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Soatanana (Madagascar) - Je ne suis pas enclin à adopter le mode de vie des communautés religieuses Hamish ou des Berger blancs. Je dois cependant leur reconnaître au moins une qualité éducative : les enfants n’ont pas le nez penché toute la journée sur leur smartphone. Autre avantage, pour le photographe cette fois, ils ne posent pas stupidement en prenant des airs de rappeurs.
Au cours de mon bref séjour au sein de « l’Eglise du Réveil », j’ai pourtant aperçu un membre du conseil des sages me photographier discrètement avec un téléphone. Preuve qu’ils ne vivent pas sur une autre planète. Mais après avoir pris sa photo, il s’est empressé de ranger son appareil dans sa poche. C’est la seul fois où j’ai vu un smartphone. Je n’en ai plus revu jusqu’à mon départ.
Children without smartphones
Soatanana (Madagascar) - I am not inclined to adopt the lifestyle of the Hamish or White Shepherd religious communities. However, I must recognize at least one educational quality: the children do not have their noses bent over their smartphones all day. Another advantage, for the photographer this time, is that they do not pose stupidly and take on the airs of rappers.
During my brief stay in the "Church of Awakening", I nevertheless saw a member of the council of elders discreetly photograph me with a phone. Proof that they do not live on another planet. But after taking his photo, he quickly put his camera back in his pocket. This is the only time I saw a smartphone. I did not see one again until I left.
A discrete location on Tasmania's North West Coast finds 1400 million year old proterozoic rocks ripped apart by 8-12 million year old intrusive basalt.
Put them all in the Bass Strait washing machine. Pebble City
Nikon Z6, Nikkor Z 24-200/4-6,3, 77 secs at f/11, Breakthrough Photography 15 stop ND Filter.
Madera Canyon--Proctor Rd., Pima County, AZ.
This white-throated thrush was our main target in Arizona. This thrush is an ABA code 4 bird which likely moved up from the mountains of northern Mexico because of a cold snap. It's the first record for Arizona. This bird associated with a group of robins, often discretely foraging on the ground. Definitely a hard bird to photograph as it didn't perch up in the hackberries as it has in the past.
🇫🇷 La libellule de l'hiver
A la sortie de l'hiver, vous est-il déjà arrivé d'apercevoir une libellule très discrète aux couleurs ternes ? Oui, c'est une demoiselle qui passe l'hiver au-dehors, assez difficile à voir dans la 🌳roselière🌳 car elle prend la couleur des débris végétaux sur lesquels elle se pose. Mais quand les premiers beaux jours du printemps arrivent, elle apparait en tandem pour pondre sur des tiges sèches par exemple. Elle a un joli nom tout de même : "Brunette hivernale"
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🇺🇸 ️The winter dragonfly
At the end of winter, have you ever seen a very discreet dragonfly with dull colors? Yes, it is a damselfly that spends the winter outside, quite difficult to see in the 🌳reed bed🌳 because it takes the color of the plant remains on which it rests. But when the first beautiful days of spring arrive, it appears in tandem to lay eggs on dry stems for example.
Brunette hivernale / Common winter damselfly / Sympecma fusca
Milieu naturel, écosystème :🌳 Roselière 🌳
Natural environment, ecosystem:🌳 Reed bed 🌳
Lieu : Espace Naturel de la Motte / Seine-et-Marne
📷ISO 250, 105mm, f/4.8 1/320
web site : pascalechevest.com
Giselle Garland Clematis, Clematis Evipo / Clématite Giselle Garland, Clématite Evipo
My garden / Mon jardin
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‘I was non-committal. Nowadays, one never knows who is a secret agent.’
(From: Julian, by Gore Vidal, 1964).
SHE emerges from the secret time portal and like a shadow SHE moves through the megacity’s aqueduct system, silently and deadly. Overhead the muffled sound of the metropolis when, unexpectedly, SHE encounters a fellow agent of the shadowy Mardie Industrial Complex moving in the opposite direction. It is Mission Sunday. Silently they pass each other, like ships in the night, a short nod and a discrete salute, and on they continue on their respective missions, their futuristic night vision goggles signaling goodbye and Godspeed. These are the true professionals, helping us to sleep soundly at night as we browse our Flickr feeds before bedtime. They are Major Tom and ….
