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Billions and billions of stars. Well, maybe closer to 100 stick-on foil stars. They have been sitting in my desk drawer for many many years, but they now have an opportunity to shine. This idea came to me immediately upon reading the Stars theme for the week. I tried a few different POV, lighting, and background schemes and came up with a set of four photos that I like. Did I pick the STAR for Macro Mondays? HMM
One Billion Rising is a „must” event for me to attend each year in SL. This year, however, RL kept me so very busy on 14th February that all I could do was to wander around in the already abandoned sims almost a day later, trying to take as many pictures of the amazing artwork and the gardens as I could.
The billions of pounds of cutbacks announced this week by the Tory-Tory Coalition have cost us all way more than an arm and a leg.......no doubt excepting politicians, bankers and offshore tax evaders.
And whilst I'm at it, if I hear one more choreographed politician say the word "FAIR".........................
One Billion Rising is a „must” event for me to attend each year in SL. This year, however, RL kept me so very busy on 14th February that all I could do was to wander around in the already abandoned sims almost a day later, trying to take as many pictures of the amazing artwork and the gardens as I could.
This is my last one in this little Golden Gate Bridge series. By the way: If you were to build the Golden Gate Bridge nowadays, you'd have to spend some 1.2 billion dollars. Imagine that!
TWO BILLION LIGHT-YEARS OF LONELINESS
Human beings on a small sphere
Sleep, get up, and work
And sometimes they want pals from Mars
Martians on a small sphere
What they're doing, I don't know
(Or if they are neriri-ing, kiruru-ing and harara-ing )
But sometimes they want pals from Earth
That much I know
Universal gravitation is
The power of loneliness that pulls things towards each other
The universe is distorted
Therefore, we all desire each other
The universe is steadily expanding
Therefore, everyone is anxious
Facing two billion light-years of loneliness,
I sneezed in spite of myself
—Shuntaro Tanikawa,
Milky Way at Mount Saint Helens last night. I'm not sure which is more abundant, the stars in the night sky or the daisies in the foreground!
Zilvermeeuw - European Herring Gull (Larus argentatus)
on very thin ice, trying to decapitate a barnacle goose carcass.
The quote is by Captain Haddock of course.
It seems I'm not alone at being alone.
I hope that someone gets my ..
Message in a bottle.
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Since I started drumming in 1982, his playing style was my fascination. Stewart Copeland of "The Police" with his innumerable talents to interpret his music.
This picture should be an expression of his influence and a small "thank you Stu, my idol".
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We went to Treasure Island at night to capture the new eastern span of the San Francisco - Oakland Bay Bridge. The eastern span replacement bridge was built between 2002 and 2013 to replace an old steel bridge that was deemed unsafe at earthquakes. It is the most expensive public works project in California history, with an estimated cost of $6.4 billion.
I processed a balanced HDR photo from a RAW long exposure, and pulled the curves to pop the scene.
-- © Peter Thoeny, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, HDR, 1 RAW exposure, NEX-6, _DSC5115_hd1bal1g
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One Billion Stars... or maybe a couple more.
This photo I captured in Namibia's Namib Rand region... more than a few of years ago now... and it's just been sitting here on my hard drive doing nothing since then.
Time to set it FREE!!
Nikon D800, Nikkor 14 -24 mm lens at 15 mm, ISO of 3200, aperture of f/2.8 with a 30 second exposure (and some light painting with a headlamp).
I am always amazed at the number of stars visible in the Milky Way (est. 100 billion) and even more amazed to think that there are fewer stars in our galaxy than the size of the US deficit (over 14 trillion dollars). And even more amazing is that our politicians can't come together with solutions to this "astronomical" problem!
I decided to leave a bit early on my drive to Salmon, Idaho to work for the day. In this image the Milky Way is seen in the western sky rising above the Lemhi Mountains, taken just north of Gilmore Summit. The quarter moon had just risen behind me to give a bit of light to the valley and mountains beyond.
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// A billion twinkling stars try to persuade the viewer to look. A rock emulates the passing dolphins as a shooting star ends its days in stunning magnificence.
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In astrology the conjunction of Moon-Venus indicates when emotions come in touch with pleasure, they tend to create a self-proclaimed personality who loves extravagance.
Neptune would be visible to the left of the Moon with binoculars or a small telescope (4.5 billion km away). Venus is currently about 258 million km away. The Moon is only about 384 thousand km away from us.
Photo taken with Nikon Coolpix P510 bridge camera, zoom at about 350mm telephoto equivalent.
