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The same cool clouds a little bit later at sunset time. In a few moments the sun would drop behind those low clouds on the horizon. The clouds would then block most of the remaining sunset from view. Those same clouds though, would also deflect the any remaining sunlight high into the sky above for a long time after.
Have a great week!
Excerpt from urbanglass.org/glass/detail/sheridan-college-students-and...:
A 1,500-pound, 40-foot-long, two-story-tall glass installation was designed and installed by a team of 32 students and faculty from the Sheridan Craft and Design Glass Studio as part of a new building on the Sheridan College campus in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. Titled Aurora Borealis, the piece was named after the naturally occurring phenomena of light display in the northern sky commonly known as the Northern Lights. The design stages of the project were completed during the 2010–11 academic year, and the installation wrapped up in November 2011. The project began when the four Sheridan craft and design studios were given the opportunity by the college to submit public installation design proposals for the new Sheridan Hazel McCallion Campus being built in Mississauga. Because of the two-story outer glass walls of the new building, the students and faculty of the glass craft and design studio felt it was an ideal place for a large-scale glass installation that would accentuate the natural light and become a permanent fixture. Glass students and faculty formed a project team and began viewing the architectural drawings and the construction space for inspiration.
Images get manipulated and projected onto the glass by projectors.The slow natural movement of colourful light reflects the activity of the space.
The team decided a duet of two types of approximately 2,200 thin glass tubes —some sandblasted to absorb light and some clear to reflect light—would bring on the desired effect of evoking the concept of collective effort. Meant to be interactive,the installation is equipped with three cameras that catch every movement occurring in the space. The images get manipulated and projected onto the glass piece by eight video projectors.The slow natural movement of colorful light reflects the activity of the space, therefore every visitor to the space somehow effects it.
During the day, the installation is designed to exploit the natural light afforded by the excess windows of the space. At night, real-time video cameras record images of people moving in the space, which are transformed into colored impressions and projected onto the suspended glass tubes that hang in varying lengths and curve.
The Northern Lights are a result of a combination of charged particles, solar wind and the magnetic field of the Earth’s atmosphere. To the same effect, this piece utilizes human energy and the natural ability of glass to deflect and defuse light. While the Northern Lights are a naturally occurring phenomena, easily observed from the northern latitudes, the preparation for the installation of Aurora Borealis took months. The actual installation process spanned three days and was completed in the early hours of a November morning.
August 2020. S15 Sans Smoke Deflectors on the Bluebell. Brilliant day with a fantastic goods set. More at - davebowles.smugmug.com/.../LSWR-S15-class/847/
75062, 92128, 45054 - Carnforth 03-12-1967 R54
Agfa Instamatic (film)
Agfachrome CT18 colour slide scanned to digital
South Bucks tour
With a flick of the wrist, Whitman keeper Erica Goad gets just enough of the ball to deflect it from the net and onto the upright for the save during Saturday's game against Linfield.
Lower Antelope Canyon, Page Arizona.
In the canyons the light changes quickly as the sun travels through the day. Both the quality of light and the direction that it is reflected from the walls affect the color in the canyons. The sandstone inside the canyon is, essentially, the same color as it is outside in direct sunlight, a dull reddish orangey brown, but the conditions inside the slot canyons are totally different because of light.
Due to the time of the day, direct light, shadows, deflected and reflected light and something called Rayleigh scattering, light in the canyon is manipulated by the sun and the blue sky above. In part of the canyon where there is less influence from direct sunlight the blue spectrum is more represented, and due to the scattering of the shorter wave length light, blue, it can show up in the photos as a beautiful color. There was only a matter of a few minutes while I was in the canyon that I was able to get some photos with this effect evident clearly.
I cooled down the white balance to enhance its effect, but didn't add any color to this photo.
Rayleigh scattering - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayleigh_scattering
A Peugeot 404 in the showroom of a Peugeot dealer in Oberhausen. The 404 was built in saloon form from 1960 until 1975. Like almost all 404's this one is fitted with a sun-roof with a classic air-deflector.
S15 847 really looks a beast without smoke deflectors! Freshfield Bank, Bluebell Railway. A Jon Bowers charter when he used to control the sun. 😀 8th December 2020. More at - davebowles.smugmug.com/Railways/Southern-Region/LSWR-S15-...
