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And now for the rinse…
It was an absolute treat to watch a flock of some 30+ Sanderlings enjoying bath time as the small waves of Pensacola Bay rolled in just after sunrise. I’m not sure what the order represented, maybe family units, possibly some pre-conceived risk-to-reward, not too many in the water at one time for safety’s sake methodology but for some odd reason only two to three would bathe at a time. They would march out from the dry sand area about 4-5 feet, bend down with their beaks fully extended, allowing the wave to wash completely over them.
As soon as the wave passed, they would shake wildly, preening intentionally…like stinky parts…wing pits and personals…just in time to assume the position for the next wave. After 2-4 waves they would leap straight up in the air and fly back to the flock, quickly being replaced by a member of the posse.
Good clean natural adventure before dementia!
Spring has arrived in full force here in the Pineywoods. I look forward to documenting its progression this year, and sharing those images and experiences with you all. This was my first luna moth (Actias luna) of the season. I spotted it while on a hike with my son through a favorite local patch of woods.
My recent absence is due to a recent life change - I started a new position as a biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service working with federally listed, proposed, and review species in East Texas and beyond. Settling into the new job, taking care of our 18-month old, and trying to soak up the spring has occupied most of my time, but I'm back to a point where I should be sharing images regularly again. I've definitely missed y'all over the past few weeks!
Highest position in explore, #1 - wow first time ever. That's incredible!! Thank you!
Snow on holly, with red berries - what could be more Christmasy? :D
If you hadn't noticed... I'm in super-excited mode! :D :D
Processed: Edited with my White Winter Lightroom Preset / White Winter Photoshop Action.
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Poles into the sea at sunset. Not following any rules here, poles and horizon in the middle.
For the series: www.peterbijsterveldphotography.com/landscapes/coast-of-z...
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China, Harbin, City Impressions, Twin Bridges in a Park
Heilongjiang Province, the most northeast part of China, when viewed on a map has the shape of a swan. Its capital city is Harbin, with almost four million residents, located south of Heilongjiang. Not only for its special position, but also as the centre of Heilongjiang's political, economic, educational & cultural life, Harbin is described as the pearl beneath the swan's neck. Lying on the east of the Songnen Plain, what is more, Harbin plays a vital role in communications between South & North Asia as well the regions of Europe & the Pacific Ocean.
Harbin was the birthplace of Jin, 1115-1234 & Qing, 1644-1911 Dynasties, the latter of which had a very considerable influence on modern Chinese history. At the end of the 19th century, Russia built the terminus of the Middle East Railway here. Later, more than 160,000 foreigners from 33 countries migrated to Harbin, promoting the development of a capitalist economy in the city. The economy & culture of Harbin achieved unprecedented prosperity at that time & the city gradually grew into a famous international commercial port. Assimilating external culture, Harbin created its unique & exotic cityscape. The majestic St. Sofia Orthodox Church & Zhongyang Dajie each built in a European style have the effect of bringing you into an 'eastern Moscow'. Even though you are sure to be attracted by various exotic buildings, the Dragon Tower which embodies the wisdom of the Chinese people is a must on your journey.
Besides these rich cultural heritages, Harbin is favoured with beautiful natural scenery. Based on meandering Song Hua River & subject to severe low temperatures in winter, done to -30°C, when I took this Pictures the Temperature varied between -20°C & -26°C but dry, Harbin boasts a unique ice & snow culture.
The impressive "Ice & Snow Festival" is the greatest & unusual one in the world, therefor Harbin is also called the "Ice City".
Also the large Siberian Tiger research centre, with about 500 tigers & a few other species, does a important work to prevent this specie from extinction. The Research centre can be visited, tours in small a bus are available, passing through wide natural, separated, sections, however the focus point is to save the tiger.
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iss067e174420 (July 2, 2022) --- The Nanoracks Bishop Airlock is pictured in the grips of the Canadarm2 robotic arm as it is positioned away from the International Space Station. The commercial platform was being maneuvered prior to jettisoning a trash container for a fiery, but safe disposal above Earth's atmosphere. Bishop is a multi-faceted airlock attached to the Tranquility module used not only to discard trash, but also to host research payloads, deploy satellites, and serve as a testbed for a variety of space technologies. At right, the Canadarm2 is attached to the U.S. Destiny laboratory module as ground controllers remotely maneuver the robotic arm.
Running as NS train 066, Southern 630 passes the position light at Vansant as it heads for the wye at Dismal. Apr 13, 2014
Wow! Highest Position Explore #34 August 1, 2013 Thank You!
