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I'd say there are two photographers who were primarily responsible for inspiring me to take up photography. One of them is famous. His name is Galen Rowell. The other one is not. His name is Charles Uibel, and I don't remember how I came across his photos but he was one of my first flickr contacts. I followed his work for years before I became seriously interested in photography and decided to buy my first "real" camera. I was mesmerized by the relationship he had with the Great Salt Lake. It seemed like every day he could go out and find something completely new and fascinating, yet familiar. Featured in many of those photos is Antelope Island -- sometimes dominant, sometimes looming in the distance. It's often an anchor and a thread that weaves his images together. Always the same place, always seen in a new way.
Anyway, despite what my title suggests, I don't have hundreds of photos from this place. But Mickey Butte did remind me of Antelope Island. And the Mickey and Alvord basins are places worthy of the same sort of attention Uibel gives the Great Salt Lake. This was the third time I had been out here, and I plan to return as often as I can. I'm much more interested in seeing a place captured in a hundred different ways than I am in seeing a single trophy shot.
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Nyhavn
Nyhavn is at one and the same time the most vibrant meeting place of present-day Copenhagen and an attraction of historical significance. In the olden days ships from around the world came alongside the quay and sailors, pubs, prostitutes and party left their mark on harbour life. The new harbour became Nyhavn and the old and crooked houses, which once housed merchants and brothels, were beautifully restored and are today crammed with cozy restaurants, which offer indoor and outdoor seating.
On the sunny side
Nyhavn has a certain Danish charm to it. The harbour was digged out by Swedish prisoners in the 17th century as one of the first extensions of the Copenhagen borders. Ever since then the artificial canal has provided the setting for a pulsating yet folksy city life. On the quay in Nyhavn you will often run into lively folk music or jazz performances and as soon as the sun shines every day in Nyhavn becomes a party. What's more, you can investigate the old, wooden vessels and the medieval architecture alongside the quay. All through summer an international crowd makes the sunny side of the old harbour buzz with high spirited singing and cheering and there is nothing like having a chilled draft beer while watching the crowds pass by. Nyhavn is also the starting point for the popular canal tour boats.
We thank everyone very much for all the comforting messages you have sent about my husbands knee operation... he wasn't back from theatre until about 7.45 last night and i could only be with him a short time but he was really happy and was aware of what was going on during the op as he had an epidural in the spine instead of anesthetic...... the surgeon was joking with him throughout the op. Even asked him if he wanted a job when he helped with advice at some point Ha ha...
I will most certainly be trying to visit you all as soon as time allows THANK YOU x
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Convection of the churning brine and conduction from surrounding rock transfers heat to an overlaying layer of fresh groundwater. Movement of the two liquids is facilitated by the highly fractured and porous nature of the rocks under the Yellowstone Plateau. Some silica is dissolved from the fractured rhyolite into the hot water as it travels through the fractured rock. Part of this hard mineral is later redeposited on the walls of the cracks and fissures to make a nearly pressure-tight system. At the surface, silica precipitates to form either geyserite or sinter, creating the massive geyser cones, the scalloped edges of hot springs, and the seemingly barren landscape of geyser basins.
--from Wiki
It is this silica production which makes its way into adjacent flora, killing and "silicifying" them.
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Explored! November 15, 2009 #400
Probably my coldest and shortest shoot I've ever done. I never realized how quickly the sun goes down until today haha. This was another test shoot to work on getting used to using this alienbee which is definitely difficult. I shot with Chelsea probably a year ago so it was cool to shoot with her again.
We met up around 3:45pm and went to one spot I had in mind but as soon as I started setting up a cop rolled up and told us we couldn't shoot there since it was private property (at least he was chill about it). So we tried some stuff near by that didn't work out how I wanted it to and by then the sun was completely down. So I decided to try out by this garage that is right next door to my dorm here at school. Worked out very well I thought.
By the time we finished it was only around 5pm; I was very surprised at the amount of time it took to go from light to pitch black. Processing-wise I wanted to do something a little edgier so I mixed some stuff up between a couple actions and such. This one isn't as dark as the first, gave it a little more saturation. All 5 shots I edited have a different processing. Anyways, what's everyone's thoughts?
ab800 into 47" octabox camera left
fired with pocketwizards
Lighting Info:
SB800 in Shoot Thru Brolly Camera Left
Sun Behind Camera Right as Rim
Nikon D300
Nikkor 50mm 1.4
Pocket Wizard Plus II
This is probably my favorite portrait that I have taken, it is not a great photo or some kind of masterpiece, but it speaks volumes to me. I have a younger brother that is my best friend, I have always felt this need to really watch over him. You see, my parents did not speak English when they first came to this country. The culture and country was completely new to them, me and my brother felt lost sometimes. Me and Steve saw these young brothers walking home from school, they had just gotten off the bus. The youngest one, Dee, had his ice cream cone and it was melting and running down his hands. His older brother, Darrell, took the ice cream cone and fixed it up for him and then handed his brother a napkin to clean his hands off. He then put his arm around him and they began walking. I watched all this and was reminded of the many times I did the same for my younger brother. It was a very endearing and awesome scene to watch unfold.
Enjoy,
Hector
wow, I can still see after all that work! (see last photo if you do not know what I mean...) but now I am off to another 12 hour shift... shudder... at least I love my job taking care of these 6 elders!!! They are like my moms and dads!
update... it is now 9am on Monday, and I am running away once more to the mountains, and no work today or "fingers crossed" Tomorrow! woo woo, more time to play... and next coming up in Bird Creek Meadows we are starting to see RED foliage on the low growth alpine huckleberry plants! oh dear... so pretty, but it means SNOW is right around the corner up there, and no more trips to my fave spot after another month!
so I am gonna run and enjoy it all... thank you all SOO MUCH for the wonderful comments, awards, faves, invites... sorry I am not taking time today to put it in all the groups, but the mountains are calling my name! You understand....
so see ya in a couple days! **beaming love to my Flickr Friends"
and thanks to all of you for this being in Explore Aug 26 #162!
Mattina ore 6 circa,altra levataccia per cogliere quello che la luce al tramonto, due giorni prima, non mi ha regalato.Forse il fatto di essere li da solo...in verità ci sono altri due pazzi come me, ma il silenzio e l'atmosfera sono tali che riesco ad isolarmi.A tu per tu con la natura, uno di quei momenti che solo certi posti riescono a trasmettere.Il gruppo del Latemar si specchia nel lago di vetro, una carezza per lo sguardo...
About 6 a.m., I wake up early to catch what the light at sunset two days before has not given me. Perhaps the fact to be alone them...in truth there are other two crazy persons as me, but the silence and the atmosphere are such that I succeed in isolating me. A face to face with the nature, one of that moments that only certain places succeed in transmitting. The group of the Latemar is mirrored in the lake of glass, a caress to the eyes .. .( sorry for my bad translate )
Dear Friends,
This is an image I took last December while out with Joel Tjintjelaar and Kees Smans in Rotterdam.
I don't think my photographic life will ever be the same; Joel introducted me to architecture and I have been extremely impressed by how beautiful is shooting buldings.
After finishing the project I'm working on now, I will devote myself to architecture: many ideas about that!
By the way, this is my first ever attempt at architecture.
