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Sometimes the stars align and...
...the sky conditions are perfect
...the monorail stops in the perfect spot
...an epic photographic opportunity is created.
Magic Kingdom | Space Mountain
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From my first day in Gold Coast to watch the Commonwealth Games - what a stunning beach this is & with some amazing buildings couldn't resist taking this shot - hand held from 5 exposures then an HDR shot blended on Affinity which does a brilliant job of aligning the photos and much more.
Valley Railroad "New Haven" 3025 is seen outside the engine house, waiting for the conductor to align the switch back to the Essex station. After running around, the locomotive will hook back onto its train and prepare for another trip to Deep River
Hope everyone is having a fab weekend!! My baby said 3 words this past week!! I can't believe it! He had such a great week. He said "hi", "wow", and "no". Still nothing consistent but he is trying and I am thrilled!!
For my fave Musically Challenged Group!
"Freewill"
There are those who think that life has nothing left to chance
A host of holy horrors to direct our aimless dance
A planet of play things
We dance on the strings
Of powers we cannot perceive
'The stars aren't aligned
Or the gods are malign...'
Blame is better to give than receive
[Chorus:]
You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice
You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill
I will choose a path that's clear
I will choose freewill
There are those who think
That they were dealt a losing hand
The cards were stacked against them
They weren't born in Lotusland
All preordained
A prisoner in chains
A victim of venomous fate
Kicked in the face
You can't pray for a place
In heaven's unearthly estate
[Chorus]
Each of us
A cell of awareness
Imperfect and incomplete
Genetic blends
With uncertain ends
On a fortune hunt that's far too fleet
El campanar romanic de Ribera de Cardós emula el pic del Puitavaca, dominant sobre la vall de Cardós.
L'església de Sta. Maria de Ribera de Cardós conserva prous elements romanics, com la porta, una absidiola i notablement el ferm campanar. Aquí vista des de l'Hotel Cardós, on varem passar una setmaneta de vacances.
ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribera_de_Card%C3%B3s
ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Maria_de_Ribera_de_Card%C3%B3s
www.aldeaglobal.net/artmedieval/Santa%20Maria%20Ribera%20...
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The romanesque bell-tower of Ribera de Cardós church, in the Catalan Pyrenees, aligned with the mighty peak of Puitavaca.
The church of Ribera de Cardós, in the Catalan Pyrenees, retains part of its romanesque structure, specially the bell tower.
www.aldeaglobal.net/artmedieval/Santa%20Maria%20Ribera%20...
(page in Catalan)
The passage way at the South Western Cairn at Balnuaran of Clava is focused on the sky. Many chambered cairns are aligned either with the position of the Sun, Moon, or the planet Venus. The Sun and Moon alignments bring about a living calendar to any aligned chambered cairn. Such alignments are more easily recorded without the cairns. The Sun and Moon alignment seems set into the stone structures for the use of the cairns beyond clocks and calendars to generate the identity of the structure in the design. These impressive monumental communal structures were open and visited by their constructors for several hundreds of years. Later they were filled in possibly when a new way of worship and reverence was found and so the old sacred sites were closed. The cairns in their large size seem set to hold great importance for many people and yet their small passages and chambers are only available for either small groups, or individuals. The light from the Solstice Sun gives a direct beam along the passage and into the chamber at the day chosen with the Summer longest day and Winter shortest day having positions on the horizon at dawn and at sunset available for the builders to set their structure around. Those that took part in interior ceremony could be experiencing a rite of passage and from their inner seclusion they could be greeted by the Sun entering in at a significant moment and then by all that were gathered around the large monuments as the adorants came back to the community after their isolation.
I remember from a few decades ago the stones at the rear of the chamber being brought to life by the Sun when it shone straight along the passage. This light dancing on a stone with either quartz, or granite in could be the first light for the adorant to see after days of fasting, maybe of eating ceremonial food and of intense meditation so that the light in the stone shone to show life in the bone of the land the stone that would be the collection place for the cleaned bones of the dead as markers of belonging and signs of knowing all returning to the glowering Sun, to the finding of the murmuring of the Moon and to the awakening to the stellar shimmering the stars.
