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New York City.
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New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York metropolitan area, one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world.[6] The city is referred to as New York City or the City of New York to distinguish it from the State of New York, of which it is a part. A global power city,[7] New York exerts a significant impact upon commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and entertainment. The home of the United Nations Headquarters,[8] New York is an important center for international diplomacy[9] and has been described as the cultural capital of the world.[10][11]
On one of the world's largest natural harbors,[12] New York City consists of five boroughs, each of which is a county of New York State.[13] The five boroughs—the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island—were consolidated into a single city in 1898.[14] With a census-estimated 2013 population of 8,405,837[4] distributed over a land area of just 305 square miles (790 km2),[15] New York is the most densely populated major city in the United States.[16] As many as 800 languages are spoken in New York,[17][18] making it the most linguistically diverse city in the world.[19] By 2013 census estimates, the New York Metropolitan Area's population remains by a significant margin the United States' largest Metropolitan Statistical Area, with approximately 19.9 million people,[20] and is also part of the most populous Combined Statistical Area in the United States, containing an estimated 23.4 million people.
Jun 2010 - Monterrey - Mexico
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Part III of the Void series.
Shot with a telephoto lens with a wide aperture at dusk at the Oosterscheldekering.
It is the largest of the 13 ambitious Delta works series of dams, designed to protect the Netherlands from flooding. The construction of the Delta Works was in response to the North_Sea_Flood_of_1953 during which 1,835 people were killed in the Netherlands.
I can tell you there was a hard wind and high tide when I took this shot. Huge waves wetting my camera gear and there was a strange atmosphere out there. Something eery about that place where the sea unveiled its majestic power to me.
Technical info:
ND110 - 10 stops.
CP Filter 2 stops
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ISO100
149 mm
150s (2min30s) exposure
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La Plaza de la Concordia o en francés, place de la Concorde está situada al comienzo de la Avenida de los Campos Elíseos en el distrito 8, de París, en Francia ( [mostrar el lugar en un mapa interactivo] 48°51′55.81″N 2°19′15.95″E / 48.8655028, 2.3210972). Se trata de la décima más grande de Francia después de la Plaza de Quinconces en Burdeos.
Durante la Revolución francesa, la plaza es el lugar de paso obligado por los cortejos, improvisados o preparados por el protocolo de las fiestas. Será uno de los grandes lugares de alianza del período revolucionario, sobre todo cuando la guillotina estuvo allí instalada.Es donde Luis XVI y María Antonieta fueron ejecutados.
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La place de la Concorde est située au pied de l'avenue des Champs-Élysées dans le 8e arrondissement à Paris, en France. Il s'agit de la deuxième plus vaste place de France (après la place des Quinconces à Bordeaux). Métro Ce site est desservi par la station de métro : Concorde.
Dès le 12 juillet 1789, les bustes de Jacques Necker et de Philippe d'Orléans y sont exhibés ; le prince de Lambesc et ses dragons chargent les manifestants. Le lendemain, la foule pille les armes du Garde-meuble (situé dans le bâtiment nord-est) pour « aller à la Bastille ». Le 6 octobre, Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette, et le dauphin (futur Louis XVII), ramenés de Versailles à Paris par le peuple, font leur entrée au palais des Tuileries en traversant la place Louis-XV.
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The Place de la Concorde is one of the major squares in Paris, France. It is located in the city's eighth arrondissement, at the eastern end of the Champs-Élysées.
The center of the Place is occupied by a giant Egyptian obelisk decorated with hieroglyphics exalting the reign of the pharaoh Ramses II. It is one of two the Egyptian government gave to the French in the nineteenth century. The other one stayed in Egypt, too difficult and heavy to move to France with the technology at that time. In the 90's, President Mitterand gave the second obelisk back to the Egyptians.
The obelisk once marked the entrance to the Luxor Temple. The viceroy of Egypt, Mehemet Ali, offered the 3,300-year-old Luxor Obelisk to France in 1831. The obelisk arrived in Paris on December 21, 1833. Three years later, on October 25, 1836, King Louis-Philippe had it placed in the centre of Place de la Concorde, where a guillotine used to stand during the Revolution.
The red granite column rises 23 metres (75 ft) high, including the base, and weighs over 250 metric tons (280 short tons). Given the technical limitations of the day, transporting it was no easy feat — on the pedestal are drawn diagrams explaining the machinery that were used for the transportation. The obelisk is flanked on both sides by fountains constructed at the time of its erection on the Place.
Missing its original cap, believed stolen in the 6th century BC, the government of France added a gold-leafed pyramid cap to the top of the obelisk in 1998.
Without warning, in 2000 French urban climber Alain "Spiderman" Robert, using only his bare hands and feet and with no safety devices, scaled the obelisk all the way to the top.
View Large On Black Twice a day if you get your times right the sunlight steams down the whole length of Oxford Street..not quite the right time in the above shot.. but its an in to ask for some advice..
I really want to do some shots shooting into direct sunlight.(people framed by light). I've tried a few times without much success...Can anyone offer any advice or suggestions on how to accomplish this without blowing out the shot or not getting enough definition from the subject ????
I could pick any number of shots from Ian (Stryker66) photostream as an example of what I am trying to do.. He is a Master at this!!!... I wanted to try and work this out myself before admitting defeat....
shedding.
im losing my petals one at a time, and it hurts me to see them go.
oh my gosh this is lame. today went so terribly wrong in so many strange ways.
first off, i went up to the lake to shoot with laina, had this fantastic idea... realized i didnt have enough black paint, shot about ten failed photos, and then my camera died.. again. my camera always dies because im always using it. :(
so then i went home... feeling a little saddened. but then the day seemed a little brighter when i spotted a turtle in my front yard. she was oh so cute. i carried her around with me for a bit while i finished some errands and planned for my 365 to be all about my new friend. so i went outside and got all set up. i set my turtle in the grass while i got ready, and when i turned around she was gone!!! i thought turtles were supposed to be slow?? i looked everywhere, but she had surely disappeared. so this photo is what came next. i was just thinking about how many opportunities i missed today. i also felt like a winter wonderland princess lost and confused in a field of green.
p.s. that is a christmas tree skirt i am wearing. my famiy thought i was losing my mind when they saw me wearing it.
