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Die scheinbare Blüte ist ein Blütenstand, nur eine Scheinblüte (Pseudanthium). Die Schaufunktion entsteht durch die dicht weißfilzigen Hochblätter. Die eigentlichen Blüten sitzen zu vielen Hunderten, in einzelne Blütenkörbe organisiert, inmitten des Sterns beisammen und bilden zusammen mit den Hochblättern eine bestäubungsbiologische Einheit (Superpseudanthium).
Der blendend weiße Schimmer auf den Hochblättern entsteht dadurch, dass tausende kleine Luftbläschen an dem vielfach durcheinander gewirkten, krausen Haar das einfallende Licht reflektieren. Dies dient als Signal für nektarsuchende Insekten, als Verdunstungsschutz und als Schutz vor Wärmeverlust. Die Arbeitsgruppe um den belgischen Physiker Jean-Pol Vigneron der Universität Notre-Dame de la Paix in Namur hat herausgefunden, dass die Haare selbst aus parallelen Fasern mit 0,18 Mikrometern Durchmesser bestehen, was in der Größenordnung der Wellenlänge der UV-Strahlung liegt und zu deren Absorption führt. Das übrige Licht wird jedoch hindurchgelassen, sodass die Pflanze Photosynthese betreiben kann.
Bestäuber sind vor allem Fliegen sowie Hautflügler, Falter und Käfer. Die Scheinblüte bleibt bis in den Winter hinein erhalten.
Das Alpen-Edelweiß gilt in Österreich und Deutschland als stark gefährdet. Ursachen sind heute v. a. das Betreten und Befahren der verbliebenen Standorte, früher vor allem das teils gewerbsmäßige Pflücken. Auch in Österreich und der Schweiz steht das Alpen-Edelweiß in sämtlichen Bundesländern bzw. Kantonen unter strengem Naturschutz und darf nicht gepflückt werden. In Österreich wurde das Edelweiß bereits 1886 unter Naturschutz gestellt. Durch das Aufkommen des Tourismus in den Alpen war es rasch zu einem begehrten und haltbaren Souvenir geworden. Als ein Beispiel für gelungenen Schutz eines Vorkommens kann der Bestand an der Höfats in den Allgäuer Alpen aufgeführt werden. Dort wurden die vor allem in der Inflationszeit durch übermäßiges Pflücken stark zurückgehenden Restvorkommen des dort vorkommenden, bereits damals geschützten Alpen-Edelweiß durch die Allgäuer Bergwacht von 1935 bis 2007 zur Blütezeit bewacht. Hierzu hatte sie eigens ein Zelt und später eine Biwakschachtel errichtet. Heute haben sich dort die Bestände erholt und das Naturschutzbewusstsein der Berggänger ist größer geworden, sodass die Bewachung nicht mehr erforderlich ist. (Wikipedia)
The rising Full Moon of September 9, 2022, the Harvest Moon for 2022, coming up over a rolling harvested prairie field near home in southern Alberta, on a very clear evening.
This is a single shot with the Canon R5 and RF70-200mm f/4 lens at 200mm and f/8.
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Positron emission tomography (PET) is a functional imaging technique that uses radioactive substances known as radiotracers to visualize and measure changes in metabolic processes, and in other physiological activities including blood flow, regional chemical composition, and absorption.
PET scanners can incorporate a CT scanner and are known as PET-CT scanners. PET scan images can be reconstructed using a CT scan performed using one scanner during the same session.
ok, enough self-absorption! back to the wild wild sea... on the northern CA coast, near Mattole Beach...
The Hague
March 2012
The Netherlands
Urban life in the Netherlands
Ricoh GRD IV
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- This is a Light Painting by Candlelight -
I handheld a candle in total darkness to paint these amazing huge callas with the light of its flame.
I conceived this technique as a new discipline in the LP, inspired at the Masters of Antiquity because I don't like to use electric nor electronic lighting. In this shot, I started panting from the bottom line, high-lighting the stems up to the flowers during a long exposure. Here, most of the efforts have been profused in doing my best to equally distribute the candle light, avoiding my own hands, arms and camera shadows, yet obtaining the wished Chiaroscuro with maximal attention to not 'burn' with excessive close light every flower, obtaining a fairly good light absorption.
The stems lead upwards until the corollas (or chalices) to celebrate their beauty & bountifulness.
Every calla looks to me like a ballerina wrapped in veils but each one has a different shape, hence the title.
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This is a monochrome rendering of my photo originally taken in colours.
I believe the B&W helps appreciating the leading lines of the lighted stems as well as the silhouettes of the Callas.
Camera in manual mode - Shot in darkness by painting each one of the flowers with the light of an handheld candle.