Details
- CANON 5d Mark II ir, TS-E 24, f/7.1, 183 s, ISO 100
- Mirror Lockup, Remote Shutter
- Lee Big Stopper (10 stops ND filter)
- Tripod
The shot
Rotterdam, Netherlands
The Processing
Photoshop:
- Added many soft light layers to adjust light;
- Added a few curves to improve contrasts;
- Applied Noise Reduction
- Resized for the Web (1200px);
- Applied an Unsharp Mask to slightly improve contrast;
- Smart Sharpen + More accurate (On luminosity 'blending mode', at low opacity, building only);
- Framing and Signature.
Take a look at it, LARGE on Black :
@ You all
Comments and faves are always welcome!
Hope your 2012 started great!!!
HDR image processed from 7 exposures with Photomatix Pro.
We visited Neuhausen on the weekend to attend the celebration of its 1100 years birthday. A wonderful place ... the Rheinfall, the castle ... and in the evening even the moon showed up :-)
Used the tripod for this one ... also to capture some fireworks later on in the night.
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Traveling south along the Kings Highway also known as Highway One, you
encounter several large sandy beaches with rocks on either side. One such
beach is Pescadero State Beach about halfway between San Francisco and Santa
Cruz on the San Mateo coast. It may seem odd for most people to see a
lone photographer wading out in the surf taking pictures on a gloomy and
cloudy day but I find that stormy skies make for interesting beach
photography. Granted when I get back to the car I have to pull off my wet
New Balance sneakers and then peel the saltwater soaked socks off my feet
and try and get the sand from between my toes. It's a pain but it's all
worth it to me in the end.
Once home I will download the images to my system. My Nikon D300 has
several options and I find that on cloudy days setting it to Vibrant Mode
helps to improve the color saturation in the image. This setting effects
the JPEG files but not the NEF files. In some cases the JPEG file can be
posted directly but often I prefer to work on the raw data. So I take the
camera's raw NEF files in to Adobe Camera Raw to adjust the exposure,
vibrancy and saturation and most importantly correct the level of the shot.
Nothing bugs me more than to see a photo on Flickr of the ocean and the
horizon looks like it's out of the old Batman TV series. Typically this
isn't a big adjustment on my shot because I always use a tripod and try to
keep it as level as possible. I will go through all the images in the set
to find which image really looks the best. I will evaluate each image
considering the clouds, waves, foam and sand till I narrow it down to the
images I like best. Once one is picked I then open the image in Photoshop
and adjust the Levels setting, run a pass to reduce noise and adjust the
sharpness as needed. On average I don't spend more than about 10 to 15
minutes on any given image unless there is a problem such as an object in
the image I want to remove. When shooting state beaches I find I often
have to either pick up trash when possible or edit it out when I get home.
Fortunately I didn't have to do this on this image.
Once happy with the image I still have to prepare it for the web. I save
it off as a JPEG with highest quality. I then resize the image for Flickr.
Typically I want to offer all my images as desktop wallpaper sizes so people
can enjoy them for free on their system. I add my websites watermark and
save the image off to the Flickr folder on my system. If I have several
images in a set I try to upload them over time since many groups limit the
number of uploads. This also gives the first page of my PhotoStream a nice
variety instead of a bunch of shots from the same place. If you are
interested in using any of my images for your systems desktop wallpaper,
just click on the All Sizes > Original Size to view the approximately 1920 x
1200 size image. Once it loads, just right click on it and choose Set As
Desktop Background in your browser or save the image to your wallpaper
folder. Oh, and if you enjoy the image, take a sec and let me know. If
you need a different size, just drop me a note as to your screen resolution.
Regards,
Darv
© Darvin Atkeson
Taken at Panther / Hole in the Wall Beach, near Davenport and Santa Cruz.
Spent the afternoon as usual: peering out the window to check on conditions down out the coast. Since I had missed the fantastic sunset on Friday, I was especially antsy to get some shooting in, so when I saw some clouds building on the horizon, I hopped in the car and zoomed away down to the beach!
After some close calls at Four Mile and Laguna Creek where I almost stopped to shoot, I ended up at my old standby: Panther / Hole in the Wall Beach
Down at the shore I was immediately impressed by the massive waves, which were bigger than I'd ever seen them at this beach. (And if that doesn't foreshadow the events to come this evening, I don't know what would.)
For those who've never been there, to get to Hole in the Wall Beach, you have to go through a huge rock arch, which you can see here. All the storms here recently have eroded a ton of sand out of the floor of the arch, so the water comes up a lot higher than it did a few months ago. Just getting through the arch to Hole in the Wall was a little ridiculous. I had to wait for a wave to roll back into the ocean, then sprint through the arch and climb up some rocks before the next big wave came crashing and splashing through the opening. Then when that one would roll back, I jumped down from my perch and sprinted along the cliff edge up to dry sand. Easy peasy. Barely got my feet wet.
Kept on cruising down to the south end of the beach, past Jim P's pet rocks, and up onto the sweet-as shelves at the end of the beach.
Now, did I mention that the waves were huge? I originally intended to shoot the Devil's Bathtub (photo down below), but hell man, the waves were creaming that thing into oblivion, and more water was shooting out of the blowhole like a cannon (you can see where the blowhole is in the note on the photo above). So I was like, eff that! and skittered away to figure out something else to shoot.
But since this big old cleft was right there too and also pointed in the same direction as the Bathtub, it was an easy second choice. But frick. I have never seen water come up so high in this thing. It was fully exploding out of the cleft at times. But the light was golden, so I shielded my camera from the worst blasts and kept on snapping the shutter.
Now right around this time it started raining a little bit and the wind picked up. Oh, sweet. Humongous waves aren't enough, it's gotta start raining and blowing wind too? Then the rain came down harder and by golly, it even started to hail. That's right: Hail. At a beach in California.
Eff this ess! I shouted and ran around the corner to hide behind some cliffs. Shot some quick video and after a few minutes the rain slacked off, so I zipped back out the cleft where the passing thunderstorms were turning whole rainbows' worth of color.
I stood there thinking, "oh my, what a wonderful moment to take a photo," so I grabbed this shot, and the outtake down below, and about 50 more just like it.
Then it started to rain again. Well poop. My cleaning cloth was soaking wet, so I packed all my gear up and walked about 50 feet back towards the car. Then it stopped raining, the clouds opened up a little bit, and these killer waves came pounding in over Jim's pet rocks. The documentarian inside of me beat up the "let's go home" wimpy nerd inside of me, so I unpacked all my gear and snagged a shot of the mountainous waves. See that photo down below.
But then the light was going, going, gone, and I decided to do the same, so I hustled back up the beach to the arch. But wait a minute, what the eff? These waves are even huger than before! And they're going right through the arch! How the crap am I supposed to get through there???
I figured that with careful timing and careful scrambling it should be doable. So I got on some rocks and watched the first wave roll through. As it receded I ran to the next set of rocks. Ok, so far so good. After the next wave I ran to the next set of rocks and was just climbing up them when Boom. The end. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200.
