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Leiden, Netherlands
These big boats are shallow draught to enable them to go into canals, so they have side lifting keels to enable them to avoid drifting sideways in deeper water
A vase of flowers reflected onto my kitchen window. Camera flash was fired which picked out the climbing vine of a plant in the garden beyond. I kind of liked the double exposure effect which was created.
This intriguing observation from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows a gravitationally lensed galaxy with the long-winded identification SGAS J143845+145407. Gravitational lensing has resulted in a mirror image of the galaxy near the center of this image, creating a captivating centerpiece. A third distorted image of the galaxy appears as a bridge between them.
Gravitational lensing occurs when the mass of an enormous celestial body – such as a galaxy cluster – curves spacetime and causes the path of light from distant objects to visibly bend around it, as if by a lens. Appropriately, the body causing the light to curve is called a gravitational lens, and the distorted background object is referred to as being "lensed.” Gravitational lensing can result in multiple images of the original galaxy, as seen in this image, or in the background object appearing as a distorted arc or even a ring. Another important consequence of this lensing distortion is magnification, allowing astronomers to observe objects that would otherwise be too far away or be too faint to see.
Hubble has a special flair for detecting lensed galaxies. The telescope's sensitivity and crystal-clear vision let it see faint and distant gravitational lenses that ground-based telescopes cannot detect because of the blurring effect of Earth's atmosphere. Hubble was the first telescope to resolve details within lensed images of galaxies and is capable of imaging both their shape and internal structure.
This particular lensed galaxy is from a set of Hubble observations that take advantage of gravitational lensing to peer inside galaxies in the early universe. The lensing reveals details that allow astronomers to better understand star formation in early galaxies, which gives scientists insight into how the overall evolution of galaxies unfolded.
Text credit: European Space Agency (ESA)
Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Rigby
For more information: www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2022/hubble-captures-a...
This is a new one! I took it a few days ago when I was out with my family visiting my stepmothers sister. Actually I was about to take some photos of a cat (A cat? Have I ever been taking a photo on a cat before?) but when I was on my way I saw this little fellow!
On our Starbucks coffee run this morning. The cloud-enhanced sunrise was beautiful.
Tucson's potholes are very noticeable. The car and camera jerked as I snapped this The streets are not paved to handle rain. We get two monsoon seasons, but it's always a surprise to the road maintenance departments, city and county.
It's not a very colorful sunrise. We are headed east. The clouds are coming to Tucson from the south. They are from a storm off the west coast of Mexico in the Pacific Ocean. I hope we get some rain. None from this storm so far.
Next week there will be anode Pacific storm off the coast of California. We all need rain!
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A thin plume that followed the fetch of Lake Michigan but yielded no snow is lit by the setting sun over the CN's Matteson Sub.
Griffith, IN
Photo by John Eagan
This picture was taken in Xcaret Mexico in the Yucatan Penninsula in October of 2007 during my honeymoon to Cancun. Xcaret is a beautiful ecological park, and had a variety of entertainment from snorkling to a live show. Awesome place to visit. I decided to give the Dave Hill effect a shot and I think it came out OK.
I put my fingers in front of the flash, and created a red effect. In the reflection of her eyes, you can see me taking a picture.
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Spirals
For how long have people depicted spiral designs in their art and architecture, and why does the image have such a provocative effect?
From magnetic fields to vast galaxies swirling in space, spirals can be seen in every aspect in nature. We see them in the physical forces which shape the Earth - the tides of the ocean, the winds in the atmosphere - and within life itself. Plants and the horns and shells of animals grow in spiral formations and some animals, especially aquatic species, possess a twisting locomotion.
The spiral phenomenon within natural forms can be explained through mathematics - the pattern is a result of complex sequences, equations and algorithms which nature utilises in her designs of the Universe. But mathematics alone cannot justify the lure of the spiral to the human mind.
Some of the oldest examples of human art are depictions of spirals, painted or carved into rock, often found in burial sites. Later, the Romans and Greeks used spirals as designs for vases and the columns in temples. The Celtic and Norse people were well known for the mysterious and repetitive designs found on their jewellery, clothing, weapons, objects of worship and everyday items. The Celts even painted spirals on their bodies with blue dye to intimidate enemies during battle. They also created forms of animals and plants twisting into impossible spirals, sometimes interlocking with other elements of the picture.
The spiral has left no human culture untouched. It is an important feature in some Australian Aboriginal works, where it is often drawn as a coiled snake. The Islamic tradition prohibits depictions of people or animals, so spirals feature as an important element in the mathematically-governed Islamic designs. Spirals also feature in oriental and Indian clothing and pottery.
Today, the spiral still runs deep within our culture. It forms the logos of a large number of companies, and has come to symbolise magic, dreams, desires and, most importantly, eternity.
It is perhaps this never-ending quality of the spiral which intrigues and draws us so greatly. When a spiral is drawn or made using paper and then turned, it creates the illusion that it is twisting forever away or towards us. The repetitive animation of a twisting spiral also evokes deep relaxation and calm, which accounts for the spiral's close association with the art of hypnotism. In some cases, people even create spirals themselves in order to ease the constantly active mind. If a person is left to "doodle" on a piece of paper in a relaxed state, it is very likely that they will draw spirals and swirls as their subconscious mind controls the pen.
As a representative of the eternal forces of nature, or simply as an attractive and interesting pattern, spirals shall always remain within the cultures of man. For as long as they surround us in every aspect of nature, the spiral will imprint itself within our unconscious psyche, and shall be reflected in our arts for all time.
Written by Megan Balanck
www.ancientspiral.com/spirals.htm
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Some Subject Zero shots. This has be one of my favorite characters... No "coldfish" Liara please! ;)
ENB: Return to Darkness, 8x, 4K textures (Jack), Timestop.
With it’s pantograph contact with the wire crackling and sparking due to the freezing conditions, 88009 “Diana” reaches Shap Summit on 4 January 2022 at the head of 4S43, DRS’ 0540 Daventry – Mossend.
Eva Di Martino aka PureBlackLove @ Milano Tattoo Convention 2016 (cercatela in rete e scoprite cosa è capace di fare...)
Well, I didn't even know myself that Vienna has bridges like this. It's at the Donaukanal (engl.: Danube Canal) near "Heiligenstadt" and it's called "Doeblinger Steg". Tonemapped a single JPG and hit it with some nice orton effect.
(c) Jonny Jelinek
Mass Effect: Andromeda
Hattiwatti's cinematic tools; hotsampling via SRWE (~76MP); bicubic smother resampling; reshade 4.0.2
This strange glow looks like a sunset but the sun is on the right (not in this photo but in photos close by on Flickr). This is the strange effect on its very own without the sunset beside it. Does anyone know what this phenomena is called? It was so fascinating and colourful! Below is a shot of both the sunset and whatever this is on the far left.
A sundog is what it is, thanks to maineman 152 (Lou) for the description.
The Butterfly Effect is simply:
If a butterfly flaps its wings in China, would it have an effect on the weather patterns in London? The obvious answer is no. But since every action has an effect on other probabilities... The result is infinite.
Seen @ Utrecht Botanic Gardens, Holland.
The reason for the existence of Sugar Mill Gardens is complex. It is first and foremost, an historic site, where the ruins of the old sugar mill from the former Dunlawton Plantation stand. There is little to be endeared with in that, as it was once a place of slavery and drudgery, greed and a lifestyle built on the backs of others. By the same token, it was a necessary part of life and trade back in the day.
Slaves at one point joined forces with the Seminole Indians during a war between the Indians and settlers. After the second one, the Indians succeeded in burning the mill down. What is left is a shell and remnants of that attack, and a reminder to people that injustice doesn't go unpunished, and labor should be fair and paid for.
During the Civil War, troops from the Confederate army camped in the very spot you're looking at. Their leisure was short lived, and after the war, so was their way of life.
Fast forward about 80 years. The once vast Dunlawton Plantation would be only a memory, but making a profit off this land was still very much in the forefront. As Central Florida's tourism grew, small theme parks depicting the beauty of Florida began to emerge everywhere. Northerners came to see the alligator farm in St. Augustine, and the beach of Daytona was being used as a race track during the early years of NASCAR. Even the old plantation, now reduced to a mere 12 acres, was reinvented as Bongoland, named for Bongo, a baboon that was the caged mascot of the place. (Why a baboon is beyond me, as they are certainly not native to Florida!) Anyway, during this time, people would come and take a tram ride through the park, where some 25 large concrete sculptures of dinosaurs loomed large over the grounds. The ruins were still, there, and people would carve their initials into the coquina to mark their passage through the park and also the anals of time. Children (and adults) would unthinkingly climb on the dinosaurs to take snapshots of their adventures in the Sunshine State.
Bongoland was a fleeting thought in the history of this place, lasting only about four years. Larger and more interesting and more profitable places were springing up all over Florida, drawing attention away from tiny, Bongoland. No one has ever mentioned what happened to poor Bongo. He was probably another victim of the greed that caged him, probably sent to a zoo or something.
Years later, the land was given to the county, and the place was deemed historic, and therefore, worthy of a little maintenance and upkeep. Volunteer gardeners created much of what you see now, and the county, almost too late, began to protect the historic ruins, and the 5 remaining sculptures that hadn't been ravaged to their destruction. Donations are accepted, but no fee is charged to enter.
When I began to come here regularly, a cat named Tigger lived here. Tigger had lived on the premises for many years. His family had left him for the volunteers to take care of, and fortunately, there were those who loved him and fed him. When I met Tigger, I knew he needed more, and began seeing that he got it, taking donations myself from people here on Flickr, from vet care to more food, to flea prevention, but what Tigger really needed was a home. I had to fight for that a little, but I won him, and for the next four years, Tigger was my cat.
There were times when I'd see Tigger looking out the window at the bright, full moon, and I know he was remembering this place, and being the little ruler of it. He'd look at the moon, almost with longing, until I'd open a can of food and he realized he liked it much better without the hundreds of mosquito bites and fights with other cats, and going hungry because a raccoon stole his food and slopped up his water by washing the kibble in it!
Tigger passed away Christmas Eve of 2012, and it's still a little hard for me to go to this place. It's not the same without him there. So I take lots of photos and visit again in a year or two. It is both happy and sad for me to be here, but it's beauty and story, right down to a baboon and a little cat, need to be shared, so I go, and I tell it. Perhaps knowing a bit about Sugar Mill Gardens and the cause and effect of the place will make these photos feel just a little more alive and meaningful to you, too.
I really like this photo of this outfit as it really shows the effect the 8 layer petticoat has on the skirt that is being worn over it :-)
Brisbane based metal band Flynn Effect. Check them out at www.facebook.com/FlynnEffectMusic
Pentax Spotmatic SP II, Kodak Ultramax 400. Digital Effects by Jason Evans dark-horizons13.deviantart.com/
Boulder, Colorado. The iconic Flatirons dusted with snow and topped with a cloud. I took this while hiking the Mesa Trail. There are numerous trails in these hills. In my opinion they are far overused. You'll see many people sharing the trail with you.