Boxing Day 2010 in the English countryside.

Canon EOS 60D, Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Photoshop CS5.

A nearly full, waxing-gibbous phase of the Earth's moon. Shot on November 8th, 2011 from Hanover, New Hampshire.

Cable release and mirror lock-up mode to reduce camera shake. Live-view mode zoomed in 10x for focusing.

10-inch f/6.3 Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope (Meade LX200). Shot at 1600mm, f/6.3, 1/250 second, ISO 200 with a Nikon D700 at prime focus.

I stayed out during the evening meal time to get a great sunset in Tuscany. Several other drivers pulled off the autostrada on the right. I got here early, and waited on the color and the clouds to develop. I sat in a wheat field for what seemed like forever before I got the perfect shot.

Nikon D300, Nikkor 28mm 2.8, Photomatix, Adobe Photoshop CS4.

HDR, sorry about that but the sky was worth it. The orange cloud lasted only 2min, then it was a weird blue again. The sky behaves oddly up there. Iceland is such a beautiful place.

Canon EOS 550D, Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM, Gorillapod, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Lightroom.

This shot is made of 5 HDR images, each made of 7 exposures. When i was hiking up to the "Breitenstein", near "Wendelstein", in the Bavarian Alps, i had to photograph this nice panorama!

I wanted to call it "can you see your hometown", but in the single screen version you cannot see any hometowns, so i called it "View from Breitenstein".

At the heart of a Belgian forest, by a bright and slightly foggy morning, i captured this particular atmosphere that i miss as a citizen.

Nikon D7000, Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-105mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR. Capture NX2 used for tones adjustment.

Dead Vlei is a white clay pan located near the more famous salt pan of Sossusvlei, inside the Namib-Naukluft Park in Namibia. It is surrounded by the highest dunes in the world. this photo was taken at around 8:45AM and the temperature was already unbearable. Enjoy.

Canon EOS 5D Mark II, Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM, adjustments in Adobe Lightroom 3, stitching and other adjustments in Adobe Photoshop.

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An HDR panorama of Edinburgh, Scotland from Calton Hill on a beautiful summer evening. HDR tone-mapping done in Photomatix, edited in Adobe Photoshop CS5 to remove lens flare.

Nikon D5000, AF-S DX Zoom-NIKKOR 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G ED II lens, Manfrotto tripod.

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The road between Queenstown and Glenorchy was shut due to a rock fall, so waiting on the side of the road the clouds started to break as the sun came up. The colors were stunning.

Canon EOS Rebel T1i (500D), 18-55IS lens, shot at 18mm. f/8, 1/60s. I added contrast and saturation in Adobe Lightroom 2.

5 exposure HDR. Taken from the new walkway in Chapala, Mexico. I was in Mexico last week for a one week vacation. The weather was colder than normal and it rained several days, but those clouds made for wonderful sunsets. Enjoy all! Thanks for voting!!!

Nikon D300 with battery grip, 24mm Nikkor 2.8, Bogen Head, Giottos Tripod, Apple Macbook Pro, Adobe CS4, Photomatix Pro.