A rogue wave mashed into me and lifted me off the rocks like I was a rag doll. Then I was down in the water, 100% percent submerged, getting bashed into rocks as the wave pushed me up the beach and slammed me against the cliff. Ouch. Some people might find this a little strange, but my first thought while I was floundering around in the whirling ocean was not "Oh holy hell I am screwed," but rather, "Oh holy hell, my camera gear is screwed." I'm sure you flickrites understand fully. :)
But a wave can only go so high, thank goodness, so eventually I emerged at the top of the beach, soaked and sputtering. But hell, I still had to get through the arch! Luckily my second attempt was much more fortuitous, though I still had a number of close calls where I was clinging onto the rocks with all my might so as not to get swept off. At one point I was standing on some rocks four feet above the floor of the arch, and a wave came swirling up around my knees. That meant the water was a good 5 and a half feet above the floor of the arch. And I had to go through that!
"F#ck you, ocean!" I think were my exact words at this point. I waited a few more minutes and luckily a smaller cycle of waves came through and I was able to leap down and sprint through the arch without getting mauled by another tiger of a wave.
Phew! Then I just squished back to my jeep to assess the damage.
Final score: Ocean - 1. ipod - 0. Phone - 0. Me - bloody knees, but at least a few keeper shots. Not sure who won that round . . . camera survived intact though, so I'm thinking I win by TKO?
~Josh
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1. I am sure you would find out much more about me looking through my photos than below. May be even something which i do not know...
2. I initially found this game really awkward and slightly silly even - we've done something similar at school. But then we were 10:-) But I am doing it because i respect and admire very much Nejire and Caroline who tagged me. Also you might notice above that the selfies are really not mine cup of tea - i would like to be a little princess with the curly hair, but that was all i could master:-) Again i feel i owe this one to Jone who was provoked to shoot herself with an empty bottle in her hands:-)
3. Ok biography:-) - i was born in the country which does not exist anymore as my fellow few million of people. Not difficult to guess where isn't it? All of it was slightly surreal and absurd. For example in my case i ended up holding Russian nationality when my mum, brother and the rest are Ukrainians... So it was in those days.
4. I am happily (at least i think so;-)))) married to an Englishmen with an Italian name. All of it is confusing even to our 18 months son. Those two are the best thing in my life and i adore them wholeheartedly. Actually for me the world has changed completely with the birth of my son. Everyone is saying so but i believe it is difficult to convey the meaning of it until you there...
5.I am a Master of economics and qualified accountant - make your own conclusions:-). But i am not that good in numbers crunching and try to delegate it as soon as i can. Evidently i like to shoot picture instead:-)
6. My favorite cities are St, Petersburg, Barcelona and Istanbul. Each of them has got lots of personal meaning to me. St Petersburg - i was living there since 17 and until i moved to the UK. Huge part of my life and i am still completely in love with it. Two others - too long stories to tell, but they are magical and unforgettable. London is more than favorite - it is the place where i live now and do not want to leave. It is the air i breath.
7. I am absolutely mad about books. I love bookshops, reading and buying them as well. I was once shocked to find out that at average you can read around 52 books in a year- one a week. That means i will need to speed up with my library:-)
8. My favorite writer now is Leo Tolstoy. I used to prefer Dostoevski to him a few years ago. This year i reread Karenina and still amazed how different experience it was compared when i read it first when i was 17. In general i almost never read the book twice.
9. I love poetry very much. This is my favorite genre. Initially I started to learn foreign languages to be able to understand verses. I think together with the visual arts they would form the future as people have less and less time to read... Though jolly good novel is like a little life on its own...
10. I used to work for Warner Bros. and have been to the studio, junkets and different sets such as Friends and Harry Porter. The last is actually much more interesting than any of the movies. Though i ve seen only half of a single one.. I would never like to be an actor - very difficult job!
11. I traveled a lot with the job - different places - Japan, Chile, Korea or the Midlands - glamorous city of Birmingham! ;-) It is easier to say where i have not been... That is how i started to take photos.
11. I spent 6 weeks in Barcelona on a Spanish course. It was quite a few years ago. But i still have fantastic memories about this place and experience. I even do not want to revisit it sofar. And my Spanish is absolutely rudimentary, but i like this lingo very much. Actually my English is not far from rudimentary as well:-)
12. I like history, especially Byzantine Empire and Black Sea region. As you noticed i like Turkey and its people.
13. I left Flickr totally for a about a year. Then when i came back and changed completely my style. i was amazed that there were people who remembered me and gave me warm welcome. Especially Raluca, Christiane, Isabelle and Petra.
14. I like long walks. In London i prefer East to West. I spent the first 6 months of my UK life at Chelsea and it was enough. Though i love West End for the theaters and shopping. But East End is much more charismatic for shooting.
15. Recently i shoot only Canon 50 mm f1.4 prime lenses and i believe i can do without anything else for quite a long time. I was shooting before May this year only by P&S camera and still use it occasionally.
16. I always dream to shoot more in monochrome like big pros and end up with colour:-(
Uff - as a summary pls do not ask me to tell about myself because i am a bore:-))
If someone is still reading, thank you for being here with me and Happy forthcoming New Year!!
Així es va quedar l'Alba quan va contemplar la seva primera posta de sol al Cantàbric.
That's how Alba remained when she admired her first Cantabric sunset.
Playa de Valdearenas, al Parque Natural de las Dunas de Liencres (Bóo de Piélagos).
See where this picture was taken. [?]
Textura: FREE texture from NinianLif
You were planned for God’s pleasure.
The moment you were born into the world, God was there as an unseen witness, smiling at your birth. He wanted you alive, and your arrival gave him great pleasure. God did not need to create you , but he chose to create you for his own enjoyment. You exist for his benefit, his glory, his purpose, and his delight.
Bringing enjoyment to God, living for his pleasure, is the first purpose of your life. When You fully understand this truth , you will never again have a problem with feeling insignificant. It proves your worth . If you are that important to God, and he consider you valuable enough to keep with him for eternity, what greater significance could you have?You are a child of God, and you bring pleasure to God like nothing else he has ever created. The Bible says, “ Because of his love God already decided that through Jesus Christ he would makes us his children – this was his pleasure and purpose’’
One of the greatest gifts God has given you is the ability to enjoy pleasure. He wired you with five senses and emotions so you can experience it. He wants you to enjoy life, not just endure it. The reason you are able to enjoy pleasure is that God made you in his image.
- Rick Warren's Purpose Driven Life
It is in the municipal area of El Port de la Selva in the province of Girona, Catalonia. It has been constructed in the side of the Verdera mountain below the ruins of the castle of Sant de Verdera that had provided protection for the monastery. It offers an exceptional views over the bay of Llançà, to the north of Cap de Creus. Near the monastery Santa Creu de Rodes is the ruins of a medieval town, of which its preRomanesque style church is the only remains dedicated to Saint Helena.
The true origin of the monastery is not known, which has given rise to speculation and legend; such as its foundation by monks who disembarked in the area with the remains of Saint Peter and other saints, to save them from the Barbarian hordes that had fallen on Rome. Once the danger had passed the Pope Boniface IV commanded them to construct a monastery.The first documentation of the existence of the monastery dates 878, it being mentioned as a simple monastery cell consecrated to Saint Peter, but it is not until 945 when an independent Benedictine monastery was founded, prevailed over by an abbot. Bound to the County of Empúries it reached its maximum splendor between the XI and XII centuries until its final decay in 17th century. Its increasing importance is reflected in its status as a point of pilgrimage.
