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Coffee, the finest organic suspension ever devised.
It’s got me through the worst of the last three years.
I beat the Borg with it.
~ Captain Kathryn Janeway, USS Voyager (Star Trek: Voyager)
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My dear Friends, the last days were quite successful. I posted 12 photos, 9 made it into Explore whereof 6 reached the Frontpage!

YOU made this happen and I thank you for all the comments and favs in this time.

But especially, me and my wife like to thank you for your solace, your blessings and personal statements as well as for your mails on my pic Tears of Heaven!

I'm gonna take a short break now from Flickr. But as the Terminator would say: "I'll be back..."!

In the meantime, you can join me on Facebook (if you like... ;-)

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Coffee is a brewed beverage with a dark, acidic flavor prepared from the roasted seeds of the coffee plant. The beans are found in coffee cherries, which grow on trees cultivated in over 70 countries, primarily in equatorial Latin America, Southeast Asia, South Asia and Africa. Green (unroasted) coffee is one of the most traded agricultural commodities in the world. Coffee can have a stimulating effect on humans due to its caffeine content. It is one of the most-consumed beverages in the world.

Coffee has played a crucial role in many societies. The energizing effect of the coffee bean plant is thought to have been discovered in the northeast region of Ethiopia, and the cultivation of coffee first expanded in the Arab world. The earliest credible evidence of coffee drinking appears in the middle of the 15th century, in the Sufi shrines of Yemen in southern Arabia. From the Muslim world, coffee spread to India, Italy, then to the rest of Europe, to Indonesia, and to the Americas. In East Africa and Yemen, it was used in religious ceremonies. As a result, the Ethiopian Church banned its secular consumption, a ban in effect until the reign of Emperor Menelik II of Ethiopia. It was banned in Ottoman Turkey during the 17th century for political reasons, and was associated with rebellious political activities in Europe.

Coffee berries, which contain the coffee seeds or "beans", are produced by several species of small evergreen bush of the genus Coffea. The two most commonly grown are the highly regarded Coffea arabica, and the "robusta" form of the hardier Coffea canephora. The latter is resistant to the devastating coffee leaf rust (Hemileia vastatrix). Once ripe, coffee berries are picked, processed, and dried. The seeds are then roasted to varying degrees, depending on the desired flavor. They are then ground and brewed to create coffee. Coffee can be prepared and presented in a variety of ways. (See list of coffee beverages.)
An important export commodity, coffee was the top agricultural export for twelve countries in 2004, and it was the world's seventh-largest legal agricultural export by value in 2005. Some controversy is associated with coffee cultivation and its impact on the environment. Many studies have examined the relationship between coffee consumption and certain health conditions; whether the overall effects of coffee are ultimately positive or negative has been widely disputed.[ The method of brewing coffee has been found to be important to its health effects.
[Source: Wikipedia]

Canon EOS 60D
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM
Aperture: f/8
Exposure time: 2s
Focal length: 73mm
ISO Speed: 100
Processed with PS CS5

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Remember the great song from Real Life?

Collage made out of four single shots, not from the same drop, the cam is not fast enough for this.

Canon EOS 60D
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM
Exposure time: 1/250s
ISO Speed: 100
Tripod Manfrotto 055XPROB
Canon Speedlite 580EX II with Diffusor
Yongnuo Remote Triggers RF-603C
Processed with PS CS5

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This is definitely the last Picture of the Series "Summer's just around the Corner".

I took this pic two days ago at the Marina in Faulensee (at Lake Thun, Canton of Bern, Switzerland) during heavy Snowfall. Summer (not even Spring) wasn't in sight at all...

How much snow is good for my Camera? Glad I have a High Quality Camera, I mean a Canon and not a Nikon toy... ;-)

See it in the comments section...

Enjoy!

Canon EOS 60D
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM
Aperture: f/22
Exposure time: 152s
Focal length: 45mm
ISO Speed: 100
Tripod Manfrotto 055XPROB
B+W 110 ND Filter
Processed with PS CS5 and Nik Software's Silver Efex Pro 2

PS: Photoshopping was very hard in this case, due to a lot of snowflakes and water on the lens...

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After wiping away the Tears of Heaven, let's play a bit with water...

You can see the installation and the setup in the comments section.

Fortunately my wife was not at home, she would have suffered a heart attack...she hates it, if I'm doing such things in our living room... ;-)

Canon EOS 60D
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM
Aperture: f/4
Exposure time: 1/250s
Focal length: 105mm
ISO Speed: 100
Manfrotto Tripod 055XPROB
Canon Speedlite 580EX II with Diffusor
Yongnuo Radio Triggers RF-603C
Processed with PS CS5 and Nik Software's Silver Efex Pro 2

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Can't stop the Series "Summer's just around the Corner", even though we have heavy snowfall actually...

So here's #7, enjoy!

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Canon EOS 60D
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM
Aperture: f/11
Exposure time: 68s
Focal length: 24mm
ISO Speed: 100
Manfrotto Tripod
B+W 110 ND Filter
Processed with PS CS5 an Nik Software's Silver Efex Pro