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… with just the prow of the Rothesay Bay showing.
Date: Between October and December 1889 or between July 1890 and mid-1899
NLI Ref.: L_CAB_06638
The daily flickr blog featured a Gallery of "Pretty Panoramas" and this image was included, resulting in thousands of views!
blog.flickr.net/en/2013/07/24/pretty-panoramas/
Though I've seen pictures of Crater Lake for many years, I had never seen it in person before today. You cannot believe the deep jewel tone of blue until you see it yourself ! The lake is one of the purest and clearest in the world. It is self-contained - no streams flow in or out of the caldera. It is fed entirely by the annual snowmelt by the 44 feet annual snowfall ! There are still a few patches of snow here and there around the rim.
It would be nice to be here when there are big puffy clouds in the sky, so we'll just have to come back again. The season here is very short - June through September. It is snowed in the rest of the year and they do not snow plow the rim drive.
This is a 7-image panorama covering just under 180 degrees.
I've heard from others that mosquitoes can be vicious here; but we saw only a few. They enjoyed snacking on my tender skin until I slathered it with Deet ! I think the skeeter problem diminishes after most of the snow is melted and there is no standing water.
If you have a moment, look at the largest size to see the astonishing amount of beautiful geological detail created 7,700 years ago by a violent volcano !
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PANORAMA DAL CAMPANILE DI GIOTTO.
A fianco del Duomo si trova il Campanile di Giotto, uno dei campanili più belli d'Italia. Alto 84 metri e di forma squadrata, risplende di marmi bianchi, rossi e verdi. Raggiungendo la cima del campanile, dopo 414 scalini, si potrà ammirare da vicino la Cupola del Brunelleschi e osservare un bellissimo panorama della città.
FOTOCOMPOSIZIONE DI 3 IMMAGINI.
CANON EOS 600D con ob. SIGMA 10-20 f./4-5,6 EX DC HSM.
"When the door opens, it must be a troll, which is in the frame. His house seems to fear that threatens from above misfortune. This does not seem far-fetched, because above it rumbles and rattles. ......" (Source Stuttgarter Zeitung).
The only article where I could find more about it, but unfortunately only in German.)
What do you think, what came first ... the houses or the railway bridge?
Much better in Large On Black
"Wenn sich die Tür auftut, muss es ein Troll sein, der im Rahmen steht. Sein Haus scheint zu fürchten, dass von oben Unheil droht. Das scheint nicht abwegig, denn oben rumpelt es und rattert. ...." (Quelle Stuttgarter Zeitung).
Es war der einzige Artikel, wo ich ein wenig mehr darüber finden konnte.
Aber .... was meint ihr, was war zuerst da ... die Häuser oder die Brücke?
Ich denke auch das Viadukt, mich irritierte der Satz „Es scheint, als stünden sie trotzig und wollten nicht weichen, weil schließlich sie sich zuerst hier niedergelassen haben."
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Bit of a slide with Summer's Coneflower or Echinacea.
Happy Slider Sunday - HSS
Texture by Lenabem-Anna
Photos de mars
toutes les vagues ne montaient pas ainsi à hauteur de la route, et il y en avait certes de plus hautes, là-haut c'ètait tentant de s'y trouver, mais pour y avoir pris une énorme saucée, protégé l'APN juste à temps... c'était plus prudent de faire des photos du toit du gymnase,
je fais le ménage dans mon ordinateur, je trie des photos négligées. Plus de place pour les neuves!
Et ça rame...
Et il y en a plus à charger que je n'ai réellement de temps à y consacrer.
Je reviendrai quand j'aurai bien avancé, d'autant que j'ai plein d'autres occupations, ça n'avance pas assez vite.
Amitiés.
The Church of the Holy Rude is the second oldest building in Stirling, Scotland, after Stirling Castle. The church was founded in 1129 during the reign of David I (1124 - 1153) as the parish church of Stirling.
This makes the Church of the Holy Rude, Gloucester Abbey (now Cathedral) and Westminster Abbey the only churches in Britain still in use to this day that have been the sites of coronations.
HDR made from one handheld RAW
Up to 60 meters high cliffs in Algorta (a locality within the municipality of Getxo) and some sandy beaches, shape the image of Getxo a city near Bilbao in the province of Biscay, Basque Country, Spain.
Much better in Large On Black
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Prometti a te stesso di parlare di bontà, bellezza, amore a ogni persona che incontri; di far sentire a tutti i tuoi amici che c'è qualcosa di grande in loro; di guardare al lato bello di ogni cosa e di lottare perché il tuo ottimismo diventi realtà.