Fossilized Stromatolites from an ancient seafloor that is preserved outside of Saratoga Springs. An amazing testament to the age of the earth and the fleetingness of our existence here. I'm always reminded of this quote when I contemplate things like this:
"We are used to believing that we’re the masters of our domain, and that God has given us this earth to rule over. We need this illusion like a good night-light. The truth is more fearsome: we are as frail as young trees in tornadoes, and our beloved homes are one flood away from driftwood. We plant our roots in trembling earth, we live where mountains rose and fell and prehistoric seas burned away in mist. We and the towns we have built are not permanent; the earth itself is a passing train. When you stand in muddy water that is rising toward your waist and you hear people shouting against the darkness and see their figures struggling to hold back the currents that will not be denied, you realize the truth of it: we will not win, but we cannot give up.”
-Robert McCammon
Cosmic Dust Ritual
My Interplanetary Memories
Interplanetary Travel
I was watching the sunset under a red cosmic dust cloud when I took this photo. I was sitting in silence enjoying this unique view in the sky. It was a moment when I felt very, very lucky. I had not yet given a name to this nebula I had just discovered. Instead of naming this nebula, I decided to savor the moment. A nebula or nebula is a nebula structure in space made up of cosmic dust, hydrogen, helium, and other ionized gases spread over vast areas. They were the remains of a dying star. Even billions of years old stars can have an end. When I think about it, a shudder takes over my body. While the concept of the end sometimes causes peace and excitement in me, the concept of the end sometimes causes fear in me. A concept that can put you in volatile moods is the ending. Maybe I should stop thinking about the end. But I still can't stop myself from thinking about my end. There is a result that I have experienced with nebulas and which surprised me quite a bit. I always felt a tremendous sense of peace in the face of all the cosmic dust landscapes I encountered. I was able to sleep better at night. And when I woke up, I felt that my whole body was completely relaxed. The dreams I had when I slept under the cosmic dust were also different. At night, I had dreams that made me happy and did not tire my mind. I discovered that cosmic dust causes positive results in the human body and soul. However, I have never measured it scientifically. It was just an observational discovery. Even thinking about those moments gives me peace right now. Again, I can't wait to encounter a cosmic dust landscape, the nebula.
Camera: Canon EOS Kiss X7i
Photograph by Yusuf Alioglu
Location: Outer space (space)
Planet Earth is 4.5 billion years old. Mankind is about 140 thousand years old. If we compress the Earth's existence into a normal full day of 24 hours, then we’ve been on this planet for... 2.5 seconds.
In 2.5 seconds we’ve become the dominant species with a rapidly growing population, causing a catastrophic impact on the environment. We have created the industrial revolution and burned fossil fuels creating more carbon in the atmosphere than ever before. We have caused global warming at a record pace, endangering our own existence. We have cut trees and destroyed forests more than ever before, polluted air, water, and soil. We have created an island of waste, the size of the state of Texas, in the middle of the ocean. We have caused the 4th mass animal extinction. Three-quarters of Earth’s land surface is under pressure from human activity. In just 2.5 seconds we’ve turned the planet into our own personal factory.
It took almost 4.5 billion years of evolution for us to exist and we have changed so much in so little time.
The problem is us. And it is up to us if we want to make it to the 4th second.
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With my project “2.5 seconds” I hope to bring awareness about climate change, to start a conversation about the issue and to educate more people about the facts, the urgency of the crisis and the seriousness of its consequences. The project is a series of photographs that highlight the environmental crisis through metaphors and symbolism. Each one of them illustrates and represents a specific environmental issue using allegorical figures and subjects, props, costumes and natural landscapes.
I used “2.5 seconds” as a title because I wanted to invoke the power of numbers and perspective to create a strong, straightforward and shocking effect.
It all started with an idea I had almost 3 years ago. I have always loved nature, and have been both amazed and captivated by our planet’s beauty. I've traveled to many places before, but none of them could compare to what I felt and saw in Iceland. Visiting Iceland for the first time had a great impact on me and made me realize that our planet is fragile and its beauty may disappear. The thought that nature is being affected and destroyed by the changing climate became personal, shocking and upsetting. I wanted to capture and preserve Iceland's incredible beauty through my art while I still can.
The pressure from human activity is having a catastrophic impact on the environment that endangers our own existence. But I feel like ecology problems that are threatening our environment and affecting everyone on the planet do not get enough media attention.
I am using photography as my unique voice to express how I feel and share my fear for the future. I want to bring more meaning to my work and create a strong message for all the people out there. I hope my art will be louder and clearer than words.
The time to act is now.
Death Valley National Park is an American national park that straddles the California–Nevada border, east of the Sierra Nevada. The park boundaries include Death Valley, the northern section of Panamint Valley, the southern section of Eureka Valley and most of Saline Valley.