In the 17th Century XVII it was sacked in several occasions and in 1793 was deserted by the benedictine community which was transferred to Vila-sacred and finally settled in Figueres in 1809 until it was dissolved.The monastery was declared a national monument in 1930. In 1935 the Generalitat of Catalonia initiated the first restoration work. The buildings are constructed in terraces, given its location. Cloisters of XII century form the central part of the complex. Around them the rest of constructions are distributed. The Church, consecrated in the year 1022, is the best exponent of the Romanesque style and without comparison with others of its time. Detailing features plants with three bays and a vault. These are bordered by a double column with capitals influenced by the Carolingian Style. The double column support arches separating the bays. The columns and pillars have been taken from a former Roman building. The bay is splendid with large dimensions with an arch in the apse, this is continued in the two lateral bays. Under the apse is a crypt. The church synthesizes a number of original styles including Carolingian, Romanesque and Roman. The monastery is considered one of the best examples of Romanesque architecture in Catalonia. In the western facade of the monastery is a XII Century bell tower, a square shape it is influenced by the lombards from the previous century. To the side is a defensive tower, that was probably began in the X Century but finished later after several modifications.
For this picture I went up to a near hill with my backpack and umbrella while lightnings and rain were still near.
I hoped to take lightning pictures after the thunderstorm gone by. I was careful enough to wait for a free sky above it before I went up.
Because of too much evening daylight I was not able to make long exposures, so I tried some hundred pictures with exposure of only half a second.
When I hit a lightning, I made a row of different exposures for HDRI immediately after that for combining them.
It took over an hour to have the luck of hitting this, but I think it was worth the effort. The Thunderstorm is over Essen, neighbour of my town Gelsenkirchen.
Best Viewed Large - 'Winter Straight Ahead' On Black
Goodbye to you, my trusted friend.
We've known each other since we're nine or ten.
Together we climbed hills or trees.
Learned of love and ABC's,
skinned our hearts and skinned our knees.
Goodbye my friend, it's hard to die,
when all the birds are singing in the sky,
Now that the spring is in the air.
Pretty girls are everywhere.
When you see them I'll be there.
We had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun.
But the hills that we climbed
were just seasons out of time.
Goodbye, Papa, please pray for me,
I was the black sheep of the family.
You tried to teach me right from wrong.
Too much wine and too much song,
wonder how I get along.
Goodbye, Papa, it's hard to die
when all the birds are singing in the sky,
Now that the spring is in the air.
Little children everywhere.
When you see them I'll be there.
We had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun.
But the wine and the song,
like the seasons, all have gone.
Goodbye, Michelle, my little one.
You gave me love and helped me find the sun.
And every time that I was down
you would always come around
and get my feet back on the ground.
Goodbye, Michelle, it's hard to die
when all the bird are singing in the sky,
Now that the spring is in the air.
With the flowers ev'rywhere.
I whish that we could both be there.
We had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun.
But the stars we could reach
were just starfishs on the beach
Terry Jacks
His eyes Large On Black are unreal!
Arco is my co-workers 6 month old weinheimer.
This is probably my favorite photo from the Dog Shoot this morning. This is also probably my favorite of the black and white shots I've taken so far. The sky was overcast and everything was muddy from the rain last night so it wasn't ideal shooting conditions. I used the 70-200mm f/4.0L IS exclusively for this photo shoot. Using a telephoto takes a little getting used to, but I think it is worth it.
My fees for my work this morning? A Pizza from the Neapolitan Pizzeria downtown, yum!
All comments and feedback are greatly appreciated. I'd also like to know what you think of this black and white filter I used. If you'd like to see the "before" shot let me know and I'll upload it.
Best Viewed On Black or view in Fluidr
One of my favorite things is to drive up and down the Northern California
Pacific coastal highway looking for new areas to photograph. I have
collected a number of shots of the Pigeon Point Lighthouse and swear I will
avoid it this next time but inevitably I stop and take more images and it
seems to always pay off.
As you head south from San Francisco you first get a glimpse of the
lighthouse as you pass around a bend in the road. It grabs your attention
as the area is generally flat. A flashing Coast Guard light replaces the
magnificent 24 beam first order Fresnel lens. Fortunately each November
they revert back to the days of old and light the main 24 beams of light
which extend to the horizon. The lighthouse is one of the tallest on the
California coast and was constructed after the Carrier Pigeon and several
other sailing ships ran aground on the rocks just off shore. Modern
technology has since made the structures obsolete and there is not much of
any effort by the government to maintain the lighthouses. Pigeon Point now
belongs to the State of California and is in a sad state of disrepair which
is why you see the unattractive chain length fence surrounding the base.
When I first visited the lighthouse it was open to the public and I took my
then young kids to the top for a view they still remember to this day. It
was quite a climb to the top up the spiral staircase but once there the view
was stunning. Point Arena Lighthouse looked exactly like this one at
Pigeon Point unit it was destroyed in the San Francisco earthquake. It has
since been replaced by a large cement structure that while functional lacks
the beauty of design seen in the Pigeon Point Lighthouse.
This image makes a great Windows (and probably Macintosh) desktop
background.
Click here to view the lighthouse on the California Coastal Records Project
Enjoy!
Darv
© Darvin Atkeson
First attempt for this weeks Twitter Photo Challenge #TwPhCh063
Theme : Splash / Full sprut
What's the first thing photo enthusiast (or maybe it's called a maniac:)) does when he comes to New York? I went directly to B&H Superstore and thought that I had come to heaven, but I managed to buy just the things that I had decided before I came there :)
I had to try the new equipment and this is from the first walk with my new Pentax K-7.
New York has been extremely hot for a while and it's still somewhere between 30-35 °C.
It's very warm and people have to find a way to cool down.
This photo is from a playground in Central Park where the kids had lots of fun and
the grown ups wanted to be kids again :)
MONTREALERS: DON'T FORGET TO DROP BY... AND SAY HI! ;D
Happy Friday Everyone!
No, I am not celebrating a week's end by having cupcakes for my breaky.
This is to call attention to Cupcake Camp Montreal being held this Sunday at the Bitoque Restaurant in Montreal.
For a $10 donation at the door, you get to indulge in 3 mouthwatering cupcakes and coffee. And, 100% of the proceeds go to "Kids Help Phone", a very worthy cause.
Kids Help Phone is Canada’s only toll-free, national, bilingual, phone and web counselling, referral and information service for children and youth. Whatever the problem, from abuse to the death of a parent, Kids Help Phone is there with professional phone and web-based counselling services, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Cupcake Camps have been held around the world to resounding success. With many talented pro bakers in Montreal, like my friend Clever Cupcakes donating their cupcakes for the event, I am sure Montreal's will be a not-to-be-missed event, too.
I volunteered to take photos at this charitable event... so expect more sweet pics! =D
If you're in Montreal this Sunday, why not drop by and join us, for the cause, the fun and the yummies. Bring the whole family to this kid-friendly event... make a date to meet your friends there, or make some new ones.
To find out more about Cupcake Camp Montreal, go to www.cupcakecampmtl.org
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In other news, I am racing to get things done, in order to hopefully attend a lighting seminar given by Gary Fong in Old Montreal today... will catch up with your streams, later! Have a great one and as always, thanks so much for stopping by my stream! xx
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Pasen los que quieran ver el circo alucinante de un amor que va
tentado por el precipio a punto de tirarse
patinando, confundiendome.
