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Perhaps I should subtitle this photograph:
The Old and the New
or (just like the Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoons):
Nice Gneiss
This location is really exciting to my inner geo geek so, if you are like my daughters and wife, whose eyes start to glaze over when I start to talk about geology, just enjoy this panorama of one of the canyons emptying into the Badwater basin. But, if you would like to learn about the geology that created this vista, read on at your own peril:
This little canyon has exposed the contact between some of the oldest rocks in Death Valley (and the western United States) and some of the youngest in Death Valley. The right hand canyon wall is comprised of metamorphosed crystalline basement rock. These are very old rocks. They were formed and then put under a lot of heat and pressure and metamorphosed. The metamorphosis event has been dated to about 1.7 billion years ago so they were actually formed sometime before that. The 1.7 billion year date shows up a lot in the geology of the western U.S. That is probably because it is also accompanied by an extensive unconformity at its top that also covered much of the western U.S. So, to recap, the right hand rocks were formed and then deformed deep in the crust about 1.7 billion years ago then uplifted as part of a broad mountain building episode that covered a lot of the western U.S. The uplift caused erosion to remove any rocks that were deposited over the old metamorphosed crystalline basement rocks.
Eventually the uplift ceased and the western U.S. slowly built out the coastline in what we call a passive margin with just slow sediment deposition dominating the scene and no active uplifts. These rocks are largely carbonates (dolomites) and some pure quartz sandstones that occasionally flowed over the carbonate shallow flats and seas. These rocks are about 500 million years younger than the rocks in the right hand wall of the canyon.
I'm going to briefly summarize the next 700 million years. The western coast of the U.S. and the Death Valley area transitioned from passive deposition to active as the various Pacific plates began to spread. Compressive forces slowly began to squeeze the rocks in Death Valley and then volcanism began as the oceanic plates were stuffed under the western edge of the North American crustal plate. Some of the molten rocks erupted and some rose up into the Death Valley area but never made it to the surface.
Then about 75 million years ago something very special happened that changed this scenario. Many geologists think the Pacific plate that was being stuffed (subducted) under the North American plate somehow broke and instead of being pushed down toward the mantle, slid horizontally under the crust of the North American plate. This caused a ripple of compressive events to travel eastward across this region and then across the western U.S. all the way to the Rockies which mark the eastward boundary of the horizontal plate.
The compression that accompanied the shallow Pacific plate as it buoyantly rode under this area, folded and contorted many of the older passive margin rocks.
The deeper plate then foundered as the spreading center or mid oceanic ridge which was driving the eastward movement stopped probably because the spreading center finally began to be subducted under the North American plate.
In Death Valley, the compression stopped and a new round of volcanism began as the lower plate started to slowly sink into the mantle and melt. This sinking also began pull apart the western U.S. as the bulging area over the plate now began to sink also. We call this pulling apart extension and when the crust is extended like this faults begin to form that leave some blocks high but drop other blocks down along the fault to allow for the stretching. This faulting and movement started slowly and further east of this region - near the middle of the horizontally under-stuffed plate fragment. The high blocks and low basins caused by this stretching are called the Basin and Range province and cover the area from the high Sierras to the Big Bend in Texas.
The basin seen in the distance in this photograph is the deepest basin in this entire province and therefore, one of the youngest. The spreading started in earnest less than 4 million years ago. Spreading here allows the basins to fall faster than erosion of the surrounding blocks can fill them up. It is no accident that the highest relief in the United States is located here - Telescope Peak in the Panamint mountains on the western side of the basin is over 11,000 above sea level while Badwater Springs is almost 300 feet below sea level.
Now, back to this side canyon, the rocks on the left wall are young - deposited when the basin began to form around 4 million years ago. I am not sure of the formations that are exposed on the left but they look like the Furnace creek formation or the Artists Drive formation.
Those of you that have looked at the left hand wall enough probably have noticed the line that tilts upward at about a 30 to 40 degree angle in the middle of the wall. The line may represent a dis-conformity and may have initially been flat but tilted upward as the young sediments have slid westward and rotated over the crest of the turtleback.
What is a turtleback? A geologist named Curry first described them in 1938. He noticed three rounded (double plunging) rock outcrops on the western edge of the Black Mountains. He also described the contacts of the rocks within these rounded bulges and the overlying rocks at its edges and guessed that they very different in composition and age.