The park occupies an interface zone between the arid Great Basin and Mojave deserts, protecting the northwest corner of the Mojave Desert and its diverse environment of salt-flats, sand dunes, badlands, valleys, canyons and mountains.
Death Valley is the largest national park in the contiguous United States, as well as the hottest, driest and lowest of all the national parks in the United States. It contains Badwater Basin, the second-lowest point in the Western Hemisphere and lowest in North America at 282 feet below sea level. More than 93% of the park is a designated wilderness area.
The park is home to many species of plants and animals which have adapted to the harsh desert environment including creosote bush, Joshua tree, bighorn sheep, coyote, and the endangered Death Valley pupfish, a survivor from much wetter times. UNESCO included Death Valley as the principal feature of its Mojave and Colorado Deserts Biosphere Reserve in 1984.
A series of Native American groups inhabited the area from as early as 7000 BC, most recently the Timbisha around 1000 AD who migrated between winter camps in the valleys and summer grounds in the mountains. A group of European-Americans, lost in the valley in 1849 while looking for a shortcut to the gold fields of California, gave this valley its grim name, even though only one of their group died there.
Several short-lived boom towns sprang up during the late 19th and early 20th centuries to mine gold and silver. The only long-term profitable ore to be mined was borax, which was transported out of the valley with twenty-mule teams. The valley later became the subject of books, radio programs, television series, and movies. Tourism expanded in the 1920s when resorts were built around Stovepipe Wells and Furnace Creek. Death Valley National Monument was declared in 1933 and the park was substantially expanded and became a national park in 1994.
The natural environment of the area has been shaped largely by its geology. The valley is actually a graben with the oldest rocks being extensively metamorphosed and at least 1.7 billion years old. Ancient, warm, shallow seas deposited marine sediments until rifting opened the Pacific Ocean. Additional sedimentation occurred until a subduction zone formed off the coast. The subduction uplifted the region out of the sea and created a line of volcanoes. Later the crust started to pull apart, creating the current Basin and Range landform. Valleys filled with sediment and, during the wet times of glacial periods, with lakes, such as Lake Manly.
Death Valley is the fifth-largest American national park and the largest in the contiguous United States. It is also larger than the states of Rhode Island and Delaware combined, and nearly as large as Puerto Rico. In 2013, Death Valley National Park was designated as a dark sky park by the International Dark-Sky Association.
A brilliant sunrise at Palm Beach Yacht Club, West Palm Beach Florida.
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Vasco da Gama Bridge is 17km (11 miles) long (10km/6 miles of which pass over water), making it the longest bridge in Europe when it opened in 1998 and still today one of the longest in the world (it has the same length as the road-rail tunnel-bridge linking Denmark and Sweden).
Its vastness forced engineers to factor in the curvature of the Earth during its construction. That makes it a superb feat of engineering, made up of several sections supported by pillars, built at a cost of one billion US dollars.
This image is included in a gallery "Paesaggi 24" curated by
Stefano Bacci.
The Hopewell Rocks are located in New Brunswick, Canada, within one hour of the nearest airport in Moncton, N.B.
An UNESCO site, the Hopewell Rocks, also called the Flowerpots Rocks or simply The Rocks, are rock formations caused by tidal erosion in The Hopewell Rocks Ocean Tidal Exploration Site in New Brunswick. Carved by melting glaciers, then sculpted by the world's highest and most artistic tides, these stacks stand 40–70 feet tall. They are located on the shores of the upper reaches of the Bay of Fundy at Hopewell Cape near Moncton.
Due to the extreme tidal range of the Bay of Fundy, the base of the formations are covered in water twice a day. The formations consist of dark sedimentary conglomerate and sandstone rock. The large volume of water flowing in to and out of the Bay of Fundy modifies the landscape surrounding it. Each day 160 billion tonnes of seawater flows in and out of the Bay of Fundy during one tide cycle, more than the combined flow of the world’s freshwater rivers! After the retreat of the glaciers in the region following the last ice age, surface water filtering through cracks in the cliff has eroded and separated the formations from the rest of the cliff face. Meanwhile, advancing and retreating tides and the associated waves have eroded the base of the rocks at a faster rate than the tops, resulting in their unusual shapes.
Because the Fundy Bay is funnel-shaped - wide and deep at one end and shallow at the other, tides are pushed increasingly higher as they move up the Bay. By the time they reach "The Rocks" they are over four stories high! Although the tides vary from day to day, the high tide can be as high as 16 metres (52ft) and an average of 10.7 metres (35ft), giving the Hopewell Rocks one of the highest average tides in the world.
We only had barely over an hour's time there because the tide was coming in very fast. Luckily the light was reasonably good.
