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Photography has clarity in the same way that language has. A word is precise, but its meaning can change based on the words around it: think tank, tank top :-)
Jason Fulford
the "lights" on all of the beachfront homes are not lights, but are reflections of the sun upon the windows
sunset, atlantic beach, north carolina
One just can't get enough of seeing the Great Grey Owl on the hunt.
In the stillness of a cold winter afternoon, aided by its sharp senses, especially its hearing and sight, this Great Grey Owl had located a sound made by a prey under as much as a foot of snow from some thirty yards away.
It launched into a hunting maneuver to zero in on the prey's precise location. Once it was at the vacinity, it hovered overhead briefly before diving straight down into the snow.
I have to dip into my Jan. 2017 archive. The shot was taken with my trusty 300mmf4D + 1.4X lens, and Nikon D500 camera.
f6.3; 1/2000; -2/3EV; ISO1250
Lightroom 6.0
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Amsterdam - Utrechtsestraat
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Small lake south of Primrose on the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska. A totally random beautiful place along the road from Anchorage to Seward - which has lots and lots of beautiful places. Geotag is perfectly precise, however.
The hazy marshland beauty of this sim....which of course I forgot to grab a location link of to share...is just so fabulous. And this new dress from Bauhaus, like every dress from the amazing Bauhaus, is also fabulous. I was playing dress up late last night and then I decided to scamper about and explore for a bit before drifting to real life dreamland. And I decided to do a photo. In a goth glam dress. In a field. With my lil Jack Russell terrier. And a birdy on my head...who clearly confused my hairdo with a bird’s nest. Sometimes, I can find SL a bit depressing. And sometimes, when all of these disparate elements jump into my imagination and computer screen at the same crazy time, I truly laugh...and I love it! I certainly didn’t plan to wear a pink and black dress and then go to this sim and take this precise photo, but I was sleepy, and I didn’t wanna change outfits when inspiration struck! I love SL, I hate SL, I love SL.... 🐶😊 🐦
A new exercise in portrait drawing with charred wooden stick, a bit challenging because it makes it difficult to bring out precise details and it smudges very easily.
Today I would like to send you back to a wonderful morning that I was able to experience all to myself below Kriebstein Castle. To be precise, you can see the crowning conclusion here, which I didn't expect at all.
At that point I had been here for quite a while and had already taken some photos. The fog on the water was the absolute highlight (of course next to the cool knight's castle that I was here for). But something was still missing to make the atmosphere perfect.
The sky was just monotonously blue-grey and therefore quite boring.
But all of a sudden, I had already packed my things again, this small single cloud comes by, which had been set on fire by the rising sun. And everything came together.
Heute möchte ich Euch noch einmal zurück schicken, zu einem wunderschönen Morgen, den ich ganz für mich unterhalb der Burg Kriebstein erleben durfte. Um genau zu sein seht Ihr hier den krönenden Abschluß, mit dem ich garnicht mehr gerechnet hatte.
Zu diesem Zeitpunkt war ich schon eine geraume Weile hier unterwegs und hatte auch schon einige Fotos gemacht. Der Nebel auf dem Wasser war dabei das absolute Highlight (natürlich neben der coolen Ritterburg wegen der ich ja hier war). Doch irgendwas hat trotzdem noch gefehlt um die Stimmung perfekt zu machen.
Der Himmel war bis gerade eben noch eintönig blau-grau und somit recht langweilig.
Doch auf einmal, ich hatte meine Sachen schon wieder eingepackt, kommt diese kleine einzelne Wolke vorbei, die von der aufgehenden Sonne in Brand gesetzt worden war. Und schon passte alles zusammen.
more of this on my website at: www.shoot-to-catch.de
It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy :-)
Henri Cartier-Bresson
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prunus mume, japanese flowering apricot, 'Tama', j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina
The use of Vantablack, which I have used before, together with niji, amazing things emerge.
as always, here is the Midjourney Prompt:
IMAGE: Ethereal Elegance | STYLE: Raw Metallicity, Dark Compositions | MOOD: Dramatic, Moody | BACKGROUND: Vantablack | SUBJECT: Beautiful African woman portrait in black leather with an updo hairstyle and modern jewelry | DETAILS: Textural sensations, intricate accessories | RENDER: Precise and lifelike | LIGHTING: Volumetric lighting with dramatic use of shadows | COMPOSITION: Bold yet graceful | RESOLUTION: 8K | CAMERA: Nikita Veprikov camera | LENS: N/A | TAGS: African woman, black leather, raw metallicity, luminescence, dark compositions, modern jewelry, dramatic lighting, vantablack background --ar 2:3 --niji 5
2 x upscaling and improved with LR into black and white. The frame as always with PS
To be precise : in 6 weeks I will be standing at exactly this place to watch the waves. Blavand, Jylland, Denmark
Because we're talking about holiday memories, I'll go right back to the beginning of my Slovenia tour, to Bled to be precise.
