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Loch Lomond in the Scottish Highlands.
Loch Lomond is a freshwater Scottish loch which crosses the Highland Boundary Fault. It is the largest inland stretch of water in Great Britain by surface area. The loch contains many islands, including Inchmurrin, the largest fresh-water island in the British Isles. Loch Lomond is a popular leisure destination and is featured in the song "The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond". The Loch is now part of the Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park which was established in 2002. Loch Lomond is a corruption of the Gaelic Lac Leaman, or 'Lake of the Elms'.
“Sensō-ji ([sẽ̞ꜜɰ̃so̞ːʑi], 浅草寺, officially Kinryū-zan Sensō-ji (金龍山浅草寺), also known as Asakusa Kannon (浅草観音)), is an ancient Buddhist temple in Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan. It is Tokyo's oldest-established temple, and one of its most significant. It is dedicated to Kannon, the bodhisattva of compassion. Structures in the temple complex include the main hall, a five-story pagoda and large gates. It is the most widely visited religious site in the world with over 30 million visitors annually.
The temple was destroyed during a 10 March 1945 firebombing air raid on Tokyo during World War II. The main hall was rebuilt in the 1950s. Formerly associated with the Tendai sect of Buddhism, the temple became independent after the war. Leading to it is Nakamise-dōri street, containing many shops with traditional goods. Adjacent to the east of Sensō-ji is the Asakusa Shrine of the Shinto religion.”
I think we should use less plastics to solve the waste problem, so this is my entrance for today's theme container.
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After yesterday's post we return to standard railway topics, however still remaining near the cement plant "Kujawy" and the huge limestone mine. The facility contains one more curiosity, besides the previously mentioned cable car railway.
Me and Jarek have visited the station Wapienno a couple of years back and there was one thing I very vividly remembered from that trip. We were trying to find our way around the place to the station and searching for spots to photograph the limestone shuttle to Inowrocław. In doing so, we passed many places where a deteriorated track cut the street, and it was accompanied by a couple of lonely standing metal pylons. They very much looked like catenary poles, but what could they be doing here? I just thought they were taken from some tram network or used as lighting poles.
I later had gone on to disregard the topic completely, but a new breakthrough happened a few months back, when me and my friends were investigating the history and railway network of the Dębiec mining and metallurgical plant. We found it while browsing Open Railway Map, as it had an extensive railway network and was hidden deep in the forests of central Poland. We dug very deep in the internet and finally, in some remote corner of the plant's web page we found a picture gallery, showing the former glory of the local railways. Our jaws dropped in amazement, as we saw the network... electrified. Not only that, it featured pictures of the locomotives working there. They were the popular "Crocodiles" of the EL2 series from Hennigsdorf. "No way", we thought, "the locomotives only worked in the lignite mines", and quickly rushed to the EL2's Polish wikipedia page. There it was. "Apart from the lignite mine in Konin, the locomotives were delivered to the lignite mine in Adamów, the Dębiec plant and... the cement plant "Kujawy" in Wapienno". That's when I got a flashback from our previous trip and everything clicked. I knew I had to come back here.
I had to spend a couple more days, studying the cement factory's extensive railway network. By digging for a few more hours I found only a few pictures here aswell as one on Facebook which intrigued me even more. There I could read the comments of the former workers, which were very valuable.
The catenary, which covered the entirety of the complex - from Wapienno to Piechcin, used to look very crude. The wires were hanging from supports resembling those used on tram networks and the cables were very loose. Consequently, the pylons were placed frequently - between 25 and 30 meters apart, a third of the standard distance on normal railways. The catenary reached very remote places of the facility and spanned a total length - from my cude calculations - of around 9 kilometers. The remains of the catenary pylons are still there in many places and they fulfill the role of lighting poles nowadays, but wherever you see thin, long shadows, separated 30 meters from eachother. on aerial images, you can be sure that this was a part of the catenary.
