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If you’re familiar with the view in the Arc area, it will be easy for you to judge.
For those who aren’t familiar with it, in reality, the row of trees is not passing through the Arc; it ends way before it. What we visualize here is an optical illusion created by forced perspective.
"Yes, my strength is in solitude. I am neither afraid of stormy rains nor of great loose gusts, for I am also the dark of night."
Clarice Lispector
Near the crest of the Andes and is at an elevation of 3,656 meters (11,995 ft) above sea level.
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For a truly out-of-this-world travel destination, it’s hard to match the Salar de Uyuni.
One of the flattest places in the world, the 4,000-square-mile salt flats were formed by a prehistoric lake.
Visitors travel in 4×4 vehicles across the expanse of the salt flats to visit locally fashioned structures made entirely from bricks of salt. The salt flats are at their most spectacular after a rain, when water sitting atop the cemented salt acts like a mirror, perfectly reflecting the sky above.
Using my mobile camera to get the typical rotorblade effect on this shot I took from the window of a tiny plane we used to cross from Kirkwall on Orkney to Edinburgh.
Havaianas (stylized as havaianas) is a Brazilian brand of flip-flop sandals created and patented in 1962.
The product's most well-known slogans are:
- 'The Legitimate Ones. Everybody Wears. Refuse Imitations.'
- 'They do not deform, they do not loose the strips and they do not smell.'
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Standing in defiance of the desert-like landscape that surrounds it, Uyuni occupies a desolate corner of southwestern Bolivia. Mention Uyuni to a Bolivian and they will whistle and emphasize harto frío (extreme cold). Yet despite the icy conditions, the town has a cheerful buzz about it, with hundreds of travelers passing through every week to kick off their tour of Salar de Uyuni or the Southwest Circuit.
Founded in 1889 by Bolivian president Aniceto Arce, Uyuni remains an important military base. Tourism and mining are the other major sources of employment in the town. The world’s largest lithium reserve – about 100 million tons – lies beneath the neighboring salt flat, and could potentially fuel all the smart phones and electric cars the world could build over the next century. While work on building extraction and processing facilities has been proceeding slowly, expect more and more mining activity near Uyuni in the coming years.
Our guide-mechanic-driver and chef was Poli.
Morning Glory flower up close, taken late morning in Port Elliot during our road trip to South Australia.
I like this optical illusion, the tubular section of the flower appears more like a solid round object rather than a hollow tube.
Many thanks for your visit, comments, invites and faves...it is always appreciated..
Peaceful Saturday
Salar was formed as a result of transformations between several prehistoric lakes. It is covered by a few meters of a salt crust, which has an extraordinary leveling with variations of average altitude of less than one meter throughout the entire area of the Salar. The crust serves as a source of copper salt and a pool of brine, which is extremely rich in lithium. It contains 50 to 70% of the world's lithium reserves, a resource that is in the process of being mined. The large area, clear sky and exceptional leveling of the surface make Salar an ideal object to calibrate the altimeters of Earth observation satellites.
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PS. After Bolivia, Elon Musk says capitalists can overthrow any government they want.
Billionaire Tesla owner Elon Musk has come under fire after welcoming last year’s overthrow of Bolivian president Evo Morales in what was seen as a bid to obtain the country’s lithium reserves.
In response to a tweet on Saturday that accused the U.S. government of forcing Morales out, allowing Musk to access Bolivian resources, he wrote: “We will coup whoever we want! Deal with it.”
Hundreds of Bolivia’s Indigenous population were massacred following what was branded “a fascist coup” against Morales, who is currently in exile in Argentina.
Bolivia has between 25% and 45% of the world’s known lithium reserves, an estimated 21 tons, most of which is in the Salar de Uyuni salt flat.
Lithium is a crucial component of the batteries used in Tesla vehicles and other electric cars, as well as computers, smartphones, and other equipment, and its value is set to skyrocket as sales of such vehicles increase.
peoplesworld.org/article/after-bolivia-elon-musk-says-cap...
I was shooting another building downtown, looked across the street, and saw the lamp post seemingly framing this pinkish highrise.
