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The market off La Rambla, in Barcelona is one of the most colourful places around. A veritable feast for the eyes, no less.
On Flickr Explore 12 October 2006 #15.
Wahoo!!
Flickr changed the algorithm for selecting what photo's get onto the Explore pages at the start of October.
Spend yesterday working out the new code... et viola - result!!!
Update: As soon as I put the comment about Explore on here it disappeared. Flickr Central must have reading this. I wouldn't mind but it was one of my highest placings.
Ah wel.
This was not really supposed to be as sexual as it turned out...it had hints of it, of course. It was just supposed to be a tangle with his shoulders as the focus; it wasn't until I looked into the viewfinder that I realized how raw the shot was going to turn out.
We were hanging out and having a BBQ last night, as we tend to do on the weekends. They're so relaxing. We just fire up the 'Q' and sit around, shooting the breeze. ...and apparently, being creative!
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"Sometimes you just have to say what the f***. 'What the f***' brings freedom; freedom brings opportunity; opportunity creates your future."
SEE THE THE HDR-VERSION!
These had no enhancement of color or texture in ps or anywhere else, just the true colors through tinted glass at our old church :>) The originals can be seen at my other account: 1. Un stained window, 2. green abstract stain, 3. gold abstract stain, 4. red abstract stain, 5. Darker un stained window, 6. abstract blue stain
Garden of the Gods, May 2005
Pikes Peak rises above the rocks of Garden of the Gods. Katharine Lee Bates was inspired by a carriage ride to the summit of Pikes Peak to write the words to “America the Beautiful”.
Milky Way Galaxy Image
Romans 12
3 For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the faith God has distributed to each of you. 4 For just a...
Recipe Pignoli Cookies
Makes 36 cookies
12 ounces almond paste
1/2 cup white sugar
1 cup confectioners' sugar
4 egg whites
1 1/2 cups pine nuts
Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C).
Line 2 cookie sheets with foil; lightly grease foil.
Mix almond paste and granulated sugar in food processor until smooth.
Add confectioners' sugar and 2 egg whites; process until smooth.
Whisk remaining 2 egg whites in small bowl.
Place pine nuts on shallow plate.
With lightly floured hands roll dough into 1 inch balls.
Coat balls in egg whites, shaking off excess, then roll in pine nuts, pressing lightly to stick.
Arrange balls on cookie sheets, and flatten slightly to form a 1 1/2 inch round.
Bake 15 to 18 minutes in the preheated oven, or until lightly browned.
Let stand on cookie sheet 1 minute. Transfer to wire rack to cool.
no rules, no limitations, no boundaries it's like an art
Best view on LARGE
SHITAMACHI -- can be traslated as Shita (DOWN) & Machi (TOWN) or Downtown. When you hear Tokyo we usually think of tall buildings and High-Tech areas. But there are still many traditional areas in Tokyo.
In SHITAMACHI you'll still find the old Edo cultures, no famous tourist spots, lifestyle is very slow, old houses and old peoples and old fashioned SHITAMACHI life style.
JR Koiwa Station is about 30 minutes by the Yokosuka Line from Tokyo Station.
OR you may want to see the other side
Alabama Photographer
Galatians 6
6 Brothers and sisters, if someone is caught in a sin, you who live by the Spirit should restore that person gently. But watch yourselves, or you also may be tempted. 2 Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ. 3 If anyone t...
While the detail of the tower is not apparent in this shot, I will give the info anyway, and might head back out for a daytime shot tomorrow.
Little is know of the hisotry of this monastery which is said to have been founded by Bishop Lughach, one of the first Christian evangelists in Kerry. The Round Tower built around 1100, is exceptionally well-preserved, although its roof has been restored. Its doorway has a round arch, and its surrounded by a plain, flat carved moulding capped with an unusual curvilinear design.
A sheela-na-gig is carved on the north window, facing into the inside of the tower. These were 'ugly', explicit carvings of females which were often places on the walls of churches and castles as protective symbols. This is the only example of a sheel-na-gig to be found in an Irish Round Tower.
