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Sentiamoci amici, ecco una bella occasione per fare qualcosa per questa meravigliosa Città , qui anche i leoni volano...che rischia di scomparire!!
BUONA DOMENICA AMICI
MANIFESTAZIONE 30 NOVEMBRE
Dettagli
NO GRANDI OPERE – NO CONSUMO DI SUOLO
PER LA DEMOCRAZIA E I BENI COMUNI
PER IL DIRITTO DI RESPIRARE, LAVORARE, VIVERE IN VENETO
Giornate di mobilitazione regionale in difesa della qualità della vita
Sabato 16 novembre : iniziative di sensibilizzazione nei Comuni del
Veneto
Sabato 30 novembre ore 14 – stazione FS di Santa Lucia –
manifestazione regionale a Venezia
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:::: Fall Reflexion on nature's mirror, St-Lawrence River, St-Barthélémy, Québec, Canada
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Location: Along a fishing-lake at Haren-Ems (Emsland) Germany.
Description: Taken this morning while I was driving somewhere near the city Haren, when I noticed a large (sport-fishing) lake on the right side of the road. Initially I wanted to take some shots of this lake together with these thick cloud formation. But when I looked at the right side along this lake, I noticed these streamlined sky that seemed like a vein of heaven. So, I mounted the camera on my Manfrotto, made some shots, with different f-stops, from a low-angled position. When I got home, I was really surprised about how the sky eventually turned out: it was exactly what I had in mind, but it wasn't quite noticeable on spot with the relatively little LCD-display and bright low-angled morning sunlight.
Exposure: 3 brackets of -2 Ev, +/-0 Ev and +2 Ev at f/8, securely mounted on a Manfrotto 190.
Technique: HDR Tone Mapping & PS color and contrast enhancements.
I wake up feeling like my life's worth living
Can't recall when I last felt that way
Guess it must be all this love you're giving
Never knew never knew it could be like this
Some Hearts (Carrie Underwood)
Today i was feeling really out of shape but then we did a super intense workout in dance. It was so great.
+1 in comments! Shooting these was so fun. people kept driving by and most didn't look except for this one guy that i saw, he stared at me!
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White Oleander . . .a gift from Victoria, came with a little red spider for good luck.
Oleander grows well in warm subtropical regions, where it is extensively used as an ornamental plant in landscapes, parks, and along roadsides. It is drought tolerant and will tolerate occasional light frost down to -10°C, 14F [2]. It is commonly used as a decorative freeway median in California and other mild-winter states in the Continental United States because deer will not eat it due to its high toxicity, it is tolerant of a variety of poor soils, and drought tolerant. It can also be grown in cooler climates in greenhouses and conservatories, or as indoor plants that can be kept outside in the summer. Oleander flowers are showy and fragrant and are grown for these reasons. Over 400 cultivars have been named, with several additional flower colours not found in wild plants having been selected, including red, purple, pink and orange; white and a variety of pinks are the most common. Many cultivars also have double flowers. Young plants grow best in spaces where they do not have to compete with other plants for nutrients.
2009 Challenge, Day 303: TIRED
3 shots handheld, HDR
I would like to introduce to you Anwar!!! For the past 18 yrs. I get my morning coffee from Anwar!! The best coffee $.75 for small, $1.00 for medium, $1.25 for Large and any danish $1.25!!! I am not kidding for $2.00, I have my morning breakfast!!! Some of those fancy and not so shmancy places for a small cup of coffee they charge close to two bucks!!! and some of them not so good for drinking, I know I am a coffee addict. I'll continue in a bit I need my coffee now!!! Not kidding either!!! LOL!! brb!!
I am back!!! Anwar starts work at 3:30am, he has his ambulant booth/stand on the corner of 42nd and Second Ave. and packs and leave with his booth at 11:30am!!! Few times around 10:00am I see him tired sitting on the cooler in his booth. I always wanted to take his picture!! Well today was a good subject for it in photochallenge: TIRED!!
If you are around that corner, stop by his booth say hello and try his coffee or cold drinks!! He is there M-F rain/snow/shine!!
Be safe this week-end folks!!
Thanks for stopping by and commenting!!
