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Archive for May 7th, 2008

Sunset creating dome reflection

Posted by BobG in Vancouver on 2008/05/07

More English Bay sunset scenery!

Once again I couldn’t leave well enough alone. I looked at this lovely conventional but extremely well timed snap of an English Bay sunset and wondered what it could look like with some tweaking of color saturation and HDR-ing.

And here’s what I got ↓↓

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Huanan winter

Posted by BobG in Vancouver on 2008/05/07


Huanan winter

Originally uploaded by channel packet

China’s biggest source of energy is coal. So it’s not surprising to see this image from a coal company railway in Northern China.

The image offers a contrast between clean looking snow on tree branches and the sooty belching flow from the locomotive. The image was captured in 2005.

Here’s another steam railway image from a photo essay set in China.

In case you really get off on steam, then click here to see that scene in the UK.

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