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tomscott said:
Mesa Arch, Canyonlands, Utah by TomScottPhoto, on Flickr

Mesa Arch, Canyonlands, Utah. After some crazy weather the day before and really bad light and disappointing pics, I camped at 6000ft through a snow storm, van froze inside and got up at 5-30am to get this image. I think it was worth it what do you think? Truly awe inspiring place.

Currently traveling 3 months across the U.S. Don't know if you have seen my thread, but don't have a lot of time to update it. So I load a few of the best pics a day on my Instagram if you want to follow me along my journey.

My add is tomscott88
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Very nice shot. I hope to go there this fall. Please share more pictures and experiences. Thx,
ray
 
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BradGrove said:
Image taken at Glenorchy, New Zealand (South Isle)

Canon EOS 5D MkIII
Canon EF 17-40 f/4L USM @17mm

1/50 sec @ f/8; ISO 50

HDR - 7 x exposures @ 1 EV
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In this shot, and the one from Lake Wanaka, the English language, however rich, fail to come up with a proper adjective to use.
I'll have to settle for just staring at it, while my jaw drops to the floor.
 
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Sporgon said:
Been over to North Wales to do a series on the great English castles built by Edward I in around 1250 AD to keep the Welsh in line. The air in North Wales is so unpolluted that lichens grow all over the place; they will not grow with any degree of pollution. Stopped by this beautiful tree covered in lichen on my way to Harlech castle.

5DII + Nikkor 50mm f/2
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Nice photo, haven't seen lichen in that volume before.

Although I will dispute with your statement in your penultimate sentence. I conducted a study in Southampton on air quality, with lichen growth as one indicator amongst others, it was found in some species or another in 90% of our test areas across the city, the only real absence being right next to busy roads.
 
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dhr90 said:
Sporgon said:
Been over to North Wales to do a series on the great English castles built by Edward I in around 1250 AD to keep the Welsh in line. The air in North Wales is so unpolluted that lichens grow all over the place; they will not grow with any degree of pollution. Stopped by this beautiful tree covered in lichen on my way to Harlech castle.

5DII + Nikkor 50mm f/2
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Nice photo, haven't seen lichen in that volume before.

Although I will dispute with your statement in your penultimate sentence. I conducted a study in Southampton on air quality, with lichen growth as one indicator amongst others, it was found in some species or another in 90% of our test areas across the city, the only real absence being right next to busy roads.
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Thanks for that. I suspect my information is a little out of date. Air quality in urban areas has probably improved since I was at school !
 
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Sporgon said:
Been to North Wales to do a series on the great English castles built by Edward I around 1280 to keep the Welsh in line, or stop them singing. There are three of them, Conwy, Caernarfon and Harlech. This shot is of Caernarfon, a castle that is in a remarkable state of repair to say that it has stood for 700 odd years. Out of picture and up to the right there are the remains of a massive Roman fort that would have dwarfed this castle. Strange to think that when this castle was built the Roman Fort would have been 700 years old, even back then.

I've used my technique to try and achieve a reasonably accurate perspective despite the wide angle. All the shots of this castle taken from across the narrow estuary make the estuary look huge and the castle small. Shot on my 5DII + a Nikkor 50mm f/2 which is rapidly becoming my favourite lens for panoramics. It is very sharp at infinity, f4 - 5.6 and gives impressive and pleasing contrast. In fact I did nearly all the pictures on this trip with just a 50mm lens.

A five frame pano, ISO 160, 1/125s, f5.6, bracketed exposure for the white buildings on the right.
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That's a very nice photo and story too.
 
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candyman said:
Sporgon said:
Been to North Wales to do a series on the great English castles built by Edward I around 1280 to keep the Welsh in line, or stop them singing. There are three of them, Conwy, Caernarfon and Harlech. This shot is of Caernarfon, a castle that is in a remarkable state of repair to say that it has stood for 700 odd years. Out of picture and up to the right there are the remains of a massive Roman fort that would have dwarfed this castle. Strange to think that when this castle was built the Roman Fort would have been 700 years old, even back then.

I've used my technique to try and achieve a reasonably accurate perspective despite the wide angle. All the shots of this castle taken from across the narrow estuary make the estuary look huge and the castle small. Shot on my 5DII + a Nikkor 50mm f/2 which is rapidly becoming my favourite lens for panoramics. It is very sharp at infinity, f4 - 5.6 and gives impressive and pleasing contrast. In fact I did nearly all the pictures on this trip with just a 50mm lens.

A five frame pano, ISO 160, 1/125s, f5.6, bracketed exposure for the white buildings on the right.
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That's a very nice photo and story too.
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Many thanks candyman. I'm really pleased with this one. I resisted the temptation to leave before the last light in order to avoid heavy traffic on the way home - so waited the last forty minutes; it was worth it.
 
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Sporgon said:
Here is a six frame panoramic shot of Beddgelert in North Wales, nestling under the highest peak, Snowdon, which you can just see with the very top in clouds.

Beddgelert got its name from the dog Gelert, faithful hound to a medieval prince; LLewelyn The Great in the 13th century, so about the same time as Caernarfon castle was being built. ( Picture of which is on the previous page).

Llewelyn returned home to find his baby gone and the hound covered in blood. Being the sort of guy who acted before he thought, he plunged his sword into his faithful dog at the same moment as a baby cried. A quick search resulted in the baby being found unharmed and the body of a 'great wolf' lying dead nearby, full of Gelert sized teeth marks. ( I added that bit to the story).

The prince buried his dog, where the grave is still marked, and was said never to have smiled again.

As with all these things, like the legend of Robin Hood, any physical evidence eventually turns out to be fake, and the grave is, by all accounts, a fake. In fact is was made by the original owner of the Goat Hotel, now the Royal Goat, where I actually stayed on this trip.

The Royal Goat is the white building in Beddgelert on the farthest left of the village. There is all this talk about the up coming 5Ds and its resolution: well on the full sized picture of this you can actually see the window panes of the Royal Goat's dining room defined well enough to count how many there are to a window. And this was shot on a 5DII using a 1978 Nikkor 50mm f/2 Ai-s lens which has a superb performance at infinity.
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The next summer i will be in Wales, to visit the Pembroke NP and i will come back also to Snowdonia (that i have visited more than 10 years ago).

My heart and my brain have need of those landscapes!
 
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