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Lora exhales her circus fairy tale—tiger-mauled mother, cliff-diving father, mandarin villa in Sudak—like smoke from a cigarette she’d never really afford, eyes selling a life that exists only in her own script.
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Darya Yegorova as Lora in the drama “Stars in the Morning Sky,” based on the play by Alexander Galin.
Created by Vitaly Konyaev’s Acting Studio, directed by Stanislav Soshnikov, choreography by N. A. Kalinina.
Photographed on March 21, 2019. Photo by Andrey Barkhatov.
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A forgotten barrack at the edge of the 1980 Olympics, where the city’s fireworks fade and exiled women wait in the dark for a different sunrise.
Here, among rusted beds and whispered prayers, they wager their last dignity on love, memory, and the stubborn hope that even the outcast may be seen by the morning stars.
Finally getting clear of the sharp curves of the mountains, the Provo-Denver exists the east end of Barbara's Gulch. The train will not be able to speed up much, however, as the signal is displaying an Advanced Approach (flashing yellow) aspect. The reason being that the train is taking the siding at Leyden to tie down. The crew will be picked up by a van and a relief crew will take the train in to town later in the day.
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I posted another photo of this sign before, this is not the same photo. My friend is standing next to the sign, where the other one shows him more clearly away from the sign and in better view.
I wanted to post this, because this Big Boy, located in Burbank on Alameda, near Toluca Lake, used to be David Lynch's favorite hangout. No photos or plaques exist that show Lynch was a regular there. We saw photos from Michael Mann's "Heat," with DeNiro and Kilmer, but nothing with Lynch. I hope the management will have a change of heart and have something in the restaurant to honor Lynch's memory and his frequent, if not regular, patronage.
Old signs, marking the remains, of old businesses that used to thrive on Route 66. Hotels...cafes...gas stations...no longer thrive or exist.
Su nombre lo recibe según una leyenda de un toro que custodiaba la cima de la montaña, impidiendo que nadie la alcanzara. Un día unos monjes llegaron a la cumbre atraídos por unas luces misteriosas que salían de su cima. El toro enfurecido le salió al paso, pero al ver las cruces que portaban los monjes, los guió mansamente hasta una gruta situada en lo alto de la montaña donde se hallaba una imagen de la Virgen María, quién sería llamada "Nuestra Señora de Monte Toro" o "Nuestra Señora del Toro" (en catalán: "Mare de Deú del Toro").
Existe sin embargo, otra versión del origen del nombre de la simbólica montaña, y es que su nombre procede de "tor", que según parece, en árabe haría referencia a la altura, con lo que "al-tor" vendría a significar "la altura", "lo elevado".
Posiblemente ambos orígenes debieron haberse unido en algún momento de la historia.
Bueno..existen diferentes pero en si lo importante es floriar bien la falda, ocea que se vean las ondas al moverla.
Cuando estas haciendo el zapatiado sencillo se utilizan 2, uno es que las dos manos estén moviendo igual (hacia adentro y afuera) y el otro es uno y uno ( pie derecho, mano izquierda y pie izquierdo mano derecha).
Esos son los mas sencillos y los que mas se utilizan, aunque de región a región cambian.
¿Existe el Eden en la tierra? No lo sé, pero si hay algo que se le parezca seguro que es Plitvice en Croacia, un lugar altamente fotogénico y que siempre aparecen en las listas tipo "50 maravillas naturales del mundo"
Hamburg, Germany. 2008 to 2016.
Taken on 135, color negative film.
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Technical Notes: Minolta XD7. The film emulsion was probably Rossmann's house brand of a ASA400 film, made in Japan, likely relabeled Fuji film sold under the Rossmann brand. This film does not exist anymore. Scanned on a PrimeFilm XAs in RAW with VueScan Pro, then processed in Lightroom with Negative Lab Pro.