Dejaste tus palabras sobre la mermelada
de un un desayuno tibio que volvía a darse contra la pared
yo te ví caer... Yo te ví caer...
Sabrás comprender mi vicio tengo viejo el cuerpo ya de excesos
porque tanto duele... Tanto...
Tiene que haber un lugar distinto en donde el tiempo no quiera golpear
donde exista el fruto quitapenas que brote del sauce...
♫ Toxi - Juan Rosasco en Banda ♫
Buen Sábado!!!!
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The Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus)
is a passerine bird of the family Icteridae found in most of North and much of Central America. It breeds from Alaska and Newfoundland south to Florida, the Gulf of Mexico, Mexico and Guatemala, with isolated populations in western El Salvador, northwestern Honduras and northwestern Costa Rica. It may winter as far north as Pennsylvania and British Columbia, but northern populations are generally migratory, moving south to Mexico and the southern United States. The Red-winged Blackbird is sexually dimorphic; the male is all black with a red shoulder and yellow wing bar, while the female is a nondescript dark brown. Seeds and insects make up the bulk of the Red-winged Blackbird's diet.
The Red-winged Blackbird nests in loose colonies. The nest is built in cattails, rushes, grasses, sedge, or in alder or willow bushes. The nest is constructed entirely by the female over the course of three to six days. It is a basket of grasses, sedge, and mosses, lined with mud, and bound to surrounding grasses, or branches.[7] It is located 7.6 cm (3 in) to 4.3 m (14 ft) above water.[13]
A clutch consists of three or four, rarely five, eggs. Eggs are oval, smooth and slightly glossy, and measure 24.8 x 17.55 mm (1 x .7 in)[13]. They are pale bluish green, marked with brown, purple, and/or black, with most markings around the larger end of the egg. These are incubated by the female alone, and hatch in 11 to 12 days. Red-winged Blackbirds are hatched blind and naked, but are ready to leave the nest 11-14 days after hatching.[6]
Red-winged Blackbirds are polygynous, with territorial males defending up to 10 females. However, females frequently copulate with males other than their social mate and often lay clutches of mixed paternity. Pairs raise two or three clutches per season, in a new nest for each clutch.[6]
Predation of eggs and nestlings is quite common. Nest predators include snakes, mink, raccoons, and other birds, even as small as marsh wrens. The Red-winged Blackbird is occasionally a victim of brood parasites, particularly Brown-headed Cowbirds.[9] Since nest predation is common, several adaptations have evolved in this species. Group nesting is one such trait which reduces the risk of individual predation by increasing the number of alert parents. Nesting over water reduces the likelihood of predation, as do alarm calls. Nests, in particular, offer a strategic advantage over predators in that they are often well concealed in thick, waterside reeds and positioned at a height of one to two meters. Males often act as sentinels, employing a variety of calls to denote the kind and severity of danger. Mobbing, especially by males, is also used to scare off unwanted predators, although mobbing often targets large animals and man-made devices by mistake. The brownish coloration of the female may also serve as an anti-predator trait in that it may provide camouflage for her and her nest (while she is incubating).[14] Owls and diurnal raptors are both regular predators of adults.
Questions, questions, questions - as long as you feel you are the luckiest girl on Earth... For you, My Love
I don’t put a smile upon your face no more
I can’t make your heart shine like it did before
You don’t listen to my stories anymore
You can’t comfort me the way you did before
Was I too loud, was I too bad
Was I too open
Was I too high, was I too fast
Was I too close
I don’t feel your lips like the first kiss
I’d rather run away than sit to face the truth
Was I too proud, was I too hopeful
Was I too needing
Was I too crazy, was I too long
Was I too giving
No matter how far, no matter how long
I will be there
"Siempre la ruta suspendida. La cordura loca. Siempre el lugar equivocado. El yo equivocado. El tú equivocado. El nosotros equivocado. Siempre la grandeza en el bolsillo. Siempre el hoy en el mañana. Siempre el ayer en el siempre. Siempre el paso a paso que termina en tropiezo. Siempre la sonrisa en llanto. Siempre el llanto en el mundo. Siempre el mundo en mí. Siempre el equilibrio malogrado y los cristales quebrantados. Siempre el apego en el dolor. Siempre el dolor en mí. Siempre la fragilidad en cada tropiezo. Siempre la fiesta en la casa de al lado. Siempre la derrota en el ceño. Siempre la noche en el nosotros equivocado. Siempre la vida en la tristeza. La tristeza en la esperanza. La vida en el nunca. Siempre la araña para las moscas. Siempre la ausencia en este aquí. Siempre mi cuerpo machacando dudas. Siempre este azul a contraluz. Siempre este caos al caer el telón. Siempre estas ganas de dejarme ir. Siempre este no saber qué hacer con tanto yo equivocado. Siempre la pregunta. Sólo la pregunta". ( My Blog)
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Always at the end of the road, always dealing with my crazy sanity, always at the wrong place, always wrong, the wrong you, the wrong me, the wrong us. Always greatness in a strangers´ pocket. Always today in tomorrow, always yesterday in forever, always the same steps that end in pain, always a smile through the tears and the world in tears. Always the world in me, always doing a balancing act and looking through broken windows. Always attachment to the pain, always the pain in me, as always fragile. Always the party next door, always defeat in a frown, always the night at the wrong time, always living in sadness, sadness in hope, life in neverland. Always the fly to the spider, always this sense of absence. Always crushing doubts, always the same blue backlight. Always chaos as the curtain falls, Always willing to let go, not knowing what to do with all these wrongness. Always the question. Just the question.
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i'm feeling a bit ill today and don't have the energy to process a whole lot of my more recent images -- the best i can offer today is this image of a tavern that's hidden away at the windmills area in chios (tolis has a beautiful gallery). i couldn't see it from the road -- i spotted it only when i was walking around the windmills themselves.
i don't know how, but my train of thought led me to imagine a huge party for flickr friends and contacts, with everyone holding a camera, shooting each other and looking for something interesting.
i'll try to get around to your streams today -- (it cheers me up!) -- but i hope you forgive me if i don't succeed.
on the blog: toomanytribbles.blogspot.com/2009/09/friends-of-gold.html
EDIT: hey, look where my moon candy landed! www.focus.it/natura/gallery/10092009-1252-113-astronomi-p...