Some researchers believe that these rocks were first bulged upward during the compressional phase that I mentioned above. During the recent extension, these bulges were tilted down to east and exposed as Badwater basin sank past them. The overlying young basin fill exposed in the left wall "spilled" off of the turtle backs in fault blocks that all sole out along the back of the turtleback leaving the domed surface exposed and resembling a turtleback.
To those of you who read all the way to this point - congratulations - you far surpassed the eye glazing point!
I find this landscape beautiful and speculating on the long history that it represents, makes it that much more special to me.
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Victoria's future second tallest building is now on it's 7th floor. It's cool and exciting to see it get built. :D
CSX caught at Contentnea Junction south of Wilson, NC. Unit 586 an AC44CW rips past local freight with 2031 a GP38-3 and friend thqt are awaiting the south bounds passage to run aqround their cars on the south bound trackage to couple up and head north.
Normally I would write that this is a much needed stocking adjustment because such hold-up stockings tend to slide down your legs a little over time. Although that is true it is also often an excuse; the reality is that hold-ups stay in place pretty well and that stocking adjustments are mostly needed for quite different reasons.
First of all, silky stockings with lacy stocking tops are too pretty to keep hidden all the time. They simply deserve to be shown every now and then.
Secondly, fondling with my stocking tops is the most feminine activity I can think of. It feels so incredibly girly, tender, sensual and exciting to lift my skirt a little, take the stocking tops between my fingers and give them that magical little pull. That's just heaven for me.
Last but not least, stocking adjustments are incredibly sensual and seductive, yet in style with plenty of ladylike class. That fits very well to me: I love to play and tease, but only in style. Stocking adjustments are perfect for that and they're are also much appreciated by people who happen to witness them. That's a win for everybody.
Exciting news! My 366 series is being turned into a book! It will be released November 26, 2016.
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The Mason Street Schoolhouse, near Old Town San Diego Historic State Park. Photographed 04-15-2018 and just now processed 03-19-20.
From the website: CoolSanDiegoSights:
The Mason Street School was San Diego’s very first schoolhouse. It was built in 1865.
Back in the early years of San Diego, school was held twelve months a year. Hours were 9 to 4, but many students would skip school to watch bull fights, fiestas and other exciting town doings. Many children were held out of school by their parents to help on a ranch or farm, or to work in a family store.
San Diego in 1865 was a small, isolated, somewhat ramshackle town. Mary Chase Walker, Mason Street School’s first teacher, wrote when she arrived in San Diego by steamship: “I arrived in the bay of San Diego on the morning of July 5, 1865. It was a most desolate looking landscape. The hills were brown and barren; not a tree or green thing was to be seen..."
A stunningly pretty, interesting and exciting location deep within the remains of the iconic Battersea Power Station. This is A side control room and is currently being looked at by the project contractors as a possible venue for a fancy eatery in the new development. The gauge cabinets would be preserved behind perspex panels to protect them whilst the wealthy dined and enjoyed the rich industrial heritage of Britain's past. Not sure I agree with that but it seems to be the way this country is going.
Shooting with Loren Blaine in Florida. Just a quick shoot out in a field she found to be interesting enough for a visit.
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@_liv_wild__ nailing the jump shot on the white sweep at @the.kiln.studio during one of our open-day demos!
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Great Horned Owl - adult - Bird of Prey
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33rd Annual Florida Renaissance Festival '24
Feb-March 2024 - Deerfield Beach, Florida U.S.A.
------Portraits of RenFest --- (last festival-day) ------
*[left-double-click for a closer-look - portrait closeup]
WATCH THIS! Amazing! Eagle-owl swooping-in
in slow motion. Just incredible in full-screen:
(tip: click bottom-right box to see full-screen)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Eagle_Owl
The Joust: Point of Impact - Impacting the Shield
The Field of Dreams - RenFest 2024 - 3/24/24
The Joust Pass: Adrenaline - Gorgeous Horses
Skill - Speed - Action - Shield - Thrills - Excitement
This is my 17th year covering this fun festival filled with color and pageantry and beautiful people. Each year some of the regulars return and sometimes fresh new faces appear to join the eclectic Renaissance Family. Some are vendors or employees, and some customers dress up to fit in with the renaissance festival fun and its 16th century way of life. One big happy family of a few thousand escaping the dull drums of their daily life for a few hours. This year's crop of new faces was lovely. Hope you enjoy the images. I try to capture their joy. Always fun, festive, very colorful and exciting!