I don't think I've ever photographed a subject as often in such a short time as the island with the church in the middle of Lake Bled. I was only here for two days and still there are at least 5 versions of this picture. And since I'm only counting the versions that were made from the shore. The conditions were constantly changing and so every time I looked at the lake the sight was completely different and beautiful again. So, of course, I had to capture all of these different faces.
Here, it's easy to see that it's dusk and besides the fact that a light just came on here and there (that's why I'm here), I'm standing under an umbrella in the pouring rain and trying to operate the camera with one hand. As you can see, I did quite well.
Weil wir gerade bei Urlaubserinnerungen sind gehe ich gleich nochmal zurück zum Anfrang meiner Slowenien Tour, genauer gesagt nach Bled.
Ich glaube, ich hab noch nie ein Motiv in so kurzer Zeit so oft fotografiert wie die Insel mit der Kirche in der Mitte des Bleder Sees. Ich war nur zwei Tage hier und trotzdem gibt es mindestens 5 Versionen dieses Bildes. Und da zähle ich nur die Versionen, die vom Ufer aus gemacht wurden. Die Bedingungen waren ständig im Wandel und so war der Anblick, jedesmal wenn ich auf den See geblickt habe, völlig verändert und wieder anders schön. Also musste ich diese unterschiedlichen Gesichter natürlich alle festhalten.
Hier, das ist unschwer zu erkennen, ist gerade Abenddämmerung und neben der Tatsache, dass gerade hier und da ein Licht anging (darum bin ich hier) stehe ich gerade im strömenden Regen unter einem Schirm und versuche mit einer Hand die Kamera zu bedienen. Was mir, wie man sehen kann, ganz gut gelungen ist.
Hof Lilach, to be precise. Between Ilmspan and Poppenhausen, Baden Würtemberg.
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Site emblématique de la ville des Sables d'Olonne, et plus précisément de son quartier originel de la Chaume, le phare de la Chaume, ou "Feu de la tour d'Arundel", est situé sur la terrasse de la tour d'Arundel qui constitue le donjon carré de l'ancien château Saint-Clair à la Chaume, bâti à l'entrée du port des Sables-d'Olonne au 14ème siècle par les princes de Talmont.
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phare_de_la_Chaume
Château Saint-Clair (Vendée)
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Castle St Clair - La Chaume lighthouse
Emblematic site of the city of Les Sables d'Olonne, and more precisely of its original district of La Chaume, the lighthouse of La Chaume, or "Feu de la tour d'Arundel", is located on the terrace of the tower of Arundel which constitutes the square dungeon of the former castle Saint-Clair at La Chaume, built at the entrance of the habour of Sables-d'Olonne in the 14th century by the princes of Talmont.
February 2023 - Uploaded 2023/02/09
Explored October 18, 2022
"Berlin" Gold, to be precise – which is made of chromium-nickel steel. This is the famous "Berlin" sculpture on Berlin-Charlottenburg boulevard Tauentzien. It was created in 1987 by artist couple Martin Matschinsky and Brigitte Matschinsky-Denninghoff, and erected for the "Skulpturenboulevard" (sculpture boulevard) exhibition, a temporary exhibition in public space (of Berlin-West) of seven large sculptures/installations on the occasion of Berlin's 750th anniversary in 1987 and in connection with the Capital of Culture Year 1988. The intertwined, yet separated steel pipes of "Berlin" were meant to symbolize the situation of the city that, back in 1987, was still divided by the Berlin wall.
Unlike the other sculptures, "Berlin" was bought by the Senate of Berlin after the end of the exhibition, and is permanently installed on Tauentzien's centre strip. There are several more chromium-nickel steel pipe sculptures created by Matschinsky-Denninghoff in Berlin (and other cities in Germany). The sculpture "Dreiheit" (Trinity), which I've photographed as well (and which I'll probably upload soon as well), can be found in front of the Berlinische Galerie in Berlin-Kreuzberg.
