Another exciting HDR-picture from Zurich city.

I was vacationing up in Vermont with my family last week when I took this picture. It was a rather gloomy day, but the lack of sunlight allowed me to use a slower shutter speed and made for a nicer shot. For anyone that's interested, I believe the falls were called the Moss Glen Falls. Enjoy!

A tree in downtown Roseburg, Oregon.

The magnificent masterpiece shows the Orion nebula in an explosion of infrared, ultraviolet and visible-light colors. It was "painted" by hundreds of baby stars on a canvas of gas and dust, with intense ultraviolet light and strong stellar winds as brushes.

At the heart of the artwork is a set of four monstrously massive stars, collectively called the Trapezium. These behemoths are approximately 100,000 times brighter than our sun. Their community can be identified as the yellow smudge near the center of the composite.

The swirls of green were revealed by Hubble's ultraviolet and visible-light detectors. They are hydrogen and sulfur gases heated by intense ultraviolet radiation from the Trapezium's stars.

Wisps of red, also detected by Spitzer, indicate infrared light from illuminated clouds containing carbon-rich molecules called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. On Earth, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons are found on burnt toast and in automobile exhaust.

Additional stars in Orion are sprinkled throughout the image in a rainbow of colors. Spitzer exposed infant stars deeply embedded in a cocoon of dust and gas (orange-yellow dots). Hubble found less embedded stars (specks of green) and stars in the foreground (blue). Stellar winds from clusters of newborn stars scattered throughout the cloud etched all of the well-defined ridges and cavities.

This image is a false-color composite, in which light detected at wavelengths of 0.43, 0.50, and 0.53 microns is blue. Light with wavelengths of 0.6, 0.65, and 0.91 microns is green. Light of 3.6 microns is orange, and 8-micron light is red.

Credit: NASA, ESA, T. Megeath (University of Toledo) and M. Robberto (STScI)

Taken from a beautiful place in Taiwan!!!

Pentax K10D, Pentax DA 12-24mm f/4 ED AL (IF)

Taken near Hinterstein, Bavaria, Germany on a wonderful evening with a great sunset in Winter. I combined these 2 pictures because I think it looks pretty nice. I hope you like it!

Canon EOS 550D, Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II.

Took this pic on a rock on the shores of waterton upper lake in Alberta Canada. Cool perspective pic because that rock in the water is only 2ft high.

No editing or post processing done.

Nikon D5100, Nikon AF-S DX Nikkor 18-140mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR.

Photo Settings: 18mm, f/11, 1/125 second, ISO 110.

I took this photo as part of a day-to-night timelapse. I was up at Kerry Park around 8:00 in early May.

Adjusted slightly in Adobe Photoshop CS6.

Canon EOS 60D, Canon EF 24-70mm f2.8L II USM.

Photo Settings: 37mm, f/2, 2 seconds, ISO 100.

Downtown Pittsburgh Pennsylvania from the East.