Thank you very much for looking. Have a great day! Hazaaa!!
Florida Renaissance Festival Facebook Page:
www.facebook.com/flarenfest?ref=ts
Florida Renaissance Festival Overview Videos:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gRRTINyamw (walking tour)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBB8hSvt3sE (walking tour)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-rc1VzDLxw#t=113.349 (Parade)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVEY7ti5vdo (Day's End Pub Sing)
Please Check-Out This Year's March '24
1-Day 6-Hr Event Coverage (Slide Show):
Wild Beast Capture in the Woods of Virginia . Some times a trail camera can turn out a plesing photo :)
Remembering Styx
In Search of Summer Sizzlers
“You know the reason The Beatles made it so big?...'I Wanna Hold Your Hand.' First single. Fucking brilliant. Perhaps the most fucking brilliant song ever written. Because they nailed it. That's what everyone wants. Not 24/7 hot wet sex. Not a marriage that lasts a hundred years. Not a Porsche...or a million-dollar crib. No. They wanna hold your hand. They have such a feeling that they can't hide. Every single successful song of the past fifty years can be traced back to 'I Wanna Hold Your Hand.' And every single successful love story has those unbearable and unbearably exciting moments of hand-holding.”
― David Levithan, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
Something exciting, Leeds.
22/10/16
Kodak Retinette 1a.
Ilford HP5+ 400 film
Developed by me.
Rodinal, 1+50, 11 mins, 20C, Fomafix P, spiral tank.
Scanned with Epson Scan V550
030034.
I wasn't expecting the sunset to be so dynamic. The timing was right so I had to get a photo of it.
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Not the most exciting photo, but I did this one to fulfill a school assignment... We have to do 3 self portraits for the "About Me" sections of our websites so this is one of the 3 that I'll be turning in, along with the last photo I shot (which I much prefer.)
Oh well, hopefully this one makes me look somewhat professional and approachable.
It was pretty cold while I was taking this... But I love the way that frost transforms everything so I guess I'm ok with the cold.
It's been an exciting couple of days! Albert and I discovered these large green caterpillars while we were walking with our dog Honey. I took at bunch of shots and started the discovery process. Our books got close, telling us they were the larvae of a Sphinx Moth. But none of the varieties they showed matched ours detail for detail... the "white eyes" pattern along the sides, the multi-colored striped "knee socks" on their legs, the two-tone green body and large dark "eye" on the head.
So I sent some pictures out to my experts. Thanks to Linda Evans we know they're Ello Sphinx Moth caterpillars! Looking at my series of shots, I can also add that their face looks like a manatee's and their abdominal end has two grasping "fingers" for adroitly moving along the stem.
Many articles showed Sphinx caterpillars without the brown "eye spot" on the head but ours clearly had it. When we returned to visit them in the next day, I watched one of them close the segments before and after the "eye" covering it up. Quite a wonderful way to become even more invisible to hungry predators. Even once we knew exactly what we were looking for and which plants they were living on, these green striped caterpillars were hard to see except in the bright early morning sunlight.
The Ello Sphinx moth has colorful hindwings and camouflaged forewings. Common in Florida and the southwest, it sometimes strays far to the north. Larvae feed on papaya (Carica papaya) in the Caricaceae family and on Cnidoscolus angustidens and other plants in the spurge family (Euphorbiaceae) including poinsettia (Euphorbia pulcherrima), guava (Psidium species) in the myrtle family (Myrtaceae) and on also saffron plum (Bumelia angustifolia/Bumelia celastrina) in the Sapotaceae family. Manilkara bahamensis has also been reported as a host as have Willow Bustic (Bumelia salicifolia) and Painted Leaf (Poinsettia heterophylla).
This caterpillar is feeding on Nodding spurge (Chamaesyce nutans).
Sphinx Moth caterpillar, Erinnyis ello
For more info and pics, butterflies.heuristron.net/moths/elloSphinx.html.