Vous existez en moi
You exist in me
Usted existe en mi
"Como em toda primavera nascem flores
Pra mimar jardim"
Église Saint-Pierre de Coutances
Il existait à cet emplacement une très ancienne église dédiée à Saint Pierre, dont l’existence est attestée en 1056 mais dont la construction était certainement antérieure. Tombée en ruine à la suite des ravages provoqués par les combats de la guerre de Cent Ans vers 1450, elle fut reconstruite à la fin du 15ème siècle par des maîtres-maçons, sur les deniers de l’évêque Geoffroy Herbert. L’édifice mêle le style gothique flamboyant et le style renaissance. En raison de l’exigüité du terrain, la nef est relativement courte par rapport à sa largeur. L’église se compose d’une nef et de bas-côtés, d’un transept imposant et d’un chœur entouré d’un déambulatoire. La nef, le transept et le chœur sont surmontés d’un triforium. La croisée du transept est coiffée d’une imposante tour-lanterne Renaissance construite après l’achèvement de l’édifice, entre 1550 et 1580, et imitant la tour-lanterne de la cathédrale. Le clocher qui surmonte la façade ouest a été construit avant 1500 et est comparable au clocher de l’hôtel-Dieu qui lui est contemporain. L’église a bénéficié de plusieurs campagnes de restauration, notamment la façade ouest en 2009, mais il reste d’importants travaux à réaliser, en particulier la réfection de la toiture.
L’orgue situé en tribune au fond de la nef a été construit en 1656 par le facteur Robert INGOULT originaire de Cherbourg (Manche). La magnifique tribune et le buffet actuels remontent à cette époque.
En 1789, le facteur Henry PARIZOT d’Etain (Meuse) et actif en Normandie dans la seconde moitié du 18ème siècle, a restauré l’instrument et ajouté le Positif de dos.Pendant la révolution, l’orgue a été abandonné et détérioré. Une grande partie sinon la totalité de la tuyauterie a alors disparu…
En 1845, l’instrument a été reconstruit dans un style encore très classique par le facteur Pierre MENARD, facteur d’orgues à Coutances. Ce facteur, qui a travaillé à Paris chez Louis CALLINET et Aristide CAVAILLE-COLL, a été très actif en Normandie. Il a fabriqué avec son cousin Eugène ORANGE et un associé Henri LAFORGE d’excellents instruments en Basse-Normandie et a également construit des petits orgues en sous-traitance pour CAVAILLE-COLL.
Dans les années 1930, le facteur François DIDIER de Nancy a réalisé un relevage.
En 1962, la maison BEUCHET-DEBIERRE de Nantes (Loire-Atlantique) est intervenue sur l’instrument et a réalisé un relevé de sa disposition.
En 1970, la tribune et le buffet ont été classés aux Monuments Historiques.
En 1973, la partie instrumentale de l’orgue a également été classée aux Monuments Historiques.
Entre 1962 et 1976, la même maison BEUCHET est intervenue pour des travaux et a légèrement modifié la disposition : Fourniture G.O, Larigot au Récit et Tierce au Positif. Le pédalier de 18 marches à la française a été remplacé par un pédalier neuf à l’allemande. Jusqu’alors la partie instrumentale était attribuée à PARIZOT (Cf la notice de classement).En 1985, une étude complète de l’orgue a été réalisée par le facteur Louis BENOIST du Mans (Sarthe), sous la supervision du technicien-conseil Jean-Pierre Decavèle. C’est cette étude qui confirme qu’il s’agit bien ici d’un orgue MENARD de 1845 et non pas de l’orgue PARIZOT de 1789 dont la mécanique et la tuyauterie ont disparu lors de la révolution. C’est la plus grande réalisation de Pierre MENARD.
Il reste à restaurer l’instrument dans sa disposition originale : retour du dessus de Flûte Allemande du Positif à la place de la Tierce de BEUCHET, reconstruction de la Fourniture de Grand-orgue et remplacement du Larigot du Récit par un Cor anglais 8’.
Cet orgue d’une excellente sonorité est le témoin de la facture coutançaise du 19ème siècle et présente un grand intérêt.
Existen 20 tipos diferentes de Canguros.
