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As the tides goes out, the colorful rocks appear and the crusty pilings stand tall. Photographed in Tacoma, WA.
These crusty old pilings are still standing at low tide and high. A long exposure technique gives the water a nice sheen finish.
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This was my target shot, for the first session at Ceska Trebova. It would appear the class 1216 have two diagrams on the Praha-Zilina services.
It appears the tree got off easy.
Day 28
28 Days Later after beginning this project.
April 8, 2020
15:43:43
COVID-19 Cases reporting April 9, 2020
Worldwide Confirmed: 1,447,412
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You may have seen earlier in my Photostream I’ve shot a few of these creations over the summer as most of them have appeared more or less on my virtual doorstep
I was very glad to be able to capture this one as its probably the last one of the season as the harvest draws to a close (indeed this circle was in a field surrounded by other fields that have already been cleared)
It’s a nice example, and large – probably 100 metres in diameter
For those unfamiliar with crop circles, they are patterns created by flattening a crop usually a cereal. The term was first coined in the early 1980s. Although obscure natural causes or alien origins of crop circles have been suggested by fringe theorists, there is no scientific evidence for such explanations, and all crop circles are consistent with human-made items (although with the more elaborate ones, its not always possible to see how!)
Although such formations have appeared worldwide, south-west England is considered without doubt to be the “world capital” of crop circles. They are particularly concentrated in the county of Wiltshire, where a treasure trove of ancient history includes the Neolithic sites of Stonehenge and Avebury – both crop circle hotspots. There have been 380 crop circles recorded in the county alone since 2005
This dramatic image from January 2006 offers a peek inside a cavern of roiling dust and gas where thousands of stars are forming. The image, taken by the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) aboard the Hubble Space Telescope, represents the sharpest view ever taken of this region until this time, called the Orion Nebula. More than 3,000 stars of various sizes appear in this image. Some of them have never been seen in visible light. These stars reside in a dramatic dust-and-gas landscape of plateaus, mountains, and valleys that are reminiscent of the Grand Canyon.
The Orion Nebula is a picture book of star formation, from the massive, young stars that are shaping the nebula to the pillars of dense gas that may be the homes of budding stars. The bright central region is the home of the four heftiest stars in the nebula. The stars are called the Trapezium because they are arranged in a trapezoid pattern. Ultraviolet light unleashed by these stars is carving a cavity in the nebula and disrupting the growth of hundreds of smaller stars. Located near the Trapezium stars are stars still young enough to have disks of material encircling them. These disks are called protoplanetary disks or "proplyds" and are too small to see clearly in this image. The disks are the building blocks of solar systems.
Image Credit: NASA,ESA, M. Robberto (Space Telescope Science Institute/ESA) and the Hubble Space Telescope Orion Treasury Project Team
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Lifer. This butterfly appears every other year as it takes two years to mature from an egg. Most appear in the Sierra Nevada and north into the Siskiyou Range on even numbered years. It is big but a slow flyer. It's top side reminds me of butterscotch. I wasn't able to a decent shot of the top side but it can be seen at this link: butterfliesofamerica.com/oeneis_c_chryxus_live1.htm. Castle Lake, Klamath Mountains, Siskiyou County, CA.
One of the best and busiest market is Lal Chowk in Srinagar. Its has small and big stores of the traditional Kashmiri handicrafts. While shopping there on my last visit took the photo of these women typically dressed in salwar kameez and hijab covering their heads while one of them does not appear to be covering her head. It was a warm August day and it's apparent as each has a soft drink can in their hands.
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I'll be appearing on the next episode of The Two Hosers Photo Show, and they've given me the weekly photo challenge.... "the longest day" (in honour of the summer solstice). Wide open to interpretation, and this is what I've come up with.
This image is photographed at The Wildflower Farm, a favourite location of mine to go shoot flower, insects and water droplets. Closed to the public, but they still let me poke around. One of the interesting things they have are these strange bicycle-based lawn mower contraptions. The front wheel is replaced with a grass-cutting blade apparatus, surely intended to make lawn mowing a faster task.... but it looks painfully labour intensive and time consuming.
Imagine cutting an entire field with a tool such as this? I think it would be the longest day of my life. Right behind this apple tree is a fledgling meadow, but the foreground grass is carefully manicured. I hope they aren't using these bikes to get the job done!