Tuesday 8th December, 847 without smoke deflectors on the Bluebell Railway. See the rest at davebowles.smugmug.com/Recent-events-and-uploads/8th-Dece...
Dedicated to the rock band "if these trees could talk"
I was ski-touring with my parents (it's skiing, but climbing in the mountains, and long only going downhill). The sun was behind a hill and there was a lot of wind, which was picking up snow and sending it in the air close to the ridges. This specific ridge had trees that were shining in the sun, I believe because they had snow in the air around them that was deflecting the sunlight. I was interested in this specific feature, and I took a picture underexposing severely, to focus the attention on it. Unfortunately, the ridge was far, and I had to zoom a lot, which somewhat harmed the quality of the picture.
To get the atmosphere that I was interested in, I post-processed the picture quite a lot. I made it a bit darker while preserving the highlight. I made the colors a bit warmer both in the highlights and in the shadows. I made the hill in the foreground very dark, as I was interested in it only as an outline.
Specifically, for post-processing, I used darktable. I used a varity of tone curve filters to increase the contrast around the ridge and the trees as well as an equalizer filter, keeping in mind to balance the gain in contrast with denoising settings on the equalizer. I used a tone curve to make the sky darker, with a drawn mask using a path that fit the shape of the hill. It created the halo effect of the hill. I used a color correction filter to bring highlight toward orange and I tuned the white balance to get an overall warmer picture.
To create some texture in the hill, I used a horrible hack to duplicate the few trees: I used the "spot removal", which create local clones of the texture, to multiply the number of trees. This required a "creative" use of a tool meant to remove spots.
For denoising, I used a global non-local means filter, with an opacity of 33% (so as to let some of the grain of the original image pass through), and an additional one, stronger, but only applied away from the trees, so as not to damage the texture of the trees.
©peterowbottom - image not public domain, do not download for your use ©peterowbottom2020
Keeping on with the Black and White theme... Jokusarlon beach again and one I couldn't resist doing in B/W as the black sand beach that rthe icebergs have just arrived on makes the perfect contrasting colour.
This latest 'arrival' had broken into 2 pieces upon landing, giving me the magical number 3 instead of just 2 bits, which was kind of it..., the large rounded piece to the rear is doing a great job of deflecting the waves away from the foregound ice.
Wet feet were the order of the day here, once in the morning, and of course not learning by that soaking once again in the evening! incase you were wondering how cold the water is here I recall the air turning blue about the same time it came over my boots!
Lots more images on my main website here - regularly updated
Als EC197 Zürich HB (17:33) - München Hbf (21:04) ist diese Verbindung einer der wenigen relationen in Doppeltraktion von RABe503 "Astoro" und ohne Halt im Grenzbahnhof St. Margrethen. Der Zug überquert dabei den 568 meter langen Galgentobelviadukt. Dieser ersetzte die eingleisige Streckenführung im Steinachtal entlang eines Kriechhanges, der mehrfach zu Betriebsunterbrechungen führte. Darunter zählt der Hangrutsch im Frühjahr 1975. Dieser unstabile bereich wurde mit einer Notbrücke überspannt, welche im Sommer 1975 erstellt worden ist. Die endgültige Lösung zu diesem Problems wurde mit der realisierung eines Zweigleisigen Viaduktes aus Spannbeton mit zehn Pfeiler, der den gesamten instabilen Hangbereich als Streckenvariante umfährt. Das Galgentobelviadukt wurde nach einer Belastungsprobe am 4. April 1982 eröffnet. Diese erfolgte mit zwölf zusammen gekuppelten Ae 6/6, welches einer Masse von 1.440 tonnen auf 220,8 metern entsprach (also etwa 6,5 t/m). Dabei bog sich die Brücke um 15 Millimeter durch, was den berechneten Werten entsprach.
Das zweite Gleis wurde dabei anfänglich nicht verlegt. Der Doppelspurausbau erfolgte im gleichen Jahr 1982 von der neugeschaffenen Dienststation Engwil (nach dem Brückenkopf auf St.Galler Seite) nach Mörschwil. Erst 1994 wurde der restliche Abschnitt zwischen Mörschwil und der Betriebstelle Horchental zweigleisig Ausgebaut.