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An old man turned ninety-eight
He won the lottery and died the next day
It's a black fly in your Chardonnay
It's a death row pardon two minutes too late
And isn't it ironic... don't you think
It's like rain on your wedding day
It's a free ride when you've already paid
It's the good advice that you just didn't take
Who would've thought... it figures
Mr. Play It Safe was afraid to fly
He packed his suitcase and kissed his kids goodbye
He waited his whole damn life to take that flight
And as the plane crashed down he thought
"Well isn't this nice..."
And isn't it ironic... don't you think
It's like rain on your wedding day
It's a free ride when you've already paid
It's the good advice that you just didn't take
Who would've thought... it figures
Well life has a funny way of sneaking up on you
When you think everything's okay and everything's going right
And life has a funny way of helping you out when
You think everything's gone wrong and everything blows up
In your face
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Approximately 86 kilometers northeast of the city of Beirut in eastern Lebanon stands the temple complex of Baalbek (Known as Heliopolis, the ‘City of the Sun.' during the Roman era). Situated atop a high point in the fertile Bekaa valley, the ruins are one of the most extraordinary and enigmatic holy places of ancient times. Long before the Romans conquered the site and built their enormous temple of Jupiter, long even before the Phoenicians constructed a temple to the god Baal, there stood at Baalbek the largest stone block construction found in the entire world.
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I took this picture in the beautiful area of Friburgo - on the " Serra " its a wild hortensia - I had never seen one wild - taken during a walk "up in the hills" with my dear friends into the one of the most beautiful natural enviroment I have seen,I was so happy there ... and there it was the bright blue hortensia ... it had just bloomed! .... and as the terrible floods that have destroyed the " Zona Serrana" - just about 100km off Rio- Nova Friburgo, Teresopolis, Petrópolis, Sumidouro, São José do Vale do Rio Preto - this is my small tribute to the victims of this tragedy - meu pequeno tributo as vitimas desta tragedia; may it all bloom again as this little hortensia from Friburgo. My heart goes to all those people and also to my friends over there ... this is my small homage to all the victims of these terrible floods. So all together let us work for this not to happen to our planet
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
— Mahatma Gandhi
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re Hortensias - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrangea
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I am sorry but I am a mostly OFF - so I cannot comment on all of you but will catch up as soon as I can,I am so behind and busy -
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Here is my first published work even though did it as a freebie its great seeing your work on a web site
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Now that my birthday celebrations are finally over [ ;o) Lol ], it's time to get back to some serious Fashion!
Enjoy the song...one of my favs..."The Eyes of Truth" by Enigma
The Eyes of Truth
are always watching you.
Alsyn Gazryn Zeregleenn
Aduu shig mal shig torolzonoo khuoo
(In the distance the mirage stands out like horses and cattle.
Very glad to see my beloved son.)
Je me regarde
Je me sens
Je vois des enfants
Je suis enfant !
(I look at myself
I feel myself
I see the children
I am a child!)
Have a great week ahead everyone!! :o))
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Title from the song made popular by Debbie Boone.
So many nights I sit by my window
Waiting for someone to sing me his song
So many dreams I kept deep inside me
Alone in the dark but now
You've come along
You light up my life
You give me hope
To carry on
You light up my days
and fill my nights with song
Rollin' at sea, adrift on the water
Could it be finally I'm turning for home?
Finally, a chance to say hey,
I love You
Never again to be all alone
You light up my life
You give me hope
To carry on
You light up my days
and fill my nights with song
You light up my life
You give me hope
To carry on
You light up my days
and fill my nights with song
It can't be wrong
When it feels so right
'Cause You
You light up my life
I been tagged by Irena and Emily. I have to answer the following 5 questions regarding photography and tag another 10 contacts.
1. What I like to photograph the most:
Whatever I see through my viewfinder… but seriously, I really don’t know, I’m still trying to find that niche which appeals to me.
2. What I like to photograph the least:
You know when someone says, can you take a picture of us… Any time a sentence starts off that way, I just don’t like to do it because it’s not composed…
I also don’t like to take a picture of a picture (e.g. artwork in a museum) unless I use it selectively with depth.
3. Photography Pet Peeves:
When people take images with tripods that could otherwise be done handheld (and I know they’re not stopped down or taking HDR images too)…
Speaking of which, anyone want to buy my tripod ;-)
4. What I admire from other photographers:
Everything they can do that I can’t!
