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Via Montenapoleone is an upscale shopping street in Milan, Italy, famous for its ready-to-wear fashion and jewelry shops.
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200mm on full frame is not always enough to come really close
Thanks to modern software a duplication of virtual focal length is possible if the original footage is of good and clean quality (RAW image is a must here)
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Continuing with Raptors NOT On Fence Posts, this male Northern Harrier - aka Grey Ghost - wasn't too pleased with me when I hiked the Riverwalk Trail in Grasslands Park recently. Yes indeed, I was on foot for this! It is cropped, but not upscaled, as we were quite close. So unusual to get anywhere near this species - it must have a nest nearby.
Harriers are ground nesters. They like tall grasses near wetlands, and this place qualifies on both counts. I would bet that its mate was nest sitting while he patrolled the area. Male harriers like to spread their DNA far and wide: they will mate with several females if opportunity presents and have several families going simultaneously.
You'll never guess what happened next. Tune in tomorrow to find out!
Hmm... is anyone else having trouble finding their contacts now that Flickr has removed our People page? Currently when I click the appropriate box, I see the last dozen uploads from ONE of my Flickr friends... and nothing else. I'm sure the decision to "streamline" our interface was a money saving move and nothing more. Currently it has diminished my experience on this site and slowed down the commenting process by forcing me to scroll through group activity, when it works at all. And now this glitch. I'm not impressed.
Photographed in Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2023 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
Contractor Norman Hudson (left) and a worker talk about the stucco work for this large single-family dwelling in extremely upscale Fountaingrove. The house replaces another large single-family dwelling that burned down, like most of its neighbors, in the 2017 fires.
And don't forget to polish the 'Speed Nymph'. Although used on many early English and some European upscale cars in the early days, it is presented here, in situ, in it's most traditional home.
Arriving in England in 1904, French silversmith Emil Lejeune and his wife Augustine incorporated a small foundry specializing in brass figures, and objects, as AEL Limited, and added car mascots, registering this 'Speed Nymph' design as it's first, in 1917. It has had a number of variations over the years, including sporting a long scarf, but this is the original design. By 1929 AEL (Lejeune Foundry) claimed to be the world's largest car mascot maker, and produced the factory hood ornaments used on such British upscale marques as Alvis, Bentley and, of course, Rolls Royce. They are still in business, a very lucky thing for restorers of 20s and 30s classic cars.
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Here's a rarity for my part of the world. We see many more Golden than Bald Eagles; the former breed here and are present almost year-round, while the baldies generally show up only in migration. So you can imagine how pleased I was last month to be driving home from the park and spot three Bald Eagles - two adults, one juvenile - circling a field near the village.
The adults flew off and landed on fence posts far out of reach, but this young one dropped down to the ground, much closer. I used Topaz DeNoise and ON1 Resize to smooth and upscale this image.
Photographed near Val Marie, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2021 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
London Flickr Photowalk, December 14th 2025.
"Twelve Responses to Tragedy, or the Yalta Memorial, is a memorial located in the Yalta Memorial Garden on Cromwell Road in South Kensington in west London. The memorial commemorates people displaced as a result of the Yalta Conference at the conclusion of the Second World War. Created by the British sculptor Angela Conner, the work consists of twelve bronze busts atop a stone base."
The obligatory capture of Copenhagen's pretty Nyhavn ("New harbour").
Nyhavn is Copenhagen's picturesque 17th-century entertainment district and canal, famous for its brightly colored townhouses, lively waterfront, restaurants, cafes, and historic atmosphere. Once a busy commercial port, it was named "New Harbor" and is now a popular destination for tourists and locals, offering canal tours, dining, and a vibrant atmosphere reminiscent of its past maritime life.
"The famous Danish fairytale writer Hans Christian Andersen, used to live in no. 20. This is where he wrote the fairy-tales 'The Tinderbox', 'Little Claus and Big Claus', and 'The Princess and the Pea'. He also lived for twenty years in no. 67 and for two years in no. 18 – basically, wherever you walk down here, you'll be walking in his footsteps."
www.visitcopenhagen.com/copenhagen/planning/nyhavn-gdk474735
Upscale Imerovigli village sits on a clifftop overlooking Santorini’s caldera islands. The terraces of its sleek bars, fine-dining restaurants, and upscale boutique hotels, some in caves, are popular sunset viewing spots. The Ekklisia Theoskepasti hiking trail leads past the ruined, 13th-century Skaros Venetian Fortress to the summit of landmark Skaros Rock and the blue-domed Theoskepasti Church on the rock’s flank.
