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Made for Digital Challenge #159.
Original images by Nancee art and jaci XIII
Background by struckdumb
Textures by peshovski and cgtextures
Additional images by alexiel-resources and mjranum-stock
Bee collecting pollen. There is so much we can and should do for our pollinators, from planting native flowers and shrubs, to eliminating the use of pesticides. Please do what you can and encourage others too.
Dressed for the cold, a lobsterman pulls his traps, as six gulls wait and watch, hoping for handouts.
LLPX GP38 2014 has quite a history. It was built in 1970 for the Pennsylvania Reading Seashore Lines and passed on to Penn Central and then to Conrail in 1976.
After Conrail was finished with it, the well-traveled GP38 went into life as a lease unit. It did time on the Bay Coast Railroad, the Boyne City Railroad, and the Eastern Shore Railroad before dropping by the Cape Bay Seashore Lines.
28 October 2018
At first glance they seemed to be wiping the forest, but apparently they were collecting beech nuts or something
Today's story and sketch by me #1388, is about the Zombie from a Planet in Dimension 13, which I recently discovered, is an almost identical duplicate of the Earth, only it's Orbit is counter clockwise, has a green sky, and it's ocean is purple, and it's very stinky, probably from the flying stink fish, which are good flyers, but make bad decisions, when they decide to follow sea birds. The stink fish follow the sea birds until they get tired, they fall to the ground and the birds have a feast. The birds can't eat all the fish, they rot and stink the place up. The pedestrian in the phone booth is actually a fish warden, he was making a collect call to the office of fish clean up, when he, the phone booth, and two stray poodles were sucked up by a Big Blue Dimension Dust Devil, and traveled through many dimensions and Galaxies before being spit out here on this Tropical Volcanic Planet we call Budahunga. It will surely be an interesting story when the pedestrian learns where he is, but that and what happened to the poodles, will have to be a story for another time, until then Tata the Rod Blog.
One new photo taken each day, with one creative image 2nd June. As I am doing more creative images now, there will be a smattering in my 365 collection.
Highlghts: Trip to Port Macquarie, friends visiting for a weekend, whale watch cruise, a meeting with many Pelicans, trip to Gloucester, a shiny new trailer.
It is winter, with very cold winds from the snowfields.
New South Wales, Australia
My work with snowflakes is deceptive; I favour the symmetrical snowflakes because I find them more beautiful, but it’s quite rare to find a snowflake with this level of symmetry. There’s a lot of chaos that goes into the formation of these crystals, and a symmetric snowflake is just one of countless possibilities.
They almost all start with symmetry, however. On the smallest molecular scale, all snowflakes are pretty much just hexagonal prisms. If environmental conditions (temperature, humidity, etc.) remain the same, that symmetry will continue as a snowflake grows into a larger prism. As it grows, however, something changes: as the distance from one corner to another increases, so too does the potential for different parts of a snowflake to experience slightly different conditions. There is nothing that ties the growth of all six branches of a snowflake together other than the fact that they all grow in the same conditions.
As a certain point, the “branching instability” kicks in. This is triggered when the corners of a small hexagonal snowflake can collect more available water vapour (building blocks) than the inner portions of the crystal facets; whatever stick out the farthest, grows the fastest. This is why branches form from all outwardly-facing angles of a snowflake. As branches continue to grow further from the center, the likelihood of different growth conditions – even just immeasurably small fluctuations in humidity – increases exponentially. Symmetry is still possible, but it becomes more of a lottery game as it grows. A snowflake like this would be like hitting the jackpot.
Another fun snowflake fact: the crystal structure only has primary features on one side. Notice how the inner parts of the branches are relatively lower in contrast then darker features emerge as they widen? The less-contrasty areas do have surface features, but they are on the rear side of the snowflake. Changes in growth conditions can flip the side where these details are featured – a mechanism I do not fully understand, but the evidence of it happening is right in front of you – the higher-contrast area on the “paddle” of the branches is surface details interacting with the light from my flash, showcasing the contours of the crystal.
The tiny hexagon in the center is the result of the snowflake beginning as a column which grew plates from either side. The bottom plate must have been facing the wind and grew faster, leaving the smaller plate to forever remain inside that footprint. Without access to water vapour, its growth would have nearly halted – and it would be a stable environment that allows for the maintenance of near perfect symmetry… at least at the center!
Want to know how to make snowflake images like this? The equipment, techniques, and entire editing process are detailed in my 384pg hardcover book on macro photography: skycrystals.ca/product/pre-order-macro-photography-the-un... - $75 Canadian, which is roughly USD$59.50 with the current exchange rate. Ask anyone with a copy and you’ll tell you it’s worth every penny. :)
Martha's best beauty advice is to find a good night time skin care routine that works for you and stick to it.
I've become a simple souvenir of someone's kill...
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model: me
photographer: Zach
camera model: Canon 5D Mark II
lens: Canon 50mm f/1.4
editing done by: me
editing program: Camera Raw 5.6 & Adobe Photoshop CS4
date taken: 2/4/11
Strobist info:
1) AB800 shot through octabox outside behind window
2) AB800 shot bare camera left
* fog machine
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