Agent: ZodaZoul
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From our developing, highly unstable and explosive series 'Série Noire'. Welcome to Megatropolis - raw, hungry, at dusk, at dawn, always on the edge of darkness - surreal, expressionist, ripe with the smell of danger and the scream of victims. This megacity is always ready to pose for a movie director, a starlet and a loaded gun. Film noir shot in hardboiled color and occasional B&W. You have been warned.
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Our incipient web page:
Mist rising from the River Lathkill on a rather chilly morning last week.
If you look closely in the bottom right of the frame you can see the sun being diffracted (?) by ice on the vegetation, showing up as discrete points of colour.
Long exposure light design in the air at night with the help of 24 among candles & lanterns, my two hands & arms and my Canon EOS 250D. No editing nor post-production (except my #WhiteANGEL watermark made with another long exposure shot of light painting).
I painted these wings in a wide portion of my garden, so, they are very large :-) With many light painting sessions I became more skilled in painting in the air at night, till reaching discrete results of shapes and even lettering. My monogram logo was obtained writing with fire, in fact. But I like this early attempt because I can see the raw spontaneous strokes and just in the digital processing I happened to realize they looked like wings.
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Manually Explored on monthly TakeOver day, selection dedicated to the Four Elements, April 24 2025 # 31
Specimen spotted by Otto (my Swedish friend)
Location: Sumatra, Indonesia (Endemic)
Toxicity: Mildly venomous
Length: about 60 cm
Reproduction: Oviparous
Diagnosis: “the Sumatran population is discretely diagnosable from the unbanded lineage in having 199–204 ventral scales as opposed to 167–190. Therefore, we no longer consider A. tropidonotus a junior synonym of A. vertebralis and resurrect it to its previous species status. It is diagnosable by the unique combination of having a maximum SVL of 549 mm in males (females unknown); 15/15/15 dorsal scale rows; 199–204 ventral scales; 73–76 subcaudal scales; a single postocular; 2+1–2 temporals; six or seven supralabials and infralabials; the presence of a single anterior inframaxillary; and having dorsal bands as adults” [LOREDO et al. 2013: 513].
Diet: Like all slug snakes, this species has a unique and specialized teeth that allows it to corkscrew the flesh of the snails.
Source: www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Cryptic-speciation-within-A...
An evening of slithering in and about my old neighborhood. Some places discretely and others where there was nowhere to hide and the night had eyes. Here was total comfort. 10/30/2022.
Thymelicus sylvestris
This golden skipper is often found basking on vegetation, or making short buzzing flights among tall grass stems. Despite its name, 4 skipper species found in the British Isles are the same size or smaller than the Small Skipper. The male is distinguished from the female by the sex brand on its forewings, which is a slightly curved line of specialised scent scales. This butterfly is widespread on the British mainland, south of a line running between Westmorland in the west and North Northumberland in the east. It is absent from Ireland, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. This species lives in discrete colonies of both small and large populations.
(source: UK Butterflies www.ukbutterflies.co.uk/index.php)
Lac du Salagou, le 07 Août 2014. Nous sommes un jeudi. Fin de journée.
Avec une envie forte de se rafraichir par un bain dans le lac du Salagou
pour clore cette journée sur les chemins d'écoliers du haut Languedoc.
Paysages presque lunaire à cette heure
où seul un vent léger nous accompagne.
Vous ne verrez pas le lac mais les éléments de sa proximité,traités comme au couteau pour en trancher chaque détail.
Il fait doux, le soleil commence sa chute vertigineuse alors que, blanche et discrète, la lune s'est déjà installée dans ses quartiers.
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Lake Salagou, August 7, 2014. We are a Thursday. End of day.
With a strong desire to refresh with a dip in the lake Salagou
to end the day on the roads of pupils of high Languedoc.
Almost lunar landscape at this time
where only a light wind with us.