Madre Teresa di Calcutta
Here is the end of "Anywhere Is" first adventure. Fasten seatbelts, we are preparing to touch down.
The pano was not intended. Anything of what I have captured during those 45 minutes under dark Canary skies 2200 meters above sea level was not planned.
During the processing I have noticed that all three segments of Milky Way have some degree of overlap. So the it was tempting to try and stich them. I'm happy with this attempt. Obviously I need yet another panel to cover the area between Cygnus and Saggitarius.
Aquisition and processing: see here and here.
Pano stiching was made in Photoshop. I have used gradient visibility masks to avoid "magnetic catastrophes" :) in the areas affected by lens distortion.
Aaaargh! Flickr's "next" and "previous" buttons make notes that are close to border of wide picture unreadable and uneditable in Google Chrome...
Tuscany felt more like summer in november, than it does now here in Germany in june ;-) Maybe that's also why I reached a bit deeper into the color palette in this one...
Kilchurn Castle is a ruined 15th and 17th century structure on a rocky peninsula at the northeastern end of Loch Awe, in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. Access to the Castle is sometimes restricted by higher-than-usual levels of water in the Loch, at which times the site effectively becomes a temporary island.
It was the ancestral home of the Campbells of Glen Orchy, who later became the Earls of Breadalbane also known as the Breadalbane family branch, of the Clan Campbell. The earliest construction on the castle was the towerhouse and Laich Hall
With storm clouds approaching from the west I was ready to give up on the nights plans for photographing the super full moon, but fortunately David Wang was already on the road when I called and so I decided to take my chances and meet him down by the river. It was a warm and balmy evening as the thickening clouds repeatedly hid then revealed the moon in interesting ways. In-between moon appearances we were entertained by geese and goslings, a beaver, along with a variety of boats and kayakers making their way along the river. It turned out to be a great night along the river. NB13403,05 - Happy Moonlight Mondays!
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Yes it's only two feet high. Yes, I fell down it. Yes, I landed it rabbit poo. No, no one saw.
View during the setting sunlight
Rather nice panoramic view "up" O'Connell Street from the top of Nelson's Pillar. We think this was taken around 1950, but would love confirmation or suggestions to the contrary.
Very surprised when I zoomed in to see that the clock actually said Clery's Store - referred to by generations solely as Clery's!
Date: Circa 1957/1958 and no later than 1961/62 (thanks to DannyM8, Mr Tayto, Archiseek).
NLI Ref.: VR 5140
Songbird was a challenge - and huge! After about six days of building, I was pretty happy with it. But I needed a scene for Songbird to descend upon. This is a working prototype for a much larger Columbia I'm planning. Enjoy!
If you're coming to Brickworld Chicago 2013, I'll have it there at the video game build tables.
Oh, and click over to Houston Press where Jef R. did another awesome post about my BioShock builds. Thanks Jef!
The view from the summit of Ben Nevis looking south into the Ring of Steall in the foreground with Glencoe and surrounding area behind.
I've added a few mountains in the notes for reference but missed plenty, feel free to add any.
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Thanks for looking.
Enquanto o pintor Paul Gauguin e o compositor Cole Porter,
em visita à Baía de Guanabara,
sentiram-se deslumbrados,
porque a enxergaram como bela,
o antropólogo Claude Lévis-Strauss
detestou-a; pareceu-lhe, a baía, uma boca banguela.
(Paulo Sabino)
Happy fence Friday - seen during a walk in Fellbach - Oeffingen, Germany.
Much better in Large On Black
© 2013 Ursula Sander - All rights reserved.
This photograph was taken during the night that I met Roberto for a photo shoot of some urban landscapes of Miami. I was so convinced that the storms were going to ruin the opportunities to obtain some exciting shots of the city, but Roberto was more optimistic. The skies cleared at the right time, particularly during the blue hour. As the night continued, the storms overhead made several brief cameos. Nevertheless, I have to admit that I like a good challenge, particularly when visiting a city for the first time. When one is a visitor instead of a resident, one has to take what Mother Nature provides. I know I didn’t come to Miami just to sit in my hotel room when the weather was lousy!
Along the Miami Riverwalk, it would rain off and on. During this particular shot, underneath the Metromover overpass bridge, it was drizzling, and some raindrops fell on my lens, but I decided against editing them out of the image, so you will see some blurs here and there. I love the way this came out on account of the lighting and ambiance -- that greenish, murky atmosphere that accentuates the tropical nature of Miami.