But I admire and value their sincerity, their willingness to share and not be snobby.
5. What I'd like to learn better:
I don’t own a strobe so the first item on my list is lighting!
Also: fashion photography, creative manipulation, portraits… basically everything you don’t see on my stream.
I tag whoever wants to do this under my comments ;-)
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:::: Monday afternoon grazing......a moment of beauty and tranquillity at the pasture!, St-Norbert, Québec, Canada
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Explore am 24.6.2008 - Danke! (Highest position: 493 on Friday, June 27, 2008)
Madrugada - Strange color blue on YouTube
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A menudo es bueno echar la vista atrás y recordar aquellos años en los que despertabamos al amor, quién no recuerda a ese su primer amor, a ese que le dejó tanta huella que ni el tiempo logró borrarla….Ya han pasado muchos años desde esos primeros amores de juventud, ...y en alguna ocasión, estoy convencida, hemos pensado en aquella persona que por entonces nos hizo vibrar por primera vez....y hemos pensado qué sería de ella, por donde andaría, si le habría ido bien en la vida......lo que nos gustaría volver a verle o verla.....sin nada más....
Esta imagen quiere servir de homenaje a todas aquellas personas que tocaron nuestro corazón en aquella juventud…y en su memoria ,en su recuerdo, va también esta preciosa canción del gigante Serrat que os invito a escuchar a todos....
Palabras de amor, sencillas y tiernas
Que echamos al vuelo por primera vez......
Apenas tuvimos tiempo de aprenderlas,
Recién despertábamos de la niñez....……………………………………………………………………..............................
Y Palabras de Amor que todos deberíamos saber decir en el momento oportuno.
Si se pudiesen cambiar bofetadas… por palabras de amor sencillas y tiernas el mundo iría mucho mejor…..
María
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View from the top of 'Levant Terril' at Mons in Belgium.
A 'terril' is a hill made from mining waste. There are still a lot of them in the old mining regions like Mons, now being appreciated as green areas.
I've used a ND1000 filter in order to have an 'evening effect' even if the sun was high in the sky.
This is NOT a tone-mapped HDR but a digital blending of 3 exposures. The main exposure was of 30 sec.
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El Real Monasterio de Santa María de Poblet es el prototipo de abadía cisterciense española y panteón real de los reyes de la Corona de Aragón, desde Alfonso II.
Localizado en la comarca de la Conca de Barberà, en la localidad de Vimbodí, en Tarragona, el primer cenobio fue impulsado y patrocinado por el conde Ramón Berenguer IV, quien lo entregó a los monjes bernardos de la abadía de Fontfroide en el año 1149 (siglo XII).
Enriquecido con distintas donaciones, alcanzó su máximo esplendor en el siglo XIV, y su total decadencia y abandono en 1835 como consecuencia de la desamortización de Mendizábal. En 1930 se inició su restauración, de forma que en 1935 pudo dedicarse nuevamente la iglesia al culto, y en 1940 retornaban a su abadía algunos monjes. No todos los espacios pueden visitarse, por ser dependencias en clausura utilizadas por los cistercienses que de nuevo ocupan el monasterio.
En 1991 fue declarado por la UNESCO Patrimonio de la Humanidad. Poblet, junto con Guadalupe, El Escorial, San Millán de Yuso y San Millán de Suso son los monasterios en España que gozan de este título.
The Monastery of Santa Maria de Poblet is a Cistercian monastery, founded in 1151, located in the comarca of Conca de Barberà, in Catalonia (Spain). It was founded by Cistercian monks from France.
It was the royal pantheon of the kings of the Crown of Aragon since James I of Aragon.
This monastery was abandoned in 1835 and was restored during the 1940s.
This monastery was the first of three sister monasteries, known as the Cistercian triangle, that helped consolidate power in Catalonia in the 12th century. (The other two are Vallbona de les Monges and Santes Creus)
It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, since 1991.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poblet_Monastery
Un passo indietro ed ora tu, non ridi più
e tra le mani "Aria" stringi
e non trovi le parole
e ci riprovi ancora a muovermi il sole
Ancora un passo un altro ancora
Un passo avanti ed ora io, non parlo più
e tra le mani, mani stringo
a che servon le parole
amore dai, dai, dai muovimi il sole
Tu che aria sei
ma che aria vuoi
tu che aria dai se poi mi uccidi
tu come aria in vena sei .....