San Miguel de Allende, ciudad del estado mexicano de Guanajuato, se encuentra a una altitud de 1910 m y dista 274 km de la Ciudad de México.
El 7 de julio de 2008 fue inscrita por la Unesco en el Patrimonio cultural de la Humanidad. Anteriormente fue parte del proyecto de "pueblos mágicos", pero debido a esta última distinción de la Unesco, fue cambiada su designación.
La ciudad fue fundada en 1542 por el monje franciscano Fray Juan de San Miguel, quien bautizó el asentamiento como San Miguel el Grande. Era un punto de paso importante del Antiguo Camino Real, parte de la ruta de plata que se conectaba con Zacatecas.
El pueblo se destacó durante la Guerra de Independencia de México. Ignacio Allende, nativo de San Miguel, fue un líder clave en la guerra. Capturado cuando marchaba hacia Estados Unidos en busca de armas, fue juzgado en Chihuahua, sentenciado y fusilado. Su cabeza fue expuesta en uno de los ángulos de la Alhóndiga de Granaditas en Guanajuato junto a las de Miguel Hidalgo, Juan Aldama y Mariano Jiménez. La población de San Miguel el Grande fue elevada a ciudad el 8 de marzo de 1826 y cambió el nombre por "San Miguel de Allende" en honor al héroe nacional.
Durante la década de 1950,
San Miguel de Allende se convirtió en un lugar turístico conocido por su bella arquitectura colonial y sus fuentes termales.
El lugar es famoso por su clima templado, los ojos de agua termal y su arquitectura.
La iglesia de San Francisco de Asís se comenzó a construir en 1778 y tardó más de 20 años en terminarse, se observan diferentes cambios arquitectónicos de acuerdo con el periodo y la moda. La fachada es churrigueresca pura, con una enorme cantidad de figuras labradas de piedra y afiladas columnas. Sin embargo, el campanario, construido en 1799 por el famoso arquitecto, Francisco Eduardo Tresguerras, es de estilo neoclásico, el cual estaba de moda entonces.
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Posta all'estremo lembo settentrionale di Lombardia, che con la sua valle si incunea nel cantone svizzero dei Grigioni, Chiavenna, "Clavenna" per i Romani, fu un importante centro di transito fin dall'epoca di Augusto tra la pianura Padana e il nord Europa. Costituisce il centro della Valchiavenna, composta a sua volta da tre valli minori: il Piano di Chiavenna a sud, dove anticamente continuava il lago di Como (oggi sopravvive il lago di Mezzòla), la val San Giacomo verso il passo dello Spluga e la val Bregaglia verso il passo del Settimo un tempo (oggi percorso da un sentiero turistico) e verso quello del Maloja, accesso all'Engadina. Quest'ultima valle, infatti, è divisa dal confine di stato, che fu stabilito dall'imperatore Ottone I fin dal 960.
Della romanità di Chiavenna fanno fede due carte stradali romane: l'Itinerarium Antonini e la Tabula Peutingeriana, che registrano pure "Summus lacus" (oggi Samòlaco).
Gli imperatori assegnarono la Valchiavenna, come il resto del territorio della diocesi, ai vescovi di Como, e il comune di Chiavenna, attestato nel 1097, è il primo a comparire nel territorio dell'attuale provincia di Sondrio. Nel 1335 al vescovo subentrarono i Visconti di Milano e quindi gli Sforza, quando Ludovico Maria Sforza detto il Moro, per difendersi dai vicini Grigioni costituiti in repubblica delle tre Leghe, fece costruire le mura di cinta attorno al borgo (1488-1497).
Ma a poco servirono, perché, sconfitto Ludovico il Moro dalla Francia, a questa passò la valle fino al 1512, quando i Grigioni riuscirono a conquistarla. La terranno fino al 1797, con l'intervallo di un ventennio seguito al cosiddetto Sacro Macello del 1620, durante il quale in Valtellina furono uccisi 400 protestanti. Si trattò di un'insurrezione sanguinosa motivata ufficialmente dalla reazione dei cattolici contro i protestanti (lo erano in maggioranza i Grigioni), in realtà fomentata per motivi politici dalla Spagna, che aveva il ducato di Milano confinante con la Valtellina, e dai nobili valtellinesi, esautorati dalla nobiltà grigione. Non vi partecipò la Valchiavenna, legata ai traffici commerciali con i dominanti, ma ne subì le conseguenze politiche, con l'allontanamento dei Grigioni fino al Capitolato di Milano del 1639.
Il borgo, che era stato dato alle fiamme durante una incursione degli stessi Grigioni nel 1486, risorse a partire dal XVI secolo, quando nacque il centro storico che si vede tuttora, caratterizzato da una strada principale, detta "Paart de mèz" (vie Quadrio, Dolzino, Pedretti), delimitata da case e palazzi a cui si accede da portali in pietra ollàre con date e iscrizioni religiose e morali. Nelle piazze sopravvivono fontane nella stessa pietra locale: da quella cinquecentesca (ma solo relativamente alla vasca ottagonale) del "Cantón" (piazza Pestalozzi) a quella con tazza circolare e sculture del 1732 in piazza San Pietro, a quella tardo ottocentesca di "piaza Növa" (piazza Crollalanza) ecc.
Più o meno parallela alla "Paart de mèz", verso ovest, era la zona artigianale, già servita dal canale derivato dal fiume Mera. Si snoda lungo le vie della Marmirola, al Maglio vecchio, Cappuccini e Molinanca. Sul lato opposto era la zona agricola, servita dalle vie Macolino, delle Agostiniane e Lena-Perpenti. Quest'ultima diventerà zona abitativa a partire dal 1886, quando vi fu costruita la stazione ferroviaria.
Della dominazione grigione rimangono, sulle pareti esterne e soprattutto interne del Pretorio, abbondanti tracce di affreschi dei commissari che ogni due anni venivano inviati dal governo come rappresentanti e giudici, oltre che affreschi sulle case, come quella in via Dolzino, appartenente a un medico riformato, il quale nel 1591 fece decorare la facciata a monocromo con due scene bibliche e, in alto, i re di Francia Enrico III e IV, che fino ad allora si erano distinti nell'appoggio agli ugonotti.