(Foto mit Drohne aufgenommen)
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As EC197 Zurich HB (17:33) - Munich Hbf (21:04), this connection is one of the few services in double traction with RABe503 "Astoro" and without a stop at St. Margrethen border station. The train crosses the 568 metre long Galgentobel viaduct. This replaced the single-track line in the Steinach Valley along a creeping slope, which led to service interruptions on several occasions. This unstable area was spanned by an emergency bridge, which was built in the summer of 1975. The final solution to this problem was the realisation of a double-track viaduct made of prestressed concrete with ten pillars, which bypassed the entire unstable slope area as a route variant. The Galgentobel Viaduct was opened on 4 April 1982 after a load test. This was carried out with twelve Ae 6/6 trains coupled together, which corresponded to a mass of 1,440 tonnes over 220.8 metres (i.e. around 6.5 t/m). The bridge deflected by 15 millimetres, which corresponded to the calculated values.
The second track was not laid initially. The double track was extended in the same year 1982 from the newly created Engwil service station (after the bridgehead on the St.Gallen side) to Mörschwil. It was not until 1994 that the remaining section between Mörschwil and the Horchental service station was upgraded to double track.(Photo taken with Drone)
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Foto © Federico Santagati
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#SBB CFF FFS
#RABe503 Astoro
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I did the homework so that I could take a shot of the full moon rising over the legendary Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton, high above the Silicon Valley. Today the moon rose at 8:03pm at the azimuth of 118.2° at an angle of 2.5° above the horizon, as seen from the Sierra Vista Point in the Sierra Vista Open Space Preserve, 9.5 miles away from the Lick Observatory.
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The northern lights, or the aurora borealis, are beautiful dancing ribbons of light that have captivated people for millennia. But for all its beauty, this spectacular light show is a rather violent event.
The northern lights are created when energized particles from the sun slam into Earth's upper atmosphere at speeds of up to 45 million mph (72 million kph), but our planet's magnetic field protects us from the onslaught.
As Earth's magnetic field redirects the particles toward the poles — there are southern lights, too, which you can read about below — the dramatic process transforms into a cinematic atmospheric phenomenon that dazzles and fascinates scientists and skywatchers alike. At any given moment, the sun is ejecting charged particles from its corona, or upper atmosphere, creating the solar wind. When that wind slams into Earth's ionosphere, or upper atmosphere, the aurora is born. In the Northern Hemisphere, the phenomenon is called the northern lights (aurora borealis), while in the Southern Hemisphere, it's called the southern lights (aurora australis).
"These particles are deflected towards the poles of Earth by our planet's magnetic field and interact with our atmosphere, depositing energy and causing the atmosphere to fluoresce," Billy Teets, the director of Dyer Observatory at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee told Space.com.
The bright colors of the northern lights are dictated by the chemical composition of Earth's atmosphere.
"If you press that red button, a deflector shield generator will go down!"
"You mean this button here?"
"Yes, yes!"
"You just give that remote to me, or I..."
"Or, you what what...?"
Scoutrooper in the right mumbles something. I'm not hearing this clearly but I think he is talking about the chance to be something else on Galactic Empire, than just a regular biker scout.
One of the generators are already running on hot and would benefit a lot, if someone could take care of it...
I had a vision of in-camera lighting for generators. In fact, I wanted all those four generators glow a red light, but during I was making this, I didn't had the proper lighting fixtures for all four. Instead of doing nothing, I've made a version with a smaller lighting setting. I say, this works even better with my little storyline! :)
Langerei a canal and a name of a street in the Ezelstraat Quarter, northern Bruges, Flanders, Belgium.
The canal originates from the Spiegelrei and starts at the Carmersbrug and ends at the Dampoort. The street of the same name, located on the west bank, runs from the Golden Hand Bridge to the Wulpenstraat. The street on the other side of the water is the Potterierei.
The watercourse and the street have a slightly winding path, along the bed of the original river Reie. At the current 's-Gravenstraat, the Reie was deflected to the east in the late 12th century to connect with the shipping connection that led to the newly founded Damme. The Langerei is spanned by the Snaggaard Bridge, the Duinenbrug and the Leonardsstuwbrug.
The canal is bordered with quay walls made of brick, with on top of bluestone cover plates or an iron parapet. The buildings, of predominantly two or three storeys, have commercial and residential functions, and date from the 15th to the 20th century.
