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An old previously deleted gloomy image reposted with the addition of three texture layers and then coloured to give it a new lease of life. Still old and gloomy looking but hopefully it is visually more interesting.
Visually indistinguishable from Western Wood Pewee, the two species are separated by geography and vocalization. Lake St. Clair.
One of the most visually stunning Inca ruins beside Machu Picchu is the Moray Agricultural Terraces. It's weird that this site is not on the typical tourist agenda, but we're glad we went. The site holds a series of concentric terraces that looks like an ancient Greek amphitheater, and it descends to a depth of approximately 150 meters. The circular bottom is so well drained that it never completely floods, no matter how plentiful the rain.
The most widely agreed theory about this site is that the Incas used it as an agricultural research station. Pollen studies indicate that soils from several region of the Andes, from tropical and sub-tropical areas, were imported by the Incas and deposited in each of the large circular basins. Seeds were then cultivated, studied, and likely sent throughout the Incan empire to improve yield in the harsh conditions of the Andes.
Season of Photographic Eye - picture 5
Week 47, Wednesday
As I've already told you in previous posts, I searched for a long time before I got into photography. Finally when our daughter Aura was born two years ago, I found my reason and got bit by a photo bug. I took over 26 000 in the first year, learned to do post processing and was very satisfied with my photography. I guess this is very similar story with some of you as well. However, after a year of pretty continuous shooting, it began to be a bit uneasy. I felt like I was taking same photographs again and again – well not really since Aura was growing all the time, but my repertoire of visual motifs was light and because of that my photography suffered from repetition. I also began to feel I should expand my interests and shoot something else than just family pictures, but I was, again, confronted the same problem I had had earlier: how to make it meaningful. Even if I had photographed things that I found visually intriguing, I never found any home for those shots – even in my hard drive. In other words, I was hungry for other kind of photography, but didn't know how to proceed.
To solve this problem, I needed to develop a concept and goal which would give me a framework and make my 'other' subjects meaningful. To solve this dilemma, I decided – with some inspiration from 365-projects – to start a Sony Alpha related photography project called 'Year of the Alpha'. With this project I would fulfill my need for 'other photography' and learn my own 'photographic eye' – the a particular way of seeing things and subjects which makes us unique individuals. On top of that I also hoped to make it interesting and possibly useful for others too. It was a leap of faith really, but I really wanted to break out from circles of low inspiration and create myself a meaningful story with photography.
To understand my goal for this season you need to know that I believe everyone, no matter the level of photography, has a photographic eye: the way of seeing and feeling photographic things that makes their approach to photography unique. Learning your own way of seeing and photographing is something that will strengthen your identity as a photographer and hopefully guide you out from the sea of general and self-evident 'tourists shots' (which we all take). To be conscious about your own photographic eye, leads you to create pictures that tell, not only about the subject, also about the photographer as well. This is, at least what I thought when I started this project. I have now come very much to the present point of time and from now on, with coming posts, I will try to deconstruct my own photographic eye by discussing my photography from different point of views.
Year of the Alpha – 52 Weeks of Sony Alpha Photography: www.yearofthealpha.com
One of the most visually stunning Inca ruins is at Moray, an archaeological site in Peru approximately 50 km northwest of Cuzco and just west of the village of Maras. In a large bowl-like depression, is constructed a series of concentric terraces that looks like an ancient Greek amphitheater. The largest of these terraces are at the center – they are enormous in size, and descend to a depth of approximately 150 meter, leading to a circular bottom so well drained that it never completely floods, no matter how plentiful the rain.
The concentric terraces are split by multiple staircases that extend upward like spokes of a wheel and enable people to walk from the top to the bottom of the bowl. Six more terraces, in connected ellipses rather than perfect circles, surround the concentric heart of Moray, and eight terraced steps that cover only a fraction of the perimeter overlook the site. The purpose of these depressions is uncertain, but the most widely agreed theory is they used to serve as ‘agricultural research station’.*
*https://www.amusingplanet.com/2013/03/the-mysterious-moray-agricultural.html
M33 is visually the second largest galaxy observed in the Northern Hemisphere and can be seen by the naked eye in dark skies. It is 2.7 million ly from earth and named after the constellation Triangulum in which it sits near.
