Serapias

Genus of orchids named after the Egyptian-Greek god Serapis. The genus comprises about 15 species that occur mostly in Europe; around the Mediterranean. The flowers are easily recognisable and most noteworthy for their characteristic lip that resembles a tongue.


Recommended links: Canopé académie de Besançon, Encyclopedia Britannica, Flore Alpes, Orchids of Britain and Europe, Paul Harcourt Davies, Wikipedia

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Sol Duc River

Sol Duc River originates in the Olympic Mountains and flows towards the Pacific Ocean. Along its way lie the beautiful Sol Duc Falls, as well as the Sol Duc Hot Springs.


Recommended links: National Park Service, Northwest Waterfall Survey, Washington Trail Association, Wikipedia

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Sigma DP3 merrill

A compact digital camera with a fixed 50mm lens and an APS-C sized Foveon sensor. The camera was introduced in 2013 and features outstanding image quality for its comparatively small size and price.


Recommended links: Luminous Landscape, Ming Thein, Photography blog, Photoreview, Shutterbug, Sigma, Steve Huff, The Phoblographer,

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• Moderation: I do not want a Sigma DP3 merrill

Seattle Central Library

The main building of the Seattle Public Library System that is located in downtown Seattle. It is a modern, futuristic-looking building that was designed by Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas and opened in 2004.


Recommended links: archdaily, arcspace, Seattle Public Library - Central library visit, The Seattle Times, Wikipedia

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• Seattle Central Library

Sony A7/A7r

Two small and light full-frame digital systems cameras announced by Sony on October 16th 2013. The cameras feature a new full-frame E mount (EF mount) that allows using a huge number of manual lenses via adapters. Both cameras will become available in December 2013


Recommended links: Brian Smith (adapters for the Sony A7/A7r), Dear Susan, diglloyd, dpreview, Imaging resource (A7), Imaging resource (A7r), Luminous Landscape, Steve Huff, Photoclubalpha 


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• The fairy tale of the egg laying wooly milk pig

San Francisco

The largest and most populous city in northern California that is also a financial and cultural center and once was an important port.


Recommended links: City and County of San Francisco, San Francisco Travel, tripadvisor, Wikipedia

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Space Needle

A landmark of Seattle that was built for the world fair in 1962. The top floor of this observation tower is at a height of 160 m.


Recommended links: spaceneedle.com, spaceneedle50.com, tripadvisor, Wikipedia

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Seattle

The largest city in the U.S. state of Washington with an important seaport. 


Recommended links: seattle.gov, The Seattle Times, Tripadvisor, visitseattle.org, Wikipedia

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Stop-down metering

If manual lenses are used on modern CSCs, the aperture has to be closed (stopped-down) to the desired value manually. This is would darken the viewfinder, but an electronic viewfinder compensates this disadvantage. 
The alternative is to stop-down the aperture only when the shutter is released and the photograph is taken (open-aperture metering).


Recommended links: Camerapedia, MIR, Wikipedia

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Spruce

A coniferous tree of the genus Picea. These trees only occur in the northern hemisphere and predominantly in colder climats. In Europe only Piciea abies (the Norway spruce) is native. Spruce trees live in symbiotic (mutualistic) relationship with different soil fungi.



Recommended links: Wikipedia (english, spruce), Wikipedia (english, Norway spruce), Wikipedia (german, Fichte), Wikipedia (german, Gemeine Fichte), How to (identify spruce species)

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Sony NEX-6

A compact digital systems camera from from Sony with an electronic viewfinder and a sensor that contains 16.1 megapixels and measures 23.5 x 15.6 mm.
(It is so far the only camera that I looked at, which does not have a Wikipedia site!)


Recommended links: Cameralabs, Digital Photography School, DPreview, Imaging resource, Photography blog

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-Moderation: Panasonic G5 or G6/G7?

St. Jamses Park

St. James's Park is the oldest of the London Royal Parks and features a beautiful small lake, various species of water birds and many old, large trees.


Recommended links: The Royal Parks, Tripadvisor, Visit London, Wikipedia

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Swiss National Park

The Swiss National Park lies in the south-eastern part of Switzerland in the alps and was founded in 1914, which makes it the oldest National Park in the alps.


Recommended links: graubuenden.ch (also in genlish), nationalpark.ch (also in english), Wikipedia (english), Wikipedia (german)

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Savona

Savona is a port on the Mediterranean Sea in Italy and part of the beautiful Liguria region.


Recommended links: Google maps, Italia.it, Ports Guides, Tripadvisor, Wikipedia

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Saffron

Saffron is the world's most expensive spice that is obtained from the stigma of the plant Crocus sativus. 


Recommended links: nutrition and you, saffron spain, Shahri saffron, Wikipedia (saffron), Wikipedia (saffron use and trade)

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Siegsdorf

Siegsdorf is a town in south-eastern Bavaria, in an aerea called Chiemgau, where an important mammoth skeleton was found.

Recommended links: Mammoth Museum Siegsdorf, Siegsdorf, Steinzeit Siegsdorf, Wikipedia (english), Wikipedia (german)

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• In memoriam of my Konica FT-1
• Light & shadow - positive & negative
• Moderation: I do not want a Sigma DP3 merrill

Stitching

Image stitching is the combination of multiple separate, but overlapping, photographs to obtain one larger photograph of higher resolution.

Recommended links: Cambridge in Color, Hugin, Max Lyons, Max Lyons image gallery, PTgui, Wikipedia

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Stockholm

Stockholm is the largest city and capital of the Kingdom of Sweden.


Recommended links: Google search, lonely planet, stockholm.se, visitstockholm, visit Sweden, Wikipedia, Wikitravel
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Sweden

The Kingdom of Sweden is the largest Scandinavian country and the third largest country in Europe.


Recommended links: Google search, sweden.se, visit Sweden, Wikipedia
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System camera

A system camera is a photo camera with interchangeable lenses.

Recommended links: Camerapedia, Encyclopedia Britannica, Wikipedia

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