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Taken in People's Park in Nanning, China. Dare to be Different was taken nearby and you can see some of these trees in the background of that photo.
An airport in Germany, abandoned since more than 70 years. One could very well imagine walking along this hallway towards the gates. Except... it was a military airport.
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Aspinall ex L&Y Class '27' 0-6-0 no.12322 piloting Bulleid ‘WC’ 4-6-2 no.34092 ‘Wells’ as they head under the Ewood Bridge road bridge with the 15:00 Bury-Rawtenstall train
Saturday 15 October 2022: 43183+43146 climb the bank towards Dalmeny working 1A79 0930 Edinburgh to Aberdeen.
This Sulphur-Crested-Cockatoo was looking at me and happy to pose for photo, while walking towards the others who were eating seed on the ground.
Looking from Thornlie towards Canning Vale along the realigned dual gauge freight tracks on 3 April 2025. Photo: Phil Melling.
Something a bit different today. I liked the contrast between light and dark mixed with the mist and blur to give a spooky feel. Not to everyone's liking but hey-ho, I like it :))
Towards the end of March, I'm on a ridge (with view obviously) and between me and the timbered ridge (a power line must go up there it seems) is actually a basin with a lake; and behind all that, more valleys, basins with a river until the mountains, about 35km away.
For all that, the quality is ok-ish I think, but the infrared spectrum helps getting rid of haze etc.
This is, again, one of those cumbersome panos where I have to switch the tripod head 180° so that the momentum of the long and heavy 80-200mm doesn't unscrew the mount plate from the body. So I have to use the levers of the tripod in reverse which is really weird (but good for the brain I guess) after using it for over 10 years the normal way.
And at effectively 300mm, things have to be rather precise. That's also one of the reasons why I don't want totally beat up vintage glass, cause dealing with zoom-creep on top of such a situation can be an actual problem!
Technically this is a single row 5-piece cylindrical projection in portrait orientation, 12166 x 4296px ~52,3MP, with a panoramic crop down to 8960 x 4242px, 38MP.
Nikon D90 (APS-C, fullspectrum mod)
Zoom-NIKKOR 80-200mm f/4 AI-S
Hoya R72 (720nm infrared pass-filter)
ISO250, 200mm, f/8, 1,3 sec
(thus 300mm full frame equivalent)
regular tripod with 3-way head, remote
Passo Sella runs off the eastern end of Val Gardena near the village of Canazei high in the Dolomites in northern Italy.
EN: This sleeping volcano is located in middle of France. I did not do the walk up to the volcano, but this one is visible form far.
FR: Le volcan du Puy de Dôme se situe dans le Massif Central en France. Celui-ci est endormi et il n'est pas exclus que des éruptions re-surviennent un jour dans la chaîne des puys. Cette randonné ne va pas jusqu'au volcan, mais elle en offre un superbe point de vue.
Plus d'information sur la chaîne des puys : frenchvadrouilleur.fr/blog/chaine-des-puys-auvergne
I'm posting this one in the hope of some commentary and criticism on the composition. It just seems wrong on many levels; barrel and perspective distortion, with only a gesture towards any of the thirds. And yet, I like it any way.
I did try other crops - for instance, zooming in so that the green glass was edge to edge, but the "as shot" version, for all it's flaws, just came across better.
On a side note - sealion pools in particular seem to be green. The ZSL Whipsnade sealion pool, for instance, is green when seen underwater. Dolphin and whale viewing areas (see shot in comments) tend to be blue.
Hope everyone is having a superb week. Catching up slowly!
@ kujyu-kuri hama, chiba, apr/2011
Hasselblad 503cx
Carl Zeiss CF T* Planar 80mm F2.8
Kodak 400TX (Kodak TMAX Developer 1:4 )
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"悲惨な現実を前にしても云おう。
波の音は、さざ波のような調べでないかもしれない。荒れ狂う鉛色の波の音かもしれない。
時に、孤独を直視せよ。
海原の前に一人立て。自分の夢が何であるか。海に向かって問え。
青春とは、孤独を直視することなのだ。直視の自由を得ることなのだ。大学に行くということの豊潤さを、自由の時に変えるのだ。自己が管理する時間を、ダイナミックに手中におさめよ。流れに任せて、時間の空費にうつつを抜かすな。
いかなる困難に出会おうとも、自己を直視すること以外に道はない。
いかに悲しみの涙の淵に沈もうとも、それを直視することの他に我々にすべはない。
海を見つめ、大海に出よ。
嵐にたけり狂っていても海に出よ。"
--卒業式を中止した立教新座高校3年生諸君へ。（校長メッセージ）
niiza.rikkyo.ac.jp/news/2011/03/8549/
This photo is the end of the series.
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My comments will delay..
View from the Grigna massif looking towards the snow-capped Swiss Alps in the distance. Again, having a look at this in mono because of the haze.
This was taken on Rt 26 from Riverton towards the Grand Teton range. Prior to leaving Riverton I was pulled over by a Wyoming State Police Officer. He noted I was speeding, 72 in a 70; I gave him a worthy blank stare when he told me. But I got the feeling halfway through talking with him about the speeding that he was just bored; he needed a friend. We just talked about different places to go and he gave me a few tips; Fuel up in Riverton, there's no fuel for a very long time. And I'm glad I fueled up at his advice, I have no idea what I would have done running empty.
Heading west it wasn't hard to see that the moon was setting; it was a shot I wanted to do and it's all about finding the right place at the right time to capture it's set. If you've ever shot the moon near the horizon you know that once it's low you have maybe a couple minutes before it's gone; it moves very quick. It was only luck that gave me a clear view with a great composition all at the right time. Snapped on the 400mm and here's what I left with.
Amazed at how much some of the trees have grown since I last photographed from this vantage point. The removal of the telephone poles from the bridge is a welcome improvement :-)
Remains of ship hull Wicor.
very calm slight misty morng low winter morning sunshine.
Wicor marina.
It has very flat bottom so what used for ?
found !
The picture below shows a Second World War era concrete barge with the Portsmouth skyline behind (Spinnaker Tower on the right.
www.walkingthebattlefields.com/2021/07/nikita-khrushchev-...
api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1950/jul/19/ex...
The winding path/bridleway leads over the the hills and moors towards Reeve Edge and Three Shires Head
Drawn in fine line pen, and colour added in photoshop. I really need illustrator, I have ordered a graphics tablet, so I can soon draw on here.
More shameless archive delving and a trip back in time to a recent visit of Torver Common in the English Lake District.It was a really nice morning with some lovely pre-autumn colours going on,although the light is rather flat here it did play ball in some previous uploads.This is the view looking across Kelly Hall Tarn towards the distant Coniston fells.
EXIF....F11....6 SECONDS....ISO 200....21MM....LEE 0.9H ND GRAD
explore #31 29-oct-09
Seen in Moraine State Park, Butler County, Pennsylvania.
www.dcnr.pa.gov/StateParks/FindAPark/MoraineStatePark/Pag...