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Alfred duPonte named the estate Nemours, after the French town that his great-great-grandfather represented in the French Estates General. While looking to the past and his ancestors for inspiration, Alfred also ensured that his new home was thoroughly modern by incorporating the latest technology and many of his own inventions.
OK, Judy. Forget everything I said about making wild colors in LR. Here are the keys to the Color Kingdom!
Download the Nik Collection free from Google. When you open it, the installation will ask you if you want it to open in LR. Say yes.
Then find some photo, any photo that you like in LR, and go to Photos in the menu bar. Drop down to Edit in, and select Color EFX pro 4. The image will open up in NIK, and then just play around and see what happens. If you get something wild that you like, hit SAVE and it will open up in LR. From there, you can do everything we have been doing with the tone curve and all the sliders. There are about 60 billion more colors this way. I will never sleep again!
The oldest operating McDonald's restaurant is a drive-up hamburger stand at 10207 Lakewood Blvd. at Florence Ave. in Downey, California, USA. It was the third McDonald's restaurant, and opened on August 18, 1953. It was the second restaurant franchised by Richard and Maurice McDonald, prior to the involvement of Ray Kroc in the company, and it still has the two original 30-ft (9-m) "Golden Arches" and a 60-ft (18-m) animated neon "Speedee" sign that was added in 1959. The restaurant is now the oldest in the chain still in existence and is one of Downey's main tourist attractions. Along with its sign, it was deemed eligible for addition to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984, although it was not added because the owner objected.
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The night sky as seen from Mt. Chelmos, Greece
Nikon D800 - Sigma 35mm f/1.4 Art @ f/4
60 sec (2 exposures) - ISO 1600
Vixen Polarie Star Tracker
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Joyce’s dad had an old paperback anthology of science fiction stories that had within its pages a novelette by Isaac Asimov from 1941, Nightfall. It concerns the inhabitants of the planet Lagash, part of a multi-star solar system and, as such, never experiences night since there is always at least one sun in the sky. Historians, psychologists, and scientists on the planet are worried about an impending event that causes the entirety of civilization to lose their minds and burn the planet… every 2,200 years, the planet’s people experience the total eclipse of its suns and see nightfall — and thousands of stars — for the first time. “They've got to have light. They've got to burn something, and wood isn't handy — so they'll burn whatever is nearest. They'll have their light — and every center of habitation goes up in flames!” Learning that the universe is far vaster and Lagash far more insignificant than they believed, coupled with the worldwide darkness produced by the eclipse, drives everyone, including the scientists, insane. Survivors are left to rebuild civilization until the next eclipse.
Does this story seem silly to you? It was written while the world was in the darkness of war in two theaters on land, in the air, and on and in the sea. The world would witness the incredible destructiveness of nuclear weapons then for the first time. Intended to be so fearsome as to end war for all time, the secret of fission got out, and ‘the bomb’ became the folly of the Cold War. After the war, folks came back to what was left to them… for some, ‘home’ would never be the same.
Unlike the inhabitants of Lagash, I find spiritual solace in the darkness here at Bodie Island. In the 22-seconds the camera shutter stayed open for this image, more is revealed in the night sky than the eye can see... and the eye can see a lot here. You can see the easternmost band of our own galaxy, the Milky Way here. The bright spot just left of the lantern room of the Bodie Island Lighthouse is the Andromeda galaxy, with its light shining from over 2.5 million light years away. The clouds are picking up the light from the nearby U.S. Coastguard Station and marina.
I see the vastness beyond what connects me here, and I have questions. Job had questions. God had questions for Job concerning these stars: “Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades? Can you loosen Orion’s belt?” When God answers your questions with questions, it means answers are already within you. Our world is all but on fire now. I wonder what questions God has for me. I may be one light among billions... so might you be. Pray tell.
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Brickell City Centre is a $1.05 billion shopping and mixed-use project in Miami, Florida. When finished, it will span up to five blocks to the west of Brickell Avenue and to the south of the Miami River, in the Brickell district of Greater Downtown. It will be anchored by a 107,000 square-foot Saks Fifth Avenue, Cinemex, and Italian food hall. The project is located between 7th and 8th Streets on both sides of South Miami Avenue and east of South Miami Ave on the north side of 7th Street. Additionally, it may expand to develop two more blocks that Swire already owns at 700 Brickell Avenue and SE 6 Street.