Yo tampoco lo sabía. 😂
No todos están en Australia, algunos también se distribuyen por Papua Nueva Guínea e Indonesia. Tampoco lo sabía. 😆
Este es un canguro nativo de Australia, con una amplia distribución hacia el sur de la región. Se distingue por su hocico cubierto de un pelaje fino, y la coloración es de marrón claro a marrón rojizo.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strait_of_Dover
The Strait of Dover or Dover Strait, historically known as the Dover Narrows (French: pas de Calais [pɑ d(ə)‿kalɛ], "Strait of Calais"; Dutch: Nauw van Kales [nʌu̯ vɑn kaːˈlɛː] or Straat van Dover), is the strait at the narrowest part of the English Channel, marking the boundary between the Channel and North Sea, separating Great Britain from continental Europe. The shortest distance across the strait, 33.3 kilometres (20.7 miles; 18.0 nautical miles), is from the South Foreland, northeast of Dover in the English county of Kent, to Cap Gris Nez, a cape near to Calais in the French département of Pas-de-Calais. Between these points lies the most popular route for cross-channel swimmers.[1] The entire strait is within the territorial waters of France and the United Kingdom, but a right of transit passage under the UNCLOS exists allowing unrestricted shipping.[2][3][4]
On a clear day, it is possible to see the opposite coastline of England from France and vice versa with the naked eye, with the most famous and obvious sight being the white cliffs of Dover from the French coastline and shoreline buildings on both coastlines, as well as lights on either coastline at night, as in Matthew Arnold's poem "Dover Beach".
Shipping traffic
Most maritime traffic between the Atlantic Ocean and the North Sea and Baltic Sea passes through the Strait of Dover, rather than taking the longer and more dangerous route around the north of Scotland. The strait is the busiest international seaway in the world, used by over 400 commercial vessels daily.[3] This has made traffic safety a critical issue, with HM Coastguard and the Maritime Gendarmerie maintaining a 24-hour watch over the strait and enforcing a strict regime of shipping lanes.[5]
In addition to the intensive east–west traffic, the strait is crossed from north to south by ferries linking Dover to Calais and Dunkirk.[3] Until 1994 these provided the only route across it for land transport. The Channel Tunnel now provides an alternative route, crossing beneath the strait at an average depth of 45 m (148 ft) below the seabed.
The town of Dover gives its name to one of the sea areas of the British Shipping Forecast.
Geological formation
Map showing the hypothetical extent of Doggerland (c. 10,000 BCE), which provided a land bridge between Great Britain and continental Europe
The strait is believed to have been created by the erosion of a land bridge that linked the Weald in Great Britain to the Boulonnais in the Pas de Calais. The predominant geology on both the British and French sides and on the seafloor is chalk. Although somewhat resistant to erosion, erosion of both coasts has created the famous white cliffs of Dover in the UK and the Cap Blanc Nez in France. The Channel Tunnel was bored through solid chalk.
The Rhine (as the Urstrom) flowed northwards into the North Sea as the sea level fell during the start of the first of the Pleistocene Ice Ages. The ice created a dam from Scandinavia to Scotland, and the Rhine, combined with the Thames and drainage from much of north Europe, created a vast lake behind the dam, which eventually spilled over the Weald into the English Channel. This overflow channel became the Strait of Dover about 425,000 years ago. A narrow deep channel along the middle of the strait was the bed of the Rhine in the last Ice Age. A geological deposit in East Anglia marks the old preglacial northward course of the Rhine.
A 2007 study[6][7] concluded the English Channel was formed by erosion caused by two major floods. The first was about 425,000 years ago, when an ice-dammed lake in the southern North Sea overflowed and broke the Weald-Artois chalk range in a catastrophic erosion and flood event. Afterwards, the Thames and Scheldt flowed through the gap into the English Channel, but the Meuse and Rhine still flowed northwards. In a second flood about 225,000 years ago the Meuse and Rhine were ice-dammed into a lake that broke catastrophically through a high weak barrier (perhaps chalk, or an end-moraine left by the ice sheet). Both floods cut massive flood channels in the dry bed of the English Channel, somewhat like the Channeled Scablands or the Wabash River in the USA. A further update in 2017, attributed a series of previously described underwater holes in the Channel floor -"100m deep" and in places "several kilometres in diameter" to lake water plunging over a rock ridge causing isolated depressions or plunge pools.[8] The melting ice and rising sea levels submerged Doggerland, the area linking Britain to France 6,500–6,200 BCE.
