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A flying bird at the backdrop of dramatic sky. Captured from 3rd floor roof. It was flying quite low.
The path to the storm, the different gradient of the sky captures the beginnings of a storm brewing.
The Nokia site in Munich – circular, futuristic, focused.
Right on cue: a jet slicing through the sky, captured with the EOS R8 and the RF 24mm f/1.8.
Venus can be seen here rising in the early evening skies above Blydenburgh Park. Our sister planet was at its brightest this year on December 6th, and has recently been a fixture (around sunset) in our southwestern skies.
Captured in Blydenburgh Park, Smithtown, NY.
HDR image constructed from 3 bracketed shots - 2 stop differential between each image.
Images processed w/ Photomatix, and finished in Photoshop -- including the use of Topaz lab plugins and filters.
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This captivating image showcases the enchanting interplay of light and shadow during the golden hour in Los Gatos. The photograph is dominated by a dramatic cloudscape, with billowing cumulus clouds illuminated in warm, golden hues against a serene blue sky. In the foreground, the silhouettes of diverse vegetation create a striking contrast, adding depth and local character to the scene. A lone palm tree stands tall on the left, its fronds clearly defined against the luminous sky. Pine trees and other foliage frame the right side and bottom of the image, their dark outlines emphasizing the radiant backdrop. This stunning juxtaposition of California's iconic palm trees with the cloud-kissed sky captures the unique beauty of Los Gatos' natural landscape, inviting viewers to pause and appreciate the ephemeral magic of sunset in this charming Bay Area town.
Peat laden mountaintops of the West coast, roll down to the Atlantic, Broken rock and bog is all that is here. Yet still, here Ireland shows a beauty in burgundy tones with dapples of sky captured by the hungry ground.
Shot with a 1950's 6x6 Folding Voigtlander Perkeo II and Kodak 100 film. Lab scan.
So after taking the landscape plunge last summer with the low cost $299 Rokinon 14mm f/2.8 lens mainly for night sky images, I was really struck how nice the wider view worked for many of the scenes out west. Also enjoyed it recently with the night sky captures in West Virginia.
I did have issues though with the quality of the 14mm lens. While sharp in the center, even at f/8 the corners and edges (about 1/6 of the frame) was not sharp at all. So I have been researching other 14mm primes to upgrade. I was really close to getting the Canon 14mm f/2.8, even had it ordered and shipped, but decided to cancel and research a little more (that Canon lens is not cheap).
I looked closely at the reviews of the Sigma 14mm f/1.8, and found that many felt it was as sharp as the Canon … though slightly less than a true 14mm (more like 14.8mm). Costing nearly half as much as the Canon, and 1.3 stops more of light, I ended up getting the Sigma Lens. I arrived yesterday, and after a long day at work I was still excited to play and test it into the evening for about three hours. Really checked it for sharpness at all aperture settings. The results really blew me away.
At f/8 to f/16, I found no flaws in sharpness anywhere in the frame (sharp to the corners and edges). In fact, the results even at f/4 at the corners was hands down 10 times better than the corners with my Canon 17/40mm lens at f/8 and 17mm.
As you get it down to f/1.8 though, the sharpness in the corners at infinity focus gets pretty bokehed (I think I made that word up). But playing with the live view and focusing minor adjustments, I was able to get a slight modification to the focus point at f/1.8 where the sharpness to the corners was nearly as good as in the center … SO VERY IMPRESSIVE. For night time captures where I will be using it at f/1.8, I think it will be super results.
Thinking this may soon by my staple landscape lens (getting the 150mm filters and adapter ring as well) so I can be as creative with it as I have been with the 17/40. Having both of these landscape lenses will really be nice … the 17/40 will be real handy when in the rain, and also at the beach with ocean spray. Finding a way to keep falling rain off of the open curved 14mm lens will be hard I think … unless I can make an umbrella adapter or get Mrs. Krach to hold an umbrella for me ;)
The image here was taken today while at lunch at work … 101 degrees F Summer Day … really liking the f/16 sun burst / star created with the new lens to. It is really pretty I think.
he castle is situated on the Laich of Moray, a fertile plain that was once the swampy foreshore of Spynie Loch. This was originally a more defensive position than it appears today, long after the loch was drained.