The purpose of round towers is somewhat mysterious. A popular theory is that the towers were originally a redoubt against raiders such as Vikings. If a lookout posted in the tower spotted a Viking force, the local population (or at least the clerics) would enter, using a ladder which could be raised from within. The towers would be used to store religious relics and other plunderables.
If you like this, see my Dad's capture., this is more what I was aiming for but was too late :( I was driving out from Tralee, racing the sun to try and snap before it went out of sight. I was too late for what could have been a really great shot, but there are always other evenings!
Was he lost in deep thoughts...
or a dream within a dream...
The emotions captured here were just too deep to even imagine whats going on in that mind of his..
Whatever it is, Im just fortunate to be able to capture this in picture.. and also in my mind.
And whatever process that was done in order to achieve this..
Thats my sweet lil memory.
That I will never forget as long as I live.
The solitary flower amongst the lily pads continues to be one of my favorite images.
This was taken at Fair Park near downtown Dallas, Texas. I personally think it is much better if viewed at the larger sizes....
A one-handed shot of quite possibly the world's best frog model perched atop my left hand as I struggled to hold the camera steady in my right hand.
This is better if viewed at the larger sizes...
This was taken near the northeast corner of 6th Avenue and 24th Street
The picture speaks for itself ...
Note: I chose this as my "photo of the day" for Jan 24, 2014.
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This set of photos is based on a very simple concept: walk every block of Manhattan with a camera, and see what happens. To avoid missing anything, walk both sides of the street.
That's all there is to it …
Of course, if you wanted to be more ambitious, you could also walk the streets of Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, and the Bronx. But that's more than I'm willing to commit to at this point, and I'll leave the remaining boroughs of New York City to other, more adventurous photographers.
Oh, actually, there's one more small detail: leave the photos alone for a month -- unedited, untouched, and unviewed. By the time I actually focus on the first of these "every-block" photos, I will have taken more than 8,000 images on the nearby streets of the Upper West Side -- plus another several thousand in Rome, Coney Island, and the various spots in NYC where I traditionally take photos. So I don't expect to be emotionally attached to any of the "every-block" photos, and hope that I'll be able to make an objective selection of the ones worth looking at.
As for the criteria that I've used to select the small subset of every-block photos that get uploaded to Flickr: there are three. First, I'll upload any photo that I think is "great," and where I hope the reaction of my Flickr-friends will be, "I have no idea when or where that photo was taken, but it's really a terrific picture!"
A second criterion has to do with place, and the third involves time. I'm hoping that I'll take some photos that clearly say, "This is New York!" to anyone who looks at it. Obviously, certain landscape icons like the Empire State Building or the Statue of Liberty would satisfy that criterion; but I'm hoping that I'll find other, more unexpected examples. I hope that I'll be able to take some shots that will make a "local" viewer say, "Well, even if that's not recognizable to someone from another part of the country, or another part of the world, I know that that's New York!" And there might be some photos where a "non-local" viewer might say, "I had no idea that there was anyplace in New York City that was so interesting/beautiful/ugly/spectacular."
As for the sense of time: I remember wandering around my neighborhood in 2005, photographing various shops, stores, restaurants, and business establishments -- and then casually looking at the photos about five years later, and being stunned by how much had changed. Little by little, store by store, day by day, things change … and when you've been around as long as I have, it's even more amazing to go back and look at the photos you took thirty or forty years ago, and ask yourself, "Was it really like that back then? Seriously, did people really wear bell-bottom jeans?"
So, with the expectation that I'll be looking at these every-block photos five or ten years from now (and maybe you will be, too), I'm going to be doing my best to capture scenes that convey the sense that they were taken in the year 2013 … or at least sometime in the decade of the 2010's (I have no idea what we're calling this decade yet). Or maybe they'll just say to us, "This is what it was like a dozen years after 9-11".