View On Black (Best with 20" monitor or bigger) San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers is a large botanical greenhouse in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, constructed in 1878. It houses an important collection of exotic plants. It is the oldest building in Golden Gate Park and the oldest municipal wooden conservatory remaining in the United States. It is also one of the first municipal conservatories constructed in the country. For these distinctions and for its associated historical, architectural, and engineering merits, the Conservatory of Flowers is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Here is another photo of the Conservatory: www.flickr.com/photos/michelk/2579638366/ For more info, visit: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservatory_of_Flowers
It was a misty morning, the rays of the rising sun flooded more and more the new day with light.
This created such a beautiful and overwhelming mood, that i wanted to capture it .
I really struggled with my camera adjustments, but under the helpful guidance of a friend this is finally the result i got - as closest to the feeling as it was possible for me.
I'm looking forward to your opinion from an emotional as well as from a technical point of view :-))
Explored June 12, 2010 - Thank you all so much!
An experiment in composition/framing .... originally shot for the macro mondays theme of '6' but I decided not to issue it then and plumped for the more conventional 6 marbles (b&w).
Part of my Marbles (Set)
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Once again, i did a stop on that Sammamish road this morning before going to the office. There was this small flock of geese flying over me and i did my best to nail them to the foggy environment. to be honest, i think i would have prefered having my 100-400 with me this time, if you see what i mean. but i'm still satisfied with the shot.
the photo is reversed for visibility and visual reasons.
70-200 f4 L
Mejor verla en grande - Best enlarge
Panoramica de 3 fotografias procesadas con PTGui y Photoshop.
La iglesia parroquial de Santa María es una construcción del siglo XV (finalizada en el XVII), actualmente considerada como Bien de Interés Cultural. Fue declarada Monumento histórico-artístico perteneciente al Tesoro Artístico Nacional mediante decreto de 3 de junio de 1931.
Edificación gótica con una imponente portada policromada y claustro gótico, el primero de Guipúzcoa. Imponente interior con sus tres naves y bóvedas de crucería rodeado de capillas que se abren entre los contrafuertes de la nave.
La torre se alza sobre el pórtico al cual se abre en tres direcciones.
En el interior destaca el Retablo Mayor de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción, de Bernabé Cordero de 1662 y armado por Pedro de Alloitiz en 1668.
LARGE | ♬ Maurice Ravel Boléro ♬
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Malgré un emploi du temps surchargé, Thierry, Ken, Yoann et moi avons tenté notre chance pour un lever de soleil sur la plage de Montravel. C'était la première fois qu'on y allait de nuit et j'ai trouvé l'endroit plutôt joli même si c'était plutôt difficile de marcher à travers les rochers dans l'obscurité. Plage de Montravel (Rémire-Montjoly), Guyane française.
P.-S. : Je suis actuellement très occupé par divers projets professionnels, ce qui me donne pratiquement pas de temps pour flickr. Désolé, mais je rattraperai le temps perdu bientôt :). J'en profite pour vous souhaitez de passer de bonnes fêtes et une merveilleuse année 2009.
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Despite an overloaded schedule, Thierry, Ken, Yoann and I, took our chance on a sunrise at the Montravel beach. This was the first time at night and the place was rather beautiful even if it was difficult to walk on the dark between the stones. Montravel's beach (Rémire-Montjoly, French Guiana).
P.-S.: I am currently very busy with various work projects, which gives me virtually no time for flickr. Sorry for this, but I'll catch-up soon :). I take this opportunity to wish you good holidays and a wonderful 2009.
