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‘SOOC’. No processing required, just a little sharpening - decided I couldn’t improve natural light and what the Fuji did with it, minus two thirds of one stop exp’ in camera & ‘Click’. I'd hung my coat on the garden fork behind to darken the background. Hope the W/End is going well, Alan:-)……
366 - I’ve decided to do this to force me to pick up a camera other than when we are away on our travels (they will be posted as normal) - I will be interested to see what transpires, they will be varied I’m sure so we’ll see where inspiration takes me over the course of the year, hopefully at the end of it I will be a better photographer. Feel free to critique as you see fit, but please don’t feel obliged, I anticipate they will not be to all tastes. Have a great year and if you also have embarked on a 365 project then good luck in seeing it through, Alan:-)
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The last of my Autumn images for another year I'd think. The recent wind has taken care of the remaining leaves at this stage.
My five year old niece in Australia looked at this image and decided it needed a Unicorn. She was so sincere, and so right :-)
(Edited as always with trusty but simple Picasa, this one is more heavily edited than I usually do.)
This is why you don't give a redneck gun powder and a camera. I felt like the only thing missing was the theme music to Mission Impossible.
Bringing Burj Khalifa to life required a combination of visionary ideals and solid science. In the process, the project amassed an awe-inspiring number of facts, figures, and statistics.
World Records
At over 828 metres (2,716.5 feet) and more than 160 stories, Burj Khalifa holds the following records:
Tallest building in the world
Tallest free-standing structure in the world
Highest number of stories in the world
Highest occupied floor in the world
Highest outdoor observation deck in the world
Elevator with the longest travel distance in the world
Tallest service elevator in the world
Tallest of the Supertall
Not only is Burj Khalifa the world’s tallest building, it has also broken two other impressive records: tallest structure, previously held by the KVLY-TV mast in Blanchard, North Dakota, and tallest free-standing structure, previously held by Toronto’s CN Tower. The Chicago-based Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) has established 3 criteria to determine what makes a tall building tall. Burj Khalifa wins by far in all three categories.
Height to architectural top
Height is measured from the level of the lowest, significant, open-air, pedestrian entrance to the architectural top of the building. This includes spires, but does not include antennae, signage, flagpoles or other functional-technical equipment. This measurement is the most widely used and is used to define the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat rankings of the Tallest Buildings in the World.
Highest occupied floor
Height is measured from the level of the lowest, significant, open-air, pedestrian entrance to the highest continually occupied floor within the building. Maintenance areas are not included.
Height to tip
Height is measured from the level of the lowest, significant, open-air, pedestrian entrance to the highest point of the building, irrespective of material or function of the highest element. This includes antennae, flagpoles, signage and other functional-technical equipment.
Car recorded at the Concours d'Elegance Geneva, Illinois - 2023
Compared to its predecessor, the exterior of the 1929 Cadillac was little changed. Parking lamps were moved from the cowl to the tops of the fenders—a subtle modification providing a bit sportier look. Significant changes took place under the sheet metal. Most important was a new “clashless” Synchro-Mesh Silent-Shift transmission, negating the need for double-clutching while also enabling much smoother gear selection. New mechanical four-wheel brakes required considerably less pedal pressure than earlier models, and shatterproof Security Plate glass became standard in all windows. The suspension system featured new double-acting Delco shock absorbers, and the finely upholstered fully adjustable seats became standard.
Source: RM Sotherby's
This photograph required some planning and strategy. Rio Grande's double track mainline emerged from the small town of Thistle, Utah, heading in a due east direction with Soldier Creek sandwiched between the right of way and US Highway 6. During the month of June, the sun angle moves into the northern hemisphere, especially early and late in the day. By June 12th of 1977, the lighting was 'as good as it gets' on the north side of the Rio Grande Zephyr as it ducked beneath the US Highway 89 overpass on a gorgeous morning in Spanish Fork Canyon.
this is a digital version of the same scene. Previously I posted the film one. As it was captured using a vintage lens, the image still has some vintage charm and interesting color tones. At the same time digital version required a bit more work to prepare for publication.
Beethoven: Symphony no. 6 "Pastoral" (Furtwangler)
This composition will perfectly complement your experience.
Here is a film version. You can compare both and let me know which one you prefer.
If you have a chance to find a very positive and inspiring movie "The Green Beautiful" or "La belle Verte", you will enjoy it.
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Around the whole southern slope of Tosc a broad, easy path goes, connecting Vodnikov dom (hut) with the Pokljuka plateau area. Only in winter this rocky part can require some additional attention or equipment.
Super power was required for the 1705 Merehead to Hanwell Loop.