PI Workflow:
R (Drizzle / MMT Noise Reduction / MT Star Reduction / Deconvolution)
G/B (Drizzle / DBE / Debanding / MMT Noise Reduction / Linear Fit)
Ha/O (Drizzle / Debanding / DBE / MMT Noise Reduction / Linear Fit)
L (Drizzle / Deconvolution / Delinearize / HDRMT / LHE / CT)
RBGCombination
NBRGB Script
DBE
MaskedStretched / HT
Photoshop Workflow:
ColorEfex Pro / Detail Extraction
Curves
StarSpikes Pro to cleanup stars
Takahashi FSQ-106
Software Bisque MyT
QSI 683WSG-8
L 12x15min
R 8x15min
G 4x15min
B 7x15min
Ha 33x30min
Oii 13x30min
Total Integration Time = 30.75hrs
Data from Deepskywest Remote Observatory
This visually busy scene occurred mid summer of this year and was captured while standing in my backyard. I’m not certain why the vivid section of the rainbow was so abbreviated in these conditions, but it created something that looked almost like a bridge between the upper and lower clouds, which I thought looked pretty cool. Besides the clouds, rainbow and corn, there are two birds also caught in frame. The obvious one (just to the left of the rainbow) was a barn swallow and the other (perched on a cornstalk in the lower right quadrant) was a blue grosbeak.
Visually I like the silhouette of the man and his umbrella as he slowly but purposefully walks past the mannequins to his destination.
I changed the name to ‘Fitting In’ thanks to my friend Sara. This reference on one hand can be taken literally i.e. in relation to the subjects position between the mannequins. On the other hand, It can be taken as a symbolic representation. A protest about the ‘fitting in’ to superficial norms set by societies. How more superficial can a mannequin be? Who wants to conform? Who wants to ‘fit in’?
visually striking war memorial dedicated to soldiers of the Portuguese army who died during the Overseas War of 1961 to 1974. The Monumento Combatentes Ultramar memorial comprises of three distinctive sections; the flame, the monument and memorial wall.
The central flame burns continuously to signify the lasting memory of the dead soldiers while the names of each solider who died in the protracted African conflict are etched into the the three walls that surround the memorial. The artistic section of the Monumento Combatentes Ultramar include a shallow purpose built lake and two large angled pillars that jut out above the flame.
Took a trip over to Gay City Park for the first time and this landscape caught my eye. I love how the evergreen plays visually with the frozen water of the pond.
Sydney, AU is such a beautiful city to visit. With so many sites to see throughout the central business district many can be easily overlooked. The destination on this day for me was St. Mary's Cathedral (in the background, top, left); I have another view on Flickr that is more of a traditional photograph of that wonderful building.
The walk towards the church through Hyde Park provides so many visuals that it is easy for tourists to miss them and walk right on by. The power I find in photography is how it allows me to go back & re-visit what I have seen - and what I have missed. This wide-angle photo is intentionally highly-processed and intentionally over-saturated to force viewers to look closely, to try see everything that is going on in the shot and around the city scape.
Comments and constructive feedback are always appreciated!
Guess I'm sticking with the colorful theme from week 1. Nothing symbolic here, just wanted to try to create some interesting color transitions with ink in water. Some slight Photoshop with the surface water as I found the rough surface much more visually interesting than an ink slick on the surface.
This early arriving Hummer is one of several males that are fighting over control of the nectar feeder just below. They now compete with breath-taking high-speed aerial sky dives to impress the feeding females and get their attention (for breeding... although this year's young are already flying). This flight action is both visually and audibly impressive! It's still very early morning, and the sunlight is heavily filtered by the tall forest growth to the east. Although I have the sun at my back, the gorgets will not display full red iridescence until it gets a little brighter.
IMG_8124; Broad-tailed Hummingbird
Some pics for my Wardrobe post!
I really had a lot of fun putting this looks together. I really find the outfit, the makeup, and the hair to all be super beautiful on their own. Mixing them together makes me feel so sexy!