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Canon EF 17-40mm f/4 L (17mm@f/14) | ISO 50 | 30 sec | Singh-Ray reversed GND3 filter | PP in Aperture/CS4: cleaning, contrast, saturation, color correction, sharpening. | © Érick Loitière
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[fr]:Une après midi d'automne magique sur Paris, France
[image info]: HDR from 5 exposures - Sigma 10-20mm@20mm - EXIF from +2ev
[Level of Retouching]: 30% (HDR processing, levels, local curves, vibrancy) - total processing time: 30 minutes
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Tired of lying in the sunshine
Staying home to watch the rain
And you are young and life is long
And there is time to kill today
And then one day you find
Ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run
You missed the starting gun
And you run, and you run to catch up with the sun, but it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death
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La cabaña de vuelta es un pequeño y sencillo habitáculo muy típico de las comarcas interiores, desde la Noguera hasta la Terra Alta, sin descartar su presencia en otros lugares de la geografía catalana, al igual que tipologías diversas de barracas de viña, por ejemplo, también se pueden dar en estos lugares. En cuanto a la cronología parece que la verdadera expansión de estas construcciones se da entre mediados del siglo XVIII y mediados del siglo XX, con una etapa de mucha mayor incidencia constructiva entre la segunda mitad del siglo XIX y primer cuarto del XX, vinculado al aumento de la superficie cultivada, por venta o cesión de las tierras improductivas de los señores, de la conversión de los bosques comunales o por la privatización de extensiones de terreno considerables tras la desamortización.
La iglesia de Santa María de Talamanca es un gran edificio románico del siglo XII, restaurado. Consta de una única nave, de cruz latina, con transepto rematado por un ábside semicircular, decorado con una ventana esculpida. En el exterior, el acceso al templo se realiza mediante una portada de arquivolta sencilla sobre columnas con capiteles muy trabajados que presentan decoración vegetal. Situada a los pies del castillo, aparece mentada en 1083 cuando se jura un testamento sacramental sobre el altar consagrado a Sant Pere situado en la iglesia de Santa María de Talamanca. Es en el siglo XVIII cuando la iglesia fue reformada y de una nave pasó a tener tres, aunque las naves laterales fueran más cortas que la central. Conserva el mausoleo notable del caballero Berenguer de Talamanca, construido en el siglo XIV.
INCRIDIBLE STOP MOTION ! ! !
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Away from the lights of big cities, on top of a mountain over 3,700 meters: this is how the Milky Way appears in the night sky. The Norwegian photographer Tisso spent a week in high mountain El Teide in the Canary Islands, Spanish territory in the Atlantic Ocean. To make the videos, he spent hours taking one photo per minute from the same point in the sky. As the earth rotates, each photo captures a slightly different position of the stars. When you put all images in sequence, Tisso creates a movie from the sky.
He says that the series of photos to create these videos lasted up to six hours, and the result are films of a few seconds, but of indescribable beauty. During the day, he used to do Tisso sequences of the landscapes of the island. He says he spent the whole time on the mountain, almost without sleep to make the maximum possible sequences. Tisso concludes: "Despite all the work, is a wonderful way to enjoy the outdoor life. "
Mejor pincha aquí para ver en grande sobre negro.
Better click here to view this large on black.
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Canon 450D + CANON EF24-105 4L IS USM, @24mm, 1/60 sec, f/9, ISO 100
No Tripod, Date 19/06/2010 20:54
Panoramica de tres tomas horizontales.
Del castillo queda solamente la parte inferior, pero esta se conserva en buen estado.
Ruinas del Castillo de Chinchon. También llamado castillo de los Condes, se encuentra al sur del casco urbano de Chinchón, en la Comunidad de Madrid (España). Es una de las dos fortalezas del municipio, junto con el castillo de Casasola. Construido en el siglo XV, está constituido por dos cuerpos cuadrangulares imbricados, con esquinas rematadas en torres cilíndricas. Todos los muros exteriores del castillo están realizados en mampostería caliza concertada y rellenos por argamasa y piedras, lo que le otorga un aspecto muy homogéneo.
Ha sufrido constantes modificaciones, hasta llegar a una de principios del siglo XX para acondicionarlo como fábrica de anís.
English:
Panoramic of three shots.
Ruins of Chinchon's Castle. Also so called castle of the Condes, It´s to the south of Chinchón's urban area, in the Community of Madrid (Spain). It is one of two strengths(fortresses) of the municipality, together with Casasola's castle. Constructed in the 15th century, it is constituted by two quadrangular imbricated bodies, with corners finished off in cylindrical towers. All the exterior walls of the castle are realized in limy compound masonry and landfills by mortar and stones, which grants a very homogeneous aspect to his.
It has suffered constant modifications, up to coming to one of beginning of the 20th century to condition it as factory of anise.
Texture by : Leslie Nicole Photography.
