spring months however, North Silver Creek sheets out across the 60-foot wide creek bed and turns the falls into a broad curtain of water, with part of the falls impacting on a twisting chute of basalt which then slides to join the more volumnous half of the creek in the plunge pool.
Middle North Falls is one of four waterfalls in Silver Falls State Park which features a trail which traverses behind the falling water. Unlike the other three, the trail leading behind Middle North Falls is a dead-end, constructed purely to allow access to additional views of the falls.
June 3rd, 1am. We are on the road, looking around for potentially good spots for some more astrophotos. In essence we are "chasing" the stars. While I was driving and the girls had their own small talk with several issues to resolve as usual, I spotted a small abandoned house on the side of the road, next to the sea. Literally next to the water with small waves breaking just in front of it. Quick stop and out to see what we got. Five minutes later we are all out there taking night photos of Hydra, the island across that beach! Seen and been there on this island several times in the past, but this time it was different. We were looking at the island and saw it like we had never seen it before! What can I say... We live in a tough world yet a magical one as well!!!