This is exactly what we see on this picture. Further back there was a much more beautiful frame to be taken, but I really wanted to capture the remains of the catenary. Another reason for choosing this place is to talk about a now non-existant branch to the station in Piechcin (this picture shows the place where it used to be - the diagonal dirt path heading off into a curve and then later into the plant), which would have constituted a second track (to the right) in this very place. Catenary supports which we found lead me to believe that it also used to be electrified. Therefore PKP had two dropoff/pickup spots for trains to/from the mine and cement plant - in Piechcin and Wapienno. The branch also used to transport forced laborers from the very shortly lived prison camp in Piechcin (1950-1956) to the quarry near Bielawy.
On the picture is SM42-2083, heading to the place I call Masherbrum, which I will talk about tommorow. Congratulations if you managed to read through all this :D, I had no idea the text I had written would be so long. But when there is so much to discover... as far as I know, nobody had taken photographs of this place before me, because everyone always goes to the station Wapienno and chases the limestone shuttle to Inowrocław.
Photo by Piotrek/Toprus
The Den Burg General Cemetery on Texel contains a war plot with 167 war graves of Allied servicemen, primarily airmen who crashed over the island during World War II. Among them are 44 unknown soldiers. The plot, recognizable by the white Cross of Sacrifice of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, is an important place of remembrance. At the entrance stands the 1940–1945 War Memorial with a bronze Good Shepherd, and in 1975, survivors of the Georgian Uprising donated a Tree of Life in tribute. The plot is a silent witness to the war and an enduring symbol of international solidarity.
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Op de algemene begraafplaats van Den Burg op Texel ligt een ereveld met 167 oorlogsgraven van geallieerde militairen, vooral vliegeniers die tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog boven het eiland zijn neergestort. Onder hen zijn ook 44 onbekenden. Het veld, herkenbaar aan het witte offerkruis van de Commonwealth War Graves Commission, vormt een belangrijke plek van herdenking. Voor de ingang staat het oorlogsmonument 1940–1945 met een bronzen Goede Herder, en in 1975 schonken overlevenden van de Georgische opstand een levensboom als eerbetoon. Het ereveld is een stille getuige van de oorlog en een blijvend symbool van internationale solidariteit.
Didden Village
A Roof extension project called Didden village in Rotterdam designed by architecture firm MVRDV. The blue volumes have an archetypical house shape and contain the bedrooms of the house each with their own staircase from the living room below. The space in between is a roof terrace with built-in flower pots, a table, bench and open-air shower.
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One source says the Nyenchen Tanglha Mountains range is about 1,000 km (620 mi) in length. Its highest point is 7,090 m (23,260 ft) located 100 km (62 mi) to the northwest of Lhasa. The range is parallel to the Himalayas in the Transhimalayas, and north of the Brahmaputra River. [3] Another source says the Nyenchen Tanglha Mountains extend 460 miles (740 km) from Nyêmo County in the west to Ranwu County (the southwestern part of Baxoi County) in the east.
Its highest peak is Mount Nyenchen Tanglha (Nyainqêntanglha Feng) at 7,162 metres (23,497 ft).[4]
The southern side of the Nyenchen Tanglha Mountains is precipitous, and falls by around 2,000 metres (6,600 ft), while the northern side is fairly level and descends about 1,000 metres (3,300 ft). Most of the mountains are below 6,500 metres (21,300 ft).[5] They contain 7080 glaciers covering an area of 10,700 square kilometres (4,100 sq mi).[4]
The Nyenchen Tanglha Mountains have an average latitude of 30°30'N and a longitude between 90°E and 97°E. Together with the Gangdise Shan located further west, it forms the Transhimalaya [a] which runs parallel to the Himalayas north of the Yarlung Tsangpo River.
The Drukla Chu river rises in the Nyenchen Tanglha Mountains, where it is called the Song Chu river, and joins the Gyamda Chu river. The combined rivers run about 100 kilometres (62 mi) southeast to the Yarlung Tsangpo river.
DB Cargo 155 224 mit einem Güterzug in Breyell an der Strecke (Venlo-) Kaldenkirchen - Viersen. Zum Aufnahmezeitpunkt regelten hier noch Formsignale den Zugverkehr.
Cleveland’s Lakeview Cemetery contains over 100,000 graves, including those of presidents and business moguls. However, its most striking grave marker may be the unsettling statue known as Haserot’s Angel.
