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A moody black and white landscape image of the coastline in Colombo, the Capital of Sri Lanka. Taken with a Canon 5D4 and a 50mm 1.4 lens, edited in Lightroom.
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An oasis of peace from the hustle and bustle of the capital ....
all embracing, light, optimistic and fascinating.
Pettah / Colombo / Sri Lanka
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Our last evening in Sri Lanka.
The view from the roof top lounge of The Ocean Colombo Hotel. Coming from a northern locale, it always amazes me how fast the sun sets near the equator.
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I somehow have had this image in my mind as we were walking along this main street in colombo oldtown...
# In July 2025 I visited Hungary and Budapest for the first time. We stayed at the Mystery Hotel on the Pest side of the Danube. A wonderful hotel though the location was a little bit quiet.
#A statue tribute to the actor Peter Falk who played Colombo honours his Hungarian roots through his maternal Grandfather
#If your crossing over to Buda then the funicular railway is probably your best bet or a bus. On a hot day its a steep climb
#We had 10 days in Budapest and still didn't a lot of the popular things in Budapest such as visiting the underground caves or the thermal baths.
#One of my highlights was visiting the Robert Capa Museum During a remarkable short life he covered 5 wars and was at the time the worlds pre-eminent war photographer
Sri Lanka has many amazing qualities and once I walked the streets of Colombo I met many amazing people that were so friendly but I also saw poverty.
This is an old French postcard from 1906. I think Sapho de Colombo was a French silent screen actress. Most of the references to her on the Internet are in French but if anyone knows anything about her I would appreciate it.
Located in Biera Lake, Seema Malaka is mainly used for meditation and rest. It is part of the nearby Buddhist Gangaramaya Temple.
The joint European-Japanese BepiColombo mission captured this view of Mercury on 23 June 2023 as the spacecraft flew past the planet for its second of six gravity assist manoeuvres at Mercury. This image was taken at 09:48:22 UTC by the Mercury Transfer Module’s Monitoring Camera 1 (MCAM-1) when the spacecraft was 680 km from Mercury, the first image capturing the illuminated surface of Mercury during the flyby. Closest approach of 200 km took place shortly before, at 09:44 UTC.
The cameras provide black-and-white snapshots in 1024 x 1024 pixel resolution. This image has been 'block replicated' to 2048 x 2048 pixels. Some imaging artefacts such as horizontal striping are also visible. They are also positioned such that various parts of the spacecraft can be seen. MCAM-1 looks along one of the solar arrays of the Mercury Transfer Module (left in this orientation), together with part of the spacecraft body (top right) where its thermal blanket can be seen. In this image, north is up.
Only a small portion of Mercury is visible in this frame but the surface features and particularly the roughness of the terrain are enhanced by the shadows cast by the Sun, which, shortly after local dawn, was low in the sky. To the left of the image, only the rims of craters are visible along the terminator (the location between night and day), while their floors are covered in shadow (for example, Benoit crater).
Thanks to these lighting conditions, some deep trough-like features propagating radially from the centre of the Eminescu crater are clearly visible. These are very closely spaced chains of so-called secondary craters formed by the impact of material ejected from the central primary crater. These features are one observation that can allow us to determine the relative age of a crater since they tend to degrade and disappear over time. The brightness of a surface provides another clue, as fresh, bright features tend to fade over time as well. Eminescu’s floor is not just bright because of its young age, however, but also because of the clustering of hollows around its central peak. Hollows are a unique geologic feature to Mercury, and will be studied in depth once BepiColombo is in orbit around the planet.
Another bright area to the right looks overexposed in the image because of the bright rays emanating from the Xiao Zhao crater that cover that region. Although the rim of this rayed crater is not visible, it is probably located within the overexposed area.
The gravity assist manoeuvre was the second at Mercury and the fifth of nine flybys overall. During its seven-year cruise to the smallest and innermost planet of the Solar System, BepiColombo makes one flyby at Earth, two at Venus and six at Mercury to help steer on course for Mercury orbit in 2025. The Mercury Transfer Module carries two science orbiters: ESA’s Mercury Planetary Orbiter and JAXA’s Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter. They will operate from complementary orbits to study all aspects of mysterious Mercury from its core to surface processes, magnetic field and exosphere, to better understand the origin and evolution of a planet close to its parent star.
Credit: ESA/BepiColombo/MTM, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO