Arboga holds a prominent position in Swedish medieval history, and the country's first parliament (riksdag) was held here in 1435. Today, Arboga is a quiet town with a population of around 12,000.

Arboga, with its well preserved medieval character, is a beautiful and charming town. The ancient cobblestones of Västerlånggatan (the riverside street, lined with period wooden houses) have been trodden by the feet of many locals and travellers throughout the ages.

Arboga was an influential town during the middle ages; the Arboga River gave the town a trade route to Stockholm and the rest of the world. The iron ore trade was also an important commodity during Arboga’s history, where it was weighed and stored at Ladbron.

Arboga was also host to a number of important historical events including Engelbrekt’s first assembly of the Swedish parliament in 1435. The town was also a residence for monarchs – during the 16th Century Gustav Vasa and his daughter, Cecilia, lived here. Cecilia later became Countess Cecilia of Arboga and lived in the church building Helge And, which later became the town hall and remains so today.

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Highest Position Explore: 405 _ 10 Noviembre 2008

Pues eso, lo que se llama ruinas con encanto. Todo el entorno del balneario de Mondariz está rodeado de un hermoso bosque con una serie de edificaciones, que supongo que en su momento pertenecieron al complejo termal. La vegetación lo cubre todo. Esto junto con la riquísima gama de colores propia del otoño creaban un paisaje de cuento...

HDR realizado a partir de un archivo RAW en formato .DNG, editado en Photomatix mediante la opción Detail Enhancer, ajustando sombras e iluminaciones en Photoshop CS

Inschuiven van de tunnelmooot gezien vanuit meerdere invalshoeken. Het inschuiven was een langdurig proces.

Sliding to its position from the tunnelsection seen from diferent vieuwpoints. It was a long job to do.

チャアミガサタケ

アミガサタケ科 / アミガサタケ属

Morchella esculenta (L.) Pers. var. umbrina (Boud.) S. Imai, Sci. Rep. Yokohama Natl. Univ., Sect. 2 3: 7 (1954)

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Basionym:

Morchella umbrina Boud. 1897

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Citations in published lists or literature:

Index of Fungi 2: 281

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Position in classification:

Morchellaceae, Pezizales, Pezizomycetidae, Pezizomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi

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Species Fungorum current name:

Morchella esculenta (L.) Pers. 1794

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Species Fungorum synonymy

GSD Species Synonymy

Current Name:

Morchella esculenta (L.) Pers., Neues Mag. Bot. 1: 116 (1794)

Synonymy:

Phallus esculentus L., Sp. pl. 2: 1178 (1753)

Helvella esculenta (L.) Sowerby, Col. fig. Engl. Fung. Mushr. (London) 1(no. 9): tab. 51 (1796)

Helvella esculenta (L.) Pers., Comm. Schaeff. Icon. Pict.: 64 (1800)

Morellus esculentus (L.) Eaton, Man. bot., Edn 2: 324 (1818)

Morilla esculenta (L.) Quél., Enchir. fung. (Paris): 271 (1886)

Phalloboletus esculentus (L.) Kuntze, Revis. gen. pl. (Leipzig) 2: 865 (1891)

Morchella rotunda var. esculenta (L.) Jacquet., in Jacquetant & Bon, Docums Mycol. 14(no. 56): 1 (1985)

Morchella prunarii Schulzer

Morchella esculenta var. prunarii (Schulzer & Hazsl.) Sacc., Syll. fung. (Abellini) 8: 9 (1889)

Phallus esculentus var. albus Bull., Hist. Champ. Fr. (Paris) 1(2): 274 (1791)

Morchella vulgaris var. alba (Bull.) Clowez, Bull. Soc. mycol. Fr. 126(3-4): 268 (2012)

Phallus esculentus var. cinereus Bull., Hist. Champ. Fr. (Paris) 1(2): 274, pl. 218:A-DG (1791)

