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Fyodor Dostoevsky's enigmatic quote came to mind as I composed this photograph. What is it that I saw here that would classify it as "beautiful"? In the end you make up your own mind, but for me the gentle range of colour in the sunset sky provides a backdrop for the line and form of the industrial landscape. It is all structured. Too often we see the chaos and not the form. But then the Platonist in me means I can't help seeing ideal form behind everything. As I've discovered, believing there is beauty and meaning in the world is a learned skill.
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Introducing the enigmatic Sukeban Brie, a fearless force to be reckoned with, born and raised on the unforgiving streets of Tokyo. She's the embodiment of a unique blend of strength and allure, effortlessly mastering the art of fighting and captivating hearts in equal measure.
Hailing from Tokyo's gritty underworld, Sukeban Brie has earned her reputation as a sukeban - a fierce and stylish gang leader who fearlessly navigates the city's toughest neighborhoods. Her combat skills are as sharp as a katana blade, and she commands respect with a gaze that could cut through steel.
But it's not just her fighting prowess that sets her apart; it's her magnetic allure. Brie's beauty is as breathtaking as the cherry blossoms in spring, and her style is a fusion of Tokyo's eclectic fashion scene with a touch of rebellion. She effortlessly blends the traditional and the modern, making kimonos look just as fierce as leather jackets.
When Sukeban Brie walks into a room, she owns it. Her presence is a potent combination of confidence and sensuality. With an enigmatic smile and a hint of mischief in her eyes, she keeps everyone on their toes, never quite knowing what she'll do next.
In a world where strength meets seduction, Sukeban Brie thrives. She's a symbol of empowerment, reminding us that one can be both a warrior and an irresistible enigma simultaneously. She's a beacon of individuality, proving that you can break free from societal norms, embracing your multifaceted self without apology. Sukeban Brie is a Tokyo legend, capturing the essence of the city's vibrant chaos and the elegance that hides beneath its rough exterior.
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The new enigmatic bad guy!
Seeing the new movie on Sunday can't wait! This is a shot of a Kylo Ren figure, lightsaber effects added in PS of course!
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This culture, the people, their way of living, their style, their dance, their songs, everything very unique and enigmatic.
This enigmatic structure was a former sport stadium opened by King Léopold II. His plan was to turn the old citadel site, which no longer served any military purpose, into a centre for culture and sport.
The slogan Ludus Pro Patria was borrowed from the Olympic Games held in Athens in 1896.
Modelled on an ancient Greek stadium, it was designed by the Brussels architect Georges Hobé in the style of the Vienna Secession. One of the earliest reinforced concrete buildings in the country, it could seat 4,000 spectators. (The Brussels Times). Namur, Belgium.
The Pallas Cat, also known as the Manul, is a rare and enigmatic feline species that inhabits the high-altitude tibetan plateau . With its distinctive appearance and elusive nature, this cat has captured the fascination of wildlife enthusiasts and researchers alike.
The Pallas Cat is characterized by its stocky build, long fur, and expressive face. Its round pupils and low-set ears give it a unique look that sets it apart from other wild cats. This species thrives in harsh environments such as rocky terrains and alpine meadows, where it can blend seamlessly with its surroundings.
One of the most intriguing aspects of the Pallas Cat is its solitary behavior. Unlike many other feline species that are social animals, these cats prefer to lead a solitary lifestyle. They are highly territorial creatures that mark their territory using scent glands located on their cheeks.
Due to their elusive nature and remote habitat, studying Pallas Cats has proven to be challenging for researchers. As a result, there is still much to learn about their behavior, reproductive habits, and overall population status.
Conservation efforts are crucial for protecting this rare species from further decline. The destruction of their natural habitat due to human activities poses a significant threat to their survival. Additionally, illegal hunting for fur trade continues to be a major concern.
In conclusion, the Pallas Cat remains an enigmatic creature whose rarity adds to its allure. As we strive to understand more about this fascinating feline species, it becomes increasingly important to protect them from threats posed by human activities. Only through conservation efforts can we ensure the survival of these captivating creatures for future generations to appreciate and admire.
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The Hannibal Bivouac, at Col Clapier in the French Alps, during a lovely moment of enigmatic post-sunset light, with the moon observing high and silent in the sky.