Arch Creek East Environmental Preserve, North Miami, FL
This image is nothing exciting but I'm trying to get motivated lately to think more about what I want to shoot, how I want to shoot and then set about shooting it. I waste far too much time reading about photography on the net.
This image has elements that I like. Some of the light and shadow play is nice, the warm colours are nice, the haze is nice and the contours in the distance are something I like.
This image overall is only so, so but it is a reminder to me to seek out these kind of scenes and to plan my attack rather than spend my days reading crap on the net.
This is by far one of the rarest leaders I’ve ever seen on my local rail line! 685 here was leading a power move to Galesburg with some interesting stuff with one engine being none other than an H2 MAC! I thought it was an Executive for a minute but this was definitely a major highlight today!
Absolutely thrilled to announce I am the proud new owner of a YACHT. I have been dreaming about this moment my entire life. I looked high and low for the right one, and I finally found it.
Lots of trouble finding a good place to plant her but... thanks to my new friend Deb, I found the best home for my yacht :)
And obviously thanks to my dedicated viewers who tune in to my vlogs and made this purchase POSSIBLE... i love you guys so much I don't even know how to thank you.
xoxo Miira.
Here comes some stationery porns.
Lazy me did went to ISOT 2010, THE most exciting stationery show in the world IMHO, but I didn't post any report as diligently as Mr. Tadashi Tsuchihashi (土橋 正), who is a professional stationery commentator, writer and published several books and maintains a blog called Pen-info.jp.
(name card holder and albums in cassette tapes outlook, by Artemis)
Tsuchihasi san have just posted a 4 pages long report of the show, featuring things he captured in his short visit. While I was featured on page 4, I figured I should've done something here. So I looked at the pictures I took and found a very different approach to the show. I have a feeling that he sees things more widely and pragmatically, while I tend to be emotional and go with the flow. Simply look at the differences I learned a lot.
(Eiffel Tower pen holder for your notebook, by Marks)
(Masking tapes for your scrapbook projects, by Marks)
(Traveler's Notebook diary version with stickers and usage guide, by Designphil)
(Pen style compass and scissors, by RayMay)
Thank you Tsuchihashi san for gifting me the latest book you wrote!
More on Scription blog: scription.typepad.com/blog/2010/08/isot-2010-tokyo-statio...
Helmeted iguana (Corytophanes cristatus) - Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary, Belize
This was a very exciting find for me as I walked through the Belizean forest. This is only the 3rd time I have seen this species, the first was about 5 years ago when I was working in Panama on Barro Colorado Island, the 2nd was in Costa Rica, and now this one from Belize. These lizards are infrequently encountered and are very easy to pass by due to their excellent camouflage and they are thought to be found in relatively low densities in their forest homes. This lizard does not move frequently and perches in the same area for long periods waiting for prey to venture by. Infact there is atleast one study from Costa Rica and Panama that examined this species and determined they were a specialist in feeding on extremely large arthropods, otherwise it engaged in long periods if immobility until the opportunity presented itself to catch prey. Then they would spring into action and tackle its sizeable prey which allowed to retire back to immobility. The authors suggest (correctly in my opinion) that this was an adaptation to minimize conspicuous feeding behavior and thus reduce the risk of attracting predators. Really a cool animal.
In other updates: Normally on my trips I seek to take only photos, and leave only footprints. However, I inadvertently broke my own rules this time and brought some little friends back from Belize. I have discovered 3 botfly larvae buried in my leg, arm, and scalp. I accidentally killed the one in my arm, the others are still making themselves at home. I suspect I acquired them while hiking/camping in Cockscomb where this lizard was found.
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And when you bath in the Ganges river (for the first time), with your friends, at the holy city of Varanasi, it is, certainly, such a moment…
This story starts a couple of months prior and an exciting trip underground, deep under the surface of London lies a Victorian crypt, mainly unseen to the public apart from the odd tour yearly to see the remains of the lead lined coffins of an era past. It wasn't an easy feat to get inside, but for me it was breathtaking to see something you just would never see in normal everyday life. Some may say my heart is filled with darkness, but it could also be said that had we not been brought up to be so uncomfortable with death and dead bodies, there could in another world be part of our life. But for now they lie hidden from society, a fascination for the inquisitive.
