In the subway

In the subway

I finally went on a photowalk, but I didn't take many photos, so this won't be a long set. :)

This shot is a combination of a 3 exposure HDR and a single exposure HDR.

Blue

Blue

The modern English word blue comes from the Middle English, bleu or blwe, which came from an Old French word bleu of Germanic origin (Frankish or possibly Old High German blao, "shining"). Bleu replaced Old English blaw. The root of these variations was the Proto-Germanic bl? waz, which was also the root of the Old Norse word bla and the modern Icelandic blar, and the Scandinavian word bla, but it can refer to other colours. A Scots and Scottish English word for "blue-grey" is blae, from the Middle English bla ("dark blue," from the Old English bl? d). Ancient Greek lacked a word for colour blue and Homer called the colour of the sea "wine dark", except that the word kyanos (cyan) was used for dark blue enamel.

As a curiosity, blue is thought to be cognate with blond, blank and black through the Germanic word. Through a Proto-Indo-European root, it is also linked with Latin flavus ("yellow"), with Greek phalos (white), French blanc (white, blank) (loaned from Old Frankish), and with Russian белый, belyi ("white"), and Welsh blawr (grey) all of which derive (according to the American Heritage Dictionary) from the Proto-Indo-European root bhel - meaning "to shine, flash or burn", (more specifically the word bhle-was, which meant light coloured, blue, blond, or yellow), whence came the names of various bright colours, and that of colour black from a derivation meaning "burnt" (other words derived from the root bhel - include bleach, bleak, blind, blink, blank, blush, blaze, flame, fulminate, flagrant and phlegm).

In the English language, blue may refer to the feeling of sadness. "He was feeling blue". This is because blue was related to rain, or storms, and in Greek mythology, the god Zeus would make rain when he was sad (crying), and a storm when he was angry. Kyanos was a name used in Ancient Greek to refer to dark blue tile (in English it means blue-green or cyan).

Many languages do not have separate terms for blue and or green, instead using a cover term for both (when the issue is discussed in linguistics, this cover term is sometimes called grue in English). Blue is commonly used on internet browsers to colour a link that has not been clicked; when a link has been clicked it changes yellow or orange or purple.

(Taken from Wikipedia)

Camaro Concept

Camaro Concept

The Camaro Concept

My Beloved City

My Beloved City

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Kuwait | CityScape / Architecture | Sunset

Technical Specs :

Camera: Canon EOS 5D mark ||

Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

Focal Length: 24mm

Aperture: f/14

Shutter: 30 sec

ISO: 50

Exposure: Manual

Other : on tripod + Cable Release + mirror lockup

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Thanks 10,000 Views

Thanks 10,000 Views

Thanks 10,000 views in to 2 months

Shot with Canon EOS 350D + Canon 18-55mm

Face-down.... underground.... sort of

Face-down.... underground.... sort of

Been meaning to find a tunnel for months.

I'll probably come back here for other shots sometime. Don't think Shana really understood what was going on, but anything to get out of the house pleases her.

The interval timer shooting function on the D300 came in useful here. I simply set it up to take 300 photos at 1 second intervals, then wandered along the tunnel & lay down. Clearly I walk at 2 paces per second because every shot has me in the same pose with the same foot in the air as I walk along & return. Will make a short video of this over the next few days as it is pretty funny. Much easier than using a remote & more reliable too. (Done - video here)



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London Docklands ~ Urban Colors under a Bridge

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Docklands is the semi-official name for an area in East and South East London, comprising parts of several boroughs (Southwark, Tower Hamlets, Newham and Greenwich). The docks were formerly part of the Port of London, at one time the world's largest port. They have now been redeveloped principally for commercial and residential use. The name London Docklands was used for the first time in a government report on redevelopment plans in 1971 but has since become virtually universally adopted. It also created conflict between the new and old communities of the London Docklands.

Popular culture

Charles Dickens makes frequent use of the riverside and docklands in novels such as Our Mutual Friend and Great Expectations, and there is a memorable description of the docks, their buildings and people, in Joseph Conrad's The Mirror of the Sea. The Docklands are also the location of District 1, the most functional section of Britain during the outbreak of Rage Virus and the headquarters for Army Officials in Juan Carlos Fresnadillo's 2007 movie 28 Weeks Later.Link

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