Oh, and this is a false-colour infrared image, shot with a modified camera. In infrared light, anything capable of photosynthesis typically glows brightly, giving a ghostly surreal look to the scene. The sky in this spectrum is often dark, and I was trying to frame the bright tree in the dark sky. This required me to set my tripod at nearly ground-level (thank you Gitzo for a removable center column) to find the right angle.
When shooting infrared, the camera will only capture the deepest reds in the visible spectrum, and also capture colours beyond our visual perception. These colours can be remapped into a range more natural to the way we see the world, usually done by swapping the red and blue colour channels as a starting point. I think I'll write a tutorial on my workflow in the near future. :)
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Al Tramonto: Montagna della Luce.
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Il 'Monte Lessino' (al singolare) indicava il territorio dedicato al pascolo nelle montagne a nord di Verona e già nel IX secolo appare citato in documenti con il termine 'Luxino'.
Le ipotesi su questo termine sono varie. Lessa dal germanico medioevale Lees (pascolo). Dal nome personale Alessio, contrada di Erbezzo. Dal termine romano lixia quindi luxare (disboscare, simile al diffuso roncare), ma significante l'azione di rendere 'liscia' la superfice con operazioni di livellamento e la pratica agricola romana del 'debbio', consistente nel bruciare la sterpaglia, per formare praterie adatte alla fienagione e al pascolo.
In ogni caso, quindi, termini che convergono nelle attuali caratteristiche di questa montagna, con grandi superfici prative e a pascolo.
Altra suggestiva ipotesi viene dall'antico termine Luxinum vale a dire "Montagna della Luce".
Comunque sia tutte le ipotesi si adattano perfettamente a questo territorio ed ognuna ne evidenza le caratteristiche.
Ho già descritto questo altopiano in una precedente foto postata ad agosto 2017.
Ho voluto riportare questa descrizione per la spiegazione storica nella quale è chiamata "Montagna della Luce".
Infatti all'ora del tramonto la luce del cielo, i colori si riflettono sulla montagna.
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At Sunset: Mountain of Light.
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The 'Monte Lessino' (in the singular) indicated the territory dedicated to grazing in the mountains north of Verona and already in the ninth century appears to be cited in documents with the term 'Luxino'.
The assumptions on this term are various. Lessa from the medieval Germanic Lees (pasture). From the personal name Alessio, district of Erbezzo. From the Roman term lixia then luxare (deforestation, similar to the widespread roncare), but signifying the action of making the surface 'smooth' with leveling operations and the Roman agricultural practice of 'debbio', consisting in burning the brushwood, to form prairies suitable for haying and grazing.
In any case, therefore, terms that converge in the current characteristics of this mountain, with large meadows and pastures.
Another suggestive hypothesis comes from the ancient term Luxinum that is to say "Mountain of Light".
However all the hypotheses are perfectly adapted to this territory and each one of them highlights its characteristics.
I have already described this plateau in a previous photo posted in August 2017.
I wanted to report this description for the historical explanation in which it is called "Mountain of Light".
In fact, at sunset time the light of the sky, the colors are reflected on the mountain.
“The mind of silence is broad like the sky;
thoughts appear like birds that leave no trace.”
— Hongzhi, Cultivating the Empty Field, trans. Taigen Dan Leighton
Every February there's an absolutely stunning phenomenon that occurs in Yosemite National Park: a waterfall appears as if it's on fire! Horsetail Falls, which runs from snowmelt off the eastern side of the giant rock known as "El Capitan", hasn't existed for the last 5 years due to the California drought. But this year, thanks to El Niño, it has returned! As the sun sets with its orange light, and if it's located in the right place in the sky, its light reflects off the granite walls and onto the waterfall, making it look as if it's on fire! I last photographed this in 2011 and I was very eager to capture it again.
The angle in which the sun can hit the waterfall is fairly limited, and knowing which angles will work, I'm able to write a computer program every year that predicts on which days and what times the waterfall will erupt. This year, the ideal days were on Sunday, Febraury 21 and Monday, February 22. I had seen a number of amazing photos taken earlier than this but with my busy schedule, I planned on making 2 trips to Yosemite to see the Fire Falls. On Sunday, Willie, Mike, Sammi and I drove to Yosemite, rustled with the massive crowds (thanks to Social Media, thousands of people flock to Yosemite to see this), and then left in disappointment as clouds rolled in at the last minute and blocked the sun from hitting the falls.