You will not see the lake but the elements of its proximity, treated like a knife to slice each detail.
The weather is mild, the sun begins its steep decline while white and discreet, the moon is already installed in its neighborhoods.
Lac du Salagou, le 07 Août 2014. Nous sommes un jeudi. Fin de journée.
Avec une envie forte de se rafraichir par un bain dans le lac du Salagou
pour clore cette journée sur les chemins d'écoliers du haut Languedoc.
Paysages presque lunaire à cette heure
où seul un vent léger nous accompagne.
Vous ne verrez pas le lac mais les éléments de sa proximité,traités comme au couteau pour en trancher chaque détail.
Il fait doux, le soleil commence sa chute vertigineuse alors que, blanche et discrète, la lune s'est déjà installée dans ses quartiers.
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Lake Salagou, August 7, 2014. We are a Thursday. End of day.
With a strong desire to refresh with a dip in the lake Salagou
to end the day on the roads of pupils of high Languedoc.
Almost lunar landscape at this time
where only a light wind with us.
You will not see the lake but the elements of its proximity, treated like a knife to slice each detail.
The weather is mild, the sun begins its steep decline while white and discreet, the moon is already installed in its neighborhoods.
Of course the Perkeo didn't make me forget the discrete charm of the Ikonta 521.
Zeiss Ikonta 521 and Novar-Anastigmat 1:4,5 f=7,5cm, Ilford HP5 in Rodinal 1+50 for 13min @ 21°C and digitalized using kit zoom and extension tubes.
Thank you everyone for your visits, faves and comments, they are always appreciated :)
Our Little Heart Planter will be available at the Atomic Love Fest.
This planter is Mystory compatible and will boost your happiness and provide you with a slight boost to your social as well.
Optimized for discrete gardening.
Pick up here: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Holograms/212/223/3501
“It is very exciting, isn’t it Bertie?”
“It certainly is Sky, I never thought that Posh would allow us to decorate the Christmas Tree. Just imagine it Sky, Santa Claus will admire our tree and if it is extra good, he may award us extra jars of honey.” Said Bertie.
“Yes, that would be soooo good. We’ll have to do exactly what Posh suggests for we can’t afford to make mistakes where extra honey is concerned.”
“Sky, after yesterday I wouldn’t have thought you would be too worried about honey. When Wellington said that you could help yourself, he didn’t mean you could eat all his honey. What did he say when he saw it was all gone, Sky?”
“I don’t know Bertie; I’d made a discrete exit by then. I didn’t mean to eat it all, I just started and then one jar led to another. I’ll have to order extra and so I can replace some of it for him. I don’t want him to go all military and grumpy on me again, he gets frightfully bossy when he does that.”
“Hello Bertie, Sky, I think Wellington is looking for you Sky.” Said Posh as he sat down beside his friends.
“Sky is trying to keep out of his way at the moment Posh.” Explained Bertie.
“Why is that Sky?”
“Just a tiny misunderstanding, Posh. I’ll sort it out once we have finished decorating the tree. What do you think so far?”
“It is nice but I do think we need to get those extra lights on it somehow. They are too long though; I wonder if we could shorten them?” Asked Posh.
“I don’t know Posh; might it not be dangerous to try cutting through the cable when dealing with electrickery? You did tell us never to touch any electrickery Posh and if the lights don’t have an end because we have cut it off, where will it end up going?” Said Bertie looking concerned.
“You’re right Bertie, if there is to be any cutting to be done, we’ll let the man do it.” Said Posh.
“I put the star on top Posh, it was hard climbing up there and took ages.” Said Sky.
“It was much easier coming down and you did it so fast too, Sky.” Said Bertie giggling.
“Just as well you had a soft landing then Sky.” Said Posh smiling.
“Ah, Sky, there you are, I’ve been looking for you, don’t you know?” Said Wellington as he hurried to join the other bears.
“Hi Wellington, don’t worry I have got replacements all lined up and it will be delivered very shortly.” Explained Sky.
“Replacements? What are you on about? I wanted to know if you had seen Icecap about? I’ve been to his usual home and he wasn’t there, so I thought he might be with you.” Explained Wellington.
