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Evening light creates a magical view of a beach near Vik in the south of Iceland.
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Lotus Pond, named after the aquatic plants growing in it, is located in eastern Zuoying District. The pond is surrounded by willow trees, area of 75 hectares, also an area of temples like Confucius Temple, Spring Autumn Pavilion and Dragon and Tiger Tower. The foggy view in the morning and late evening makes the pond with the mystery feeling, especially in summer time, with the willow trees on the pond side. One of the more famous temples is the Confucius Temple to the west of the lake, the biggest of its kind on Taiwan.Architecturally similar to examples from the Song Dynasty, the temple features an arched bridge and an embossed bronze wall profiling Confucius. Other prominent landmarks around Lotus Lake are the Dragon Tiger Towers with their relief carvings illustrating twenty-four stories of filial piety, twelve men of virtue, and the thirty-six generals of the Emperor of Heaven.
This is one of those photos that was nearly not taken. It was early 4.40 AM wake up call and I nearly had no energy to get out of bed. I thought that I have already taken lovely shots of this place the previous night and I just didnt feel like going into the hot darkness yet again just to capture another sunrise photo. By pure power of will I got out of bed and decided to go for it. When scene like this appeared I was more than happy I did.
Camera Model: Canon EOS 5D Mark II; Lens: EF17-40mm f/4L USM; Focal length: 24.00 mm; Aperture: 22; Exposure time: 20.0 s; ISO: 50
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This photo captures ruins of Cill Chriosd (Church of Christ) on the Isle of Skye in Scotland. The ruins of this church are frequented by the odd tourist and sheep, with a stunning backdrop of the red Cuillin hills. Cill Chriosd (Church of Christ) lies atop a small rise near Swardale in Strath Suardal valley, east of Broadford on the Isle of Skye in Scotland. The valley has seen Christian activity since the 7th Century, when St Maelrubha preached from a nearby rocky knoll called Cnoc na-Aifhreann, (Hill of the Mass). Just south of the church is Loch Cill Chriosd, a shallow, reed filled loch. The first stone church to be built here dates form medieval times. The ruins of the current church date from around 1500. Services at Cill Chriosd continued into the 19th Century when the parish church moved to Broadford. Within the graveyard are a number of graves relating to members of the MacKinnon Clan. Just to the left of the entrance gate is a medieval grave slab with a beautifully carved foliate cross. In the 18th Century the valley was busy with marble quarrying and at one between 1907 and the outbreak of WWI a short railway ran from the quarry to Broadford Old Pier.
Travel Directions and Getting There - The church ruins are 2.5 miles south from Braodford on the B8083 road to Torrin and Elgol. This is about 11 miles from Kyle of Lochalsh and 27 miles from Portree.
Camera Model: Canon EOS 5D Mark II; Lens: EF17-40mm f/4L USM; Focal length: 23.00 mm; Aperture: 18; Exposure time: 55.0 s; ISO: 100
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Jeddah (also spelled Jiddah, Jidda, or Jedda; Arabic: جدّة Ǧiddah) is a Saudi Arabian city located on the coast of the Red Sea and is the major urban center of western Saudi Arabia. It is the largest city in Makkah Province, and the second largest city in Saudi Arabia after the capital city, Riyadh. The population of the city currently stands at over 3.4 million. It is considered the commercial capital of Saudi Arabia and the wealthiest city in the Middle East and western Asia. Jeddah is the principal gateway to Mecca, Islam's holiest city, which able-bodied Muslims are required to visit at least once in a lifetime.
Floating Mosque in Jeddah is one of the most loved and visited sightseeing spots in the city of Jeddah. Jeddah is a classic mix of ancient with modern which is finely evident in its majestic architectures and buildings. The location of Jeddah on the coast of the Red Sea and the beaches subsequently formed makes it a favored travel destination of the tourists.Floating Mosque in Jeddah is one of the sacred sites in the city. The mosque is placed just next to the Red Sea which gives the impression that the mosque is floating in water. It is henceforth named the Floating Mosque. Due to the shimmering white color of the mosque it is also referred as the White Mosque. The mosque is located close to the center of Jeddah. The interior of the mosque is beautifully decorated. The mosque has all the modern facilities like the latest technology based sound systems. For the winter season the mosque also has the provision of hot shower. The Floating Mosque at Jeddah is a landmark of the city and is frequented by numerous tourists round the year from across the world. Floating Mosque in Jeddah bears testimony of the religion of Islam in Saudi Arabia. It is one of the marvelous sacred destinations in Jeddah. The architectural beauty with the huge decorated prayer space and the elegant rooftop gives a unique semblance to the mosque. A soothing ambiance is created inside the mosque. The serene ambiance in the interior of the mosque helps in meditating during the prayer. Not only the Muslims but people from all religions across the globe make it a point to visit the Floating Mosque in Jeddah at least once during their stay at the city.
