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The most important event in Vishu is the Vishukkani, which literally means The first thing to be seen on the Vishu day post waking up.. The Vishukkani consists of a ritual arrangement of auspicious articles like raw rice, fresh lemon, golden cucumber, betel leaves, arecanut, metal mirror, the yellow flowers konna (Cassia fistula), and a holy text and coins, in a bell metal vessel called uruli in the puja room of the House. A lighted bell metal lamp called nilavilakku is also placed alongside. This arrangement is completed the previous night. On the day of Vishu, the custom is to wake up at dawn and go to the puja room with the eyes closed so that the Vishukkani is the first sight of the new season. Since the occasion marks the beginning of Malayalam New Year it is also considered auspicious to read verses from Hindu Holy book Ramayanam after seeing the Vishukkani . It is also believed that the page of the Ramayanam to which you open up will have a bearing on your life in the coming year. Devotees also throng the well-known temples like Sabarimala Ayyappan Temple, Guruvayur Sree Krishna temple to have a Vishukkani Kazhcha on the early hours of Vishu day.
Unfortunately, the glass facade wasn't straight (approximately a 10° angle) and it had not-really-good-looking elements coming out from the inside every few meters, so that's about the only angle i could get...
Night shot of the "Grund", in the old part of Luxembourg city.
Shot with a 5D2 and reworked as a HDR (slightly, mainly to achieve this golden aspect).
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« Se fossi un livornese, di quelli veri che dicono "deh" e parlano a mano aperta, muovendo le dita, come per far vedere che nelle loro parole non c'è imbroglio, vorrei star di casa in qualche Scalo della Venezia. Non già nei quartieri, nelle piazze, nelle strade disegnate con la matita dolce, con l'aiuto di squadra e di compasso, dagli ordinati e generosi architetti dei Granduchi, ma in questo quartiere che i livornesi chiamano La Venezia, qui nel cuore della città vecchia, a due passi dalle Carceri, dal Monte Pio, dai Bottini dell'Olio. Che bella vita sarebbe, che vita semplice e felice. »
(Curzio Malaparte, Maledetti Toscani)
Da costa a costa .... una domenica a Livorno
scattata a Livorno 10 aprlile 2011
postata il 12 aprile 2011 alle ore 13 . 31
Non guardatela in ________View large_________la luce non era bellina !!!
"Circa 200 anni fa Benjamin Franklin spiegò al mondo il segreto del suo successo: "non fare mai domani quello che puoi fare oggi"
Molti di noi dovrebbero ascoltare quello che ha detto.
Non so perchè noi procrastiniamo le cose, ma se dovessi indovinarlo direi che ha molto a che fare con la paura, paura del fallimento, paura del dolore, paura del rifiuto.
Talvolta la paura è solo quella di prendere una decisione, perchè se ti fossi sbagliato, se stessi facendo uno sbaglio irrimediabile? E nel momento in cui il dolore di non fare una cosa diventa più forte della paura di farla? Come funziona?
L’uccellino mattiniero acchiappa il verme...chi ha tempo non aspetti tempo...colui che esita è perduto!
Non possiamo far finta che non ci sia stato detto, abbiamo sentito i proverbi, abbiamo sentito i filosofi, abbiamo sentito i nostri nonni che ci ammonivano sullo spreco del tempo, abbiamo sentito i poeti maledetti che ci spingevano a prendere al volo il momento.
Dobbiamo compiere i nostri errori, dobbiamo imparare sulla nostra pelle. Dobbiamo spazzare le possibilità dell’oggi sotto il tappeto del domani, fino a che non potremo più farlo, fino a che finalmente non comprenderemo da soli quello che voleva dire Benjamin Frenklin.
Cercare risposte è meglio che farsi domande, stare svegli è meglio che dormire, e anche il più terribile fallimento, anche il peggiore, il più irrimediabile degli errori è di gran lunga preferibile a non averci provato"
Metro capture [Barcelona]
[The things you own end up owning you. "Tyler Durden"]
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No time for landscapes at this time of year, it's all gardening. I hope to get out and about soon...
Best view
"When we say things like "people don't change" it drives scientists crazy because change is literally the only constant in all of science. Energy. Matter. It's always changing, morphing, merging, growing, dying.
It's the way people try not to change that's unnatural. The way we cling to what things were instead of letting things be what they are. The way we cling to old memories instead of forming new ones. The way we insist on believing despite every scientific indication that anything in this lifetime is permanent.
Change is constant.
How we experience change that's up to us. It can feel like death or it can feel like a second chance at life. If we open our fingers, loosen our grips, go with it, it can feel like pure adrenaline.
Like at any moment we can have another chance at life. Like at any moment, we can be born all over again."
Cuando naciste supe que desde ese momento tu vida y la mía cambiarían para siempre.
Que tengas un día maravilloso .