Actually named “The Angel of Death Victorious,” the stoic angel is seated on the marble gravestone of canning entrepreneur Francis Haserot and his family. The life-size bronze holds an extinguished torch upside-down, a symbol of life extinguished. Her wings are outstretched and she gazes straight ahead.
The statue’s most striking feature, however, is how death’s guardian appears to be weeping black tears, which pour from her eyes and drip down her neck. These “tears” formed over time, an effect of the aging bronze combined with the impressive sculpting work of the piece itself. As a result, she is often referred to as the Weeping Angel.
They say the sea is cold, but the sea contains
the hottest blood of all, and the wildest, the most urgent.
All the whales in the wider deeps, hot are they, as they urge
on and on, and dive beneath the icebergs.
The right whales, the sperm-whales, the hammer-heads, the killers
there they blow, there they blow, hot wild white breath out of the sea!
And they rock, and they rock, through the sensual ageless ages
on the depths of the seven seas,
and through the salt they reel with drunk delight
and in the tropics tremble they with love
and roll with massive, strong desire, like gods.
Then the great bull lies up against his bride
in the blue deep of the sea
D.H. Lawrence. from "Whales Weep Not".
This is a composite of valley foreground taken in Wulong, Chongqing, China two years ago before the panademic and night sky taken in the USA.
The Wulong Karst (Chinese: 武隆喀斯特) is a karst landscape located within the borders of Wulong District, Chongqing Municipality, People's Republic of China. It is divided into three areas containing the Three Natural Bridges, the Qingkou Tiankeng (箐口天坑) and Furong Cave respectively. It is a part of the Wulong Karst National Geology Park as well as part of the South China Karst, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Eine unerkannt gebliebene Lok der Baureihe 186 von Metrans mit einem Containerzug aus Hamburg Altenwerder auf der KBS 100 in Müssen
An undetected locomotive of the 186 series from Metrans with a container train from Hamburg Altenwerder on the KBS 100 in Müssen
The Milwaukee Art Museum (MAM) is an art museum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Its collection contains nearly 25,000 works of art. It is one of the largest museums in the United States. Beginning around 1872, multiple organizations were founded in order to bring an art gallery to Milwaukee, as the city was still a growing port town with little or no facilities to hold major art exhibitions. Over the span of at least nine years, all attempts to build a major art gallery had failed. Shortly after that year, Alexander Mitchell donated all of her collection into constructing Milwaukee's first permanent art gallery in the city's history. In 1888, the Milwaukee Art Association was created by a group of German panorama artists and local businessmen. The same year, British-born businessman Frederick Layton built, endowed, and provided artwork for the Layton Art Gallery, now demolished. In 1911, the Milwaukee Art Institute, another building constructed to hold other exhibitions and collections, was completed. The institute was built right next to the Layton Art Gallery. The Milwaukee Art Museum was founded in 1888 and is purported to be Milwaukee's first art gallery, though that claim is disputed by the Layton Art Gallery, which opened the same year. The Milwaukee Art Center (now the Milwaukee Art Museum) was formed when the Milwaukee Art Institute and Layton Art Gallery merged their collections in 1957 and moved into the newly built Eero Saarinen-designed Milwaukee County War Memorial. In the latter half of the 20th century, the museum came to include the War Memorial Center in 1957 as well as the brutalist Kahler Building (1975) designed by David Kahler and the Quadracci Pavilion (2001) created by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava. The Quadracci Pavilion contains a movable, wing-like brise soleil that opens up for a wingspan of 217 feet (66 m) during the day, folding over the tall, arched structure at night or during inclement weather. The pavilion received the 2004 Outstanding Structure Award from the International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering. This iconic building, often referred to as "the Calatrava", is used in the museum logo. In November 2015, the museum opened a $34 million expansion funded jointly by a museum capital campaign and by Milwaukee County. The new building, the Shields Building, designed by Milwaukee architect James Shields of HGA, provides an additional 30,000 square feet for art, including a section devoted to light-based media, photography, and video installation. The building includes a new atrium and lakefront-facing entry point for visitors and was designed with cantilevered elements