The building in the lower right corner is the Europa-Center, a building complex built between 1963 and 1965. Europa-Center's high-rise tower with the rotating Mercedes-Benz star on the roof was, for many years, West Berlin's highest building and also quickly became one of West Berlin's landmarks. Today, the entire building complex is heritage protected.
Berliner Gold
... Das, strengenommen, aus Chromnickelstahl in Gestalt der Skulptur "Berlin" besteht. Diese berühmte, aus ineinander verschlungenen, aber dennoch voneinander getrennten Röhren bestehende Skulptur, die die damals noch bestehende Berliner Teilung symbolisiert(e), wurde 1987 vom Künstlerehepaar Matschinsky-Denninghoff erschaffen. Die Erstausstellung erfolgte im Rahmen des "Skulpturenboulevards", einer Ausstellung mit sieben Groß-Skulpturen/-Installationen im öffentlichen Raum West-Berlins anlässlich Berlins 750. Geburtstag 1987 und der Kulturhauptstadt 1988. Anders als die anderen Skulpturen des Skulpturenboulevards wurde "Berlin" vom Berliner Senat erworben und ist permanent auf dem Mittelstreifen des Tauentziens in der City-West zu sehen.
Es gibt, nicht nur in Berlin, sondern auch in anderen deutschen Städten, noch weitere von Matschinsky-Denninghoff geschaffene Stahlskulpturen. Eine davon, die ich ebenfalls fotografiert habe (das Foto werde ich vermutlich demnächst auch hochladen), die Skulptur "Dreiheit", ist vor der Berlinischen Galerie in Berlin-Kreuzberg zu finden.
Das Gebäude rechts "unten" ist der Turm des Europa-Centers. Das Europa-Center besteht nicht nur aus dem Hochhaus, sondern auch aus einem Einkaufszentrum am Breitscheidplatz. Das Hochaus des Europa-Centers war lange Zeit West-Berlins höchstes Gebäude und avancierte, nicht zuletzt wegen des weithin sichtbaren, rotierenden Mercedes-Sterns auf dem Dach, schnell zu einem Wahrzeichen der geteilten Stadt. Der zwischen 1963 und *65 errichtete Gebäudekomplex steht heute unter Denkmalschutz.
it’s precise, lightning-like, clean cut, brilliant, alert :-)
Beaumont Newhall
Ukraine Matters! PeaceNow!
oakleaf hydrangea, j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina
Look at that precise balance! Wing goes right, part of tail feathers move left, perhaps without thought.
You know how when you think, oh, what the heck, I'll just try this, and it almost turns out to be identifiable? The hummingbird continued to examine me and didn't seem to mind the macro lens. I cropped this a tad.
Identification welcomed. Not trying for an award with these photos. Just having goose-bump interactions ;-)
Rufous Hummingbird (Selasphorus rufus) female/juvenile perhaps.
It was at this precise moment that she saved the beast.
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Amritsar (Inde) - Il est des photos pour lesquelles un simple regard suffit pour ne pas insister au-delà du strict nécessaire.
Inutile de préciser que cette photo a été prise avec l’accord du papa. Et j’ai bien compris que je n’avais droit qu’à une seule prise. Dommage, car j’aurais bien voulu en faire une seconde avec une profondeur de champ un peu plus étendue, afin que le père au regard de tueur bénéficie d’un léger supplément de netteté. Parfois il faut se contenter de ce que l’on a. Et là, assurément ce regard était éloquent sur ce qui m’attendait si je montrais trop d’intérêt pour sa fille.
Father and daughter
Amritsar (India) - There are photos for which a simple glance is enough not to insist beyond what is strictly necessary.
Needless to say, this photo was taken with the agreement of the dad. And I understood that I was only entitled to one take. Too bad, because I would have liked to do a second one with a little more extended depth of field, so that the father with the killer look benefits from a slight additional sharpness. Sometimes you have to be content with what you have. And there, this look was eloquent on what awaited me if I showed too much interest in his daughter.
Le Grand Galibier est un sommet des Alpes françaises dans le massif des Cerces et précisément dans le chaînon du Galibier, à la limite des départements de la Savoie sur la commune de Valloire et des Hautes-Alpes sur la commune du Monêtier-les-Bains.
Il culmine à 3 228 m d'altitude et domine le col du Galibier.
The Grand Galibier is a summit of the French Alps in the Cerces massif and precisely in the Galibier range, at the limit of the departments of Savoie in the town of Valloire and Hautes-Alpes in the town of Monêtier-les-Bains. It rises to an altitude of 3,228 m and dominates the Col du Galibier.
