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Yeah...I cant keep my promises lol!!!!...I just cant stay away from flickr. But Im trying to reduce my daily doses. At least I'll be taking some new shots with my friends today. See ya!
Jurei mentiras e sigo sozinho
Assumo os pecados
Os ventos do norte não movem moinhos
E o que me resta é só um gemido
Minha vida, meus mortos, meus caminhos tortos
Meu sangue latino
Minha alma cativa
Rompi tratados, traà os ritos
Quebrei a lança, lancei no espaço
Um grito, um desabafo
E o que me importa é não estar, vencido
Minha vida, meus mortos, meus caminhos tortos
Meu sangue latino
Minha alma cativa
Today's soundtrack: Sangue Latino - Secos & Molhados (one of my life's favorites)
It is interesting to note what Wikipedia says about the Argyle Lake State Park located in Colchester, Illinois. "The 1,700-acre (688 ha) park is home to the 93-acre (38 ha) Argyle Lake and 5 miles (8 km) of hiking trails and wooded campsites." And this part explains why I chose the title for this image... the article also states, "There have been numerous Bigfoot sightings at the lake in recent years." I wasn't aware of such claims--and I hardly think that would keep me from camping in this beautiful park. I've been there in the evening and took some great sunset shots along a remote part of the shoreline (see one of the first posts below for an example... but you may have to click the "View x previous comments" link to see it.
As a result of processing, this image had heavy chromatic aberration all along the skyline and on the borders of the leaves and limbs (those magenta, green, purple or white color fringes that show up along the borders of high contrast areas, especially where the light is intense). While it may not be readily noticeable unless the image is enlarged on the screen, it is certainly problematic when printing the photo. In the past, I used Photoshop's clone stamp, smudge and paint tools and painstakingly brushed over the aberrations to remove them. However, that can be quite time consuming, especially in a photo like this where there is a lot of skyline and leaves in trees! So, this morning, I searched youtube and found several videos showing how to remove it quickly and easily. I tried one of the less complicated techniques on this image (using a hue/saturation layer and eyedropper to sample the colors in the chromatic aberration, see www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhrdsrHqvLk), but I also intend to try the Gaussian Blur/layers technique next. I'm also interested in trying a plugin from Power Retouch for this. If you have experience with any of these techniques, would you please let me know which you prefer and why?
I photographed this scene while I was on the way back from a business trip. It had been raining that morning (and the previous week), the water level was up, and the water itself was quite muddy. Families of geese (adults with their young) were making their way across the lake in this shot (I think they were somewhat unhappy with me because when I originally encountered them on the shoreline, I didn't have any handouts for them).
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Lance Cpl. Alexander Morris, a rifleman with Battalion Landing Team 3rd Battalion, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, sights through his rifle scope during dry-fire training in Djibouti, Feb. 22, 2015. A contingent of MEU Marines was ashore in Djibouti conducting sustainment training in order to maintain proficiency while deployed. The 24th MEU is embarked on the ships of the Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group and deployed to maintain regional security in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations.
(U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Joey Mendez/Released)
The collection is now available on my store at: www.etsy.com/shop/HOANGANHKHOI !
Model: Out Of Sight Nadja.
book of beelitz p.146 - my wife Barbara made a book of BEELITZ, an abandoned infirmary near Berlin - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beelitz
The demise of the former RhB Class Ge 6/6" locomotives has seen the regular use of Ge 4/4"' machines as well as the smaller Ge 4/4" units on freight trains. In this view taken a Bever, refurbished 650 had charge of the Albula Valley freight 5129, the 10:05 Chur GB to Samedan.
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This whirling image features a bright spiral galaxy known as MCG-01-24-014, which is located about 275 million light-years from Earth. In addition to being a well-defined spiral galaxy, MCG-01-24-014 has an extremely energetic core, known as an active galactic nucleus (AGN), so it is referred to as an active galaxy. Even more specifically, it is categorised as a Type-2 Seyfert galaxy. Seyfert galaxies host one of the most common subclasses of AGN, alongside quasars. Whilst the precise categorisation of AGNs is nuanced, Seyfert galaxies tend to be relatively nearby ones where the host galaxy remains plainly detectable alongside its central AGN, while quasars are invariably very distant AGNs whose incredible luminosities outshine their host galaxies.
