Ring of fire, originally uploaded by Steven Bufton.
A deliberately very underexposed photo of a machine used to cut the top off a blown glass form to make a bowl.
The blown form is clamped in upside-down and lowered spinning into this ring of fire, which melts the glass in a circle, basically cutting the bottom off the (upside-down) form, leaving just the bowl part hanging in the machine. It’s an interesting process to watch! More info at Glasi Hergiswil
I’m havin’ a hard time resistin’ callin’ this Mt. Doom …, originally uploaded by asmundur.
This is actually the mountain Þorbjörn near Grindavík, seen from the Blue lagoon. It was foggy and dark when I took this and I guess the light in the sky are the city lights from Grindavík diffused by the light fog covering everything at the time of capture.
The image is a single 20s exposure at f4.0 and ISO100. Then some adjustments in Adobe camera raw and curves, levels, dodge and burn in Photoshop CS3.
Over The Fence, originally uploaded by Yvo PT.
A look over the fence
Handheld HDR from Triple Exposure -2, 0, 2.
I really like the colors on this one. Do you?
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Setúbal seen from Palmela
Jamalpur fisherman, originally uploaded by Michael Foley Photography.
2nd place winner in World Bank CGAP Microfinance world competition. The CGAP competition is an annual contest to find the best pictures related to microfinance programs. Open to all at http://www.cgap.org/portal/site/PhotoContest/menuitem.9944a349ab…
It was also picked as the South Asia image for the World Bank’s series of six holiday cards.
Wave study #1 (photography makes you feel better), originally uploaded by s0ulsurfing.
Not been in the best frame of mind for the past few days, about as good as the weather. But…. there was a bit of a lull yesterday afternoon and i dragged myself to the bay and took a series of shots of a very black and stormy sea. I got lost (not literally) in the process and found some happiness in the chaos
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