On Monday I had planned to take 8 of my SmugMug co-workers to see the waterfall and we left work at 6:30am to get to Yosemite in time. A few people hadn't ever visited Yosemite, so we left some time to explore a bit of the park. Knowing the crouds could get large, we immediately dropped off Willie and our tripods and then ventured off to explore the park. Having photographed this in 2011 from one of the two main locations (South Side Drive), I was determined to try a new angle this year: near the North Side Drive, El Capitan Picnic Grounds.
Clouds began to roll in during the afternoon and I began to get worried that our chance at the Fire Falls would be ruined, for a second straight day. Fortunately for us, the clouds (mostly) disappeared. Sure enough, by 5:15pm the rockface and waterfall started to turn orange. We all began snapping away like crazy. And then the light died! A cloud had gotten in the way! I wasn't ready to give up and sure enough, after 10 minutes, the sun dipped below the cloud deck and sure enough, the Fire Falls erupted again, this time with the sun in position to turn it a glowing red color!
While I photographed this with my D800, I also setup my old D700 with an 80-200mm lens and recorded 30 minutes of timelapse footage, taking 1 photo every second for 30 minutes. I combined 1,890 photos into this minute long clip, which you can see here. In it you can see how the light starts orange, fades to white, and then returns to red:
vimeo.com/leftquark/firefalls2016.
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Nikon D800 w/Sigma 150-600mm f/5-6.3:
200mm, f/11, 1/40 sec, ISO 640
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Yellow China Orchid
These flowers appear after a fire and only flower for one or two years. This was the second year flower and was much paler yellow than the previous year when we first saw it here.
Photo: Jean
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This Little Green Heron appears to know that I have him in the sights of my camera. But he wants me to know he is watching me!
What appears to be mist, is actually the waves, and the result of a 17 second exposure. The long exposure was achieved using a Neutral Density filter. The little carbon fibre tripod that I like to use with my Leica works well for most things. It's not the best choice for shots like this, in fact I tend to think I'd be better off with one of my two heaviest tripods. There was quite a bit of wind, and many shots didn't turn out.
The photo itself was processed in Capture One v21, with minor cleanup on the lower right with Adobe Photoshop.
I went to Paris recently and found over 100+ photos while sifting through a flea market. The woman selling them appeared to have no connection to them whatsoever, which saddened me. All of the photos are black and white and from the 1950s. I wanted to do something to remember the original photographer (who remains unidentified) and all of the subjects and landscapes throughout time.)
If you are a Chicago native and you are interested in doing this project, please send me an email at kirstiecat@gmail.com with N'oublie Pas as the subject line. I am asking for people to come up with one sentence or more when they choose a photograph of how or why they connect with the photograph. There are over 100+ photographs to choose from and they vary between European landscapes and candids of family and friends. You will be able to keep the photograph you choose. Each portrait will be made into a multiple exposure photograph that you will also receive a high res version of. It is my opinion that this may make some French ghosts happy to know they are not forgotten.
For my part, my friend LIndsey Best took this photograph of me yesterday and I did the multiple exposure components last night. The photograph I am holding (upside down I might add) is one of a landscape with two small people off in the distance.
I often wake up wondering how I can make the world a better place. I try so hard to do this on a daily basis. And yet, I am overwhelmed quite honestly by the vastness of this place called The World and how small we are, even when we are together with someone we love. In some ways, this means that the terrible people don't really make all that much of an impact, either, I suppose.
At the same time, I often think that everything you do does have an effect, even if the mountains and the valleys disagree. When I behold the finite, aging Earth, I think of an old woman with gorgeous wrinkled skin. I want to care for her and all her children, too. I want to try to do my best even if I'm one person and it doesn't matter all that much.
Don't forget about the people you love every day. Don't forget about this fragile old thing we walk on.
