View of the road near the San Michele Graveyard at Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy. In the lake there is the Elmas airstrip.

Canon EOS 1000D, Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS kit lens.

Public domain image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.

Original unedited version may be found at: nasaimages.org
(NASA/courtesy of nasaimages.org)

Special thanks to chriscologne for the idea of retouching astronomy photos. I used Photoshop CS3 and plugins to retouch the image.

I found this while looking for a place to live in Tulsa, OK. I love the contrast with the wood and the brick.

Simple background made in Photoshop.

Took this photo during the 2008 season while on the field before a Baltimore Ravens game.

This is a closeup shot of a steel step that's part of a staircase on the outer deck of a car ferry that runs between Vancouver, BC and Victoria, BC. Though the yellow and black made for a nice contrast and the sun was hitting it just right. I couldn't resist snapping it!

The Flower of Life is a geometrical figure composed of multiple evenly-spaced, overlapping circles, that are arranged so that they form a flower-like pattern with a six-fold symmetry like a hexagon. In other words, the center of each circle is on the circumference of six surrounding circles of the same diameter. This pattern contains the basis of Metatron's Cube, from which all five of the Platonic solids can be derived. Superimposed on this is the Anahata, or heart chakra, symbolizing an open heart, higher love, and creating one's reality according to divine love and light.

Another wallpaper from Porto Moniz.

Canon EOS 5D Mark II, Carl Zeiss Distagon T* 2,8/21 ZE, ND filters.

The second of three images of ESO's GigaGalaxy Zoom project is a new and wonderful 340 megapixel vista of the central parts of our galactic home, a 34 by 20-degree wide image that provides us with a view as experienced by amateur astronomers around the world. Taken by Stephane Guisard, an ESO engineer and world-renowned astrophotographer, from Cerro Paranal, home of ESO's Very Large Telescope, this image directly benefits from the quality of Paranal's sky, one of the best on the planet. The image shows the region spanning the sky from the constellation of Sagittarius (the Archer) to Scorpius (the Scorpion). The very colourful Rho Ophiuchi and Antares region features prominently to the right, as well as much darker areas, such as the Pipe and Snake Nebulae. The dusty lane of our Milky Way runs obliquely through the image, dotted with remarkable bright, reddish nebulae, such as the Lagoon and the Trifid Nebulae, as well as NGC 6357 and NGC 6334. This dark lane also hosts the very centre of our Galaxy, where a supermassive black hole is lurking.

The image was obtained by observing with a 10-cm Takahashi FSQ106Ed f/3.6 telescope and a SBIG STL CCD camera, using a NJP160 mount. Images were collected through three different filters (B, V and R) and then stitched together. This mosaic was assembled from 52 different sky fields made from about 1200 individual images totaling 200 hours exposure time, with the final image having a size of 24,403 x 13,973 pixels. Note that the final, full resolution image is only available through Stephane Guisard.

Credit: ESO/S. Guisard (www.eso.org/~sguisard)

A midwestern sunset behind a sign down the road from where I live. Taken with a Nikon D40x at 24mm f/3.9. Very little photoshop adjusting for color.