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Seeing this surfer balancing brought back memories of checking the daughters positions while she practiced ballet.
Highest Position: #226 on February 1, 2013
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Yesterday was a very big milestone for me. I hit 1,300 likes on my Facebook photography page, hit 5,000 views on Flickr, and my photo of the Celeste Phoebe LP560 was Explored with the highest position of #238 on January 30, 2013!
Two ancient buildings are located in a position that in ancient times supplied for certainly strategic advantage. From this point you can clearly see Levanzo, Favignana and the Trapani coast. The two buildings have different natures: The Roman house had a military character while the Byzantine church has religious peculiarities. The first building was for defensive purposes. It had a complex system of facilities useful for conveying water collection.
The Byzantine church dates back to the early centuries of Christianity. Almost adjacent to the Roman building, it is rectangular in shape about 10 meters long, with a main and a side entrance, with barrel vaults and four central pillars. The church has a single nave divided into three spans of which the central one is the highest and ends with a hemispherical vault. The style is very reminiscent of the eastern one, which leads to the hypothesis that the church was erected around the 11th century by monks of the Byzantine rite, on a previous basis of Christian worship.
Amtrak's westbound Pennsylvanian is making up for lost time after a ten minute late arrival in Greensburg as is speeds under the PRR position lights at CP Rade in Grapeville, Pennsylvania. The days are numbered for these classic signals with new replacements standing in the background. The cutover up to CP Rade took place on August 4th, 2019.
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NS Pittsburgh Line
Grapeville, PA
AMTK 43 (New York, NY to Pittsburgh, PA)
AMTK 116 P42DC Blt. 1997
Explored: May 10th
Best Position: 186
I don't really care for this shot anymore. Sure the knife and dof is cool and all but I would have done alot differently today. Strangely it made explore some time back...
The fabulous, smokey MiG-29 Fulcrum of the Polish Air Force at RIAT 2015. On the aircraft are images in tribute to Polish Ace fighter pilot Marian Pisarek.
Nikon D810 and my amazing 300mm VR f/2.8 lens.
For my brother Tim.
In Explore thank you
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Explored 02-01-2014. Highest position #132.
Happy New Year Everyone, I hope you all had a good Christmas.
This is normally a field full of grazing sheep, but the river Thame has flooded due to the recent heavy rain. As there are not many large areas of water close by to me, I thought I would take advantage of the flooding.
I didn't manage to get out with my camera much over the holidays, so it might be few days before I'm back with something.
Explore Highest position # 151on Monday, April 27, 2009
The Gap and Watson Bay. The above photo was taken at the poit we can see the ocean on both sides, the Gap on the left and Watson bay on the right. The far right is central Sydney which a lot of buildings can be seen. No crop for this shot, this is the limit of my wide angle lens at 14 mm. I should have a fish-eye lens.:)
จุดที่สามารถมองเห็นมหาสมุทรทั้งซ้ายขวา ทางซ้ายคือ The Gap และด้านขวาคืออ่าววัตสันต์ ทางด้านขวาไกลออกไปที่เห็นกลุ่มอาคารสูงคือตัวเมืองซิดนีย์ จุดนี้อยู่ที่ The Gap Park ทางตะวันออกของซิดนีย์, ในรัฐ นิวเซาท์เวลส์, ออสเตรเลีย ซึ่งตั้งอยู่ในชานเมืองตะวันออกของอ่าววัตสัน
Exposure: 1/180 sec, Aperture: f/11, Focal Length:14 mm, ISO: 100, -1eV
Nikon D700, Nikkor AF-S 14-24mm f/2.8G ED
Single shot, layers blended.
(No multi invitations please.:))
Moskovsky Victory Park (Московский парк Победы, Moskovskiy park Pobedy) is a public park in the Moskovsky District of Saint Petersburg, Russia. The name of the park was given in honor of Victory in the Second World War.
Victory Park is situated in the south part of Saint-Petersburg and bounded by Kuznetsovskaya Street, Moskovsky Avenue, Yuri Gagarin Avenue, Basseynaya Street. The address of the park administration is Kuznetsovskaya Street, 25. Park covers an area of 168 acres (0.68 km2).
