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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.
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.
Sheer granite walls rise straightup off the floor of the Yosemite Valley. They are massive, photographs do them no justice for how imposing they are.
This pic shows the difference between this Anhinga's straight as a pin beak and that of a Cormorant, a very similar water bird. The Cormorant has blue eyes, too, and the Anhinga's are red.
This female was photographed at Reed Canal Park, and was in a very advanced stage of molting when I saw her. The poor thing looked as if a dog had gotten a hold of her wings! I researched it and found that when they molt, they lose all their feathers at one time, making it impossible for them to fly. It's a very vulnerable time for these birds, and they sure look funny while it's going on! I have other photos of her in my Reed Canal Park and Its Wildlife album, and will be posting a few more eventually, too.
The curved inside of domes in many churches are ornately illustrated. Here the geometry stands on its own. With the main church windows completely boarded up, the only light reaching the sacristy is from about 16 smallish circular windows ringing the lower part of this dome. With the straight-up perspective of this photo, those windows are completely hidden from view.
Named in tribute to a great Kraftwerk album that I love :)
Burns Bog Nature Preserve Richmond BC
1953 W Nikkor C 1:4 f=2.5cm LTM on A7C, slight crop on sides
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Portugal, Lisboa, Belem, Avenida de Brasilia, Electricity museum, former low pressure boiler building, water treatment facility (cut from B & T).
The Meseu da Electricidade is one of the most striking technology museums we ever visited. It´s the giant Tejo power station, built in 1908 by the CRGE (Companhias Ruinidas de Gas e Electricidade) as the 'Estacão Eléctrica Central Tejo' and also kown as ‘Central da Junqueira’ power station. The facility was expanded and modernized in different steps. The last step was taken in 1951. It´s kinda ironic that due to the new national power grid policy and the prime role hydro-electric power generation in it, the Tejo station then already had the status of reserve station, mainly kept on stand-by.
The power station was coal fired and employed towering Babcock & Wilcox high pressure boilers. It could provide the whole of Lisbon with electricity and was decommissioned and mothballed in 1972. It´s max output was 65 MW. In comparison a modern metropolitan coal/biomass fired power station outputs up to 1500 MW. There's by the way a lively debate about these kind of modern coal fired plants because the relatively high amount of NOx, SOx and CO2 in their combustion fumes. There's a drive to phase them out and rely on gas fuelled ones or, preferably, ones that use wind and other sustainable energy sources instead. So in a way Portugal, like for instance Norway, (although Norway skipped the coal phase) was ahead of the game.
Anyway, after a while it was decided that the old mothballed Tejo power station should be turned into a museum. And the result was spectacular. The vintage technology is very well preserved and made readable via didactic cut-opens and access areas. And some dioramic scenes to enhance storytelling /realism and a permanent exposition about the world of energy and the generation of it were added The museum opened in 1990 and was renovated and modernized from 2001-2006. It´s now the most popular Portuguese museum.
"This post depicts the upper levels of the former low pressure boiler building. Seen here is a part of the water treatment facility. It purified the Tejo water that was let into the power plant. This purification of the water was crucial because the Tejo powerplant utilized 'water pipe 'boilers: the water ran trough pipes that are led through the furnace and is heated this way. Calcium and other chemical substances in the water would damage the pipes.
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With the risk of becoming boring by uploading the same kind of pics all the time, here's another fisheye vertigo one. I really could not just leave it on my desktop ;-)) This one is taken only a few minutes later than the previous one......I like the more dark sky, the additional lights on the buildings and the reflections...... I hope you like it too!
4 skyscrapers out of the famous Hong Kong skyline in a different perspective. I put my fisheye lens on and put the camera flat on it's back on a beanbag. I took a whole series while turning the camera 360 degrees. The results were really cool ......
See more Hong Kong skylines here
See more Hong Kong sunsets here
The St. Johns Bridge one foggy morning. You've seen this before I'm sure. I have. Doesn't mean I ever get tired of it though.
A "tornado" of schooling barracudas at Sanganeb Reef, Sudan.
This school was huge. Even though it was near the surface, it was clearly visible from 45m down on a dull overcast day.
"Green meetings" and "green venues" are hot topics for the conference industry, if only because of the economic crisis, and the importance of alternative energy sources, energy saving, climate change and energy shortages. While green meetings are up to conference organisers, the onus for green venues is on conference centres themselves. Conference centres everywhere are jumping on the bandwagon - all the more reason for the Austria Center Vienna to stress its own green credentials, and those of house caterers Eurest. Sustainability, energy efficiency and waste management are the key issues, but value for money also matters to customers. The Austria Center building was designed from the ground up for sustainable energy and water supplies...
...taken on the stairs going up to Austria Center Vienna...
Vienna, Austria...
365 Project - Day 37
I finally got to go out and do some more creative portrait work, and I couldn't be happier!
This photograph is of my fiance, James. I had a lot of fun with this shoot and with putting the lights into the shot thereafter.
I hope this photo makes you stop and think for a moment, or at least makes you pause to scratch your head. ^^
Thank you so much flickr members, all who view.
Saw a hint of the Lights in town, so I drove into the night hoping for a good hunt. Shot when I first stopped to look around and noticing that they were literally 360° and seemed to be radiated from a star explosion straight up.
These three shots were made with less than a minute intervals at 5 sec. exp. and sort of handheld with my car top as a stabilizer. So the stars are a bit shaky.
Yeah, and I had a jumping heartbeat ;-)
A neck-busting view of the Cosmos, wedged in between two tall buildings, down on the corner of Front and Bay Streets, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 2008
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Another first day with lens adventure. This Turkey Vulture was circling directly above...high up. A typical opportunity I would not have taken with any other of my lenses...just too far away.
Plus, as you can see by the wing back lighting, the sun was at a too close angle. And hey, when they said that this camera lens combination would be heavy...particularly when shooting anything above parallel to the ground...yup.
I'm quite pleased with all of my first day attempts, though I yet have much to figure out. about settings when using it.
And I've just learned that there is a procedure for calibrating the lens to the camera, done with the computer. Now I just have to find out HOW that is done.
1. A star in the sky, 2. Shining flower, 3. Cupola della Cappella di Montesiepi, 4. Only three arms, 5. Oratorio di San Bernardino, 6. Duomo di Urbino, 7. Galleria Umberto I, 8. Santuario della Madonna di Barbana, 9. Casino Nobile, Villa Torlonia, 10. Casino Nobile, Villa Torlonia, 11. Grote of Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekerk, 12. De Passage - koepel, 13. De Koektrommel - The Sting Store
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