Golden Hour at Houten by Herman van den Berge

This shot was made out of 2 different exposures. Houten has some beautiful architecture which is so photogenetic….

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Tuscan Light II by Lars van de Goor

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cleaning woman by David Dubnitskiy

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Swamp Reflection by Lauri Lohi

Swamp Reflection. Fine art blending of 2 exposures. One for the foreground and one for the sky.

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Catch! by Jessica Drossin

Perhaps my favorite shot of my youngest. The leap/catch is real 🙂 This is what he likes to do best, try to make diving catches! Please follow me here:
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Perfect Night by Nicholas Roemmelt

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After having spent 6 hours of traveling to a spot in South Tyrol that normally would take 2 1/2 (due to a crazy traffic jam), just to find out that the weather forecast had been completely wrong, I returned back home royally pissed and decided to hike one of my backyard mountains.
The sky had of course been clear at home the day before and was clear again during the whole hike. After 2 1/2 hours hike we had been all alone on the summit of Wankspitze with perfect conditions. Well, sometimes you shouldn´t look so far if such beauty is right before your eyes! „wink“-Emoticon
I have literally been on that mountain for a hundred times, during daylight and the dark of the night but never have been possible to capture the Milky Way on the top so far.
At 4.15 AM we were back at the car again – just in time for still a good sleep!

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Antelope Canyon by The Blurred Lens .

instagram.com/the_blurred_lens Antelope Canyon… The name just invokes vision of a time past. I can picture the native people, walking through the canyon and looking up in utter amazement and sheer awe at the beauty that God has created. I envision them taking their young men to the canyon and teaching them about the history of their ancestors. Starting fires in the back of the canyon and telling stories of the great buffalo hunts. To me, this is what Antelope Canyon is. Now, let me tell you a different story. A story of what Antelope Canyon REALLY is. You are driven down to the canyon in the back of a pickup truck packed like sardines in a can. Once you arrive at the canyon, you are given a set of very strict instructions on when and how to take photos. You are told that things move very fast and that you need to be ready to shoot your photo when your guide tells you. As you enter the mouth of the canyon, you are first struck with the beauty of the place. This is quickly destroyed by the throngs of tourist that are there. Imagine a canyon not much wider than a few feet filled to the brim with people. I tried to count the number of people in the first chamber and stopped when I got to a hundred. It is just a madhouse with everyone inside.
As you get to the first beam of light, your photo guide will ask who has the widest lens and will put those people in the front. I had my trusty 10mm with me so was put dead center in the front middle. Imagine the old war movies when a firing squad was about to execute someone. You had three rows of photographers lined up with their cameras pointing downrange waiting for the fire command. The guide will walk over to the beam and throw a handful of sand into it. He will then proceed to yell “FIRE!”. The cacophony of shutters firing is a juxtaposition of the scene you are looking at. You are allowed two minutes at each light beam, and at the end of those two minutes, you are ushered off to the next one. This photographers dance goes on for two hours and all the way through the canyon. While this is a magical place to see with your own eyes, it is a stark contrast to what I imagine it was like many years ago. It takes almost ballet style form to dodge all the selfie sticks waving around in the air. I saw a handful of people walk into the canyon wall since they were staring at their phones; no doubt posting pictures to Instagram. If you have never been to this area before, go; it is truly an amazing thing to see as the light beams split the canyon walls. Just do us all a favor and leave the selfie sticks in the car; that’s why God gave you arms, built in selfie sticks.

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The Search by Mikko Lagerstedt

Misty evening in Koli, Finland. Edit with my Lightroom Presets: www.mikkolagerstedt.com/learn

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On thin ice by Simon Roppel

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When I think back to this moment it was maybe not our best idea to go out to the Ice by those temperatures. Even though … guess we all had these moments when our passion of photography made us do stupid and dangerous things. Finally, as the kind Police officer started to shout that it’s maybe not be the best idea to spend that much time on the lake during these kind of conditions, we started to make our way back to the save ground. guess that was a good idea! 2 days later nearly the whole Ice was melted away….
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Im Nachhinein denke ich, dass es vielleicht doch ein wenig leichtsinnig war uns bei diesen Temperaturen noch auf das Eis zu wagen. Aber ich denke wir waren alle schon im Banne der Fotografie, wo der klare Menschenverstand aussetzt. Als uns jedenfalls die liebe Polizei mit verzweifelten Rufen darauf aufmerksam machte, dass es vielleicht nicht mehr so sicher sei uns dort aufzuhalten machten wir uns dann doch lieber auf den Weg zurück.. Ich denke das war keine schlechte Idee… die Stelle war 2 Tage später nahezu aufgetaut.

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Fitzroy under the moonlight by Daniel Kordan

This day the weather gone mad. All the day long wet snow blasted at us with the fury of the storm. All autumn leaves were covered by the snow, slowly melting under the wind pressure. We dressed almost all clothes we had, to get warmer in the camp. But wet snow did its job, and we felt very wet down to our boots after a day of hiking from Laguna Torre. Hike to the river from the camp warmed us up a bit. Eyes got used to the darkness, while Fitzroy started to reveal above the clouds as a magnificent castle. Here, beneath the wonderful red leaves and murmuring of the stream, is incredible silence and serenity. Especially comparing to the snow blizzard striked Fitzroy that night. In the night the magic doubles, you feel the moment with your heart, you hear noises like puma and see the blinking stars like condor in the sky.
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San Juan de Gaztelugatxe, by Lluis de Haro Sanchez

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