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Face-on barred spiral galaxy, NGC 1433.
In Webb’s high-resolution infrared images, the gas and dust stand out in stark shades of orange and red, and show finer spiral shapes with the appearance of jagged edges, though these areas are still diffuse.
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Read the feature: science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/nasas-webb-depicts-stagger...
Full set of images: webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2024/news-2024-1...
NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Janice Lee (STScI), Thomas Williams (Oxford), PHANGS Team
Image description: In Webb’s image, the spiral arms are composed of many filaments in shades of orange. Thin dust lanes connect from the core, through the bar to the spiral arms.
The Wave, Coyote Buttes North, Vermillion Cliffs National Monument, Arizona. Armed with a wide angle lens there are endless compositional possibilities here.
Police Scotland Skoda Superb 2.0 TSi 4x4 Sportline Estate unmarked Traffic Car
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A Blue Jay waits patiently for some seed to appear. These guys dominate the food chain on our lakefront, except for the squirrels of course!
Trying to catch up my delay ... (which is still very big) ... but I need to post a new photo from time to time ...
Thank you in advance for all your faves and comments. I might answer several WEEKS/MONTHS later. And I might post several photos in the meantime.
Merci d'avance pour tous vos faves et commentaires. Je vous répondrai peut-être dans plusieurs SEMAINES/MOIS. Et je posterai peut-être plusieurs photos entre temps.
France. Alpes. Département des Hautes Alpes (05). Massif des Arves. Photo prise lors d'une randonnée effectuée en solo sur le très célèbre et très fréquenté Plateau d'Emparis, au départ de la station du Chazelet, en passant par le Lac Noir et le Lac Lérié. C'était mon 10ème jour de rando sur les 18 jours où j'ai pu randonner lors de notre séjour alpin de 3 semaines pendant l'été 2022.
Je fais une petite parenthèse pour dire que dans 1 semaine, nous partirons pour notre séjour alpin de l'été 2023, en espérant qu'une fois de plus nous vivrons beaucoup de moments magiques et inoubliables. 😊 Mais d'ici là, j'ai du pain sur la planche pour finir de préparer les randos ...
Cette photo a été prise au début de la montée au Plateau d'Emparis, depuis la station du Chazelet, très tôt (à 7h58), à une heure où les couleurs et la lumière étaient particulièrement belles. Je me suis levé particulièrement tôt ce jour-là mais j'ai été amplement récompensé de ce départ inhabituellement matinal. 🙏😊
Tout au long de la rando, je n'ai pu que constater à quel point l'herbe du Plateau d'Emparis était complètement desséchée, même aux abords des 2 grands lacs du plateau, témoignage de cet été 2022 particulièrement chaud et sec. Et les paysages que j'ai pu voir n'étaient pas ceux d'un début de mois d'août mais d'un mois de septembre déjà bien avancé. Mais cela ne m'a pas empêché de goûter à la beauté de ce plateau, avec de nombreux sommets prestigieux visibles dans toutes les directions, et tout particulièrement la star des lieux, la Meije, située tout près du plateau, juste de l'autre côté de la Vallée de la Romanche. J'ai hésité à choisir une photo de la Meije. Finalement, c'est cette photo du Pic du Mas de la Grave (3020m) et du vallon du Torrent du Gâ que j'ai choisie. Mais ci-dessous, j'ai mis des liens vers des photos de la Meije et de ses glaciers.
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The road from the city of Madaba to the Dead Sea & Jordan Valley.
The water surface of the Dead Sea is approximately 420 meters below sea level, the lowest point on Earth.
Cheminons, le coeur léger, vers le refuge de Chamoissières, ( 2106 m ) au pied du Massif des Agneaux, le long de la Romanche, puis du Rif de la Planche et sous l'oeil attentif des marmottes curieuses: si ce n'est pas le paradis, ça y ressemble vraiment !!
BRAIES LAKE/PRAGSER WILDSEE photographed from the Southern shore. Also called the "Pearl of the Dolomites", it is one of the most beautiful and best-known lakes in the Pale Mountains. UNESCO, Braies Valley, Fanes-Sennes-Braies Natural Park, Trentino-Alto Adige/South Tyrol, ITALY.
The human gut teems with bacteria and other microbes. They contribute to our health but also influence our susceptibility to certain diseases, including Alzheimer’s disease.
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Credit: Donny Bliss, NIH
This is the Smith Interpretive Center / Greenhouse. It originally was administrative offices and laboratory/greenhouse.