The Lobourg strait, a major feature of the strait's seafloor, runs its 6 km (4 mi) wide slash on a NNE–SSW axis. Nearer to the French coast than to the English coast, it runs along the Varne sandbank where it plunges to 68 m (223 ft) at its deepest, and along the latter's south-east neighbour the Ridge bank (French name "Colbart"[9]) with a maximum depth of 62 m (203 ft).[10]
Marine wildlife
The submarine depth of the strait varies between 68 m (223 ft) at the Lobourg strait and 20 m (66 ft) at the highest banks. It presents a succession of rocky areas relatively deserted by ships wanting to spare their nets, and of sandy flats and sub-aqueous dunes. The strong currents of the Channel are slowed down around the rocky areas of the strait, with formation of countercurrents and calmer zones where many species can find shelter.[11] In these calmer zones, the water is clearer than in the rest of the strait; thus algae can grow despite the 30 m (98 ft) average depth and help increase diversity in the local species – some of which are endemic to the strait. Moreover, this is a transition zone for the species of the Atlantic Ocean and those of the southern part of the North Sea.
This mix of various environments promotes a wide variety of wildlife.[12]
The Ridens de Boulogne, a 10–20 m (33–66 ft) deep[13] rocky high ground partially covered with sand located 15 nmi (28 km; 17 mi) to the west of Boulogne, boasts the highest production of maerl in the strait.[13]
A 682 km2 (263 sq mi) area of the strait is classified as a Natura 2000 protection zone listed under the name Ridens et dunes hydrauliques du Pas de Calais (Ridens and sub-aqueous dunes of the Dover Strait). This area includes the sub-aqueous dunes of Varne, Colbart, Vergoyer and Bassurelle, the Ridens de Boulogne, and the Lobourg channel which provides calmer and clearer waters due to its depth reaching 68 m (223 ft).[14]
Unusual crossings
Many crossings other than in conventional vessels have been attempted, including by pedalo, jetpack, bathtub, amphibious vehicle and more commonly by swimming. French law bans many of these while English law does not, so most such crossings originate in England.[citation needed]
Ice
In the late 17th century during the "Little Ice Age" there are reports of severe winter ice in the Strait of Dover, including a case in 1684 of only a league of open water remaining between Dover and Calais.[15]; see [1] for another report of severe ice in the English Channel.
Philip Harding Klimanek (1883-1965) was born in the Czech Republic, at the time his place of birth was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. In ca. 1905 he started to work for Holland-China Trading Company, in Hong Kong.
In 1939, when Charles Gesner van der Voort arrived in Shanghai to work for the company, he was Charles' superior. In a letter home he wrote: "Played chess with Klimanek in the French Club" [translation Pieter Lommerse, the French Club was Le Cercle Sportif Français, a fashionable place to be in the 1930s and it still exists today].
Philip Harding Klimanek was also a juror for the Hong Kong judicial system, which can be found in gwulo.com, for the last time in 1941.
His grandson wrote to me: "Though he had been based in Shanghai before the war we know he was captured in Hongkong on 24th Dec 1941 during the “Battle of Hongkong”. He had been a volunteer with the “isolated Tytan [this should probably be Tai Tam, or Tytam at the time] Godows of the Food Control from November to the end of December 1941” We assume he was involved with food conservation as the Japanese were approaching."
"He was beaten up on capture and needed medical treatment. He was in and out of Stanley camp until the Japanese surrender in 1945. As he was of Austro-Hungarian descent after the war his nationality was hard to determine as his papers and all his possessions had been lost, his health was very poor as a result of how he had been treated during the war. Eventually he managed to get a temporary Czechoslovakian passport in 1948 issued in Nanking China. After a short period in the UK looking for work he returned to the HCTC and was traveling between Shanghai and Hongkong. He retired in Hongkong and returned to England 31st Dec 1950."