Phallus esculentus var. fuscus Bull., Hist. Champ. Fr. (Paris) 1(2): 274, pl. 218:EFH (1791)

Phallus tremelloides Vent., Ann. Bot. (Usteri) 21: 509 (1797)

Morchella tremelloides (Vent.) Pers., Syn. meth. fung. (Göttingen) 2: 621 (1801)

Morilla tremelloides (Vent.) Quél., Enchir. fung. (Paris): 272 (1886)

Morchella vulgaris var. tremelloides (Vent.) Boud. [as 'tremelloïdes'], Bull. Soc. mycol. Fr. 13: 139 (1897)

Phallus esculentus var. rotundus Pers., Comm. Schaeff. Icon. Pict.: 81 (1800)

Morchella esculenta a rotunda Pers., Syn. meth. fung. (Göttingen) 2: 619 (1801)

Morchella esculenta var. rotunda (Pers.) Sacc., Syll. fung. (Abellini) 8: 9 (1889)

Morchella rotunda (Pers.) Boud., Bull. Soc. mycol. Fr. 13: 135 (1897)

Morchella esculenta f. rotunda (Pers.) Reichert, Bot. Jb. 56: 673 (1921)

Morchella conica Pers., Traité champ. Comest. (Paris): 257 (1818)

Morchella esculenta var. conica (Pers.) Fr., Syst. mycol. (Lundae) 2(1): 7 (1822)

Morilla conica (Pers.) Quél., Enchir. fung. (Paris): 271 (1886)

Morchella esculenta var. alba Mérat, Nouv. Fl. Environs Paris, Edn 2 1: 91 (1821)

Morchella rotunda var. alba (Mérat) Sacc., in Saccardo & Trotter, Syll. fung. (Abellini) 22(1): 598 (1913)

Morchella esculenta var. cinerea Mérat, Nouv. Fl. Environs Paris, Edn 2 1: 91 (1821)

Morchella esculenta var. fulva Fr., Syst. mycol. (Lundae) 2(1): 7 (1822)

Morchella esculenta subsp. pubescens Pers., Mycol. eur. (Erlanga) 1: 207 (1822)

Morchella pubescens (Pers.) Krombh., Naturgetr. Abbild. Beschr. Schwämme (Prague) 3: tab. 17, fig. 20 (1834)

Morchella rotunda var. pubescens (Pers.) Boud., Bull. Soc. mycol. Fr. 13: 136 (1897)

Morchella esculenta var. pubescens (Pers.) Sacc. & Traverso, Syll. fung. (Abellini) 20: 117 (1911)

Morchella esculenta var. grisea Pers., Mycol. eur. (Erlanga) 1: 207 (1822)

Morchella conica var. metheformis Pers., Mycol. eur. (Erlanga) 1: 208 (1822)

Morchella esculenta var. stipitata Lenz, Schwämme Mitteldeutschl.: fig. 65 (1831)

Morchella conica var. pusilla Krombh., Naturgetr. Abbild. Beschr. Schwämme (Prague) 1: pl. 16 (1831)

Morchella conica var. rigida Krombh., Naturgetr. Abbild. Beschr. Schwämme (Prague) 3: tab. 16:13; tab. 17:1-2 (1834)

Morchella rigida (Krombh.) Boud., Bull. Soc. mycol. Fr. 13: 137 (1897)

Morchella rotunda var. rigida (Krombh.) Jacquet., in Jacquetant & Bon, Docums Mycol. 14(no. 56): 1 (1985)

Morchella esculenta var. rigida (Krombh.) I.R. Hall, P.K. Buchanan, Y. Wang & Cole, Edible and Poisonous Mushrooms (Christchurch): 177 (1998)

Morchella conica var. ceracea Krombh., Naturgetr. Abbild. Beschr. Schwämme (Prague) 3: 10, tab. 16:11-12 (1834)

Morchella esculenta var. violacea Lév., Annls Sci. Nat., Bot., sér. 3 5: 249 (1846)