Full credits and more Wardrobe info at post: digitalregeneration.com/visually-organize-your-second-lif...
If you look at this part of this sky visually with a telescope, all you see is the open star cluster at the center. Taking a picture with a hydrogen-alpha filter and a CCD camera reveals a lot more. There is an emission nebula associated with the star cluster, and there are many dark molecular clouds in the foreground. Those are regions where new stars are forming. I think one bears a resemblance to the Loch Ness monster or some long necked dinosaur.
Taken from my backyard in Long Beach, CA with a Celestron Edge HD 925 at 535 mm focal length with Hyperstar. An Atik 414-EX mono CCD camera was used with an Atik H-alpha filter and Optolong RGB filters. Most of the detail comes from the H-alpha filter with the RGB filters helping to get the star colors correct.
Hα filter - 42 240 s exposures
R filter - 72 45 s exposures
G filter - 61 45 s exposures
B filter - 55 45 s exposures
Preprocessing in Nebulosity with dark, bias, and flat frames; stacking, channel combination, and initial processing in PixInsight; final touches in Photoshop. It took a lot of work in PixInsight to get the right color mapped to all the detail in the nebula, but I think I found a combination that works.
North is at the left and west is at the top in this image.
A visually impaired man going up the stairs of La Grande Arche de la Défense in Paris.
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This is one of the most visually direct drawings in the “Living Machine” series. The drawing took first place in the fine arts division of the LPL Art of Planetary Science show 2015. As with other works in this series, this drawing explores themes of mimetic evolution, Lamarckian evolution and self-construction. A large organic spheroid creature (a “Plantimal”) mimics the form of a smaller more machine-like creature which it is carrying. The background is taken largely from a view of low mountains north of Interstate 8 near the Arizona-California border.simpler story more cleanly and directly.
This work was part of a solo show at Tucson's main library May 2019: pima.bibliocommons.com/events/5cc0d96b6d8db6450037c654
This image showcases one of the most visually distinctive locomotives ever to ride the American rails: the Pennsylvania Railroad Class T1. Designed during the peak of the Art Deco movement, its "Sharknose" styling remains an icon of industrial design.
Description
An imposing view of the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) Class T1 duplex-drive steam locomotive. Captured in its signature "Brunswick Green" livery, the T1 was the PRR's final bold attempt to maintain steam supremacy against the rising tide of diesel power.
This specific engine, numbered 5534, displays the unmistakable Raymond Loewy-inspired "Sharknose" streamlining. The design wasn't just for show; these locomotives were built for high-speed passenger service, capable of whisking heavy express trains across the "Broad Way of Commerce" at speeds exceeding 100 mph.
The image highlights the unique 4-4-4-4 wheel arrangement, featuring two sets of cylinders driving two pairs of coupled driving wheels, all housed within a single rigid frame. While technically sophisticated, their power often led to "wheel slip," making them a challenge for even the most experienced engineers.
The Designer:
While the sleek external casing is often credited to famed industrial designer Raymond Loewy, it was a collaborative effort to reduce air resistance and give the PRR a "modern" look.
The Build:
A total of 52 T1s were produced between 1942 and 1946 (two prototypes by Baldwin Locomotive Works and 50 production units split between Baldwin and the PRR's own Altoona Works).
The Performance:
On paper, the T1 was a masterpiece, delivering massive horsepower. However, they were maintenance-heavy and arrived just as the railroad industry began a rapid transition to diesel-electric locomotives.
The Legacy:
Sadly, despite their futuristic looks and raw power, none of the original T1s were preserved; all were scrapped by 1956. Today, a non-profit group (The T1 Trust) is currently working to build a brand-new T1, No. 5550, from scratch.
This image is a historical reenactment made using AI and is based on the original advertising at the time.i made it as a tribute to the train and to become better at making these images, Some things in the image may have spelling mistakes or mechanical defects. AI programmes are evolving at quite a speed so i hope you enjoy it for what it is..
The visually spectacular red-crested cardinal is hard to miss. Also called the Brazilian cardinal, this South American species was introduced to Hawaii in the 1930s. Despite the resemblance and common name, the red-crested cardinal (Paroaria coronate) is not taxonomically classified as a cardinal.
