2 polar bears are being transported via helicopter out of the town of Churchill Manitoba, into the wild. See the album for the story.

The story of the polar bear and the truck driver. Churchill Manitoba. read about it in the special story album.

This is a picture from directly under the US flag. No filters, or flag waving effects used. Just good old fashioned mountian winds.

Reminds of of a Claude Monet painting. No distortion filters applied. It's the water reflection I captured with the camera. I tried to shoot straight up but had to process as an HDR because the sky was too light or the bridge to dark depending on the exposure settings. So. I pointed the camera down and got this. NOT HDR as someone thought. Just a single image. The next entry is the looking up in HDR followed by the three images to make it.

Fractal done with Apophysis

If Nature gets ill, it is MAN that will not survive. -- For a future album on Scotland's Highlands.

Lathrop, California - With the many changes over the recent years in air travel, this brings to mind the humor of what aliens must be facing coming to America. It is certain that they couldn't clear airport security. Alien aircraft sits upon top of market, they appear to be looking for a tow back home.

Looking up at the ramparts of Carcassonne.

I look up to the seagull while the seagull looks down at me.

Our Granddaughter at the window of at Martial Arts Studio

Looking up at a Japanese Maple after a Rain Shower.

By Norwegians

3 bridges to go under both ways on inside passage. Only medium size ships can do it the larger pnes have to go round the Lofoten islands & miss out on the scenery

My son was one of the peeps on board. He wanted me to go but I'am a big and I MEAN BIG roller coaster chicken and proud of it to. LOL

Cruise ship and schooner near Bar Harbor, ME.

Gas drilling, site Meillon, Pyrenées Atlantiques, France

Cable railway in Bern, (Switzerland), from the Marzili up to the Federal Parliament

Aressy Church, Pyrénées Atlantiques, France

and me lucky enough to be down on the ground. We just happened to be there when it launched.

It goes down 520 feet down in 3/4 of a mile! Of course, it's possible to go up, too, but almost no one does.

Hotel Kapok Wangfujing

Beijing Wangfujing Food Street

Beijing Jingshan Park

Flat on my back in our backyard trying to capture that little cute fella :-). Best viewed full screen.

Bornstedt Cemetary Church, Potsdam. Looks a bit like out of those good old western movies, doesn't it?

Kids nite in the neighborhood, local residents display just for the Navhoo area....

Heart Island, St. Lawrence River, Thousand Islands NY

Play ground slides down to cushioned surface from above.

Pigeons on old US 301/15 bridge, Lake Marion Passage of the Palmetto Trail near Santee, South Carolina.

Whether you look up or down, you see the same image.

The color of Lake Louise is much more spectacular from up here than it is down at the shoreline.

This was taken the summer of '09. My nephew and I might have broken a few rules when we took our cameras out to get some shots while in our seats ~ but it was so worth it and we laughed so hard looking at the photos after.

Pharsalia NY

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Water up Water down.. San Pedro..California.

A falling drop produces the upward movement of water in the container. This was caught by a camera flash.

A falling drop captured by a camera flash.

The hub of the overhead light fixture looks like a work of art.

Firework up an down.

One of many small sculptures on the Frankston foreshore

I must ask her where she bought those shoes.

Don't look down!!!

One head up, two heads down.

This chandelier in the dome of the West Virginia Capitol is eight feet in diameter, weighs 4,000 pounds, made of graduated Czechoslovakian crystals, is suspended by a 54-foot long gold chain180 feet from the floor and has the lighting power of 15,000 candles. I t is lowered for cleaning every four years whenever a new governor is inaugurated into office or incumbent re-elected. The chandelier is lowered by hand, taking more than three hours. When returning it to its stationary position, it takes even longer — four and a half hours.

interior and the lantern over the double spiral staircase designed by Leonardo da Vinci in Chateau de Chambord - France

late afternoon over Fundata Village - Romania

This is a view from the top of the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri. The Arch was casting a shadow on the arch grounds below.

Standing on top of a mountain, I took this shot of the western side of Glenwood Springs, Colorado. Interstate 70 can been seen running through the city. P1070727

Standing on a hiking trail high above Telluride, Colorado, a person can see the city streets and other roads around the town. P1010551

They have this see thru roof on the elevators in The Rockefeller Building in New York. Its white when you get in and as the lift goes Up or Down the lights go out and the roof becomes transparent. Its just magical :)

Pointing down and looking up...

White Ibis perched on the top of a Norfolk Pine - Dunedin, Florida

Madison Overture Center -- opening week -- This is a case of being above, looking down on others looking down. Too bad the person who was below in the lower area was not looking up.