My second adventure to the crypt stated at 11.30 in the safeness of my home, beautiful Roswell Ivory arrived from Milton Keynes and soon followed by Rosie Lee to create some artistry on Roswell’s face and hair. We had great fun getting ready and trying on the beautiful gowns of Joanne Flemming who kindly sent them over for the shoot and before long we were in the car with my husband Danny to drive us to our first location, we said goodbye to Rosie who had another makeup job on. Unfortunately after long we realised that the traffic on that day was truly horrific, we were racing for time to get to Brompton cemetery but it became clear that we were not going to meet our 4pm sunset deadline, deflated we spent more time sat in traffic. We deicided to go and eat some food at the location of the crypt. But on arrival it was clear that there was not any decent places to eat, it was cool though as we had time to kill before we could try and attempt to get into the crypt.
We headed over to the town we used to live and had a great tapas meal, with raised spirits we made our way back to the crypt, it was 6.30pm by now and in the cover of darkness we made our first attempt, but watching for a while from the car it was clear that the area still had a good few dog walkers and passers by, also a nosey neighbour meant we couldn’t proceed.
We chose to go back to my house and return in complete night, it was hard to get inside when we did return, but we made it, Roswell was a true ninja and we couldn’t have done it without the help of Danny, who was amazing. We shot in silence in the crypt for a couple of hours and then realised it was nearing 2am! We had shot 4 beautiful dresses and were super happy with the Victorian story of death and tragedy we had captured, tired we embarked on the massive task of getting out from at least 10ft underground.
It was a truly exhausting shoot and even a day later I am aching from head to toe, but it was a special thing to be inside such an interesting place and to see dates on the coffins going back to the early 1800’s. The rotting hydraulic lift that lowered the heavy lead lined coffins into the crypt still remains, like a steam punk memory of time gone by, with an estimate 2500 coffins inside it felt to me almost calming to be so far away from the living and taking a step back in time to a world so distant from where we are now.
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Shot with Mamiya 645DF+ Body & Leaf Credo 80 Digital Back, Schneider Kreuznach 28mm f4.5 LS Lens.
Using 3LeggedThing Frank & Lowepro Protactic 450
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Photographer: Rebecca Bathory
Model: Roswell Ivory
Makeup & Hair: Rosie Lee
Dresses: Joanne Flemming
Assitant: Danny Litchfield
Thanks once again to the joint PennLug & Texas Bricks Railroad displayers at BrickWorld for letting the Intrepid take a tour around the layout. Was exciting to see that it could handle being pushed around for a lap or two. Thanks also for the suggestions on how to improve the design to eventually be a robust runner. You guys rock.
Today was an exciting day of route finding and exploring a remote ridge in Kootenay NP. I had daydreamed about getting a close look at Whitetail peaks since last year, and I had drawn out a route on Google earth but I didn't know if it was feasible as a hike/scramble. So, with no knowledge of previous reports, my dad and I set out to see these peaks up close. We started out in an avalanche gully just south of Vermilion Crossing which thankfully had a long snow patch running a couple hundred meters upslope, but we soon parted from it and gained a steep, vegetated ridge. We followed this ridge for about 900m until it brought us to another connecting ridge. This ridge zigzaged for a couple kilometres until we finally trudged up high enough to see this majestic panorama of the Whitetail peaks. The nearly perfect pyramidal shape of these peaks was a sight to see, and the fact that I didn't even know if this ridge was doable made it even more exciting and fulfilling. The whole trip took my dad and I about 8 hours, and in total theres about 1400m of elevation gain and maybe 12km round trip (just estimating from maps). A tough trip not to be taken lightly, but well worth it if you have the stamina to reach it!
I was struggling to find a decent composition along the ridge until I noticed a small clump of bright purple wildflowers growing in this unlikely crack in the rock. There's always something special to find even in the most seemingly-desolate places
When taking maternity shots, it doesn't always need to be so serious.
If everything goes well, we'll soon have a baby :>
The hedgehog in the photo is the cursing one. Check out the Cursing Hedgehog comics by Milla Paloniemi.
Strobist info: main light coming from a softbox from the top right, background fill coming from the back left.