Morchella distans Fr., Summa veg. Scand., Sectio Post. (Stockholm): 346 (1849)

Morchella conica var. distans (Fr.) Clowez, Bull. Soc. mycol. Fr. 126(3-4): 306 (2012)

Morchella esculenta var. corrugata Sacc., Syll. fung. (Abellini) 8: 9 (1889)

Morchella esculenta var. ovalis Fr. ex Sacc., Syll. fung. (Abellini) 8: 9 (1889)

Morchella viridis Leuba, Champ. comest.: pl. 46, fig. 3-5 (1890)

Morchella esculenta var. viridis (Leuba) Sacc. & D. Sacc., Syll. fung. (Abellini) 18: 2 (1906)

Morchella abietina Leuba, Champ. comest.: 89 (1890)

Morchella esculenta var. abietina (Leuba) Sacc. & Trotter, in Saccardo & Traverso, Syll. fung. (Abellini) 20: 1273 (1911)

Morchella lutescens Leuba, Champ. comest.: 89 (1890)

Morchella esculenta var. lutescens (Leuba) Sacc. & Traverso, Syll. fung. (Abellini) 20: 1273 (1911)

Morchella conica var. elata Henn., Verh. bot. Ver. Prov. Brandenb. 36: 67 (1895)

Morchella rotunda var. cinerea Boud., Bull. Soc. mycol. Fr. 13: 136 (1897)

Morchella umbrina Boud., Bull. Soc. mycol. Fr. 13: 138 (1897)

Morchella esculenta var. umbrina (Boud.) S. Imai, Sci. Rep. Yokohama Natl. Univ., Sect. 2 3: 7 (1954)

Morchella vulgaris var. albida Boud., Bull. Soc. mycol. Fr. 13: 139 (1897)

Morchella esculenta var. albida (Boud.) Sacc., in Saccardo & Traverso, Syll. fung. (Abellini) 20: 116 (1911)

Morchella vulgaris var. cinerascens Boud., Bull. Soc. mycol. Fr. 13: 139 (1897)

Morchella rotunda var. alba Boud., Bull. Soc. mycol. Fr. 13: 136 (1897)

Morchella vulgaris var. alba Boud., Icon. Mycol. (Paris) 4: 104 (1910)

Morchella conica var. serotina Peck, Bull. N.Y. St. Mus. 157: 50 (1912)

Morchella conica var. angusticeps Peck, (1912)

Morchella cylindrica Velen., Mykologia (Prague) 2(6-7): 92 (1925)

Morchella conica f. cylindrica (Velen.) Svrček, Česká Mykol. 31(2): 70 (1977)

Morchella rotunda var. cinerea Grelet, Bull. Soc. bot. Centre-Ouest, Nouv. sér. 1: 8 (1932)

Morchella rotunda var. fulva Grelet, Bull. Soc. bot. Centre-Ouest, Nouv. sér. 1: 8 (1932)

Morchella vulgaris var. parvula Bánhegyi, Index Horti bot. univ. Budapest 3: 170 (1938)

Morchella esculenta var. atrotomentosa M.M. Moser, Sydowia 3(1-6): 189 (1949)

Morchella distans f. longissima Jacquet., Les Morilles (Paris): 36 (1984)

Morchella distans f. spathulata Jacquet., Les Morilles (Paris): 36 (1984)

Morchella umbrina f. macroalveola Jacquet., Les Morilles (Paris): 78 (1984)

Morchella esculenta f. alba Galli, Il Genere Morchella in Lombardia (San Vittore Olona): 20 (1984)

Morchella rotunda var. pallida Jacquet., in Jacquetant & Bon, Les Morilles (Paris): 104 (1984)

Morchella rotunda var. crassipes Jacquet., in Jacquetant & Bon, Docums Mycol. 14(no. 56): 1 (1985)

Morchella rotunda var. minutula Jacquet., in Jacquetant & Bon, Docums Mycol. 14(no. 56): 1 (1985)