Aerial shot of the harbor in Edgartown, Massachusetts on the island of Martha's Vineyard.

hot orange

so bright and in all directions

a rare evening of Ground to Cloud lightning,so.... what goes up, must come down?

A neck craning exercise looking up at the top of the Sky Tower in Auckland.

Taraxacum officinalis of de paardenbloem, op een mooie pinksterdag lag ik op mijn rug in het gras en genoot van de blauwe lucht.

I just love the color. Orange and tulips is Holland Hup.

Aerial photo of the Edgartown Light House and harbor in Edgartown, Massachusetts on the island of Martha's Vineyard.

Looking down at Whale Beach, on Sydney's Northern Beaches

Temple of Jupiter, in Taurima, Messina - Italy

Taken in an Art Deco shop, in Ranfurly, South Island of New Zealand - "Decollectables". I know, Marilyn isn't art deco, but she is timeless.

Inside the Bodie Island Lighthouse NC

Looking up at a trio of Eurasian Spoonbills -- one adult (dark bill) and two juveniles

Looking down on a dune in the UAE taken from a hot air balloon. Fourth place in the creative challenge "up and down" - thanks

looking down at a desert goat farm in the UAE. Taken from a hot air balloon

leash law reinforcer :-)

San Miguel Church thought to be the oldest standing church in America

Looking over the edge of the foot wide trail. From Mt Rainier, Sunrise area 9/4/09.

Can you find the climbers in the photo. Closeup of the climbing route. Mt Rainier, Sunrise area 8/14/10

World beyond, Obscured by clouds. Bandera-Mason-Defiance trail, western WA 10/23/10

View from Wallberg in the Bavarian Alps, about 1.780 metres high.

Aerial tramway in the Bavarian Alps, next Rottach-Egern.

In a Bavarian church.

I was taking a picture of this Lily and after putting on my computer, discovered the Praying Mantis on a Lily. I think a good up and down example.

We watch from above as this balloon attepts to float between the two colossal statues.

A red balloon floats toward Madinet Habu near Luxor, Egypt

While the first wave of balloons float serenely above the Valley of the Queens and Nobles, the next group of balloons prepage for flight below.

Happiness in the air!!!

The great blue heron is one of my favorite birds. Fascinating is its neck, stretched out and up, or hunched down and in. I took two of my photos and created a comparison shot, up and down, with HSL filter.

No photoshop :)

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I captured dripping water from melting icecicles. They were up, but now are on their way down.

Viewing the mascot from below after ice; it looks as if it has more teeth. . .

He's up, but his shadow is down.

Shooting Down from a Tree

Looking up at Giant Oak Tree Branch

Under the LL Bean Boot

Flying over the Rockies

A very great lamp with icicles and small lights! A masterpiece in the Ice Hotel! One of my first experience with my small digital camera:)))

Comfortable ice chairs with fur! Just call the waiter:)))

Taken at Rockingham in the forest below the manor and property, standing down and looking up at the tops of the trees and the sun. This is also with HSL filter to create the beautiful contrasting colors.

Still water reflection.

This is an air conditioning chimney 32metres high ,made of colored tubes by Raymond Moretti .Located in Paris ,France ,La Defense business district

Royal Bank, TD Back and CIBC towers from above

Royal Bank, TD Bank and CIBC towers from below

Viewed from the glass floor on top of the CN Tower

A single lane car bridge where I live. To get this, I had to do and HDR with three images, because I would have either a dark underside or washed out sky with a single exposure. See the next three images to see the originals and the problem and how I achieved this. This was a hand held three shots for HDR. Photomatix software was used

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The Ruby throated hummingbird wings beat on the average of 53 times per second.

Up and away.

In the department store "Galleries Lafayette" in Paris

In Budapest, seen from the exit of a subway station

Chicago, seen from J. Hancock Center

What goes up must come down.....

Looking up the mountain where a wildfire burned many miles of forest.

In Sussex, New Brunswick, Canada

At the Atlantic International Baloon Fiesta 2009, in Sussex,N.B., Canada.

Nature abstract. Multiple exposure with camera motion

Full zoom shot of plane from my driveway. Highlighted using Photo! Editor, a free program.

What is better than a sunset? Two of them!