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If I could tell the world just one thing
It would be that we're all OK
And not to worry 'cause worry is wasteful
And useless in times like these
I won't be made useless
I won't be idle with despair
I will gather myself around my faith
For light does the darkness most fear
My hands are small, I know
But they're not yours, they are my own
But they're not yours, they are my own
And I am never broken
Poverty stole your golden shoes
It didn't steal your laughter
And heartache came to visit me
But I knew it wasn't ever after
We'll fight, not out of spite
For someone must stand up for what's right
'Cause where there's a man who has no voice
There ours shall go singing
My hands are small I know
But they're not yours, they are my own
But they're not yours, they are my own
I am never broken
In the end only kindness matters
In the end only kindness matters
I will get down on my knees, and I will pray
I will get down on my knees, and I will pray
I will get down on my knees, and I will pray
My hands are small I know
But they're not yours, they are my own
But they're not yours, they are my own
And I am never broken
My hands are small I know
But they're not yours, they are my own
But they're not yours, they are my own
And I am never broken
We are never broken
We are God's eyes
God's hands
God's mind
We are God's eyes
God's hands
God's heart
We are God's eyes
God's hands
God's eyes
We are God's hands
We are God's hands
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Last night, Gregg Cooper and I put off all the other stuff that we were supposed to be doing and headed down to the Disney California Adventure at 10 PM in hopes of catching both Carsland and Buena Vista Street without many people in the shot. As it turned out, we didn't leave until almost 1 AM (the park closed at 11 PM) and we were literally the last two individuals to leave the park for the night. They closed and locked the gates just as we left.
I tried a couple of different ideas for this shot, but I went with mono as it seemed that once you ignore the entrance gates in the background, this could very well be a shot of Oswald's Gas in the 1930's. I went with 1937 specifically as it's the year Snow White premiered and the street is themed to the Carthay Theater/Reastaurant down on the end of the street. That, and the fact that the year is printed on the license plate behind the car. I'm also a huge fan of the great jazz photographer Herman Leonard . Even though he didn't start shooting until 1947, this scene evoked the type of B&W contrast and mood that I've seen in much of his work.
In other news, this is the first shot I've posted using the Nikon D800, which showed up last Monday from Amazon. It was taken using the Nikkor 14-24, 2.8 which showed up on Thursday. I am now officially broke and will be spending my next few weekends standing next to the onramp to the 57 freeway with a sign that says "Spent all of my money on camera gear. Will shoot for food." Keep an eye out for me. With any luck, I should have this stuff paid off by the Summer of 2014. Let's hear it for Amazon's 24 month, 0 percent financing!
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Yesterday I returned to the scene of the crime to see if that big puddle was still there and if there would be anything nice reflected in it again. It was quite a different scene then the two days before, and I was absolutely delighted to find that this time I didn't need to stand in the puddle in order to get a nice reflection shot, and also that I could shoot in the opposite direction and get a more interesting background (with the closer oak trees and such)
It was kinda crazy, but I literally got out of my car, walked over to this spot, set up the tripod, fired off the camera ... and this is the first shot I took. OMG! It was the first shot I took and when I looked in the viewfinder I couldn't believe how sweet it was. I don't think I got another great shot all afternoon but I really didn't care.
This was also my first time using a tripod for landscape work. Wow. Can't believe the difference. Doesn't it look sharper than my other landscapes? I used to do everything hand-held, then very recently moved on to using a monopod, then after my last sunset shoot I was really wishing I had a tripod so I ordered a good one yesterday (decided to spring for a manfrotto after reading all the reviews). The tripod I used yesterday was my friend's that I borrowed. It was cheap and I was grateful to have it but it made me so happy that I had sprung for a higher-quality one!!
Using a tripod also made me think a LOT more about each shot, and whether or not it was really worth it, which I think will be good for me. I tend to take a lot of mediocre shots just because I can and then when I get home I have to wade through so much junk and do a lot of culling. If I am forced to be more selective about what I shoot I think that will be an improvement!
See where this picture was taken. [?]
No tripod needed for this one. There's a nice chest high wall that's plenty deep enough to rest a camera on. A beanbag certainly helps and is one of the most useful things in my camera bag... The reason the log at the top of the hill is "frozen" even though this is a 30sec exposure, is ride's flash for the on ride photo. If you look really closely at the "stream" towards the bottom of the picture you can see the blur from other logs coming through.
Pictured:
Splash Mountain
Frontierland
Magic Kingdom
Walt Disney World Resort
Bay Lake, Florida
November, 2008
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The Torre Agbar, or Agbar Tower, is a 21st century skyscraper at Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It was designed by French architect Jean Nouvel and built by Dragados. It opened in June 2005 and it was inaugurated officially by the King of Spain on 16 September 2005. The Torre Agbar is located in the Poblenou neighborhood of Barcelona and is named after its owners, the Agbar Group, a holding company whose interests include the Barcelona water company Aguas de Barcelona.
According to Nouvel, the shape of the Torre Agbar was inspired by the mountains of Montserrat that surround Barcelona, and by the shape of a geyser of water rising into the air. Jean Nouvel, in an interview, described it as having a phallic character. As a result of its unusual shape, the building is known by several nicknames, such as "el supositori" (the suppository), "l'obús" (the shell) and some more scatological ones.[5] It has 30,000 m² (323,000 ft²) of above-ground office space, 3,210 m² (34,500 ft²) of technical service floors with installations and 8,351 m² (90,000 ft²) of services, including an auditorium. The Agbar Tower measures 144.4 m (473.75 ft) in height[7] and consists of 38 storeys, including four underground levels.
Its design combines a number of different architectural concepts, resulting in a striking structure built with reinforced concrete, covered with a facade of glass, and over 4,500 window openings cut out of the structural concrete. The building stands out in Barcelona; it is the third tallest building in Barcelona, only after the Arts Hotel and the Mapfre Tower, both 154 m (505.25 ft).
A unique feature of the building is its nocturnal illumination. It has 4,500 LED luminous devices that allow generation of luminous images in the facade. In addition, it has temperature sensors in the outside of the tower that regulate the opening and closing of the glass blinds of the facade of the building, reducing the consumption of energy for air conditioning. It will house the head office of the Aigües de Barcelona Group (Spanish: "Aguas de Barcelona", English: "Waters of Barcelona").
La Costa Brava, el agreste litoral de la provincia de Girona, cuenta con una villa medieval a pocos kilómetros de su perfil marítimo. Su centro histórico se levanta sobre una colina rodeada de llanuras, que en su origen fue zona pantanosa. Hay que remontarse al siglo IX para encontrar los primeros documentos escritos que hablan de esta población, época a la que pertenece su castillo. Continuos enfrentamientos bélicos hicieron que durante siglos sólo se conservase la Torre del Homenaje de esta construcción defensiva. Se trata de una torre románica de planta circular levantada entre los siglos XI y XIII. Sus 15 metros de altura se asientan sobre una plataforma de roca natural, en la que también se encuentran numerosas tumbas visigóticas. Durante el siglo XV fue empleada como campanario, por lo que se la conoce como la Torre de las Horas. En la actualidad, el solar del castillo lo ocupa la casa de la familia Pi i Figueras, promotor de la restauración del Recinto Gótico de Pals. De factura moderna, esta casa mantiene los mismos rasgos arquitectónicos que el resto de la urbe. Calles empedradas interrumpidas por arcos de medio punto, fachadas con ventanas ojivales y balcones de piedra son los signos distintivos de Pals. La muralla es otro de los lugares que transportan al viajero a la Edad Media. Cuatro torres de planta cuadrada se mantienen aún en pie, a pesar de que datan del siglo XII. Torres con nombre propio como Ramonet, Rom, Xinel·lo y Hospital. Otros puntos de interés son el mirador Josep Pla, la Plaza Mayor, las sepulturas de la calle Mayor y la iglesia de Sant Pere. El escritor palafrugellense da nombre a una de las atalayas naturales, desde donde se divisan los campos del Ampurdán y las islas Medes. Arcos góticos y sepulturas medievales son los otros hitos que encontramos en el camino. Parte de los sillares de piedra del castillo fueron empleados en el siglo X para edificar la iglesia de Sant Pere. En su estructura final se distinguen la base románica, el ábside y nave gótica, y el pórtico y campanario barrocos. La mejor manera de recorrer Pals es perderse por su calles medievales, pero antes de esto merece la pena acercarse a una casa fortificada del siglo XV, sede del Museo de Arqueología Submarina. Entre otras curiosidades, podemos conocer la historia de los vinos y cavas de Cataluña, gracias la exposición permanente que exhibe. A las afueras de la villa se extiende otra parte del municipio de Pals, los Masos de Pals, antiguo conjunto de masías (casas de campo catalanas) que actualmente acogen a un nutrido núcleo urbano. Y en la costa, la playa de Pals. Más de cuatro kilómetros de aguas transparentes donde el viajero podrá disfrutar del benigno clima mediterráneo y de todas las oportunidades de ocio que la Costa Brava ofrece. Campos de golf, deportes náuticos y visitas al Parque Natural Illes Medes son sólo algunas de ellas. Pals también se convierte en una excelente oportunidad para acercarnos a la gastronomía del Baix Ampordà, que aúna productos del mar y la tierra. Las habas y los guisantes de la huerta aparecen junto a esqueixadas (ensalada de bacalao), escalivadas (asado de berenjena, cebolla y pimientos) o guisos de pollo o conejo con marisco. Por su parte, gambas, lubinas y doradas se preparan de multitud de maneras. Entre los postres, las frutas tienen una gran importancia (fresas, melocotones, melones, sandías, naranjas...), y se convierten en verano en helados y sorbetes.