I appreciate the name suggestions, but Ted tells me the name of this building is the same as the address: 1500 Alberni.
This is an optical illusion created by blurring:
You are looking through the holes of a flat skimmer ladle onto the blue glitter foam rubber underneath. I focused on the edges of the bokeh until a 3D effect was created and it looked like spheres : ))
In the first comment you can see a photo of the ladle and foam rubber
Crazy Tuesday - theme of August 23, 2022: Geometry
taken with the manual Laowa 60mm ultra macro lens (I don't know the aperture anymore as I was playing around a lot ; ))
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Dies ist eine optische Täuschung, bewirkt durch Unschärfe:
Ihr seht hier durch die Löcher einer flachen Schöpfkelle hindurch auf das darunter liegende blaue Glitzer-Moosgummi. Den Fokus habe ich auf die Ränder des Bokehs gelegt, bis eine 3D-Wirkung entstand und Kugeln "erschienen"
Im ersten Kommentar seht ihr ein Foto der Schöpfkelle
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Op Art and a History of Deception 1520–1970
Eine Geschichte des Schwindels
Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, 2019
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This is the base of a green glass bottle that once contained white wine and now is a vase. I often keep beautiful bottles, big or small, just because they look nice. I use them as decorative objects, as colour filters for tabletop photography, or as vases. And when I saw this bottle, I bought it specifically because it looked so nice (hoping that the content would be nice as well – it was), and with the intention of turning it into a vase. There's a glasser around my corner who has cut off the necks of quite a few bottles for me, as the DIY methods you can find on YouTube seemed too unsafe for me to do it myself. When I turned the bottle upside down, I noticed the really interesting-looking circular pattern at the base consisting of many tiny indendations. I've experimented with light from different positions, and backlit (with a hint of red light slightly from the front / above) brought out the patterns best.
There's also a bit of an optical illusion here, because the whole bottle base is convex (as to be expected), and the circle at the centre is a convex shape of its own, even though in the final image it looks concave, sort of bulging. And with those two extra, almost V-shaped indentations at the centre it reminded me of a reptile's eye staring right at me ;)
The "V" shape at the centre is 0,5 cm / 0,19 inches long, and the circle itself has a diameter of 2,5 cm / 0,98 inches. It's a single shot processed in DXO PhotoLab 5, with further tweaks in Analog Efex (vignette, Vintage Camera 5), and in Color Efex (Brilliance & Warmth, Detail Extractor, Photo Stylizer).
HMM, Everyone, take care and stay safe!
Schau mir in die Augen, Kleines? Nun, warum nicht. Denn weder hat Humphrey Bogart das tatsächlich so gesagt noch ist Kaa böse, obwohl er in den Disney-Verfilmungen des Dschungelbuchs so dargestellt wird. Und eigentlich ist das der sehr harmlose Flaschenboden einer ehemaligen Weißweinflasche, die nun als Vase fungiert. Ich hebe oft schöne Flaschen auf, egal welcher Größe, die ich als Deko-Objekt, als Vase oder auch manchmal als Farbfilter für Fotos verwende. Bei dieser besonders schönen Flasche, die ich schon mit dem Gedanken, daraus eine Vase zu machen, gekauft hatte, hat mir der Glaser um die Ecke den Flaschenhals abgeschnitten, damit ein ganzer Strauß Blumen darin Platz findet und nicht nur eine einzelne Blume. Ich weiß, dass es auf YouTube jede Menge DIY-Anleitungen gibt, die mir aber alle zu unsicher sind, um das selbst zu machen. Jetzt habe ich beim großen Fluss aber DIY-Sets entdeckt, die ich mir mal genauer ansehen werde ;)
Die Flasche an sich hätte für ein Makro nicht viel hergegeben, als ich sie aber umdrehte, fiel mir am nach innen gewölbten Boden ein interessantes kreisförmiges Muster, bestehend aus vielen winzigen Einkerbungen, auf. Und das habe ich mir dann durch das Makroobjektiv mal genauer angesehen. Das Resultat erinnert mich ein wenig an ein Reptilienauge, besonders mit den beiden länglichen (vorgewölbten) Einkerbungen in der Mitte. Dass der innere Kreis nochmals deutlich nach innen gewölbt ist, aber wie ein Auge konkav wirkt, ist eine optische Täuschung (wie sie bei solchen Formen häufig vorkommt, finde ich). Das Foto ist eine Einzelaufnahme, hauptsächlich von hinten beleuchtet, mit etwas rotem Licht leicht von vorne / oben für extra Akzente.
