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Heohyeon facing Namsan Hill, Seoul, South Korea
Blended exposures with Laowa 12mm on Sony A7rii
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Rauðasandur beach (Westfjords) 20200806
Rauðisandur (Red Beach) is a 10-kilometer stretch of a beach on the south coast of the West Fjords (Vestfirðir) in Iceland. And, yes, the sand is red, at least in certain conditions. On sunny days, it is quite a sight to see as it scintillates like a shoreline covered in diamonds. Sunny days are by no means a constant in Iceland. But, don't let that stop you from going to Rauðisandur. This amazing beach is like an instrument being played by high and low tides as well as lights and shadows. The sands are equally impressive on rainy days, constantly changing colors from red to yellow to white to red to black – with amazing hues ranging throughout this magnificent display. Rauðisandur has many qualities that we love to experience on our travel. It is a peaceful and photogenic place. Although it takes only a few hours to drive from Reykjavík today, a few decades ago it was a very isolated place.
Source: Hit Iceland.
People's Park Complex as seen from People's Park Centre, Singapore.
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Really dramatic sunset from about a month back!
Marina Bay, Singapore
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"Come one, come all! See "Little Egypt", the dancing sensation from the Orient! See her mesmerizing moves! Her scintillating gyrations! Admission only ten cents!"
This is part of my LEGO Coney Island project. It is a multi-year build where I will be recreating the iconic amusement district of Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York as it might have looked during the years 1900-1920.
This building is purely from my imagination and is built in a fantasy Islamic/Mogul style of architecture. This building is what I imagine could have housed the very real "Little Egypt" belly dancer who was quite the sensation in the Victorian era.
A small selection of my collection of vintage and antique glass bottles — I love the way old glass catches the light as the tiny imperfections from both manufacturing and age cause a myriad of tiny scintillating reflections.
Pan-Island Expressway, Singapore
Telephoto shot with the Nikon 200-500mm of the PIE, as seen from Toa Payoh, Singapore.
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Jurong East, Singapore
Fuji Pro160NS
Schneider 58mm Super-Angulon, Gaoersi 4x5
Tetenal Colortec C41
Epson v700 Perfection
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Kegon Falls and Lake Chuzenji
A slightly more close-up view of both Kegon Falls and Lake Chuzenji, as seen from the observation deck on the peak of Akechidaira Plateau. Pretty tricky deciding on the best focal length to use for this scene - the sheer expanse of the landscape before you really does allow for multiple compositions!
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Panorama with GFX100s, GF45-100mm and HnY circular polariser from Photosphere.SG.
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Initially didn't want to go up Ratchaprarop Tower Mansion because at 1500 baht, the price was kinda off-putting. Glad I made a last minute decision to head up, because the afterglow of the very cloudy sunset that day was pretty intense.
Two image blend for light trails.
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Namdaemun Gate, Seoul, South Korea
Composite image with Laowa 12mm on Sony A7rii
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On a bright overcast day, this scene, in the back of a metal recycling company, scintillated with puddles, dumpsters, traffic cones, pallets, truck trailers, drab buildings, and other random stuff to fill up a photographic frame. I especially like the wandering squiggles of the tar repairs in the wet asphalt in the foreground.
Never shot the F1 fireworks till this year, because they usually take place late at night. Glad my friend was there to give us a heads up as to how high they can actually go!
Reflection flipped, repositioned some of them but the topmost fireworks were actually that high.
Multiple exposures with 3-stop Haida Nanopro for more defined light trails.
Gardens by the Bay (East), Singapore
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The Bay of Martyrs seen at the end of the walk west of Peterborough, on the Great Ocean Road in Victoria, Australia.
A lovely place, but possibly with a dark history. The sea is slowly winning its war on the land. A half-hearted sally is visible at the extreme left...
Busan, South Korea
Composite image with Laowa 12mm on Sony A7rii
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Marina Bay, Singapore
Haida 0.9 Nanopro soft grad on Sigma 12-24mm Art
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Three-to-four and this coming-off-the-Columbia-Sub stack and its hangin-ten-high crew wait for a favorable approach at Latah Junction as the clouds drift swift overhead on a quickening breeze and freezing morn, still, the stars on high pierce the thinly nebulous veil with their delicate primordial, lightyears-since emitted, scintillating luminescence. Minutes later – stars following – the train is on the move swinging out onto the 3,950-foot-long, some 175-feet-high Latah Bridge into Spokane Washington and points east disappearing into BNSF's vast reticular rail network. (28Feb17 ©)
26 December 2019 Singapore Annular Solar Eclipse - as seen from Raffles Place
Very much the astronomy/photography highlight of the year, we were blessed with relatively cloudless skies and good weather this afternoon to witness such a spectacular event. The atmosphere was electric as everyone pointed cameras, telescopes and smartphones towards the sun, hoping to capture a glimpse of the rare and spectacular astronomical event.
This is a simple composite layering of all the phases of the eclipse from start to end (around 3 hours in total). A sight to behold indeed.
Nikon D850 with 200-500mm and Kenko 1.4x teleconverter for individual frames. With a solar filter, of course.
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National Day fireworks in Marina Bay, as seen from Gardens By The Bay East, Singapore
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The label on this display read: The Jewel of China "Made for Each Other", Fluorite and Scheelite, Xu Bao Ding, Ping Wu, Sichuan Province, China. Presented by Muhammed Ejaz Collection, Eight Treasure International Company.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluorite
"Fluorite (also called fluorspar) is the mineral form of calcium fluoride, CaF2. It belongs to the halide minerals. It crystallizes in isometric cubic habit, although octahedral and more complex isometric forms are not uncommon.