File name: DSCF5767 OK rif. Premier B&W render-Best VM DEFF
⚠️WARNING: As a pioneer of this technique, I need to add a warning: don't do it at home if you're not an expert
(so far, I know nope either than myself who does). High risk of fire !!🔥 Seriously !! Prefer to use well sheltered lanterns
with protected flames and leave them still on a stable surface without ever touching them !!
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High wheel bicycle and modern times; Krakow Old Town District, Poland;
The penny-farthing, also known as a high wheel, high wheeler or ordinary, is an early type of bicycle.
It was popular in the 1870s and 1880s, with its large front wheel providing high speeds, owing to it travelling a large distance for every rotation of the legs, and comfort, because the large wheel provided greater shock absorption.
Tech:
Leica M 240
Leitz Summicron 50mm f2 ver3
Full write-up here: theastroenthusiast.com/ngc-2170-the-angel-nebula/
Is this a painting or a photograph? In this classic celestial still life composed with a cosmic brush, dusty nebula NGC 2170, also known as the Angel Nebula, shines near the image center. Reflecting the light of nearby hot stars, NGC 2170 is joined by other bluish reflection nebulae, a red emission region, many dark absorption nebulae, and a backdrop of colorful stars. Like the common household items that still life painters often choose for their subjects, the clouds of gas, dust, and hot stars featured here are also commonly found in this setting — a massive, star-forming molecular cloud in the constellation of the Unicorn (Monoceros). The giant molecular cloud, Mon R2, is impressively close, estimated to be only 2,400 light-years or so away. At that distance, this canvas would be over 60 light-years across.
Given the amount of clouds that have been and will be plaguing my location in the coming months, I’ve decided to start experimenting the some telescope live data. It’s and interesting blend of high and low quality – the images are taken from extremely low bortle zones with amazing telescopes, but there are usually strange artifacts, gradients, and bad star quality.
Website: theastroenthusiast.com/
Instagram: www.instagram.com/the_astronomy_enthusiast/
Rover is a British automotive brand that was used for over a century, from 1904 to 2005. It was launched as a bicycle maker called Rover Company in 1878, before starting to manufacture autocars in 1904. The brand used the Viking longship as its logo. The rights to the brand are currently part of Jaguar Land Rover, which continues to produce Land Rovers, but no Rover automobiles are currently in production and the brand is considered dormant.
Despite a state-controlled absorption by the Leyland Motor Corporation (LMC) in 1967 and subsequent mergers, nationalisation, and demergers, the Rover brand retained its identity, first as an independent subsidiary division of LMC, and subsequently through various groups within British Leyland (BL) through the 1970s and into the 1980s.
The Rover brand then became the flagship brand of the newly and eponymously renamed Rover Group in 1988, which included the actually stronger and more valuable brand names Land Rover and Mini as it passed first through the hands of British Aerospace and then into the ownership of BMW Group. Sharing technology with Honda and financial investment during the BMW ownership led to a revival of the brand during the 1990s in its core midsize car segment.[3]
In 2000, BMW sold Rover and related MG car activities of the Rover Group to the Phoenix Consortium, who established the MG Rover Group at Longbridge. BMW retained ownership of the Rover brand, allowing MG Rover to use it under licence. In April 2005, Rover-branded cars ceased to be produced when the MG Rover Group became insolvent. The MG Rover Group's assets then got split up between two Chinese automakers – some were bought by SAIC Motor, who obtained technology that was incorporated into a new Chinese line of Roewe branded luxury saloons. Other assets were bought by Nanjing Automobile.
BMW sold the rights to the Rover brand to Ford in 2006 for approximately £6 million, the latter exercising an option of first refusal to buy it dating back to its purchase of Land Rover in 2000. Ford thus reunited the original Rover Company brands, primarily for brand-protection reasons.[4] In March 2008, Ford reached agreement with Tata Motors of India to include the Rover brand as part of the sale of their Jaguar Land Rover operations to them. Legally the Rover brand is the property of Land Rover under the terms of Ford's purchase of the name in 2006. Wikipedia
Along the winding paths that wend their way through Trebah Gardens you'll come across the bamboo garden, where the wind plays tunes on the green swaying poles. The dance of dappled light and shadow is entrancing, and soothing, you have to slow down, pause, and absorb the magical world you've stepped into.
For full absorption you have to press 'L'.
Culture and Congress Centre – CKK Jordanki, Torún, Poland
The architecture firm Menis Arquitectos led by spanish architect Fernando Menis has designed the Culture and Congress Centre – CKK Jordanki a contemporary concert hall in Torún, Poland.
CKK Jordanki is located within a green ring around the historic city centre, overlooking the Vistula River. Therefore, special care was took in designing the orientation and height of the volumes so that the presence of the new building establishes a harmonious relationship with the natural and built environment. Thus the building occupies half of the plot, the other half being dedicated to park and the height is kept as low as possible, to avoid blocking the view over the river. The visual effect achieved is that of a natural object, a rock embedded in a gently sloping meadow.
On the other hand, the materiality refers Torun’s Gothic legacy, an UNESCO protected city, in which almost all the façades of the old town boast of red brick. CKK Jordanki’s outside is made of white concrete in contrast to the cuts in the skin that give a glimpse of the red inner lining, made of crushed brick. The use of brick in Jordanki CKK is a contemporary reinterpretation of the traditional brick, is a reference to Torun’s façades, and ultimately to its cultural heritage.
The program is characterized by a great flexibility at such extent that a building, which according to the client’s brief, was meant to be only a concerts hall, ended up being a space for all kinds of concerts and events, within the same initial budget. First of all, the theatre space is able to adapt easily to different capacities. For instance you may join two rooms to act as the main theatre by moving the walls and changing the number of the easily removable seats. It is possible to hold several separate and simultaneous events. Secondly, thanks to its dynamic ceiling, the building can be tuned to effectively absorb symphonic performances, chamber, theatre, opera, and film and meet any acoustic requirements the theatre designer requires. Finally, the concert hall can open to the outside, allowing to join the interior stage with the park outside for outdoor performances.
Picado, used in the entire building, is a mix of concrete and other materials. At CKK Jordanki, it was mixed either with reclaimed red bricks from a local factory (Ceramsus) for the sound reflection effect; either with a volcanic reddish stone from China, for its sound absorption effect. The picado is an innovative technique, conceived by Fernando Menis, consisting of mixing concrete with other materials and break it afterwards. Besides achieving a rough expression, the picado allows excellent acoustics results. The first time Menis used it, was for Magma Art & Congress (Tenerife, Canary Islands, 2005), by mixing concrete with local volcanic stones. For the CKK Jordanki, the technique has been researched further, tested and certified by the Spanish and the Polish Building Research Institute -ITB, respectively. The red brick is present almost on all the façades of the city and its use in CKK Jordanki is Menis’s contemporary reinterpretation of this traditional material while a clear reference to the town’s cultural heritage.
The definition of the auditorium space and of its shapes was made through an interactive process, always in relation to acoustics, until reaching the final shape. The plastic properties of concrete allows its use in concert halls in many different ways because it allows you to control the geometry (liquid stone) and adapt its shape to the formwork so that you can control the first sound reflections the listener received. In addition, the surface treatment of the crushed brick and concrete mix, allowed us a kind of diffusion, very difficult to achieve with other materials.
The moving parts of the auditorium have an area ranging from 80 to 140 m², having a weight that varies according to the piece, from 11 to 20 Tn. Each of the pieces can move independently from 3 to 5 m in height, allowing adjustment of the geometry and volume of the hall, depending on the needs of each moment, transforming a volume of 8,200 m3 with a time reverberation of 1.85 seconds, into a volume of 6,800 m3, with a reverberation time reduced down to 1.35 seconds. By adding additional absorption you could reach a reverberation time of 1.2 seconds, which covers the entire range of possible activities: 1.85 seconds for symphonic music, 1.6 seconds for opera and 1.2 seconds for theatre.
The Mer de Glace, like all glaciers, is constantly renewed under the effect of two phenomena: accumulation, notably due to snowfall and ablation, essentially due to melting. The Mer de Glace flows permanently under the effect of its own weight.
The glacier's speed, although not perceptible to the naked eye, is considerable. From more than 120 meters a year in its upper part which is about more than one centimeter per hour. Did you know Glacier ice is the largest reservoir of fresh water on Earth?
The blue color is actually created for the same reason that water is blue, that is, its slight absorption of red light due to an overtone of the infrared OH stretching mode of the water molecule.
Een gletsjer is een ijsmassa die gevormd wordt op land en dik en groot genoeg is om bergafwaarts te stromen. Mer de Glace zakt maar liefst 120 m per jaar dat is meer dan 1cm per uur. Sneeuw wordt eerst omgezet tot firn, een korrelige ijsmassa die gevormd wordt doordat sneeuwkristallen onder de toenemende druk van de bovenliggende lagen van vorm veranderen en zich herordenen. Onder invloed van sijpelend smeltwater kan dit proces sneller plaatsvinden.
Later, en dus dieper in de gletsjer, vormt firn door de toenemende druk wit gletsjerijs. Tenslotte wordt het verdicht tot blauw gletsjerijs.
Giraffe Day 2025/06/21
World Giraffe Day is an annual, worldwide event to create awareness and shed light on giraffe's Silent Extinction.