Replica of Columbus's ship

it was (and always is) a journey. Visit me: http://sandpitdiaries.blogspot.com/

it was (and always is) a journey. Visit me: http://sandpitdiaries.blogspot.com/

it was (and always is) a journey. Visit me: http://sandpitdiaries.blogspot.com/

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Looking down on the town of Varenna - Lake Como

Looking down on the town of Varenna - Lake Como

This is part of an art project at a park in Dublin, Ohio. On the ground below this is a baseball bat on a post. This is a tribute to our national past time.

It was quite a surprise to look at the weeping birch twigs from under the three.

Lafayette Store, Paris

Looking straight down from an old abandoned railroad trestle, to a flowage deep in the Wateree Swamp of South Carolina.

This was a huge flock of about 100 cormorants.

There are thousands of birds congregating here. Snow geese, greater white-fronted geese, white and white-faced ibis and all kinds of herons and egrets plus many species of ducks and shore birds.

a dazzling dance

stumped?

The mirror effect created digitally.

Zollverein World Heritage Site, Germany

Colorado N.M.

LOOKING DOWN to the farm and reflection - than LOOKING UP to see how much of the barn is reflected. (#19692-1.02M)

and watching the water drops fall down from the melting icicles! (#14719-1.05M)

Left lane: Cars driving up! - Right lane: Car driving down. (#5051-718k)

I was fascintated with the growth on the trees in this park. The unusual look of the curled branches...

With snow in every state, but Florida, this may look like snow in the thumbnail. However this a look down at the bottom of Nairn Falls...rushing waters.

Looking up from the ground at a Farmall tractor.

Looking up the silos while the snow is coming down.

Looking up at the daisies against the blue sky.

Sometimes the greatest pictures are below your feet. These are little beetle tracks going across the cracked surface of what used to be a mud puddle.

A little jumping spider that decided to join me for lunch.

That is what he was thinking while I held his ball captive to get this picture,

"South American Sails 2010" had brought together magnificent sailing ships, among them frigates, schooners and brigs from various countries of the Americas and Europe to participate in the Bicentennial Regatta. The event was organized to celebrate the bicentennial of the first national governing board during the struggle of South American countries to break away from the then Spanish colonial empire. The vessels docked in Ushuaia were: Capitán Miranda, Uruguay; Cisne Branco, Brazil; Cuauhtémoc, México; Esmeralda, Chile; Europa, Holland; Gloria, Colombia; Guayas, Ecuador; Juan Sebastián Elcano, Spain; Libertad, Argentina; Sagres, Portugal; Simón Bolívar, Venezuela, and Eagle from the US Coast Guard. I was there! I took this photo when our ship was leaving the port of Ushuaia, march, 21, 2010.

I was born in Rio de Janeiro. Every year I celebrate my birthday there. In 2010 I decided to be a tourist in Rio! This album shows how people go to the top of Sugar Loaf. It's a "going up and going down" the Sugar Loaf. Follow me! Come and see the most beautiful city in the world!

I was born in Rio de Janeiro. Every year I celebrate my birthday there. In 2010 I decided to be a tourist in Rio! This album shows how people go to the top of Sugar Loaf. It's a "going up and going down" the Sugar Loaf. Follow me! Come and see the most beautiful city in the world!

It is obvious I could never have looked through the view finder to take this one. I leaned way out again, held my camera out as far as I could and took the photo so I could get a view of the huge dam and the tiny street below.

I gave my mother a heart attack taking these shots. We were across the road which runs right over the dam [and where you are not supposed to walk to stand] and the dam is built so when you stand against the guardrail you can see the beautiful scenery but not the dam, as it is in and under you. so I leaned WAY out and turned my camera towards the dam and took these shots.

Up on the Verona Park bridge, looking down the pathway, at twilight, while the sun goes down.

Metal stairs

...looked up at the Angel and the Angel looked down.

As the people were looking up at this beautiful Cotton-top Tamarin, he was looking down at the people.

Hybiscus in fractalius

The Ripley's Believe it or Not Museum building appears to be going up and down.

Is this guy going to stay up or go down?

Looking down to the bottom of 180 feet (55 meter) Palouse Falls after several weeks of very cold weather.

Carhenge is a scaled down replica of Stonehenge made of old cars.

looking up

...or spider web? I like the patterns here.

This is just near the Arkansas-Missouri line. Very interesting formations and tour.

Erie Colorado Balloon Festival

looking up at a myriad of silver balls suspended in mid-air; one can't help but feel threatened by their possible descent.

looking up inside a 'princess-lit' pavilion

January 13, 2011

January 13, 2011

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I got lucky and caught the airplane just as it neared the light of the moon. So far, hand held 60-300 mm Tamron MF and Pentax 55-300 AF, but used MF because of lighting.