The large project was first proposed during the real estate bubble of the 2000s, but then cancelled during the economic downturn. It was revived in 2012 with enough acreage to qualify for Special Area Plan (SAP) zoning, with construction beginning by years' end. The hotel and residential towers, as well as some office space, opened in 2016, with phased retail openings in November 2016. A phase two may begin construction in 2017. Contrary to the name, the development is not in the traditional downtown Miami city centre, but in the more recently redeveloped Brickell financial district.
the dunes look quite a bit different at night
not that I'm saying I got lost or anything
they're just very very different
mm hmm
Captued at this Chalet in Tekapo New Zealand , 19th March 2018.
The3 pane mosaci showing Southern Cross, Alpha Centauri and Carina Nebula
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The $4 billion Oculus station house, designed by the Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, consists of white ribs that interlock high above the ground. The interior of the station house contains two underground floors, which house part of the Westfield World Trade Center mall. The transportation hub connects the various modes of transportation in Lower Manhattan, from the Fulton Center in the east to the Battery Park City Ferry Terminal in the west, and includes connections to various New York City Subway stations. It is the fifth-busiest transportation hub in the New York metropolitan area.
Poem.
Is it the three billion-year-old, rounded hills of Lewisian Gneiss?
Is it the successive coves of pink sand?
Is it the wild combination of tumbling rivers and rocky ravines?
Is it the alternating groves of ancient dwarf oak and coniferous forest?
Could it be the alluring appeal of azure waters blending to turquoise as they reveal the sandy sea-bed of a shallow bay?
What about the beckoning heights of Beinn Ghobhlach, Sàil Mhòr and An Teallach forming such an intricate mountain backcloth?
Is it the acute arrows of intervening headlands?
Consider the distant panorama of the endearing Summer Isles!
Or is it the sheltering sand dunes fringed by the winding and scenic coastal road?
Yes, it all of these.
But this coastline has a majesty, a beauty, an aura beyond my words.
Does that matter?
No.
See it.
Feel it.
Hear it.
You will understand without words.
For like me, words will fail to express how magical a place this is.
But magical it most certainly is!
billions of us
some are happy, some sad
(a moment ago)
some lost, some found
(right now)
some overwhelmed, some numb
(a moment from now)
on the same road
why do we seem
miles apart
The subcontinent receives billions of winter migrants; including a large number of shorebird species such as this Black-tailed Godwit. Barkheda.
It was an extremely clear night last night so I thought I would do some night photography.
Sort of liked this one.
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When you live in the desert and it rains and a little yellow flower pops in your water conservative rock filled yard, you think oh cool. Then when it rains again a week later and two more little yellow flowers pop up in your water conservative rock filled yard, you think oh how nice. Then a few weeks later it happens to rain one more time and you blink then there are about 5 billion of those damn little yellow flowered weeds sporting up EVERYWHERE, you think D'oh!
View grabbing a trash bag and prepared to do some weeding. Oh yeah, you're coming over ... I've got beer.
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Postojna Cave
(Slovene: Postojnska jama; German: Adelsberger Grotte; Italian: Grotte di Postumia) is a 20,5 km long Karst cave system near Postojna, Slovenia. It is the longest cave system in the country as well as one of its top tourism sites
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This beautiful Picture of the Week shows the magnificent Milky Way stretching over the Very Large Telescope (VLT) at ESO’s Paranal Observatory, demonstrating the astounding level of detail visible in the night sky from this remote site in the Chilean Atacama Desert.
At Paranal, the star-studded Milky Way is so bright that on a dark night it can cast shadows of the people and objects beneath it! This image shows countless stars, dark lanes of dust, and glowing clouds of celestial gas. These clouds are sites of star formation; energetic radiation emanating from newborn stars ionizes the hydrogen in the gas clouds, causing them to glow a rosy red. Below the Milky Way is the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy orbiting the Milky Way.
The night sky is observed every night by the world’s most advanced optical observatory the VLT. This telescope is actually made up of four Unit Telescopes, all of which can be seen in this image, and four smaller moveable Auxiliary Telescopes (one of which can been in the distance to the left of the foreground Unit Telescope). Each Unit Telescope has a main mirror measuring 8.2 metres in diameter, and is able to see objects four billion times fainter than those we can see with the unaided eye. Just imagine what the VLT can see in this glorious night sky!
