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Most of the dozens of pictures I've taken of Taughannock have showed fog, semi-framing tree branches or some other way to try and make the resulting picture unique.
This straight-up version is certainly not unique, but maybe you will like it anyway.
The short landing site with StraightUp Ballooning and Butterfly hot air balloons reflection over Lake Kyle.
2019 Labor Day Kyle Pie In the Sky Hot Air Balloons Festival.
I could've stayed inside knowing it is cloudy and will be all night. Or I could've assumed the stations may be wrong, and go outside to suddenly see this above my head. Always see for yourself. I was taken off guard by this one and it was one of the best
The columns rise up like massive trunks, tapering and finally branching out like a crown at the ceiling.
No ice, no mixers...
After a roughish drive (for a Civic, anyway) and a "I think we're in the right place" hike/climb out into nowhere, we found Moonshine Arch. Big arch, nice scenery, and a number of other little arches and windows to explore right next door.
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June 3rd, 2013 - 44 Quiet Nights, Day 5 - Dead Horse Point to Vernal, Utah.
Destination: Vernal, Utah. Setting up for a hike into Dinosaur National Monument, we'd try for one of the state parks north of Vernal, either Red Fleet or Steinaker.
Sean Tucker's Oracle Challenger ~ Chicago Air and Water Show
Nikon D5100, Tamron 18-270, ISO 100, f/8.0, 270mm, 1/1000s
Helicopter ambulance from directly below. It was coming in low for a landing by the University Hospital in Edmonton.
This is taken at No 1 Poultry, an office and retail building located at the junction of Poultry and Queen Victoria Street, by the Bank of England, in the City of London. It was opened in 1997.
The image was taken from the basement area which has a few shops and cafes and an entrance to Bank Underground Station. Nothing special, until you look up. I was especially struck by the beautiful coloured windows in the offices above.
The picture was taken with a Sony A700 with a Sigma 10-20mm lens at 10mm. Taken handheld. 3 raw images 2EV spacing with an additional 4th and brighter exposure created in Camera Raw.. Outputted in Photomatix on fusion real estate settings for a natural look for an HDR.
I used Topaz DeNoise and then Topaz Clarity
In Photoshop I used a clarity effect using unsharp mask with settings of 32 amount and 32 radius. A slight vignette was applied using the elliptical marquee tool with a large feather and brightness adjustment.
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Colorado Springs, CO - Hot Air Balloons; they are calming, silent, colorful, and wondrously quiet floating giants.
If you have never ridden one I highly suggest you do. To some people it changes their perspective, to others it changes their underwear. Either way you won’t forget it.
The little girl was helping me scan some caboose images, and this was an image we made of her sitting on the scanner.
I had to get up far too early for a Sunday this morning to taxi my son. However I decided to make the most of it and I packed my camera bag despite the fact that the sky was grey.
Once I dropped him off the sky started to brighten, those grey clouds gave way to a fairly interesting sky.
This image has been done so often by so many photographers but not by me - until now :)
(this is HDR with 3 bracketed images - I don't like to overcook)
SSC - Looking straight Up
I had plans to visit woodlands or maybe a city centre but time just ran out. Enjoying a glass of wine in the garden I was looking at the arch over the pathway and thought that it might just fit the bill, I took a trial shot with my phone, liked it and decided to go with it. This is looking up through the arch to a lovely blue sky, to the left is my Ash tree (aka Arthur) and to the right a Magnolia grandiflora with the sunlight shining through the leaves.
Ever wonder why trees always grow straight up....even on a sloped surface??? It's amazing how they know so much about their surroundings. All plants, apparently, have an inherent “sense” of gravity. The sensory organs for this are located in the basic cells of the growing plant. At the top of a shoot and at the bottom of a root, a cluster of dividing cells can be found. These cells are responsible for the direction of the growth, and thus make the tree grow straight up.
I took this photograph along the Cypress Trail at the top of a bluff overlooking Fitzgerald Marine Reserve located in the northern California coastal community of Moss Beach in San Mateo County.
For six word story.
Hibiscus rosa-sinensis.
Taken at The Regency, Laguna Woods, Orange County, California.
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Ever get the feeling where you are not sure if you are in control of your muse, or it is in control of you?
I do sometimes. I mean, I definitely march to my own beat when it comes to photography, but sometimes that beat marches me and I am left trying to balance when to believe and when to not. I have found that it tends to be right about as often as I am, so it is a tough decision usually. ;-)
Anyway, I did not mean to post this image tonight. But my walk home from work staring at the clouds awakened something and by the time I got to the house I was convinced this was the image that had to be posted. So I went with the feeling.
These cloudscapes are a lot like my sandscapes in the sense that the practice of seeing them completely revolutionizes the way I experience the world.
I like that.
On a related tangent, I am seriously considering taking a vacation in September to Florida to witness the final shuttle launch. Something about this stirs something in me too. Maybe I have a closet astronaut in me. ;-) Anyway, this is just in the idea-kicking-around-in-my-head stage at the moment. Any Floridians out there have advice on this? I already have a good line on tickets to the causeway, but I wouldn't mind hearing other helpful info.