Mientras buscamos la oficina de turismo, para conseguir algún folleto sobre la ciudad y las cosas que se podían ver, hasta hora seguíamos mis ligeros recuerdo de cuando estuve en el 1994, mientras mi novia compraba algún recuerdo yo me limitaba a contemplar el panorama, y justo que pasamos por una terraza vi este momento de indecisión por parte de esta persona. Cuenca (Castilla La Mancha)
Si a alguien ve esta foto y se da por reconocido y le molesta la foto, que me lo diga y no dudaré en quitarla.
Cámara: D40
Modo De Exposición: Manual
ISO: 200
Velocidad: 1/500
Focal: 200.0 mm
F/ 5.6
Objetivo: 55.0- 200.0 mm F/ 3.5 -5.6
Procesado: Light room 2
Camera Raw 4.3
Photoshop Cs 3
Foto Explore #443 - 28 Oct. 2009
Wow. This is a pretty boring shot for my 100th in my 365. Oh well. I wasn't thinking about it all today when I took it. I drove into the little town near our lake house and when I pulled into a parking lot to turn around, I found myself staring right at this beautiful old building. I couldn't help but take a picture. I'm actually pretty happy with how this turned out, despite its lack in celebratory subject matter for my 100th day.
HaPPY WeeKeND aLL oF You
Meet me in the pub at the corner in London
I will be away till tomorrow night
So if you want to meet me, see you in the Southwark Tavern, London
The beer is wonderful and they have perfect fish and chips.
This work is a HDR turned by 5 different exposures, combined with 7 layers.
6 coloured ones and one BW.
Hope you like it, like you excuse my absence tonight.
Cheers all of you
Take a beer on my bill and………….
inspired by Brooke Shaden.
so I'm excited because hopefully today or tomorrow I'll get a chance to try freelensing again, this time on a person. last time I tried, I just got a lot of mega bokeh. but last night I was inspired by the talented Kevin Farris who uses a lot of freelensing. so I'm going to hopefully drag my sister outside and try it!
hooray for experimenting.
All photos © Courtney Stobbe
I was feeling really down last night, as well as this morning right from when I woke up. Things have been really tough over the past year. I was turning the possibility of sharing this with you over in my mind, over, and over, and over... I was not sure whether I had the confidence, and whether it would make any difference.
I've concluded that it does. If I don't address pain, either artistically or verbally, then nothing will change. It is at least worth a try. I think Brad said it best: Flickr is cheap ass therapy.
My father was diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease right before his 60th birthday, which was this past December. He is already in stage three of seven -- very unusual for someone so young. In addition to the fact that it's a fatal disease, he will soon become someone entirely different, with not a clue who I am, or who he is, who he was, who he will be. I can see changes as the months go by, some months more than others. He was a political science professor at Columbia for most of his career, then was a dean, chief financial officer and provost there as well. His life has been built on his extraordinary intellect -- one that moved me to academia, helped incite my passion for philosophy and dreams of becoming a professor. Now he is on disability and finds himself lonely and listless most days, while everyone else is working and busy. He is rediscovering himself, and the talented parts of him that were latent all these years, but it doesn't take away from the struggle on a day-to-day basis. He has always been humble, frank, moderate, and inward, but he has shed some of his hurtful tendencies -- he is less analytic, more feeling and embracing of everything around him. All too many had accused him, say ten years ago, of being withholding and emotionally unavailable, to his wife (my stepmother) and me and my sister. He is so different now. It is, I supposed, something of a Catch-22: my father has metamorphosed into one of the most beautiful souls I've ever known, but this is all too fleeting.
But perhaps it is this transience that gives it such sweetness and value.
Sweet and low, sweet and low,
Wind of the western sea,
Low, low, breathe and blow,
Wind of the western sea!
Over the rolling waters go,
Come from the dying moon, and blow,
Blow him again to me;
While my little one, my pretty one, sleeps.
Sleep and rest, sleep and rest,
Father will come to thee soon;
Rest, rest, on mother's breast,
Father will come to thee soon;
Father will come to his babe in the nest,
Silver sails all out of the west
Under the silver moon:
Sleep, my little one, sleep, my pretty one, sleep.