“Each meeting occurs at the precise moment for which it was meant. Usually, when it will have the greatest impact on our lives.”
― Nadia Scrieva
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Colorful foliage surrounding this beautiful home on the shore of Oxbow Lake, so idyllic and marvelous lifestyle by the lake.
I remember our conversation with Daniel, do you remember it, Daniel?
We were speaking about the estimated price of a home like this in that dreamy scenery. We couldn´t precise the amount of money invested to acquire a house like that, as it depends on its dimensions. We enjoyed a lot that conversation while we were admiring the marvelous colors of Autumn in complete serenity and pleasure.
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May your Monday be peaceful and relaxing!
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Una preciosa casa junto a Oxbow Lake, Muskoka, Ontario, Canada
El colorido follaje rodea esta hermosa casa en la orilla del lago Oxbow, un estilo de vida tan idílico y maravilloso junto al lago.
Recuerdo nuestra conversación con Daniel, ¿la recuerdas, Daniel?
Hablábamos del precio estimado de una casa como esa en ese paisaje de ensueño. No pudimos precisar la cantidad de dinero invertida para adquirir una casa así, ya que depende de sus dimensiones. Disfrutamos mucho de esa conversación mientras admirábamos de los maravillosos colores del Otoño en completa serenidad y placer.
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¡Que tu lunes sea tranquilo y relajante!
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🇫🇷Nous voici sur la terrasse de notre location pour cette 2° semaine de vacances en Corse, plus précisément Tiuccia qui est une station balnéaire de Corse-du-Sud, dépendant de la commune de Casaglione et située à une vingtaine de kilomètres d'Ajaccio, sur la route de Calvi (par la côte), au fond du golfe de Sagone.
Elle est bâtie au pied du rocher de Capraghja (Carpraja), où demeurent quelques vestiges des fondations du château des comtes de Cinarca, et d'où l'on domine la totalité du golfe, jusqu'à Cargèse.
Le site est bordé au nord par le Monte Lazzu (100 m). Dans son prolongement en direction de la mer se trouvent également les ruines de deux anciennes fortifications génoises, la tour du Capigliolu (XVIe siècle) et un fortin (XVIIe siècle/XVIIIe siècle).
🇬🇧 Here we are on the terrace of our rental for this 2° week holiday in Corsica, more precisely Tiuccia which is a seaside resort of Corsica-du-Sud, dependent on the commune of Casaglione and located about twenty kilometers from Ajaccio, on the road to Calvi (by the coast), at the bottom of the Gulf of Sagone.
It is built at the foot of the rock of Capraghja (Carpraja), where remains of the foundations of the castle of the counts of Cinarca, and from where one dominates the entire gulf, up to Cargèse.
The site is bordered to the north by the Monte Lazzu (100 m). In its extension towards the sea are also the ruins of two ancient Genoese fortifications, the tower of Capigliolu (16th century) and a fortin (17th century/18th century).
Normally I'm here to show you Croydon car parks but here's one from another part of London, in Stratford, in East London, to be precise. For someone that likes to shoot architecture car parks are always an interesting challenge. They are usually very symmetrical with distinguishable lines and shapes. There's always likely to be an abundance of light and shadow because car parks are likely to not be fully enclosed, leaving room for lots of contrasts in tone and light. If I go past a car park I always look for a composition of some kind.
I've subtitled this 'when day becomes night' because this image was a post processing challenge that I set myself. This shot was actually taken in the middle of the day, at 1pm to be exact. I wanted to see if I could make it appear as if was taken at 1am instead.
HSS
The precise location of this bird was posted back in December. Would he still be there?
He was.
He was a life bird for us.
I'm posting this months later....
I was impressed with the results from a post processing program.
I wondered if I could spiff up my less than great photos of this exciting and rare birb.
I'll give you the link to David Steidensticker's owl photo.
flic.kr/p/2iPkSWq
Look at the change in the feather detail around the beak.
I'm doing the free trial.
So far the hardest thing has been finding the photo in my files after putting it through processing.
Stay strong, my flickr monkeys.
Budva. Old Town, Montenegro
The oldest church with the precise date of constructing in Budva is crunch of St. Maria’s. It’s placed in the Old Town of Budva. This is a short Latin inscription in stone about the building of a church in 840.
Today it survives incorporated in the north wall of St. Maria’s, one of the oldest known, accurately dated, medieval inscriptions on the eastern Adriatic coast. It is believed that it refers to the church of St. Maria cited in later written sources. It is not known where the church was located; possibly it was even an adaptation of the diocesan basilica. The small town of Budva did not preserve many records of its appearance in the Middle Ages.