Morchella rotunda var. pallida Jacquet., in Jacquetant & Bon, Docums Mycol. 14(no. 56): 1 (1985)

Morchella ovalis f. pallida (Jacquet.) Clowez & Luc Martin, in Clowez, Bull. Soc. mycol. Fr. 126(3-4): 243 (2012)

Morchella esculenta f. dunensis Castañera, J.L. Alonso & G. Moreno, in Castañera & Moreno, Yesca, Revista Sociedad Micólogica de Cántabria 8: 27 (1996)

Morchella dunensis (Castañera, J.L. Alonso & G. Moreno) Clowez, in Reumaux et al., Docums Mycol. 27(no. 106): 54 (1997)

Morchella esculenta var. dunensis (Castañera, J.L. Alonso & G. Moreno) Blanco-Dios, Index Fungorum 213: 1 (2015)

Morchella dunensis f. sterilis Picón [as 'sterile'], Belarra (Bilbao) 13: 35 (1998)

Morchella esculenta f. sterilis (Picón) Blanco-Dios, Index Fungorum 213: 1 (2015)

Morchella vulgaris var. aucupariae Clowez & J.-M. Moingeon, in Clowez, Bull. Soc. mycol. Fr. 126(3-4): 270 (2012)

Morchella esculenta var. aurantiaca Clowez, Bull. Soc. mycol. Fr. 126(3-4): 230 (2012)

Morchella esculenta var. brunnea Clowez, Bull. Soc. mycol. Fr. 126(3-4): 230 (2012)

Morchella esculenta var. mahoniae Clowez & R. Durand bis, in Clowez, Bull. Soc. mycol. Fr. 126(3-4): 231 (2012)

Morchella esculenta var. roseostraminea Clowez, Bull. Soc. mycol. Fr. 126(3-4): 231 (2012)

Morchella esculenta var. rubroris Clowez & Luc Martin, in Clowez, Bull. Soc. mycol. Fr. 126(3-4): 236 (2012)

Morchella esculenta var. theobromichroa Clowez & Vanhille, in Clowez, Bull. Soc. mycol. Fr. 126(3-4): 236 (2012)

Morchella esculenta var. umbrinoides Clowez, Bull. Soc. mycol. Fr. 126(3-4): 238 (2012)

Morchella vulgaris var. atrogrisea Clowez, Bull. Soc. mycol. Fr. 126(3-4): 270 (2012)

Morchella vulgaris var. griseosordida Clowez & Franç. Petit, in Clowez, Bull. Soc. mycol. Fr. 126(3-4): 271 (2012)

Morchella conica var. cilicicae Clowez, Baş Serm. & Işıloğlu, in Clowez, Bull. Soc. mycol. Fr. 126(3-4): 303 (2012)

Morchella conica var. crassa Clowez, Bull. Soc. mycol. Fr. 126(3-4): 303 (2012)

Morchella conica var. flexuosa Clowez & Luc Martin, in Clowez, Bull. Soc. mycol. Fr. 126(3-4): 306 (2012)

Morchella conica var. meandriformis Clowez & Moyne, in Clowez, Bull. Soc. mycol. Fr. 126(3-4): 307 (2012)

Morchella conica var. nigra Clowez & Moyne, in Clowez, Bull. Soc. mycol. Fr. 126(3-4): 307 (2012)

Morchella conica var. pygmaea Clowez & Delaunoy, in Clowez, Bull. Soc. mycol. Fr. 126(3-4): 310 (2012)

Morchella conica var. violeipes Clowez & Y. Mourgues, in Clowez, Bull. Soc. mycol. Fr. 126(3-4): 311 (2012)

Morchella vulgaris var. parvipilea Clowez [as 'parvapila'], Bull. Soc. mycol. Fr. 126(3-4): 271 (2012)

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Position in classification:

Morchellaceae, Pezizales, Pezizomycetidae, Pezizomycetes, Ascomycota, Fungi

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Synonymy Contributor(s):

Kew Mycology (2015)

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Index Fungorum Registration Identifier 352323

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私は菌類には疎い。そのため、自身の行った分類が間違っている可能性を捨てきれていない。私に誤りがある場合、知っている人は私にその誤りを教えていただければとても助かります。皆さん、よろしくお願いいたします。

I am ignorant of fungi. Therefore, the possibility that my classification is wrong has not been ruled out. If I make a mistake, it would be greatly appreciated if someone who knows could tell me the mistake. Thank you everyone.