Oltre il fiume, perpendicolare alla "Paart de mèz", si snoda la contrada di Oltremera (via Bossi), fino a una ottantina di anni fa unica via di accesso alla val San Giacomo.
Allontanati i Grigioni nel 1797 dalle truppe napoleoniche, la Valchiavenna entrò nella Cisalpina fino alla sconfitta di Napoleone e dal congresso di Vienna fu aggregata al regno lombardo-veneto, dominato dagli Austriaci, costituendo con la Valtellina la provincia di Sondrio. Nel frattempo, a partire dal 1804, la repubblica dei Grigioni entrava nella Svizzera come cantone. Nel 1861 la Valchiavenna entrò nel Regno d'Italia.
Durante i quasi tre secoli di dominio grigione Chiavenna con la sua valle aveva goduto di un certo benessere, grazie soprattutto alla sua posizione sulla via più diretta tra Milano e il nord Europa. Ciò non fermò il flusso migratorio di parte della popolazione verso altre terre europee, come Austria, Germania, Boemia e Polonia e - da parte di ceti più popolari - verso città italiane, come Venezia, Roma, Napoli, Palermo ecc.
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I've been watching your world from afar,
I've been trying to be where you are,
And I've been secretly falling apart,
I'll see.
I'll put a spell on you,
You'll fall asleep and I'll put a spell on you.
Part of my major .
This image was very tricky to shoot and difficult to manipulate because I did not have any idea on how to make it work.
There's only very slight motion going on because I wanted to make it look almost like a freeze frame.
The final works are actually not in print format, they're projected onto the center of the frame she enters (in the First Phase) coupled with a soundtrack and sound effects. I have the video but didn't do a recording of it being projected onto the frame. It's probably going to go up for exhibition at my school so maybe I'll a recording then.
So glad it's over! Sleeping, getting back to games and online shopping are currently my top priorities.
I'll still be shooting, but I might be trying a new style. (This whole series was quite new to me, having the make the settings etc, it's also aesthetically quite different from my preferred ghostly themed work or vintage inspired photographs) I'm not sure yet but possibilities are endless. One thing though, I really don't like studio lights, it just doesn't seem to fit what I do so I'll still be using natural lighting :D Might want to try incorporating drawing with photography or maybe take up digital painting and see how things go from there.
Fire from : shaedsofgrey
The Stover Myers Mill is a watermill located on the Tohickon Creek in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The mill was built by Jacob Stover around 1800 and operated continuously until 1955. It used a millstone to grind flour and feed for livestock using power from a waterwheel. The mill was equipped with an up-and-down saw and also operated as a lumber mill. The property was purchased by Bucks County in 1967 and is open to the public.
Beloeil (literally "beautiful eye") is one of the largest and most beautiful castle in Belgium. It was founded in the 13th century as a medieval fortress, then was progressively transformed into a residential palace in the 17th and 18th century. The central part of the castle was devastated by a fire in 1900, and rebuilt 2 years later.
Since 1394, the castle has belonged to the Princes of Ligne, one of Belgium's highest ranking noble family. The family has its roots in the village of Ligne, eight kilometres north-east of Beloeil.
The castle has a pleasant French-style park expanding on 120 hectares - the greatest part of which runs across the village of Beloeil, outside the property's boundaries. A rectangular artificial lake faces the castle, with classical statues at each end. Take a look at the enormous carps that swim in the moat surrounding the castles.
The 18th-century classical interior reminds of Versailles and is certainly in accordance with the princely status of the proprietors. It contains an impressive collection of art from the 15th to the 19th century, including an impressive library with some 20,000 books.
This photo is a HDR from 3 exposures.
IL MIO VIDEO SU SIENA: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFSjbSviaaw&feature=mfu_in_or...
IL MIO VIDEO SULLA "VAL D' ORCIA": www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEAQfiR50AI
IL MIO SITO: www.mauronizzi.it
Italia a Zandvoort
The Orange Bull
Another shot of this great day!
I really liked the angle on the SV here, I don't know why I didn't put this shot on my stream before.
This Lamborghini Murcielago LP670-4 SuperVeloce probably was the most eye-catching car at the track. It stood in the boxes at the paddock and only came out a few times to do some laps on the track.
I was at the paddock when this beast came of the track, immediately a crowd formed around the car but I managed to get this shot just before it took off for some more laps.
I was glad to have taken a few decent shots of this car at the event but I was really amazed when I encoutered this car, and was able to get some trackingshots of it, very unexpected on the highway that evening.
I'm uploading my shots out of order because my Day 18 shot is so awesome you'll have to wait even longer to see it.
......I've been at the coast for the last few days, with spotty internet and no phone reception.....getting some work done with my latest muse.
So....a little change from the Inspiration shots you've come to expect....This photo is a little moment in the life with another source of inspiration....my friends.
Anna is my latest partner in art crime and she's fucking hilarious. We've spent the last few days shooting photos and tampon bullets from sunrise to sunset. We decided we needed some guns so we went to a toystore. She got a pistol. I got two.
Pretty much whenever we've had any fights in the last few days, we've resorted to shooting each other in the face. That's the best way to repair a friendship. Ever.
And then we went onto the internet and found pictures of girls who have broken our hearts, and shot them in their pretty little skulls.
Yesterday the weather was gorgeous, which was upsetting when we were trying to shoot nudies under cloud cover....and there were people all around intruding on our shots....They were pretty amused by our little gunfight.
I giardini di Ninfa
Ninfa, dichiarata Monumento Naturale con Legge Regionale del 1976, è situata sui territori dei comuni di Cisterna di Latina e Sermoneta.
E' una città medievale di cui esistono ancora diverse suggestive testimonianze come una parte del castello, le mura, il municipio completamente restaurato e resti di chiese ed edifici civili.
Ma Ninfa è soprattutto una magnifica oasi naturalistica, unica al mondo, creata dove un tempo regnava la palude
Ma la grandezza dell'attuale Oasi naturalistica è dovuta soprattutto a Lelia Caetani, ultima discendente della famiglia Caetani. Fu lei, infatti, a portare a termine il progetto dell'attuale giardino che non rispondeva ad alcun modello, o moda dei tempi, ma semplicemente all'istinto creativo e alla capacità delle tre donne del Casato.
