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Ok, I know this image is a little crazy but I was just having fun here, so forgive me for exiting the bounds of reality for a minute! This is something I took a couple of years back at Yellowstone, while on a trip with 2 of the coolest guys you could ever meet. We had a heck of a great time, and I took lots of photos on the trip. I just came across this the other day in my library, and thought I would give it the HDR Efex Pro treatment. I was sliding things here and there and just having a great time while in my own little world of software - hopefully you have experienced that joy yourself, firsthand. Anyways, I just thought it was a fun shot, nothing serious, just fun. Hope you get a laugh or something out of it! Thanks for looking!
From the blog at: www.nomadicpursuits.com/blog/
In response to the March 22 "Rust" challenge in the Macro Mondays group, a rusty railroad nail approximately 1/2-inch wide (and dated 1924). Single RAW file shot with a Canon 6D Mark II and a Tamron 90mm f/2.8 Macro lens outfitted with a Raynox 250, utilizing Kuuvik Capture on a tethered laptop. One continuous, diffused pale amber LED light camera left. Exposure compensation -2/3. Post in Adobe Photoshop and Nik Software's Viveza. (Press "L" to view large on black; press "L" again to exit.)
Three speckled marbles resting in a (well used) speckled saucer.
19 images in a focus stack processed in Helicon Focus (Option C). Converted to mono in Silver Efex Pro. Cropped and split toning applied in Lightroom. Dust and fibre removal in Photoshop. Sharpening applied in Lightroom.
HMM to you all and thank you to everyone who views, faves and comments on this image and the others in my photostream.
Leica M-P & Summilux-M 35mm
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One more left to post. Thanks for all of your great comments and visits! What I think is some what unique on this one is the LE effect on one side of the water and clarity on the other.
Leica M-P & Elmarit-M 28mm
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Just returned from a business trip to Maine. After dinner with good friends, we took a walk along a lake shore, grabbed an ice cream and to enjoyed the sunset.
Leica M-P & Elmarit-M 28mm
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Leica M-P & Noctilux-M 50mm @ ISO800
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Nicht nur Wasser, sondern auch Wein soll aus dem neuen Brunnen fliessen – so berichtet heute die NZZ. Die Zünfte zur Meisen und zur Waag hätten die Idee gehabt, in den kleinen Trinkbrunnen neben dem Hauptbecken eine Vorrichtung einzubauen, die mit wenigen Handgriffen den Ausschank von Wein ermögliche. Die grüne Tiefbauvorsteherin Ruth Genner sei einst gegen das Projekt gewesen, da es im Widerspruch zur Alkoholprävention stehe, weiss die NZZ. Genners Nachfolger, FDP-Stadtrat Filippo Leutenegger, genehmigte den Weinbrunnen.
Der Weinausschank ist streng geregelt. Laut dem provisorischen Betriebsreglement ist der Zunftwirt zur Waag dafür verantwortlich. Ein spezieller Brunnenwart wird sich um die Hygiene kümmern. Eine Schutzschale aus Kupfer ist bereits angeschafft. Die Einweihung am kommenden Montag ist geladenen Gästen vorbehalten, Filippo Leutenegger ist Ehrengast bei der Zunft zur Waag.
Various Generations of Corvette's lined up at the September Morris Illinois Cruise Night. Five exposure HDR processed with Nik HDR Efex Pro 2
Leica M-P & Elmarit-M 28mm
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This is the "Büsing-Palais", a neo-Baroque building in Offenbach.
I worked on this shot for many times, this is the first version I am satisfied enough to post it here.
Edited with LIghtroom, Nik´s Viveza and Color Efects Pro and some Anisotropic Smoothing from G´Mic for Gimp in the end.
These two gulls were walking on Wells Beach one morning. They looked to me like a couple on vacation...just seeing the sights.
HSS!
Talacre Beach, Flintshire
It was a spur of the moment decision to take the coast road home from our visit to Llandudno for a recky to the lighthouse at Talacre. I wasn’t expecting anything photogenic considering the weather at Llandudno but was shocked at the number of people at the beach. Clearly a stunning landscape shot was out of the question with a featureless sky and people in every direction you looked. But since we’d made the effort to go then fire off a few shots for reference.