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Luc Planson, a friend of mine, and I are making a 50|50 in the same time !!!
Please, take a look to his 50|50 Set
'after sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. within decades we must close our eyes again. isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? this is how i answer when i am asked—as i am surprisingly often—why i bother to get up in the mornings.' - richard dawkins, unweaving the rainbow: science, delusion and the appetite for wonder
(about the book, dawkins says: my title is from keats, who believed that newton had destroyed all the poetry of the rainbow by reducing it to the prismatic colors. keats could hardly have been more wrong, and my aim is to guide all who are tempted by a similar view, towards the opposite conclusion. science is, or ought to be, the inspiration for great poetry.)
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it pays for people to know your personal obsessions. i woke up late yesterday morning and started puttering around the house, internet and flickr, minding my own (and the world's) business, when i got an urgent call to rush outside with the camera to capture an ice crystal halo, specifically a circumscibed halo!
i spent about an hour outside from about noon to just past 1:00, trying to find spots to see the halo entirely and a decent post to hide the sun itself... but in vain. i resorted to using my lens cap.
i've sent these over to les cowley at atmospheric optics, a website which analyzises rainbows, halos, glories, coronas, rays and shadows -- anything to do with light in the atmosphere -- to get an idea of the structure of the halo. i also had a chat with my friend, jonathan shock, who believes this halo includes a infralateral arc and a parhelic circle.
EDIT: i just got word from les that he's going to feature these this week on atmospheric optics' picture of the day! :-))
EDIT again: it's up on opod (atmospheric optics of the day)! (opod permalink)
hit it while it's hot! woohoo!
i had captured another halo in beijing in january 2008. its set on flickr is here and its 'anatomy' is here.
jonathan has some wonderful captures himself: two over santiago and one thrilling specimen over the eiffel tower!
cross-posted on the blog: toomanytribbles.blogspot.com/2009/05/unweaving-ice-crysta...
Listen Dante's Prayer Loreena Mckennitt
When the dark wood fell before me
And all the paths were overgrown
When the priests of pride say there is no other way
I tilled the sorrows of stone
I did not believe because I could not see
Though you came to me in the night
When the dawn seemed forever lost
You showed me your love in the light of the stars
Chorus:
Cast your eyes on the ocean
Cast your soul to the sea
When the dark night seems endless
Please remember me
Then the mountain rose before me
By the deep well of desire
From the fountain of forgiveness
Beyond the ice and the fire
Chorus
Though we share this humble path, alone
How fragile is the heart
Oh give these clay feet wings to fly
To touch the face of the stars
Breathe life into this feeble heart
Lift this mortal veil of fear
Take these crumbled hopes, etched with tears
We'll rise above these earthly cares
Chorus
Please remember me
Please remember me, ...
El municipio aparece citado en el documento de consagración de la catedral de Urgel del año 839,en que aparece escrito como Balcebre. En el año 983 existía en el pueblo un castillo del que no queda ningún vestigio. La señoría estaba compartida por el abad de Bagá y por los barones de Peguera hasta que en el siglo XV pasó a formar parte de las posesiones de la familia Foix.
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Epithemia es una diatomea de casco primoroso. En su silueta de galeón de cristal se marcan y transparentan mil cuadernas labradas como en un trabajo de arquitectura minuciosa y casi imposible, escultura y orfebrería a la vez. Quizá por eso Epithemia no navega como lo hacen otras diatomeas y prefiere reposar sobre la superficie de otras algas, algas verdes para recibir la luz del sol.
Las dos piezas del cascarón de Epithemia encajan como la tapa y la base de un estuche que encierra una vida muy especial, la línea de ese encaje es el rafe y en Epithemia es muy característico pues en el centro de esa línea de unión se dibuja de manera nítida el signo de una V, es el sello que llevan todas las hermanas, no muchas, apenas diecisiete especies, todas ellas delicadamente talladas y todas ellas barcos en reposo al abrigo de otras algas mayores que hacen de puerto.
La especie de hoy es una de las mayores de este género singular, se trata de Epithemia turgida , puede superar las cien micras de longitud y suele aparecer en manantiales y riachuelos próximos al mar. Nuestra Epithemia procede también de una muestra recolectada por África en el Barranc Fondo en el Coll D’Alforja en Tarragona y gracias a ella la vemos hoy aquí fotografiada a 400 aumentos con la técnica de contraste de interferencia.
Con nuestra gratitud para Pilar Gil por la publicación en Qúo, a Antonio Martínez Ron ...y también Paul/
Puedes tener otra infomación en la exposición LA VIDA OCULTA DEL AGUA
Y en este catálogo
También en la galería de Fotolog
Y nuestro granito de arena por la Paz
Developing the pictures from Jameos del Agua was a little bit frustrating. From over 500 Megabytes only this picture remained and I am not completely satisfied with it (ghosts and burned out areas). All things were moving at that day. Moving people, flying birds into the cave, moving clouds with quick changing sunlight and moving leafs ... ... ;-) Seems, that it was not the right day for making HDR-pictures at this wonderful place.
I will try another attempt with layer blending, but before I can do that, I have to learn a lot about working with layers in Gimp. I never worked with layers before.
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The Jameos del Agua — like the Cueva de los Verdes — are part of a 6Km long lava tube which formed about 3,000 years ago when the Montaña La Corona erupted.
Molten lava continued to flow as the surface hardened, which in turn led to the formation of the tubes, which run down under the Atlantic.
The word Jameo is used in this context to refer to the large openings in the tube which formed when parts of the roof collapsed due to a pressure build up caused by the volcanic gases.
