Just finished a personal piece from this morning's photo walk around Fremantle. 

The textures were all captured this morning as well, so if you saw me this morning taking photos of walls and the ground.. this is what I was preparing for!

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#gplusanniversary   #gplusanniversaryperth  

In a place where undulating hills meet verdant green fields and where azure blue skies meet some beautiful light and peppered clouds, it would be rather depressing to have a dull lifeless colorless palette enveloping the entire scene.

And I was rather depressed. After driving through endless fields for a whole day with the sun shirking away from its duties, I was more than ready to call it quits, head to a theatre and sulk away watching a movie.

But as I was driving away from this form, the sun finally broke through, lighting up just the structure alone. And with the thunderstorm in the clouds sending a sheet of rain down forming the perfect canvas, the entire scene transpired to form a rather dramatic image.

Using a telephoto lens to form a tight crop of the landscape while keeping the horizon low and the using the rich sky for the maximum effect required a lot of effort with the ever-changing light. But after waiting for a few minutes, I managed to capture this scene at ISO 800, 1/400s at F11

Palouse
WA USA

Which one do you like better? Indicate in comments please!.

Tags: #Palouse #PacificNW #church #storm  

Prepare for touchdown!

Some of the many puffins at the Farne Islands, off the northeast coast of England.

for #flybyfriday by +Meg Rousher (+Fly By Friday)
#birdsinfocusfriday  by +Risto Talman (+Birds in Focus)
and #feetfriday by +Carrie McGann (+Feet Friday) because those feet are too damn cool! :)

"Good Morning, Hamburg"

5:30 a.m., the sun rises in the famous city of warehouses (Speicherstadt) in Hamburg.

#PlusPhotoExtract  by +Jarek Klimek  
#BreakfastClub  by +Gemma Costa and +Andrea Martinez  
#breakfastartclub  by +Kate Church  
#hdrphotography   #hdr   #hamburg   #hamburgphotographers   #hafen   #speicherstadt   #sunrisephotos   #sunrise   #sunrisesaturday  

Sometimes the simple things are the most beautiful

Forest Light

Sometimes you come across a wonderful picture and feel like: WOW! I want to edit that one! Like in this case... A wonderful picture by Push Ya, right from the start, but I wanted to give it my touch. Here's the result! Thx Push! (Unfortunately Push is not on Google+ yet...)

What did I do?

I started by cropping the picture and denoising it a bit. Then I added some green and cyan color (using my Kodak E100S simulation) before I pushed the contrast quite a lot. After that I added layers with radial, gaussian and motion blur to get the effects you see in the picture. A bit of sharpening on top of that and I was done.

Photoshop CS5.

♥
#blackandwhitephotography   #boxerdog   #luka   #fidofriday  

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Now, don't hang on, nothing lasts forever but the earth and sky
It slips away, and all your money won't another minute buy
Dust in the wind .....
All we are is dust in the wind

Ever feel like your going round in circles ;) ? 

Hampi - Karnataka - South India - Dreams of Travel 

My final image from my Holiday to the South Carolina coast - began it with a sunrise, ended with a sunset :)

The clouds don't always comply on the day you set out to take a sunset.  Most of the nights there were completely bare - at least there was a little on this last night we were there.

Except that first night, when I only had my iPhone!  Gah! :D  

Thanks everyone for all the awesome comments and +1s on this series/story of  Photos that I've shared so far <3

Surge

This shot was taken as the sun set at Davenport, California. Enjoy!