Gwulo.com administrator David added a comment about the Tai Tam godown shelters: "I guess he spent that time at Godowns (warehouses) that stored food for emergency use. You can see other examples of this type of godown listed at gwulo.com/hong-kong-shelter-area;
Philip Harding Klimanek was a close friend of Willem Kien, another early HCHC-employee, later to become director of the company. Willem Kien's daughter in law recalls seeing him during visits in The Netherlands, together with his wife Zoia and daughter Sylvia. Also Anneke Knüppe-de Jongh, daughter of former HCHC-employee and director Frans de Jongh, has warm memories of the family, which her family stayed closely in touch with.
This photo shows Sylvia and Reginald Klimanek with three other children in a swimming pool created aboard s.s. Zuiderkerk.
Courtesy Harding-Klimanek family archives
El Palmar de Troya:
Es una entidad local autónoma del municipio español de Utrera (Sevilla). Existen datos históricos de época romana y del siglo XIII cuando pertenecía a la "Banda morisca", el actual asentamiento se debe principalmente a los familiares de los presos políticos que tras la guerra civil construyeron el pantano del águila y posteriormente a ellos mismos.
En la actualidad es conocida, sobre todo, por el templo de la Orden de los Carmelitas de la Santa Faz, que es una escisión herética de la Iglesia Católica y que acabó siendo la Iglesia Palmariana. Fue fundada por Clemente Domínguez y Gómez junto a Manuel Alonso Corral. Sus papas son considerados por la Iglesia Católica como antipapas. Otros consideran a esta organización como una secta, especialmente a raíz de que en 2016 el Papa Gregorio XVIII reconociera que “Todo ha sido un montaje sobre todo económico. Aprovechándonos del milagro de la virgen”
"No matter where I sleep, you are haunting me"
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I cannot tell you how many times I had to return to this same spot of river to reshoot this image. Some days it would be warm and there'd be hoards of families picnicing and splashing in the water, other times I'd be stood up to my neck in freezing river and at the end of it, the images just weren't working. I had no one to model for me and I felt always like I was running out of time, what with summer coming to an end. But I kept coming back because I knew what I wanted to make was worth it. So here's to resilience (and hot baths)!
Did you know this scene existed in the city of Los Angeles?
No, not Malibu, not El Matador, not Palos Verdes, but... Los Angeles!
(If you don't understand the title, read the image notes!)
I thought I'd shot this beach to death, but with the negative tide and explosive sunset a few nights ago, a whole new array of compositions became possible with sea life I didn't know existed. I don't know if I've ever seen a clump of starfish this huge and red before!
As you might be able to tell, I got soaked and splashed up to chest level while I was desperately trying to get this shot. I was initially shooting with my reverse 3-stop GND, but that got hit by a wave crashing over the rock. 5 minutes later, the same thing happened to my 3-stop soft GND, and I had to shoot filterless for the rest of the night, being extra careful to protect my bare lens from the frequent crasher waves as the tide forcefully pushed its way back in. I captured this moment while in the soft GND phase, so it required a manual blend of three exposures for dynamic range and a focus stack for the sea stars.
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“The great art of life is the sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.” - Lord Byron
Note:
Claudiney is one among 15.000 lost children still roaming the streets of São Paulo.
It is in deepest regret and sadness that I inform you of Roney's cold-blooded murder on the early morning hours of January 15th. May he find peace wherever his journey has taken him.......
IMPORTANT NOTE:
On June 27th. we also lost our beloved Claudiney.
This is a hot spring in the Upper Geyser Basin of Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming.
Doublet Pool is actually two clear pools (foreground and background) connected in the middle, allowing water to flow between. Deep vents exist in the centre of the pools with shallow shelves at the pools' edges. Raised, sawtooth-textured sinter outlines the edge of the pools and lines areas of the outwash channel. Some water spills out of the sawtooth textures around the pools, resulting in starburst-like trails of orange thermophiles (bottom of image), as well as the saw colours lining the outwash channel. Only rarely has Doublet Pool actually erupted, once after the 1959 earthquake, but most of its activity is bubbling and steaming.