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Introducing the enigmatic Sukeban Brie, a fearless force to be reckoned with, born and raised on the unforgiving streets of Tokyo. She's the embodiment of a unique blend of strength and allure, effortlessly mastering the art of fighting and captivating hearts in equal measure.
Hailing from Tokyo's gritty underworld, Sukeban Brie has earned her reputation as a sukeban - a fierce and stylish gang leader who fearlessly navigates the city's toughest neighborhoods. Her combat skills are as sharp as a katana blade, and she commands respect with a gaze that could cut through steel.
But it's not just her fighting prowess that sets her apart; it's her magnetic allure. Brie's beauty is as breathtaking as the cherry blossoms in spring, and her style is a fusion of Tokyo's eclectic fashion scene with a touch of rebellion. She effortlessly blends the traditional and the modern, making kimonos look just as fierce as leather jackets.
When Sukeban Brie walks into a room, she owns it. Her presence is a potent combination of confidence and sensuality. With an enigmatic smile and a hint of mischief in her eyes, she keeps everyone on their toes, never quite knowing what she'll do next.
In a world where strength meets seduction, Sukeban Brie thrives. She's a symbol of empowerment, reminding us that one can be both a warrior and an irresistible enigma simultaneously. She's a beacon of individuality, proving that you can break free from societal norms, embracing your multifaceted self without apology. Sukeban Brie is a Tokyo legend, capturing the essence of the city's vibrant chaos and the elegance that hides beneath its rough exterior.
Credits
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Introducing the enigmatic Sukeban Brie, a fearless force to be reckoned with, born and raised on the unforgiving streets of Tokyo. She's the embodiment of a unique blend of strength and allure, effortlessly mastering the art of fighting and captivating hearts in equal measure.
Hailing from Tokyo's gritty underworld, Sukeban Brie has earned her reputation as a sukeban - a fierce and stylish gang leader who fearlessly navigates the city's toughest neighborhoods. Her combat skills are as sharp as a katana blade, and she commands respect with a gaze that could cut through steel.
But it's not just her fighting prowess that sets her apart; it's her magnetic allure. Brie's beauty is as breathtaking as the cherry blossoms in spring, and her style is a fusion of Tokyo's eclectic fashion scene with a touch of rebellion. She effortlessly blends the traditional and the modern, making kimonos look just as fierce as leather jackets.
When Sukeban Brie walks into a room, she owns it. Her presence is a potent combination of confidence and sensuality. With an enigmatic smile and a hint of mischief in her eyes, she keeps everyone on their toes, never quite knowing what she'll do next.
In a world where strength meets seduction, Sukeban Brie thrives. She's a symbol of empowerment, reminding us that one can be both a warrior and an irresistible enigma simultaneously. She's a beacon of individuality, proving that you can break free from societal norms, embracing your multifaceted self without apology. Sukeban Brie is a Tokyo legend, capturing the essence of the city's vibrant chaos and the elegance that hides beneath its rough exterior.
Credits
Blog - ubwoodman.wixsite.com/briessecondlife
Tattoo - .:RiotzInk:. Gulag Tattoo {BOM}
maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Tiamo%20Reef/170/29/1506
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A reedit of an image of Becca, another that I've been tinkering with for a long time in order to satisfy myself it's good enough to upload.
Becca is off to University and then will begin student teaching in order to obtain her teaching certificate.
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The final post for 2017 is this starry shot of the Moai on Easter Island (Rapa Nui). The title is misleading in a way, because the history of the moai is pretty well known, but they certainly still have an air of mystery about them.
I did a decent amount of homework prior to the trip with the intention of night photography. On many locations across the island, that is not straightforward and requires coordination. As it turned out, there was only a very small window on just one evening where the night sky was visible, so I decided to trek on foot out to this location. That was an adventure in and of itself, and this shot will provide for good memories.
2017 in the books. Bring on 2018.
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Cut from the bedrock, the Great Sphinx of Giza is a limestone statue of the mythical creature sphinx with a body of a lion and head of a human in a reclining position. The head of the Sphinx is generally believed to represent Pharaoh Khafre.
The great Sphinx is one of the world's largest and oldest statues, but basic facts about it are still subject to debate like, when and who built it and for what purpose.
It is impossible to know what the creators called this statue as there is no Old Kingdom inscription bearing its name, it’s date of construction or the original purpose. The name 'Sphinx' was given in Classical Antiquity, almost 2000 years after it's accepted albeit controversial date of construction.
Though amidst several conflicting shreds of evidence and viewpoints over the years the common viewpoint held by modern Egyptology is that the Great Sphinx was built by the Pharaoh Khafre during 2500 B.C. The theories put forward by the Egyptologists are not universally accepted and various persons have provided alternative hypotheses about the builder and the period of construction. Few of the Fringe Hypotheses being the 'water erosion hypothesis', 'Orion correlation theory', and the 'hidden chambers hypothesis'.
The enigmatic Alma Nyx arrives to inspect the Pavilion section of the Facility, Gia proudly, and nervously, shows Ms. Nyx the area where they have been breaking down the various Subjects. Alma considers, observing, not disapproving but not approving either. She is far more concerned about the introduction of a third level.. the Experimental Level, the construction of which has been plagued with delays. Even the always cool and reserved Director Gia is nervous as Alma moves around, checking this part of the Facility, and can only promise to increase the pace of the construction effort.
Having decided on a suitably enigmatic and ambiguous title for today’s quick attempt at the Macro Mondays theme of Fruit I started debating with myself about whether a stellar supernova would be these colours.
It’s sad I know…
I reckoned it is most likely to be blue or yellow, and perhaps orange and red too. But green? Surely not! Nevertheless, it does remind me of an explosion.
It was a quick develop and edit using Affinity on the iPaddle. I’ll leave you to guess the fruit :)
Thanks for looking. I hope you enjoy the image and today’s blitz of fructose :) Happy Macro Mondays!
[Handheld in oblique daylight.]
The story here opens at a place and time that may evoke the crucial color. A morning scene like this would be a ticket to a variety of eye pleasing elements when we are meant to focus on the sensory wonderment or even for the perfect shape of heart on a romantic connection.
As a beautiful, yet with some enigmatic metaphor this is the image of a blue hour – a time before sunrise when the whole world has this blueish color to it. At the dawn of a new day when everyone is embracing the possibilities it may bring.
The scene becomes something of a tranquil state not just retrieval of childhood memories that fuses an air of melancholy at the same time, but also for the kind of optimism towards the future it represents.
That’s why It is said that Images are beautifully muted cinematography and in various ways they are striking and memorable.
2021-06-02, Day 4 hiking
Sunset color lingers on the tops of red sandstone cliffs and the desert holds a cluster of enigmatic stones that are like a clutch of out-of-place eggs, Paria Wilderness, Arizona.
Not far behind me, our group of traveler friends, their children, our boys, and my intrepid lady relaxed under two beautiful Cottonwoods, content and jabbering after the evening repast. I strolled down to the river with my camera, attempted a few compositions with the flowing water in the foreground, and then I ventured up to this exposed bench of Chinle Formation substrate. I encountered this odd collection of purposely arranged, river-smoothed stones. I guess people have decided to deposit them here, but I wonder whether it was one industrious group, or whether it's been individuals inspired to add a rock here and there over a much longer period of time. Even in wild places we leave curious marks, as evidenced by the fascinating stone panels of Ancestral Puebloan art not far from here.
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They are gorgeous., enigmatic., and a photographer's delight
But in the end every feather., talon and sinew has evolved for just one purpose., to catch prey... and make no mistake., if you were vole size this would be a terrifying sight
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"I can still vividly recall the first time I laid eyes on a series of head illustrations of the Bronzeback Legless Lizard. They were drawn from the type specimen by B.C. Cotton, in Waite (1929). I was ten years old and sitting quietly in the school library. I likened the large head plates and protrusive, wedge-shaped snout as bearing a striking resemblance to that of the Archaeopteryx, the earliest and most primitive bird. In line with most fanatical herps, I already had a solid grounding with Dinosaurs, my own considerable book collection now competing for shelf space with the ever-growing titles devoted to modern day reptiles. I remember day-dreaming of a time when I had my own car, and of finding an Ophidiocephalus taeniatus in the desert myself...."
This passage forms part of the introduction to a feature article I did for Reptiles Australia magazine back in 2007. This image is of an adult male that I was fortunate to rake up around Coober Pedy a couple of months ago. The excitement of finding this lizard was on par with the first one, and it was so cool to walk among the Gidgee-lined channels on those vast gibber plains once more.
The setting supernatural looking sun, as seen through smoke filled skies from two Colorado forest fires. In this photo, the sun looks like a planet, to me.
"Enigmatic, my backside. Away with your ruddy moustache!"