Originally the name Roye was used for the place. From the 13th century the name Houtbrekersdam is mentioned, which refers to the shipbuilding activities. For the area to the west, the toponyms Koetelwic or Ketelwic, or in short, the district, can also be found until the 16th century, which would be situated in that area. They point to a mooring and settlement that existed from the 11th century, and possibly already earlier. From the last quarter of the 16th century the name Langerei is used for the long stretch on the west bank of the canal.
From the Roman times until the 15th century, the watercourse was the most important maritime traffic route in Bruges. Through the later (and now disappeared) Dampoort complex there was a connection with the sea. The District had many trading activities until the end of the 12th century; then the center of gravity moved to the Kraanrei and Spiegelrei.
Between 1623 and 1855, the Langerei was still important as part of the canal between Ostend, Bruges, and Ghent. Then the Ringvaart took over this role. Until the 20s of the 20th century, inland vessels were arriving.
In the years 1972-1974 the swing bridges were replaced by solid stone bridges: the Carmersbrug, the Snaggaardsbrug and the Duinenbrug.
Information Source:
visit-bruges.be/see/places-interest/inner-canals-and-old-...
Tris Forto and fellow youngling Day Riktos practice using the flow of the force to deflect energy bolts with their lighsabers from the training droid.
This was a scene that needed to be done due to how iconic this kinda training is.
Who can guess what part I used for the Helmets?
-Tristan
57312 passes the old bridge smoke deflectors on the former 3rd and 4th lines under Main Street at Treeton. The loco running from Derby RTC to Kilmarnock for a unit move in Scotland. Whilst it was pretty murky this morning and it hasn't improved, the old smoke reflectors sole purpose seemed to be for pigeons to rest on.
“First there is the lying in wait for prey; the prey is marked down long before it is aware of our designs on it. With feelings of pleasure and approval it is contemplated, observed and kept watch over; it is seen as game whilst it is still free, and so intensely and irrevocably seen as game that nothing can deflect the watcher's determination to get hold of it. Already while he is prowling round it he feels that it belongs to him. From the moment he selects it as his prey, he thinks of it as incorporated into himself.”
― Elias Canetti, Crowds and Power (with apologies)
φύσις
It simply can't decide what to do
in waves and fronts that pass through
on the surface it's bitterly cold, it's true
yet within hovers a small flicker of renew
this is Springtime whether it weathers or not
the sky never touches the ground nearby in case we forgot
for life didn't begin with our birth nor does it ever finish untying the knot
from the garden to the Heavens a weavers own beauty spot
that sky rings a familiar tune out of season and into the climate of reason?
and still the beacon reveals the arrayment of nature's exhibition season
from these phenomena overt beings misread the signs of their own high treason
against the wilderness and macroscopic matter of the concluding football season
ha! that deflected attention from the back pages to the Champions League at hand
that's neither here nor Moscow, but wholly entrenched throughout all the land
an entreaty on Earth we've arrogantly failed to sign awaiting it's "value" to expand
so a March regelation stirs the human mind, briefly, in an attempt to understand
if you could be anyway right now, I wonder where it would be?
would your choice be reflection, recollection, or a wish to be free
are the eyes of others firmly seeing through your dreams from the tv?
or has a moment away from hysterical human 'interests' afforded a safer guarantee?
it's still your call, but, inexhaustibly no longer is the Earth reserved
time a plenty must so surely reveal a war-torn world closely observed
and learn we must from the elements bestowing upon us gifts so undeserved
Natura - the course of things - it's characteristics most definitely must be preserved.
by anglia24
17h50: 25/03/2008
©2008anglia24
Bluebell Railway - The first day of the Jon Bowers Charter with S15 - 847 (with smoke deflectors removed) - the very dull day. (DSC 6389)
All images from this day can be found on the Smugmug link below)
davidcable.smugmug.com/Events/2020/201207-Bluebell-Railwa...
My whole life I wanted to be a superhero.....
For FGR:Super Dorks (pretending to be superheros)
When I was little I got Wonder Woman underoo's for my birthday. I wore those things till they disintegrated. I would run around my house with aluminum foil for wrist bands deflecting bullets. My jump rope was the truth lasso. Oh yeah my dorkiness started at a very young age!!!!
*Explored* Made to number 1!!