“No Wellington, I haven’t seen Icecap since he gave me those jars of honey just before you saw me yesterday and offered me your honey too.”
“Heaven help your tummy Sky, no wonder you had tummy ache yesterday evening. I would think that you not only filled your hollow legs up but filled up right to the top of your head with honey.” Said Bertie shaking his head.
“It was very ouchie Bertie, I shouldn’t have eaten it all and I know that now.”
“Just how much honey did you eat then Sky?” Asked Wellington.
“I’m not sure but a few jars I guess.”
“I had three jars Sky, so how many are left now?” Asked Wellington.
“I’m not sure exactly Wellington, I didn’t exactly count. I’ll order you some more later today when the man places his food order.”
“Well, approximately, how many are left Sky?”
“Approximately, Wellington, I’d say about none. Don’t worry though, as I said, I’ll replace them.”
“I’m not worried one bit, don’t you know? It wasn’t my honey for starters, what? I had ordered it specially as Christmas presents for Posh, Bertie and yourself. I’m not sure how pleased Posh and Bertie are going to be when they open their presents and find empty jars though.”
“Whoops…” said Sky as he looked first at Posh and then at Bertie. “It was very good honey if that helps.”
Eén van mijn favoriete plantjes. Nederig, onopvallend staan ze, in de schaduw van andere planten, wonderschoon te zijn.
One of my favourite small plants. Humble, discrete, in the shadow of other plants, they stand just being gorgeous.
Please don't use my images on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission. All rights reserved - copyright © Stefano Scarselli
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If you happen to walk along the Pest Quay, between the Parliament and the Chain Bridge, you will find an enigmatic and discrete monument, remarkable for its eloquence. Just on the border of the quay, facing the Danube, a row of 60 cast iron shoe pairs mimic the exact appearance of true shoes. They seem to be made of real leather, but their rigid hardness conveys a deep concern. This sculpture by Gyula Pauer and Can Togay was placed here in 2005. Its aim is to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the assassination of innocent civilians in Second World War Budapest. In the night of January 8,1945 , the Nyilaskeresztes Párt (Arrow Cross) militia men shot hundreds of men, women and children into the Danube, just because they were, or were supposed to be, Jewish. They were victims of the terror wave that devastated Central Europe during those terrible years.
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Se vi capita di passeggiare lungo la banchina di Pest, tra il Parlamento e il Ponte delle Catene, si trova un monumento enigmatico e discreto, notevole per la sua eloquenza. Proprio sul bordo della banchina, di fronte al Danubio, una fila di 60 paia di scarpe in ghisa hanno l'aspetto esatto di scarpe vere. Sembrano essere fatte di vero cuoio ma la loro rigidita' trasmette una profonda inquetudine. Questa scultura di Gyula Pauer e Can Togay è stata posta qui nel 2005. Il suo scopo è quello di commemorare il 60 ° anniversario dell'assassinio di civili innocenti a Budapest durante la Seconda Guerra Mondiale. La notte dell'8 Gennaio 1945, i miliziani della Nyilaskeresztes Pàrt (Arrow Cross) spararono a centinaia di uomini, donne e bambini nel Danubio, proprio perché erano, o avrebbero dovuto essere, ebrei. Furono vittime dell'onda di terrore che devastò l'Europa centrale durante quei terribili anni.
We love these restaurant fronts that are both discrete and original...`
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On aime ces devantures de restaurants à la fois discrètes et originales…
Lac du Salagou, le 07 Août 2014. Nous sommes un jeudi. Fin de journée.
Avec une envie forte de se rafraichir par un bain dans le lac du Salagou
pour clore cette journée sur les chemins d'écoliers du haut Languedoc.
Paysages presque lunaire à cette heure
où seul un vent léger nous accompagne.
Vous ne verrez pas le lac mais les éléments de sa proximité,traités comme au couteau pour en trancher chaque détail.
Il fait doux, le soleil commence sa chute vertigineuse alors que, blanche et discrète, la lune s'est déjà installée dans ses quartiers.
...
