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The Empire State Building aligned with the east tower of the Manhattan Bridge. I redid this one with a bit more contrast.
Jupiter, Moon, and Venus (top to bottom) make an uncommon rendezvous while setting in the western sky.
Water droplets exercise at the club tonight. Thought I'd better try so I can help!
Unexpected hazard: dust on the surface of the water!!
Panasonic G1 + 14-45 lens + 5x macro lens. Off camera flash.
Cruising South of the South China Sea yesterday morning and an amazing sunrise complete with the alignment of the planets. I believe you see Jupiter, Venus, and Mars. Just amazing!
These images are from two very similar projects that I've just helped my friends with. They want to be able to hold bike frames on their alignment tables by the head tube. They both purchased used bench centers, and we had to make bull nose centers for them.
The fit up needed to be very close, so we were working to within a few tenths.
The other complication was that one of the centers on each set was spring loaded and utilized a rack and pinion to withdraw it... so we had to mill those rack gears.
SOOC
140 seconds
Pink el wire and keychain light
Part of my inspiration project for my senior thesis.
This alignment of mountains near and far, small and big, caught my eye: a hill about 50 yards away in front of one of the Henry Mountains about 20 miles away. Taken from back roads north of Hanksville, Utah.
I planned this image many months ago. I knew the rising Sun would be in position for this shooting angle for only 2 days, and luckily this aligned with when I was visiting family in Brixham. I arrived in Brixham at midnight and was up at 4am to get the shot. Unfortunately, the sky was black with clouds when I arrived at the the location. I could make out the bit of sky, here and there, popping through the clouds, but by 5am the chance of capturing this alignment looked bleak.
I’d expected to see other photographers, but was surprised to find that I was the only one.
With half an hour to go, and nothing else to do, I began a sacred African cloud-go-away dance. Chanting in an ancient tongue, I summoned the cloud God and asked him if he’d kindly shift those clouds by 5:20am. Clearly impressed with my dance moves, the clouds began to thin out. By 5:25am the sky was clear in the right places.
I went out for a 20km walk through the Brecon Beacons yesterday, part of the way around I noticed the previous 4 peaks I had just walked on lined up into a nice group. These peaks are actually spread over 2 miles (it seems further when you have walked it!!!).
A great day in the hills
Thanks for looking!
Alignments appear and pass in the Sagrada Familia, even in the gift store. I saw this one coming like a planetary conjunction as I moved along with the crowd in a gift shop.
Those of you that know me know I love Bandits....Milwaukee Road still in action decades after the end in '85. So, when a series of absolutely incredible events led me to G67 parked in Nashotah Siding, in a perfect location for photo ops, without a crew, and a solo Soo 4512 in proper position cab forward, I let the shutter start snapping. G67 sat there from around 17:00 to about 21:20, most of the time with me trackside, and I got a ton of great shots. I'll share the best ones here.
This shot is figuratively and literally planetary alignment for me in so many ways.
The new underground line between Washermanpet and Korukkupet readied by the Chennai Metro Rail Limited. This line included two station as part of Phase 1 extension to Wimco Nagar. The line will offer the residents of North Chennai neighbourhoods access to the transport system. It is expected to be ready in 20 months after contract are awarded.
2 kms of the line will run beneath the northern suburbs of New Washerman pet and Korukkupet. The alignment from Thyagaraya College to Korukkupet Junction have been formed up. Also, authorities have marked areas of potential impact of work on the buildings around proposed stations and tunnels.
According to sources, the silty clay soil will make it easy for boring machine to cut through. However, as the stations have to be built around the 2 km stretch, which is extremely congested, the underground stations will be tough. Phase I of the extension line will begin at Washermanpet underground station. This is part of the Airport - Washermanpet corridor. The tunnel for the line will begin near the Mint flyover. This will be bored under the railway line to Beach station.
Note: This would have been a photo of two white dots on a black background, but its actually two planets, Venus and Jupiter that ‘appear’ to be close together this week. I composed the shot with the planets peeking at us through the branches of a bare tree to make it a little more ‘interesting’. (Best i could come up with at the time based on where i was with my family).
This is actually what astronomer refer to as a planetary ‘Alignment’ or ‘Conjunction’.
We are looking at them ‘Across’ the solar system. They’re not actually next to each other.
Using a baseball field as an example, say you hit the ball out of the park and can take your time trotting around the bases as the crowd goes wild. As you start your jaunt to first base and glance to the left, across the baseball field, think of the pitcher’s mound as the Sun, the second baseman would be Venus and center fielder, Jupiter. The two planets just ‘appear’ to be close together based on your line-of-sight from where you are, but are actually very far apart and in different parts of the Solar System, or baseball field :—).
So, that is what we are seeing this week.