March Point. Padilla Bay/Fidalgo Bay.
"The Washington population of the Black Oystercatcher is estimated to be roughly 400 birds. This number is probably not significantly different from the historical population, as these birds require fairly specialized habitat, which is not evenly distributed. Oystercatchers are highly vulnerable to human disturbance, oil spills, and pollution of the intertidal zone. Numbers of Black Oystercatchers on the outer coast may be higher than in the past, in part due to decreased human disturbance resulting from lighthouse automation. Numbers in inland areas, however, have declined in response to increased human activity. The Northern Pacific Coast Regional Shorebird Management Plan has identified the Black Oystercatcher as a regional species of high concern."
"The Black Oystercatcher is restricted in its range, never straying far from shores, in particular favoring rocky shorelines. It has been suggested that this bird is seen mostly on coastal stretches which have some quieter embayments, such as jetty protected areas. It forages in the intertidal zone, feeding on marine invertebrates, particularly molluscs such as mussels, limpets and chitons. It will also take crabs, isopods and barnacles. It hunts through the intertidal area, searching for food visually, often so close to the water's edge it has to fly up to avoid crashing surf. It uses its strong bill to dislodge food and pry shells open."
Looking towards Meltham and the moors with Wesenden head road winding it’s way Ito the Peak District National Park.
Taken from a footpath in the nearby village of Netherton.
Auf der Heimfahrt von Friaul - Julisch Venetien nach Niederösterreich galt unsere letzte Station im Collio einer Weinkost bei Cormòns, dem Hauptort des Collio. Alle Weinsorten waren interessant, doch eingekauft habe ich nur Weine dieser Rebsorten:
Friulano - dieser autochthone, fruchtige, gehaltvolle Weißwein, der früher Tocaj hieß und seit 2006 aus Herkunfts- und Markenschutzgründen in der EU eben nur noch Friulano genannt werden darf, war die Entdeckung dieser Woche und hat mich begeistert.
Malvasia - dieser Weißein, der in Varianten im ganzen südländischen Raum angeboten wird, ist ebenfalls sehr gut. Obwohl mir ja die Variante des Malvasia Istriana, die ich aus Kroatien kenne, noch ein wenig besser schmeckt.
Merlot - zwar nicht autochthon, aber dieser Rebsorte findet im Collio perfekte Bedingungen vor und reift zu einem wirklich besonders guten Rotwein heran.
Ja, und so habe ich in meinem privaten Weinlager noch eine Zeit lang gute Erinnerungen an das Collio liegen. Der Abstecher ins Weinbaugebiet Collio hat sich nicht nur optisch, sondern auch kulinarisch gelohnt !
On the way home from Friuli-Venezia Giulia to Lower Austria, our last stop in Collio was for a wine tasting in Cormòns, the main town in Collio. All the wines were interesting, but I only bought wines made from the following grape varieties:
Friulano – this indigenous, fruity, full-bodied white wine, formerly known as Tocaj, has been allowed to be called only Friulano in the EU since 2006 for reasons of origin and trademark protection. It was the discovery of the week and I loved it.
Malvasia – this white wine, which is available in different varieties throughout the southern region, is also very good. Although I prefer the Malvasia Istriana variety, which I know from Croatia.
Merlot – although not indigenous, this grape variety finds perfect conditions in Collio and matures into a truly exceptional red wine.
So now I have fond memories of Collio stored away in my private wine cellar for some time to come. The detour to the Collio wine-growing region was worthwhile not only visually, but also culinarily !
Visually seen and captured at 4:02 AM. Milky Way above the meteor. Mars is to the left of the Saguaro cactus and Saturn and Jupiter to the right of the cactus, all three planets in a straight line.
The meteor last 1-2 seconds and moved very fast. This is a 10 second exposure so the meteor is photographically less bright in appearance than the visual observation.
A Pinhole project between July and December 2019. I have stayed in hotels once or twice a week, most Months, for 30 years and in December it comes to an end.
I am attempting to show visually how I feel about this, absent from my family, frustrated, often bored.
The pinhole camera and the way it captures time is a perfect vehicle.