There are further subclasses of both Seyfert galaxies and quasars. In the case of Seyfert galaxies, the predominant subcategories are Type-1 and Type-2. These are differentiated from one another by their spectra — the pattern that results when light is split into its constituent wavelengths — where the spectral lines that Type-2 Seyfert galaxies emit are particularly associated with specific so-called ‘forbidden’ emission. To understand why emitted light from a galaxy could be considered forbidden, it helps to understand why spectra exist in the first place. Spectra look the way they do because certain atoms and molecules will absorb and emit light very reliably at very specific wavelengths. The reason for this is quantum physics: electrons (the tiny particles that orbit the nuclei of atoms and molecules) can only exist at very specific energies, and therefore electrons can only lose or gain very specific amounts of energy. These very specific amounts of energy correspond to certain light wavelengths being absorbed or emitted.
Forbidden emission lines, therefore, are spectral emission lines that should not exist according to certain rules of quantum physics. But quantum physics is complex, and some of the rules used to predict it use assumptions that suit laboratory conditions here on Earth. Under those rules, this emission is ‘forbidden’ — so improbable that it’s disregarded. But in space, in the midst of an incredibly energetic galactic core, those assumptions don’t hold anymore, and the ‘forbidden’ light gets a chance to shine out towards us.
[Image Description: A spiral galaxy. It appears to be almost circular and seen face-on, with two prominent spiral arms winding out from a glowing core. It is centred in the frame as if a portrait. Most of the background is black, with only tiny, distant galaxies, but there are two large bright stars in the foreground, one blue and one red, directly above the galaxy.]
Credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA, C. Kilpatrick; CC BY 4.0
After our visit to the appliance store, we stopped at Walmart to pick up a few things before grabbing a bite to eat. And I figured I may as well do another rear view while I was at it. 😉
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0CP9RVvm_4
Ooh, and all I taught her was everything
Ooh, I know she gave me all that she wore
And now my bitter hands chafe beneath the clouds
Of what was everything.
Oh, the pictures have all been washed in black, tattooed everything...
I have been hearing the juvenile red-bellied woodpeckers up in the trees for the last few days, and watched the adult male loading up on globs of suet - but this morning was my first clear sighing of one of the juveniles. Andover, NJ
Taken through the aperture at the top of Richard Serra's 'Sight Point' sculpture outside of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.
Camera: Fujica STX-1
Lens: 55mm f2.2
Film: 35mm Kodak ultramax 400 C41
Slight edit on CS6 to remove spot of dust that was on lens in upper left corner.
This little Blue Tailed skink is the first lizard we've seen since spring in our backyard. And what a welcome sight to see, for sure!
Normally, they are regular visitors, showing up all over the place, even raiding our mealworm feeder, but this year just hasn't been the same without them. Hopefully, this sighting is a good sign they're still around and have just been better at hiding from us.
North Point, Hong Kong
My Hong Kong photos where shot with AGFAPhoto Vista Plus 35mm film on a CANON AF35ML from the eighties. All digital copies were made by Cardinal Camera with very small edits made in Lightroom
Panoramic from Graça Viewpoint, one of the most beautiful views of Lisbon city.
D800 + AF-S Nikkor 24-70mm f / 2.8G ED @ 70mm
ISO 100 - f / 11
Lee GND 0.6 SE
Merge of 13 vertical photos
original file - 2109mm x 603mm | 24911x7117px
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When Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo shot into this harbor in 1542, his first words were, "WTF? That damn Sebastian gave me a bum tip again!" Needless to say, he turned his ship around and left thinking this place has already been settled! Once the ship disappeared on the horizon, the Kumeyaay Native American inhabitants pulled down the city facade and continued their normal lives for another 200 years before they were bothered again. However, this time, everyone forgot where they stored the city facade and the Spanish succeeded in establishing a military post in 1769.
San Diego, California 2012