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A macro view of a collection of glass beads. The frame represents a span of two-inches from top to bottom.
Strobist info:
The scene was illuminated by two Nikon SB900 speedlights positioned at 9- and 3-o'clock, 20-inches above and two-feet away from the beads. They were fired in Manual mode @ ¼ -power through Neewer 24" x 24" soft boxes.
The speedlights were triggered by three PocketWizard Plus X flash triggers.
Lens: Meyer Optik Görlitz Oreston (zebra) f1.8/50mm with a 36mm extension tube attached.
Dedicated to Paul Ewing and Catness Grace for sparking the idea.
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Guarini's dome on the Capella della Sindone in the Palazzo Reale in Turin . Magnificently restored in the decades after the terrible fire of 1997.
"There is something entirely Gargantuan in the idea of economising space by piling houses on top of each other, front doors and all. And in the chaos and complexity of those perpendicular streets anything may dwell or happen..."
G.K Chesterton.... "The Club of Queer Trades."
Well, the eggs chase the bacon round the fryin' pan
And the whinin' dog pigeons by the steeple bell rope
And the dogs tipped the garbage pails over last night
And there's always construction work bothering you
In the neighbourhood
--Tom Waits
66750 ‘Bristol Panel Signal Box’ approaches Kentish Town West in North London with 6O69, the 1429 Ferme Park to Dollands Moor.
To the right the landmarks of the City of London are clearly visible, including 30 St Mary Axe (‘The Gherkin’) and 20 Fenchurch Street (‘The Walkie-Talkie’). In the middle the skyscrapers of Docklands are visible, including 1 Canada Square. The hills of the North Downs can be glimpsed in the far distance.
Just above the locomotive is the Church of the Holy Trinity with St Barnabas, built in 1849-1850. The church predates the railway at this location, the railway being opened in 1860 by the North London Railway.
The railways of North London are busy with a variety of freight traffic, being dominated by intermodal traffic from Felixstowe and the London Gateway. However, this train is not what it seems: it is a train of barrier wagons used to convey new Siemens-built EMUs from Krefeld in Germany. A photograph of this train in Northern France (albeit a few weeks after this image was captured) is visible here: 2.bp.blogspot.com/-MfEnYMTNJdA/W_RE5BQQiaI/AAAAAAABzDQ/Nl...
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The rail routes from Barking and Stratford to Clapham Junction are used to provide an intensive passenger service with sub-10-minute headways and frequent station stops over much of the distance. However, a large number of freight trains (at least, by British standards) are interleaved between the passenger trains with the further constraint of numerous flat junctions. Despite the volume of trains and the complexity of operation, the North London lines provide a far more reliable service than other, less busy lines in the UK.
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Persino un piccolo ruscello che rimbalza sulle rocce è un sistema incredibilmente difficile da descrivere da un punto di vista fisico e deterministico... eppure, sembra la cosa più semplice e banale da guardare ed ammirare.
Meraviglia del nostro universo.
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in the cool shadows beneath palma de mallorca's majestic cathedral la seu, a couple walks hand in hand through ancient stone archways. the interplay of light and darkness paints their figures in a striking contrast, suggesting an intimacy that invites reflection. how often do we glance at such a scene and assume happiness? yet, appearances can be deceiving, and the delicate balance of emotions within a relationship remains unseen. this moment, frozen in time, questions our perceptions and reminds us of the fragile, unpredictable nature of happiness. it captures not just a walk, but the silent complexities that weave through the fabric of togetherness.
This Christmas bauble was hand beaded with sequins and pins by me. I have a Christmas tradition. I bead Christmas baubles for a select group of friends every year. In this case they are for a friend, who likes yellow and gold as a colour scheme.
Each bauble is 15 centimetres in diameter and contain hundreds of sequins, varying in number depending upon the complexity of the pattern and the type of sequins I use. Most sequins in this bauble are 5mm in diameter, except the snowflakes which are 12mm in diameter. Depending upon the colour of the sequin, I will use either a gold or a silver pin to attach it to the bauble. I always leave the flowers and stars until last, allowing a gap in the sequin chain to pin them in.
These baubles are smaller than some others I do, however because it is a complex pattern which starts from the inside and is worked outwards in ever larger circles, each bauble takes approximately 2 to 2 1/2 hours per side.
It is however, a labour of love which I do to pass the time throughout the year.
chaos or complex order .. which.
An image of light travelling through glass - single exposure, no Photoshop.
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A little Cordoban Complexity from the back streets of Córdoba and the old town, it looked as if the lads were taking on removal duties. Enjoyed the layers and complexity with the variety of expressions and actions across the uncropped frame.
August is the month for gorgeous Hydrangeas. Lace-cap varieties are outstanding for their complex blooms. I love their starry centers.
"Life is short. Buy the Hydrangea." ~ Anonymous
even though my eyeballs were having soo much fun focusing on all of the gorgeous rides at the auto show i couldn't help but admire the amazing details of the ceiling in the convention center. the intricacies and colors had me looking up quite often :)
Underneath, always ready to revert to primitive patterns of behaviour, eager to deny the complexity of reality, often downright dangerous. Edited in Luminar
The adult humpback whale is generally 14–15 m (46–49 ft) long, though individuals up to 16–17 m (52–56 ft) long have been recorded. Females are usually 1–1.5 m (3 ft 3 in – 4 ft 11 in) longer than males.
The species can reach body masses of 40 metric tons (44 short tons). Calves are born at around 4.3 m (14 ft) long with a mass of 680 kg (1,500 lb)] The species has a bulky body with a thin rostrum and proportionally long flippers, each around one-third of its body length.[14][15] It has a short dorsal fin that varies from nearly nonexistent to somewhat long and curved.