Lake Salagou, August 7, 2014. We are a Thursday. End of day.
With a strong desire to refresh with a dip in the lake Salagou
to end the day on the roads of pupils of high Languedoc.
Almost lunar landscape at this time
where only a light wind with us.
You will not see the lake but the elements of its proximity, treated like a knife to slice each detail.
The weather is mild, the sun begins its steep decline while white and discreet, the moon is already installed in its neighborhoods.
The American Robin or North American Robin (Turdus migratorius) is a migratory songbird of the thrush family. It is named after the European Robin because of its reddish-orange breast, though the two species are not closely related, with the European robin belonging to the flycatcher family. The American Robin is widely distributed throughout North America, wintering south of Canada from Florida to central Mexico and along the Pacific Coast. It is the state bird of Connecticut, Michigan, and Wisconsin. It has seven subspecies, but only T. m. confinis in the southwest is particularly distinctive, with pale gray-brown underparts.
The American Robin is active mostly during the day and assembles in large flocks at night. Its diet consists of invertebrates (such as beetle grubs, earthworms, and caterpillars), fruits and berries. It is one of the earliest bird species to lay eggs, beginning to breed shortly after returning to its summer range from its winter range. Its nest consists of long coarse grass, twigs, paper, and feathers, and is smeared with mud and often cushioned with grass or other soft materials. It is among the first birds to sing at dawn, and its song consists of several discrete units that are repeated.
The adult robin is preyed upon by hawks, cats and larger snakes, but when feeding in flocks, it can be vigilant and watch other birds for reactions to predators. Brown-headed Cowbirds lay eggs in robin nests (see brood parasite), but robins usually reject the cowbird eggs.
Los Angeles. California.
Brown Argus / aricia agestio, *(Peak District race). Longstone Edge, Derbyshire. 06/07/16.
I was delighted to get good views of this Peak District variety of the Brown Argus. A persistent breeze made for challenging macro photography but determined efforts rewarded me with a couple of reasonable record images.
The identification of a specific Peak District race/population has been the subject of much debate. Opinion varied as to whether it should be regarded as a Northern Brown Argus or a Brown Argus. Eventually, genetic research confirmed it to be a variety of Brown Argus.
Derbyshire holds small, discrete populations of this tiny butterfly. The small black spots are present on the forewings, but edged with variable amounts of white. The Derbyshire colonies favour sunny, sheltered dales, hillsides and old quarries containing unimproved limestone grassland where Common Rock Rose grows.
Gangly raptor with long wings and tail; local in marshes and wetlands with extensive reed beds. Mainly seen in flight, quartering fairly low over marshes, with wings raised in shallow V. Commonest plumage dark brown overall with variable creamy cap, throat, and narrow leading edge to wing. Brightest adult males have tricolored upperwings, grayish tail, pale head and breast contrasting with rusty-brown belly. Extremely similar to closely related Eastern Marsh-Harrier; males of that species are darker-headed and browner-chested, and females are warmer brown and streakier on the chest, without Eurasian's discrete white 'cap' and dark line through the eye. eBird
That lovely, sunny day of an August morning , a certain part of my back garden was full of butterflies! Different families, 2-5 butterflies of each family… They were mainly visiting two happily blooming Buddleias, a white one, and a pink one.
But this lovely Lady finally landed on the leaves of our Willow Tree, who is growing close-by. She was the only one of her kind that day in the garden, so I was following her everywhere very discretely….
Gangly raptor with long wings and tail; local in marshes and wetlands with extensive reed beds. Mainly seen in flight, quartering fairly low over marshes, with wings raised in shallow V. Commonest plumage dark brown overall with variable creamy cap, throat, and narrow leading edge to wing.
Brightest adult males have tricolored upperwings, greyish tail, pale head and breast contrasting with rusty-brown belly. Extremely similar to closely related Eastern Marsh-Harrier; males of that species are darker-headed and browner-chested, and females are warmer brown and streakier on the chest, without Eurasian's discrete white 'cap' and dark line through the eye.
