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Photo posted by Stuart Williams in the POP Photos gallery on 02/28/12 at 02:00 am EST
Registered on 12/07/07, 247 Posts, 4792 Comments
Post last edited by Jim Erhardt on 03/07/12 at 08:23 am EST
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Stuart Williams
Lilongwe, Malawi
"one's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things" - henry miller |
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Comment posted by rob ashcroft on 02/28/12 at 02:14 am EST
Registered on 02/24/12, 22 Posts, 43 Comments
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Rob (West Wales, UK)
Macromeister Images [url=http://www.youtube.com/user/carregwen01?feature=mhee#p/a]My Youtube channel[/url]
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Comment posted by Stuart Williams on 02/28/12 at 09:13 am EST
Registered on 12/07/07, 247 Posts, 4792 Comments
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spot on, rob. it's actually the inside of the lighthouse lamp - looking up into the two fresnel lenses. this particular lighthouse is on baixa do pinda in northern mozambique, with the fresnel lenses being manufacturer in france in the mid nineteenth century. it warns shipping of a vast sand bank - stretching some five km out to sea and some ten km wide; this sandbank has wonderful turquoise blues - and the area is so large it reflects onto the clouds if they happen to be passing over it! my colour trannies of the turquoise expanse are on the way ....
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Stuart Williams
Lilongwe, Malawi
"one's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things" - henry miller |
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Comment posted by Kent Staubus on 02/28/12 at 09:49 am EST
Registered on 11/11/03, 121 Posts, 2098 Comments
It's the Fresnel lens inside the light of a lighthouse. I've seen them before and they are quite cool!  Good job.
Kent in SD
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Comment posted by Harley Goldman on 02/28/12 at 10:29 am EST
Registered on 11/19/03, 586 Posts, 11271 Comments
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Very cool image. Great tones and patterns.
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"You were born an original. Don't die a copy."
- John Mason
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Comment posted by Carol Hyman on 02/28/12 at 1:07 pm EST
Registered on 01/18/07, 597 Posts, 8062 Comments
Strong triangular elements.
Great tones.
Oblong rounded element disconcerting.
Nice symmetry.
Carol
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Carol Hyman
HY-TEC images |
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Make the shot, don't just take the shot.
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Comment posted by Wayne Jones on 02/28/12 at 10:02 pm EST
Registered on 04/18/07, 953 Posts, 6435 Comments
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Very interesting! I recognized it too, but never had the vision to try for a close shot like this. Congrats on your boldness.
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Wayne Jones
Upstate New York |
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The beauty and genius of a work of art may be reconceived, though its first material expression be destroyed; a vanished harmony may yet again inspire the composer; but when the last individual of a race of living beings breathes no more, another heaven and another earth must pass before such a one can be again. William Beebe, 1906 |
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Comment posted by Preston Birdwell on 02/29/12 at 12:06 am EST
Registered on 11/01/03, 471 Posts, 5188 Comments
I really like this! Wonderful tonal range and detail.
Nicely done! 
--P
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Preston Birdwell
Columbia, California, USA
NPN 429 | California Nature Photographers (CANP) Moderator | 'NPN Discussion' Moderator
“If you want nice fresh oats, you have to pay a fair price. If you can be satisfied with oats that have already been through the horse, well, that comes a little cheaper" Author Unknown |
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Comment posted by Jonathan Lent on 02/29/12 at 08:53 am EST
Registered on 03/12/09, 44 Posts, 109 Comments
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Very cool ! I don't care what it is. I like it as an insect with a gas mask.
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Comment posted by SandyRichardsBrown on 03/07/12 at 12:45 pm EST
Registered on 11/24/03, 3937 Posts, 12909 Comments
Love the lines and perspective..
congrats on a nice WP!
Sandy
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Sandy Richards-Brown, NPN #0367
Brookings, Oregon (summer/fall) and Sedona, Arizona (winter/spring)
PNW and RMNP Regional Member
NATURE'S MAJESTY IMAGING
http://naturesmajestyimaging.zenfolio.com/
"All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful: The Lord God made them all.
Each little flower that opens, Each little bird that sings, He made their glowing colors, He made their tiny wings."
- Cecil F. Alexander, Hymns for Little Children, 1848, Ireland |
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Comment posted by Catherine Reilly on 03/10/12 at 4:27 pm EST
Registered on 08/16/06, 603 Posts, 9192 Comments
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What a unique image! Great work and congrats on the Pick. In addition to the IQ, it would get my vote because of originality!
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Catherine Reilly
Seattle, WA
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Ad lucem quam inhabitas--
To the light wherein Thou doest dwell
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