Billions and billions of stars. Well, maybe closer to 100 stick-on foil stars. They have been sitting in my desk drawer for many many years, but they now have an opportunity to shine. This idea came to me immediately upon reading the Stars theme for the week. I tried a few different POV, lighting, and background schemes and came up with a set of four photos that I like. Did I pick the STAR for Macro Mondays? HMM
Billions of shiny stars all across the the winter night sky during our last all-night photo trip to the mountains with my friend recently. It was an awesome nice & clear night to shoot the starry sky, however it was -8°C all night, still we decided to stay till morning, because of the view.. (*.*)
Edition #3
Down in the Grand Canyon
Powerful river and a powerful song.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JWTaaS7LdU
Interestingly, this video is closing in on 1 Billion views.
A court in Ecuador has found Chevron guilty of massive environmental pollution and human rights violations in the Amazon, and has ordered the company to pay $8 billion to clean it up. But Chevron has vowed to appeal the decision, and clearly plans to stall indefinitely, hoping never to pay its due. So the Change Chevron team got together with our friends and allies at Amazon Watch, Greenpeace, Global Exchange, and Communities for a Better Environment (of Richmond, CA) headed down to Chevron’s HQ in San Ramon, CA, and delivered a message to the company: Chevron was found guilty because the company is guilty. Time to accept responsibility and clean up the oily mess in Ecuador!
If you want to send your own message to Chevron, go to ChevronIsGuilty.org.
The Seto Ohashi was completed in 1988 and is still the world’s longest two-tiered bridge, accommodating both cars and trains. It connects Okayama and Kagawa prefectures across a series of five small islands in the Seto Inland Sea.
It took ten years to complete at a cost of US$7 billion; 3.646 million cubic meters (128.8 million cubic feet) of concrete and 705,000 tons of steel were used in construction. Although nets, ropes and other safety measures were employed, 13 workers were killed during the 10 years of construction. The bridge opened to road and rail traffic on April 10, 1988.
The other day, she asked me, "Mom, how many people are there in the world?"
So I answered, "I think it's about 7 billion."
To which she replied, "Oh, okay. But does that number include me?"
LOL :)
Seven Billion Dreams. One Planet. Consume with Care.
Photo was taken at Purakkad Allapuzha Kerala.
This place had a beautiful sand beach two years back. Now its gone and a stone wall is built to prevent land erosion.
The Elephant's Trunk Nebula is a concentration of interstellar gas and dust within the much larger ionized gas region IC 1396 located in the constellation Cepheus about 2,400 light years away from Earth.[1] The piece of the nebula shown here is the dark, dense globule IC 1396A; it is commonly called the Elephant's Trunk nebula because of its appearance at visible light wavelengths, where there is a dark patch with a bright, sinuous rim. The bright rim is the surface of the dense cloud that is being illuminated and ionized by a very bright, massive star (HD 206267) that is just to the east of IC 1396A. The entire IC 1396 region is ionized by the massive star, except for dense globules that can protect themselves from the star's harsh ultraviolet rays.
The Elephant's Trunk Nebula is now thought to be a site of star formation, containing several very young (less than 100,000 yr) stars that were discovered in infrared images in 2003. Two older (but still young, a couple of million years, by the standards of stars, which live for billions of years) stars are present in a small, circular cavity in the head of the globule. Winds from these young stars may have emptied the cavity.
The combined action of the light from the massive star ionizing and compressing the rim of the cloud, and the wind from the young stars shifting gas from the center outward lead to very high compression in the Elephant's Trunk Nebula. This pressure has triggered the current generation of protostars.
Equipment used
William Optics GT81 IV - 0.8x focal reducer
Optolong L Xtreme Filter
EQ6R Pro Mount
ASIAIR Pro
ZWO EAF
ZWO Mini Guidescope and Camera
ZWO 2600MC Camera Cooled to -10c
28 x 600 Second exposures
30 x flats
Stacked and processed in Pixinsight
Bortle 6 backyard
"For a billion years the patient earth amassed documents and inscribed them with signs and pictures which lay unnoticed and unused. Today, at last, they are waking up, because man has come to rouse them. Stones have begun to speak, because an ear is there to hear them. Layers become history and, released from the enchanted sleep of eternity, life's motley, never-ending dance rises out of the black depths of the past into the light of the present."
— Hans Cloos
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This shot was taken at Valley of Fire State Park, Nevada (USA)
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The moon was about to rise, so the sky wasn't quite as dark as I would have liked. But it did light up the distant clouds just enough.
Sony A7RIII with Laowa 15mm f2 zero-D lens, ISO 1,000, 15 sec., f2.
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