SONY NEX-C3

OLYMPUS OM Zuiko MC Auto Macro 50mm F3.5

Highest Explore Position #260 ~ On February 26th 2008.

Clockwork Robot - Dr Who Exhibition, Land's End, Cornwall - Sunday February 17th 2008.

Episode Four: The Girl in the Fireplace

Clockwork Robots

Doctor Who

Race: Clockwork Robots

Type: Mechanical droids

Home planet: None

First appearance: The Girl in the Fireplace

The Clockwork Robots were created by a spacecrew from the 51st Century. When the ship was damaged, vital machinery was destroyed so they began to use the crew's body parts instead.

They managed to travel through time windows so they could meet Madame de Pompadoure to use her brain, only when she was at the right age though.

They had strange smiling faces and long black hair for their trips to France but were actually glass humanoid figures operated by space age clockwork technology.

They would break any clocks in the room to disguise their arrival and would slice open the parts of people where the organs could be found by their blades and saws in their hands.

The Doctor freezed them with ice guns but finally defeated them by destroying the time window causing them to break down. The Doctor managed to get back however by Madame de Pompadoure's fireplace.

The position of her web allowed me to get a shot of her under side too. Just as colorful.

Female Black & Yellow Garden Spider (Argiope aurantia)

Garland, Texas

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Moving into position at Wadi Akarit, April 1943, towards the end of the North African campaign. This photograph illustrates the flat landscape over which the battle of El Alamein was fought.

Photo is an exhibit at Gordon Highlanders Museum in Aberdeen:

" For two hundred years this spectacular landscape gave us the men who made one of the finest regiments the British Army has ever seen – The Gordon Highlanders.

Forming the ranks were farmers and fishermen, ghillies and labourers, aristocrats and university students. Ordinary men with an extraordinary sense of duty; all with a story to tell.

These stories are brought to life at The Gordon Highlanders Museum by exploring our Nationally Significant Collection. Guided by our knowledgeable staff and volunteers retrace the remarkable history of these famous fighting men of the North East." [Museum Website]

Here's a taster of the new F1 season

with my 2 front legs and my head on my owner's leg, wonderfully close and she also has nice soft pants on

met mijn 2 voorpootjes en mijn hoofdje op het been van mijn baasje, lekker dichtbij en ze heeft ook een heerlijke zachte broek aan

Second exercise of the Strobist Lighting 102 series, 1.2: Position/Distance. This was interesting! It was puzzling me beforehand, and keeps on puzzling now that I did it. The goal was to vary the distance of the light source to the model, adjusting the power so that the model is always well exposed, keeping the rest constant. In principle, one could vary the background colour from white to black by controlling this distance.

Set-up: camera on a gorillapod tripod on a table, wireless remote release Phottix Cleon II C6, model-to-wall distane perhaps 2 meters. I was holding the flash (Canon 270 EX on PW FlexTT5) on my hand, and the remote flash was fired through PW MiniTT1 and AC3. The bare flash was on camera left, somewhat higher than the model. The flash was used in the wide-angle setting. ISO 100, 1/200 s, f/5.6.

I started with full power of the flash. My goal was to halve the distance every time, diminishing the flash power to one fourth (In the AC3, going from +3 to +1 to -1 to -3). For the darkest picture, I am not sure if the flash was at 1/32 or 1/64 power, I did not find it in the manual whether it would support 1/64.