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Back from vacation in Spain, or as we call it,
the longest flickr walk ever ( 15 days) LOL
HUGE thanks to Pilar and Angel, our hosts,
I can't remember having this much fun,
los quiero y me quedo corta... ♥
"Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness."
- Frank Gehry
always wanted to see Bilbao's Guggenheim,
it gleamed in the setting sunlight
my textures
I'm off to catch up with your wonderful photostreams,
what the hell happened to flickr? grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
happy sliders sunday!
xo♥
This one is for Munich.
For all the fantastic architecture whether the old or the new one.
For all the breweries and the most delicious beer in the world.
For all the rollercoasters at the Oktoberfest which make so many people happy every year.
This is to the people.
To all those people sitting outside in the sun even though it is freezingly cold.
To all those surfers who are surfing no matter the season.
To all those drunken strangers at the Munich beer festival which are friends for one night.
I love you guys, you are my inspiration, you are my life.
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Vineyards on the Kappelberg in Fellbach, Germany.
Much better in Large On Black
© 2013 Ursula Sander - All rights reserved.
I shot this scene on a whim in the whee hours a few minutes from dawn along a dark county road between Jamestown and Chinese camp along California highway 49. The landscape is full of rolling valleys and hills leading up to the Sierra Nevada mountains to the east. As I pulled over I noticed this fence and the tall dry grass that surrounded it and just as luck would have it the bright center of the Milky Way was almost perfectly aligned in formation behind the fence mimicking the angle of the fence posts. I love being able to capture a scene as it unfolds before my eyes. Within a few moments dawn was on the horizon and the Milky Way disappeared in the blue light of dawn. If you get a chance to gaze the Milky Way consider yourself lucky because light pollution is destroying our dark skies and gradually degrading views of this majestic ribbon in the sky. As you may notice in the image the presence of an orange glow along the horizon. This glow is from light pollution from the towns Oakdale, Modesto, and Merced, Ca. I would love to see more done to prevent light pollution so I can create more amazing images of the night sky. Thanks for Stopping by please feel free to comment or critique my work.
Lamentavelmente ontem os usuários do Flickr foram surpreendidos com um novo site, pois o flickr esta completamente diferente e como de costume o flickr sem respeito algum aos usuários seja pagos ou contas free, não pede opinião e não tem um instrumento de reclamação.
Eles simplesmente mudam e nós que temos que nos adaptar, já que usuários antigos acabam refém de sua própria exclusividade ao site, pois podemos sair, mas o que faremos com tantas fotos armazenadas no site? Confesso que essa sensação de abuso de poder não me agrada nem um pouco.
Sim o site esta diferente, a primeira imprensão é péssima, eu que odeio mudanças radiais e principalmente em algo que pago sem minha opinão e meu conhecimento prévio acaba ficando ainda pior.
Passado o primeiro susto, realmente o site esta confuso, coisas que antes com um simples clique você conseguia fazer, agora tem que ficar clicando uma ou mais vezes, o que parece ir contra as facilidades almejadas por todos os programadores, mas algumas mudanças são uma questão de costume, particularmente ate gostei da pagina principal, mas tirando o lado estético, e passando para o lado pratico:
•Achei péssima a nova forma que aparecem nos comentários, nesta nova maneira, as sequencias que faço há anos, acabam por desaparecerem depois do quarto comentário, assim como o costume de colocar a foto de um ano atrás. Só isto para mim já me deixou se animo ate agora de continuar, pois gostava muito de fazer as sequencias.
•Minha conta pro só vence ano que vem, mas tenho certeza que mesmo os que estão gostando do novo flickr aqui no Brasil e olha que posso contar nos dedos de uma única mão, mudara de ideia quando tentar renovar a conta e não conseguir e tiver que lidar com um monte de anuncio saltitando em sua pagina.
•Eu já vi essa historia acontecer em outros sites e basicamente todos eles acabaram abandonados e sem ninguém, foi assim com o Buzznet e foi assim com o Orkut que ainda permitiu o uso do layout antigo por um tempo, mas que acabou ficando as traças quando mudou definitivamente, alem de que acho que pagar Usd 499,00 num site que não tem respeito com os seus usuários, onde não há um Serviço de Atendimento ao Usario, uma loucura.
•Não tenho muita esperança na reversão desta situação , mas foi criado um local onde podemos ao menos reclamar ou talvez desabafar, lembrando que uma andorinha só não faz verão, por isto vá e divulgue para os seus amigos que também não estão satisfeitos com a novidade para irem também neste site.
click here
www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/72157633547442506/page139...