L'atmosfera che si respira è quella di un luogo magico, dove vivono, le une accanto alle altre, piante ed essenze floreali provenienti da ogni parte del mondo, come se il terreno ed il clima si adattassero ad esse e le fornissero tutti gli elementi tipici del loro habitat originario, necessari per crescere rigogliose
Tutto sembra far parte di un progetto soprannaturale, alla cui bellezza contribuiscono il fiume Ninfa i ruscelletti, il lago e la fauna variegata: il martin pescatore, l'airone cenerino, il pendolino, l'assiolo, il barbagianni, la gallinella d'acqua, la folaga, il germano reale e, ancora, il tasso, l'istrice, il moscardino e la faina
NINFA 2
Fuori dalla cinta muraria della città medievale sta nascendo la Ninfa del futuro. Occuperà una superficie di circa 100 ettari, e sarà un vero e proprio museo-laboratorio dell'originario ambiente naturale pontino: un grande lago ed altri più piccoli, tutti poco profondi, per ricreare l'habitat delle zone umide che nei secoli ha caratterizzato questi luoghi per la sosta e la nidificazione dell'avifauna e che ha già fatto registrare massicci arrivi di varie specie comete alzavole, le canapiglie, gli aironi, le pavoncelle, i germani reali e uccelli rari come la rondine rossiccia;, una parziale riforestazione; nuovi habitat. Ci sarà un centro di visita, una biblioteca, una lestra con i bufali, le capanne e gli altri ricoveri tradizionali del tempo, un parcheggio ed un vivaio. Sulla riva del lago nascerà un museo con una torre di osservazione. Un arboreto con 12 mila piante, scelte su una lista di essenze presenti nel '600, è già stato messo a dimora e nasceranno una foresta arida ed una umida.
Saranno recuperati fiori e piante locali, soprattutto esemplari rari ed altri che si stanno estinguendo. Infine, oltre alla visita turistica sono previsti momenti educativi con un moderno supporto didattico e corsi per la formazione ecologica di guide.
The Manali-Leh highway
One of the highest and most rugged highways in the world, the journey on the Manali - Leh highway is one that leaves the traveller gasping for breath on all accounts...dream like landscapes taking your breath away at almost every turn and sheer breathlessness from the lack of oxygen as you cross some of the highest roads and mountain passes in the world.
It connects the Manali valley to Kullu valley, Lahaul and Spiti and Ladakh and is open only between June and mid-September when snow is cleared from the road. Prominent passes that one crosses include Rohtang La (3,978m), Baralacha La (5,045m), Lachulung La (5,059m) and Tanglang La (5,325m). Between Lachlung La and Taglang La the road crosses the More plains, a vast desert like expanse at an altitude in excess of 4,500mts.
The journey along the road normally takes two days and many travellers make overnight stops at Jispa and tented camps such as Sarchu. Alternately, overnight stops can be made at Keylong. Owing to the high altitudes and the low-oxygen air, many travelers experience breathlessness, headaches and nausea or in some cases even acute mountain sickness.
The highway was designed, built, constructed and is maintained in its entirety by the Indian Army and is capable of supporting the heaviest of their vehicles. This journey is often referred to as the ultimate challenge for riding and off-roading enthusiansts and attracts bikers from all over the world.
New York City.
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New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York metropolitan area, one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world.[6] The city is referred to as New York City or the City of New York to distinguish it from the State of New York, of which it is a part. A global power city,[7] New York exerts a significant impact upon commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and entertainment. The home of the United Nations Headquarters,[8] New York is an important center for international diplomacy[9] and has been described as the cultural capital of the world.[10][11]
On one of the world's largest natural harbors,[12] New York City consists of five boroughs, each of which is a county of New York State.[13] The five boroughs—the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island—were consolidated into a single city in 1898.[14] With a census-estimated 2013 population of 8,405,837[4] distributed over a land area of just 305 square miles (790 km2),[15] New York is the most densely populated major city in the United States.[16] As many as 800 languages are spoken in New York,[17][18] making it the most linguistically diverse city in the world.[19] By 2013 census estimates, the New York Metropolitan Area's population remains by a significant margin the United States' largest Metropolitan Statistical Area, with approximately 19.9 million people,[20] and is also part of the most populous Combined Statistical Area in the United States, containing an estimated 23.4 million people.
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Turbio fondeadero donde van a recalar,
barcos que en el muelle para siempre han de quedar...
Sombras que se alargan en la noche del dolor;
náufragos del mundo que han perdido el corazón...
Puentes y cordajes donde el viento viene a aullar,
barcos carboneros que jamás han de zarpar...
Torvo cementerio de las naves que al morir,
sueñan sin embargo que hacia el mar han de partir...
Amarrado al recuerdo
yo sigo esperando...
¡Niebla del Riachuelo!...
De ese amor, para siempre,
me vas alejando...
Nunca más volvió,
nunca más la vi,
nunca más su voz nombró mi nombre junto a mí...
esa misma voz que dijo: "¡Adiós!".
Sueña, marinero, con tu viejo bergantín,
bebe tus nostalgias en el sordo cafetín...
Llueve sobre el puerto, mientras tanto mi canción;
llueve lentamente sobre tu desolación...
Anclas que ya nunca, nunca más, han de levar,
bordas de lanchones sin amarras que soltar...
Triste caravana sin destino ni ilusión,
como un barco preso en la "botella del figón"
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Nieblas del Riachuelo - Letra Enrique Cadícamo / Interpretada por Bebo y Cigala
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{Foto de Archivo} otras del 2009 cuando me estrenaba con mi cámara....
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“Y estos derechos... a respetarlos, ¿eh? ¡No vaya a pasar como con los diez mandamientos!” (Mafalda)
"Let's take the train to anywhere
I wanna feel the wind in my hair with you.