What great result, and so easily! I am amazed by the black background. I have tried making it earlier, but that you could get it by putting the flash so close, that I had not realized.

This was so interesting that I might redo this later. Also finding a way to make the camera take sharp pictures - here I had focussed once in the beginning, and images are not sharp. But here the light was the point anyway.

Original assignment: strobist.blogspot.com/2007/06/lighting-102-12-position-di...

That is the East Lodge, provided with its own protective stockade positioned along the eastern defense wall above Little River near its confluence with Town Creek, built in a little valley surrounded by low foothills; rising out of those productive plains is this small plateau, high enough never to be flooded, bordered on the east by a swiftly-running stream that abounded in fish, a tributary now known by the name Little River, tributary of the Great Pee Dee River

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Mount Gilead, NC – 2019NOV10 – The Town Creek Site:

For our 23rd wedding anniversary, after church Joe & I paused for a picnic lunch on our way to Town Creek Site, set high on a low bluff of an oxbow on the west bank of the Little River near its confluence with Town Fork Creek in Mt. Gilead, NC, on the sunny southern side of the ancient Uwharrie Mountain Range located in the southeastern Piedmont region.

The protohistoric Native American ceremonial center – listed in the National Register of Historic Places and designated a National Historic Landmark – is the first North Carolina State Historic Site, and it also remains the only state historic site in North Carolina dedicated to American Indian heritage, drawing astronomers, and visitors like us, from far and wide to this fascinating time capsule.

The Native American People legacy carries muffled mystery buried in its background of protohistory, a period that spans prehistory and history, when a culture or civilization had no developed writing but when other cultures notated its existence.

Excavating the earthen mound built of clay – one mound built atop former mounds – has been a focus of archaeological research under one director for more than half a century, an unusual phenomenon in the history of North American archaeology.

People lived here for 12,000 years, but why particularly here? The Town Creek site manager Rich Thompson shared with Joe and me how major rains will turn the ceremonial center into an island surrounded by floodwater then as well as recently, flooding from the parking lot halfway up to the front door of the Visitor Center.

Why the name Indian: fueled by bravery and ignorance financed by greed and arrogance, Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492, heading "to India" but reaching the New World, and the Town Creek people vanished with no clue; we have no written record of explanation. Today we see these lovingly-reconstructed structures and can look and learn in amazement and wonder. So we invite you to view the best of our photos we set into 6 mini-themed albums:

• Mount Gilead, NC – 2019NOV10 – The Town Creek Site:

◦ Town Creek Site – 2019NOV10 – Stockade & North Entrance

◦ Town Creek Site – 2019NOV10 – Family Hut on its Burial Site

◦ Town Creek Site – 2019NOV10 – Mound & its Major Hut

◦ Town Creek Site – 2019NOV10 – Minor Ceremonial Hut

◦ Town Creek Site – 2019NOV10 – Ceremonial Center Plaza

◦ Town Creek Site – 2019NOV10 – Little River Bluff Overlook

Hope you also enjoy the 17% of 394 photos we took this day!

Position in Zone- Top left

The position light signal was designed around 1920 by Alexander Holley Rudd, chief engineer of signals for the Pennsylvania Railroad. Rudd's design conveyed a signal indication without the use of color, in a way that achieved clarity in suboptimal weather conditions (like fog) with a minimum consumption of power.

Rudd's PRR was most well-known adherent to the position light, but his brainchild spread worldwide. Dwarf signals based on the Pennsylvania model are seen in the United Kingdom and various British Commonwealth countries, Scandinavia, Switzerland, Italy, and others.

Here we see dwarf signal 30 at Como San Giovanni station. As trains in Italy run left-handed, this signal governs the track to its rear. In Italian, this would be described as senso pari (even direction) on the binario illegale, which is to say "counter to the normal traffic flow." A North American would describe this as a signal governing northbound moves on a normally southbound track.

to be in the front line.

2011-05-21 14.40.45-05

digital art

Remember the old Absolut ads - the ones with supermodels, orginal artwork, humor citiscapes, and so on?

