Here my first shot from this summer’s stay at the Baltic Sea. This heron seemed to have come to one of these stones to settle for the night. Indeed I had seen it some days earlier at the same place in the early morning, assuming it was the same heron. As herons do, it stood very still. This allowed me to take several 5 second shots. As I had no tripod with me that evening, I placed the camera on a big stone on the beach, trying to hold it as still as possible. The rest was good luck. / The shot was taken on the beach near the lighthouse of Buelk near Kiel on the Baltic Sea. The lights in the distance are from the sea-side resort Damp, many miles away on the opposite side of the Bay of Eckernförde. Near Buelk, 28th August 2009, 8.49 pm / Nikon D80, Nikkor 18-200 mm at 200 mm / F 13, 5 sec., F 100 Here the morning shot:
I used to travel with my husband when he went on business trips. I would stay in the hotel and try and sleep in the mornings, but they would always be hovering outside…..
Experiment series with texture continues. Post processing in Photoshop CS4 Canon EOS 40D / Canon EF-S 17-85MM 1:4-5.6 IS USM / 1/6s / f/8 / ISO100 / 28mm This image are © Veikko Suikkanen. You may not use any images (in whole or in part) without written consent from artist. All rights reserved.
Floral Emblem of Queensland…Cooktown Orchids….Captured with a Canon450D….Tamron Macro 18-250 Lens!
Also this picture yesterday from morning. Photographed Uskelan river on the bottom run in Salo southern Finland. Canon EOS 40D / Canon EF-S 17-85MM 1:4-5.6 IS USM / 1/20s / f/13 / ISO100 / 28mm This image are © Veikko Suikkanen. You may not use any images (in whole or in part) without written consent from artist. All rights reserved.
Sunken row boat, Leigh-on-Sea Essex England. Sony A350
Experiment series with texture continues. Post processing in Photoshop CS4 Canon EOS 40D / Canon EF-S 17-85MM 1:4-5.6 IS USM / 1/6s / f/8 / ISO100 / 17mm This image are © Veikko Suikkanen. You may not use any images (in whole or in part) without written consent from artist. All rights reserved.
! Featured in the Old farts of Redbubble group on 23 September 2009. Featured in the Northern Landscape group on 18 September 2009. Location : Taken at dusk on Lake Manitoba. Slipping the earthly bounds, / I danced with laughter on wings. / Towards the sky, / upward I climbed, / and joined the swirling stars. / Sunlit clouds I fly, / not dreamed of ever. / Swirl and soar, / high in the sunlit sky. ......Bernard Howe. Camera Details: Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi, 55mm Lens, Aperture exp 22.0 Shutter speed 1/1000, ISO 200
My beautiful new sister-in-law taken in Melbourne last week … for some background on this whirlwind shoot and some other images, click here. This also comes up well in B&W!!
Featured by Old farts of rudbubble 23 Sept. 2009 The World Famous Budweiser Clydesdales at the very end of the parade through the 2009 Los Angeles County Fair. The driver and the dog wait while each horse in the team is removed and led away to its stall. The driver HAS to sit there in the hot sun and look cool. The dog doesn’t . . . sorry, this image is not for sale Nikon D60 / 200mm / cropped slightly
This “Whale Viewing Bench” is located at Depoe Bay Oregon. Depoe Bay is the “Whale Watching Capital of the Oregon Coast”, it is fortunate to have a resident pod of grey whales which makes its home their 10 months out of the year. Right after I took this shot a grey whale surfaced for a few seconds not 50 yards from where I was standing. Taken with a; Canon PowerShot SX10 IS on 8/5/09 / TV – 1/500 / AV – F 4.00 / ISO – 80 / Focal length – 8.52 mm
As is : Four month old Itchy, one of our rescued kittens followed me down to the river, along with his brother and our dogs, the kittens sat at the edge and protested loudly because the girls and I were in the river. River Albaida, Xativa, Spain. / November 21st, 21c @ 1.48pm A beautiful day. Fugifilm Finepix S1000fd / f/4 Expo 1/150 ISO-64
No one told this owner, that it’s the Boat that goes in the Water, not the Water in the Boat!!!!!!!!!