59206 is paired up with 66413 and caught during a brief stop at Westbury. The subtle differences between the 59 and 66 can be picked out in this shot.
6600 hp available to the driver, pretty impressive.
As a foot note I would be having a serious word with the company that painted the trains in two different shades of orange....new colour chart required.
59206 is now 26 years old....not bad for an old girl.
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Light after storm.
Avondale Estates, Georgia, USA.
7 October 2021.
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Cloud formations in Central Florida can be quite amazing, as this shot shows. Generally, when I've seen shots of this type, they are either from an airplane window, or focused on the top of mountains! This was taken from a dock in Holly Hill, Florida and shows the spectacular clouds just before sunset. no elevation required.
Prominently featured here is my multi-purpose bird stand doubling as paint can support and, as seen in this image, Coyote Peanut Dispenser. It serves each of these functions equally well with no required scheduled maintenance intervals. Pretty sure that our coyote doesn’t care about any of these features. And just to state the obvious here, these peanuts are not meant for him but really intended for the Blue Jays and Magpies. Crows, as well. I really should put up a sign on the stand so that I don’t have to explain this each and every time.
What is most impressive about this shot is something that can’t be seen but is a prominent part that allowed this shot to be taken. No, it’s not the extremely clean window glass although that is also a part of it. It is the fact that I was able to calm Misha (black dog) down enough to not scare the coyote away - they are extremely skittish even more so than the crows. So, yes, watching countless of the Dog Whisperer shows featuring Cesar Millan finally paid off. Thank you Cesar.
It’s obvious that this is a severe case of peanuts on the brain.
We pass this old church on our Main St regularly, but only yesterday noticed that some maintenance is in order.
One of Sue taking a similar photo in Comments.
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Getting this shot required about 2% of effort... 3% of patience... and 95% luck!
Getting out from the warmth of my bed well before dawn was the easiest part. The mostly clear sky wasn't looking very promising for a pink sunrise... but after a quick (strong) cup of coffee... there was no point in going back to bed.
I wanted to find something different to what I usually shoot when I'm in Greyton... but I didn't have a clue where to go... and the fact that it was still dark wasn't really helping me find to an interesting subject either!
So I did what I usually do... just drive around aimlessly... waiting for that little voice in my head to speak... saying things like "stop the car, I wonder what the view is like from the top of that hill?".
The little voice did speak... and I did stop the car and hike up a hill... and this is what I found when I looked over the top of it.
Hmm... nice tree! Pity about the hazy air though! I could barely make out any detail in the mountain when the dawn broke... and the whole scene continued to look flat and dull... despite a little bit of pink.
Damn... yet another fruitless shoot! The chances of this scene looking amazing were miniscule! I imagined how it could look if a beam of light came shining out between the clouds to light up just the tree and nothing else... but considering all my recent failures in communicating effectively with mother nature... I wasn't really expecting that to happen!
I've had too many fruitless shoots recently... my hit-rate has dropped to about 1 interesting photo to every 500 photos taken... which has even recently made me wonder if I should perhaps start thinking about maybe getting depressed about that!?
But that seemed like too much effort... so I decided to just stick around... enjoy the beautiful scenery and sunrise... and just maybe get lucky.
Mother Nature clearly felt sorry for me on Sunday morning... as she rewarded me for my patience and perseverance with this amazing spectacle!
The beam of light only lasted for about 5 seconds... allowing me to get only 5 shots... with only one shot where the spotlight was exactly on the tree!
What a "Hum-Worthy" moment that was... sometimes everything just falls into place perfectly... I was humming all the way on my hike back to the car!!
Nikon D800, Nikkor 24 - 70 mm at 38 mm, ISO of 100, aperture of f/14 with a 1/200th second exposure.
Ok. I get the point. I've been Tagged (AGAIN. REPEATEDLY.) So here are TWENTY FIVE MORE RANDOM THINGS about Me.
1. I tend to Randomly capitalize.
2. My favorite number in the alphabet is Blue.
3. is the magic number.
4. I miss my Dad.
5. I prefer cold weather to hot, but I love thunderstorms, so I put up with the heat and humidity required to produce appropriate thunder and lightning every once in awhile. One of the things I miss most about South Florida are the hurricanes.
6. I type 60+ wpm. I am the ONLY one who showed up enough to Ms. Hall's typing class senior year to: a) Remember her name and b) learn how to type.
7. I hate raw tomatoes.
8. I could listen to Keifer Sutherland's voice for hours. He could read the phone book. I don't care.
9. Writing this made me think of Van Halen's video for "Right Now" so I stopped writing these things down and watched the video on the internet and wrote down ALL of the "Right Nows."