Discrète, la Gorge-bleue à miroir vit retirée dans la végétation, mais elle peut apparaître en chassant en lisière ou brièvement perchée en évidence. Elle cherche sa nourriture à terre en sautillant. De temps à autre, elle fait volte-face et se dresse sur ses pattes fines, les ailes pendantes et la queue relevée en éventail. La base de la queue de couleur rouille est alors bien visible. Le mâle peut chanter sur un perchoir dissimule dans les fourrés ou les buissons bas proches de l'eau, ou tout à fait à découvert. Son vol bas est papillonnant, il est souvent bref et vif, vers le couvert proche.
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Discreet, the Mirror-Throated Throat lives removed in the vegetation, but it can appear by hunting on the edge or briefly perched in evidence. She looks for food on the ground while hopping. From time to time she turns and stands on her thin legs, her wings hanging down and her tail raised in a fan. The base of the rusty tail is then clearly visible. The male can sing on a perch hidden in thickets or low bushes close to the water, or quite uncovered. Its low flight is fluttering, it is often short and sharp, towards the close cover.
Marbella is well known through the world as a luxury holiday destination in the “Costa del Sol” in the South of Spain. From 7 to 8 figures Villas, Ferrari, Porsche, RR, Hermés, Louis Vuitton and Rolex in gold with gold overload in option as well as paying 3,000 Euros/Dollars for a bottle of Möet & Chandon in a disco at night. Plenty of beautiful young and not so young girls available. You name it. Soon you start to ask yourself, as Henry-Cartier Bresson once did: “where the money came from”?
I’m not interested in that vision of Marbella. With my Leica I’m much more intrigued in how the authentic people from Marbella lives. And when we speak about living in Marbella we should observe how people behaves in the beaches. The true treasure of Marbella is neither on champagne nor in fine dresses. The jewel of Marbella is the sun itself. The authentic people from Marbella knows it perfectly well. They know people come and go and they know too the sun is the only thing that remains.
My “Marbella Collection” tries to gather the ambiance in the beach. I usually arrive with my Leica inside a discrete black bag. No space for more than an M body and a 50mm Summicron with a 10 stops neutral density filter. I take seat below my sun-umbrella everyday day and the Leica goes out the bag to see light. In less than five minutes I take three or four shots, no more. No need for being in a hurry. Everything is calm as are the tiny waves from the Alboran’s Sea. I take the pictures and then the Leica goes inside the black sand-proof bag. Next comes the solar protection cream and the sunbath. The Leica knows that she can rest until next morning.
Some litter shits try to be so thoughtful and hide their rubbish away where they think no one will see it. Even discretely behind some carefully placed slate. Can you see it? It's not just little aluminium foil tray disposable bbqs you come across these days, but even larger kettle bbqs and chimeneas abandoned in the countryside. And Darcy had a little illegal feast on some cooked sausages she sniffed out hidden in the grass.
On Sunday I went to mass at Notre Dame in Paris, which was an experience and a half. Afterwards I took a look around and the next mass had started - so a sneaky photo was taken. Discretely, unlike the hordes of Japanese tourists taking pictures with flash.
The central, lower portion of the stained glass window is damaged, or dirty, or both - it wasn't me!
So, I am happy enough with the start to the 52, but where do I go from here?!
🇬🇧 Time Machine?
In Siena, at the end of the historic procession, we are treated to a most comical scene: halberdiers versus street sweepers.
What era are we living in… or rather, what era would we like to be living in?
Here, traditions and modern necessities collide quietly — a perfect portrait of a city where centuries slide and overlap.
Part of the ongoing series: AT WORK – Fragments of Labor and Dignity
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🇫🇷 Machine à remonter le temps ?
À Sienne, à la fin de la procession historique, on a droit à une image des plus cocasses : des hallebardiers face à une balayeuse de rue.
Dans quelle époque sommes-nous… Ou plutôt, dans quelle époque aimerions-nous vivre ?
Ici, traditions et nécessités modernes se croisent discrètement — portrait parfait d’une ville où les siècles glissent et se superposent.