World Giraffe Day is an annual event initiated by the Giraffe Conservation Foundation to celebrate the tallest animal on the longest day (or night, depending on in which hemisphere you live!) of the year – 21 June – every year.
The ‘horns’ on a giraffe are more correctly known as ossicones – conical protrusions of bone that will grow throughout the life of a bull giraffe.
The giraffe is quite amazing. What kind of extra-strength apparatus does it take to pump blood up a 10-feet neck to the brain, then manage its flow below the heart, six feet to the hooves?
When a giraffe bends way down for a drink, why doesn't it faint from blood rushing to the brain? Why doesn't it stagger dizzily from a lack of blood to the brain when it stands back up?
A giraffe's super muscular heart is two feet long and weighs about 25 pounds. It pumps 16 gallons a minute. A remarkable network of veins and one-way valves prevent back-flow, keeping blood from rushing to the head. Blood vessels in the head are more elastic and may reserve some blood, which keeps the animal from fainting as it stands. Smaller red blood cells and capillaries all help make oxygen absorption quicker.
With gravity and a ton of weight sitting on four legs and hooves, why doesn't the giraffe have ballooning ankles?
NASA has studied this in developing gravity-suits for astronauts. Giraffes' legs have very strong, tight skin and tissue beneath. Rather like super compression stockings. Arteries are deep with thick, muscular walls.
A giraffe won't bleed heavily from a leg cut. It's interesting to note that while stroke and hardening of the arteries is seen in most mammals, it isn't a notable problem with the giraffe.
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Lydenburg Rural Area
South Africa
This was more like what I wanted to see, and there can't have been many of these left by 1985. 3330 was the first of what would turn out to be the final batch of vehicles delivered to Wigan Corporation, before their absorption into GMPTE in 1974.
Although the combination of AN68 Atlantean and Northern Counties body was GMT's first choice, these were a bit different from the others ! They were GMT's oldest AN68s, having 'K' plates, they were GMT's only long AN68/2R chassis, and they were the only dual-door AN68s, with all the dual-door bodies ordered by GMT being on Fleetline chassis.
And there is also the small matter that this was the first production AN68 Atlantean, with chassis number 7200388. In fact, this batch (NEK 1-10K) took up 10 of the first 11 AN68s off the production line, with just one pesky Merseyside PTE one in the middle ! Shame it didn't get preserved ....
GMT Melverley Street depot, Wigan, 14/2/85
My attitude to the village I have been living in for more than a decade is ambivalent. Sometimes, I need to get away from its self-absorption and self-satisfaction.
« Ce fut comme une immense maturation du cœur dans l’absorption d’une constante contemplation du vide et de sa blancheur. » (C.L.-C.)
Légère variante d'une autre.
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Excerpt from vincentvangogh.org:
Van Gogh painted this picture of the popular Restaurant de la Sirene at Asnieres, an area in the northwestern suburbs of Paris that sat alongside the River Seine, It had originally been a rural area that took its name from the Latin for donkey, thought to refer to the local breeding of donkeys, but as Paris had grown and spread Asnieres became swallowed into the city.
By the time Van Gogh arrived in Paris Asnieres had a burgeoning population and was home to several large factories. It was also a fashionable place for day-trippers, and a number of artists frequented the area to point. Van Gogh painted several views of Asnieres, and was often accompanied on his trips by the young Signoc. This view of the restaurant reflects the artist's absorption of the Impressionist techniques, token to a different level. Van Gogh was less concerned with the fleeting effect of the atmosphere, and focused more on color, form and meaning in his work. At this time restaurant and cafe culture were at a high, and they often exhibited the works of contemporary painters.
Excerpt from arthive.com:
Perhaps it is no exaggeration to say that Vincent van Gogh was a regular at the brothels. In some periods of the artist's life, women of easy virtue was probably not the only one to whom he could turn for support and understanding. And get them, even for money. Frequent visits to prostitutes, of course, sad impact on the health of Vincent, however, these women often helped him in his work, becoming his models. The painting "the Brothel" was written in the autumn of 1888 when van Gogh lived in Arles. And, most likely, the worker of this institution played an important role in the fate of the artist.
Flickr Lounge ~ Relax
Our Daily Challenge ~ Tabletop Photography
Most days I'll work through a Sudoku puzzle. It keeps the 'little grey cells' working and I find the absorption in working out a solution to be quite relaxing.
Thank you to everyone who pauses long enough to look at my photo. Any comments or Faves are very much appreciated.