The Mohs scale of mineral hardness, based on scratch hardness comparison, defines value 4 as fluorite.[6]
"Pure fluorite is colourless and transparent, both in visible and ultraviolet light, but impurities usually make it a colorful mineral and the stone has ornamental and lapidary uses. Industrially, fluorite is used as a flux for smelting, and in the production of certain glasses and enamels. The purest grades of fluorite are a source of fluoride for hydrofluoric acid manufacture, which is the intermediate source of most fluorine-containing fine chemicals. Optically clear transparent fluorite lenses have low dispersion, so lenses made from it exhibit less chromatic aberration, making them valuable in microscopes and telescopes. Fluorite optics are also usable in the far-ultraviolet and mid-infrared ranges, where conventional glasses are too opaque for use.
"Many samples of fluorite exhibit fluorescence under ultraviolet light, a property that takes its name from fluorite.[27] "
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheelite
"Scheelite is a calcium tungstate mineral with the chemical formula CaWO4. It is an important ore of tungsten (wolfram). Scheelite is originally named after Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1742–1786). Well-formed crystals are sought by collectors and are occasionally fashioned into gemstones when suitably free of flaws. Scheelite has been synthesized using the Czochralski process; the material produced may be used to imitate diamond, as a scintillator, or as a solid-state lasing medium. It was also used in radium paint in the same fashion as was zinc sulphide, and Thomas Edison invented a fluoroscope with a calcium tungstate-coated screen, making the images six times brighter than those with barium platinocyanide; the latter chemical allowed Röntgen to discover X-rays in early November 1895.
Scheelite occurs in contact metamorphic skarns; in high-temperature hydrothermal veins and greisen; less commonly in granite pegmatites.[2] Temperature and pressure of formation is between 200 and 500 °C (400 and 900 °F) and from 200 to 1,500 bars (2,900 to 21,800 psi).[7] Typical mineral association includes cassiterite, wolframite, topaz, fluorite, apatite, tourmaline, quartz, grossular–andradite, diopside, vesuvianite and tremolite.
On a personal note. My daughter is interested in gems, minerals, rocks, and stones. We took a daytrip to Tucson. It was our first time to the shows. There are actually something like 3 dozen shows around Tucson. We went to the Tucson Convention Center for about 3 hours and then to the Kino Sports Complex for about 1.5 hours. We had hoped to get to the 22nd St show and the GIGM Show on W. Starr Pass but did not have time. I wish I had bought my tickets in advance, it would have saved about 30-40 minutes of waiting in line at the Convention Center. I'm glad I brought a Circular Polarizer to cut some of the glare of the glass exhibit cases.
www.visittucson.org/tucson-gem-mineral-fossil-showcase/
"Every year the world-renowned Tucson Gem, Mineral & Fossil Showcase is like a time portal, a trip around the world, and a treasure hunt all rolled into one. Every winter, more than 65,000 guests from around the globe descend upon Tucson, AZ, to buy, sell, trade, and bear witness to rare and enchanting gems, minerals, and fossils at more than 40 gem show locations across the city. If you're planning a winter visit to Tucson, you won't want to miss this three-week-long event.
"Whether you’re looking for a $5 shimmering crystal necklace or a show-stopping $200,000 crystallized rock from an exotic location, the Tucson Gem, Mineral, & Fossil Shows have something for everyone.
www.visittucson.org/blog/post/gems-and-minerals/
TGMS 2024
Tucson Gem Show 2024
On a bright overcast day, this scene, in the back of a metal recycling company, with the elegant 16th St Bridge in the background, scintillated with puddles, dumpsters, traffic cones, pallets, truck trailers, and other random stuff to fill up a photographic frame.
Cityvue public housing apartment complex in Redhill, Singapore.
Sigma 12-24mm, panorama of 6 shots
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Marina Bay, Singapore
3-frame panorama with Haida 0.9 Soft Nanopro ND Filter on Sigma 12-24mm Art
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Shooting upwards during the solar equinox of September 2020 places the sun perfectly in the centre spot of these symmetrical flats in Jurong West.
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Marina Bay, Singapore
Composite exposure to retain the highlights in the moon.
Been wanting to capture the moonrise with the ArtScience Museum and managed to catch the one a day after the supermoon. It was still pretty orangish and dramatic!
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Marina Bay, Singapore
Haida Clear Night Filter on Nikon 14-24mm
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Taken from the viewing platform at Chureito Pagoda, on the day where we had the intense orangey sunset. I spent a little too much time photographing the pagoda that I almost forgot about this often overlooked spot as well. Managed to get the last few moments of evening light in the sky before it faded.
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Blended exposures, Fujifilm GFX100s with GF45-100mm
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Really intense double rainbow in the late afternoon that suddenly appeared after the rain a few days back! Totally worth the run to Jurong East Vista where I could catch it over Toh Guan Estate. This is one of the rare times where both the arches are so distinct!
Toh Guan, Singapore
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Now the fascinating witches who put the scintillating stitches in the britches
of the boys who put the powder on the noses on the faces of the ladies
of the harem of the court of King Catactacus, were just passing by.
From the song 'The court of king Caractacus' by Rolf Harris
Dongdaemun, Seoul, South Korea
Single-exposure with Laowa 12mm on Sony A7rii
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ArtScience Museum, Singapore
View from ArtScience Museum on a very blue cloudless day!
Single exposure with Sigma 12-24mm Art
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