WOW FACTOR!
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Last image in this series and maybe my favorite of the three... It has been a real rush to encounter and photography this beautiful insect, and then to share it with you!
Like hummingbirds, this moth hovers as it feeds, beating those clear wings up to 70 beats per second, which surprisingly is faster than hummingbirds, whose wingbeats average 53 beats per second!
The Clearwing above is often called a Cinnamon Clearwing due to its coloration.
The other less common variety is the Snowberry Clearwing, showing a yellow and black coloration. Happily, two days ago I was visited by this Snowberry species and I will be posting it sometime in the future :)
Andenes fyr (Andenes lighthouse) is a coastal lighthouse located at the northern end of the island of Andøya, in the village of Andenes. It was established in 1859, automated in 1978 and listed as a protected site in 1999. The lighthouse is managed by the nearby Andøy Museum, which offers guided tours during the summer season.
Crater Eldborg in the Peninsula of Snæfellsnes in Iceland. Quite amazing to see the Earth's crust so clearly, and beautifuly.
Exif: ISO 800 ; f/2.8 ; 1/1000 ; @17mm
I have not shot any sunset in the recent years. I wanted to go to bed early because of getting up early in morning for work.
This is an old archive shot taken in 2010.
The optical quality of the Nikon superzoom is better than what I expected.
Have a great long weekend!
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Finally I joined the club of 18-200mm all purposes lens club.
To get ready for my vacation travel shooting, I just bought this Nikon 18-200mm VR lens.
All purposes lenses are known to be inferior in image quality. When I saw the lens was made in Thailand, I feel I should even lower my expectation more.
But the result comes out as pretty decent.
This is the shot straight out of my camera without editing except cropping and resizing.
I should admit nowadays manufacturers or specifically Nikon did make good lenses.
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Twin brothers visiting the void of the twin towers. Dad will have done some explaining about airplanes crashing into a building as high as a tower. But how do you imagine a landmark, when all you can see is water flowing into a black hole?
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I've been polishing the dress to get an extra shiny finish. Positively glowing now. New dress next time. Warning though, it's not this shiny.
I have never seen more spectacular light than this! In addition to the amazing light a cormorant landed on top of a pole. This why you always want to carry your camera with you.
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The Church Christ Cathedral in Victoria was built in 1929. It is the largest parish in British Columbia. Christ Church is one of the larger churches in Canada too, with a nave of 93' by 140', and towers of 122'.
Through an international design competition, architect J.C.M. Keith of Victoria was commissioned to design a larger and more enduring edifice. He produced a design in 13th century gothic style, inspired by Durham Cathedral in England, with transepts and a great central tower, of concrete and stone with brick vaulting.
Winston Churchill visited the site on September 9, 1929, and was quick to help when the superintendant asked him to lay a stone on the north tower.
From the time it was designed in 1891. It would take nearly a hundred years to complete to it's current state due to the overwhelming cost and time required to build it.
The Cathedral, its Memorial Hall, the Synod office and related buildings occupy the city block bounded by Quadra Street, Burdett Avenue, Vancouver Street and Rockland Avenue. The postal address of the Cathedral is 930 Burdett Avenue, Victoria, B.C. V8V 3G8, that of the former deanery where the cathedral offices are located.
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Hundreds of thousands of people have come to see the magnificent waterfall of Gullfoss. I believe not many have seen it from this particular angle :)
Gullfoss is one of the most popular tourist attractions in Iceland. The wide HvÃtá rushes southward. About a kilometer above the falls it turns sharply to the left and flows down into a wide curved three-step "staircase" and then abruptly plunges in two stages (11 m and 21 m) into a crevice 32 m (105 ft) deep.
The crevice, about 20 m (60 ft) wide, and 2.5 km in length, is at right angles to the flow of the river. As one first approaches the falls, the crevice is obscured from view, so that it appears that a mighty river simply vanishes into the earth.
The average amount of water running over this waterfall is 140 m³/s in the summertime and 80 m³/s in the wintertime. The highest flood measured was 2000 m³/s.
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Marcus is the son of my colleague Robert. We agreed at work today to take a couple of shots of him after work and tried out this place, which worked out fine.
Strobist:
AB800 in octabox right to camera.
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Starry sky over the east side of Zion National Park (just LOVE my new GPS; makes it a whole lot easier to remember where I took some of my images)....I can't even begin to explain the WOW factor; best viewed on black; just click on the image itself for a better look :-) Have a great Sunday, and as always, thanks for all your visits and comments!!!!
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How's this for a 'des res'? - with a backdrop of Thomas Telford's 1826 Menai Suspension Bridge which spans the Menai Strait between the island of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales.
Doubtless, many people will have photographed the same scene over the years. But I have to credit having seen the composition in the Oriel Glyn Davies Gallery window in the town of Menai Bridge as my inspiration. However, the capture and the processing were down to me entirely.
Conditions weren't ideal as I was photographing against the hazy, mid-morning sunlight; however, beggars can't be choosers as I only had a few days to spare on Anglesey. The photo is a time-blend of two files. I made the first exposure at 25 seconds to smooth out the water, but the foliage was waving around so much in the wind that it all looked a bit messy. So I made a second exposure, this time at 1/10th sec, to correct the problem. Then, in post-processing, I imported both files as layers into Photoshop and 'brushed' in the water for the final presentation.
I'm chuffed with the outcome, while monochrome gives it a "wow" factor.