Taken at the Hagley Museum in Wilmington, Delaware...once a major producer of gunpowder, dating back more than 200 years. The black powder necessary was refined in a series of small 3-sided mills, with the entrances of each being through several archways of massive stones, and involving making a zigzag pathway to the small chamber where the grinding was done.
The process was super dangerous, and the mills were made with the side facing the Brandywine River being open so that if a blast occurred, most of the force would be deflected away from the rest of the facilities. Despite extraordinary care, a number of people went "over the river" in the 150 years of production. A blast in the early 1900s was heard in Baltimore, 70 miles away.
The Tie Saber was a prototype tie with rotating lightsaber-edged panels designed to deflect enemy fire and slice through enemy ships. It was constructed using a handful of Kyber crystals found on Ilum after the fall of the Jedi and was only pilot-able by force users. While fast and agile it was prone to spontaneous self destruction and was cancelled soon after deployment
Built in celebration of May the Fourth.
The Elementhals by Daniel Arrhakis (2021)
With the music : Audiomachine - Eterna
In order to avoid the destruction of many more worlds in the gravitational chaos that came from the planetary event, a superior race of powerful mystical beings "The Elementhals" managed to deflect two of the "Blue Worlds", planets that have the potential to generate life and have antagonistic mystical natures, thus the Twin Worlds of Althahyan were protected.
Many mystic old masters and scholars have been discussing the existence of The Elementhals throughout the ages, but in older Krudhyn books of the Ancients several references are made about the existence of higher mystical entities with powers over the four elementary physical states of matter: water, rocks, air and fire.
For millions of years they evolved spiritually into an ethereal state that is practically invisible in certain radiation ranges but with powers over the water, rocks and atmosphere of the planets.
Its main destination, the protection of life and the tenuous spiritual balance in the Universe. However, they obey the laws of the Fifth Element, the creative spiritual force that gives life to matter or Ahylyhan (one of many of its names) vowing never to interfere directly with the free will of the governing peoples.
However, some of them on the threshold of their oath influence indirectly or inspire through thoughts, dreams or premonitory visions some of the beings who have their most developed spiritual power or who feel that connection.
According to some of Krudhyn's old mystical books , were they who taught the mystical arts to the first masters who founded Krudhyn's mystical orders - Legends! Some will say, but I know personally that they are not legends ...
due to its whiteness the heat of the sunrays are deflected thus the sand remains cool even in bright sunshine so u can lay on the sand even without a towel
Die Meininger 50 3501 passiert das Stahllager in Konitz in Richtung Gera.
A German steamlocomotive class 50 passing the storage yard for steel at Konitz on her way to Gera.
Немецкий паровоз класса 50 проходит мимо стального склада в Кенице.
With steam to spare 30777 Sir Lamiel approaches Quorn and Woodhouse with the 12.15 Loughborough to Leicester North service, 31st January 2009.
As a colour shot I did not think this had a lot going for it and converting to black and white has to my mind improved it no end.
Locomotive History
The London and South Western Railway class N15 passenger 4-6-0 engine first appeared in August 1918 and following the formation of the Southern Railway in 1923, three more batches to a modified design were built. The class was named after characters from the Round Table and were therefore known as the King Arthur class. The second of the three batches was built by the North British Locomotive Company, and included E777 Sir Lamiel. They differed from the preceding engines by the fitting of a narrower cab suitable for use on the Eastern section of the Southern Railway, Ashford pattern smokebox doors and 5,000 gallon bogie tenders. It was initially allocated to Nine Elms MPD, and worked expresses to Bournemouth, Salisbury and beyond. Following problems with drifting smoke, smoke deflectors were fitted in December 1927. Sir Lamiel spent a few years at Battersea MPD from May 1934, where it worked Continental and Victoria to Margate expresses. By the start of the Second World War Sir Lamiel was back at Nine Elms MPD, but saw periods of service at Battersea MPD, and Bournemouth MPD. It was renumbered 30777 in May 1948, and returned to Battersea MPD in 1951 followed by transfer to Dover MPD. The Kent Coast electrification in June 1959 resulted in more transfers, and Sir Lamiel ended up at Feltham MPD and finally Basingstoke MPD. Following withdrawal in October 1961 it was stored at Fratton, Stratford and Ashford, before being adopted by the Humberside Locomotive Group in June 1978. At Dairycoates depot in Hull the engine was rebuilt and returned to steam on 21st February 1982. Following several years on the main line, a second overhaul was completed in 1989.