Victory Park was created as the area redevelopment of the former site of the brick factory soon after World War II ended. The factory site and surrounding area carried a sorrowful reminder for surviving citizens. During the war, the factory facilities were used to cremate victims of German blockade and bombardments during the Siege of the city. The ashes were transported in mine cars and dumped in the nearby flooded pits. The brick factory was located less than a mile from Russian front-line positions along one of the city's major routes - International Avenue (now Moskovsky Avenue) - close to the south outskirts of the city. Several pictures taken by Nazi aerial reconnaissance in one of the harsh winters during the Siege shows that the crematory facility was heavily used as seen by markings on snow-covered area. Estimates on how many victims were cremated there widely range from at least 117 thousand to over 600 thousand bodies. Soon after World War II, the factory building was erased and the area was redeveloped into a park.
Victory Park was officially opened on July 7, 1946 and covered only the 1/7 of the present-day territory. During the next decade, the park grew to the present boundaries. The original quarries, trenches, and foxholes were preserved and further developed into a system of channels and small ponds. The 1950s saw construction projects in the park led by Soviet architects Evgeniy Katonin and Valerian Kirhoglani. They created a summerstage, fountains and several pavilions including two propylaea-like buildings at the main entrance. In further years, sculptures and monuments were installed throughout the park. A major alley called "Alley of Heroes" features busts of Soviet heroes, hence the name. Among statuaries in the park are the monument dedicated to Soviet marshal Georgy Zhukov and statues of Soviet war heroes Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya and Alexander Matrosov. In the 1990s, the Orthodox chapel and commemorative plaque were erected at the former site of the crematory facility.
The park features several entertainment options including a small amusement park, playgrounds, cafés, boat rental, mini-golf, tennis courts and outdoor ice skating rink. Transportation to the park is provided by a namesake subway station (Park Pobedy Metro) at the south-west edge of the park.
Vista panoramica della città.
Posizione della antica porta di accesso, è posta al termine di un cammino Inca di collegamento al sistema viaria dell'Impero.
Panoramic view of the city.
Position of the ancient access door, it is placed at the end of an Inca path connecting to the road system of the Empire.
stumbled over this oldschool cinema in grenoble, france. pretty mad that the car parked in front of it just when i reached the position to take my shot. forever against cars in cities, as you might klnow already ;) see you
Explored 8-11-2015. Highest position #491
Mam Tor rears up above the western end of Hope Valley, overlooking Hope, Castleton and Edale.
It is believed to be one of the earliest hill forts in Britain, and the second highest at 1,700 feet above sea level.
Its name supposedly means ‘mother hill’, named so because it is shaped like a breast or because it keeps spawning mini-hills beneath it as bits drop off.
It is also known locally as the 'shivering mountain'. The hill side is said to ‘shiver’ as its rock crumbles away. This crumbling is particularly prominent on the east side of the mountain where the area below the face is continually in motion and each period of heavy rain undermines the loose shale and causes it to slip further down the valley.
The former A625 main road from Stockport to Sheffield once passed the base of the mountain but it was swept away by a landslide in 1974 and was eventually closed for good in 1979.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breast-shaped_hill
The cairn Trig Point marking the summit of Mam Tor.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangulation_station
www.grough.co.uk/magazine/2015/03/04/walkers-aid-man-who-...
It's sometimes surprising what's hiding behind a dreary winter sky. This was taken at the Black Butte Dam overlook. Visibility was limited due to the weather but I was intriqued by the position of the rock facings and the trees and decided it was worth a shot. Backlighting and layering helped bring out the colors in the sky and then I used a texture called pink spotlight from pareeerica www.flickr.com/photos/8078381@N03/ .
Highest Position - Explore #4 | 19.10.2008
(Thanks so0o0o0o very much! | Thanks to Donna for the explore link this arvo :))
Another old shot & processed long way back.. most probably the standard is not quite there as well :P I'm honestly in a bit of desperation for new photos LOL! its been over a month since i last snapped some good photos... this feeling is like having no wank/sex for such a long time... how can one survive!!! hahahahaha! just kiddin' oh well, no one to blame but myself since fuel is so expensive & real anti-climax.. therefore don't feel like driving too far out to shoot as well. I'll be slowing down in my posting a fair bit soon i reckon.. like a punctured tyre unless i've a sudden motivation :D Have a good start to the week my friends!