Again, luck was on my side as nearly from nowhere fantastic, dramatic sunset has appeared. It rather unusual to have any clouds in the sky here in the middle east therefore I was very thankful for such a scene.
PENTAX K20D, f/32.0, 15, ISO 100, 15 mm
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has been little time for photography lately, are very busy with other things. I found a picture in the collection that I put out, only to be a bit active here on flickr : )
A brief moment of sun caught just before the rain caught me as it flew down Borrowdale towards the lake.
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Same place, different idea.
Hvítserkur is the last remains of a central volcano, it is an injection of magma directly to the sea about 15m high. Legend states that this is a troll turned into stone when he was surprised by the sun while attacking a nearby abbey with rocks.
The sea erosion has carved holes through its foundations and sculptured it in the unique shape it is today. Some say it is in the shape of a petrified monster.
Before shooting the previous one at 2.30 a.m., from the top of the cliff, where you can get an awesome view of Hvítserkur and the sea. The tide was high by that time, so I could play with the water.
Hvítserkur, Vatnsnes, Iceland. 2010.
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Mismo lugar, diferente idea.
Hvítserkur es lo último que queda de un volcán central, y es una roca que emergió de un brote de magma directamente en el Océano que tiene unos 15m de altura. La leyenda dice que se trata de un troll que se convirtió en piedra cuando fue sorprendido por el sol, mientras atacaba una abadía cercana al mar.
La erosión del mar ha esculpido sus agujeros en la base de la roca y ha esculpido, lentamente, la forma única que tiene hoy.... parecida a la de un monstruo petrificado.
Está hecho justo antes de la anterior imagen a las 2.30 de la mañana, desde lo alto del acantilado donde hay una vista impresionante de Hvítserkur y el mar. La marea estaba alta en ese momento, así que podría jugar con el agua.
Hvítserkur, Vatnsnes, Islandia. 2010.
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Fifth picture of my series Reflections, all taken in the Albufera of Valencia.
(Another sesion day, based in my photo Reflections II, but this time it is not a self-portrait. One of my best friends posed for me in the blue hour, just after sunset, between day and night. What do you think about of two versions?)
Albufera means, according to its Arab origin, small sea.
In some poems it was called the Mirror of the Sun.
On the technical side, say that I only used a neutral gradient three steps filter. I put the camera on the tripod, my friend stayed for 30 seconds still as a statue, then just before end the exposure i shoted two times of manual flash in hand to illuminate softly the wood.
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My heart shudders to remember.
But I take comfort in knowing that you are in a wonderful place.
Because that's where the angels like you are.
(Dedicated to the mother of my best friend, Rosa died this Saturday 14.02.2015)
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Best On Black. The trip up to the Haleakala Crater takes about 3 hours. This means getting up at 2:30 to be at the rim of the crater by 5:00. The drive from Wailea takes you to North Maui, and then up the long winding mountain road of Haleakela national Park. When you get to the crater rim, you see a dim glow of the gathering dawn. The show last for about half an hour. Ultimately, this is the moment everyone waits for... Sun crests the horizon. It's also the most difficult thing to capture. At 10,000 feet The air is so pure and sun so intense that the dynamic range is pretty much impossible to capture.
This is an HDR shot, but even with HDR, the Flare at the higher exposures pretty much overwhelms image content. After a bit of work, I was able to pull this image out. It doesn't match what I actually saw or experienced, but is a reasonable facsimile.
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The National Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall is a famous monument erected in memory of Chiang Kai-shek, former President of the Republic of China. It is located in Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China. The monument, surrounded by a park, stands at the east end of the Gate of Great Centrality and Perfect Uprightness. The structure is framed on the north and south by the National Theater and National Concert Hall. The entire plaza is located within sight of the Presidential Office Building.