Back home, as anticipated, my shots weren’t floating my boat but I thought it an opportunity to process them using the Nik software collection. These have been processed using Silver Efex Pro and have turned out better than the native raw file...
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sunset after heavy rain, Al Ain. Abu Dhabi. Colour image processed with Nik HDR effex and silver effex
The Volcano-like Sugarloaf mountain in the far centre of the image, just as the sun was starting to set.
This has to be one of the top three creepiest buildings in Portland. It sits inside an industrial port area on the Willamette River, while right next to a busy highway. Most local motorist know the structure is there, because traffic will slow considerably for all those inquisitive as to its current state of decay (and to see what might fly out of it). Amazingly, it's been in this compromised condition for over twenty years. I haven't a clue as to why it's still standing, I asked around and no one else seems to know either. Portland doesn't have many 'boogeyman' type structures such as this just standing about, however, some landowner or authority must feel this is a landmark worth preserving (or decomposing as it were) if for nothing else, then the sake of nostalgia.
So if you ever make it to Portland, be sure to add this... well, lets just call it a 'curio' to your itinerary: it only gets better with time!
Cheers
Wait! Suddenly, after writing this, I feel the need to solve this great mystery. Stay tune, I'll be back...
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Der Creux du Van ist ein Ausräumungskessel (französisch: cirque, zum Beispiel Cirque de Gavarnie) im Schweizer Jura an der Grenze zwischen den Kantonen Neuenburg und Waadt.
Er ist etwa 1200 m breit und 500 m tief. Die Gesamtlänge der Felswände, die rund 160 m senkrecht abfallen, beträgt etwa 4 km. Das Gebiet liegt beim Mont Soliat auf 1200 bis 1450 m ü. M. und ist seit 1972 unter Schutz gestellt. Es gehört zum Bundesinventar der Landschaften und Naturdenkmäler von nationaler Bedeutung.
Der Kessel ist wahrscheinlich nach der Eiszeit durch Erosion entstanden. Der Boden ist mit Moränen- und Bergsturzmaterial bedeckt, auf dem Tannen und Buchen wachsen. In der Mitte unter dem oben unbewaldeten Teil des Kessels liegt die Quelle Fontaine Froide, deren Wasser das ganze Jahr über gleichmäßig 4 °C warm ist.
An den Felswänden leben Steinböcke und Gämsen. 1770 wurde im Gebiet des Creux-du-Van der letzte Bär erlegt. In den Jahren 1974 und 1975 wurde je ein Paar Luchse ausgesetzt. Bei den Luchsen handelte es sich um Wildfänge aus den slowakischen Karpaten.
Das geologisch und botanisch wertvolle Gebiet ist auch ein beliebtes Ausflugsziel, das zu Fuss am besten von Noiraigue zu erreichen ist. Mit dem Auto gelangt man via Couvet oder Saint-Aubin-Sauges zum Restaurant Ferme du Soliat am oberen Rand des Felskessels.
Am unbewaldeten oberen Rand des Kessels wurde eine ca 2 km lange Trockensteinmauer erbaut, die einen weniger ästhetischen Drahtgitterzaun ersetzte. Die Mauer wurde von einer internationalen Gruppe unentgeltlich erstellt und wird deshalb auch Mauer der Freundschaft genannt.
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A medieval street in the centre of historic York, with many of the buildings dating back to the late fourteenth and fifteenth century (around 1350-1475).
In places the street is so narrow that with arms outstretched you can touch the buildings on both sides.
The Shambles was a street of butchers’ shops and houses, some with a slaughterhouse at the back of the premises, ensuring a supply of fresh meat.
The street is said to be an inspiration for the fictional Diagon Alley, the magical merchant market from the wizarding world of Harry Potter. There are now 3 shops selling Harry Potter goods, one named "The Shop That Must Not be Named", if that makes sense.
Tourists throng this street throughout the year ..... less so at night ;-)