2.2 hours integration on this little critter. It's very hard to see in a 10-inch SCT even at a semi-fast f/6.3 optical system. Visually, it's a faint hazy ball of light.
Captured with the following specifications:
Meade 10-inch LX200
f/6.3 optics @1600mm.
Nikon D5100 Unmodified
ISO1600
Processed with Deep Sky Stacker
Final processing done in Adobe Photoshop CS3
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tNo matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
Long exposure attemption
On explore Mar 23, 2010 #362
Location:Mersing
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Visually appealing trees, like anemic broccoli. They speak to me, although I can't tell what they're saying.
I wanted to travel to Morocco by boat in order to experiment visually the continent change from Europa to Africa. Only on land travelling make the passenger really feel the distance and the cultural evolution all along the way. Since I had previously visited Sevilla, Malaga was for me an obvious starting point for a short Morocco trip. Then I would go to gibraltar, Tarifa and take the boat for Tangier, my first Morocco city. The trip lasted 3 weeks until I reach south of Atlas Mountain Range, just before the desert.
The conclusion of my travel is that I could not recognize any Moroccan people anymore since I could realize that from north to south, and depending of the mountain side landscape, geography and people are totally different.
A visually stunning drive along the Shaniko-Fossil Hwy near Antelope, Oregon. As you make your way over the mountainside, going east from Antelope to Clarno, you get your first view of the John Day Fossil Beds. A preview of what is to come.
I'm always looking for interesting things on my daily walks to capture for my Picture-of-the-Day for the 365 Group, and these sidewalk bumps, also known as "warning pavers" that are meant to assist visually impaired people really caught my eye.
These are 2 different pavers that are about a block apart and they're identical in every way, except one seems to be slightly more worn. However, the one on the left clearly looks like raised bumps, whereas the one of the right looks like depressions. It's a trick of the eye due to the angle of the sun and shadows!
See how easily amused I am....
The Blue Lake was created during the Otago gold mining era. It started as a hill and was reduced to a pit from which shafts and then hydraulic elevators brought up gravel for sluicing. In its day it was the deepest mining hole in the Southern Hemisphere. When mining stopped, it flooded full of water. The blue color of the lake is caused by the mineral content of the surrounding, visually striking cliffs.
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It is not a particularly visually interesting image today but I had around an hour until midnight to do something before the pumpkin turned back into a coach... wait, no, it is the other way around. Or is it? How do you know that when all the coaches turn to pumpkins the pumpkins do not also turn into coaches?
No, my real reason for not having anything overly creative is that I am still trying to catch up on lectures whilst trying to wrap my head around the fact that in something like nine weeks I have to have finished all of my assignments and trying to keep that straight in my head and not panicking whilst remembering that whilst everybody else in my class was celebrating for making it through three weeks of university today, I was celebrating making it through one.
I have been very bad at remembering and researching facts recently, so I apologise for that.
Did you know that according to a survey completed by the American Pie Council (I wonder how many Don McLean impressions people do around them) apple pie is America's go-to pie, with 19% of American's saying that it is their favourite? Pumpkin pie comes in second (13%).
A visually dim auroral arc across the northern sky, with the Milky Way at left in the northwestern sky, from Churchill, Manitoba, on February 14, 2018. Polaris is at top, left of centre. This illustrates the classic auroral oval across the north, centred due north at this longitude, below Polaris. ..This is a single exposure with the Sigma 14mm lens at f/1.8.
Sadly not a patch on previous times I've been. Visually less of everything across the board. It's clear reenactors, stall holders, vintage vehicles etc., have given it a miss in advance.
The event organisers [Pike and Shot] say 80% of the groups let them down. Cant blame the groups for the mass exodus. You're the organisers, they have supported this event for over 10 years. The fault is on your doorstep.
I was watching and listening to the fella firing up the Rolls Royce engine. He was furious to put it mildly (as seen in my video). He received a call to start it earlier than scheduled. He had to! He did with reluctance and was subsequently drowning out the singers nearby. When he challenged the staff about it they were not so sympathetic. Awful for him. To his credit he apologised to the small crowd of what happened that he was instructed to start the engine early. So for me, this was a live example of the organisers causing unrest as the event unfolded.