The beautiful and majestic barred spiral galaxy, NGC1365, lays in the depth of space some 56 million light-years away in the constellation of Fornax. But NGC1365 is not alone, as it forms part of the enormous Fornax galaxy cluster which is said to be the second most richest galaxy cluster within 100 million light years from earth [with the Virgo cluster of galaxies being largest].
This galaxy shows intense star forming regions, defined by the pinkish, magenta tones surrounding the galaxy core and out into and along its arms. The nature of this barred typed spiral galaxy resides in the shape of its core, and how it extends to its arms. With highly defined dust lanes that etch across this bar section, the barred shape is easily confirmed. Astronomical studies reveal the gravitational nature of this bar structure serves as a perfect funnelling mechanism, channelling stellar material, such as stars, dust and gas, towards the centre that ultimately feed a discrete, super-massive black hole.
Matter of interest: To the right of NGC1365, and between what seems to be a distant elliptical galaxy, are a number of very faint and possibly fine galaxy arm extensions, or tidal tails that may be associated to NGC1365. Their positions extend out far and wide of that of the main structure. This observation may only be that of coincidentally aligned structures.
This image was captured over the months of October to November 2019, with the top 23 hours of sub-exposures taken with Luminance, Red, Green and Blue filters. These sub-exposures were individually calibrated and then medium combined to create a master filter set. This master set was then combined and edited to create this final image.
Hi resolution version:
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Position | Size | Orientation:
Center (RA, Dec):(53.400, -36.140)
Center (RA, hms):03h 33m 35.968s
Center (Dec, dms):-36° 08' 23.127"
Size:26.7 x 18.3 arcmin
Radius:0.270 deg
Pixel scale:0.733 arcsec/pixel
Orientation:Up is 305 degrees E of N
Information about the image:
Instrument: Planewave CDK 12.5 | Focal Ratio: F8
Camera: STXL-11002 + AOX | Mount: AP900GTO
Camera Sensitivity: Lum: Bin 1x1, RGB: Bin 2x2
Exposure Details: Total Hours: 23, Lum: 68 x 900 sec [17hrs], RGB 450sec x 16 each [6.0hrs]
Viewing Location: Central Victoria, Australia.
Observatory: ScopeDome 3m
Date: October - November 2019
Software Enhancements: CCDStack2, CCDBand-Aid, PS, Pixinsight
Author: Steven Mohr
For many years I remember seeing Robinsons Shaft in the middle of an industrial patch of wasteland , it was owned by the National Trust then and mothballed . Now it is in the centre of Heartlands .
Robinson’s Shaft is the living soul and epicentre of Heartlands. Located at Pool in Cornwall, it’s one of the most important mining sites in the country.
It forms a part of one of the ten discrete landscapes that make up the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape World Heritage Site and is home to a number of Grade II listed buildings.
So what makes this particular mining site so special? Well, it closed as recently as 1996 so it has retained more of its historic architecture and structure than any other site you see today where mining ceased much earlier. Robinson’s Engine House also holds the Crown Jewels of mining machinery – the Cornish pumping engine of 1854. This masterpiece has been kept in a remarkable state of preservation and was the last Cornish Engine to work on a Cornish Mine.
Robinson’s Shaft came to prominence around 1900-8, when it became the principal shaft of the South Crofty mine. However, it crops up on a plan from 1833 so it took nearly 70 years for it to take centre stage.
The turning point came in 1900, when they had to deepen the shaft to exploit the tin deposits in that part of the South Crofty mine. This involved a series of colossal engineering feats. The first of which was the construction of a winding engine, finished by 1901. Next came the installation of a pumping engine, which started in 1903. They then began the usual act of building the engine house and engine in tandem. By 1908, they’d completed the pumping engine, which allowed the shaft to be sunk to 205 fathoms. By 1910, they could mine to 238 fathoms, that’s 1428 feet or 435 metres - higher than Brown Willy, the highest point in Cornwall.
With the pumping-engine in place, the rest of the development around the shaft proceeded over the following 3-4 years. The layout was dictated by the way the different functions served the shaft, so what might appear to be a random cluster was in fact a highly organised working entity. The other early development at the shaft was the introduction of electric power, which astonishingly, seems to have taken place as early as 1910-11.