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Upscale Imerovigli village sits on a clifftop overlooking Santorini’s caldera islands. The terraces of its sleek bars, fine-dining restaurants, and upscale boutique hotels, some in caves, are popular sunset viewing spots. The Ekklisia Theoskepasti hiking trail leads past the ruined, 13th-century Skaros Venetian Fortress to the summit of landmark Skaros Rock and the blue-domed Theoskepasti Church on the rock’s flank. ~ Google
Image originally generated with FLUX, then enhanced through upscaling in Leonardo AI and finally refined with Topaz Gigapixel AI.
This version is upscaled with the drizzle function in Deep Sky Stacker.
Date: 29.04.2016
Frames: 47 x 240 sec, ISO500 (No darks, flats or bias taken)
Exp: 3 hours
Equipment
Camera: Canon EOS 60Da
Telescope: APM Triplet Apo 107/700mm
Mount: Skywatcher AZ-EQ6
Guiding: TS guidescope 60/240mm and
Lacerta MGEN Autoguider
A pleasant Sunday morning kicks off with the usual CN traffic through Concrete Canyon. Here, IC 1002 snakes past the uppity hi-rises of Near South Side Chicago with the daily Glenn - Kirk Yard transfer, L536.
Upscale mall and transit center (8/16/16) across the street from One World Trade Center. The concrete and steel structure was designed by famed architect, Santiago Calatrava.
As you can see much is missing or possibly erroneous in this picture. but you get the idea of the how magnificent a structure Calatrava had created (besides a significant amount of distortion in the original capture, there was a large crowd of people at or near the entrance so I left Photoshop make up something to replace the people).
Image originally generated with DALL-E, then enhanced through upscaling in Leonardo AI and finally refined with Topaz Gigapixel AI.
Image originally generated with DALL-E, then enhanced through upscaling in Leonardo AI and finally refined with Topaz Gigapixel AI.
Two shots remaining in the "If You Can't Get Close" photo set. These Golden Eagles were across a flat stretch of valley bottom, in the foothills where updrafts give them some lift, and if eagles can experience pleasure in flight, then that was definitely happening. They repeatedly took off, cruised on the breeze, and landed. Soon they were joined by a third. Presumably a family unit.
It can be frustrating to know you are too far away to record fine detail, and have no way to approach. Had I stepped out of the rolling red Toyota blind, these birds would have been gone in an instant. So I sat there and shot away, thinking this probably would not work. But maybe it would.
Some upscaling in ON1 Resize brought them closer. I wouldn't call this "publication quality", but it definitely brings the feeling back, and I'm glad I turned off the inner, negative voice that told me I was wasting my time. After all these years I have learned to shut it down, not give it any attention. It goes away and leaves me free to do my work.
One more shot in this series, then on to some closer wildlife encounters.
Photographed in Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission © 2025 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
Upscale mall and transit center (8/16/16) across the street from One World Trade Center. The concrete and steel structure was designed by famed architect, Santiago Calatrava.
Recently enjoyed a delicious seafood lunch at Cardero's Restaurant in Coal Harbour.
Sitting atop the waters of Vancouver’s Inner Harbour and just off the path of the famous Stanley Park seawall makes for great views of the non-stop urban activity on both water and land. Nestled amid the yachts and seaplanes of Coal Harbour Marina, Cardero's offers spectacular views of the local mountains and Burrard Inlet from the restaurant, pub and year-round patio. [...].
Cardero's offers a casual, upscale West Coast Menu in a warm yet sophisticated atmosphere.
Rodeo Drive Capri in the morning is quiet and lonely except for this sleepy photographer. I love this time of day. Morning is the best time of day even better than evening because I have everything to myself. I have the light and the color and my tripod and I own it all.
Upscaled with Gigapixel v8.4.4. 1399x911 => 5596x3644 (4x) Model: Low Resolution V2, denoise: 0.78, sharpen: 0.72, decompression: 0.81