Langerei a canal and a name of a street in the Ezelstraat Quarter, northern Bruges, Flanders, Belgium.
The canal originates from the Spiegelrei and starts at the Carmersbrug and ends at the Dampoort. The street of the same name, located on the west bank, runs from the Golden Hand Bridge to the Wulpenstraat. The street on the other side of the water is the Potterierei.
The watercourse and the street have a slightly winding path, along the bed of the original river Reie. At the current 's-Gravenstraat, the Reie was deflected to the east in the late 12th century to connect with the shipping connection that led to the newly founded Damme. The Langerei is spanned by the Snaggaard Bridge, the Duinenbrug and the Leonardsstuwbrug.
The canal is bordered with quay walls made of brick, with on top of bluestone cover plates or an iron parapet. The buildings, of predominantly two or three storeys, have commercial and residential functions, and date from the 15th to the 20th century.
Originally the name Roye was used for the place. From the 13th century the name Houtbrekersdam is mentioned, which refers to the shipbuilding activities. For the area to the west, the toponyms Koetelwic or Ketelwic, or in short, the district, can also be found until the 16th century, which would be situated in that area. They point to a mooring and settlement that existed from the 11th century, and possibly already earlier. From the last quarter of the 16th century the name Langerei is used for the long stretch on the west bank of the canal.
From the Roman times until the 15th century, the watercourse was the most important maritime traffic route in Bruges. Through the later (and now disappeared) Dampoort complex there was a connection with the sea. The District had many trading activities until the end of the 12th century; then the center of gravity moved to the Kraanrei and Spiegelrei.
Between 1623 and 1855, the Langerei was still important as part of the canal between Ostend, Bruges, and Ghent. Then the Ringvaart took over this role. Until the 20s of the 20th century, inland vessels were arriving.
In the years 1972-1974 the swing bridges were replaced by solid stone bridges: the Carmersbrug, the Snaggaardsbrug and the Duinenbrug.
Information Source:
visit-bruges.be/see/places-interest/inner-canals-and-old-...
August 2020. S15 Sans Smoke Deflectors on the Bluebell. Brilliant day with a fantastic goods set. More at - davebowles.smugmug.com/.../LSWR-S15-class/847/
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With some period bits such as wind deflectors, reflectors on the doors and mudflaps, and an added rear tow hitch.
This is a photo taken at the small but beautiful Lower Chasm Falls in Tasmania. These falls require a drive initially towards Meander Falls and then to turn off onto a steep uphill fire track for a few kilometres that I was just able to negotiate in a 2WD car. You then have to cross a river on foot and continue uphill for a time until you reach a clearing where there is a narrow steep track defined by markers down to the falls. This is a single long exposure of 20 seconds using a circular polariser to help deflect any glare
Another shot of S15 847 sans deflectors this time departing Horsted Keynes on the Bluebell Railway. More at - davebowles.smugmug.com/Railways/Southern-Region/LSWR-S15-...
Two weeks ago we attended high power rocket launches at Friends of Amateur Rocketry, a private rocket launch facility in the Mojave Desert, California. On Sunday I was invited to take photos of a test launch by a commercial rocket startup, currently in stealth mode. Below the rocket is a deflector plate made of steel that protects the concrete below from the hot exhaust of the rocket. It was all rusty before launch, and had nice patterns after launch. What do you see in this picture?
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Allot going on in this image on a rainy Houston afternoon. The obvious is one of the Emirates "United for Wildlife" special liveries taking off on runway 15L. The turbulence being generated from the nacelle vortex generators as the vortex passes over the wing is clearly visible as is the vortex from the bottom of the wing tip fence. The wingtip fence vortex is deflecting up as the aircraft rotates and then levels off as it passes by the tail. Finally, one of IAH ops representatives can be seen under the tail taking in the scene.
More beachcombing... a clump of washed up giant kelp deflects an incoming wave on Dennison Beach north of Bicheno, Tasmania.
Our unique giant kelp forests are in decline. You guessed it - warming oceans and an invasion/increase in predator numbers - long spined sea urchins (Centrostephanus rodgersii) - combined with a decrease in their predators - the southern rock lobster (Jasus edwardsii) have been significant factors.
