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Met de Kruittoren, overblijfsel van de oude stadsomwalling, gebouwd in 1426
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Alexander Gardens was one of the first urban public parks in Moscow, Russia created 1823. The park comprises three separate gardens, which stretch along all the length of the western Kremlin wall for 865 metres between the building of the Moscow Manege and the Kremlin. (Wiki)
The Chaudière River, near the city of Levis (Charny), on the South shore of St-Lawrence River, fronting Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
La rivière Chaudière, près de la ville de Lévis (Charny), sur la rive sud du fleuve St-Laurent, en face de la ville de Québec, Quebec, Canada.
I think that autumn is often the best season for leaves. Whilst we all enjoy seeing new leaves in spring after the barren season of winter, it is in autumn that we get to notice all the fine veining, delicate textures and sharp edges of the leaves as they change colour and array themselves in their autumnal costumes of reds, browns, oranges and golds.
Autumn is now well and truly with us here in Melbourne, and the cooler winds of seasonal change are blowing away the remnants of summer, like it tosses the red, gold and orange leaves that carpet the ground.
The other day was a perfect autumnal day in Melbourne: sunny, but not too bright, warm, but not hot, and perfectly still. Therefore I thought I'd go for a walk and take advantage of the sunny conditions and take some photographs. This includes this wonderful golden orange and red English maple leaf which was hanging, just waiting for me to photograph.
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This photo gives you a good overview over Berlin's Government district, all the major governmental buildings in this area are visible in my photo, including the Reichstag building (the seat of the German government) with Norman Foster's famous, newly designed dome on the left, and the Bundeskanzleramt (German Chancellery) which you can see on the right (behind the Swiss embassy), and a few other governmental buildings, plus several Berlin landmarks. I might still add a few photo comments tomorrow, but for now I don't want to clutter the photo with lots of photo comments. I've added the names of some of the buildings, sights, and places in the tags (from left to right to front). For more images of the Governmental district, please see my album.
Image photoGRIIIphed from the rooftop of the Futurium, the so called "Skywalk". It had been a very bright and sunny day (as you can see), and I couldn't see a thing on the Ricoh's screen, so I was glad I had the, albeit merely optical, viewfinder mounted. This photo also wasn't intended as a panorama at all. As I was leaning onto the roof's balustrade, I was following the boat with the camera. Later, when I viewed the two final images, I thought that maybe I could combine them for a panoramic view. While I didn't really succeed in doing that manually, the panorama photomerge function in LR did an amazing job here, down to the use of only the boat in the left position (it had been in both images). Technically, this final image is a combination of, altogether, 8 single images: two HDR images made of 2 exposure bracketing series consisting of three images each (which I'd combined in HDR Efex), and the two final HDR images merged in LR.
Wishing you a happy (Sliders) Sunday, dear Flickr friends!
Die Wahl zum 20. Deutschen Bundestag ist gelaufen, aber es bleibt weiter spannend. Hier ein Foto, dass ich im Juli vom Dach des Futuriums, dem sog. Skywalk, aufgenommen habe. Ihr habt hier einen guten Überblick nicht nur über das Berliner Regierungsviertel, sondern es sind am Horizont auch einige Sehenswürdigkeiten zu entdecken. Ein paar der wichtigsten Gebäude, Plätze und Sehenwürdigkeiten habe ich, von links nach rechts nach vorn, in den Tags genannt. Ich hatte erst auch an Fotokommentare gedacht, möchte das Bild damit aber nicht zukleistern (denn es würden tatsächlich sehr viele Bildkommentare werden), weshalb ich darauf erst einmal verzichte.
Das Foto ist ein Panorama aus zwei Fotos, die ich mit der Ricoh GR III gemacht habe. Eigentlich hatte ich vor Ort gar nicht an ein Panorama gedacht, weil es auf dem Skywalk so sonnig und hell gewesen war, dass ich auf dem Display der GR III sowieso nichts erkennen konnte (wie gut, dass es den, wenngleich rein optischen, Aufstecksucher gibt, der in solchen Situation wirklich Gold wert ist), sodass an eine saubere Panorama-Komposition auch überhaupt nicht zu denken gewesen wäre. Ich hatte mit der Kamera lediglich den Ausflugsdampfer verfolgt und zwei 3er-Belichtungsreihen von unterschiedlichen Positionen des Schiffes (einmal links, so wie im fertigen Panorama zu sehen, und einmal mittig rechts) gemacht, wobei die Dachbalustrade im Vordergrund ein gutes Behelfsstativ abgegeben hatte. Der Gedanke, zu versuchen, die beiden fertigen HDRs (Programm der Wahl: HDR Efex) zu einen Panorama zusammenzufügen, kam mir dann auch erst später. Manuell wollte es nicht klappen, aber die "Zusammenfügen: Panorama"-Funktion in LR hat ganze Arbeit geleistet, LR hat mir beim Zusammenfügen sogar das nur angeschnitten sichtbare Schiff vom 2. Foto automatisch entfernt – sehr praktisch :)
I want to thank everyone of you my Flickr friends for your visits, kind comments and faves.
