In a raining evening, during a break between two pelting, I captured this dichotomy of colors.

Making this picture wasn’t easy for lack of light and the motion of cars. A good compromise solution was an exposure timing of 1/8 seconds that also allows to make out the weak light of the crescent in the top.

Is she trapped in a fishes’ carafe? Or we can see her through a crystal ball like a tolkienian Palantir?

As almost everybody have yet understand that it’s just a shot taken through a spyhole when my friend Silvia was coming chez moi to study Structure of Matter.

Despite the evident deformation due to a fisheye lens that creates a virtual spherical space, this kind of lenses do not distort perspective, as also Andrew says.

Simply fire, hot, light, and impalpable, in a fireplace.

[update: this photo had participated at Photo Friday in 04-01-05 ‘Hot’ challenge as link n.508]

It was taken with 1/1000 seconds of exposure and ISO-400 to fix the plasma motion and capture the maximum of color.
This picture wasn’t graphically manipulated.

This scenery show bright green fields with hills in background. It was taken from a running train going through the Lazio’s countriside.

Note, like in the Running past the dawn’s photo, how the close-up grassland appears “dragged” because of motion of the train (hint: put camera lens to the window to avoid nasty reflections).

I would have liked to apply some levels correction only in the top of the picture, to underline the shape of clouds. So I used a layer mask to apply this correction in a chosen part of the figure, brushing white to activate the correction and black to deactivate it.

Yes, it’s really spring! This picture can prove it.

This picture was taken in the early afternoon, and I used the flash technique to soften the shadows due to sun light. Of course I used super macro mode too.

Leo (the latin for Lion) is the funny dog of my girlfriend. Here one can see Leo sticks tongue out.

This photos is simple to all appearance, but because of the proximity of the subject I have brought correctly into focus only Leo’s eyes. To resolve such problem, I have applied the unsharp mask to adjust contrast in the whole picture and, in addition, in a overlapping layer over the Leo’s muzzle. All this to obtain a virtual, but visible, uniformity of focusing.