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I have been sitting on this one for several months now. One of my Flickr friends posted a shot like this last year and ever since then I wanted to get one for myself! The Experience Music Project is located beneath the Space Needle in Seattle, Washington. It is supposed to look like a giant spaceship, although it also sort of looks like a blob from above. Supposedly, no two metal panels on the skin are the same. They are different colors and some are painted. I have another shot from several years ago here:http://www.flickr.com/photos/fresnatic/3615022937/in/set-72157620727257333
I was standing near this entrance for almost 45 minutes contorting my camera on my tripod to compose this shot. I really liked how the metal formed these rivers or even waves of golden shapes.
This is three exposures (-2,0,+2) merged and tonemapped in Photomatix. I shot with my wide angle lens, around 10mm. I moved into Photoshop and removed some specks of noise. I did final sharpening and noise removal in Lightroom.
Thank you to everyone for your support. My previous two photos have hit Explore and have really brought a whole lot of new Flickr friends to my photostream. I apologize if I don't add you as a contact as I have quite a few friends that I currently follow. When I do have free time, I do like to explore my contacts' photostreams. I appreciate all of your views, comments and faves.
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This building is on the South Bank of the Thames next to Battersea Bridge. I discovered it by accident when searching Flick for a building with a similar name, The Riverwalk Building which is just along the river beside Vauxhall Bridge. Albion Riverside is built adjoining the Public Thames Path along the South Bank. The building was completed in 2003 and the architects were Foster and Partners and very much in their style.
There is a story on this. I took my first picture quite close to the building so had strayed a few yards from the public path though as is often the case there are no demarcation signs or other indications. A man then rushed up to me to say no pictures were allowed. Not the usual Security Guard but the building Manager no less. He said that residents were fed up with pictures being taken. It did occur to me that residents in a beautiful building next to a public path should have clicked that a few pictures might be taken. However instead I said to him OK, I will move to the public path and take pictures from there. Here it gets a little weird as, possibly in desperation, he then says no pictures allowed from the path as it would be breach of the copyright in the building. I told him I doubted that but moved on a short distance and double checked the law using my smartphone. The position is that there is copyright in a building but it only applies to prohibit pictures without a licence taken from private areas. Also the Copyright belongs to the Architect and would have to be transferred to the building owner for them to enforce it which is unlikely. In the UK there is specific exemption from any claim to breach of copyright in the case of a picture taken from a public space. This is called Freedom of Panorama. It applies in most countries but not all and for example does not apply in France
Having double checked the legal position I then used a longer lens and took more pictures of the building from the public path including this one. The building manager was not around by this time and I did not get challenged again.The area of cloud in just the right position for this picture was a lucky break.
The shot was taken with a Sony A68 with a Tamron 28-200mm lens at 28 mm. 3 images for HDR. The image was processed with Photomatix 6 using tone balancer for a natural look. Topaz Clarity was used to add detail. I decided a high contrast mono would be ideal. I used Topaz BW Effects for the conversion using the sliders to enhance the blacks and whites.
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Highest Explore Position # 368 on Friday, October 24, 2008
taken from a 15 feet tall Langka tree in a nearby neighbor during my weekend summer vacation in the province.
iPhone's camera + iPod touch / brushes+trigraphy+scratchcam fx+pictureshow+decim8+dxp+vsco+filterstorm+phototoaster
Explore-highest position 105.
I was testing out some backlight shots and thought these yellow flowers worked perfectly with it! I need to use backlight more often as it really is beautiful, i know some flickr members who use it quite often and their photos look stunning. I wasnt going to put this up as I've not been keen on doing close up selfies lately but I thought the light and the flowers are pretty in this.
the soundtrack: youtu.be/RcV8INh0d7g?si=DGIe3ddeECXRoTHD
Explore position: 91 on Tuesday, December 19, 2023
Bathers photographed for a personal project in studying the baths in Budapest, Hungary. 7 April 2022.
My sixth entry to the Iron Forge 2025! Here, I used two seed parts (mudguard that has only one wheel arch) to create the pockets.
I won't pretend to know a lot about pool, but I know the black ball should go in last, making that yellow ball a tricky shot.. hence the title!
I would have liked to build it out a bit more, but did not have enough of so many of the essential parts...
Alternate title: "I ran out of bright green".
Thought the positioning of the photographer against the poster behind just worked.. almost like he was hanging on the ladies arm - or picturing her arm pit!
Explored 2.11.18 #36
Day 6 of item collab-Paint
So this was not what I originally had intended. I wanted to try to splatter paint towards the camera but I'm using my mom's camera right now and she didn't really want me to do that in case paint got on the camera. So I had to go with Plan B. But I love it even more than I thought I would.
And yes, I did actually roll that onto my face.
Press "L" please! :D
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Explored. Highest Position #30. WOW! Thanks guys! :]
...after and before another storm.
(I love so much what I can see out of my dear window)
Highest position: 91 on Sunday, August 26, 2007
Highest position in Explore = #17 on March 19th, 2009, THANK YOU!
