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DPP_0013 by ISSAMINHO …. on Flickr.

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beaufort04 by marianbijlenga on Flickr.Via Flickr: Wenduine Marco Casagrande
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Spiral Vertigo Explored May 3rd #4 Thanks :) by kanuck3 on Flickr.Via Flickr: Colored version of this vertigo location at Anyang Art Park.
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EXPLORE, sei ancora arrabbiato??… you are still angry??.. by margit-luitpold2005 on Flickr.

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Reef Sunrise Heron Island by BrentJR on Flickr.Via Flickr: Another older one from Heron Island, Queensland Explore May 2 2012 #121
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124 of 365 - Spanning Tree Protocol by Yogesh Mhatre on Flickr.Via Flickr: I was arbitrarily taking shots of random things that appeared to me while walking, came home, took a bath, inserted my SD card and was browsing for Pic of the Day. I stumbled across this image and first thing that stuck in mind was Spanning Tree Protocol. LOL - life between a geek & photographer. In my defense, those flowers are the hosts and every branch they connect to are switches and thicker the branch, lower is their bride ID :D
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Spring of a village by Kiyo photo on Flickr.Via Flickr: Shirakawa-go, Japan しかし私はどうにも気に入らないので、この連休中にもう１回撮りに行ってきます。 何が気に入らないかって、夜明けに撮らないと気に入らないのです。。。
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The Centre Piece by TurnipFarmer on Flickr.Via Flickr:Follow Me -> Twitter * 500px * Google+The British Museum (QE2 Great Court), London, England Now another place that I haven’t visited since getting my first DSLR back in 2009 and really I should of earlier than this as this place is simply amazing. Thankfully it wasn’t too busy so was able to move around quite easily. Again taken with my fisheye which I feel offers some unusual perspectives. This is a non HDR image and was always wanted to produce an image with a ‘high key’ feel to it. As the light was just beaming through the glass (yeah I know its rare here in the UK) it allowed me to produce this photo and also it gave it a nice touch with the subtle shadows of the roof on the main building. I sat on the bottom of the stairs here for about 10-15 minutes waiting for one person to go up or down the stairs. I had taken a few before this image but it was groups of people and it wasn’t the look that I had in mind however perseverance paid off and this chap walked down the stairs and he even gave that small look up at the building as he walked down, perfect I thought and this is the image you see :-) Well I hope you are all having a great week so far. Thank you for all your comments over the last few days, it does mean alot to me and I will try my best to reply to most of your kind comments you have left me.Photo Details Sony A700 Samyang 8mm F3.5 MC Fisheye RAW f/11 8mm ISO200 1/50s exposureSoftware Used Lightroom 4Information The British Museum, in London, is widely considered to be one of the world’s greatest museums of human history and culture. Its permanent collection, numbering some eight million works is amongst the finest, most comprehensive, and largest in existence and originates from all continents, illustrating and documenting the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present. The British Museum was established in 1753, largely based on the collections of the physician and scientist Sir Hans Sloane. The museum first opened to the public on 15 January 1759 in Montagu House in Bloomsbury, on the site of the current museum building. Its expansion over the following two and a half centuries was largely a result of an expanding British colonial footprint and has resulted in the creation of several branch institutions, the first being the British Museum (Natural History) in South Kensington in 1887. Some objects in the collection, most notably the Elgin Marbles from the Parthenon, are the objects of intense controversy and of calls for restitution to their countries of origin. Until 1997, when the British Library (previously centred on the Round Reading Room) moved to a new site, the British Museum was unique in that it housed both a national museum of antiquities and a national library in the same building. The museum is a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, and as with all other national museums in the United Kingdom it charges no admission fee. Since 2002 the director of the museum has been Neil MacGregor.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Museum
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- best lake + best trees = PICTURE … @ Tibet - by Kevin Law 821 on Flickr.
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Showing some light ! by Nicolas Valentin on Flickr.
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gros temps en mer d’iroise aujourd’hui….”four” lighthouse…france, brittany by frederic. on Flickr.
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K E Y H O L E by maxxsmart on Flickr.Via Flickr: Marin Civic Center - San Rafael California I’ve looked at this stairwell for well over a year now. I’ve photographed it once, but never liked the composition. It’s not an easy space to work with. A 1.5 meter raised section with rocks, plants, and garden lighting sits in the way of composing straight up. There is no way of using a tripod here without special permission, and the lighting is a bit low for handheld work. Frank Lloyd Wright designed this interior with the intention of projecting “space” for its occupants , so the levels become wider as you look up. With each level becoming less and less visible from below, it’s hard to align each set of lines in a way that shows in a photograph. The mix of natural light that comes in from the large skylight, and the recessed lighting in the stairwell is less than ideal for clean, uninterrupted light. After many visits, and studying old images for the past year and a half, I walked away with an image that I feel compliments this particular space. Handheld 1/60 second exposure ISO 800 17mm @ f/4
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Argo ship by nikolaos p. on Flickr.
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Last light - Pigeon Point Lighthouse, Half Moon Bay, CA by JaveFoto on Flickr.Via Flickr: PLEASE press L to view larger on black Once a year, Pigeon Point Lighthouse turns on the Fresnel lens for two hours to celebrate the anniversary of the original lighting. The light is stationary for five minutes then rotates for the remainder of the time. This is NOT A PHOTOSHOP trick, these are actual light beams from the Frensel lens. You can see the color version here. I like the BW better, what do you guys think? However, I’m not sure when we will see this again? Pigeon Point Lighthouse just started a 2-5 year restoration project in which the Fresnel lens will be restored. I’m so glad i was able to witness this scene for myself. There was an estimated 500+ photographers here on this night. Click on the video below to see the frame bang of your life, video courtesy of my homeboy Joshua Cripps. It is the first time since the lighthouse was built in 1871 that its lens (a complex network of 1,008 glass prisms hand-built in 1860s Paris, shaped like a beehive and rotated on a brass assembly like a grandfather clock) has been removed. As part of the project, three “lampists,” craftsmen who work on the nearly dead art of restoring lighthouse lenses, have been methodically inspecting, cleaning and resetting each one of the prisms so the 10-foot-tall lens can be reassembled and shown to the public early next year at Pigeon Point. Jave
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Wildlife Bob, the Bobcat by Stephen Oachs (ApertureAcademy.com) on Flickr.Via Flickr: Learn more at: www.ApertureAcademy.com I’ve been in Montana the last few days photographing wildlife — flew in on Thursday. I’ve driven as far into Glacier National Park as a Suburu Forrester will allow (rental) then out west to Dickey Lake and to the South to Flathead Lake…and everwhere in between. Most lakes around here are frozen over solid with snow mobile tracks all over them. I’ve hiked through 1 foot of snow, 2 foot of snow, 3 foot of snow and OMG this is deep…foot of snow. The kind where you sink in and the only thing that stops you is your crotch. Fun stuff. NOT. I’ve concluded that the Flathead Valley isn’t very picturesk and the poor weather hasn’t helped much. I did take some snaps at a cool barn last night that I’ll probably post later. Anyway, today was wildlife photography day. This little fella is a Bobcat. Well Internet access is slow and limited and I’ve gotta go dry out my crotch so I’m going to keep this short. Oh and for the record, this is my first post of 2009!
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