Let's tell them all, that soon they'll know
How very wrong they were to think we'd never go,
And if you tell me yours I'll tell you mine
And we will clean the cobwebs out of one another's minds. "
DON'T EVER - Missy Higgins
Taken on the way back from a recent road trip to Rolleston - weather was miserable the whole 4 days prior. As usual with my luck the sun came out the day we drove home. After seeing these Sunflowers on the way up we quickly pulled over when we drove past on the return trip.
This wonderful scene is from Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park in Bug Sur. This particular spot might be one of the prettiest locations I've ever been to. It is just gorgeous. And a beautiful waterfall (McWay Falls) spilling out into the ocean just tops it off.
Single exposure with CPL.
I have to say thanks very much to Joshua Cripps for the tips on what beaches to visit during my time here. I would have likely stumbled across some of the places, but his tips proved invaluable.
Thanks also to Jill Clardy for her tips in and around San Francisco.
My own little disclaimer to myself...I'm working off the laptop screen, so I may have to go back and re-look at a number of the shots I post while on travel.
Thanks for looking!
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Comments and constructive criticism always appreciated.
Texture by Ground*floor
The thistle has been the national emblem of Scotland since the reign of Alexander III (1249 - 1286) and was used on silver coins issued by James III in 1470. According to the legend, an invading Norse army was attempting to sneak up at night upon a Scots army encampment. During this operation one barefoot Norseman had the misfortune to step upon a Scots Thistle, causing him to cry out in pain, thus alerting Scots to the presence of the Norse invaders.
Taken with a homemade 4x5 camera.
Shoot to 4x5 Fuji Color instant film.
Soft focus and colour manipulation with Tiffen lens filter.
Author : IMRE BECSI
© All rights reserved
Modell : Blanka (My small daughter )
Location of shoot : My garden, Csobánka, Hungary, Central-Europe
Time of shoot : 08.05.2009.
PICTURE MADE WITH :
( Home-made assembled 4x5 camera be composed of
few original photography equipments )
Camera body : plant pot ( from IKEA )
Film back holder : Cambo Revolving Back Assembly with Focusing glass (Graflock style)
Objective mount : Polaroid 600 SE
Lens : Mamiya 5,6/150 mm (from Polaroid 600 SE set)
Back Vewfinder : Cambo Reflex Viewing Hood
Top Viewfinder : Mamiya 75 mm
Top Vewfinder Raising : Hama
Shutter release : Nikon
Matte Box : Old bellows style Arriflex MB with two 3X4 filter holders (from my Eclair s16 movie camera set)
Rods mount : Chrosziel
Rods : Homemade
Grip : Furnitur handle (from IKEA)
Quick release plates : Manfrotto
Picture from this camera here :
www.flickr.com/photos/jonespointfilm/3241557820/
Tripod : Sachtler 14
Ballhead : Manfrotto
Filters : Double-Fog 1/4 and Sepia 1 (3x3 Tiffen)
Film Back : 550 model
Film : FUJI FP-100c45 Professional Instant Color 4X5 Film
Light : Late afthernoon sun
Exposure : 1/8 sec./8 (Minolta Light Meter III)
Dev. : 120 sec. ( normal )
POST WORK :
Scanner : Epson Perfection 3200 Photo (1200 dpi)
Scanner software : SilverFast SE
Final work : PS
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Comments very much welcome !
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This will be my last post of 2010 so I would just like to wish everyone all the best for the New Year!
Thank you all for your friendship and support throughout the year!
Have an excellent 2011!
Here are some other shots I've done using the same crystal ball: Gotta catch 'em all!, Didn't catch this one and blues
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Here is my first (serious) Close-up Strobist...This is one of the photos we had the Workshop in the Swansea University.
This is one of the photos we had the Workshop in the Swansea University. A big credit to Marc Holmes, the president of Swansea Photography Society, who initiate the workshop and deal with plenty of set-up. Tom Littlehead and Elsa Morgan who also made a great contribution on the set-up on that day...
It is not perfect but I really want to see how you think about this...... So, anyone has some suggestions, I would be more than appreciate....
If you want to see the setup photo. Feel free to click HERE
Strobist info:
Medium softbox behind object with Full Power
ISO 200 : f/22 : 55 mm : 1/250 sec
Your comments, feedbacks and suggestions would be more than appreciate ;)
P.S. Sorry, I mess up quite a lot on my photostream. I still love to try on a lot of things. So Please bare with me!!!
[fr]: Le vieux passage vers la porte de bois, Conflent, Pyrénées Orientales, France
[image info]: HDR from 3 exposures - Photomatix + PS - EXIF from +0ev - Nikon 18-200mm@36mm
[Level of Retouching]: 75% (removal of unwanted objects, brushuing, Border, texture, HDR processing, levels, general and local curves, blending modes) - total processing time: 40 minutes
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I'm starting a new set of pictures today. I hope that this will be an ongoing series. The plan is to pair each picture in the set with a poem by our best known local poet, Byron Herbert Reece, who lived and wrote in the Choestoe area of Union County, Georgia, less than 20 miles from my home. The name Choestoe - pronounced "Chowee Stowee" is a Cherokee Indian word usually translated as "the place of the Dancing Rabbits." (I doubt that I will be patient or fortunate enough to actually get a shot of any rabbits dancing - I'm not sure my new camera even does videos!)
At any rate, I've started the set with a few pictures that I took this past Saturday at the Byron Herbert Reece Farm and Heritage Center. If you click on the set to the right you can learn more about the poet and the efforts to preserve his legacy.
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Poem # 1:
ELBOWS ON THE SKY
If man might lean his elbows on the sky
As farmers lean their weight upon a wall
To look upon their ample fields that lie
Heavy with harvest in the yellow Fall
Then he might dicker with close-fisted fate,
Himself decide what to reject or keep
Before he comes at length beyond the gate
Where he may choose not anything but sleep.
Yet if he leaned but once upon a star
And saw his earth, and himself a fugitive,
As long as breath could keep life's door ajar
He would be happy but to breathe and live,
With little care for what he shall be when
Of death's gray waste he is a citizen.
from Ballad of the Bones and Other Poems 1945
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron_Herbert_Reese
¡¡Bellezón total :)))!! ¿Verdad que si amigos? ¡¡Que bien me lo he pasado contigo teacher tanto en tus clases como en las sesiones de fotos que hemos hecho en el plató de la Escuela :)))))!! Un besazooooooooooooooooooo for you baby :))).
