Smoking Sun

Smoking Sun

King Fahad Fountain. A great landmark of Jeddah. Saudi Arabia

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...next exotic car on the autobahn

...next exotic car on the autobahn...

This is a Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4 with some aftermarket parts looking like the new superleggera:) The sound was very nice, unfortunately this is the only reasonable pic of it on the autobahn:(

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Hotel Europe

Hotel Europe

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Hotel Europe is a six-story heritage building located at 43 Powell Street (at Alexander) in the Gastown area of Vancouver, British Columbia. The building was commissioned by hotelier Angelo Calori and built in 1908 - 1909 by Parr and Fee Architects. Situated on a triangular lot, the building is designed in the flatiron style. It was the first reinforced concrete structure to be built in Canada and the earliest fireproof hotel in Western Canada. Contractors had to be brought in from Cincinnati, Ohio for the necessary expertise; the Ferro-Concrete Construction Company began this project six years after constructing the first tall concrete building in the world.

With funding from the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, the building was renovated in 1983 as affordable housing with A. Ingre and Associates as the project designers. The residential units are now managed by the Affordable Housing Society. A beer parlour formerly existed below the ground floor, which included areaways extending underneath the above sidewalks. To prevent a cave-in from the weight of pedestrians and above ground traffic, the City of Vancouver filled the areaway in with pea gravel at a cost of $215,000, which presumably can be easily removed in the event of future restoration.

The Hotel Europe was one of the filming location for the suspense movie The Changeling. In it, the building houses the Seattle Historical Society, but the hotel sign can be seen on the right side facade of the building in some takes. Some scenes are set on its spectacular roof terrace.

Sheba

Sheba

Homenaje a la peseta

Homenaje a la peseta

Muy buenas.

Para romper un poco con la linea de las ultimas fotos subidas, ahi va este particular homenaje a la peseta.

Si os fijais, hay una representacion de las ultimas, que senalo con notas, antes de la llegada del euro.

Buena semana.

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Peseta, unidad monetaria de Espana (tambien era moneda de curso legal, junto al franco frances, en Andorra) desde 1868 hasta marzo de 2002. La peseta se dividia en 100 centimos. En 1998, 149 pesetas equivalian a 1 dolar estadounidense.

Ya en 1836, siendo reina Isabel II, se emitio una serie de monedas de 1 peseta para pagar a las tropas durante las Guerras Carlistas. Pero fue tras el exilio de aquella cuando el gobierno provisional surgido tras la revolucion de 1868 y presidido por Francisco Serrano, duque de la Torre, promulgo (19 de octubre de 1868) el llamado Decreto Figuerola - por el nombre del entonces ministro de Hacienda, Laureano Figuerola-, que reconocia a la peseta como unica moneda de curso legal en Espana.

El Banco de Espana fue el organismo economico responsable de la emision de monedas y billetes de la peseta. En el momento de su desaparicion, circulaban monedas de 1, 5, 10, 25, 50, 100, 200 y 500 pesetas, asi como billetes de 1.000, 2.000, 5.000 y 10.000 pesetas.

De acuerdo con el proceso de Union Economica y Monetaria europea, la sustitucion de la peseta por la moneda unica de la Union Europea, el euro, culmino de un modo definitivo el 1 de marzo del ano 2002.

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True Blood

True Blood

Yes that is human blood. It's my blood.

This is really sadistic but originally I was going to cut myself to do a similar shot with less blood. I wanted the authenticity of true blood. I was in the bathroom, I had the knife pictured above in my hand and I had my Nikon D300 sitting on the counter ready to go. As I looked in the mirror holding a knife and my arm out, I just couldn't get myself to do it. It really freaked me out just running the tip of the blade over my skin.

So I figured shit, there goes my Macro Monday.

Luckily I've been sick this whole week and when I get sick, I occasionally get a nose bleed. As luck would have it I got a major nose bleed Friday night and I grabbed my camera in my computer room, grabbed the knife in the kitchen and ran to the bathroom sink and I let myself bleed out for a few minutes into the sink and over the knife. And here we are.

This is for the group Macro Mondays. This is a fun group where every Monday, a macro photograph is submitted for the week's theme. This week's theme was "Halloween".

Taken with a Nikon D300 w/ a 60mm f/2.8 Micro Nikkor Lens

Nikon Speedlight SB800

In The Middle Of My Chest

In The Middle Of My Chest

Quote Of Title Inspiration : "A great photo happens when a photographer sees a situation unfolding in front of them that evokes an emotion that the photographer feels deep down, in the middle of their chest. And in a split second, they then make a conscience choice of exposure, lens, depth of field, lighting, body language, composition, etc., and releases the shutter. The film is then processed, scanned, laid out on a page, printed on a press, driven across town to the newspaper carrier who throws it on some guy's porch, who then opens the newspaper and looks down at that photo … and if that guy gets the same feeling deep down in the middle of his chest that the photographer did when they viewed the situation in the first place, they have made a great photo." - Anonymous



For technical questions : This image took me 4 hours of postprocessing. If you have ever done postprocessing on one single image you know that sometimes the longer you process the harder it gets to like it ;) .

Question To The Readers : What was the longest time you postprocessed 1 image? Do you remember? Btw : Thanks for reading until here!