Toyama, Japan.

End of the Line

With the Alcatraz & San Fran bay as the back drop, Grand Princess is now steaming ahead full speed as she is about to go under the Golden Gate Bridge.

large, if you like

Homeward bound to Windy City, she is about to line up RWY 23 for intersection departure at CYYZ

Slow taxing in front of awesome Zeppelinheim spotting spot on a brutal cold Feb morning light.

Une météo, une abbaye | A meteo, an abbay

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Jeudi de l’Ascension, un regard par la fenêtre, la météo est menaçante. Après une lourde semaine intense, l’envie est là de prendre l’air et aussi de m’exercer dans la photo … Réfléchissons … Pourquoi pas une balade dans l’une de nos plus belles abbayes de Belgique, l’abbaye d’Aulne, sur les terres de Thuin.

J’aime particulièrement les monastères et les abbayes, ces lieux de recentrement sur soi et de silence.

L'ancienne abbaye d'Aulne est une abbaye cistercienne située à Gozée en Belgique qui a son origine dans le monastère bénédictin fondé par saint Landelin en 657. Largement reconstruite au xv siècle et de nouveau au XVIIIe siècle elle est détruite et incendiée (y compris sa bibliothèque) en 1794 par les troupes révolutionnaires françaises après que les moines en aient été expulsés. Les ruines et vestiges des bâtiments sont classés au Patrimoine majeur de Wallonie.

Une abbaye à l’histoire chargée, que vous pourrez apprécier au lien suivant de wikipedia fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbaye_d'Aulne

J’y suis arrivé un peu tôt avant l’ouverture. Profitant du temps d’attente, je pars explorer le tour du domaine. Je me retrouve au fin fond du pré voisin, en forte pente, avec une vue de plus en plus formidable au fur et à mesure que je grimpe.

Je prends quelques clichés, et puis je me tente à tester mon nouvel objectif et ma nouvelle rotule 3D, pour essayer de mettre en relief ce panorama, que je trouve tellement spacieux et majestueux.

Vous pourrez prochainement aussi apprécier une de mes visions de ce panorama en Noir et Blanc. Restez donc connectés …

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Ascension, a look out of the window, the weather is threatening. After a heavy intense week, the desire is there to take a breath outsider and to go for some photo shoot ... Let's think ... Why not a walk in one of our most beautiful abbeys in Belgium, the abbey of Aulnes on the land of Thuin / Lobbes.

I particularly like the monasteries and abbeys, these places of silence, allowing some refocusing on ourselves.

The former abbey of Aulnes is a Cistercian abbey located at Gozée Belgium, which has its origin in the Benedictine monastery founded by St. Landelin in 657. Largely rebuilt in the fifteenth century and again in the eighteenth century it was destroyed and burned (including library) in 1794 by the French revolutionary troops after the monks were expelled. Ruins and remains of buildings are classified today the most important heritage of Wallonia.

For the Abbey tradition and history , you can enjoy the following Wikipedia link fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbaye_d alder

I arrived a little early before the opening. Taking advantage of this waiting time, I go exploring around the area. I find myself deep in the nearby meadow, steep, with a view increasingly more beautiful as I climb the meadow.

I take a few shots, and then I tried to test my new lens and my new 3D head, trying to highlight this panorama , which I find so spacious and majestic.

You will enjoy soon one of my Black and White vision of, stay tune.

Technical Info

Appareil | Camera: Nikon D5100 ; Tamron 24.0 - 70.0 mm f/2.8 ; Trépied | Tripod ; Rotule 3D ;

Prise de vue | Shoot : Panorama 3 vues ; 30 mm ; f/16; 1/80s ; Priorité(y) ouverture | Aperture ; ISO 200 ;

Logiciel | Post processing Software: LightRoom 5.4; Panorama PS; Nik Color Efex Pro 4; Nik Sharpener;

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In this version everything to the right of the monument has been rotated clockwise by 4 degrees, because the angle of the sunset and horizon was bugging me in the previous version.

Have a great day!

FREE textures from

Clive Sax

and

Gabi Butcher

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From my first strobist shoot.

Strobist: Canon 430EX on both sides, triggered with ST-E2. There's also 580EX II in front of model with small softbox, but it didn't fire for some reason. Let's call this happy accident.

I'm still searching my pp-style.

Flickr sharpening seems to be too much for this.

This image is not mine, it was taken by SeaMowse and put up on one of the Critque groups where I downloaded it and did some post-processing. Original belongs to SeaMowse who took the picture. This is the original:

www.flickr.com/photos/10016860@N02/9735172811/

I liked SeaMowse's original for composition but there were issues. First the background was dominating and second, the lighting on the cat was somewhat flat. In PP I darkened the background and cloned out the bright lights there. This was pretty fast and sloppy and you can see some of the original background brightness above the cat's head as a halo. Anyway, the next step was to add lighting effects. Here I dup'ed the image and darken it using gamma curves (in GIMP). The right (bright) side of the curve was simply reduced by 20% and then an exponedial curve was made to increase constrast in the middle tones. A layer mask was placed on the original and using a large soft brush I darkened the right side of the face (assumed a light source at 10:00) and darkened along the bottom except the paw and progressive darking of the rear of the cat. The goal was to focus attention on the face. Using smaller brush I dab'ed in darkness in the pockets of the curls. I darkened in some areas under the chin and along the inside left part of the ears as well to help with 3D effect. I cloned out reflections in the eyes. Made the tip of nose a bit more orange and brighter. Finally I adjusted final image using s-curve for gamma and reduced the color sat by about 15% (to match the lower overall luminance) and warmed the image up a bit by increasing the red channel and reducing the blue a bit. I knew the result was stunning (well I had a good image to start with!) but didn't think it would go Explored!