and concrete columns to complement, respectively, the existing Calatrava and Kahler structures on the site. The final design emerged after a lengthy process that included the main architect's departure because of design disputes and his return to the project. The museum houses nearly 25,000 works of art housed on four floors, with works from antiquity to the present. Included in the collection are 15th- to 20th-century European and 17th- to 20th-century American paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings, decorative arts, photographs, and folk and self-taught art. Among the best in the collection are the museum's holding of American decorative arts, German Expressionism, folk and Haitian art, and American art after 1960. The museum holds one of the largest collections of works by Wisconsin native Georgia O'Keeffe. Other artists represented include Gustave Caillebotte, Nardo di Cione, Francisco de Zurbarán, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Winslow Homer, Auguste Rodin, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Gabriele Munter, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Frank Lloyd Wright, Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Wassily Kandinsky, Mark Rothko, Robert Gober, and Andy Warhol. It also has paintings by European painters Francesco Botticini, Jan Swart van Groningen, Ferdinand Bol, Jan van Goyen, Hendrick Van Vliet, Franz von Lenbach (Bavarian Girl), Ferdinand Waldmüller (Interruption), Carl Spitzweg, Bouguereau, Gerome (2 Majesties), Gustave Caillebotte, Camille Pissarro, Alfred Kowalski (Winter in Russia), Jules Bastien-Lepage (The Wood Gatherer), and Max Pechstein.
399 108 kommt mit Containern des Bauhofes über die Wangerooger Weststrecke kurz vor dem Abzw Saline zum Halten.
The shell containing the starks opened a few minutes before I made this click. The bunch of flowers freshly emerged. The tree is about 50 feet high and well endowed with good crop of coconut and is right view from my window. Coconut Tree is very popular and found in every housem garden, farm and plenty in seashore. Every part of the tree has some utility value and gives employement to many.
The town of Quintanas de Gormaz, province of Soria, Spain, contains several gems in its municipality.
One of them is the old public washhouse, now in disuse, but very well preserved.
This photo and the next one are connected.
Just above the three arched front windows there is a circular window, similar to the skylight of a ship.
We were extremely lucky to be there at the time when the sunlight penetrated through the circular window and projected its light on the bottom of the washhouse, which, being in disuse, has grown a kind of green plants, which cause this curious green elliptical image.
It was a privilege to have been there right at that moment and see that beam of light projected, dyed green.
Photo taken with a Nikon Z 6 III camera and a 7Artisans 10mm F2.8 FishEye lens attached for full-frame cameras, which has a coverage of 178º, but has no connection pins with the camera, therefore part of the metadata information is either incorrect or does not appear.
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La localidad de Quintanas de Gormaz, provincia de Soria, España, contiene varias joyas en su municipio.
Una de ellas es el antiguo lavadero público, hoy en desuso, pero muy bien conservado.
Esta foto y la siguiente están conectadas.
Justo encima de las tres ventanas frontales en forma de arco hay una ventana circular, similar a la claraboya de un barco.
Tuvimos la inmensa suerte de estar allí a la hora en que la luz de el Sol penetraba a través de la ventana circular y proyectaba su luz en el fondo del lavadero que, al estar en desuso, han crecido una especie de plantas verdes, que provocan esta curiosa imagen elíptica verde.
Fue todo un privilegio haber estado allí justo en ese momento y ver proyectado ese haz de luz teñido de verde.
Foto tomada con una cámara Nikon Z 6 III y una lente acoplada de 7Artisans 10mm F2.8 FishEye para cámaras de formato completo, que tiene una cobertura de 178º, pero no tiene pines de conexión con la cámara, por tanto parte de la información de metadatos o bien es errónea o no aparece.
La tour sud est beaucoup plus récente puisqu'elle date du début du XVIe siècle ; la première pierre est posée en 1485, le 10 novembre, par Robert de Croismare, les travaux étant commencés par Guillaume Pontif, maître d’œuvre. En 1496, Guillaume Pontif est remplacé par Jacques le Roux qui achève la tour en 1506. Elle est « couronnée », ce qui est caractéristique du style flamboyant, dite « de beurre », parce qu'elle a été financée avec les indulgences de carême, c'est-à-dire que des fidèles riches s'achetaient le droit de consommer du beurre et autres laitages pendant le carême tout comme à la cathédrale de Bourges où existe également une tour de beurre.