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P. Horálek/ESO
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This is an image that I have wanted to take for a very, very long time, and I finally got the opportunity to realise this during a recent trip to Cooroy in the Sunshine Coast hinterland. Previous attempts were always interrupted by any number of factors such as the weather, moon cycle, or cloud cover, coupled with a complete lack of knowledge about how to best capture this given ISO sensitivity, camera noise, focusing, and the constant rotation of the night sky.
My fascination with space developed when I was a small boy with dreams to become an astronaut. Begin colour blind brought this to an abrupt end, however I never stopped star gazing when I got the chance.
The image's apparent simplicity hides the 270 individual photos that have gone into producing it, and while there are no vistas or foregrounds in which this is placed, I think it is capable of standing alone quite magnificently without the need to have those other elements.
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Carl Sagan never actually said 'billions and billions' in 'The Cosmos', but after being misquoted so many times, he did use it as the title for his last book. (Mis)quotes aside, there sure are a lot of stars up there to be seen if you can escape the city lights. This was shot looking straight up at the core of the Milky Way above Bondleigh House.
For 5 years now, people in SL have supported the One Billion Rising campaign to bring awareness to just how many women and girls are subject to violence and sexual abuse. One in three women are subjected to this treatment so that means that someone you know has been a victim of this. It could be a neighbor, a friend, a co-worker, a spouse, a relative, that girl that waits on you at your favourite restaurant, the woman that takes your ticket at a movie theater, the girl that checks you into a hotel, that girl that rings your items through in a grocery store.... the list is endless. This abuse knows know race or religion or skin color. Every woman from any country can be subjected to it. And now is our chance to say "NO MORE".
In SL the One Billion Rising Sims have been set up for February 14 th only.
Here is where to go to join in supporting this cause:
One Billion Rising Unite maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/OBR%20Unite/75/75/24
One Billion Rising Rise
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One Billion Rising Dance maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/OBR%20Dance/84/172/23
You can get the t-shirt and the signs at the Unite sim as well as other gifts.
The t-shirt comes from Ghee and there is another exclusive version at their main store:
maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Qeestein/141/91/1501
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Ghee Blog:
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Information about the One Billion Rising charity on a global level
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This is a “classic column”, something that falls from the sky by the billions or more in the right conditions. So small and un-snowflake-like that you might not even notice, but please… view large!
At temperatures between about -5C and -10C, with the right levels of humidity (the Goldilocks zone of not too high, not too low), you get hollow columns forming. This outwardly simple shape is actually quite complex inside, usually in the form of bubbles and surface textures.
It’s easy to see just by looking at this “snowflake” that there are more parallel lines than there are edges to a hexagonal prism. These extra lines come in two forms, the first of which is surface ridges. The outer sides of these crystals do not grow completely flat – the outer edges grow faster than the inner areas, which frame rectangular indentations in the ice. These may echo multiple times on all sides, which adds up to a bit of visual chaos.
What’s more interesting, however, is the bubbles inside the ice. The indentations on the outside and the bubbles trapped inside are caused by the same rule in physics: whatever sticks out the farthest, grows the fastest. The center of any crystal will grow slower than the edges, which are closer to the incoming supply of water vapour. Because the snowflake is growing faster along the prism facets, the basal facets (the ends) allow for larger indentations to form into cavities, which eventually close back up to form bubbles. The largest of which are easy to spot. See the bullet-shaped curved lines in the middle? Bubbles. Any curved line on the interior of this structure is likely belonging to a bubble. There are two main hour-glass shapes plus a few extras in different areas to keep things interesting, complex, and beautiful.
I have the opportunity to photograph hundreds if not thousands of these, but many are so similar that I don’t give them enough attention. The details and uniqueness is more internal, but compare one to another and you’ll never find two the same.
If you’d like to know more about the science of snowflakes with an exhaustive and comprehensive tutorial on how to photograph and edit these little gems, check out my book Sky Crystals:
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By Brian Bandell – Senior Reporter, South Florida Business Journal
Mar 10, 2019, 9:35am EDT Updated Mar 11, 2019, 3:49pm EDT
The first building in the 27-acre Miami Worldcenter project has opened as the Caoba apartments is welcoming its new residents.