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Fotografía nocturna de larga exposición. 45 minutos (9 tomas de 5 minutos cada una).
Long exposure nightshot. 45 minutes (9 shots of 5 minutes each).
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Por favor, no use esta imagen en su web, blogs u otro medio de comunicación sin mi aprobación explícita. © Todos los derechos reservados.
El Puerto de Palma de Mallorca es el puerto más grande e importante de las Islas Baleares. Actualmente cubre una extensa línea de costa comprendida entre el Moll Vell (Muelle Viejo), frente a la catedral, y el Dique del oeste (junto al barrio de Porto Pí). Es utilizado para el transporte de mercancía, barcos pesqueros, embarcaciones de recreo, transporte de pasajeros y buques militares. Existen dos estaciones marítimas en servicio en el Muelle de Peraires, desde donde operan los cruceros y los barcos de línea regular con destino a Barcelona, Valencia, Ibiza, Mahón o Denia. Debido al incremento del número de cruceros que hacen escala en Palma se ha habilitado una tercera estación marítima en el Dique del oeste y actualmente se van a iniciar las obras para construir sobre las dos antiguas estaciones dos nuevas.
Ahora sí que cambio de tercio, ahora toco un poco de otras cosas que no sean fotos de Cuenca, esta foto es de archivo, la tenía ya procesada, de ahí que tenga la firma antigua, como ya habré comentado alguna vez que otra, este tipos de fotos son las que más me gustan. Puerto De Mazarrón – Mazarrón (Murcia)
Nota: No Es HDR, procesado con objetos inteligentes, y procesado por zonas.
Cámara: D40
Modo De Exposición: Manual
ISO: 200
Velocidad: 1/50
Focal: 18.0 mm
F/ 22.0
Objetivo: 18.0-55.0 mm F/ 3.5 -5.6
Procesado: Light room 2
Camera Raw 4.3
Photoshop Cs 3
Foto Explere #429 - 3 Nov. 2009
This is how I see the " Big sky country " Montana, blues sky , unlimited view, pure fresh air,cowboy and indian country..
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EXPLORE: 01.12.2009 #138
There have been a few times in my life…OK, more than a few when I’ve thought I was driving full speed toward the destination I wanted, only to find out that I was hopelessly lost on the wrong road. Now as stupid as those mistakes might have been, there were no lasting consequences. That’s why I’m so glad that someone told me how to get to the one destination I do not want to miss called heaven. Because if I miss the right road on that one, I’ll be lost forever.
I heard a story that tells us a lot about the road to heaven. This missionary was lost in a dense jungle, and he came upon a village in the middle of all these trees, and he asked a resident to lead him out. The villager said, “Okay.” Well, they walked for about an hour, and the villager walked ahead of him chopping his way through the foliage with a machete. Eventually, the missionary said, “Are you sure we’re going the right way? Isn’t there a path somewhere?” The villager smiled and he just said, “Friend, I am the path.”
I’ll tell you, that’s pretty much what Jesus said when He told us how to get to His Father’s Heaven. He said, ”I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me” (John 14:6). We live in a culture that encourages pluralism, many ways to God. How can Jesus make this claim? What keeps us out of heaven is our sin; sin has a death penalty and can only be paid by someone dying. Only Jesus could or would die in our place to pay that penalty. The only hope we have is to grab Jesus as our only hope. It’s not Christianity that gets you to heaven. Jesus doesn’t show you the path. He is the path.
John 14:6
This photo was taken by Jonas Hansson, a very good Swedish friend of mine, on his trip with his father Hans (another great friend) in 2006 (via their vintage Volvo PV hot rod convertible) across the USA on Route 66. Here Hans sits in his converted Volvo PV along Route 66 near Barstow, California. I've known Hans and his wife Margareth since 1970 when I lived in Sweden, and it was great fun to see Hans and Jonas when they visited me in San Diego, CA in 2006 after their fabulous trip down "The Mother Road".
With Jonas' permission, I've been selecting some of my favorite photos of their road trip along the "Mother Road" and doing some post processing... enhancing, cropping, tone mapping, special effects, etc. In this photo I enhanced and cropped the original. They had such a wonderful time - a trip of a lifetime for Hans and Jonas.
As the song by Bobby Troup goes:
If you ever plan to motor west
Travel my way, the highway that's the best.
Get your kicks on Route 66!
Below is a link to Hans and Jonas' blog about their historic trip:
hanssonroute66.blogspot.com/2006/07/information-in-englis...
INFORMATION ON ROUTE 66:
U.S. Route 66 (also known as Route 66, U.S. Highway 66, The Main Street of America, The Mother Road and the Will Rogers Highway) was a highway in the U.S. Highway System. One of the original U.S. highways, US 66 was established on November 11, 1926. It originally ran from Chicago, Illinois, through Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California, before ending at Los Angeles for a total of 2,448 miles (3,940 km).
Route 66 was a major path of the migrants who went west, especially during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, and supported the economies of the communities through which the road passed. People doing business along the route became prosperous due to the growing popularity of the highway, and those same people later fought to keep the highway alive even with the growing threat of being bypassed by the new Interstate Highway System.
US 66 was officially removed from the United States Highway System on June 27,1985 after it was decided the route was no longer relevant and had been replaced by the Interstate Highway System. Portions of the road that passed through Illinois, New Mexico, and Arizona have been designated a National Scenic Byway of the name "Historic Route 66". It has begun to return to maps in this form. Some portions of the road in southern California have been re-designated "State Route 66", and others bear "Historic Route 66" signs and relevant historic information.
Over the years, U.S. Route 66 received many nicknames. Route 66 was advertised as The Main Street of America by the U.S. Highway 66 Association to promote the highway. In the John Steinbeck novel The Grapes of Wrath, the highway is called The Mother Road, the title that The Route most often receives today. Lastly, Route 66 was unofficially named The Will Rogers Highway by the U.S. Highway 66 Association in 1952.