Mamá.
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Caratteristico borgo medioevale costruito su un territorio di origine vulcanica, è sovrastato dal Castello dei Malaspina, formato da un muro di cinta di oltre mt. 300 e da ben 7 torri.
E' attraversato dal fiume Temo che è l' unico navigabile della Sardegna.
After the collapse of Pravus's mining-based economic system, the planet reorganized its economy to "service" space travellers. The City of Sins was born.
I took this on Saturday with Bianca & KC in Santa Barbara just outside the courthouse. They built time into their schedule to have their wedding portraits done down at the beach at sunset, but we ended up having an overcast day, so instead we played around at the courthouse and ended up with photos like this. They should keep this over their fireplace as a warning of what could happen if he upsets his wife.
But what has my panties in a bunch is the vast number of people (okay, all girls) who have been stealing photos and posting them onto their tumblr without giving credit. I have no problem if you blog and give credit/link/attribution, but do NOT steal and not give credit. Do these girls really have nothing else better to do than sit in their room listening to Justin Bieber and steal photos to put on their Tumblr so they can share them with their friends? Wow, go outside and do something fercryinoutloud.
/rant
UPDATE: As of 2022, this couple is officially divorced. Didn't see that coming
Dati Tecnici
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a) Leica M7 + Leica Tele-Elmar M 135mm f. 4,0 (senza uso di mirino esterno);
b) Tempo 1/250s con apertura f.5,6 + 2/3 di stop a mano libera;
c) Lettura Esposimetrica impostata in M (manuale) con esposimetro della macchina (Effettuate quattro letture a luce riflessa sui due lati estremi opposti del soggetto, una sul volto del bimbo e una sul fondo);
d) Negativo Ilford FP4 PLUS Prof 125 Asa (esposta a 200 Asa);
e) Scansione con Agfa Duoscan T2500 Pro su supporto mobile orizzontale (porta SCASI);
f) 1°/a Post-Produzione Corel Photo-Paint X5 e Adobe Photoshop CS3;
g) Post-Produzione di completamento con Nikon Capture NX 2.
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….per un pezzo di pane
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Ho fame mamma,
…è il grido di un bimbo che
chiede un pezzo di pane,
una dura crosta da mettere sotto i denti.
Questa è….
la realtà di un mondo assente.
La vita non ti sorride a niente,
è l’ingordigia dell’essere umano
l’indifferente che pensa al potere,
solo al dio denaro ma non pensa
al frutto del suo ventre.
ne al futuro della gente,
Domani sarà un altro giorno triste,
quale battito dal cuore se non avrà
la forza di resistere. Quali ancora parole
se non flebili lamenti, è il suo cuore
che piange, che soffre è la realtà di
una breve vita, ecco come si muore.
……………………….Luigi Mirto
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..... for a piece of bread
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I'm hungry mom,
… Is the cry of a child who
asks for a piece of bread,
a hard crust to put under your teeth.
This is….
the reality of an absent world.
Life smiles at you at nothing,
it is the greed of the human being
the indifferent who thinks of power,
only to the god of money but does not think
to the fruit of his belly.
to the future of the people,
Tomorrow will be another sad day,
what heartbeat if it won't
the strength to resist. What more words
if not faint moans, it is his heart
who cries, who suffers is the reality of
a short life, that's how you die.
……………………… .Luigi Mirto
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Italiano
Immagine tratta dal Racconto Reportage ”Volti e Usanze della gente Siciliana”
”Un racconto reportage che è stato effettuato nei paesi, borgate, casolari e contrade nell’entroterra Siciliana allo scopo di far conoscere le usanze, i modi, le attività sociali e culturali, della bellissima Sicilia”.
In questa ripresa c’era la mamma che per addormentare il bimbo lo passeggiava lungo la strada sterrata lontano dall’abitazione e dai rumori di casa, il bimbo intanto al posto del ciuccio sgranocchiava una crosta di pane.
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Image from the story Reportage ”Faces and Customs of the people of Sicily"
"A narrative report that was made in the villages, hamlets, farmhouses and inland districts of Sicily in order to know the customs, manners, social and cultural activities, beautiful Sicily".
In this shoot was the mother to sleep, the child was walking along the dirt road away from the house and the noises of the house, the baby pacifier in place while munching a crust of bread.
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Seen in Explore April 5, 2011. Highest position #169. Thanks everyone!!! :-)
My son's toys. These are the characters in the animated tv series, Xiaolin Showdown. They are Omni, Kimiko Tohomiko, Clay Bailey, and.........what?!? Where is Raimundo Pedrosa? :)
Lighting Info:
Subject inside the improvised lightbox (see comment) :)
Canon 430ex II left of the subject @ 1/64 power; bare
Desk lamp right of subject
Have to run some errands, will visit your stream a little later...