A few favorites:
Right Now...
-there's a bomb factory hard at work
-oil companies and old men are in control
-a convenience store is open
-oysters are being robbed of their sole posession
-our government is doing things we think only other countries do
-you aren't doing what you most wish you were
-your memory is getting longer while your life is getting shorter
Where was I? Oh yes...
10. I can do the Time Warp. (Again.)
11. I have Zero Patience with stupid people. I am working on that.
12. I am very empathetic despite my tough exterior. If I care about you, it is very easy for you to hurt me. But I'll also go to the ends of the earth for you.
13. I did not appreciate the beauty and freedom of my youth, although I listened to Baz Luhrmann's Sunscreen Song incessantly, and to be fair, it warned me of that.
14. I listened to Nine Inch Nails album Pretty Hate Machine so damn much that, to this day, my mother knows the song "Head Like a Hole"
15. I'm skipping Number Fifteen. Because I can. And now you'll wonder.
16. I once broke someone's heart, and, although it was absolutely the right thing to do, I feel badly for deeply hurting someone I once cared about. I worry to this day if he has ever been okay.
17. I love crosswords. Possibly because I love words.
18. I'd love to be a Culinary Anthropologist. I just don't know where that would be both applicable and profitable. I'd also like to tie the photography in with that, if possible.
19. Did I leave the oven on?
20. I prefer dogs to cats. Generally large dogs. Although I have always been fascinated by large, predator cats, particularly pumas, panthers, mountain lions... et cetera. I blame the short-lived but much-loved-by-me series "Manimal" for this obsession.
21. I tend to think and write in Stream of Consciousness.
22. I am a maple syrup snob and will only eat genuine Grade B Maple syrup. From a tree, not a female-shaped plastic bottle.
23. Also Balsamic Vinegar: Roland Four Diamond brand... it's amazing and once I had it, I have never been able to eat the thin, un-aged stuff again.
24. I love high thread-count, 100% cotton sheets. I have probably 10 sets. I do not believe it is necessary to have this many sheet sets for one bed. Nevertheless...
25. I want to travel the country for months in an RV. I want to see and photograph every wonder of our country and eat at odd, roadside diners and dives and historic places, and pick berries and see deserts and oceans and lakes and endless skies and sunsets and landmarks and buildings and sagauro cacti and large trees and moose and bears and rusted out airplanes and wrecked cars and urban superhighways and islands both deserted and supersaturated with 8 million people.
I'd also like to travel Europe by train.
A resting digger wasp on oregano. Looks like it takes up a lot of space ...
Required quite a bit of cutting and pasting in Photoshop CS6 to be able to show the wasp in its entirety. :-)
I almost didn't get this shot. I was feeling a little tired and lazy, and knew this shot would require waking at 4am, driving an hour, hiking a mile, waiting in the cold etc. My husband talked some sense into me and basically told me to suck it up. So he stayed back at the campsite with the kids while I trekked off on my own. So grateful for my husband who continues to support me, push me, and encourage even when the mom-fatigue threatens to take over. Of course, it ended up being an amazing, invigorating experience standing on this rock overlooking Moraine Lake at sunrise. There was an audible gasp from all the photographers around me when the rainbow appeared. It seemed too perfect to be true, and everyone just stood there in silence taking in the beauty of this incredible scene.
Vor das Wandervergnügen im Verzasca-Tal hat der Herrgott die Alpenüberquerung gesetzt ;-)
Driving in from Germany, getting to the picturesque Verzasca valley near Lago Maggiore requires crossing the Alps, and then some grit and nerves to traverse the harrowing mountain switchbacks leading to the remote valley.
Now for something completely different. There are 3 ways to achieve vortex star trails though all require some sort of composite because otherwise the foreground is distorted.
1) In camera, yes it can be done. This requires that you build a device attached to a motor and gears to grab the zoom ring and make tiny changes to the zoom through a sequence of star field shots. Nobody sells such a device so only DIY. For me, no way, my mechanical abilities are zilch.
2) Take a sequence of star trail images over an hour or two and then in software shrink the image as each layer is added to duplicate the in camera zooming using either Photoshop actions or a script.
3) Take one image of a star field and again use software to duplicate and shrink to get the effect. For this image I went for number 3 using a Photoshop Script which can be downloaded free from liketheocean.com/night-photography/scripts-to-make-your-s...