Don't Forget. N'oublie Pas
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Bartlettina sordida, with the common names Purple torch and Blue mist flower, is endemic to cloud forest habitats in Mexico. It was formerly classified in the genus Eupatorium. The plant is an evergreen, erect shrub, growing to 2.4 m tall and 1.2 m wide. Bartlettina sordida has reddish-purple branches clothed in slightly rough, dark green leaves with prominent venation and paler undersides. The leaves are very large, up to 25 cm long and 20 cm wide. The inflorescence is a terminal corymbose panicle, 20–30 cm across. The large clusters of scented flowers appear in spring, mauve to lilac to magenta-blue in color. The clusters have a bursting fireworks appearance. The seed has a fluffy pappus and is easily dispersed by wind. R_16517
Tiny coneflower just starting to appear. Only about 1 inch across. Very shallow DOF, Depth of Flower. :) This photo was to be next to closeup of the coneflower posted earlier but didn't load then for some reason so posting now. Looking forward to bees, butterflies, green bees and other insects on them later.
It appears our summer yard crew flew south yesterday. We should still see some migrants, but I will miss the regulars. Safe travels little ones!
A witch appears to be screaming out into space in this new image from NASA's Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. The infrared portrait shows the Witch Head nebula, named after its resemblance to the profile of a wicked witch. Astronomers say the billowy clouds of the nebula, where baby stars are brewing, are being lit up by massive stars. Dust in the cloud is being hit with starlight, causing it to glow with infrared light, which was picked up by WISE's detectors.
The Witch Head nebula is estimated to be hundreds of light-years away in the Orion constellation, just off the famous hunter's knee.
WISE was recently "awakened" to hunt for asteroids in a program called NEOWISE. The reactivation came after the spacecraft was put into hibernation in 2011, when it completed two full scans of the sky, as planned.
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission.
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I have not added any color to this, it really is this color! The top looks like velvet doesn't it? It has rained here again and we need to go back to Beman park to see if the blue mushrooms are blooming, yes they really do have blue mushrooms there!! Nature is so full of surprises if you look Have a wonderful weekend my friends and thanks for stopping by!!!!
Eugene Porter as he appears in 'The Walking Dead' Season 6 Finale / Season 7 Premiere.
The torso was erased completely and then painted by me. The head is a modified Gimli head, hair is the CMF wrestler mullet. Dark Blue pants with boots painted on.
Torso took a while to paint but I like how this fig turned out. Was mostly waiting to get the mullet hairpiece to finish the figure.
While trying to prepare my breakfast at 7:30 am, who should appear in the driveway but this bobcat. After a desperate hunt for a camera, I finally managed to fire off five shots through an open window before the cat disappeared into the bush. This is the best of the bunch.
I like to visit zoos, both to see the resident animals, and to see "visiting" animals (namely, birds that fly into the zoo). Boat-tailed Grackles were seen throughout the Naples Zoo in Naples Florida. They were very aggressive and noisy, but they allowed me to get fairly close to them, until I raised my camera.
As with many bird species, the males and females are distinctively different in their colors, which are clearly shown in this picture and the next (in the first comment below). The male is clearly a glossy black, but in strong sunlight it appears an iridescent blue.
The city of Turenum appears for the first time in the Tabula Peutingeriana, a 13th-century copy of an ancient Roman itinerary. The name, also spelled Tirenum, was that of the Greek hero Diomedes. The city was later occupied by the Lombards and the Byzantines. First certain news of an urban settlement in Trani, however, trace back only to the 9th century.
The most flourishing age of Trani was the 11th century, when it became an episcopal see in place of Canosa, destroyed by the Saracens. Its port, well placed for the Crusades, then developed greatly, becoming the most important on the Adriatic Sea. In the year 1063 Trani issued the Ordinamenta et consuetudo maris, which is "the oldest surviving maritime law code of the Latin West". There was also Jewish community in Trani, which was under the protection of the king until it was given to the Archbishop Samarus during the reign of Henry VI at the end of the 12th century. In that period many great families from the main Italian Maritime Republics (Amalfi, Pisa, Ragusa and Venice) established themselves in Trani. Trani, in turn, maintained a consul in Venice from 12th century. The presence of other consulates in many northern Europe centres, even in England and Netherlands, shows Trani's trading and political importance in the Middle Ages. Emperor Frederick II built a massive castle in Trani. Under his rule, in the early 13th century, the city reached its highest point of wealth and prosperity.
There appears to be a good influx of painted ladies this year. It is 10 years since I have seen so many. This is one of a number that over the past couple of days have been basking on the tarmac of the lane.