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About
The Exploding Sun
The Shot
Standard 3 exposure shot (+2..0..-2 EV) taken handheld using the Canon kit lens EF-S 18-55mm lens and polarized light filter
Photomatix
- Tonemapped generated HDR using detail enhancer option
Photoshop
- Added a layer mask effect of 'curves' to slightly increase the contrast
- Added a layer mask effect of 'saturation' (blues) to darken the sky
- Added a layer mask effect of 'saturation' (yellows) to enhance the sunlight & field
- Appled noise reduction
- Used 'unsharp mask' (as always) on the background layer
You
All comments, criticism and tips for improvements are (as always) welcome
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Sarge was the only one who had seen something like this before. During the battle of Paschendale, he says that his regiment was annihilated not by the German war machine, but by creatures they never identified. Things that made men lose their mind. The rest of us were fresh as dough, trained, armed, and walking into something we'd never forget. A sleepy coastal town in Massachusetts, the treasury department of all departments found something that made them squirm, people that aren't people. Babies with gills like a fish, and lungs like a person. A woman talking about how their saviors come from the sea every fortnight when the moon was at it's brightest or it's darkest. We went in with orders, bring in everyone and everything, burn down the town, leave no trace, set up positions and kill anything that walked out of the tides. They told us a turkey shoot, one night mission, and it was almost. Except intelligence didn't know how long they could stay out of the water. Long enough to flank us. Long enough to start hunting us, long enough for men to lose it, and for terror to set in. My friends died, my sanity slipped, the things I saw haunted me for years until there was a knock at my door. Sarge was back, but hadn't he been dragged into the waves that night? Scars from something razor sharp ran across his face, the same kind of rugged sharpness I saw claw my friend's arm off did this. He asked if I could hold on to my sanity, and join him in fighting the things from beneath the waves, the deep ones. We'd put together a task force of the best fighters in the military. Sappers, raiders, anyone who knew how to fight and fight well. We'd be the arm of destruction while the Navy and other organizations investigated reports that would lead us to the heart of fear itself.
Highest position on Explore #144 on september 8th - Thank you everyone for kind and nice comments... And thank you Erlend for showing me how to find out about explore... ;o)
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Garðar BA 64 is the oldest steel ship in Iceland, built in Norway in 1912. The ship was beached in "Skápadalur" in 1981, and now just waiting for its inevitable destiny.
The shot
3 exposure raw files (+2,0,-2) shot handhelt with my 17 - 55 Canon lens.
Photomatix
Tonemapped using details enhancer
Photoshop
Added a new adjustment layer of hue/saturation, converted that layer to B/W by desaturating the image, then i painted the colour back on the ship using the brush tool.
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Just have a nice day.
IN ENGLISH BELOW THE LINE
Fotografies de la zona de combats de la Batalla del Ebre (1938).
El turó del cementiri de Vilalba dels Arcs, vist des del poble mateix. És a dir, les posicions avançades republicanes del juliol del 1938, vistes des de les posicions feixistes del poble.
El dia 26 de juliol la 33 Brigada republicana captura el cementiri de Vilalba dels Arcs, situant-se per tant just al est de la vila. Però la vall de Lo Camí de Xivell, que els separa del nucli urbà, es molt facil de defensar des de una fortalesa natural com és Vilalba, sobretot des del est.
Des del 27 fins el 31 de juliol. els republicans intentaran conquerir Vilalba, arribant pel que sembla a les primeres cases del poble, però sent refusats. De fet, el 31 mateix abandonen el cementiri, ja que està massa exposat al foc enemic. Així acaben els combats en aquest sector de la batalla.
La batalla de l'Ebre (25 juliol - 16 novembre de 1938) fou la més important i mortifera de la guerra civil espanyola. Hi ha que també la consideren també la més decisiva, però crec que per desgracia la guerra ja estava decidida de molt abans, com a minim des del trencament del front d'Aragó el 9 de març del mateix any.
Tot i que l'exèrcit republicà creuà l'Ebre el 25 de juliol del 1938 per molts punts entre Mequinensa i Amposta, la major part dels combats de la batalla es donaren a la Terra Alta, a la zona entre Vilalba dels Arcs, La Fatarella, Camposines i Gandesa, a més de la Serra de Pandols.
www.sbhac.net/Republica/Fuerzas/EPR/EprL/GCE_EXT_AntonioQ...
ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batalla_de_l%27Ebre
ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilalba_dels_Arcs
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This is part of the Ebro battlefield (1938), in Southern Catalonia.
The Republican frontline positions in the cemetery hill seen from the fascist positions in the village of Vilalba dels Arcs. This small valley was quite almost impossible to pass without being slaughtered by the rifle and MG fire from the medieval village.
On July 26, the 33rd Republican Brigade captured the cemetery of Vilalba dels Arcs, thus being located just east of the town. But the valley which separates them from the village is very easy to defend from a natural fortress such as Vilalba, especially from the east.
From the 27th to the 31st of July. the republicans will try to conquer Vilalba, arriving apparently at the first houses of the village, but being rejected. In fact, on the 31st they leave the cemetery itself, as it is too exposed to enemy fire. Thus ends the fighting in this sector of the battle.
The Battle of the Ebro (July 25 - November 16, 1938) was the most important and deadlier of the Spanish Civil War. There are those who also consider it the most decisive, but I think that unfortunately the war was already decided long before, at least since the breaking of the front of Aragon on March 9 of the same year.
The battle began with the greatest offensive made by the Republican forces, when they crossed the river Ebro between Mequinensa and Amposta (especially between Riba-roja and Miravet), and advanced to the line La Pobla de Massaluca -Vilalba dels Arcs -Gandesa - Serra de Pandols . But in just 48 hours, the dazzling advance was stopped short. Then Franco decided to crush the republican forces hill by hill (with massive artillery and bomber barrages), in a battle of attrition identical to the First World War for which the Republicans had no resources or alternative, especially with the river behind them. The main assaults, which lasted from August 10 to October 29, were concentrated in a very small and devastated area: the triangle Vertex Gaeta - Corbera - Camposines.
Finally, a final offensive on October 30 occupied the ridge of the Serra de Cavalls, making the entire Republican bridgehead unsustainable, which managed, however, to withdraw in an orderly manner until November 16. But the damage was already done, and there were no forces left for a proper defense of Catalonia, which fell three months later. Then, fascist darkness.
www.sbhac.net/Republica/Fuerzas/EPR/EprL/GCE_EXT_AntonioQ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxQZ_gKCHtk
Although I don't believe "pole position" has anything to do with horse racing, they were the first words that came to my mind while thinking of a title, obviously due to the intrusive poles in the frame.
THE PANNEL IS ON A TOO HIGH POSITION TO REACH IT ALONE...THE DIVERTER MIGHT HAVE A COMPLICIT: CLIMBING ON HIS SHOULDERS WAS MORE EASY !
To get the sunset positioned over one of the coves on Lake Argyle, we drove part way around the lake, turned off the roadway an dfollowed a gravel road down towards the lake. About two thirds of the way down, the road was blocked, so we hiked from there down to a primitive campsite and then beyond it to the shoreline. However, the water level was higher than I expected, and so we were not able to work our way from that point along the shoreline. A few fish later (caught by by grandson), we had a breif view of a beautiful sunset.
The night before, when I debated whether go to the lake, the sunset turned out to be spectacular. Unfortuantely, I stayed home that night and missed out.
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I heard a loud bang on the dining room window and found a dead dove lying on the ground with a sparrowhawk standing on it. I don't know whether the sparrowhawk had killed the dove and flown into the window with it, or the dove flew into the window, was stunned and then killed by the sparrowhawk.
I rushed to get my camera, and on returning , the sparrowhawk had gone. So I went outside to take a photo of the dove. The sparrowhawk returned , and I was able to take photos from less than 3 yards through the window. It was very exciting to see the process of first plucking the dove and then eating it. Having eaten half the breast, the sparrowhawk flew away, and I was able to photograph the dove from outside.
Although the action seems horrific it is what happens in nature, and it is unusual to see it so close-up, especially in suburban surroundings
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Living in the country, any length of hair on a dog that chases quail, is difficult to maintain. As her hearing has declined, we've thinned down most of the bulk on the ears. Hasn't made a difference.
No tricks, look at the large version View On Black. Texture added for background.