Doublet Pool is 2.4m deep and its temperature is approximately 90.2 °C. The eruptions that do occur in Doublet Pool last up to eight minutes. The pool in the foreground pulses over the vents about every two hours. Occasionally there will be vibrations, surface wave motion, and thumping; these effects are caused by collapsing gas and steam bubbles deep underground.
Of note, the entire National Park is effectively covering the caldera of a single super-volcano, which last erupted some 70,000 years ago. Some of its eruptions have ejected 1,000 cubic km of material - in comparison, the Mt St Helens eruption in 1980 saw less than 4.5 cubic km of material ejected...
Aptly Named
A little something different for a Monochrome Monday post since I do love signs and this one is perfectly named.
SALT....It's what pays the bills and is the only reason the Watkins Glen branch survives. The 15 miles of the old Pennsylvania Railroad Elmira Branch exists solely to serve Cargill Salt in downtown Watkins Glen and this facility, US Salt, two miles north of town along the west shore of Seneca Lake.
After following them up from Watkins I waited here at least 90 min in the rain for this shot. After some 80 min of standing there slowly getting soaked someone from the plant finally said I was trespassing, after a half dozen had just driven by and waved! I explained what I was doing and that I'd been standing there in the rain like a moron over an hour and politely asked if I could just get the one photo for my effort. I promised to leave immediately after the train passed (which was the truth since I couldn't wait to get out of there!) so he somewhat confusingly acquiesced and went on his way!
From the company's web site: "
ABOUT
Located on the shore of Seneca Lake in the heart of New York’s Finger Lakes region, US Salt has been in operation since 1893.
The refinery sits atop a rich underground supply of salt. Water needed for the plant’s operations comes from Seneca Lake, a 40-mile long body of fresh water.
Salt was first discovered in Watkins Glen in 1882. During that year the Watkins Oil Well Company was organized to drill for petroleum, gas, salt and other minerals. The company drilled a well on the hillside west of Watkins Glen, on the site of a spring which the Indians knew had medicinal properties. In September 1882 the Watkins Oil Well Company reported that, at 1,513 feet below the surface, it had reached a sufficient flow of brine to make salt.
By 1890, the first brine-producing well was put into service. Impurities in the brine made it difficult to dry the salt. The first real producer of salt in Schuyler County, N.Y., was the Glen Salt Company. It drilled wells on property at Watkins Glen, now owned by US Salt.
The Glen Salt Company drilled its first well in 1893, struck salt at 1,841 feet, and stopped drilling at 1,902 feet without reaching the bottom of the salt bed. In 1894 a second well was dug without hitting the bottom of the salt bed. By 1896 a third well was dug that stopped at 1,927 feet, still in solid salt."
To see a more conventional view of the train here in full living color check out this shot: flic.kr/p/2mHNm8b
Watkins Glen, New York
Saturday October 30, 2021
Existe sempre uma grande demanda por novas mediocridades. Em todas as gerações, o gosto menos desenvolvido tem o maior apetite.
[Paul Gauguin]
"Aldous Huxley en Las puertas de la percepción, Ouspenski en Tertium Organum y Gurdjieff con su teoría del cuarto camino plantearon que la realidad material podría no ser tan llana como parece. Hoy sabemos que su aspecto puede depender del lugar desde donde se la mire, de la velocidad a la cual nos movemos y hasta de cosas tales como de cierta presión en un área específica de nuestro cerebro. Pero si las cosas pueden convertirse en otras de un momento a otro por cuestiones tan fortuitas, ¿debemos inferir que lo real no existe? ¿Que la apariencia de un objeto no es más que una ilusión?"
Marcos Zimmermann
Gracias inspiradas en Oscar Pintor: www.oscarpintor.com.ar/
La Pampa argentina 2018
(y el árbol que erguido habla de la vida perenne, del respiro sobre el silencio, de la naturaleza sobre el dinero, de la lucha contra la acción cargada de artificialidad, contra la muerte ejercida por el hombre)
This panorama was taken on a remote point on the northeast edge of the Paria Plateau. It looks across the lower Paria Canyon toward Lake Powell and Navajo Mountain.