One of the many series of models featured female models in bold outfits, usually with ABSOLUT written on the fabric somewhere, and striking the most unusual poses.

I took the subset of this series where the poses where basically centered, and tried and tweaked this blend, to pull out the shape of the models and the futuristic look of the outfits.

Compare this piece to Absolut Fashion, which is a composition of many more models - some of them also in this blend. Which do you prefer? Why?

Langsiran lokomotif CC 203 dengan posisi ujung panjang.

NS 10N heads east at Mapleton, Pa

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Recent trip to Amsterdam to visit the city and the keukenhof for the tulips using Pentax Spotmatic and Ilford XP2 Super film

EXPLORED!!! Highest position: 185 on Wednesday, October 28, 2009

PLEASE SEE IT LARGE ON BLACK!!

More and more into black and white processing...

This is an IR capture I got from one of the nicest place in Liguria: it's called 'Via dell'Amore' (Lovers Walk).

It connects two small villages in the 'Cinque Terre' ( The Five Lands on Wikipedia )

Some nice vegetation, those textures in the wall and the raging see provided me some great ingredients for this one.

I also love those distant clouds in the background, they almost look like they've been photoshopped there!

By the way, I'm in love with seascape shooting.

Details

- CANON 400d, EF 17-40 f/4 L @ 27 mm, f/8, 25s, ISO 100.

- Hoya R72 (720nm Infrared Filter)

- Tripod

The shot

Shot from the Lovers Walk, Cinque Terre.

I think carrying my sling bag (6+ kgs) and tripod in those very steep tiny roads was worth it...

The Processing

Photoshop:

- Converted to black and white using a Silver EFEX Pro

- Created 6 Overlay layers to adjust light

- Multiplied the sky and distant hills, then lowered the opacity to provide a smooth transition

- Cleaned some noise with Neat Image

- Improved microcontrast with Unsharp Mask

- Added a Level layer to improve contrast

- Resized

- Sharpened (SS + More Accurate, selectively applied)

- Framing and signature.

Take a look at it, LARGE on Black :

Beyond what human eyes can see #6 [Via dell'Amore], on Black

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Comments, faves and critiques are always welcomed!

In a few (less than 30) visits I'll be reaching 20.000 Album Views. I would like to thank you all!!!

Sitting on a photographer-positioned perch in Dorset on a glorious, balmy late-autumn afternoon. The perch was intended for Kingfishers but Grey Wagtails are also fabulous, charismatic birds and very acceptable! Moments like this are what birding is all about.

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Qi Gong, Tai Chi chuan, Kung Fu à Paris

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- arts martiaux de tradition chinoise avec Maître GAO Shi Kui -

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19K, Leesburg, IN

A shifted load upended the haul, resulting bouncing of the frame timber ends over the sleepers almost tore the drawhook out of the frame.

A new Rule went into effect after this:

Short wheelbase cars are prohibited on the Incline.

Movie of the Incline operation flic.kr/p/qhDe1B

Tugs maneuver a container ship into its Valparaiso berth

Positions, muscles flexed

Dove was lost in a ghana hex

Passed her test, felt her teddy

Jenifa oh jenny

Notions

Soothed the mood

Dove was lost in de la heaven

Screwed plug two, did the do

Jenifa oh jenny

Amsterdam, NL

An inbound train creeps under the 9-track signal bridge on LIRR the mainline west of Jamaica.

Eastern Scottish E6, CSG29C, a Bristol FLF towing tender converted from a double decker, attends to Stagecoach Manchester 896, R896XVM, an Alexander PS bodied Volvo B10M which appeared to be having a charging problem jus outside the gates of the SVBM earlier today.

Another wonderful image of this small Jumping Spider, positiohing it'self before the Jump. Thanks little Buddy.!

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Thank you all for your wonderful support on my work in the art of Photography..

Gaston (aka Gasssman).

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