Une autre explication à cette dénomination est que cette tour est d'une teinte plus jaune (calcaire lutétien de Saint-Leu, dont la couleur pourrait faire penser que la tour a été sculptée dans une motte de beurre) que le reste de la maçonnerie en pierre blanche de Caumont et de Vernon. Elle n'est construite qu'à partir de 1485 et le chapitre de la cathédrale connut de houleux débats entre les « anciens » et les « modernes » pour décider qui des partisans d'une flèche ou d'une couronne l'emporterait. Finalement les seconds l'emportèrent. Sa construction qui coûta 24 750 livres tournois était destinée à équilibrer au sud le volume de la tour Saint-Romain. Elle se compose de quatre niveaux qui suivent un plan carré et d'un couronnement octogonal ponctué de pinacles.
L'immense cloche de la tour est fondue en 1501, elle prend le nom de son mécène, Georges d'Amboise.
La tour de Beurre a inspiré la construction d'un célèbre building de Chicago, la Tribune Tower, en 1923-1925.
La tour de Beurre contient 2 des sept cloches de la cathédrale.
The south tower is much more recent, dating from the beginning of the 16th century; the first stone was laid in 1485, on November 10, by Robert de Croismare, with work started by Guillaume Pontif, the master builder. In 1496, Guillaume Pontif was replaced by Jacques le Roux, who completed the tower in 1506. It is "crowned", which is characteristic of the flamboyant style, called "butter", because it was financed with Lenten indulgences, that is to say that wealthy worshippers bought the right to consume butter and other dairy products during Lent, just like at Bourges Cathedral, where there is also a butter tower. Another explanation for this name is that this tower is a more yellow shade (Lutetian limestone from Saint-Leu, the color of which could suggest that the tower was sculpted from a lump of butter) than the rest of the white stone masonry of Caumont and Vernon. It was not built until 1485 and the cathedral chapter experienced heated debates between the "ancients" and the "moderns" to decide which of the supporters of a spire or a crown would prevail. Finally, the latter won. Its construction, which cost 24,750 livres tournois, was intended to balance the volume of the Saint-Romain tower to the south. It is composed of four levels that follow a square plan and an octagonal crown punctuated by pinnacles.
The tower's immense bell was cast in 1501, it takes the name of its patron, Georges d'Amboise.
The Butter Tower inspired the construction of a famous Chicago building, the Tribune Tower, in 1923-1925.
The Butter Tower contains 2 of the cathedral's seven bells.
Am Samstagmorgen den 10.Juni 2023 fuhr ich wieder einmal ganz früh nach Oberwesel an der linken Rheinstrecke (KBS 471 .
Relativ wenig geparkte Autos im Bild und fast noch kein Autoverkehr auf der B9 und im Ort und ein klarer und sonniger Morgen und einige interessante Züge gen Süden im Zulauf.
Ich stand weiter auf der Fußgängerbrücke über die B9 kurz vor dem Bahnhof:
Weiter rechts gibt es bekanntermaßen viele Straßenschilder, Lampenmasten und Flaggenmasten und das Motiv von dort von früher ist eigentlich heute für die Tonne.
Links durch die Häuser zu sehen ist auch der Kuhhirtentaum als Teil der Stadtmauer und im Hintergrund natürlich auch die Mutter-Rosa Kapelle und der Steingassenturm und dahinter der Katztenturm sowie rechts der bekannte große Ochsenturm.
Nach dem schönen HSL Zug kam der nicht minder fotogene DGS 40111 aus Gent Kluizendok Zuid in Belgien nach Mortara in Italien von Crossrail und der der war voll beladen und bespannt mit der 486 510 ( Werbelok The Alpinists in Europe) von der Muttergesellschaft BLS Cargo.