Now it serves its special function as an interpretive center and a greenhouse.
"Crude masonry and rustication characterize the initial architecture at the Boyce Thompson Arboretum. The Smith Building, the arboretum’s original visitor center and administration building, designed by Thompson and built by local contractor and mason Jack Davey in 1925–1926, is sited on the canyon floor. The rustic edifice, composed of locally quarried rhyolite, originally featured lichen-covered interior walls and flagstone floors. The 6,500-square-foot space contained offices, laboratories, a library, a herbarium, a seed room, a photography studio, supply rooms, and a fireproof vault; a soft-water cistern filled the basement. Flanking the structure are two attached greenhouses that display indigenous and exotic cacti and succulents. Measuring 50 feet long and 20 feet wide, the prefabricated iron-frame and glazed structures were supplied by the Lord and Burnham Company of New York."
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I haven't been here since I was a child. I consider it more of a walk rather than a hike. But it is incredibly interesting. Especially for photography. My Grandfather - Joseph Harris - was the Superintendent of Col. Thompson's Miami Inspiration Mines.
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Boyce Thompson Arboretum is the oldest and largest botanical garden in the state of Arizona. It is one of the oldest botanical institutions west of the Mississippi River. Founded in 1924 as a desert plant research facility and “living museum”, the arboretum is located in the Sonoran Desert on 392 acres (159 ha) along Queen Creek and beneath the towering volcanic remnant, Picketpost Mountain. Boyce Thompson Arboretum is on U.S. Highway 60, an hour's drive east from Phoenix and 3 miles (4.8 km) west of Superior, Arizona.
The arboretum was founded by William Boyce Thompson (1869-1930), a mining engineer who made his fortune in the copper mining industry. He was the founder and first president of Inspiration Consolidated Copper Company at Globe-Miami, Arizona and Magma Copper Company in Superior, Arizona. In the early 1920s, Thompson, enamored with the landscape around Superior, built a winter home overlooking Queen Creek. Also in the 1920s, as his fortunes grew, he created and financed the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research in Yonkers, New York (now at Cornell University), and the Boyce Thompson Arboretum on the property of the Picket Post House, west of Superior.
Boyce Thompson wrote: “I have in mind far more than mere botanical propagation. I hope to benefit the State and the Southwest by the addition of new products. A plant collection will be assembled which will be of interest not only to the nature lover and the plant student, but which will stress the practical side, as well to see if we cannot make these mesas, hillsides, and canyons far more productive and of more benefit to mankind. We will bring together and study the plants of the desert countries, find out their uses, and make them available to the people. It is a big job, but we will build here the most beautiful, and at the same time the most useful garden of its kind in the world.”[3]
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Planet Earth Vintage Architecture, PEVA,
Trying to catch up my delay ... (which is still very big) ... but I need to post a new photo from time to time ...
Thank you in advance for all your faves and comments. I might answer several WEEKS/MONTHS later. And I might post several photos in the meantime.
Merci d'avance pour tous vos faves et commentaires. Je vous répondrai peut-être dans plusieurs SEMAINES/MOIS. Et je posterai peut-être plusieurs photos entre temps.
France. Alpes. Département de l'Isère (38). Massif des Écrins. Vallée du Vénéon. Photo prise lors d'une randonnée en aller-retour effectuée en solo, au départ de la Bérarde, jusqu'au Refuge de Temple Écrins. C'était mon 17ème jour de rando sur les 18 jours où j'ai pu randonner lors de notre séjour alpin de 3 semaines pendant l'été 2022.
La photo a été prise en remontant le Vénéon sur sa rive droite, un peu au nord du Refuge du Carrelet.
Cette randonnée s'est déroulée dans un cadre absolument grandiose, foisonnant de sommets de plus de 3000m, dont certains très célèbres. Les 2 sommets que j'ai trouvés les plus photogéniques sont la Tête du Chéret (que j'ai choisie de mettre à l'honneur sur cette photo) et Les Bans (dont le Sommet Sud culmine à 3669m), qui domine le superbe Glacier de la Pilatte, où le Vénéon prend sa source.