Like other rorquals, the humpback has grooves between the tip of the lower jaw and the navel. The grooves are relatively few in number in this species, ranging from 14 to 35. The upper jaw is lined with baleen plates, which number 540–800 in total and are black in color.
The dorsal or upper side of the animal is generally black; the ventral or underside has various levels of black and white coloration. Whales in the southern hemisphere tend to have more white pigmentation. The flippers can vary from all-white to white only on the undersurface. Some individuals may be all white, notably Migaloo who is a true albino. The varying color patterns and scars on the tail flukes distinguish individual animals.[
The end of the genital slit of the female is marked by a round feature, known as the hemispherical lobe, which visually distinguishes males and females.[15][19]
Unique among large whales, humpbacks have bumps or tubercles on the head and front edge of the flippers; the tail fluke has a jagged trailing edge. The tubercles on the head are 5–10 cm (2.0–3.9 in) thick at the base and protrude up to 6.5 cm (2.6 in).
They are mostly hollow in the center, often containing at least one fragile hair that erupts 1–3 cm (0.39–1.18 in) from the skin and is 0.1 mm (0.0039 in) thick. The tubercles develop early in gestation and may have a sensory function, as they are rich in nerves. Sensory nerve cells in the skin are adapted to withstand the high water pressure of diving.
In one study, a humpback whale brain measured 22.4 cm (8.8 in) long and 18 cm (7.1 in) wide at the tips of the temporal lobes, and weighed around 4.6 kg (10 lb). The humpback's brain has a complexity similar to that of the brains of smaller whales and dolphins.
The structure of the eye indicates that eyesight is relatively poor, being only able to see silhouettes over long distances and finer details relatively close. Computer models of the middle ear suggest that the humpback can hear at frequencies between 15 Hz and 3 kHz "when stimulated at the tympanic membrane", and between 200 Hz and 9 kHz "if stimulated at the thinner region of the tympanic bone adjacent to the tympanic membrane". These ranges are consistent with their vocalization ranges.
As in all cetaceans, the respiratory tract of the humpback whale is connected to the blowholes and not to the mouth, although the species appears to be able to unlock the epiglottis and larynx and move them towards the oral cavity, allowing humpbacks to blow bubbles from their mouths. The vocal folds of the humpback are more horizontally positioned than those of land mammals which allows them to produce underwater calls. These calls are amplified by a laryngeal sac.
This image was taken in Juneau, Alaska
The immense complexity of Tokyo unfolds beneath a sky heavy with evening cloud from the vantage of the first deck of the Tokyo Skytree, Japan.
Our family had never visited Japan and we opted to stay for a week tacked on to a family visit to Hong Kong, splitting our time between the mountains near Nagano and the incredible human hive that is Tokyo. The Tokyo Skytree is the second highest building in the world and still quite a bit shorter than the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. My youngest son is oddly fascinated with the world's tallest buildings, so we made time to ride the ridiculously fast elevator up to the eyrie above the city. It ascends 350 vertical meters in approximately 50 ear-popping seconds. There is a shorter, faster-moving queue maintained for foreign tourists, which is a very thoughtful gesture. However, the crowds packing the observation deck make one feel as if bees actually have quite a spacious arrangement. On this particular evening, the full moon was rising on the eastern side of the tower and the sun was setting on the western side. I had thought to photograph both phenomena but this proved impossible as the humanity was so dense and viscous that I could not navigate from one side to the other quickly enough to capture both photographs.
It was difficult for me to comprehend the reality of this many people in the same place. As of 2014 Tokyo is the largest city in the world with over 38 million people calling the greater megalopolis home. That's over 2,600 people in every square kilometer. The numbers simply transcend meaning to my mind.
Few days ago I went photowalking down the streets of Mong Kok (western part of Kowloon, Hong Kong) and I really loved the complexity of the details in some corners. In this one they were preparing for a flea market.
3 Square Blocks cut from The Middle Slice Inverted and then Composited
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The Complexity of the Sunset
Interplanetary Travel
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Camera: Canon EOS Kiss X7i
Photograph by Yusuf Alioglu
Location: Outer space (space)
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After a harrowing trip, never to be repeated, I am back in Lucca (Italy) and a new merry-go-round begins to spin
Real snowflake macro photo.
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“Each snowflake, alone,
Impossibly intricate.
Yet snowfalls abound!”
—Ron Masters, Snowflake Haiku, ©️2021
What most people don’t realize is that the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics requires what we call complexity, because every little bit that happens results from the most likely process available to increase entropy (disorder) overall.
Single exposure, normal processing. Straight down, field of view maybe 2ft, 60cm. Happy Mono Monday!
25 Apr 2022; 10:15 CDT; >B&W
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This Christmas bauble was hand beaded with sequins and pins by me. I have a Christmas tradition. I bead Christmas baubles for a select group of friends every year. This is for a friend who decorated their tree with gold and black decorations.
Each bauble is 15 centimetres in diameter and contain hundreds of sequins, varying in number depending upon the complexity of the pattern and the type of sequins I use. Most sequins in this bauble are 5mm in diameter, except the flowers which are 8mm and the stars which are 3mm and very fiddly. Depending upon the colour of the sequin, I will use either a gold or a silver pin to attach it to the bauble. I always leave the flowers until last, allowing a gap in the sequin chain to pin them in.
These baubles are smaller than some others I do, and because it is a simple pattern which starts from the inside and is worked outwards in ever larger circles, each bauble takes approximately 1 1/2 to 2 hours per side.
It is however, a labour of love which I do to pass the time throughout the year.