This is a photo of the downtown Seattle public library. Built by Rem Koolhass, this piece of modern architectural art is as amazing on the inside as it is outside. This structure has been shot a ton so I really tried to give it something I hadn’t seen before. Out of all my shots that day, this one “popped” most for me. I brought out my wide angle lens (14mm full frame) and got really low to the ground for this shot. Standing on the corner, I could just barely squeeze in the entire structure. I waited for the sun to peek through the buildings downtown and captured the reflection on the side of the building, which I felt added to the dramatic nature of the structure. As you can see, there is a bit of lens flare, but I actually liked it this time. If you follow the flare trail, you can see it reflected all the way to the street sign on the left, which is ultimately why I decided to keep the street pole in. I really liked all the angles in this shot!
If you like this kind of funky perspective, here's another one of the Seattle Center.
to get on the road and hug it for a shot...loved the way the sun is setting on the tree stump :)
...lol it's late...Please no invites...save them for someone else!!
Have a great Friday...hope to catch up later today...
Lighting Used is shoot through umbrella plus SB 800 Flash with green gel and position angle is 30/45 deg from my camera the flash is remotely controlled with trigger attach to it.
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Winter in my "Moon" garden
For convenience of maintenance and gardening, I divided my garden into two areas that I called, respectively, The Sun and The Moon, according to their position above the garden and seasonal movement in the sky.
Egglestone Abbey
A lovely positioned medieval abbey overlooking the River Tees. The charming ruins of a small monastery of Premonstratensian 'white canons', picturesquely set above a bend in the River Tees near Barnard Castle.
On a warm March day, NS local C03 heads east past the Pennsylvania position lights at CP Orr in Orrville, Ohio on the NS Fort Wayne Line. C03 typically runs with power on both ends of the train due to the operational challenges of the Fort Wayne Line.
NS Fort Wayne Line
Orrville, OH
C03 (Mansfield-Canton local)
Explore Frontpage, Highest Position #6
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These are some dried peppers that were given to us and which I like due to the colors, shapes and textures.
Lighting: I first placed the peppers on a mirror and then lit them with two Yongnuo manual strobes in 8.6 inch Lastolite soft boxes, positioned on either side of the peppers, and pointed at the center. The strobes and my tripod mounted camera were triggered with a Yongnuo RF-603N.
Other plants, flowers, fruit or thingys that I've photographed using strobes can be seen in my Strobe Lit Objects album. For each image in the set, and there are over 2000 of them, I describe how I set up the lighting for that particular shot. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157628079460544/
Glacier National Park
As my friend Bill and I hiked the trail to this lake we encountered two huge and very fresh piles of evidence that grizzlies had used the trail right before us. We were careful to talk loudly and we were hyper vigilant. We encountered a young lady hiking alone as she was heading back to the trailhead and she was pretty rattled. She had noticed the "evidence" and had heard noises. We offered to accompany her back to the trailhead, but she was confident, at that point that the bears were well behind her and headed in the opposite direction...the direction in which we were headed...We never saw the bear(s), but when we stopped for some photographs we did hear them uphill from our position. Lots of drama to get to such a peaceful, calming place.
Highest Explore Position #396 ~ On October 12th 2008.
Stag - Richmond Park, Richmond, London, England - October 11th 2008.
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Yup, as I said this morning, there was a strange yellow object in the sky here in London today...so I went to Richmond park to investigate...lol
Seeing as it's October, it's rutting season...and this lone male and a few of his mates were keeping the Lead male busy all day...It's tough at the top you know, the poor chap must be knackered, what with chasing away randy males and doing...hmmmm...natures calling...I bet he can't wait till November...lol..:O))
I have got a few shots of this guy with his antlers in full view, but I decided to show you this one first as I like the Autumnal Bokeh...:O)))
Anyhoo....I hope you all had a sunny Saturday..:O))))
So, here it is, the last shot of the Autumn road-trip. This is from the bridge over the Quechee Gorge in Vermont. There were promising indications of a good sunset, but this was as good as it got.
This was taken with a single shot, due to the difficulty in positioning the tripod on the bridge against one of the holes in the fence. I did take many shots but there was slight movement between each, so I was glad that I had also taken an "insurance shot" where I maximized the focus and exposure as best as possible for a single shot.
Although this is the last image from this trip, I have one more bonus image to come tomorrow, which was taken after the trip but is of similar theme with the rest of the images.
You can see all the images from this trip on my website here: www.justinsmithphoto.com/galleries/recent
Larger groups of meerkats will have a meerkat on what is called a sentinel duty (or the raised guarding position), which is when a helper or a non-breeder climbs to a high point to watch out for predators and other possible threats to the group, this task is performed for a maximum of an hour or two a day.