Habt eine schöne Dezemberwoche, liebe Flickr-Freunde, und passt gut auf Euch auf!
As my daughter and I hiked up the mountainous trail at Eldorado Canyon State Park, I was amazed by the view we were leaving behind. There appeared to be a blue sea, with a cloudy sky at the horizon, but there is no sea in Colorado. In fact, as we climbed, we were approaching the lower level of the clouds that layered above the blue sky!
... or Honeycombs
#MacroMonday
#Oranje/Orange
Get well soon, Hans, we are looking forward to when you will be back as group admin and also with new photo contributions to the MM group :)
Something I've always wanted to photograph with the extension tubes in order to get really close, but never got it quite right. Well, it's still far from perfect, but at least I managed to get a fairly sharp image of these tiny honeycomb cubes (size of each cube: 2x2 mm / 0,07x0,07 inches) this time. They are inside of a small orange spoke (or rear) reflector, a scratched, battered thing that must have fallen off a bicycle. I picked it up in the street one day, because I thought it might be useful for Macro Mondays one day. I've already used this once before for a theme, the "Lit by Candlelight" theme from December 2017 (you can find the photo in the third comment, I was too slow ;) ). And since Hans is Dutch, and the Netherlands are a bycicle country, I thought the reflector might be an appropriate subject for the Oranje / Orange theme :)
I've used both extension tubes (which gave me 26 mm on top of the 60 mm from my macro lens), the Raynox DCR-250 close-up lens and a +4 close-up filter. The result reminds me of an optical illusion, because I can see both the cubes and the honeycombs, but not at the same time. I hope it's not too confusing to look at. I had to do some extensive dust and "scratch bokeh" removal (some of the many scratches on the plastic surface appeared as bokeh spots, but not nice ones, when I focused on the inside of the reflector) with the healing brush to make it pleasant to look at, and only when I applied a slightly matte look in Analog Efex it looked right to me.
I have a very busy day today, so I hope I can catch up with you tonight. HMM, Everyone, stay safe!
If you look closely it appears that this Blue Tits head is upside down.. was she married to Henry VIII ?
I do not recall taking this photo. It was in 2011!!! But while searching in my folders I discovered this one. Maybe the people who painted this shed like Italy. do you think it looks like some place in Italy ? I have many photos of murals. I hope you'll enjoy them all. Recently I saw some in Vancouver I shall go and take photos... Thanks you all for your comment and visit.
Je ne me souviens pas avoir pris cette photo. C'était en 2011!!! Mais en cherchant dans mes dossiers j'ai découvert celui-ci. Je crois qu'on a voulu représenter l'Italie. Qu'en pensez-vous ? Je vois le nom de l'artiste et la date ( 1992). J'ai beaucoup de photos de peintures murales à partager. J'espère que vous les apprécierez tous. Récemment j'en ai vu à Vancouver j'irai faire des photos... Merci à tous pour votre commentaire et votre visite.
Zoo am Meer, Bremerhaven
In der Eisbären Anlage ist eine gesicherte, hochliegende Insel für die Polar Füchse.
In the polar bear enclosure is a secured, high-lying island for the polar foxes.
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Eisbär Lloyd, Eisfüchse Polly und Paule
Polar Bear Lloyd, Polar Fox Polly and Paule
Well, my mother in law's 94th birthday went well and my gallery showing yesterday was a success. So now, life is back to normal :)
I won't be able to catch up with all your images but will try to get to your most recent images today.
Happy Slider Sunday!
About 10km down the canyon of the Río Choqueyapu from the city center, Valle de la Luna is a slightly over-hyped place, though it’s a pleasant break from urban La Paz. It could be easily visited in a morning or combined with another outing such as a hike to Muela del Diablo to fill an entire day. It isn’t a valley at all, but a bizarre, eroded hillside maze of canyons and pinnacles technically known as badlands.