Movie posters are a trivial example of such a time-specific image; I've already taken a bunch, and I don't know if I'll ultimately decide that they're worth uploading. Women's fashion/styles are another obvious example of a time-specific phenomenon; and even though I'm definitely not a fashion expert, I suspected that I'll be able to look at some images ten years from now and mutter to myself, "Did we really wear shirts like that? Did women really wear those weird skirts that are short in the front, and long in the back? Did everyone in New York have a tattoo?"
Another example: I'm fascinated by the interactions that people have with their cellphones out on the street. It seems that everyone has one, which certainly wasn't true a decade ago; and it seems that everyone walks down the street with their eyes and their entire conscious attention riveted on this little box-like gadget, utterly oblivious about anything else that might be going on (among other things, that makes it very easy for me to photograph them without their even noticing, particularly if they've also got earphones so they can listen to music or carry on a phone conversation). But I can't help wondering whether this kind of social behavior will seem bizarre a decade from now … especially if our cellphones have become so miniaturized that they're incorporated into the glasses we wear, or implanted directly into our eyeballs.
Oh, one last thing: I've created a customized Google Map to show the precise details of each day's photo-walk. I'll be updating it each day, and the most recent part of my every-block journey will be marked in red, to differentiate it from all of the older segments of the journey, which will be shown in blue. You can see the map, and peek at it each day to see where I've been, by clicking on this link
URL link to Ed's every-block progress through Manhattan
If you have any suggestions about places that I should definitely visit to get some good photos, or if you'd like me to photograph you in your little corner of New York City, please let me know. You can send me a Flickr-mail message, or you can email me directly at ed-at-yourdon-dot-com
Stay tuned as the photo-walk continues, block by block ...
This tiny stone work detail, along a London pavement is no bigger than my thumb. So easy to miss and yet so skillfully created.
(Do you see a man or a woman's face? How do you read the expression?)
Washington County Alabama Photography
James 1
19 My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, 20 because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires. 21 Therefore, get rid of all mo...
briandumas.photography/2015/10/29/washington-county-photo...
i took this at the porsche place of business in zuffenhausen near stuttgart, germany.
click here to see where this photo was taken.
(google earth recommended)
Ruiny zamku w Smolcu k. Wrocławia. Technikalia: E1 + ZD 14-54 2.8-3.5 + polar;
"Ruiny zamku wzniesionego w stylu renesansowym ok. 1523 r. na wcześniejszych fragmentach, przebudowanego w XVIII i XIX w., zrujnowanego w 1945 r. Był on murowany na planie czworoboku, dwukondygnacjowy z prostokątną wieżą od wschodu, położony na wyspie otoczonej fosą z wodą." tekst na podstawie Jerzego Pilcha
I received a message from my grrl Michelle the evening after finding out about Benjamin's passing ... I wanted to participate as a tribute to that brave young man. I thought that he would approve of the idea. I hope you can participate too, no matter where you're from. :)
Message from Michelle's friend Clint Darden:
"Without exposing my soft alias side, I do some work with children's hospitals across The World. I have been in contact with a young man (Age 7) named Wilson who is fighting Leukemia. This little guy had a request that I can't fulfill all by myself although I can contribute. He is going to be undergoing a bone marrow transplant next month and his mom has requested for people to send a postcard or picture of where they are from for them to pin onto a giant map in his room so he can learn a little geography while he's in and for him to see where all people are supporting him from. Wilson's Mother's hope was to get something from all 50 states.
If you think that you can send him a post card, or just a note, here is the mailing addy that they have provided me with:
Greenford Cupboard
ATTN Wilson
PO Box 105
Greenford OH 44422"
Thank you in advance everyone!
It's the Little Things 2.0 #212
I'm such a sucker for a DOF on a ornate gate. This one I ran the red vintage action from the "PayItForward" blog.
Messing with Photoshop...
This photo was chosen as one of Flickr's most interesting photos, it was added to Explore on 10th of August, 2006 - Ranked #382 out of 500 other chosen photos.