Par contre, cette journée fut très éprouvante pour moi physiquement, et cela pour plusieurs raisons. D'abord parce que j'étais diminué par le COVID, avec le dos courbatu. Ensuite parce qu'il faisait chaud. Et enfin parce que la montée finale au Refuge de Temple Écrins était particulièrement raide et éprouvante (450m de dénivelé concentrés sur seulement 2km, soit une pente moyenne de plus de 20%). Mais grâce à la beauté des lieux et avec l'aide d'une boisson énergisante qui donne des ailes, j'ai réussi à monter jusqu'au refuge. Et cerise sur le gâteau, en plus de la magnifique vue panoramique sur le plan incliné du refuge, j'ai eu une 2ème récompense pour mes efforts, en ayant la chance de pouvoir observer une marmotte pendant mon pique-nique, et cela malgré la forte fréquentation des lieux. 🙏
NB : Je ne sais pas si vous voyez ce que je veux dire mais les 2 pentes de devant, le sentier et le cours d'eau forment presque une espèce de X. 😉
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PRUNETTO, one of the many small villages of the Langa. The town is located on the ridge between the Bormida Valley and the Uzzone Valley and is dominated by the 12th century Del Carretto Castle and the interesting 14th century Sanctuary of the Madonna del Carmine. Piedmont, ITALY.
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Monument Valley, Arizona
John Ford Point, popular filming location for westerns, with the table mountain Merrick Butte in the background.
It was a wonderful early morning in Monument Valley. I took the Scenic Loop Drive for the 3rd time, but it was the first time that I visited the John Ford Point - and I think it was worth while - well knowing that my photograph sells more of a wonderful illusion.
Cowgirl in der Wüste
Monument Valley, Arizona
John Ford Point, beliebter Drehort für Western, mit dem Tafelberg Merrick Butte im Hintergrund.
Es war ein wundervoller früher Morgen im Monument Valley. Ich nahm den Scenic Loop Drive zum 3. Mal, aber es war das erste Mal, dass ich den John Ford Point besuchte - und ich denke, es hat sich gelohnt - wohl wissend, dass mein Foto eher eine wunderbare Illusion verkauft.
BRENTA DOLOMITES, central sector of the West side. UNESCO, Surroundings of Madonna di Campiglio, Trentino-Alto Adige/Sudtirol, ITALY. EXPLORE 14-03-2023.
View of the Alaska Range, including Mount Foraker (17,400 ft/5304 m), Mount Hunter/Begguya (14,573 ft/4442 m), and Denali (20,310 feet/6190 m), from Talkeetna, Alaska
Having not had the opportunity to see Denali (the tallest peak in North America) on my previous trip to Alaska, it was high on my wish list for this trip. Unfortunately our helicopter flightseeing tour was canceled due to fog, so my hopes rested on a trip up to the town of Talkeetna. After two days of clouds and snow, the weather was not looking promising; as we drove out of Anchorage, the sky remained gray and occasionally spitting icy flakes.
For much of the drive through miles of snow-covered boreal forest, past small communities and long stretches of nothing but snow and trees (and the occasional moose, which thrilled both my daughter and I), the forest blocked the view toward the mountains. As we turned off the highway toward Talkeetna however, the trees began to thin out and I could catch an occasional glimpse of the the Alaska Range, and what I thought was a hint of blue sky. My hopes rose - perhaps there would be a chance to see Denali after all.
Then the road turned and suddenly, ahead of me I could see it, the glorious Alaska Range, bathed in brilliant sunshine, laying just underneath a thick layer of clouds! My next thought was to hope that the clouds would not descend again before I reached the overlook pullout above Talkeetna. Luck was on my side however, as Denali and the other majestic peaks remained in clear view not only from the overlook but long enough to marvel at an unobstructed view from down in the town. (The snowy foreground here is actually the Talkeetna river, frozen and covered with deep snow.)
It was an absolutely breathtaking sight to witness, and I stood there with a mixture of awe and reverence as the view and the moment soaked deeply into my soul. It is a memory that I will carry with me for a long time.
THROWING ROOTS
In the easternmost parts of the humid forest, the cordillera cypress and the coihue grow together.
However, here, the rock that emerges in these shallow soils where only these cypress specimens resist can be seen.
I saw this painting in a shop window in Old Montreal and it reminded me of when I was a kid. My brothers and I and all the kids in our neighborhood would be outside right after school playing road hockey, then again right after dinner we would be outside playing road hockey until dark! We played hockey all year round! We made up our teams and this was our passion from the time we were about 10 or 12 years old until 16 years old! We always pretended we were our favorite NHL hockey hero as we were out there on the road playing hockey!
Even my Dad played on a Ice Hockey Team in Ayr, Ontario when he was growing up and it was his passion until he met my Mom. After that, the hockey went out the window,lol!
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HFF!
Longwood Gardens Pa.