Having been to several 1940s events this year, this was the bottom of the pile. When I spoke with quite a few visitors and stall holders etc., they were expecting so much more, as in the past.
Singer: Miss Trixie Holiday
The other singer, not in this video, was Ricky Hunter. Decided not to include him in my video because he spent way too much time looking at his phone, playlist, drinking water, while singing, rather than entertain the crowd. He was a last minute guest singer anyway. He had not been invited for over 5 years.
Entrance fee was £10! (reduced to £4 very late on into the second day). No concessions. No signposting to the event. No map or itinerary. Limited parking. A bare bones event. Purely the fault of the organisers and Rufford Abbey Estate collectively.
Without Prejudice.
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image presents a visually striking collection of interstellar gas and dust. Named RCW 7, the nebula is located just over 5,300 light-years from Earth in the constellation Puppis.
Nebulae are areas rich in the raw material needed to form new stars. Under the influence of gravity, parts of these molecular clouds collapse until they coalesce into very young, developing stars, called protostars, which are still surrounded by spinning discs of leftover gas and dust. The protostars forming in RCW 7 are particularly massive, giving off strongly ionizing radiation and fierce stellar winds that transformed the nebula into a H II region.
H II regions are filled with hydrogen ions — H I refers to a normal hydrogen atom, while H II is hydrogen that lost its electron making it an ion. Ultraviolet radiation from the massive protostars excites the hydrogen in the nebula, causing it to emit light that gives this nebula its soft pinkish glow.
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Tan (Chal
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This was actually a gigantic driftwood. It looks small, but that's because it was shot with Laowa 12mm lens, which seems to be too "powerful" visually "shrinking" the size of the object
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how visually literate are you??? LOL
These are the bottoms of colour felt pens/ colour markers!
Sometimes I just have some fun in the studio and play with some props...
A bit more info here:
Lee Newman patented a felt-tipped marking pen in 1910.
A marker pen, fineliner, marking pen, felt-tip marker, felt-tip pen, flow marker, texta (in Australia), sketch pen (in India) or koki (in South Africa), feutre (in FRANCE),is a pen which has its own ink-source and a tip made of porous, pressed fibers such as felt.
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Goliath. visually explores the theme of scale, emphasizing the contrast between the immense size of urban architecture and the relative smallness of individual human experience within these spaces. It is a study in contrasts: solidity and void, opacity and transparency, enormity and minutiae. Goliath. ultimately raises questions about the individual's place in the architectural colossus of the urban landscape.
Sadly not a patch on previous times I've been. Visually less of everything across the board. It's clear reenactors, stall holders, vintage vehicles etc., have given it a miss in advance.
The event organisers [Pike and Shot] say 80% of the groups let them down. Cant blame the groups for the mass exodus. You're the organisers, they have supported this event for over 10 years. The fault is on your doorstep.
I was watching and listening to the fella firing up the Rolls Royce engine. He was furious to put it mildly (as seen in my video). He received a call to start it earlier than scheduled. He had to! He did with reluctance and was subsequently drowning out the singers nearby. When he challenged the staff about it they were not so sympathetic. Awful for him. To his credit he apologised to the small crowd of what happened that he was instructed to start the engine early. So for me, this was a live example of the organisers causing unrest as the event unfolded.
Having been to several 1940s events this year, this was the bottom of the pile. When I spoke with quite a few visitors and stall holders etc., they were expecting so much more, as in the past.
Singer: Miss Trixie Holiday
The other singer, not in this video, was Ricky Hunter. Decided not to include him in my video because he spent way too much time looking at his phone, playlist, drinking water, while singing, rather than entertain the crowd. He was a last minute guest singer anyway. He had not been invited for over 5 years.
Entrance fee was £10! (reduced to £4 very late on into the second day). No concessions. No signposting to the event. No map or itinerary. Limited parking. A bare bones event. Purely the fault of the organisers and Rufford Abbey Estate collectively.
Without Prejudice.
A visually stunning, futuristic mall with huge potential, featuring unique attractions like an indoor tram, and a large ice rink.