I've never seen a group come up with an extended solar panel like this one. At first I was a bit concerned to think I had not gotten across that light travels in STRAIGHT lines! I knew they did not put a mirror in the tube to angle the light. Fortunately when I asked about their design they said it was to heat the air in the tube and send it into the box. I did not discuss the fact that heat rises... we'll review that another day!
The Cone Nebula
The cone's shape comes from a dark absorption nebula consisting of cold molecular hydrogen and dust in front of a faint emission nebula containing hydrogen ionized by S Monocerotis, the brightest star of NGC 2264. The faint nebula is approximately seven light-years long (with an apparent length of 10 arcminutes), and is 2,700 light-years away from Earth.
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The Ayurvedic Sanskrit name of rock salt is “Saindhav lavan” . It is also known as “Halite”, which is a mineral of Sodium chloride.
It is rich in minerals. The benefits of rock salt have been described here.
Halite forms isometric crystals. The mineral is typically colorless or white, but may also be light blue, dark blue, purple, pink, red, orange, yellow or gray depending on the amount and type of impurities. It commonly occurs with other evaporite deposit minerals such as several of the sulfates, halides, and borates.
This salt enhances the taste of recipes in which it has been used.
Rock salt supplies minerals which are required by our body. Salt enhances water absorption, maintains PH and helps in movement of nutrients between tissue fluid and cells.
Apart from these functions, rock salt stabilizes blood pressure and also acts as an anti-oxidant.
It pacifies all the three doshas and is considered the healthiest form of salt in ayurveda.
The "breakthrough" route for Citybus franchised operations which has recently culminated (2023) in the absorption of the New World First franchise in the latest round of renewals, was the 12A, serving the MacDonnell Road area of the Mid-Levels on Hong Kong Island. This precursor to the initial tranche of Network 26 routes won in 1992, commenced the previous year and was operated by air-conditioned Leyland Olympians drawn from the growing fleet of the type being deployed on a range of Resident's Services, cross-border and other contract work. 186, new a few months earlier, is pictured on Des Voeux Road passing Chater Garden in this view from October 1992.
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to my art, my sleep, my dreams, my labors, my suffrances, my loneliness, my unique madness, my endless absorption and hunger
because I cannot dedicate myself to any fellow being.
-Jack Kerouac
This false-color view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows clouds in Saturn's northern hemisphere. The view was produced by space imaging enthusiast Kevin M. Gill, who also happens to be an engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
The view was made using images taken by Cassini's wide-angle camera on July 20, 2016, using a combination of spectral filters sensitive to infrared light at 750, 727 and 619 nanometers.
Filters like these, which are sensitive to absorption and scattering of sunlight by methane in Saturn's atmosphere, have been useful throughout Cassini's mission for determining the structure and depth of cloud features in the atmosphere.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado.
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission, click here.
An early morning snap across a low tide inlet in the Dingle Harbor (end of March) at the outset of what would-be an after-breakfast clockwise drive around Slea Head Drive.
Juni 2021
Karl weiß sich schon früh in Szene zu setzen, ist immer um Aufmerksamkeit bemüht und schaut selbstverliebt in die Kamera. Er wird später mal ein namhafter Aerosolforscher werden! - Karl knows how to put himself in the limelight at an early age, is always looking for attention and looking at the camera with self-absorption. He will later become a renowned aerosol researcher!
Sunset tonight looking north towards the Tiwis. There seems to be a faint green band going from the top right of the cloud to the left . It is in all the shots I took.
Possibly got something to do with this? I don't know.
optics.kulgun.net/GreenClouds/green_clouds.shtml
........The idea is that water is blue because is absorbed red light. If a thunderstorm contains enough water and is illuminated by sunlight which is reddish because the blue component has been scattered, such as at sunset, then the absorption of red light by the water will result in a green colour.
Rover is a British automotive brand that was used for over a century, from 1904 to 2005. It was launched as a bicycle maker called Rover Company in 1878, before starting to manufacture autocars in 1904. The brand used the Viking longship as its logo. The rights to the brand are currently part of Jaguar Land Rover, which continues to produce Land Rovers, but no Rover automobiles are currently in production and the brand is considered dormant.
Despite a state-controlled absorption by the Leyland Motor Corporation (LMC) in 1967 and subsequent mergers, nationalisation, and demergers, the Rover brand retained its identity, first as an independent subsidiary division of LMC, and subsequently through various groups within British Leyland (BL) through the 1970s and into the 1980s.