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Alley mural in Reykjavik. Smart drinking. Einstein mural beside a wall of beer kegs, popular spot when it isn't snowing. Iceland. Kaldi may refer to Kaldi or Khalid, a legendary Arab[1] Ethiopian goatherder who discovered the coffee plant around 850 AD
Whitley County, Indiana
In and around Columbia City, Indiana there are a few poles still standing along the old Pennsylvania Railroad mainline now (CF&E) that ran between Pittsburgh and Chicago. This pole line was abandoned shortly after Amtrak left the line in 1990 and the railroad became dark territory.
In 1972 my friends and I started insulator hunting along this railroad around the Fort Wayne, IN area. Sometimes we would ride our bikes over 15 miles to get to our destinations. By the year 2000, I had covered every mile of this railroad between Crestline, Ohio to Plymouth, Indiana.
On the top crossarm are four CD 145 H.G.CO. Petticoat beehives and two CD 152 Brookfield hoopskirts with sdp's that came home with me. Petticoat and CREB beehives were very common along this line.
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Dear flickr friends,
3 weeks and 9500 photos later, I'm back in Germany - with a lot of jet lag, but with the experience of another great photo trip to the Southwest of the USA. This time I went with two friends - a great tour, exhausting but worth it...we only had one day of bad photo weather - which followed this exciting sunset.
A thunderstorm came up and the play of colors was unique - I've been here a few times at sunrise - but almost always without clouds - this was a completely different number... the air was so full of electricity that your hair felt like when Struwwelpeter (shock-headed Peter) stood up tangled - that looked really bizarre, especially on women with long hair - I had never experienced anything like that. And in retrospect it was good that I didn't follow my friend's advice to leave this place immediately because there was a risk of being struck by lightning...so I finished this panorama photo - consisting of 2 in total rows of 4 images using my nodal adapter.
It rained heavily that night and as it continued the following day we unfortunately couldn't do our booked Canyon X photo tour due to flooding - all slot canyons around Page were closed...but that's moaning on a high level - because, as always, such storms are the best prerequisite for interesting photos...
Dramatischer Sonnenuntergang am Horseshoe Bend, Arizona
Liebe flickr-Freunde,
3 Wochen und 9500 Fotos später, bin ich wieder in Deutschland - mit ziemlichem Jet-Lag, aber mit der Erfahrung einer weiteren tollen Fotoreise in den Südwesten der USA. Dieses Mal war ich mit zwei Freunden unterwegs - eine tolle Tour, anstrengend, aber es hat sich gelohnt...wir hatten nur einen Tag schlechtes (Foto-) Wetter - der auf diesen spannenden Sonnenuntergang folgte.
Es zog ein Gewitter auf und das Farbenspiel war einmalig - ich war schon ein paar Mal hier zum Sonnenaufgang - doch fast immer ohne Wolken - das hier war eine ganz andere Nummer...die Luft war so voll von Elektrizität, dass einem die Haare wie beim Struwwelpeter wirr vom Kopf standen - das sah vor allem bei Frauen mit langen Haaren richtig bizarr aus - so etwas hatte ich noch nicht erlebt. Und im Nachhinein war es gut, dass ich nicht dem Rat meines Freundes gefolgt bin, diesen Ort sofort zu verlassen, weil die Gefahr bestand, vom Blitz getroffen zu werden...so habe ich dann dieses Panoramafoto noch fertig gemacht - insgesamt bestehend aus 2 Reihen a 4 Bildern mithilfe meines Nodal-Adapters.
Es regnete in Strömen in dieser Nacht und da sich das am folgenden Tag fortsetzte, konnten wir leider unsere gebuchte Fototour durch den Canyon X wegen Überflutung nicht machen - alle Slot Canyons um Page herum waren gesperrt...aber das ist Stöhnen auf hohem Niveau - weil wie immer, sind solche Unwetter die beste Voraussetzung für interessante Fotos...
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The Royal Grand Palace is a complex of buildings at the heart of Bangkok, Thailand. The palace has been the official residence of the Kings of Siam and later Thailand since 1782. It consists of not only royal and throne halls, but also a number of government offices as well as the renowned Temple of the Emerald Buddha. It covers an area of 218,000 square metres and is surrounded by four walls, 1900 metres in length. After King Rama I ascended to the throne in 1782, the palace was built. Prior to this, the royal palace and centre of administration had been located in Thonburi, on the west bank of the Chao Phraya River. For various reasons, the new King considered the former capital to be unsuitable and decided to establish a new capital on the other side of the river. Admission fee is free of charge for Thais and 500 baht for foreigners. You'll need to wear culturally appropriate attire when visiting the Grand Palace in Bangkok. This means being well covered. Visitors should wear long skirts/trousers and sleeved shirts—basically anything that covers more than the lower arms and head. Fortunately, after the covid period, it is not yet busy with tourists. Thailand has just ended their quarantine policy. Face masks are no longer mandatory. Great to visit the Grand Palace one more time now and see the Prasat Phra Thep Bidorn, a corncob-shaped tower, called a prang, and Phra Mondop Library with green and blue mirrored tiles, on the upper terrace of Wat Phra Kaew.