It is these open-air caves which Manrique used as the centrepiece for the attraction and which have given it a name.
You enter the Jameos by climbing down a stone-staircase into the first cave known as ‘Jameo Chico’, which has been turned into an unusual bar / restaurant, with views over a small lake.
This natural lake has extremely clear water — regulated by the Atlantic Ocean — and is home to a species of blind albino crabs known as ‘Jameitos’ which are only found on Lanzarote. These crabs have been adopted as the symbol of the Jameos del Agua.
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Jameos del Agua gehört im Norden der Kanareninsel Lanzarote, auf dem Lavafeld des Volcan de la Corona zu einem einzigartigen, zusammenhängenden Höhlensystem vulkanischen Ursprungs, welches vom Volcan de la Corona über die Cueva de los Verdes bis hin zur Küste unter die Meeresoberfläche reicht.
Der Kern dieses Systems, der in der Gemeinde Haría liegt, bildet ein unterirdischer Lavatunnel, der durch die Verfestigung der Lavamassen entstanden ist, in einem Prozess, der etwa 3000 bis 4500 Jahre zurückliegt. An diesem Ort, der durch Naturgewalt entstanden ist, beschloss die Inselregierung von Lanzarote die Gestaltung eines seiner interessantesten Zentren der Kunst, Kultur und Tourismus, geleitet von dem Künstler und Naturschützer César Manrique. Diese Anlage wurde 1966 eröffnet.
Wenn man hinabsteigt in das erste Jameo (das Wort Jameo stammt aus dem Wortschatz der Guanchen und bedeutet soviel wie Hohlraum, Höhle) verspürt man sofort die Ruhe und ein Harmoniegefühl mit der Umgebung. Kernstück von Jameos del Agua ist ein in die Grotte integrierter Konzertsaal mit etwa 600 Sitzplätzen, welcher seit 2001 zum Umbau wegen neuer Sicherheitsstandards geschlossen ist. Wiedereröffnung des Auditorio de Los Jameos ist für Ende Sommer 2007 geplant.
Der Abstieg erfolgt über eine geschwungene, steile Treppe bis zum Restaurant in der Grotte, in dem man von der Terrasse auf den unterirdischen See blicken kann. Der Eingang ist mit vielen Pflanzen bewachsen, von oben strahlt Sonnenlicht auf die unterirdische Terrasse.
Im unterirdischen See lebt eine Art von Albino-Krebsen (Gattung Munidopsis polymorpha der Ordnung Remipedia), die sonst nur in ozeanischen Tiefen von etwa 2.000 Metern vorkommt.
Der Wasserspiegel des Sees steigt und sinkt mit den Gezeiten, da die Grotte, obwohl sie keine direkte Verbindung zum Meer hat, durch Meereswasser, das durch das Gestein sickert, gespeist wird. Wenn man am See auf dem kleinen Steinpfad vorbei geht, kommt man über eine Steintreppenanlage mit vielen Pflanzen wieder hinauf zum "weißen Schwimmbecken", das eigens für diesen Rahmen von César Manrique entworfen wurde, heute aber nicht mehr zum Baden benutzt wird.
Seltene und teils endemische Pflanzen wachsen in dieser Grotte rund um das Becken; ein Platz zum Verweilen. Eine Steintreppe führt hinauf zum Museum und Restaurant mit teilweise überdachter Terrasse, von der man einen Blick in die Grotte auf den Pool und über die weite Lavalandschaft hat.
In den Gebäuden oberhalb des oberen Beckens ist ein geologisches Museum untergebracht, in dem die vulkanischen Vorgänge auf der Insel erklärt werden.
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Los Jameos del Agua, situados en el norte de la isla de Lanzarote, es uno de los siete Centros de Arte, Cultura y Turismo del Cabildo de Lanzarote.
Se trata de una intervención espacial creada a partir de una serie de jameos naturales por el artista Lanzaroteño César Manrique y pretende mostrar al visitante un espacio para la contemplación de la naturaleza apenas intervenida por el hombre.
Los Jameos del Agua, al igual que la Cueva de los Verdes, se localizan en el interior del túnel volcánico producido por la erupción del Volcán de la Corona. Los Jameos del Agua se encuentran situados en la sección de este túnel más cercano a la costa.
Está formado por al menos tres jameos o aberturas en el terreno. El “Jameo Chico” por donde se realiza el acceso al interior, el “Jameo Grande” y un tercero, denominado “Jameo de la Cazuela”.
Los "Jameos del Agua" es el primer Centro de Arte, Cultura y Turismo creado por César Manrique, y es el reflejo de uno de sus pilares creativos: la armonía entre la naturaleza y la creación artística.
A principios de los años sesenta, y debido al abandono del entorno, se hace necesario acometer labores de limpieza y de acondicionamiento. Aunque las obras se dilataron en el tiempo, podemos señalar el año 1966 como fecha de la apertura de las primeras fases al público.
La especial morfología del tubo volcánico provocó que se realizaran numerosos cambios del proyecto inicial, explorando nuevas alternativas creativas y procurando que las soluciones adoptadas fuesen las más adecuadas.
Será en 1977, después de más de una década de trabajos, cuando quede conformada la estructura general de los Jameos del Agua. En estas mismas fechas se procede a la inauguración oficial del centro, incluyendo el Auditorio, y se considera conclusa la obra.
Aún así, y con posterioridad, se realizan nuevas instalaciones para funciones concretas como el espacio museístico de la “Casa de los Volcanes”. Este centro se dedica, desde 1987, a una labor científica y didáctica sobre la vulcanología.
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Nagoya Castle (Nagoya-jō?) is a Japanese castle located in Nagoya, central Japan. During the Edo period, Nagoya Castle was the center of one of the most important castle towns in Japan—Nagoya-juku— and it included the most important stops along the Minoji, which linked the Tōkaidō with the Nakasendō.
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La estatua ecuestre de Carlos III, considerado popularmente como el mejor alcalde de Madrid, está situada en la Puerta del Sol. Es una reproducción en bronce de Miguel Ángel Rodríguez y Eduardo Zancada de una obra de Juan Pascual de Mena conservada en la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando.
La marca Tío Pepe fue registrada por vez primera en 1888, aunque ya por entonces era conocida y respetada por los exportadores, sobre todo del Reino Unido.
El prestigio del fino “Tío Pepe” fue creciendo hasta que en la tercera década del siglo XX tuvo una expansión inusitada, contribuyendo a ello el ingenio creativo de Luis Pérez Solero, quien en 1935 vistió la botella con chaquetilla roja y sombrero, creando el icono publicitario que hoy es el símbolo de la empresa.
En el año 1935 se solicita el anuncio luminoso de La Puerta del Sol. En un principio no se utiliza el logotipo del Tío Pepe, sino una copa apoyada en la letra G de González Byass y el lema “Vinos Jerez Coñac”. Años después se repara el anuncio y se cambia su diseño por el que podemos ver hoy en día. Desde 1975 se han sucedido diversos intentos de regular la publicidad en la Puerta del Sol quitando los anuncios luminosos que alojaba.
Por unas razones u otras el anuncio de González Byass, el Tío Pepe, ha sobrevivido a estos intentos, por ser considerado parte importante del paisaje de la Puerta del Sol.
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