Several species of cactus grow here, including the hallucinogenic choma (San Pedro cactus). Oh, YEP.
Unfortunately, urban growth has caught up to the area, making it less of a viewpoint than it otherwise might be.
Inti Travel offers round-trip guided trips to Valle de la Luna and Chacaltaya (US$ 42), with a pickup from Iglesia Maria Auxiliadora at 8:30am.
Window Reflections, Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, Portland
Nikon D5100, Tamron 18-270, ISO 200, f/11.0, 18mm, 1/100s
Near the crest of the Andes and is at an elevation of 3,656 meters (11,995 ft) above sea level.
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For a truly out-of-this-world travel destination, it’s hard to match the Salar de Uyuni.
One of the flattest places in the world, the 4,000-square-mile salt flats were formed by a prehistoric lake.
We traveled in 4×4 vehicles across the expanse of the salt flats to visit locally fashioned structures made entirely from bricks of salt. The salt flats are at their most spectacular after a rain, when water sitting atop the cemented salt acts like a mirror, perfectly reflecting the sky above.
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PS. My second photo reaching 1,000 faves on October 10th., 2019 at 7:31 pm.
PS2. My second photo reaching 2,000 faves on February 6th., 2022 at 12:02 pm.
In the rainy season, the Salar resembles an enormous mirror that merges in the horizon with the sky. Thus the tours are restricted to some areas.
Optical illusion. Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Maison de la Paix. Geneva (Switzerland).
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I couldn't resist taking this one, all those lines and a slight optical illusion. It's a simple but unusual garage door I came across in the Meadows, Nottingham.
a shopping cart/trolley, half submerged in a large puddle . .
at this angle, the reflection kind of makes it look like it's flying.
from any another angle, it just looks like a shopping cart half submerged in a puddle :)
for perspective . . . look for the waterline
( i dug this image up from deep in archives . ..
i thought i had lost it :)
Fun with negative space. Optical illusion.
I've lightened the image a bit since posting it initially. This has resulted (at least for me) in the loss of the optical illusion. It seems that a darker shade in the leaves is needed to trick the eye to focus on the negative white space. I think, going forward, I will from time to time darken and lighten the image, so as to make the illusion visible for a while.
For a truly out-of-this-world travel destination, it’s hard to match the Salar de Uyuni. One of the flattest places in the world, the 4,000-square-mile salt flats were formed by a prehistoric lake. Visitors travel in 4×4 vehicles across the expanse of the salt flats to visit locally fashioned structures made entirely from bricks of salt. The salt flats are at their most spectacular after a rain, when water sitting atop the cemented salt acts like a mirror, perfectly reflecting the sky above.
Topology 101 - Mt Airy, Philadelphia, PA - USA (Sony a7 Mark II - Voigtlander 110mm F2.5 APO Macro + Atomos Shinobi External Monitor)
Salar was formed as a result of transformations between several prehistoric lakes. It is covered by a few meters of a salt crust, which has an extraordinary leveling with variations of average altitude of less than one meter throughout the entire area of the Salar. The crust serves as a source of copper salt and a pool of brine, which is extremely rich in lithium. It contains 50 to 70% of the world's lithium reserves, a resource that is in the process of being mined. The large area, clear sky and exceptional leveling of the surface make Salar an ideal object to calibrate the altimeters of Earth observation satellites.
In the rainy season, the Salar resembles an enormous mirror that merges in the horizon with the sky. Thus the tours are restricted to some areas.
Please don't use my images on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission. All rights reserved - copyright © Stefano Scarselli
For a truly out-of-this-world travel destination, it’s hard to match the Salar de Uyuni. One of the flattest places in the world, the 4,000-square-mile salt flats were formed by a prehistoric lake. Visitors travel in 4×4 vehicles across the expanse of the salt flats to visit locally fashioned structures made entirely from bricks of salt. The salt flats are at their most spectacular after a rain, when water sitting atop the cemented salt acts like a mirror, perfectly reflecting the sky above.