Although a road goes out to the viewpoint, I don't think many people drive out that far. It's not close to anything famous or popular. I did see a wildlife watering station nearby, though, indicating that BLM rangers took note of its location.
Ghostly anomaly in Universe SBE133
Image credit: WANDER Space Probe / Navid Baraty
Big news! I’m excited to announce my new ongoing series of images taken by the WANDER space probe. WANDER (Wormhole Accelerated Nomad Delivering Exploratory Reconnaissance) is on a mission to explore beyond our universe and capture never-before-seen images of what exists in these strange worlds. WANDER travels by tunneling through wormholes, or “shortcuts” through spacetime. The wormholes are created from huge quantities of extremely dense matter in neutron stars and are filled with incredible amounts of negative energy harnessed from the vacuum of space. This negative energy holds the tunnel of the wormhole open long enough to be traversable.
With my technical background and knowledge of photography, I’m honored to have been selected as the lead image processor for the WANDER mission. WANDER uses special electronic detectors to record wavelengths of light throughout the range of the electromagnetic spectrum. This raw image data from WANDER is transmitted to Earth in the form of qubits (quantum bits) at nearly instantaneous speeds via quantum entanglement. My job is to analyze and edit this data to produce finished color images that accurately depict the grandeur of these universes.
On occasion, WANDER will be making observations in our universe as it periodically returns to Earth for routine maintenance.
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Existem várias teorias sobre a coloração real da Lua, algumas delas sugerem que a lua é composta em tons de cinza e giz e alguns especialistas dizem que ela é formada em tons de marrom.
A foto abaixo é uma foto real da Lua tirada hoje mas me permitindo a liberdade criativa resolvi imaginar como seria a Lua em tons de marrom (efeitos de cor produzidos em pós produção).
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Gunnuhver geothermal area is a field of steaming fumaroles and boiling mud pools. In the recent past some geysers existed here as well. As the tectonic plates move, new passages are constantly opening (and older ones are closing) for heated groundwater and gases. Gunnuhver is one such area. Here deeper below the surface the temperature of ground (and water in it) reaches 300° C. Much of groundwater comes from the nearby sea and is rich with chlorides and also with dissolved silica. As a result in the recent past hot springs and geysers have created sinter deposits - a hill named Kísilhóll (Kísilhóll, Silica hill). Today here are no hot water springs and geysers, but northeast from Kísilhóll are located many steam vents (fumaroles) and boiling mud pools. Mud pools are formed by acidic groundwater sources, which turn lava into clay. The largest mud pool in Iceland also is located here - it is 20 m across, boiling vigorously along its rims. Hot ground is an immense source of energy. In 2006 near Gunnuhver geothermal field started to operate the Reykjanes Geothermal Plant. As a result the steaming of the ground in the geothermal field increased.
The walkways here make it easy to watch your step, but they weren’t here 300 years ago when the troublesome ghost of Gudrún Önundardóttir—who gives her nickname ‘Gunna’ to this beautiful geothermal field—was tricked into taking hold of a charmed knotted-rope that led her across the field and into the big fumerole. Some say she didn’t fall in with the rope, but is stuck holding onto the end of it, and paces around the rim of the steamy abyss for all eternity. I can’t be sure, but it was uncanny how the steam shifted in the breeze but never cleared completely, as though veiling something, or someone… You need to tread carefully when wandering around the striking mud pools and fumaroles of Gunnuhver, close to the Reykjanes town of Grindavík.
The Gunnuhver geothermal field reopened in June 2010 after being closed for a couple of years due to instability—one of the dangers being that the high-pressured steam might suddenly find another outlet underneath the visitor walkway.
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Only exist a ghost but sometimes this is good and sometimes is bad. I always hear it when I go to sleep, although long ago I don't hear it. The "demon" is another personality , It is the voice of conscience, we are trying to save us.