I was rather surprised how little lit some of the monuments in Taipei are. Not very ideal for blue hour photography. As I was waiting for the long exposures I have actually started to enjoy the intimate atmosphere of the place. I was told that strong lights are used only for special occasions.
Camera Model: Canon EOS 5D Mark II; Lens: EF17-40mm f/4L USM; Photo Focal length: 40.00 mm; Aperture: 16; Exposure time: 84.0 s; ISO: 200
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Second picture of my series My Dreamed Sunset. (This time just at an atypical blue hour, as more than the blues in the sky still prevailed as powerful red sunset.)
I leave you today with this photograph of the last Saturday, the most intense sunset in the Albufera of Valencia Natural Park than i have contemplated in all my life. A dream come true.
They were about ten minutes in which the red flooded everything, creating an incredible atmosphere, with red, orange, yellow, pink and blue colors. Just incredible. What do you think about it???
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A framing of the northern winter sky constellations of Gemini (left), Auriga (top) and Taurus (bottom right). The Messier star clusters M35 in Gemini, and the trio of M36, M37 and M38 in Auriga show up well. The large nebula at upper right is NGC 1499, the California Nebula in Perseus. The Flaming Star, IC 405, and other IC nebulas in Auriga are right of centre. The small round nebula at bottom is IC 2174 in northern Orion. The dark lanes of the Taurus Dark Molecular Clouds are right of centre. Mars is just below centre in Taurus, adding an extra star to this already rich area of sky and matching Aldebaran for brightness and tint.
This is a stack of 12 x 2-minute exposures with the Canon RF28-70mm lens at 35mm and f/3.5 and on the filter-modified (by AstroGear) Canon R camera at ISO 800, on the Star Adventurer tracker. Taken from home March 16, 2023 with this area of sky in the southwest and plagued by some gradients, reduced with masks in Adobe Camera Raw and with Gradient XTerminator. Star glows added in post with Luminar Neo Magic Light extension.
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I leave you today with this photograph of the last January, the most intense sunset in the old dock of Puerto de Sagunto that I have contemplated in all my life.
On the technical side, say that I only used a ND filter Formatt Hitech graduated soft 3 steps filter combined with a ND 4 steps.
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Jeddah (also spelled Jiddah, Jidda, or Jedda; Arabic: جدّة Ǧiddah) is a Saudi Arabian city located on the coast of the Red Sea and is the major urban center of western Saudi Arabia. It is the largest city in Makkah Province, and the second largest city in Saudi Arabia after the capital city, Riyadh. The population of the city currently stands at over 3.4 million. It is considered the commercial capital of Saudi Arabia and the wealthiest city in the Middle East and western Asia. Jeddah is the principal gateway to Mecca, Islam's holiest city, which able-bodied Muslims are required to visit at least once in a lifetime.
This shot is taken on Jeddah Corniche shortly before sunrise. Living in Middle East has some advantages and some disadvantages as everything else. One of the big positives is surely the great safety across the region. On the negative note many people across Middle East dont really care about the environment and don't realize that the rubbish they throw on the ground will simply not dissolve on its own but will have to be picked up by someone else. You can see many cleaners walking around corniche particularly after Friday night when the crowds leave their leftovers there. When walking around on Saturday morning I've noticed that somebody is snorkeling in the sea. I thought that someone is just having an early morning swim but very soon I've noticed that the person is carrying a big bag and is picking up the rubbish from the sea floor. I was really impressed as I have not seen it before. You can see that person in left bottom corner.
Canon 5D Mark II, f/6.3, 0.013 sec (1/80), ISO 100, 27 mm
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Grundarfjörður is a small town, situated in the north of the Snæfellsnes peninsula in the west of Iceland. The town is situated in front of an impressive mountain range which has a slightly alpine look. On the sea side, there is a beautiful mountain called Kirkjufell which is a diverted piece of the mountain strip Mýrarhyrna. The mountain forms a small peninsula.
The town itself is a charming, quiet, nice fishing village. Another awesome hidden corner in Iceland.
This shot was made the day after visiting it, very close to this picture (also in the first comment) just outside the village, one day so windy that you could hardly stand under the Snæfellsjökull volcano, where Journey to the Center of the Earth begins, by Jules Verne.