The highlighted section of the chamber could be the projection screen of the tomb. After a period of darkness in the chamber the light returning through projection focused along the passage would dance on the projection screen stones and with a tone from the human voice the dust in the passage could be seen to move in and out of waves and lozenge shapes forming transient structures in the moving dust and light. The light held such delicate structures possible only for a short while along the alignment at either dawn, or sunset and the shapes would slow and cease as the light source moved away from the direct alignment in matter of minutes. These waves and lozenge shapes are were carved into the stones of some chambered cairns leaving a record in the stone on the bone of the land a presentation hammered into the stone that was home to the ancestors and the shaping of the returning regenerating medium that as it wore down gave vital nutrients to the next new growth that through roots and shoots, seeds and flowers would break down the stones into sparkling sands and grits echoing the steady progressions and predictable processions of the lights of the camp fires shining out with hope and potential in the sky above.
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Clava Cairns Near Inverness, IV2 5EU
www.historicenvironment.scot/visit-a-place/places/clava-c...
A Visitors’ Guide to Balnuaran of Clava a prehistoric cemetery
www.archhighland.org.uk/userfiles/file/Sites/Historic%20S...
Balnuaran Of Clava, South-west
canmore.org.uk/site/14279/balnuaran-of-clava-south-west
Highland Historic Environment Record
Clàr Àrainneachd Eachdraidheil na Gàidhealtachd
Focus could be better but I like the composition.
Thanks all for the well-wishes on Explore 03/13/2025! -L B
Les alignements de Carnac dans le Morbihan
3000 menhirs répartis sur 40 hectares et 4 kilomètres de longueur selon une organisation architecturée. Les alignements de Carnac sont classés monument historique par liste de 1889.
The Alignments of Ménec, Morbihan department of Brittany.
3000 menhirs stretched over 40 hectares and 4 kilometres of length. The Ménec alignment was classified as a historic monument in 1889.
Just trying something different with Aurora australis shots from 2/1/25.
This is 17 shots with Nikon Z7Ii camereaa, 15 sec, f/40 32mm ISO 3200
I loaded all 17 images into Photoshop as layers
I then aligned all layers then converted the layers to a smart object.
Next in the layers/smart object menu. I chose Stack mode Median..
this had the effect of removing a large percentage of the clouds.
This shot looks down on both Llyn laslyn and Llyn Llyddaw and looks out towards the Eastern side of Snowdonia
Created at The Regency, Laguna Woods, California. © 2014 All Rights Reserved.
My images are not to be used, copied, edited, or blogged without my explicit permission.
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A most Happy Mother's Day to all who have brought (slid) into the world the light of life!
And Happy Sliders Sunday!
Aligned to sunset - Sunset at Winskill stones with the grykes lining up with the distinctive lone hawthorn tree clinging to the limestone pavement under a colourful sky.
Winskill Stones, Yorkshire Dales National Park
Explore #2 15/09/2024
- I saw this in the sky, something I never seen before. The clouds were all aligned into stripes or bands with few thick ones as the spines almost perpendicular to the thin bands. Then, for a brief moment, there was this rainbow when I looked up. It wasn't a halo because it curved away from the sun to the upper left outside the shot. Was the rainbow caused by small ice crystals or water droplets in the clouds? What about the unusual location and viewing angle of the rainbow? I don't have the answers, anyone knows about this one?
Reverse Manhattanhenge is a natural phenomenon that occurs when the rising sun aligns with the Manhattan street grid during the winter months. It's the opposite of Manhattanhenge, which happens in the summer when the setting sun aligns with the city's streets
The rising milky way as viewed from Mudeford Spit in early April. A little bit of lightpainting to help sculpt the foreground, with the sky made up of seven frames layered, manually aligned & averaged to minimise noise.
Adapted Nikon 35mm at f/2.8 to reduce corner coma.
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I recently watched a great blue heron patiently fishing in the Missouri River bottoms and, more often than not, the rapid plunge resulted in a fish. This one would hold the meal for a moment or two in its beak before flipping it up and getting the fish aligned more favorably for swallowing (I wonder how many fish they lose while performing this little feat?). Each fish was followed by a drink of water to wash it down, then the hunt would resume. (9-22-2024)