Impressive 200 years of royal history and architecture at the Grand Palace in Bangkok with more than 100 buildings. The Royal Grand Palace has been the official residence of the kings of Siam. It is the city's biggest tourist attraction and a pilgrimage destination for devout Buddhists. Most of the architecture, royal or sacred, is classified as Ratanakosin - old-Bangkok style. The Royal Pantheon is located on the east side of the upper terrace near the Temple of the Emerald Buddha. In 1782, King Rama I founded the Chakri dynasty in Bangkok. This building with a corncob-shaped tower (called a prang) also called Prasat Phra Thep Bidorn. It is only open to the public on Chakri Day, which is celebrated on April 6. Next to the Royal Pantheon is the gilded Phra Mondop Library Phra Mondop. It is decorated with 16 columns plus green and blue mirrored tiles with tiny golden carvings of Buddha. It is the main library for the Buddhist at the Grand Palace. Photo of the guardian from the Ramakien epic between the Royal Pantheon and the Phra Mondop Library. In the the background the Chapel of The Emerald Buddha with a three layered roof.
De Royal Grand Palace is een gebouwencomplex in het hart van Bangkok, Thailand. Het paleis is sinds 1782 de officiële residentie van de koningen van Siam en later Thailand. Het bestaat niet alleen uit koninklijke en troonzalen, maar ook uit een aantal regeringsgebouwen en de beroemde Tempel van de groene Smaragd Boeddha. Het heeft een oppervlakte van 218.000 vierkante meter en is omgeven door vier muren van 1900 meter lang. Nadat koning Rama I in 1782 de troon besteeg, werd het paleis gebouwd. Daarvoor was het koninklijk paleis en het bestuurscentrum gevestigd in Thonburi, op de westelijke oever van de Chao Phraya-rivier. Om verschillende redenen vond de nieuwe koning de voormalige hoofdstad ongeschikt en besloot hij een nieuwe hoofdstad te stichten aan de andere kant van de rivier. De toegangsprijs is gratis voor Thais en 500 baht voor buitenlanders. In april 1981 gebruikte de plaatsvervangend commandant van het Thaise leger, generaal San Chitpatima, het paleis als zijn hoofdkwartier voor een poging tot staatsgreep tegen premier Prem. De staatsgreep mislukte mede door ingrijpen koning Bhumibol. Een paar uur later ontmoette generaal Prem echter koning Bhumibol in zijn paleis in Bangkok en de koninklijke familie en de premier vloog naar een legerbasis in Noordoost-Thailand. Premier Prem kondigde op de radio aan dat hij niet was afgetreden. Het Thaise leger trok zich weer terug uit het paleis. Gelukkig is het na de covid periode nog niet druk met toeristen. Thailand heeft zojuist hun quarantainebeleid beëindigd. Mondkapjes zijn niet meer verplicht. Geweldig om het Grand Palace nu nog een keer te bezoeken. Het Koninklijk Pantheon in het Grand Palace met een maïskolfvormige toren een prang genoemd bevindt zich aan de oostkant van het bovenste terras bij de tempel van de smaragdgroene Boeddha. In 1782 stichtte koning Rama I, de Chakri-dynastie in Bangkok. Dit gebouw, ook wel Prasat Phra Thep Bidorn genoemd, Het is alleen open voor het publiek op Chakri-dag, die op 6 april wordt gevierd. Naast deze sprang staat de vergulde Phra Mondop-bibliotheek. De Phra Mondop is versierd met 16 zuilen plus groene en blauwe spiegeltegels met kleine gouden beeldhouwwerk van Boeddha. Het is de belangrijkste bibliotheek voor de boeddhisten in het Grand Palace. Foto van de bewaker uit het Ramakien-epos tussen het Royal Pantheon en de Phra Mondop-bibliotheek. Op de achtergrond de Kapel van de Smaragdgroene Boeddha met een drielaags dak.