No snow and frost this december, 2011 was the third on the list with warmest average temperature since 1901. This picture is taken in december 2010.
Winter is not finished yet and birds are still looking for food in our backyard.
L'hiver n'est pas encore terminé et les oiseaux continuent de visiter notre cour arrière pour y recevoir leur ration quotidienne de nourriture.
The cupola is from Hull's demolished Town Hall built in 1862-66 (erected here in 1912). Note the three coronets worked into the spike, being the emblem of Hull..........See also my previous photo .
Persicaria is a genus of herbaceous flowering plants in the knotweed family, Polygonaceae. Plants of the genus are known commonly as knotweeds or smartweeds. ,These were seen in Hulls Pearson Park .
A treasure in the Val de Loire Department, beside Chenonceaux Castle, France.
Trésor du département du Val de Loire, allée du parc du Château de Chenonceaux, France.
In the gardens of Chenonceaux Castle, Val de Loire, Département du Centre,France.
Dans les jardins du Château de Chenonceaux, Val de Loire, Département du Centre, France.
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For a change, this is a new (outside!) photo, taken just a few days ago at the wonderful Britzer Garten, one of Berlin's biggest and most beautiful public parks (please check my album for more "Britz bliss", if you like).
For better dynamic range, I've used exposure bracketing (three images), pre-processed the images in DXO PhotoLab (sharpness and DeepPrime denoising only), from which I directly went into HDR Efex Pro to combine the images. I'm trying to get away from the annual Adobe subscription, and combining images from an exposure bracketing series in HDR Efex instead of Lightroom is one step into that direction. Unfortunately, whenever I think I can finally leave Adobe behind for good they come up with improvements such as the new "supersize" function (now also available in LR), a ton of new presets for LR, and other interesting stuff (and I'm still used to the LR/PS workflow, and the layers in PS). Well, maybe I'll be ready next year ;)
Extra sliding was done in Color Efex, where I added some "Brilliance and Warmth" and a tiny bit of "Contrast Color Range".
Happy Sliders Sunday, Everyone, stay safe and have a nice week ahead!
A bird feeder shaped as a Japanese pagoda stands amind foliage planted by Japan as a donation to Mississauga, Canada for public enjoyment.
Collective 52 Photo Project. Week 49/52 ''Ice''
Last Winter was exceptionally cold here in Thessaloniki Greece. This image was taken in a public garden where the water usually cascades over a wall. The garden is close to the sea, which normally means it is slightly warmer.
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You don't see images processed in monochrome on my Flickr stream all too often. But here I thought it looked best. The thingy you see here is a playground carousel, photographed at the Britzer Garten. I'd seized the short moment when the carousel was not in use ;) Since the carousel's benches were painted in vivid red, I'd toyed with the idea to go for a colour-key-style processing at first, but in the end I liked the pure b&w look better, because the benches didn't really make sense to me as that special element that should be highlighted with the use of colour.
Converted to monochrome in Silver Efex where I used the preset "Film Noir 2" as starting point. I've still tweaked it here or there, because that filter creates a very contrasty, kind of harsh "silhouette" look with really deep blacks and almost completely blown-out whites, and I thought it looked nicer with more textures left in the image.
Viele Bilder in kräftigem, kontrastreichem Schwarzweiß gibt es in meinem Flickr-Stream nicht, aber hier sah SW einfach am besten aus. Ich hatte noch überlegt, etwas Farbe im Bild zu belassen, weil die geschwungenen Holzbänke dieses interaktiven Spielgeräts in leuchtendem Rot lackiert waren, aber in reinem SW wirkte das Bild doch am besten. Entwickelt in Silver Efex, wo ich das Preset "Film Noir 2" als Ausgangspunkt genommen und dann noch ein wenig angepasst habe, weil mir der doch sehr spezielle, Silhouetten-artige Look dieses Filters (mit tiefen Schwarztönen und fast völlig ausgefressenem Weiß) ein wenig zu extrem war.
Bei dieser Parkmöblierung handelt es sich um ein sogenanntes Sitzkarussell (sitzt man bei einem Karussell nicht eigentlich immer auf irgendetwas? Auf Holzpferdchen, Polizeimotorrädern, einem an langen Ketten befestigten Stuhl?); wenn man, am besten mit vereinten Kräften, an dem glänzenden Tisch-Rad-Dings in der Mitte dreht, fängt auch das Karussel an, sich zu drehen. Kürzlich fotografiert im Britzer Garten in dem kurzen Moment, als das Gerät mal nicht von Kindern umlagert war ;)