By 1967 the South Crofty mine had been reconfigured, so that the shaft at Robinson’s was used for lifting men and equipment, whilst ore was lifted at the nearby new Cook’s Shaft. The result of the changes of the 50s and 60s is that the site as seen today is essentially the product of two phases: its original development in 1900-11, when it became the major shaft in the South Crofty complex with all the typical functions of a tin mining site, and its modernisation in 1955-65 when it was adapted to play a subsidiary role in that complex.
The pumping engine at Robinson’s Shaft is a gloriously well-preserved example of a Cornish engine. It worked at this site between 1903 and 1955.
The engine was designed by Captain Samuel Grose, a pupil of Richard Trevithick, and was built by Sandys Vivian and Co. at the Copperhouse Foundry, one of the two major engineering works at Hayle. Apart from its state of preservation, and the fact that it continued to work until the 1950s, another claim to fame of this engine is that it experienced being moved no less than four times:
first erected at the Wheal Alfred mine near Hayle, where it worked 1855-64
moved to Wheal Abraham near Crowan, when it worked 1865-75
after a period of idleness moved to Tregurtha Downs mine near Marazion, where it worked 1883-95/1899- 1902 (the gap being because of the collapse of tin pieces in the mid-1890s)
re-erected for the final time at Robinson’s Shaft in 1903
If you think of shifting a house, bricks, mortar and all, you might begin to understand the complexity of this operation. Despite all these moves the engine as seen today is essentially as it was first built in 1854-5
Robinson’s Engine stopped working at 1.15pm on 1 May 1955, the last Cornish Engine to work on a Cornish Mine.
Robinson’s Engine is currently undergoing more restoration work (it’s a bit like painting the Forth Bridge), but you can still go on guided tours to see this magnificent engine and talk to our restoration team about the processes involved along with all the blood, sweat and tears. Once restored, the engine will run again using a hydraulic system. We believe in protecting the environment and we use renewable energy across Heartlands, so for now, the engine will not be run on steam.
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Hello my darlings,
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discrete signs of autumn coming
Hiking from the village Leukerbad through beautiful Tschafinuwald to Flühalpe
SOOC
"Three's Company Too!"
American Oystercatcher
The American Oystercatchers are a group of waders forming the family Haematopodidae, which has a single genus, Haematopus. They are found on coasts worldwide apart from the Polar Regions and some tropical regions of Africa and South East Asia. The exception to this is the Eurasian Oystercatcher and the South Island Oystercatcher, both of which breed inland, far inland in some cases. In the past there has been a great deal of confusion as to the species limits, with discrete populations of all black oystercatchers being afforded specific status but pied oystercatchers being considered one single species.
The name Oystercatcher was coined by Mark Catesby in 1731 as a common name for the North American species H. Palliatus, described as eating oysters. Yarrell in 1843 established this as the preferred term, replacing the older name Sea Pie.
For more info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oystercatcher
Dial # 34 for March 2020 or # 32 if you'd rather visit May 2020.
Thank you everyone for your visits, faves and comments, they are always appreciated :)
TAYFUN KECECIOGLU'na hurmetlerimle
Ikinci damlacik karesini bir sizin onerdiginiz sekilde bir de benim tarzimda gonderiyorum. Oneriniz bu kare ile anlam kazaniyor. Tesekkur ederim.
TO TAYFUN KECECIOGLU with my respect
I uploaded my second photo as per your proposal and the way I would do it myself. This cropped version justifies the value of your suggestion. Thanks Tayfun bey.
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The gravity plays with water molecules to form droplets. Molecules are eventually defeated by the pull of gravity and form into discrete droplets. Droplets become mini lenses (much like our intraocular lens) as they drop in front of the light source forming an inverted image of the LED lantern.
Yer cekimi su molekulleri ile etkileserek onlari damlaciklar sekline sokar. Damlaciklar LED fenerinin onunden gecerken goz ici mercegi gibi kucuk bir merrcel olusturur. Arkadaki fenerin bir ters goruntusunu olusturur.