In 2013, as I was working through my 365 Project, this was the first time that I was in a position to take a photograph every single day and I immediately found it more difficult than it sounds. On days 6 through 10, which would be the first full week of the year that I would have gone back to work, I was struggling to get pics on days where I worked all day and it was dark (or close to it) when I got off and headed home. So...the next few pics will be taken from other days in January when I was able to photograph more places and/or things...like this great morning in Winter when everything is frozen/frosted over and the sun just begins to peak over the mountain horizon...beautiful time for having a camera!!
This photo was taken in 2013 during my previous Project 365…please visit my album for this “REMASTERED” Project 365 as I revisit each day of 2013 for additional photos to share!!
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D5000 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you", declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
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Tormenta que nos encontramos en las cercanias del aeropuerto de el Prat, BCN
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Explore Highest position: 23 on Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Explored 17-03-2022 Highest position #357
St George's Hall
In 1969 the architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner expressed his opinion that it is one of the finest neo-Grecian buildings in the world.
St George's Hall stands 169ft long and 74ft wide with a tunnel vaulted ceiling – the largest of its kind in Europe. The ceiling is supported on massive red granite columns, with figures portraying qualities Victorian Liverpool aspired to – art, science, fortitude and justice.
The Hall houses a priceless Minton mosaic tiled floor of 30,000 tiles. When the unique floor was uncovered, in 1954, to mark the Hall's centenary, more than 100,000 people queued to see it.
The Hall is also home to a concert organ second only in size to the organ in the Albert Hall.
In 2004 the hall and its surrounding area were recognised as part of Liverpool's World Heritage Site.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_George's_Hall,_Liverpool
Queen Victoria
(1819–1901)
by Thomas Thornycroft, 1869
Bronze on a granite pedestal.
This striking sculpture of the young Queen Victoria riding side-saddle was commissioned to match the one of Prince Albert already completed by Thornycroft and unveiled in 1866. The Queen's hat is generously plumed, and, appropriately for this position outside St George's Hall, she bears the St. George's riband as a sash across her breast.
In a description from the Art Journal, the horse is seen as "full of impatient action, which tells on the sway of the figure; an effect difficult to express well in sculpture."
The Queen holds what looks like a small sceptre, but is actually the handle of a riding crop, the rest of which has been lost. The drape of her voluminous skirt can be seen in the right-hand profile.
The companion piece, towards the other end of St George’s Steps, is the equestrian statue of Prince Albert.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Victoria
Thomas Thornycroft
(1814–1885)
An English sculptor and engineer.
I couldn't be more honored and excited to announce that Ryan Dyar and I have been invited to join Bruce Omori and Tom Kuali'i in offering a once-in-a-lifetime Extreme Exposure Volcano Photography Workshop and Tour. The final polish is being put on the details, but the calendar has been locked in for October 20th-25th. This is going to be a land, air, and sea assault on the incredible spectacle of the ongoing eruption of Kilauea, which recently returned to the ocean for the first time in 3 years creating life-altering photography experiences.
I met Bruce and Tom of Extreme Exposure 7 years ago when I took their Photography Tour photographing the ocean entry for the first time. Not only was it the single most amazing thing I've ever seen, I've been exceptionally fortunate to be able to call Bruce and Tom dear friends since then.
As you can see in this image of Bruddah Tom, the edge of a volcano can be a dangerous place to spend time if you don't know what you're doing. Having the experience of Tom and Bruce at your disposal allows you to get into the absolute best positions to capture images of natures most amazing spectacle because they understand the shifting conditions better than almost anyone. If you've seen their work here on 500px or visited their gallery in Hilo, you know that Bruce and Tom are two of the best lava photographers ever born. I learned the hard way that shooting lava is like trying to speak Swahili. You know it's a language, but you have no idea what's going on. Best to have an interpreter with you to ensure that you have success. Through decades of friendship, kindness, and contribution to the Hilo community, Bruce and Tom have developed connections that will allow us to visit the flow via helicopter and boat to get an even broader perspective of this incredible event.
If you follow me at all, you know that my mentor and dearest friend Ryan Dyar is my inspiration, my rock, my boo. He's one of the best teachers of photography and post processing that has ever been born, and one of my all-time favorite people. We had an immensely good time on our workshop last summer in Glacier National Park, and I can't WAIT to share the memories of this new workshop with him.
So we have Tom, a world class shooter with an incredible eye for lava compositions and a 6th sense for bravely getting into amazing locations while keeping everything safe. Bruce, who understands how the flow works, how to shoot it, and how to show YOU how to shoot it better than anyone I've ever met. And Ryan, who is a creative genius and world class instructor. What, pray tell, do I bring to the table that qualifies me to join the instructor corp for this Extreme Exposure Workshop? Well, I've been wondering the same thing... but I think I finally figured it out. I'm fat and I'm pretty old, so while hiking out across the flow, if I fall in and die a death of liquified bone and skin, you should probably turn and go a slightly different way.
We really hope to see you there. For information and details on the tour, send an email to: info@extremeexposure.com