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United States of America
From Cities Glowing Under a Night-time Sky by Ettubrute:
On my night time flight back to SF from Amsterdam, I noticed that the lights from cities were making the clouds glow. Really spectacular and ethereal - it was really seeing the impact of urban environments from a different perspective. Each glow or squiggle represents one town or city!
Luckily the flight was half empty, so I was able to set up an improvised stabilizer mound made up of my bags, pillows, and blankets for my camera to sit on.
We were around the midwest at the beginning of the clip, and there were fewer cities once we hit the rockies. the bridge at the end is the san mateo bridge.
Technique: 1600iso; beginning - 1 (30sec) exposure / 45secs, end - 1 (4sec) exposure / 10 secs; total elapsed time: around 3 hours?
Equipment used: Nikon D300 (interval shooting mode), Tokina 12-24mm.
Music: Bloc Party - Signs
Via Guardian: The Mile-High Light Show
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No comment. Via Children of a Lesser Blog.
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I did a six nations tour last year. No, not the rugby (which I watched from my armchair). I did a tour as illustrated in the photos above, from left to right and top to bottom (no pun intended) of: Germany, France, Sweden, Denmark, the USA, Czech Republic.
What you can’t appreciate from the photo is how tall and elegant the heart-shaped urinals from Sweden are. They won the six nations competition for 2008. Second place went to Czech Republic for the funky ambience. Third place went to Denmark for the automatic flush sensor on the urinals. Fourth place went to Germany for the individual flush-buttons on the urinals (I’m not sure how hygenic these are). Joint last place went to France (lack of seating) and USA (you can’t tell from the photo but this toilet is so low it was built for a mini-me).
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One of the easiest ways to ruin a perfectly good draft Belgian beer would be to serve it with a wedge of orange on top. Why would anyone want to do that?
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Somehow I don’t think I’m in Kansas anymore. Despite Chicago being Obama’s home town, the political souvenirs were to be found in Washington not here.
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I took this photo coming into the greater Washington City area by plane.
A strange thing happened to me before catching this plane. The front wheel on the plane I was due to catch had to be replaced after it landed at the airport where I was waiting, {and this delayed me, although I ended up taking a different plane). The same thing happened last week. Perhaps it is more common than I had assumed.
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There’s a certain face in America that’s being used to sell a lot of merchandise: magazines, books, t-shirts, badges, stickers,... The McCainiacs and Palinists can get their stuff at 50% off though, and they have a greater diversity/more sizes to choose from.
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I’ve had my fill of planes and airports the past two weeks. As I’m in an airport now I can’t say I’m suprised there’s a plane hanging down from the ceiling. My meeting with th client went well today. I’m meeting up with a colleague from New York then heading on to Chicago. I deliberately avoided travelling via New York so I can’t really complain that about the cities I’m passing through.