Die fotogenen gelben Container in der Zug Mitte gehören der Fa. Tailormade Logistics die ihren Sitz im Hafengebiet von Gent hat und mit über 10 festen täglichen Reservierungen ist Tailormade Logistics einer der Hauptnutzer dieser Verbindung nach Mortara.
According the online information , our Milky Way galaxy contains tens of billions of potentially habitable planets, but we have no idea whether we’re alone. For now Earth is the only world known to harbor life, and among all the living things on our planet we assume Homo sapiens is the only species ever to have developed advanced technology.
The Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy is an irregular galaxy, the closest neighbouring galaxy to the Earth's location in the Milky Way, being located about 25,000 light-years (236,000,000,000,000,000 km) away from our Solar System.
Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy is located in the same part of the sky as the constellation Canis Major. Canis Major is a constellation in the southern celestial hemisphere.The southern celestial hemisphere is also called the Southern Sky. Some constellations in the northern sky are Leo, Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Virgo, Libra, Scorpius, Sagittarius, Capricornus, Aquarius and Pisces.
We hope that humans are able to travel that far one day if we are able to survive the dangers like asteroids, comets, alien invasion, global warming ,climate change, racism, nationalism, hunger, wars, viruses (like coronavirus), sicknesses, genetic-mutation, etc.
This is an example of the type of post-processing I sometimes do... I drop brightness and exposure way down which compacts the tonal resolution artificially, and then adjust light levels accordingly. This reduction of the number of tones in the image can produce nice drama in scenes with light/dark contrasts. At the extreme, you could have a monotone (pure black and pure white); the image above probably contains about 10 or 15 tones. (Note: In the original post I called this "Low Dynamic Range"; I believe "Low Tonal Resolution" is more accurate.) (Explore)
The volcano (1639-m-high) contains three striking summit crater lakes of varying colors. Tiwu Ata Bupu (Lake of Old People) is usually blue and is the westernmost of the three lakes. The other two lakes, Tiwu Ko'o Fai Nuwa Muri (Lake of Young Men and Maidens) and Tiwu Ata Polo (Bewitched or Enchanted Lake) are separated by a shared crater wall and are typically green or red respectively. The lake colors vary on a periodic basis. Subaqueous fumaroles are the probable cause of active upwelling that occurs at the two eastern lakes.
Kelimutu is also of interest to geologists because the three lakes have different colors yet are at the crest of the same volcano. According to Kelimutu National Park officials, the colour changes as a result of chemical reactions resulting from the minerals contained in the lake perhaps triggered by volcano gas activity. Kawah Putih lake in West Java, south of Bandung, is another crater lake in Indonesia with some similarities to the lakes at Kelimutu.
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Metallic container painted in an amazing purple color near an agricultural building.
Container métallique paint d'une couleur étonnante aux abords d'un bâtiment agricole.
Fujicolor C200
The bee-eaters are a group of near-passerine birds in the family Meropidae containing three genera and 27 species. All have long down-turned bills and medium to long wings, which may be pointed or round. Male and female plumages are usually similar.
As their name suggests, bee-eaters predominantly eat flying insects, especially bees and wasps, which are caught in the air by flights from an open perch. The stinger is removed by repeatedly hitting and rubbing the insect on a hard surface. During this process, pressure is applied to the insect, thereby extracting most of the venom.
Most bee-eaters are gregarious. They form colonies, nesting in burrows tunnelled into vertical sandy banks, often at the side of a river or in flat ground. As they mostly live in colonies, large numbers of nest holes may be seen together. The eggs are white, with typically five to the clutch. Most species are monogamous, and both parents care for the young, sometimes with assistance from related birds in the colony.
The bee-eaters are almost exclusively aerial hunters of insect prey.
Prey is caught either in continuous flight or more commonly from an exposed perch from which the bee-eater watches for prey. Smaller, rounder-winged bee-eaters typically hunt from branches and twigs closer to the ground, whereas the larger species hunt from tree tops or telegraph wires. One unusual technique often used by carmine bee-eaters is to ride on the backs of bustards.