Material remains confirm continuity of habitation in the town. For this period there are the remains of ecclesiastical buildings, and something an be concluded on the basis of the medieval walls.
Castlepark in Ludwigslust (Mecklenburg-West Pomerania) Germany
Geo tag is not precise within the park.
Today Thursday morning I went out to take some photos of the sunrise and the Five Towers. The wind was completely calm, the temperature at 08:06 am (the precise moment I took this photo) was 32F (0ºC )(in my humble opinion very comfortable because I like cold), and I was totally alone in the place from where I took this picture. Are there better conditions?
This is the image of the iconic Five Towers of Madrid welcoming a new day, with the first colors and the light of dawn illuminating them.
I hope you like the image and I take this opportunity to wish you a good Thursday, good health, love and peace.
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Colores del amanecer en las Cinco Torres, Madrid, España
Hoy jueves por la mañana salí a hacer unas fotos del amanecer y las Cinco Torres. El viento estaba completamente calmado, la temperatura a las 08:06 am (momento preciso en que tomé esta foto) era de 0ºC (en mi humilde opinión muy confortable porque me gusta el frío), y estaba totalmente solo en el lugar desde donde tomé esta foto. ¿Existen mejores condiciones?
Esta es la imagen de las icónicas Cinco Torres de Madrid dando la bienvenida a un nuevo día, con los primeros colores y la luz del amanecer iluminándolas.
Espero que os guste la imagen y aprovecho para desearos un buen jueves, mucha salud, amor y paz.
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To be more precise this is Castle Augustusburg in Brühl (sometimes also called Augustusburg palace which sounds more like it looks like) - built as a weekend cottage by the Archbishop-Elector of Cologne, Clemens August of Bavaria of the Wittelsbach family in the 18th century. The castle is surrounded by extensive gardens and park grounds. From shortly after World War II until 1994, Augustusburg was used as a reception hall for guests of state by the German President, as it is not far from Bonn, which was the capital of Germany at that time.The castle is protected by the international “Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural heritage”. I shot this on a photo safari with my friend during the only hour of good light yesterday.
Sant'Antonio is a giant edifice without a precise architectural style. Over the centuries, it has grown under a variety of different influences as shown by the exterior details.
The new basilica was begun as a single-naved church, like that of St Francis of Assisi, with an apsidal chancel, broad transepts and two square nave bays roofed with hemispherical domes like that of San Marco, Venice. The exterior style is a mixing of mainly Romanesque and Byzantine elements, with some Gothic features.
Later in the 13th century, the aisles were added in a more Gothic style, the length of each nave bay being divided into two aisle bays with pointed arches and quadripartite vaults.
The eastern apse was also extended in the Gothic style, receiving a ribbed vault and nine radiating chapels in the French manner. Later also, the Treasury chapel was built in 1691 in the Baroque style by Filippo Parodi, a pupil of Bernini.
The domes, like the domes of St. Mark's Basilica, were raised in height externally, giving a Byzantine appearance to the building, while the multitude of small belfries which accompany the domes recall Turkish minarets. Externally, at the main roof line each section of the building is marked by a low gable decorated with blind arcading in brick. These gables combine with the domes, the broad buttresses and the little towers to create a massive sculptural form, both diverse and unified in its conglomeration of features. As a work of architecture the building is particularly effective when viewed from the north west,] an extra dimension being added to the facade by the huge plinth and dynamic equestrian monument of the Condottiero Gattamelata by Donatello.
The precise location of this bird was posted back in December. Would he still be there?
He was.
A few curious folks stopped to watch the spectacular bird drop to the ground and then pop back onto a perch.
A brief flash of bright red on a grey day in LA.
#MacroMonday
#unusualpatterns
Weather forecast on a knife blade. On a Damascus steel knife blade, to be precise. Not what I initially had in mind, but that so often is the case when it's one of the "MM themes of the 1000 possibilities". Usually, for such a wide theme, I only have a few vague ideas what I could do for it, and the end result is pretty much a random surprise of what looks, firstly, most interesting through the macro lens, and, secondly, best as a photo, of course. Also, what is easy when it's not asked for - such as finding interesting patterns - becomes nearly impossible when it's required: patterns positively seemed to escape me as I went looking for them around the apartment ;-) And when I saw the knife in the kitchen (I hadn't even considered it as a possibility) I just thought "OK, that's probably very boring, but I'll give it a try." As for the "macro lens surprise", that was that not only did the banding typical for Damascus steel looked like waves (often an intended effect, but I only learned about that when I did my research on Damascus steel for the description and the tags), but those scratches from sharpening the knife that you can see in the upper part of the image also looked like heavy rain. And here it was, unfolding before my eyes: the high seas tempest.