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More Difficult On Black

We have been "hosting" eleven Monarchs from egg stage to caterpillar to chrysalis to emergence. This is the first one to leave the "nest", they grow so fast...

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Arizona - USA - Gran Canyon, helicopter flight view

Postprocessing RAW:-- Virance and saturation

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Shoot with Canon EF-S 15-85mm + polarize filter.

The Grand Canyon is a steep-sided canyon carved by the Colorado River in the United States in the state of Arizona. It is largely contained within the Grand Canyon National Park, one of the first national parks in the United States. President Theodore Roosevelt was a major proponent of preservation of the Grand Canyon area, and visited it on numerous occasions to hunt and enjoy the scenery.

The Grand Canyon is 277 miles (446 km) long, up to 18 miles (29 km) wide and attains a depth of over a mile (1.83 km) (6000 feet).[1] Nearly two billion years of the Earth's geological history have been exposed as the Colorado River and its tributaries cut their channels through layer after layer of rock while the Colorado Plateau was uplifted.[2] While the specific geologic processes and timing that formed the Grand Canyon are the subject of debate by geologists,[3] recent evidence suggests the Colorado River established its course through the canyon at least 17 million years ago.[4][5] Since that time, the Colorado River continued to erode and form the canyon to the point we see it at today.[6]

Before European immigration, the area was inhabited by Native Americans who built settlements within the canyon and its many caves. The Pueblo people considered the Grand Canyon ("Ongtupqa" in Hopi language) a holy site and made pilgrimages to it.[7] The first European known to have viewed the Grand Canyon was García López de Cárdenas from Spain, who arrived in 1540.[8]

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Il Grand Canyon è un'immensa gola creata dal fiume Colorado nell'Arizona settentrionale. È lungo 446 chilometri circa, profondo fino a 1.600 metri e con una larghezza variabile dai 500 metri ai 27 chilometri. Per la maggior parte è incluso nel parco nazionale del Grand Canyon, uno dei primi parchi nazionali degli Stati Uniti. Il presidente Theodore Roosevelt amava molto l'area del Grand Canyon e la visitò diverse volte, per andare a caccia di puma ed ammirare il paesaggio.

Quasi due miliardi di anni della storia della Terra sono emersi alla luce grazie all'azione del Colorado e dei suoi affluenti, che in milioni di anni hanno eroso strato dopo strato di sedimenti, e grazie al sollevamento del Colorado Plateau.

Il primo europeo a vedere il Grand Canyon fu lo spagnolo García López de Cárdenas nel 1540 che partì dal Nuovo Messico alla ricerca del misterioso fiume di cui parlavano gli indiani Hopi. La prima spedizione scientifica verso il canyon fu guidata dal maggiore statunitense John Wesley Powell alla fine degli anni '70 del XIX secolo. Powell descrisse le rocce sedimentarie esposte nel canyon come "pagine di un grande libro di storia". Comunque, molto prima di queste scoperte, l'area era abitata da Nativi americani che costruirono insediamenti tra le pareti del canyon.

Andrea Costa Photography - © All rights reserved

Am Ende bleibt das Gerüst, die pure Idee 💡

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Piani di Bobbio

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Not retouching

PIANI DI BOBBIO

I Piani di Bobbio sono una nota stazione sciistica della Valsassina, in provincia di Lecco.

Situati nel territorio del comune di Barzio, si trovano al confine con la provincia di Bergamo; le piste da sci dei Piani di Bobbio e quelle di Valtorta fanno infatti parte di un unico comprensorio sciistico. La zona è inoltre rinomata per i numerosi sentieri, che comprendono anche le vie ferrate sul Gruppo dei Campelli.

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PIANI DI BOBBIO

Plans Bobbio is a famous ski resort of Valsassina, near Lecco.

Located in the village area of Barzio, are on the border with the province

Bergamo, the ski slopes of the plans and those of Bobbio Valtorta do it

part of one ski resort. The area is also renowned for the many

pathways, which include climbing routes on the Group of Campello.

Andrea Costa Photography - Please don't use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission. © All rights reserved

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surfeit fly hovers near flower. The fly disguises itself as a bee for evolutionary contingencies................

Original photo processed with Photoshop CS2 .......for effect.

"very cute bee with very brave temper" - Olyia Dehaven www.flickr.com/photos/50181507@N08/

Well said , Olyia !!!!!!!!!!!!!

The introduction of robots into our society that can think for themselves, may lead them to decide whether we as humans are a necessity or a hindrance to their bigger plans for the future.

'Man's greatest invention has become his greatest FEAR'

Sci-fi / Reality

#Probots #Pro-Bots

I tried post-processing this image, correcting the exposure and increasing the saturation. This is my first attempt at post-processing a picture this way, so I'd love some feedback if you have any.

in an antique shop in Maine - extreme post processing

Playing, again, with LuminarAI and a photo of hyacinths in my garden.

HSS all.

Annapolis, MD

iPhone 7Plus, edited on iPad, processed in Snapseed

Opened circa 1864, the lattice truss wooden bridge is located along Sharon-Goshen Turnpike and one can drive thru on a nice summer / fall afternoon. Be sure to stop by for a classic New England luncheon in the town!

post-process art from photo of squash bin last fall

Postprocessed in Lightroom..

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Best viewed Large on Black. It really differs!! فرق كبييييييييير

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Learning more with LuminarAI this morning. This is one of my yucky photos of my Red Maple tree in the garden. Just playing...