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DuSable Bridge is located along Michigan Avenue also known as the Magnificent Mile in Chicago...this part of the city is known as the Cityfront Center...i spotted a CTA bus on the corner of Michigan and Upper Wacker waiting for the light to turn green so i immediately set up for trail shot at the north end of the bridge and hoped to get a good capture when the bus came thru...this is what came out of it....pls. View On Black
Seen on Explore 04/05/2011 #137 highest position...
أقُولَ || مّرحَب ||
ثمـْ يَجآوبَ بـَ » گحَه «
يَعنِيّ يَگابر گِنّ مَآ شَآفْ مَخلوقْ
وأقولَ : || صَحّه || لگ علىَ آلقلبَ صَحه
أمشّيَ أغلآطه و أبَادله بـَ آلذوقْ
ويقولَ || عفواً|| ،, مَآعَرفتگ . بـَ بحّه ||
و أنا أدريْ || مَآ بَحْ صَوته سَوىَ » آلشَوقْ «
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السلام عليكم فلكريين
كيفكم عسااكم بخير
حسيت اني طولت
لأن هالايام مشغول شوي مع الدراسة
عندنا امتحانات المد تيرم
خبرركم ماندرس اللا قبل الامتحان بيوم :s
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فَ \ يآربّ حَققّ لِ قٌلوبِنآ ” مَ تٌريد !
موفقين جميعاً ان شاء الله
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لمشاهدة أفضل (L) اضغط حرف الـــ
لوضعها في الفيف (F) اضغط حرف الـــ
Model : Bro. Moh'd
C : Canon EOS 40D
L : Canon EF 24-70mm F/2.8L USM
Sadiq Harwana ~..
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To obtain this special light, I used a Lightroom preset created by me.
You can find some presets "vintage" HERE
If you are interested in the complete set (120 presets), contact me privately.
Better Viewed Large!!
As the title suggests, this morning was classic dodgem cars with the waves. The waves were big and there was a high tide.
The beach sand was on a slope going down towards were the waves were rolling up and freak sets would come in and you would literally have to have one eye in the camera and the other making sure you weren't about to be bolled over by a big set.
When i took this, i waited for the waves to start the rush out on this slope and then i ran down in the shallows, planted my tripod, hoped that my set up was all good, take a shot, turn around and bolt back up the beach! It was kinda fun until a few waves DID actually get me unprepared. I had to hold my camera and tripod as high as i could above my head, and i'd be drenched from my shirt down hoping i wouldn't fall over.
Passes by were seen laughing at me and a couple of folks even stopped in anticipation of seeing me get completely wiped out! All in though, i got some great images, i have a few more i will process later when i get time.
My new endeavor to try and catch the image "in camera" and not rely on much PP as i have done with this one, is certainly rife with challenges on a morning like this!
I hope you all like it as i risked life and limb to get these ha-ha!!
Thanks for all the kind critique and comments everyone, i really do appreciate it greatly.
No HDR, Single Image
Lee ND Filter .9 ( 3-Stop )
Darrel Benson 3-Stop reverse Grad
Tripod
Canon 40D
Board shorts and Towel!
this blue hour image was captured the night before the supermoon event...earlier that night, the moon was partially covered by thin clouds but it eventually cleared up and i was able to capture several moon shots that night...this scene was shot on the DuSable Bridge along Michigan Avenue looking east towards Lake Michigan...love the reflections of the lights on the Chicago River in this scene...i wanted to do a bulb exposure but the passing traffic on the bridge was causing too much vibration that a really long exposure was kind of difficult to do...pls. do try to View On Black
Seen on Explore 04/02/2011 #279 highest position...
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This Orchid Flower NAME Hoya and this has given blooming flower 5th time after i have bought her[ Hoya Tree] to my home back in 2008. A wonderful one and the droplet you see at this image is Honey Just coming off the pollen.
This Macro shot was taken with a Canon 60D, using a 100mm Macro 2f2.8L IS USM Lens,
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Canon EF 70-200mm F/2.8L USM
Exposure Time : 1/3200 Sec
F Number : F3.2
ISO : 100
Focal Length : 200.00 mm
الأسم العربي: وروار شرقي صغير
Little Green Bee-eater : الأسم الإنجليزي
Merops orientalis : الأسم العلمي
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ETA: Sorry this disappeared yesterday. I accidentally deleted it while deleting some other photos. Fortunately, the description I had written was still sitting open in a Word Doc!! But not so fortunate on the lens repair estimate. I was just informed that it would cost me $450. *many tears now*. Do I 'buy' a brand new one or cough up the $450? that just feels like robbery!! Thoughts anyone?
I caught a gorgeous sunrise yesterday morning on Tuesday. While setting up my tripod, I chanced to speak to a man walking his dogs. He was standing there with this fabulous goofy grin on his face as he watched the sun rise.