A short story about what happens when you talk back to your mother. This chick, like most kids, appears to be saying something that his mother does not like. You can view her reaction in the second photo. And in the third photo he seems to say "I'm sorry Mom!". Taken at Cape St. Mary's Ecological Reserve, Newfoundland. 2 more photos are in the comment box.
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A truly magical scene appeared in front of my eyes during this fall, when I had fine conditions in this beautiful wild garden. There were many interesting things going on and it was quite a task to compose this scene. There are smaller and bigger nut trees, a five trunk Himalayan birch tree and the red one could possibly be a royal purple (Roter Perückenstrauch) but I am really not sure.
October 2020 | Niefern-Öschelbronn
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After appearing at Knottingley Open Day the previous day, the DPS's class 55 No. 55009 'Alycidon' worked 6Z55, 15:32 Milford West Sidings to Neville Hill, with DBS class 66/0 No. 66082 and a rake of empty wagons for storage, prior to returning to the NRM, seen here passing Burton Salmon on 29th October 2017.
In 2021 or so, startup vehicle OEM Arrival appeared on the scene with grand plans for battery-electric buses and vans. Its products would be revolutionary and bear no resemblance to those built by existing manufacturers, Arrival said. That indeed proved to be the case, as can be seen by an example of its bus range here.
Further positivity came with news that First Bus was planning to place an order for no fewer than 193 Arrival products for fleets in England as part of its involvement in successful Zero Emission Bus Regional Areas bids. Quite a number of Arrival buses were built, but only one was registered for demonstration purposes as EV22 BUS. The others were used as test vehicles at the MIRA and Idiada centres.
History now shows that Arrival's efforts were a step too far. Later on in 2022 it first announced that the bus project was to be 'paused', before subsequently revealing that its focus was being shifted to vans in North America. First Bus instead placed its order with Wrightbus.
It thus seems that the bus is dead in the water. As a vehicle it was indeed revolutionary, although perhaps a bit too much so for what is generally still a conservative market in the UK. Some elements of it were indicative of a gross lack of on-the-ground knowledge, such as the door arrangement as visible; how is it to open if the driver has stopped without straightening the front wheels? Nonetheless, an interesting - if very brief - part of the UK bus industry's history.
The ultra-diffuse galaxy GAMA 526784 appears as a tenuous patch of light in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This wispy object resides in the constellation Hydra, roughly four billion light-years from Earth. Ultra-diffuse galaxies such as GAMA 526784 have a number of peculiarities. For example, their dark matter content can be either extremely low or extremely high — ultra-diffuse galaxies have been observed with an almost complete lack of dark matter, whereas others consist of almost nothing but dark matter. Another oddity of this class of galaxies is their anomalous abundance of bright globular clusters, something not observed in other types of galaxies.
Hubble captured GAMA 526784 with the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), which was installed in 2002 by astronauts during Hubble Servicing Mission 3B. Since then, the instrument has played a pivotal role in some of Hubble’s most impressive scientific results, including capturing the Hubble Ultra Deep Field. The ACS has also photographed Pluto in advance of the New Horizon mission, observed gargantuan gravitational lenses and found fully formed galaxies in the early Universe.
This image comes from a set of Hubble observations designed to shed light on the properties of ultra-diffuse galaxies. Hubble’s keen vision allowed astronomers to study GAMA 526784 in high resolution at ultraviolet wavelengths, helping to gauge the sizes and ages of the compact star-forming regions studding the galaxy.
Credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. van der Burg; CC BY 4.0
Acknowledgement: L. Shatz
This was taken the other night during our sunset cocktail hour on the terrace. I didn't quite believe my eyes when this cloud formed, but thought it was worth a shot.
It appears to be very difficult to kill off the Pacers. Despite mass withdrawals at the end of last year a number of units look likely to be pressed back into service providing additional capacity whilst social distancing measures are required on public transport.
Although many people were glad to see the back of them this seems to be a sensible decision rather than increasing risk by having overcrowded trains or leaving people standing on the platforms.
Four units worked the 3Z01 ECS from Heaton, where they had been in warm storage, to Newton Heath.
142071 heads 065, 068 and 087 along the Tyne Valley line passing Blaydon signal box.
22nd June 2020.
During very variable weather conditions, this beautiful mountain range appeared out of the fog. Unfortunately, I was not able to easily identify its name. The shot was taken from Fellhorn Middle Station (1885 m).
September 2020 | Oberallgäu
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