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two thoughts: i do this drive-by shot maybe four times a week and never get it centered. until today. i don't think that's meaningful, just useful since i don't want to actually pull over in winter. so here we have another one of my over-used motifs. thought 2, entirely random, was that naming a tunnel after lincoln was pretty insulting if you compare it to the george washington bridge. driving thru the lincoln tunnel is like driving thru the port authority bathrooms, circa 1972. the only remotely awesome thing about the lincoln tunnel is that it was built under a river. well, maybe that's the answer. beauty is only river deep.
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A shot that has sat on my hard drive waiting for me to spend 20 min processing it to remove the flare I got while stupidly using the 24-70 LOL.
At the border of the high Padan Plain, just at the feet of the first line of the Prealps, there lays a string of five lakes. They draw a line that is the base of the so-called Larian triangle, i.e. the triangle-shaped mountainous land between the two arms of the Lake Como (also called Lario). These lakes, often called the Lakes Briantei, or the Brianza Lakes (from the name of that land, Brianza), are way smaller than the Lario and the other great lakes of Northern Italy - just a string of beads in the higher plain - but they share the beauty of their larger cousins, although on a smaller, more intimate scale. I have always felt quite strongly the fascination of their common origin, which dates from the end of the Würm glaciation, some 11,700 years ago. I can easily see in my mind the enormous, mighty glaciers from the Alps flowing beyond the last mountains and spreading through the high plain. A powerful sight, indeed... Yet all that glory was deemed to end as the climate was becoming warmer, and eventually the glaciers began to recede, leaving behind deep ditches and huge semilunar terminal morains. You can easily fill in the story - the melting waters, the swamps, the debris from the looming mountains, and, eventually, the lakes.
Well, this is not a lesson in geology - I am by no means an expert, just a guy who perceives geology in a deeply emotional way (quite possibly a trait acquired from my late father, who was a passionate amateur mineral and fossil prospector).
I have begun a photographic exploration of those relics of the last glaciation, the Lakes Briantei. At sunrise, of course.
My first session was at the Lake Annone, the largest one, that is divided in two basins by a narrow peninsula. I limited myself to the Western basin, mostly looking Eastward.
This is a detail landscape showing, if needed, how a grand landscape may have smaller, complete landscapes nestled within itself. There could be many landscapes-within-a-landscape, every photographer might perceive and discover new ones. I loved this detail, as a gap between the mountains lets the eye run further and further away, following the outlines of distant mountains as the air becomes more and more transfixed with golden light, until it reaches the lone, elegant outline of the Pizzo dei Tre Signori (= "Peak of the Three Lords", a name stemming from the historical division of the area that it marked, between the State of Milan, the Republic of Venice and the Grisons canton of Switzerland). I am bound to this mountain by epic, adventurous memories from my youth and this quantum tunnel beams both my eye and my mind from the lake directly to that proud peak (which is some 30 km away), as the enticing, sparkling reflections on the waters of the lake make my soul dance. I hope that the photo is good enough to stir emotions within your heart as well... Have a happy Sunday!
I have processed this picture by blending an exposure bracketing [-2.0/-1.0/0/+1.0/+2.0 EV] by luminosity masks with the Gimp (EXIF data, as usual, refer to the "normal" exposure shot).
Along the journey - post-processing always is a journey of discovery to me - I tried the inverted RGB blue channel technique described by Boris Hajdukovic to give a slight tonal boost to several parts of the scene. As usual, I gave the finishing touches with Nik Color Efex Pro 4.
Raw files processed with Darktable.
A figure lingered in the adjoining room, motionless. Like a chameleon, it melted into the shadows—too still, too perfect.
Then it moved.
Its skin shimmered, shifting hues as it stepped forward, briefly mimicking human form. But the girls knew better.
It lunged—unnaturally fast.
Its flesh rippled, barely containing the thing beneath. A jagged tear split across its arm, then its throat. The human illusion morphed away like a discarded mask.
Sleek emerald scales caught the fractured light. Muscles coiled beneath the surface. Predatory. Amused. Slit pupils narrowed. A jagged grin revealed rows of serrated teeth.
It was on them in a heartbeat.
“Shit,” Kayla muttered, yanking the knife from her jacket.
Adrienne racked the slide on her pistol, hands trembling.
Kayla didn’t wait. Her wrist snapped, sending the blade slicing through the air as the creature lunged—grazing its side.
Adrienne’s pulse thundered. She wasn’t ready. She knew it.
The reptilian struck—blindingly fast.
Kayla twisted, narrowly dodging its talons. She spun low, driving her blade beneath its ribs. The creature hissed, whirling toward Adrienne, yellow eyes blazing. “Go! Jump!” she shouted.
It lunged sideways, claws arcing toward her middle.
Instinct took over.
Adrienne fired seven rapid shots into the creature. Dark green blood splattered back. The creature was unphased and it reeled back to strike.
She felt the whoosh of air as the creature struck—at the same instant everything shifted.
Its claws slashed through empty air. Adrienne was gone.
Her head spun. She was alive. But she was back at the shelter. She hadn’t meant to jump. But she had.
Kayla turned, eyes wide with realization. “Adrienne—?”
The reptilian recovered instantly. It spun toward Kayla, eyes burning with rage. Hunger.
She vanished.
The creature shrieked in rage, nostrils flaring as it tore through the vacant air of an empty room with blind, savage strikes. Then, with a guttural gasp, it crumpled to the floor.
Standing behind the creature was Kayla, her knife buried deep in the base of its skull.
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This model shows a group of Freemen having found shelter out near an old and abandoned temple.
Another Quantum Lands model.
This was actually only built over the course of a day, which is quite something for me, considering it's my biggest finished model to date.
I had a lot of fun creating the ruined look. And trying to incorporate gold watch links. I also found it fun, but frustrating try out the leaf weaving technique, and yes I know I'm a few years late to that :P
Tree was inspired by some of Dan The Fan and LordGregory's models. Overall build was inspired by Markus Rollbühler. Statue by Stan Building.