Prey can be spotted from a distance; Bee-eaters are able to spot a bee 60 metres (200 ft) away, and blue-cheeked bee-eaters have been observed flying out 100 metres (330 ft) to catch large wasps. Prey is approached directly or from behind. Prey that lands on the ground or on plants is usually not pursued. Small prey may be eaten on the wing, but larger items are returned to the perch where they are beaten until dead and then broken up. Insects with poisonous stings are first smacked on the branch, then, with the bird's eyes closed, rubbed to discharge the venom sac and stinger. This behaviour is innate.
A local Pushkar Man with his Horse at a drinking trough at the Pushkar Mela in 2023. More Pushkar Fair photography on my latest blog. The blog contains head shots and candid portraits as well as street style photography taken at the Pushkar Camel Fair in Rajasthan. All images on the blog are in black and white shot with the Canon 5D4 and edited in Lightroom. Take a look below, cheers:
The nearby galaxy Messier 33 contains a star-forming region called NGC 604 where some 200 hot, young, massive stars reside. The cool dust and warmer gas in this stellar nursery appear as the wispy structures in an optical image from the Hubble Space Telescope. In between these filaments are giant voids that are filled with hot, X-ray-emitting gas. Astronomers think these bubbles are being blown off the surfaces of the young and massive stars throughout NGC 604.
NGC 604 also likely contains an extreme member of the class of colliding-wind binaries, as reported in a recent paper. It is the first candidate source in this class to be discovered in M33 and the most distant example known, and shares several properties with the famous, volatile system called Eta Carinae, located in our galaxy.
Chandra’s X-ray data (blue) are combined in this image with optical data from Hubble (purple).
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A pack of Polaroid pack film contains 10 shots. I had one pack of Polaroid 100 Blue. Polaroid Week lasts six days, two shots a day, for a total of 12 shots per person. I had a hole of one day/two shots. But I found an unused box of New55 Color in my stash. New55 Color had this thing where it reproduces blues well, but there's a border around the edge of most shots that's yellow. Blue and yellow....
I shot this at Marineland in Florida with my Pacemaker Speed Graphic. Ukraine has a lengthy coastline on the Black Sea. Russia wants to control that coastline and make Ukraine a landlocked country, unable to export goods by sea without dealing with Russia. One of the ways they do that is with mines. There are mines floating freely in the Black Sea set loose by the Orcs. On land, retreating Orcs also set boobytraps on corpses of people they killed and on toys likely to be picked up by children. The Ukrainian Deminers Association cleans up these mines. You can support their efforts at www.uda.org.ua/en/
The Carolina Rediviva, the Royal University's library, contains a collection of ancient books and maps. Pictured here is the XVIII century view of Mecca.
Каролина Редивива, библиотека Королевского университета, содержит коллекцию древних книг и карт. На фото - изображение Мекки XVIII века.
Rose Seidler House contains a remarkable collection of furniture, furnishings and household effects amassed by the late Harry Seidler AC OBE (1923–2006) for use in the house he designed for his parents, Rose and Max. The house was built in 1948–50 in the centre of the original 6.5-hectare (16-acre) bushland estate overlooking the Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park. It was one of three houses designed for the family on the site. This form of communal housing was innovative for Sydney at the time; the intention was to reunite the Seidler family in Australia after World War II.
Wahroonga, Sydney
July, 2020
This area contains several Nebula (North American and Pelican) as well as star clusters. These are typically referred to as emission Nebulas. Lots of gas and dust floating in space. If you have questions about how I took this image - give me a shout! This is a superset of the last image I uploaded. Taken under Fairfax, Virginia skies
Captrain 185 650-9 mit einem Containerzug auf der KBS 110 zwischen Schwarzenbek und Büchen in Müssen
Captrain 185 650-9 with a container train on KBS 110 between Schwarzenbek and Büchen in Müssen
A little late but light painting guru Led Eddie put me onto this a while back. I hope I did it some justice. Thanks Ed.
EGP 140 627-1 mit einem Containerzug auf der KBS 110 zwischen Lüneburg und Winsen in der Nähe von Sangenstedt
EGP 140 627-1 with a container train on the KBS 110 between Lüneburg and Winsen near Sangenstedt