The setup for the photo was as simple as it gets: I simply propped the knife, sharp side of the blade up, against a jar of sugar (my photo studio also doubles as breakfast and dinner table), both of it sitting on top of a heavy book to give it the same height as my camera on its small table top tripod, positioned one LED lamp (warm light) at the side of the table and grabbed my LED torch (cold light) to illuminate the blade from above (which also added the ever so slight 3D effect on the upper part of the blade), enabled the in-camera focus-stacking function, and hit the shutter button. I shot three focus stacking sequences of different parts of the knife of which this looked best.
Processing steps: The cold / warm light effect is something I get quite often when I use different light sources as above mentioned. It even works with one artificial light source (provided it gives warm light) and daylight from the window. Here I liked the split tone effect very much because I think it adds more depth to image. I wish I could have achieved the vivid colours you see here entirely by the use of light and the use of a colour filter (warm-cold or a combination of a cooling and a warming filter), but I've only recently considered to buy a few photo filters to improve my landscape photography, and since a good filter is expensive, I think I will buy one or two more versatile filters first before checking out the more exotic colour filters. So the colour enhancement here was done in Lightroom, where I tweaked the saturation and luminance of the blue, yellow and orange tones, and then in Nik's Color Efex, where, as final touch, I applied a Bi-color filter. I hope that these processing steps are deemed OK according to the new MM rules regarding the editing of an MM shot. I also did some sharpening and de-noising in Topaz Sharpen AI ("Focus" yielded the best result).
HMM, Everyone, and have a beautiful and safe week ahead!
Just a single wake line and a solitary wing bridging the gap between sea and sky.
Captured during the precise moments of twilight, the composition utilizes a high-contrast palette of deep indigo and soft amethyst to explore themes of isolation, scale, and human transit.
A lone vessel glides through a vast, liquid canvas of deep indigo, cutting a delicate path through the silent expanse of the sea. It moves under the gentle watch of an ethereal twilight sky, where the horizon dissolves into a soft tapestry of pastel pink and amethyst light. The ocean mirrors the heavens, cloaked in rich, velvety blues that evoke a profound sense of solitude, peace, and timeless wanderlust.
The yacht leaves behind a gentle, chalk-white wake, a temporary scar of human presence on an otherwise pristine, eternal canvas.
To the right, a seabird hangs suspended in the air, a fleeting silhouette that accentuates the immense scale and quiet majesty of the open water. For a brief moment, the bird matched the yacht's speed, a silent companion bridging the gap between sky and sea. It balances the weight of the ship and breaks up the expansive water adding a touch of natural life.
The clean, modern lines of the ship stand in perfect balance with the soft, geometric division of the horizon, blending human engineering with nature's quiet artistry.
Massive expanses of blue and purple frame the yacht. This amplifies a powerful sense of isolation, scale, and quiet solitude on the open water.
The vessel occupies the lower right quadrant. It moves toward the left frame, leaving a clear "path" that creates a natural narrative flow.
Shot from a cliffside high vantage point, this angle flattens the horizon line into a clean, geometric divider, keeping the composition visually balanced.
"Amethyst" perfectly identifies the rare, high-contrast violet and pink gradient in the sky, while "Meridian" directly highlights the crisp, geometric horizon line that splits the canvas in half. A peak point of splendor capturing a luxury vessel navigating the absolute peak of twilight.
at the moment when he, the photographer, meets the reality he wishes to capture.
Brassai
HGGT! Ukraine Matters!
opuntia, spineless prickly pear cactus, 'Ellisiana' j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina
The longest day of the year, I like these moments extreme, so precise, so poetic, so inspiring. All civilizations have loved and celebrated them. And I am fond of blue hour.
Seen up close, the flower reveals a precise geometry where color, texture, and form meet in balance. Soft gradients of pink and coral draw the eye inward toward the quiet architecture of the stamens.
Precise location no longer known. This is a fruit-eating pigeon species endemic to New Zealand. It is found throughout most of the three main islands, although it has become extinct in much of the eastern part of South Island. Food competition from introduced Australian possums and doubtless predation of the young by introduced rats has led to a sharp decline in numbers. From a slide.
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