He told me that this was the nicest sunrise in the last two weeks and that I had picked the perfect morning to shoot it. I had to agree! It certainly was, however; it was bone chillingly cold. I was sitting amongst a jumble of giant boulders, the water washing over my boots ... when a huge chunk of ice crashed at my feet. No wonder I was freezing ... I was sitting on that sheet of ice!!
I also suffered a moment of tears. I was jogging up to the beach to catch the first sun rays, and I dropped my backpack (I really do need a padded bag). I whipped out my camera for the first shot and *gasp* -- no autofocus!! *tears begin* If anyone recalls my earlier stories, this lens (18-200mm) took a bad fall about three years ago. Had to use a vice grip to remove the shattered UV filter. But, magically it still worked.
Coincidentally, after shooting the sunrise; I was headed to the Nikon repair shop with my old Nikon D70. Jackie has been begging me to fix it so she could have a 'real' camera. Sadly, I left the lens with the repair shop too; and am waiting on an estimate. Since that lens brand new is $849 on Amazon, when do I call it a wash with this lens?
*leaving now to go mope, cry and rant & rage in a corner*
He podido conocer y disfrutar de un lugar precioso llamado Aveiro en el centro de Portugal y llamado la "Venecia Portuguesa"
Esta ciudad situada a medio camino entre Coímbra y Oporto está surcada de románticos canales que recuerdan a la ciudad italiana de Venecia y la verdad es que toda ella merece la pena ser conocida, pero una de las cosas que más me ha llamado la atención fue su Estación de tren.
La estación de tren de Aveiro es una maravilla en su exterior, está ricamente adornada con preciosos azulejos portugueses como os muestro en esta serie que he querido dedicar solo a ese edificio y que espero sea del agrado de tod@s vosotr@s.
Desearos un feliz fin de semana
Recomiendo ver las tomas en grande y recordaros que todas se pueden también comentar
Tomada en algún lugar entre Cieza y Calasparra (Murcia).
Sesión fotográfica junto a Mariano Belmar.
Canon EOS 5D Mark II
1/40''
F13
ISO 100
Canon 17-40mm a 22mm
No filters.
No tripod.
Nik Silver Efex Pro.
Trabalho realizado para o Desafio A minha foto ao vosso estilo (Ed.20) do grupo Ilustrar Portugal.
Edição vencedora do desafio!
Teve como base uma fotografia de jraposo3072
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Rain, rain, go away. My photography workshop company, Sea to Summit, had to rescedule a private group workshop on Friday because of bad weather. The upside was that I got to go out and do my own shooting during the storm. To say that conditions at Panther Beach were dramatic would be a major understatement. The waves were ferocious, and the sky: well, I'll just say a "Holy Crap!" or two left my lips during the shoot.
(To give credit where credit's due, this is pretty much a 100% comp-stomp of this shot by Jim Patterson)
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Tech Notes on this Photo
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Nikon D300s
Tokina 12-24 mm @ 12 mm on a crop sensor
ISO100 - trying to buy some shutter speed
f/20 - to help buy me some shutter speed
0.62 sec
Lee 3-stop soft GND filter
Post-Processing
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In Raw Converter (Nikon Capture NX2)
- Processed single raw file once
- Global contrast for added pop
- Local brightness and contrast adjustments in the sky, water, foreground rocks, and bluffs
In Photoshop:
- Selective sharpening of foreground rocks
- Curves layer to darken and add contrast to sky
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What a combination, right?
Let me start off by saying that this is not the “proper” star-trail photograph – I know photography gurus out there will hit me for having “skip” trails. However, I actually love how it turned out. The Milky Way was also beautifully spread over the dark African sky. Interestingly, A colleague of mine went in and out of his tent in the middle of my long exposure, creating the magical bursts of light you see in emanating from our humble home ☺ Have a great week my friends!
Cruddy weather does have certain advantages. It often creates very dramatic conditions for photography - conditions that will never exist on a nice day. Of course, it can be very difficult to work in and there is always a very substantial risk of a washout. That was our Saturday morning - a complete washout. Fortunately we accidentally slept thru sunrise on Saturday. But Sunday and Monday's sunrises weren't all that bad. Far more interesting than sunrises on blue-bird clear sky days.
A Cokin 3x soft grad was used to hold back the sky. Many complain of the color casts on Cokin filters and it is quite true. Search elsewhere in my stream and you'll find some extreme examples of color casting. But, in this case, the color cast helps bring out some red in the sky. Shifting the color temperature toward the warm side helps too. This is a single exposure. I experimented with HDR a while back and abandoned it after failing to get any sort of decent results. As always, your thoughts and constructive criticism are welcome.
This was Monday's sunrise. I also have a wider view from a different vantage point on Sunday morning. That'll get posted a little later when the memory of this one fades a bit. Hopefully in the summer it will be time to return for another weekend and photograph the fog.
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