The Rover brand then became the flagship brand of the newly and eponymously renamed Rover Group in 1988, which included the actually stronger and more valuable brand names Land Rover and Mini as it passed first through the hands of British Aerospace and then into the ownership of BMW Group. Sharing technology with Honda and financial investment during the BMW ownership led to a revival of the brand during the 1990s in its core midsize car segment.[3]
In 2000, BMW sold Rover and related MG car activities of the Rover Group to the Phoenix Consortium, who established the MG Rover Group at Longbridge. BMW retained ownership of the Rover brand, allowing MG Rover to use it under licence. In April 2005, Rover-branded cars ceased to be produced when the MG Rover Group became insolvent. The MG Rover Group's assets then got split up between two Chinese automakers – some were bought by SAIC Motor, who obtained technology that was incorporated into a new Chinese line of Roewe branded luxury saloons. Other assets were bought by Nanjing Automobile.
BMW sold the rights to the Rover brand to Ford in 2006 for approximately £6 million, the latter exercising an option of first refusal to buy it dating back to its purchase of Land Rover in 2000. Ford thus reunited the original Rover Company brands, primarily for brand-protection reasons.[4] In March 2008, Ford reached agreement with Tata Motors of India to include the Rover brand as part of the sale of their Jaguar Land Rover operations to them. Legally the Rover brand is the property of Land Rover under the terms of Ford's purchase of the name in 2006. Wikipedia
IPod Touch
Zen. Brush App
From life/observation
<=15 minutes
Although I drew a few times on long distance trains (and planes) I realized about halfway through my trip that I wasn't drawing on city Metro systems., Alhough theoretically it would have been interesting to compare posture, interaction and attitude between countries, I was never confident enough about my intended destination to let myself get absorbed in drawing.
I must say I was favorably impressed with how easy it was to navigate all three major metro systems I was on: London, Paris & Brussels.
In any event, back to the familiar commute, where I confess, I have occasionally missed my stop due to over-absorption in my subject.
Poem.
The mercury greys, the tree-lined ebony silhouettes, deep indigo and silver-coated marbling, gleaming, beaming off the cloud-reflected bay-
Dazzles and spell-binds.
That precious God-given ambience of early dawn blinds us but etches blurred images of heavenly proportions to our senses.
The mesmerising light, the near-silent water’s edge only broken by the lilting call of the oyster-catcher or the muffled comments of stirring sailors aboard their dreamy yachts.
These familiar sounds, the salt-laden odours of a near-calm bay and the silent, gentle absorption of the sun’s rays rouses and energises a myriad of life-forms to a glorious new day.
To witness this scene is pure bliss.
To hear, feel and sense it, is almost indescribable.
Total lunar eclipse in 720nm infrared, nearing moon set, from Westborough, MA, 2022 November 08th. In visible/visual light, the moon here was almost not visible, but the IR absorption of the blue sky darkens the sky and enhances moon to background contrast.
Alter Ego: Hope
Name: Callum Hammer
Allegiance: Hero
Powers:
* Super Strength and a mild healing factor
* Can absorb energy and project it from his body via beams he expels from the palms of his hands (he can also do this without energy absorption).
* He can blast the beams from his hands in a unique way which allows him to fly and run fast.
Weapons: None
Key Weakness: He relies quite heavily on his powers in combat, without them he's just a regular teenager.
Origin:
Callum was born with his parents abilities and often used them to flaunt and boast about at school, one day however he was overheard by a criminal working for the villain called "Plague" bragging about how powerful his beams of energy were. He was then abducted by a gang of crooks that took Callum to their underground fight club called "Brawlers" ran by Plague. He was then pinned to fight against other meta humans and was kept captive for weeks as their "Champion" until he broke out and fled. He then decided he'd take down Plague and help fellow meta humans by being a costumed hero calling himself Hope, which was the only thing that got him through Brawlers, hope that he would one day get revenge on Plague and save those still being held captive.
A collection of bright star clusters and colourful nebulas on the border of Cassiopeia and Cepheus.
The prominent star cluster at left is Messier 52. The emission nebula to the lower right of it is NGC 7635, aka the Bubble Nebula; above and to the right of it is the small but intense nebula NGC 7538. At upper right of the frame is Sharpless 2-155, aka the Cave Nebula. The diffuse nebula at bottom is Sharpless 2-157, aka the Lobster Claw Nebula, with the small star cluster NGC 7510 near the end of one of its claws. The small star cluster at lower right made yellow by interstellar dust absorption is NGC 7419.
This is a stack of 8 x 8-minute exposures through the Borg 77mm f/4 astrograph and with the Canon EOS Ra red-sensitive mirrorless camera, at ISO 800. Stacked, aligned and processed in Adobe Camera Raw and Photoshop 2020. No nebula or light pollution reduction filter was employed in taking the images. I shot this from home November 25, 2019 on a very fine if frosty autumn night. No special star masks were employed in processing to enhance star colours or process them separately.