Ps. Outra coisa que esta acontecendo, não sei se apenas comigo ou outras pessoas estão tendo um problema semelhante, mas nada que é comentado na minha ultima foto do Cristo, esta aparecendo quando clico em atividades recentes, na verdade a foto do Cristo nem aparece La, quanto mais os comentários que nelas foram feitos, para ver, tenho que entrar na própria foto. LAMENTAVEL
Foto: Jogando Bola na Praia de Piratininga - Niteroi - Rio de Janeiro - Brasil
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B/W Conversion with GIMP, using a Mix of Luminance and channel mixer
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LOCATION AND DATE - DATA e LUOGO DI SCATTO
VIa Balbi, Genova (Liguria, Italy),29th March 2013
CAMERA
Nikon D5000
LENS - OBIETTIVO
Grandangolo, wideangle Sigma 8-16mm f/4.5-5.6 DC (8 mm)
SHOT DATA - DATI DI SCATTO
ISO 400; f/11
HDR from 2 exposures (-2; 0; ), handheld
Other EXIF on flickr / Altri EXIF su flickr
WORKFLOW - FLUSSO DI LAVORO
° Rename: XnView
° RAW and lens distortion conversion: DxO Optics Pro
° HDR Processing: Photomatix Pro
° Noise reduction / Riduzione rumore: Noiseware Professional
° Cropping: GIMP
° B/W conversion / Conversione B/N: GIMP
° Curve correction / Correzione curve: GIMP
° Resizing, watermark: Fastone viewer
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Intento nuevamente levantar el vuelo,
junto a mi fiel compañera la esperanza.
Mi equipaje es ligero, solo llevo confianza,
paz, risas, sueños e ilusiones bajo el cielo.
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I'm trying to get airborne again
with my faithful companion the hope.
My luggage is light, I only carry confidence,
peace, laughter, dreams and illusions under heaven.
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As Darrell and I walked back across the campus after a session with the WIU Hot Shots photography club in the University's photography studio, we spied a stand of dandelion stalks softly lit by the setting sun. Neither of us could resist pulling our cameras out and taking some shots. This image of one going to seed is probably only the second dandelion picture that I have posted to flicker in the last couple of years. To obtain the shot, I used the articulating LCD (instead of the viewfinder) while holding the camera down near the ground. It was processed in Lightroom 5 using a radial filter.
My attitude towards these prolific and tenacious weeds has radically changed since moving out into the countryside of western Illinois. I used to fruitlessly try to eradicate them from the lawn... but now, because of the sheer overwhelming number of them and the huge size of the lawns out here, I am content to keep them mowed down with the rest of the grass. :D
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Or should I say good morning Washington, DC! Actually, The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is only about 1,000 feet from where I photographed this so I wasn’t too far from a “Vietnam” theme.
The ugly looking obelisk with the scaffolding is the Washington Monument which has been under construction since the August 2011 earthquake. If you are planning a trip to the Nation’s capitol soon, be warned that construction will not be completed until sometime in 2014. That’s really a bummer because everywhere you take a photograph in Washington, DC it seems the Washington Monument is always in the background.
I got up early this particular morning because in the spring and summer the sunrise runs parallel to the Lincoln Memorial (rising near the Washington Monument) and bathes the statue of Mr. Lincoln in warm, soft light. As you can see from my photograph that didn’t happen, so I had to settle for this lonely jogger running along the Reflecting Pool.
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Romantic Hörschbachschlucht with sun lighted trail in spring in Murrhardt, Germany.
Much better in Large On Black
© 2013 Ursula Sander - All rights reserved.
Continuing my Toy-ronto Life series...
Happy Miniature Sunday.! Spring is happening in Toy-ronto right now. During a rooftop session recently,spotted this cute scene with fancy homes and this delightful tree with new green leaves. it's getting greener and greener each and every day!
More great news about Toy-ronto :-)
In frames of our (Yuri's and mine) 'Toy-ronto Origami Land" exhibition, 200 photographs of my Toy-ronto series will be presented at Doors Open Toronto projected on the Rotunda walls of City Hall.
If you are in Toronto on May 25 - 26, join Doors Open event and come visit Toy-ronto in City Hall! :-)
See City Hall's announcement! www.toronto.ca/doorsopen/2013/cityhall.htm
More of Toy-ronto fun is coming next week - stay tuned / bientot a l'ecran :-)
seen from Sears Tower (since 2009 Willis Tower), Chicago
(Observation deck at 412m)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willis_Tower
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