The $4 billion project is transforming the north side of downtown Miami, bringing economic activity and pedestrian traffic to the area. Falcone Group and CIM Group, along with master developer Miami Worldcenter Associates, have completed the 444-unit Caoba, which means mahogany in Spanish, as the tree in what will soon become a dense forest of development.
See the gallery and video for a tour of the 44-story Caoba at 698 N.E. 1st Ave.
Units in Caoba range from 500 to 1,300 start feet. Rent starts from $1,775 for a studio, $3,000 for a two-bedroom unit, or $4,100 for a three-bedroom unit. The apartments come with stainless steel appliances, both showers and bathtubs, and lots of cabinet storage space in the kitchens. Most of the units have open floor plans.
Its 10th floor amenity deck includes a clubroom with a kitchen and ovens, a bar, a game room with billiards and foosball, a large pool deck with cabanas, grilling stations, and a 5,000-square-foot fitness room with a full set of weights and cardio machines. There’s a dog run on the fifth floor.
The building is west of American Airlines Arena and east of the Brightline passenger rail station, which takes riders to Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach. The developer closed off Northwest 7th Street to traffic and made it a pedestrian pathway, lined by fountains and trees, so people can walk from the train to the arena. There is 20,000 square feet of retail on the ground level, both facing the street and the pedestrian path.
“It’s a nice seating environment and kids will love it,” said Nitin Motwani, managing principal of Miami Worldcenter Associates.
The architect was Cohen Freedman Encinosa & Associates, while the general contractors was Coastal Tishman Construction. Caoba is managed by Bozzuto.
A second phase of Caoba is planned at the opposite end of its parking garage, but that has yet to break ground.
“It’s all about creating a great environment where people are comfortable coming down and having fun,” Motwani said.
Meanwhile, the 60-story Paramount Miami Worldcenter with 569 condos and a parking structure with 140,000 square feet of retail are currently under construction. Motwani said the condo should be completed in the second quarter. Miami Worldcenter Associates recently hired Miami-based Comras Co. to broker the retail leasing, joining national retail experts the Forbes Co. and Taubman Centers.
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Went to the billionaire's beach today!
Single exposure with Lee 0.9H grad ND.
Photo @ 4:53pm
Sunset @ 5:04pm
-0.82 minus tide @ 5:29pm
A Hundred Billion | Valley Catholic Church, Watsonville, California | How precious are Your thoughts about me, O God. They cannot be numbered! Psalm 139:17
Inspired by my recent holiday to Menorca Spain .
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Sea of Stars, Billions and Billions of Stars!
The DSLR pointed at part of the constellation Scorpius and Lupus from a dark Desert sky in the Southern Hemisphere.
"Cosmic Latte", the color of the Universe.
I enjoy shooting wider DSLR Lens views when I am capturing closer detail with my Telescope. Even though a 105mm Lens only shows a fraction of the observable night sky, the "Cosmic Latte" theory does seem to start becoming apparent the wider you go. Research shows that the average colour of the Universe is Beige, and this is referred to as Cosmic Latte.
More about Cosmic Latte:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_latte
“The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is our tiny planetary home." - Carl Sagan.
Details:
7 x 3 min exposures at ISO 1600.
Lens Stopped Down to f/4.
Gear:
Nikon D750.
AF-S VR Micro-Nikkor 105mm f/2.8G IF-ED.
Hahnel Giga T Pro II 2.4GHz Wireless Remote for Nikon.
Celestron AVX Mount.
Astrometry Info:
Center RA, Dec: 249.940, -42.519
Center RA, hms: 16h 39m 45.500s
Center Dec, dms: -42° 31' 08.484"
Size: 19.7 x 13.2 deg
Radius: 11.842 deg
Pixel scale: 44.3 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: Up is 175 degrees E of N
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Dig it out of the ground. Pump it into a tanker. Ship it half way around the planet. Put the enviornment in jeapordy. Place it in a truck. Pump it back into the ground. Pump in out of the ground and into your car. Drive it around as it sloshes around in the tank of your car. Burn it in your engine. Spit it out your exhaust pipe. Evaporate it into the atmosphere. Eat up all the oxygen in the air. Start more wars to ensure supplies. Spend billions and billions and billions. Kill millions. Cause global warming. Spend trillions cleaning up the mess.
OR. Drive with Biodiesel. Which makes more sense to you?
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