It was going to be another one of those days.
They had been together all of their lives from the moment they infrathinned in, or were aware of doing so, until the second they infrathinned out.
They were, as if, one.
He loved her, somehow even more so in these moments, when she was being just a tad hysterical. She always seemed most herself 'in extremis'.
Just breathe, he reassured her, that 'in' and 'out' conjoined. You will be fine.
Enigmatic appearence of a third seat in a photography. Part of: Empty Chair . Van Gogh.
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"In the enigmatic Canon 1 a 2 from J. S. Bach's Musical Offering (1747) (also known as crab canon or canon cancrizan), the manuscript shows a single score, whose beginning joins with the end. This space is topologically equivalent to a bundle of the line segment over the circle, known as a Möbius strip. The simultaneous performance of the deeply related forward and backward paths gives appearance to two voices, whose simmetry determines a reversible evolution. A musical universe is built and then is unplayed back into silence."
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From one of the most ancient sites on the Sinai Peninsula and oldest remains of a pastoral nomadic society.
Nine groups of 'Nawamis' have been discovered in southern Sinai, creating a kind of ring around Moses mountain 'Jebel Musa'.
Most of the nawamis clusters are 2,400 to 3,000 feet above sea level.
Each building is circular, about 12 feet in diameter and 6 feet high, with a small entrance and a slightly concave roof.
These enigmatic sandstone structures, resembled beehives scattered across the desert floor, look like flattened igloos.
From the burial goods and human remains found in the nawamis, we know that they were built around 5,000 years ago by nomadic herders.
Shot with a Canon EOS 700D
Franz Kafka's life was Kafkaesque – mundane, absurd, enigmatic, surreal, and yet, very precious. But he did not know any of that. It is supposed that Kafka – who wrote "in spite of everything, absolutely" in a "struggle for self-preservation" – burned 90% of his written work during his life time. What was thus not 'cremated', he instructed his friend – Max Brod – to burn after his death. Brod disregarded the request and introduced us to classics like ‘The Metamorphosis’, ‘The Castle’ and ‘The Trial’.
This image reminded me of Kafka. Kafka is not everyone's cup of tea; I don't expect this image to be either. Like Kafka's words, thoughts swirling about this image are dark and surreal. There is self-doubt, perhaps as "nauseatingly miserable beyond repair" as Kafka thought of himself. And yet, this image may "communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in those bones".
So, please – as Kafka pleaded – consider this image an indecipherable dream.
Astronomers have detected X-rays from Uranus for the first time, using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. This result may help scientists learn more about this enigmatic ice giant planet in our solar system.
Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun and has two sets of rings around its equator. The planet, which has four times the diameter of Earth, rotates on its side, making it different from all other planets in the solar system. Since Voyager 2 was the only spacecraft to ever fly by Uranus, astronomers currently rely on telescopes much closer to Earth, like Chandra and the Hubble Space Telescope, to learn about this distant and cold planet that is made up almost entirely of hydrogen and helium.
In the new study, researchers used Chandra observations taken in Uranus in 2002 and then again in 2017. They saw a clear detection of X-rays from the first observation, just analyzed recently, and a possible flare of X-rays in those obtained fifteen years later. The main graphic shows a Chandra X-ray image of Uranus from 2002 (in pink) superimposed on an optical image from the Keck-I Telescope obtained in a separate study in 2004. The latter shows the planet at approximately the same orientation as it was during the 2002 Chandra observations.
What could cause Uranus to emit X-rays? The answer: mainly the Sun. Astronomers have observed that both Jupiter and Saturn scatter X-ray light given off by the Sun, similar to how Earth’s atmosphere scatters the Sun’s light. While the authors of the new Uranus study initially expected that most of the X-rays detected would also be from scattering, there are tantalizing hints that at least one other source of X-rays is present. If further observations confirm this, it could have intriguing implications for understanding Uranus.
One possibility is that the rings of Uranus are producing X-rays themselves, which is the case for Saturn’s rings. Uranus is surrounded by charged particles such as electrons and protons in its nearby space environment. If these energetic particles collide with the rings, they could cause the rings to glow in X-rays. Another possibility is that at least some of the X-rays come from auroras on Uranus, a phenomenon that has previously been observed on this planet at other wavelengths.
Image credit: X-ray: NASA/CXO/University College London/W. Dunn et al; Optical: W.M. Keck Observatory
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