In 1990, Route 66 associations were founded separately in both Arizona and Missouri. Other groups in the other Route 66 states soon followed. The same year, the state of Missouri declared Route 66 in that state a "State Historic Route". The first "Historic Route 66" marker was erected on Kearney Street at Glenstone Avenue in Springfield, Missouri. Other historic markers now line—at times sporadically—the entire 2,400 mile (3,860 km) length of road.
Many preservation groups have tried to save and even tried to landmark the old motels and neon signs along the road in different states. In 2008, The World Monuments Fund added Route 66 to its World Monuments Watch list of 100 Most Endangered Sites. Sites along the route, such as gas stations, motels, cafes, trading posts, and drive-in movie theaters are threatened by development in urban areas, and by abandonment and decay in rural areas.
As the popularity and mythical stature of Route 66 has continued to grow, demands have begun to mount to improve signage, return Route 66 to road atlases and revive its status as a continuous routing. Along these lines Route 66 has been established as a National Scenic Byway in Illinois, Arizona and New Mexico with National Scenic Byway status pending in Oklahoma and Missouri as of 2007. Another move is also afoot that aims to reinstate Route 66 as an official U.S. Route.
Source: Wikipedia
I must down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by,
And the wheel's kick and the wind's song and the white sail's shaking,
And a grey mist on the sea's face, and a grey dawn breaking.
I must down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide
Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied;
And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying,
And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the sea-gulls crying.
I must down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life,
To the gull's way and the whale's way where the wind's like a whetted knife;
And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover
And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick's over.
By John Masefield (1878-1967).
(English Poet Laureate, 1930-1967.)
Published in Carve Surf Magazine UK 2011
Detail: Large on Black
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During the middle of winter, there was not a lot of light during the day, but the dusk seemed to last for about two hours. So it was very nice to get the strange deep blue light in so many of my shots. I think it really came out as a nice backdrop color for all the warm colors and architecture in and around Reykjavik.
Hear: ... Ich hab noch einen Koffer in Berlin - Hildegard Knef (I have still a suitcase in Berlin ) ... AND see SLIDE Show: from our Newest or Unvalued ... or look ... bigly . or . map
Unser Garten ist "unser Koffer in Berlin"
Our garden is "our suit-case in Berlin"
Ort.: Unsere ersten Kirschen im ♦ Garten ♦ Kladow ♦ Spandau ♦ Land Berlin • Deutschland
Place.: Our first cherries in ♦ Garden ♦ Kladow • Spandau • Land Berlin • Germany
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Explore December 16 2009
Baby gulls, people walking dogs, the seaside, a windfarm, mist/haze, fish 'n' chips - all in Yellow
This is another one from my trip to Bridlington last weekend.
Someone asked when commenting on a previous photo if I have any SOOC or something like that. It sounded very much like an STD to me. I thought to myself, "I like these guys at flickr but that's getting a wee bit personal for even me." So I did what every red blooded male does when faced with an unsureity of a *£$%£al nature - I googled it.
The legend was then revealed - "straight out of the camera." Phew...................
So, I had a look to see if there was anything that I considered worthy of showing you nice folks. Something that I hadn't dressed up with textures and other PP. There's a smidging of sensor dust in the top right third that I would have cleaned up a bit but apart from that It's straight out the box.
So, here it is, shot straight into the sun using a 75-300mm (almost fully extended) proper minolta glass through f.25 @1/100th.
I hope you like it naked!!!!
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Para todo los Jordi´s...
Für alle Georg´s, Schorchs...
La Diada de Sant Jordi, also known as el dia de la rosa (The Day of the Rose) or el dia del llibre (The Day of the Book) is a Catalan holiday celebrated on April 23 similar to Valentine's Day with some unique twists that show the ancient practice of this day. The main event is the exchange of gifts between sweethearts, loved ones and respected ones--historically, men gave their girlfriends and wives roses, and women gave their boyfriends and husbands a book to celebrate the occasion.
Fuente: Wikipedia
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The Summer Palace or Yihe yuan (traditional Chinese: 頤和園; simplified Chinese: 颐和园; pinyin: Yíhé Yuán; literally "Gardens of Nurtured Harmony") is a palace in Beijing, China. The Summer Palace is mainly dominated by Longevity Hill (60 meters high) and the Kunming Lake. It covers an expanse of 2.9 square kilometers, three quarters of which is water. The central Kunming Lake covering 2.2 square kilometers was entirely man made and the excavated soil was used to build Longevity Hill. In its compact 70,000 square meters of building space, one finds a variety of palaces, gardens, and other classical-style architectural structures.
The Summer Palace started out life as the Garden of Clear Ripples (traditional Chinese: 清漪園; simplified Chinese: 清漪园; pinyin: Qīngyī Yuán) in 1750 (Reign Year 15 of Emperor Qianlong). Artisans reproduced the garden architecture styles of various palaces in China. Kunming Lake was created by extending an existing body of water to imitate the West Lake in Hangzhou. The palace complex suffered two major attacks--during the Anglo-French allied invasion of 1860 (with the Old Summer Palace also ransacked at the same time), and during the Boxer Rebellion, in an attack by the eight allied powers in 1900. The garden survived and was rebuilt in 1886 and 1902. In 1888, it was given the current name, Yihe Yuan. It served as a summer resort for Empress Dowager Cixi, who diverted 30 million taels of silver, said to be originally designated for the Chinese navy (Beiyang Fleet), into the reconstruction and enlargement of the Summer Palace.
In December 1998, UNESCO included the Summer Palace on its World Heritage List. It declared the Summer Palace "a masterpiece of Chinese landscape garden design. The natural landscape of hills and open water is combined with artificial features such as pavilions, halls, palaces, temples and bridges to form a harmonious ensemble of outstanding aesthetic value." It is a popular tourist destination but also serves as a recreational park. - Wiki
Yesterday was the strangest, longest, most packed and eventful day.
While I was shooting this, a woman walked by with a toy poodle. She gave me a weird look and then kind of stood by as I did my photos. Then she asked me, "Can you do me a favour?"
She's a painter. She needed a portrait of herself working on a piece, and had brought her point-n-shoot. She wasn't sure how to set up the selfie. So she asked me to shoot her portraits.
So I went over to her studio, and I took a bunch of photos of her on my own camera, and we traded cards so I could email them her way. When she realized I actually do photography for moneys, she asked if she could hire me to shoot her work.