-- Tennyson
My most favorite shot flickr.com/photos/atrium09/sets/72157594360499066/detail/
La backWaters sono costituite da 900 Km di lagune interne e canali che dalla costa penetrano verso l'interno, navigabili a bordo di imbarcazioni un tempo adibite al trasporto di riso e oggi trasformate in case galleggianti (house boats) per i turisti, dotate di ogni comfort.
Collegano via acqua diversi villaggi e città da cui partono le crociere verso le zone turistiche di Kollam e Kottapuram,
La Back waters hanno un ecosistema unico, poichè l'acqua dolce dei fiumi si mescola con l'acqua salata del Mare Arabico.
The Kerala backwaters are a chain of brackish lagoons and lakes lying parallel to the Arabian Sea coast (known as the Malabar Coast) of Kerala state in southern India. The network includes five large lakes linked by canals, both manmade and natural, fed by 38 rivers, and extending virtually half the length of Kerala state. The backwaters were formed by the action of waves and shore currents creating low barrier islands across the mouths of the many rivers flowing down from the Western Ghats range.
(From Wikipedia)
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El interior
Las columnas de la nave central.
Detalle de la bóveda.
Gaudí evolucionó de un primer proyecto gótico hacia un estilo personal, orgánico, inspirado en las formas de la naturaleza: para librarse de los contrafuertes góticos, ideó el uso de columnas en forma de tronco de árbol, que permiten descargar el peso de las cubiertas directamente en el suelo, solución práctica a la vez que estética, ya que convierte el interior de las naves del templo en un espacio orgánico que semeja un bosque. En 1987 se inició la cimentación de las naves; para 1997 se completaron las bóvedas laterales y se empezó la central.
El templo tiene planta de cruz latina, con cinco naves de 90 metros de longitud, y crucero de tres naves de 60 metros; la nave central tiene un ancho de 15 metros, y 7,5 las laterales, haciendo un total de 45 metros; ancho del crucero, 30 metros. La altura es de 45 metros en las bóvedas de la nave central y 30 en las laterales, mientras que las del cimborio central llegarán a los 60 metros. Las naves laterales contendrán las cantorías para los coros. El ábside es lobulado, con deambulatorio entorno del presbiterio. El templo contará con un total de 36 columnas, que oscilarán entre 11,10 y 22,20 metros de altura, con bases de polígonos estrellados de varios lados según su ubicación: 6 (naves laterales), 8 (nave central), 10 (torres de los Evangelistas), 12 (torre de Jesús). Los materiales de construcción varían de la piedra de Montjuïc al granito, basalto o pórfido.
Las bóvedas son hiperbólicas, construidas con baldosas de mosaico veneciano. Gaudí utilizó la técnica de la bóveda catalana o bóveda tabicada, que consistía en la superposición de varias capas de ladrillos con argamasa. Las cubiertas son de forma piramidal, coronadas por una linterna y un farol. Los ventanales están pensados para distribuir una iluminación suave y armónica, creando un efecto de recogimiento, y tienen forma geométrica abstracta; las vidrieras de colores son obra de Joan Vila i Grau. Gaudí realizó profundos estudios acústicos y lumínicos para conseguir una perfecta sonoridad e iluminación en el interior del templo.
The church plan is that of a Latin cross with five aisles. The central nave vaults reach 45 meters while the side nave vaults reach 30 meters. The transept has 3 aisles. The columns are on a 7.5 meter grid however the columns of the apse, resting on del Villar's foundation, do not adhere to the grid, requiring a section of columns of the ambulatory to transition to the grid thus creating a horseshoe pattern to the layout of those columns. The crossing rests on the four central columns of porphyry supporting a great hyperboloid surrounded by two rings of 12 hyperboloids (currently under construction). The central vault reaches 60 meters. The apse will be capped by a hyperboloid vault reaching 75 meters. Gaudi intended that a visitor standing at the main entrance be able to see the vaults of the nave, crossing, and apse, thus the graduated increase in vault loftiness.
The columns of the interior are a unique Gaudi design. Besides branching to support their load, their ever-changing surfaces are the result of the intersection of various geometric forms. The simplest example is that of a square base evolving into an octagon as the column rises, then a 16-sided form, and eventually to a circle. This effect is the result of a three-dimensional intersection of helicoidal columns (for example a square cross-section column twisting clockwise and a similar one twisting counter-clockwise).
(Wikipedia)