Click on the image! A stitch of two hand held images taken with a Nikon Coolpix P510 from a moving slow train on the Jungfraubahn.

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Flying over Golden Ears Provincial Park in Canada in the Spring time.

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Location: Phang Nga, Thailand

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

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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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I love shooting Notre Dame at night, the sun set right behind it and it is a super easy shot to get; but what a church, it’s has so much history. When I was a kid I read a cartoon on how it was built, they took a 100 years to build it, a lot of architects never saw the finished results in their lifetime!

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This wonderful path goes to a rocky beach passing between flowers and cedar trees.On the small island that is seen there is a lovely old lighthouse…

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This scene is located in the palouse region in the state of Idaho very near the town of Moscow.

Thank you for visiting.

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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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