And she gave me this little painting of two ladies walking a dog in Paris.
I love random adventures!!
After all of that I ended up going to a party for an old friend, and was surrounded by old college mates. It was magical. I thought I'd only make a showing, and leave in an hour, but ended up staying out long past the busses and crashing at the party. We went to bed at 6am.
I am not afraid as I descend,
step by step, leaving behind the salt wind
blowing up the corrugated river.
The damp city streets, their sodium glare of rush-hour headlights pitted with pearls of rain;
For my eyes still reflect the half remembered moon.
Already your face recedes beneath the station clock,
a damp smudge among the shadows mirrored in the trains wet glass.
Will you forget me? Steel tracks lead you out past cranes and crematoria,
boat yards and bike sheds,
ruby shards of roman glass and wolf bone mummified in mud,
The rows of curtained windows
like eyelids heavy with sleep,
to the city's green edge.
Now I stop my ears with wax, hold fast
the memory of the song you once whispered in my ear.
Its echoes tangle briars in my thick hair.
You turned to look.
Seconds fly past like birds,
my hands grow cold. I am ice and cloud.
This path unravels.
Deep in hidden rooms filled with dust
and sour night-breath the lost city is sleeping.
Above, the hurt sky is weeping,
soaked night gales have ceased to sing.
Dusk has come early.
I am drowning in blue.
I dream of a green garden where the sun feathers my face
Like your once eager kiss.
Soon, soon I will climb
from this blackened earth
into the different light.
SUE HUBBARD
Sant Miquel d'Olèrdola, Barcelona (Spain).
ENGLISH
Vitis vinifera (Common Grape Vine) is a species of Vitis, native to the Mediterranean region, central Europe, and southwestern Asia, from Morocco and Spain north to southern Germany and east to northern Iran.
The wild grape is often classified as V. vinifera subsp. sylvestris (in some classifications considered Vitis sylvestris), with V. vinifera subsp. vinifera restricted to cultivated forms. Domesticated vines have hermaphrodite flowers, but subsp. sylvestris is dioecious (male and female flowers on separate plants) and pollination is required for fruit to develop.
Wild grapes were harvested by foragers and early farmers. For thousands of years, the fruit has been harvested for both medicinal and nutritional value; its history is intimately entwined with the history of wine.
Changes in pip shape (narrower in domesticated forms) and distribution point to domestication occurring about 3500-3000 BC, in southwest Asia or southern Transcaucasia (Armenia and Georgia). Cultivation of the domesticated grape spread to other parts of the Old World in pre-historic or early historic times.
Grapes followed European colonies around the world, coming to North America around the 1600s, and to Africa, South America and Australia. In North America it formed hybrids with species from Vitis genus native to that region; some of these were intentional hybrids created to combat Phylloxera, an insect pest which affected the European grapevine to a much greater extent than North American ones and in fact managed to devastate European wine production in a matter of years. Later North American rootstocks became widely used to graft V. vinifera cultivars so as to withstand the presence of phylloxera.
Use of grapes is known to date back to Neolithic times, following the discovery of 7,000 year-old wine storage jars in present-day northern Iran in 1996. Further evidence shows the Mesopotamians and Ancient Egyptians had vine plantations and wine-making skills. Greek philosophers praised the healing powers of grapes both whole and in the form of wine. Vitis vinifera cultivation and winemaking in China began during the Han Dynasty in the second century with the importation of the species from Ta-Yuan. However, wild vine "mountain grapes" like Vitis thunbergii were being used for wine making before that time.
More info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitis_vinifera
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CASTELLANO
La vid, parra, viña o videira (Vitis vinifera), es una planta leñosa trepadora que cuando se deja crecer libremente puede alcanzar hasta más de 30 m, pero que por la acción humana, podándola anualmente, queda reducida a un pequeño arbusto de 1 m. Su fruto, la uva, es comestible y materia prima para la fabricación de vino y otras bebidas alcohólicas.
Su tronco retorcido y tortuoso, presenta una corteza gruesa y aspera que se desprende en tiras longitudinales. Las ramas jóvenes, denominadas sarmientos, son flexibles y muy engrosadas en los nudos; alternando sobre ellas se disponen las hojas, grandes, palmeadas y muy lobuladas y a la vez están dentadas, se las suele llamar pámpanos. Los zarcillos salen enfrente de las hojas y se enroscan y endurecen en cuanto encuentran soporte.
El cultivo de la vid para la producción del vino es una de las actividades más antiguas de la civilización, probablemente contemporánea al comienzo de ésta. Existe evidencia que los primeros cultivadores de viñas y productores de vino, se encontraban en la región de Egipto y Asia Menor, durante el neolítico. Al mismo tiempo que los primeros asentamientos humanos permanentes empezaron a dominar el arte del cultivo y la cría de ganado, así como el de la producción de cerámica.
El nombre del género era ya utilizado por los romanos; se cree derivado del celta gwid o wid: árbol, arbusto, (el mejor de los árboles). Cultivada desde tiempos remotos se han obtenido de ella innumerables variedades. Cuando a finales del siglo XIX los viñedos europeos fueron arrasados por la filoxera (Viteus vitifolii), devastador pulgón que destruye las raíces, se importaron especies americanas resistentes. De este modo, se logró injertar las razas de Vitis vinifera sobre las raíces americanas.
La importancia económica de la vid, es extraordinaria: la uva es uno de los frutos más apreciados, nutritivos y rico en vitamina C, secas constituyen las pasas o sultanas, muy nutritivas y utilizadas en medicina popular como pectorales; las uvas inmaduras se consideran refrescantes; de los sarmientos mana en primavera el agua de cepa, que se considera diurética; los pámpanos y brotes tiernos son ricos en taninos y antocianos, empleados como astringente conta las diarreas, hemorragias nasales (en forma de polvo), las uvas maduras tienen también propiedades laxantes —lo mismo que el mosto— y son ricas en ácidos orgánicos y azúcares reductores. Pero la importancia mayor de la vid es para obtener, por fermentación del mosto, el vino y todos sus derivados: alcohol, vinagre, etc.
Más info: es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitis, es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitis_vinifera