Winter is cool and snow and ice and skiing … but still those last Indian summer days are difficult to be replaced.
Enjoy them in pictures as I enjoyed them live by the Pfaeffikersee ! Click them to magnify.
Out of the old city wall of Istanbul is a tram stop called “Topkapi”. Odd enough the famous Topkapi palace is 40 minutes far away from this stop: I decided to step out and visit this location. Here is a museum dedicated to the Fall of Constantinople that took place on the 29 May 1453.
One attack after the other, that day the Ottomans rolled several heads down the wall, from Genoese generals up to the Christian Emperor Constantine XI.
Blood went on flowing in the city “like rainwater in the gutters after a sudden storm“, and bodies of the Turks and Christians floated in the sea “like melons along a canal”. And so was that the second Rome turned into Istanbul, “The City”.
Picture of this blood-red sunset shot with my Nikon D800 + 16-35 mm f/4 (click pictures to magnify). This is still my camera. A special thanks go to Istanbul police who showed me the way out of this Panorama Park, after darkness prevailed … and scary inhabitants of this place started to show some interest for me, or just for my camera… or both?
Enjoy full size view by clicking on each panorama.
Slightly more than half of the energy from the Sun arrives on Earth in the form of infrared radiation. Water absorbs the infra-red radiation, that explains the black lake and forests under the clouds.
The different pigments in plants reflect, transmit, and absorb different portions of the near-infrared radiation that we cannot see. Some plants can reflect more than others.
The clouds absorb visible and invisible radiation from the sun and re-emit much of the energy as infrared back to the atmosphere. Enjoy the reflecting trees and clouds: can you find the snow reflecting infra-red in the background?
I was waiting for you my master …
Under a curtain of white drops
I will give myself to you, my love.
And what you gifted me with your beak (on my neck)
And what you made me with your feet (on my back)
Will be lost in time, like droplets in the lake.
Click here for the full love R-rated story reportage or on each picture for bigger size. About some more feelings, I love this lens. Pictures shot against the sun at 200 mm, f/5, 1/1250, ISO 100.
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