The motte is a huge man-made mound, with steep sides and a wide ditch separating it from the bailey. The whole site is enclosed by a water-filled ditch, which is more a mark of its boundary than it is a serious defensive measure.
Duffus Castle was built by a Flemish man named Freskin, who came to Scotland in the first half of the 1100s. After an uprising by the ‘men of Moray’ against David I in 1130, the king sent Freskin north as a representative of royal authority.
He was given the estate of Duffus, and here he built an earthwork-and-timber castle. Freskin’s son William adopted the title of ‘de Moravia’ – of Moray. By 1200, the family had become the most influential noble family in northern Scotland, giving rise to the earls of Sutherland and Clan Murray.
In about 1270, the castle passed to Sir Reginald Cheyne the Elder, Lord of Inverugie. He probably built the square stone keep on top of the motte, and the curtain wall encircling the bailey. In 1305, the invading King Edward I of England gave him a grant of 200 oaks from the royal forests of Darnaway and Longmorn, which were probably used for the castle’s floors and roofs.
By 1350, the castle had passed to a younger son of the Earl of Sutherland through marriage. It may have been then that the keep was abandoned, possibly because it was beginning to slip down the mound, and a new residence established at the north of the bailey.
Viscount Dundee, leader of the first Jacobite Rising, dined in the castle as a guest of James, Lord Duffus in 1689, prior to his victory against King William II’s government forces at Killiecrankie. Soon after, Lord Duffus moved to the nearby Duffus House. The castle quickly fell into decay.
ERIS, the Very Large Telescope’s newest infrared eye on the sky, captured this stunning image of the inner ring of the galaxy NGC 1097. This galaxy is located 45 million light-years away from Earth, in the constellation Fornax. ERIS has captured the gaseous and dusty ring that lies at the very centre of the galaxy. The bright spots in the ring are stellar nurseries, shown in unprecedented detail. The centre of this galaxy is active, with a supermassive black hole that feeds off its surroundings.
This image has been taken through four different filters by ERIS’s state-of-the-art infrared imager, the Near Infrared Camera System — or NIX. The filters have been represented here by blue, green, red and magenta, where the last one highlights the compact regions in the ring. To put NIX’s resolution in perspective, this image shows, in detail, a portion of the sky less than 0.03% the size of the full Moon.
Credit: ESO/ERIS team
Maryland ...at 100 degrees F. Summer is in full swing now.
So after taking the landscape plunge last summer with the low cost $299 Rokinon 14mm f/2.8 lens mainly for night sky images, I was really struck how nice the wider view worked for many of the scenes out west. Also enjoyed it recently with the night sky captures in West Virginia.
I did have issues though with the quality of the 14mm lens. While sharp in the center, even at f/8 the corners and edges (about 1/6 of the frame) was not sharp at all. So I have been researching other 14mm primes to upgrade. I was really close to getting the Canon 14mm f/2.8, even had it ordered and shipped, but decided to cancel and research a little more (that Canon lens is not cheap).
I looked closely at the reviews of the Sigma 14mm f/1.8, and found that many felt it was as sharp as the Canon … though slightly less than a true 14mm (more like 14.8mm). Costing nearly half as much as the Canon, and 1.3 stops more of light, I ended up getting the Sigma Lens. I arrived yesterday, and after a long day at work I was still excited to play and test it into the evening for about three hours. Really checked it for sharpness at all aperture settings. The results really blew me away.
At f/8 to f/16, I found no flaws in sharpness anywhere in the frame (sharp to the corners and edges). In fact, the results even at f/4 at the corners was hands down 10 times better than the corners with my Canon 17/40mm lens at f/8 and 17mm.
As you get it down to f/1.8 though, the sharpness in the corners at infinity focus gets pretty bokehed (I think I made that word up). But playing with the live view and focusing minor adjustments, I was able to get a slight modification to the focus point at f/1.8 where the sharpness to the corners was nearly as good as in the center … SO VERY IMPRESSIVE. For night time captures where I will be using it at f/1.8, I think it will be super results.
Thinking this may soon by my staple landscape lens (getting the 150mm filters and adapter ring as well) so I can be as creative with it as I have been with the 17/40. Having both of these landscape lenses will really be nice … the 17/40 will be real handy when in the rain, and also at the beach with ocean spray. Finding a way to keep falling rain off of the open curved 14mm lens will be hard I think … unless I can make an umbrella adapter or get Mrs. Krach to hold an umbrella for me ;)
The image here was taken today while at lunch at work … 101 degrees F Summer Day … really liking the f/16 sun burst / star created with the new lens to. It is really pretty I think.