If you look closely, you'll see the swooshing lines of the car that backed out of the driveway on the left as I was taking this shot. Man, I thought the people in the car were gonna break their necks... swivelling and staring and glaring all suspiciously. They even stopped at one point, turned on their headlights, and pointed them at me for a few long seconds... (this was around 2pm.. not like I was skulking in the darkness; sheesh). I just stood there rolling my eyes, figuring "Oh well, I can always do another exposure after... or IF... they ever freakin' leave."
Turns out I liked this one just fine. Except for the big blob of overexposed fence on the left. That's where they shone their wretched headlights.
(Sometimes I wonder... in a fit of self-absorption.. why the rest of the world can't just FRO and let me shoot in peace.)
Really beautiful object catalogued as 881 on the Lynds' Catalogue of Dark Nebulae.
It's one of the jewels that you could find on gamma Cygni nebula, on SADR region of Cygnus, one of my favorites regions of the sky.
"A dark nebula or absorption nebula is a type of interstellar cloud that is so dense that it obscures the visible wavelengths of light from objects behind it, such as background stars and emission or reflection nebulae. The extinction of the light is caused by interstellar dust grains located in the coldest, densest parts of larger molecular clouds." (wiki)
It was necessary to integrate more than 70 hours to show all faint and nice details on the estructure.
Here was captured using the HSO palette, please also check my natural palette on this link:
Technical card
Imaging telescopes or lenses:Teleskop Service TS Photoline 107mm f/6.5 Super-Apo , Altair Astro RC250-TT 10" RC Truss Tube
Imaging cameras:ZWO ASI183MM-Cool , ZWO ASI1600MM-Cool
Mounts:Skywatcher EQ6R Pro , Mesu 200 Mk2
Guiding telescopes or lenses:Celestron OAG Deluxe , Teleskop Service TSOAG9 Off-Axis Guider
Guiding cameras:ZWO ASI174 Mini , ZWO ASI290 Mini
Focal reducers:Riccardi Reducer/Flattener 0.75x , Telescope-Service TS 2" Flattener
Software:Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight , Seqence Generator Pro
Filters:Astrodon O-III 36mm - 5nm , Astrodon S-II 36mm - 5nm , Astrodon R Gen.2 E-series 36mm , Astrodon G Gen.2 E-series 36mm , Astrodon B Gen.2 E-series 36mm , Astrodon HA 36mm - 5nm , Astrodon L Gen.2 E-series 36mm
Accessory:ZWO EFW , MoonLite NiteCrawler WR30 , TALON6 R.O.R , MoonLite CSL 2.5" Focuser with High Res Stepper Motor
Dates:July 21, 2020 , July 22, 2020 , July 25, 2020 , July 26, 2020 , July 28, 2020 , July 29, 2020
Frames:
Astrodon B Gen.2 E-series 36mm: 90x30" (gain: 75.00) -15C bin 1x1
Astrodon G Gen.2 E-series 36mm: 90x30" (gain: 75.00) -15C bin 1x1
Astrodon HA 36mm - 5nm: 205x600" (gain: 200.00) -15C bin 1x1
Astrodon O-III 36mm - 5nm: 110x600" (gain: 183.00) -15C bin 1x1
Astrodon R Gen.2 E-series 36mm: 90x30" (gain: 75.00) -15C bin 1x1
Astrodon S-II 36mm - 5nm: 111x600" (gain: 183.00) -15C bin 1x1
Integration: 73.2 hours
Avg. Moon age: 5.35 days
Avg. Moon phase: 33.86%
Astrometry.net job: 3811511
RA center: 20h 18' 42"
DEC center: +39° 43' 1"
Pixel scale: 1.007 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 90.555 degrees
Field radius: 0.403 degrees
Resolution: 2308x1724
Locations: AAS Montsec, Àger, Lleida, Spain
Data source: Own remote observatory
Remote source: Non-commercial independent facility
Photographed in situ.
A common sight here in Australia, enjoying the similar climate to its native range of South Africa.
I wanted to grow this plant, especially to observe the development of these large, dynamic, eye-catching flowers.
But I learned over the years from gardening articles, seeing them in parks and friends who have them in their gardens - that they grow fast and are a nightmare to remove.
So, I have this one plant in a very large pot. A couple of years ago, I re-potted and was intrigued to see the roots. They are large, thick and tuberous looking - adapted for water absorption and storage.
The flowers emerge one at a time from the spathe, consist of three orange sepals and three purplish-blue or white petals. Two of the petals are joined together to form an arrow-like nectary. When the sunbirds sit to drink the nectar, the third petal opens to release the anther and cover their feet in pollen.
One tough, resilient and stunning plant.
The common name 'bird of paradise' is due to the resemblance of the open inflorescence to the display plumage and pose of certain species of bird-of-paradise. (The beak being downward, with wings open above and tail behind, as if in flight and reaching down in to a flower for nectar).