While efforts to restock the east coast with smaller crays from the island's south coast and small scale commercial harvesting of the urchins is in progress, the barren reefs left behind by the urchins are not a suitable habitat for either kelp, lobsters, shellfish, scale fish or anything else :\
Technically the tide was on the ebb but while I was framing up an altogether different image, I was photobombed by a bit bigger one :-)
Nikon Z6, Nikkor 14-30/4, 1/320th sec at f/14, ISO 160
It was only a matter of time before they found us.
My master and I have been hiding in a remote settlement deep in the forests of Krant for the last 16 months. Every two or three months we venture into the nearest town of Nojuri to purchase food and supplies, and to gather intel on the comings and goings of the empire. This time we must have been spotted by an imperial spy, for a day into our return trek to our camp we were set upon by an ambush of scout troopers. My master held them off and told me to flee, which I did to protect the now dwindling Jedi order.
That was two days ago.
Since then, I have been on the run, hearing distant gunfire as the enemy hunt for food to eat or mistakenly shoot at what I hope is not my master. I hope he is still alive. I know that an inquisitor has been dispatched by the empire, as I saw a dual bladed lightsaber illuminating a mountain top last night, and even if I had not had this fleeting glimpse it was bound to happen, knowing how desperately they wish to eradicate my race.
Then he came for me.
He appeared atop the large boulder with a wisteria draped over it in the clearing where I lay hidden under some ferns. He announced that he was the Fifth Brother and that he was impressed at how long we had evaded him, then the scout troopers came for me. Igniting my lightsaber I deftly deflected their shots and fled into the brush. I was feeling awash with questions; why didn’t this Fifth Brother kill me himself rather than sending his troops after me? How did they find me so fast? And what has happened to my master? I remember him telling me a legend about a lost temple hidden on Krant that only the Jedi could enter, and that deep within was a secret that could destroy the Empire. All I must do now is find it...
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So this is what I’ve been building for the last month or so! As you can see, this is for darktimes, though I must admit that this only became a Star Wars build late in the building process, as I was just enjoying building a mix of my three favourite types of landscape.
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...that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed...
--Douglas Coupland
Shattered glass from a window at work. The rock (kicked up by a huge mowing machine) was headed straight for me. Luckily it hit a part of the building that deflected it from its path. This happened over 2 years ago... when I was pregnant with the baby G :-)
Master Jack and Simon discuss their next steps.
Master Jack suggests they look for something valuable.
Having started the morning at Barrow Upon Soar looking for a suitable location we decided to move north owing to very poor light. Arriving at Colton junction it was glorious but cloud later developed. The concern was the wind direction and would the exhaust lift enough to get the light that we still had. Working hard and with the smoke deflectors doing their job 46233 looked fabulous past the small gallery at Colton Junction running fifty minutes late.
The York Yuletide Express London Ealing-York Saturday 17th December 2016 LMS Princess Coronation Class 4-6-2 No 46233 Duchess of Sutherland - Copyright Simon Lathlane.
I was hungry after photographing a holiday party event in event in San Francisco, so I went to get some food at the nearby Mel's Drive-In, a 1950s-style diner on Lombard Street. The event was organized by the B612 Foundation, which is dedicated to track asteroids, so that those who potentially could hit Earth can be deflected in time.
I processed a photographic, a paintery, and a balanced HDR photo from three RAW exposures, blended them, carefully adjusted the color balance and curves, and desaturated the image. I welcome and appreciate constructive comments.
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-- ƒ/6.3, 16 mm, 1/20, 1/80, 1/320 sec, ISO 3200, Sony A6000, SEL-P1650, HDR, 3 RAW exposures, _DSC0894_5_6_hdr3pho1pai5bal1h.jpg
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There are, it seems, two muses: the Muse of Inspiration, who gives us inarticulate visions and desires, and the Muse of Realization, who returns again and again to say “It is yet more difficult than you thought.” This is the muse of form. It may be then that form serves us best when it works as an obstruction, to baffle us and deflect our intended course. It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.
— Wendell Berry
These thoughts were incredibly well written by Wendell Berry, about the making of sculpture, but they resonate with me about making of a photograph as opposed to taking a picture.