Grundarfjörður, Snæfellsnes, Iceland. 2010.
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Grundarfjörður es un pequeño pueblo, situado en el norte de la península de Snæfellsnes en el Oeste de Islandia. El pueblo está situado justo en frente de una impresionante cordillera y a su lado, hay una bonita montaña llamada Kirkjufell, que forma una pequeña península.
Grundarfjörður es en sí mismo un encantador y tranquilo agradable pueblo pesquero. Otro rincón escondido e increíble de Islandia.
Ésta foto fue hecha al día siguiente, muy cerca de esta foto (también en los comentarios) a la salida del pueblo, un día muy muy ventoso. Tanto que casi no se podía estar de pie debajo del Snæfellsjokull, lugar donde comienza el Viaje al Centro de la Tierra, de Julio Verne.
Grundarfjörður, Snæfellsnes, Islandia. 2010.
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Just opposite Dyrhólaey, not far from Vík, you can find Reynisdrangar, which is the name for the basalt sea stacks situated under the mountain Reynisfjall (top left on the image), formed by perfect hexagonal stacks.
However, legend states that these stacks are three trolls turned into stone when they were surprised by the first sun light. The name of the trolls are: Skessudrangar, Landdrangar y Langhamrar.
This place is located in the same Reynisfjara beach . The headland is thought to have been made in an underwater volcanic eruption late in the glacial period, not unlike the eruption of Surtsey. Several outcrops are in the sea, the highest one called Háidrangur ("High column") is 56 m high.
A long exposition captured well the mood at the place, shaping the big waves, capturing the sea movement against the sharp shapes of the rocks.
Reynisfjara, Iceland, 2010.
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Justo en frente del Dyrhólaey, cerca de Vik, se puede encontrar Reynisdrangar,que es el nombre de las columnas de basalto que hay en el mar, situadas debajo de la montaña Reynisfjall (a la izquierda en la imagen), formada tambien por columnas hexagonales.
Sin embargo, dice la leyenda que estas columnas son en realidad tres trolls convertidos en piedra, cuando fueron sorprendidos por los primeros rayos de sol. El nombre de los trolls son: Skessudrangar, Landdrangar y Langhamrar.
Este lugar se encuentra en la misma playa Reynisfjara. Existen formaciones de rocas puntiagudas creadas por erupciones volcánica submarinas, de entre los cuales el más alto llamado Háidrangur ("alta columna "), que tiene 56m de altura.
una larga exposición ayudó a capturar el ambiente del lugar, la trayectoria de las olas, capturando el movimiento del mar contra las afiladas formas de las rocas.
Reynisfjara, Islandia, 2010.
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Tenth picture of the series Canes & Mud.
(Just the next day of previous photoshoot, I tryed another time for take longer exposures. For this shot I wanted to focus the orange light of dawn on the boat in the foreground)
Magical sunrise in this beautiful place that is the Albufera of Valencia.
The image title is because during the photoshoot, surrounded by all this beauty, calm water, boat, reeds, mud, tranquility, flying birds ... every moment reminded me a lot to the great novel "Cañas y Barro" of the great Valencian writer Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, set in rural Valencia (Albufera) of the early twentieth century, the novel observes and portrays the social reality of the time and place with absolute precision.
Would like to thank this picture to my friend Javier Girbés, which helped me a lot with the location and encouraged me to know this magnificent spot.
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I leave you today with this photograph of the last January, the most intense sunset in the old dock of Puerto de Sagunto that I have contemplated in all my life.
On the technical side, say that I only used a ND filter Formatt Hitech graduated soft 3 steps filter combined with a ND 4 steps.
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I share today with all of you a self-portrait of the last weekend of my series made at the Garrofera Beach.
Located within the Albufera Natural Park offers a kilometer and a half of fine sand, sheltered by the dunes.
The peace that reigned in that place just before dawn, I wanted to transmit it including me in the picture just at the time of the output of the sun.
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Taken just after midnight as I was about to go to bed. Pictured here is the Kongakut River Valley. This portion of the river was covered in Auf eis (remnant ice from winter). We camped just off the river near this small pool of melted Auf eis. As the fog rolled in and the light became less intense the scene came alive.
More details about my trip as a whole can be found on my web site jmg-galleries.com/articles/ANWR_arctic_national_wildlife_...
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