To get my star field I used a single image taken for a standard star trails shot in nearby Arundel a few years ago. As there were not enough stars for the best effect I used copy of selections to a new image and cloning to get a denser star field and leave out the foreground. The script was run after selecting vortex. The foreground was taken in Lanzarote on a coach tour round the National Park where no other vehicles are allowed. The area shown in the image is appropriately enough called Tranquillity valley. The foreground was layered onto the star trails and combined using a layer mask and brush and a selection for precision
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The Riverside Stadium is a football stadium in Middlesbrough, England, which has been the home of Middlesbrough since its opening in 1995. It has an all-seated capacity of 33,746, although provisional planning permission is in place to expand to 42,000 if required.
Middlesbrough Women became affiliated with the Middlesbrough men's team in May 2023 and now play selected matches at the Riverside Stadium.
The stadium was built to replace Ayresome Park following the publication of the Taylor Report, which required all top division football stadiums to be all-seater. After the report was delivered in January 1990, Middlesbrough needed an all-seater stadium by August 1994 but were unable to expand Ayresome Park outwards owing to its location in a residential area, and expanding the stadium upwards would have limited the club to a capacity of around 20,000 seats – the club wanted a considerably larger capacity. The decision was taken in 1993 by club officials to build a new stadium; Teesside Development Corporation offered them the Middlehaven site by the River Tees for development.
The new 30,000 seater stadium was constructed by Taylor Woodrow Construction for £16 million, taking approximately nine months to complete after work began in the autumn of 1994. The name of the stadium was chosen by the club's fans, following a vote during the final game at Ayresome Park. The other choices available were Middlehaven Stadium, Erimus Stadium and Teesside Stadium. When it opened, the name was amended to Cellnet Riverside Stadium (and then BT Cellnet Riverside Stadium) as part of a £3 million sponsorship deal with Cellnet, but this deal ended after the 2001–02 season.
The first game was played against Chelsea in front of a 28,286 crowd (the highest home attendance in fourteen years) on 26 August 1995. Middlesbrough won the game 2–0, with Craig Hignett taking the honour of scoring the first ever goal at the stadium, Jan Åge Fjørtoft scoring the second. Their first season at their new stadium was also their first back in the Premier League following promotion after two seasons away.
In their second season at the Riverside Stadium, Middlesbrough were runners-up in both of the domestic cups, but a points deduction in the league meant that they were relegated from the Premier League.
In 1998 – when Middlesbrough were promoted back to the Premier League at the first attempt – the capacity was increased by 5,000 by filling in the north and south-west corners at a cost of £5 million. This expansion gave the stadium a 35,100 capacity, with average attendances during the late 1990s and into the 2000s frequently well over 30,000 compared to around 10,000 during most of the club’s final few seasons at Ayresome Park.
Modernisation of the stadium since then has led to the seating being reorganised on several occasions with the stadium having a capacity of 34,000 at the start of the 2017–18 season. The club have planning permission to extend the stadium by another 7,000 if demand made it necessary, which would bring its capacity up to approximately 42,000.
In 2005, the old Ayresome Park gates, which had been famously locked when the club went into liquidation in 1986, were erected outside the Riverside Stadium as a reminder of the past. Another addition has been statues of former players George Hardwick, Wilf Mannion and George Camsell. The area in front of the Ayresome Park gates is the location of the "Borobrick Road", where fans could pay to have a message inscribed on a brick (often in memory of a deceased family member) to be added to the road. For Armistice Day 2008, a set of bricks commemorating eight Middlesbrough players who died in the two world wars was unveiled.
In July 2008, planning permission was granted by Middlesbrough Council to construct a wind turbine at the site of the stadium, standing 125 metres high and capable of generating three megawatts of electricity. The turbine is used to power the stadium, with the excess being sold to the National Grid.
On 24 April 2012, it was announced that the stadium would host the only public warm up match for the Great Britain Olympic football team before the London 2012 Olympic Games against Brazil. Football stars including Ryan Giggs, Craig Bellamy, Thiago Silva, Neymar, Lucas Moura and Hulk all featured in the match in which Brazil outclassed Great Britain, winning 2–0.
On 15 March 2013, it was announced that Conference National side Gateshead would stage a "home" game at the Riverside Stadium, after continual drainage problems at Gateshead International Stadium forced them to play their last twelve league games of the season at five different venues.
Following the club's promotion to the Premier League at the end of the 2015–16 season, the ground underwent a £5 million package of renovations designed to bring it up to the standards required of Premier League stadiums. Renovations included the installation of a large press box at the back of the East Stand, the construction of two permanent television studios at the back of the south-east corner, with associated access and TV compound on the stadium's exterior, an internal reorganisation of the West Stand reception, tunnel and changing room area, new floodlights and refurbished concourse areas including the addition of new kiosks and card and contactless payment methods. These changes resulted in a slightly reduced capacity of 33,746.