Nature and garden

flowers

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I couldn’t decide which photo of the garden I like best so I’ve uploaded both!
Spring 2008
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Canon EOS 50D – f/5.6 – ISO 500 – 1/320 Sec – 200 mm

source: Natacha Yedmore (travel)

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The Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park is located about 50 km north of the city of Puerto Princesa, Palawan, Philippines. It features a limestone karst mountain landscape with an 8.2 km. navigable underground river. A distinguishing feature of the river is that it winds through a cave before flowing directly into the South China Sea. It includes major formations of stalactites and stalagmites, and several large chambers. The lower portion of the river is subject to tidal influences. The underground river is reputed to be the world’s longest. At the mouth of the cave, a clear lagoon is framed by ancient trees growing right to the water’s edge. Monkeys, large monitor lizards, and squirrels find their niche on the beach near the cave.

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I found this flowers, the girl from the store told me that this flowers were from Mount Everest..
They are a delicate bunch of flowers.
I have this large kettle made of iron, very old, so, as I like the contrasts, I put them in this container and got some help from photoshop

This photo was taken in my studio.

Today is the end of a long holiday here, this is the reason why I wasn’t around.
Wishing a great week to all of you .
Thank you so much ! ; )

Please … View On Black …many thanks !

This photo also is here .. http://www.flickr.com/cameras/canon/eos_50d/ …thanks !

Flower of one day

© Billy Wilson 2010

Spring flowers surrounded by snow. It has snowed since I posted the last picture. Its funny to see snow considering that only about a week ago it was nearly 30C.

About the Photo
*Camera: Canon EOS Digital Rebel XS *Lens: EF 50mm ƒ/1.8 II *Shutter Speed: 1/500Sec. *Aperture Value: ƒ/1.8 *ISO: 100 *Focal Length: 50mm (80mm Equivalent in 35mm Film)

I shot this handheld using live-view and manual focus because I didn’t want to get my knees wet on the grass by using the optical viewfinder. I overexposed by two stops over the metered exposure. I opened the RAW image in ACR and increased the recovery slider slightly and also increased the blacks slider to make the dark parts of the flowers stand out more. I increased the clarity, and manipulated the tone curve slightly to maintain a high-key feel to it. I slightly saturated the yellows and the greens and opened the image in CS4 where I cloned out a few distracting weeds. I then converted to sRGB colourspace and saved as a JPEG to post online.

Large: View On White

EXPLORED!

Wilton House Gardens, near Salisbury in Wiltshire.

This structure is the world famous Palladian Bridge spanning the Nadder River. The 9th Earl of Pembroke, Henry Herbert, was an architect who built the Palladian Bridge in 1737.

I chose this angle of the bridge to show off the intricate stone carvings on the underside of the roof of the bridge. This is very easy to miss and I have no doubt that most visitors to Wilton House are completely unaware of it’s presence.

HDR image: 5D Canon, mounted on sturdy Manfrotto tripod and shutter release used. The sun was shining virtually right into the lens just to the left of the bridge. I had to wait until clouds covered over the sun enough to take batches of images. In this batch of images I took nine exposures but from these this HDR image was produced using six exposures. Processed in Photomatix Pro & Photoshop.

Copyright © 2007 f2 Photography

Please Note: This image may not be used for any purpose without written permission from F-2 Photography. You are NOT allowed to download, blog, print, broadcast, publish, use in a mosaic, use on a forum, distribute, change and/or manipulate this image for commercial, private or non-commercial reasons.

This time the quilt is not made of photos from my stream but one created by nature ). I found it in my archives taken in Beutelsbach, Germany

Set: Vineyards

Dieses Mal ist der Quilt nicht mit Fotos von meinem Stream sondern ein von der Natur geschaffener ). Ich habe es in meinem Archiv gefunden. Aufgenommen in Beutelsbach (Region Suttgart).