Pink flowers growing from a tree arc towards the sky in front of decorative eaves and a blue sky. Captured March 2023 in Bremen, Germany in front of Meierei restaurant in Bürgerpark.
Duffus Castle, near Elgin, Moray, Scotland, was a motte-and-bailey castle and was in use from c.1140 to 1705. During its occupation it underwent many alterations. The most fundamental was the destruction of the original wooden structure and its replacement with one of stone. At the time of its establishment, it was one of the most secure fortifications in Scotland. At the death of the 2nd Lord Duffus in 1705, the castle had become totally unsuitable as a dwelling and so was abandoned.
The eider is the UK's heaviest duck and its fastest flying. It is a true seaduck, rarely found away from coasts where its dependence on coastal molluscs for food has brought it into conflict with mussel farmers. Eiders are highly gregarious and usually stay close inshore, riding the swell in a sandy bay or strung out in long lines out beyond the breaking waves. It is an Amber List species because of its winter concentrations. These pictured are annual visitors to Burghead harbour, Moray.
Opua, Bay of Islands, New Zealand. This is our view. These two shots are extremely similar, right down to the fact of the car ferry just leaving with its load of cars crossing to the the other side. One photo was taken 28 August 2007, during our early days here. The other photo I took today, 2 April 2022. On every day, every hour, every minute, the atmosphere and the colours change. Over the years buildings have come and gone, trees have grown. Can you spot the differences? 🌞
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Photographed in mid-town Toronto, Ontario, Canada at 18.53.32 EDT
This striking view of the western sky, captured just 19 minutes after the instant of the June solstice, presented itself last evening, which was hot (30° C.) and steamy in Toronto.
Concerning "crepuscular rays", from Wikipedia:
"Crepuscular rays (also known as sunbeams, Sun rays or God rays), in atmospheric optics, are rays of sunlight that appear to radiate from the point in the sky where the sun is located. These rays, which stream through gaps in clouds (particularly stratocumulus) or between other objects, are columns of sunlit air separated by darker cloud-shadowed regions. Despite seeming to converge at a point, the rays are in fact near-parallel shafts of sunlight, and their apparent convergence is a perspective effect (similar, for example, to the way that parallel railway lines seem to converge at a point in the distance).
The name comes from their frequent occurrences during twilight hours (those around dawn and dusk), when the contrasts between light and dark are the most obvious. Crepuscular comes from the Latin word "crepusculum", meaning twilight."
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The castle is situated on the Laich of Moray, a fertile plain that was once the swampy foreshore of Spynie Loch. This was originally a more defensive position than it appears today, long after the loch was drained.
The motte is a huge man-made mound, with steep sides and a wide ditch separating it from the bailey. The whole site is enclosed by a water-filled ditch, which is more a mark of its boundary than it is a serious defensive measure.
Duffus Castle was built by a Flemish man named Freskin, who came to Scotland in the first half of the 1100s. After an uprising by the ‘men of Moray’ against David I in 1130, the king sent Freskin north as a representative of royal authority.
He was given the estate of Duffus, and here he built an earthwork-and-timber castle. Freskin’s son William adopted the title of ‘de Moravia’ – of Moray. By 1200, the family had become the most influential noble family in northern Scotland, giving rise to the earls of Sutherland and Clan Murray.
In about 1270, the castle passed to Sir Reginald Cheyne the Elder, Lord of Inverugie. He probably built the square stone keep on top of the motte, and the curtain wall encircling the bailey. In 1305, the invading King Edward I of England gave him a grant of 200 oaks from the royal forests of Darnaway and Longmorn, which were probably used for the castle’s floors and roofs.
By 1350, the castle had passed to a younger son of the Earl of Sutherland through marriage. It may have been then that the keep was abandoned, possibly because it was beginning to slip down the mound, and a new residence established at the north of the bailey.
Viscount Dundee, leader of the first Jacobite Rising, dined in the castle as a guest of James, Lord Duffus in 1689, prior to his victory against King William II’s government forces at Killiecrankie. Soon after, Lord Duffus moved to the nearby Duffus House. The castle quickly fell into decay.