This is the day My heart missed a beat The Proof…This is the day My heart missed a beat The Proof
Love is when you first meet your heart misses a beat,
Photo taken with a Nikon D80 And Sigma 150 – 500 Zoom Lens. Rainbow Bee-eater Scientific name: Merops ornatus / Family: Meropidae / Order: Coraciiformes / What does it look like? / Description A striking, colourful bird, the Rainbow Bee-eater is medium sized, with a long slim curved bill and a long tail with distinctive tail-streamers. It has a golden crown and a red eye set in a wide black stripe from the base of the bill to the ears, which is edged with a thin blue line. The throat is orange-yellow, with a broad black band separating it from a green breast. The upperparts are green, with the flight feathers coppery and black tipped. The underwings are bright orange, with a black edge. The lower abdomen is blue. The tail is black, including the long tail streamers, with a blue tinge. Females have shorter, thicker tail streamers than males, but are otherwise similar. Young birds are duller and greener, lacking the black band on the chest and the long tail streamers. Photo taken with a Nikon D80 and Sigma 150-500 Zoom Lens.
Plaza Mayor, Xativa, Spain. Friday Market, 20th November. This capture was taken from a side street leading onto the old square. The absence of traffic here on market days gives it a wonderful feeling of days gone by. Normally the square is full of cars, trucks and fumes, but, every tuesday and friday it is closed to traffic ´till the market packs up at around 1.30pm / Fugifilm Finepix S1000fd / f/7.1 Expo 1/105 ISO-64
On this picture you see the historic buildings of the steam pumping station “Hertog Rijnout” near Nijkerk/The Netherlands, lying in the wide polder “Arkemhem”. Being built in 1883, it served for 100 years. Before that there had been a windmill which had burnt down. Rebuilding it was considered insufficiënt, as the polderland requires regular drainage. The ground becoming lower and lower due to land subsidence – somewhere I read that the lowering of the ground was about 2 m since the first diking of this polder was started a little more 600 years ago -, more and more water had to be drained. Like this the land could still be used for agricultural purposes, but there were also negative effects, as the resulting aeration of the peat soil leads to the oxidation of its organic components, and this decomposition process causes further land subsidence. Steam-driven pumping station like this one now are a historical monument of a past age. Most of them here in the Netherlands have been demolished, but fortunately this one with its characteristic high chimney was preserved and can still tell its story. The new building in the left of the picture shows the new electric pumping station. Near Nijkerk, 20th November 2009, 0.08 pm / Panasonic TZ3, 4.6-46 mm at 4.6 mm / F 3.3, 1/800, ISO 100
These wheels belong to the steam pumping station “Hertog Rijnout” near Nijkerk/The Netherlands. Built in 1883, these huge wheels with a diameter of 7 m or 23 feet drained the Arkemheen polder of its surplus water for 100 years. When in 1983 a new pump station driven by electricity was installed, the old pump building and instruments were restored. Now the buildings and the steam engine are kept as a museum, but the whole is still functioning, being used for demonstrative purposes on certains days and run by a group of volunteers. See also the text of the picture of the pumping station itself. For the more technically interesting, here is more information to be found: http://www.stoomgemaalnijkerk.nl/oud/index.htm Near Nijkerk, 20th November, 11.28 am / Panasonic TZ3, 4.6-46 mm at 4.6 mm / F 3.3, 1/500, ISO 100
maldives
Maldives
Maldives. / OK bar room lighting !!
Maldives
The Board Walk was taken at the Mississauga Rotary Club Marsh Lands Park. Located behind the Jack Darling Park in the south western area of Mississauga, Ontario., Canada. / While out walking with my best friend and greatest fan Jacqueline. / We stoped for a while to enjoy the scene and for me to take few photographs. / I like the way this scene look and felt when I pictured it framed and hung on a wall in my home….if it doesn’t sell out first….lol / The board walks are suspend over most of the marsh lands area. I was told that it was done this way to protect the plants and to increase the view. ======================================= Taken with: Kodak C653 (Pocket Digital Cam.) / Tripod mounted. / Noise reduction & processing done with: Corel paint Shop Pro X2.
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