The man in the moon is still there! Only now you see the bald top of his head:)

Serviva per buttar giu' chi stava un po' antipatico. Forse nella foto non si vede, ma a meta' ci sono dei bei ferri aguzzi che si infilavono nella ciccia a mo' di spiedo. Provare per credere!

Suria KLCC is Malaysia's premier shopping center located in the famous Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Looking down on the 23 metre high falls on the Lillooet River, BC

Looking straight up at Chateau Chambord, France

Pointing the camera skyward to capture a pastel sunset

This is the Park Theatre in Estes Park. Kind of ominous looking, especially with whats on the marquee. Taken with a Kodak Z650 EasyShare Digital Camera. This building is 98 yrs old & was Built in 1913, the Historic Park Theatre is the oldest theatre west of the Mississippi River built as a motion picture theatre that is still operating Film Productions. The Park Theatre was constructed by J.L. Jackson in 1913. It was completed by C.H. Bond in 1914/15. Bond sold the building to Fred Jackson, who operated the theatre untill 1922 when he sold it to Ralph Gwynn. Gwynn added the landmark tower. This tower is termed the ?Tower of Love?, because Gwynn built it representing the beautiful love of his life. Gwynn operated the theatre until his death. The theatre has been operated since 1968 by long time locals Ola and Richard Stanger. The Stangers purchased the theatre in 1982 from Vic Walker and saved it from demolition, by having the theatre placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. The Stangers along with the citizens of Estes Park also saved the neon lights on the tower by getting a variance passed that allowed the lights to burn in the town of Estes. After the Lawn Lake flood of 1982 Estes Park added a new sign code that banned all neon signs in Estes Park. The citizens of Estes Park decided that the tower should be able to keep the lights burning with a town vote that said the lights on the tower are not a sign. But it is where you might hear Hazel Baldwin still playing the piano to accompany the silent movies.

Taken from the top of Rocky Mountain National Park, the highest paved road in North America. On the way home from Estes Park, which is at the bottom of RMNP, this was the beautiful view!

July 4th Fireworks over Howelsen Hill Steamboat Springs, Colorado Kodak Z650 EasyShare Digital THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER Oh say can you see by the dawn?s early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight?s last gleaming, Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight, O?er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming. And the rockets? red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there; Oh say does that star-spangled banner yet wave, O?er the land of the free and the home of the brave On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe?s haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o?er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses Now it catches the gleam of the morning?s first beam, In full glory reflected now shines in the stream: ?Tis the star-spangled banner, O! long may it wave O?er the land of the free and the home of the brave. And where is that band who so vauntingly swore That the havoc of war and the battle?s confusion, A home and a country should leave us no more! Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps? pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave: And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave O?er the land of the free and the home of the brave. O! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand Between their loved home and the war?s desolation! Blest with victory and peace, may the heav?n rescued land Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation. Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, And this be our motto: ?In God is our trust.? And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O?er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

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The front of an old International Harvester delivery truck in the front of the Hammond's Candy facility in Denver, Colorado

Looking up at a runner going up. I really just liked the angles the railings made with the stairs when I took this shot. The runner was an added bonus, making a static shot more dynamic.

The USS Constitution, also called "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commisioned ship still afloat.

...from the top of Chicago's Navy Pier ferris wheel. I love the shadows of the swings as well as the pattern of the wood!

View from Cabo Girao at Madeira

It's a long way up there! Starting to wonder if I really wanted to do this ride.

The strange thing was my legs didn't turn to jelly. I was actually enjoying the ride.

Bradshaw Mountain National Forest, April 10, 2005

Aerobatic plane as seen from under Mitchell B-25 Bomber. Arizona Skyfest Air Show, Fall 2009

Arizona Skyfest Air Show, Fall 2009

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Airplane window view on Disney World E-Park in Hong-Kong

Just after sunset

Coffee for two at the Tangierine Cafe

IMG_0592 Looking up at my umbrella. Photo taken while walking in the rain in Ottawa, Ontario. Creative Challenge UpandDown, Jan 16, 2011.

IMAGE_041 Up, up and away for the seagull while men are descending a city skyscraper. Ottawa, Ontario, 2010. Creative Challenge UpandDown, Jan 16, 2011.

IMAGE_103 Reflections of a city parking lot while looking upwards towards the sky. Ottawa, Ontario, 2010. Creative Challenge UpandDown, Jan 16, 2011.

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Geese migration at Smithville Lake, Mo.

All the water was turned green for this weekend Kansas City Irish fest 08'.

Branson, Mo.