Strelitzia reginae, growing to 2 m or more in height. Leathery leaves up to 80 cm in length and 30 cm wide.
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♂ - Male - Macho
La mariposa cometa o mariposa luna de Madagascar (Argema mittrei) es una especie de
lepidóptero ditrisio que vive en la selva tropical de Madagascar. La especie fue descubierta por Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville en 1847. El macho tiene una envergadura de 20 cm y una cola de 15 cm, lo que la convierte en una de las mariposas de seda más grandes del mundo. La hembra pone aproximadamente unos 120 a 160 huevos, y después de la eclosión, la larva se alimenta de Eugenia y Weinmannia; lleva aproximadamente dos meses para convertirse en pupa. El capullo tiene numerosos agujeros por donde se escurre el agua y así evitar que la pupa se asfixie en las lluvias diarias de su hábitat natural. La mariposa adulta no puede alimentarse y solo vive de 4 a 5 días. Aunque está en peligro de extinción en el medio silvestre debido a la pérdida de hábitat, principalmente provocados por la deforestación masiva, la mariposa cometa ha sido criada en cautiverio. Las larvas se alimentan de Weinmannia eriocampa, especies de Uapaca, Eugenia cuneifolia y Sclerocarya caffra.
Las plantas de sustitución son Rhus cotinus, Eucalyptus gunnii, Pistacia terebinthus, Pistacia lentiscus, Rhus copallinum, Rhus laurina, Rhus toxicodendron, Rhus typhina, Schinus molle, Schinus terebinthifolius, especies de Mimosa y Liquidambar styraciflua.
Esta mariposa figura en el antiguo billete de 1000 ariarys malgaches.
Las polillas y los murciélagos han estado en una carrera armamentista coevolutiva debido a que los murciélagos desarrollan la ecolocalización. Sin embargo, las polillas han desarrollado métodos para evitar ser detectadas por los gritos de ecolocalización de los murciélagos y promover la supervivencia una vez detectadas. Para Argema mittrei, tienen la capacidad de usar la absorción de ultrasonido para que el murciélago reciba un eco amortiguado, haciendo que la polilla sea invisible para el murciélago. El uso de la absorción de ultrasonido es la principal función defensiva de Argema mittrei. También tiene otros roles defensivos como la cripsis, el aposematismo o el mimetismo. También tiene una llamativa cola larga, roja y amarilla, que se usa para defenderse de los atacantes.
es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argema_mittrei
The comet moth or Madagascan moon moth (Argema mittrei). is a moth native to the rain forests
of Madagascar. The species was first described by Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville in 1847. The adult moth cannot feed and only lives for 4 to 5 days. Although endangered in the wild due to habitat loss, the comet moth has been bred in captivity.
There are physical differences among females and males. Females have more rounded wings. The male has a wingspan of 20 cm (7.9 inches) and a tail span of 15 cm (5.9 inches), making it one of the world's largest silk moths. The males have long, feathery antennas and the females have thin antennas. Argema mittrei wings have large eyespot, giving the appearance of a large and dangerous creature that should not be attacked.
Host plants include the genus Eugenia and Weinmannia, as well as Eucalyptus gunnii and Liquidambar. Other host plants they are reared to are Eugenia cuneifolia, Sclerocarya birrea, Weinmania eriocampa, Rhus cotinus, Schinus terebinthifolia, and Schinus molle. Additional host plants are Cotinus coggygria, Eucalyptus gunnii, Malosma laurina, Pistacia terebinthus, Pistacia lentiscus, Rhus copallinum, Rhus typhina, Schinus molle, Schinus terebinthifolius, Toxicodendron pubescens, Mimosa species and Liquidambar styraciflua.
The adult moth lays 100 to 150 eggs. The caterpillar has the unique ability to spin a silk cocoon. The pupa is a life stage where some insects undergo transformation between immature and mature stages.
The pupa is enclosed in a grayish-white cocoon that resembles a sack. The cocoon has drainage holes so rainwater can escape.
Argema mittrei produces natural silk cocoons. For Argema mittrei, the cocoon has a silvery color with a rough and compact opening at one end.
Moths and bats have been in a coevolutionary arms race due to bats developing echolocation. However, moths have developed methods to avoid detection from the echolocation cries of bats and to promote survival once detected. For Argema mittrei, they have the ability to use ultrasound absorption so that the bat will receive a dampened echo, making the moth invisible to the bat. Using ultrasound absorption is Argema mittrei main defensive function. It also has other defensive roles such as crypsis, aposematism, or mimicry. It also has a striking long, red and yellow tail which is used in defense against attackers.