Sólo existe un fantasma y éste a veces es bueno o malo. Yo siempre lo escucho cuando voy a dormir, aunque hace mucho no lo escucho. El "demonio" es otra personalidad, es la voz de la conciencia, somos nosotros tratando de salvarnos.
El Palmar de Troya:
Es una entidad local autónoma del municipio español de Utrera (Sevilla). Existen datos históricos de época romana y del siglo XIII cuando pertenecía a la "Banda morisca", el actual asentamiento se debe principalmente a los familiares de los presos políticos que tras la guerra civil construyeron el pantano del águila y posteriormente a ellos mismos.
En la actualidad es conocida, sobre todo, por el templo de la Orden de los Carmelitas de la Santa Faz, que es una escisión herética de la Iglesia Católica y que acabó siendo la Iglesia Palmariana. Fue fundada por Clemente Domínguez y Gómez junto a Manuel Alonso Corral. Sus papas son considerados por la Iglesia Católica como antipapas. Otros consideran a esta organización como una secta, especialmente a raíz de que en 2016 el Papa Gregorio XVIII reconociera que “Todo ha sido un montaje sobre todo económico. Aprovechándonos del milagro de la virgen”
Photo prise lors de mon voyage en Guyane-Marais de Kaw
Il existe 4 espèces de caïmans en Guyane : le caïman noir, le rouge, le gris et celui à lunettes. Malgré leur nom, il ne sert à rien de se fier à leur couleur pour les identifier. Quand au caïman à lunettes, bien qu'une structure osseuse devant les yeux évoquent bien son nom, le caïman noir possède cette même crête osseuse !
Le caïman à lunettes (Caiman crocodilus) est sans doute l'espèce de crocodiliens la plus commune.
Il est relativement petit, les mâles dépassent rarement les 2,80 m et les femelles 1m50.
Le caïman à lunettes est ainsi nommé à cause de la crête osseuse située entre ses yeux, faisant penser à des lunettes. En plus de la crête osseuse entre les yeux, le caïman à lunettes est également doté d'une crête triangulaire sur le dessus de l’œil, et comme les autres membres de la famille des alligators, le museau est large et arrondi. La peau du ventre de ce caïman n'est pas très prisée pour les activités de tannage et de maroquinerie. En effet, celle-ci est recouverte de plaques osseuses très développées.
Il est principalement piscivore et se nourrit donc de poissons. Il est également opportuniste et agrémente son régime alimentaire d’amphibiens, de reptiles ou oiseaux venus se poser trop prés de ses puissantes mâchoires
Très adaptable, on peut observer le Caïman à Lunettes dans toute la moitié Nord de l’Amérique Latine et dans les îles environnantes. Il aime les eaux calmes des marais, rivières, lacs et savanes.
Comme tous les crocodiliens, le caïman à lunettes est un prédateur parfaitement adapté à la vie aquatique. Les jeunes se nourrissent essentiellement d'invertébrés comme les escargots, les insectes et les crustacés. Lorsqu'ils grandissent, la variété des proies se diversifie. S'ils chassent moins d'insectes, ils se nourrissent plutôt de poissons, d'amphibiens, de reptiles et d'oiseaux aquatiques. Les plus grands spécimens peuvent également s'attaquer à des mammifères comme le cerf. En période sèche, lorsque la nourriture se fait rare, les adultes peuvent alors s'attaquer aux petits caïmans.
Le caïman à lunettes atteint sa maturité sexuelle vers l'âge de 4 à 7 ans selon les populations. Le statut social influe sur le taux de croissance et la reproduction. Certains jeunes caïmans seront incapables de s'accoupler à cause du stress social en raison de la présence de grands caïmans, les plus dominants.
Le caïman à lunettes est polygame, le mâle et la femelle pouvant s'accoupler avec plusieurs partenaires du sexe opposé. L'accouplement a généralement lieu durant la saison humide d'avril à août. La femelle fabrique ensuite un nid en forme de monticule fait de boue et de végétation où elle y déposera entre 10 et 30 œufs. La période d'incubation dure entre 65 et 104 jours. Après l'éclosion, la mère dégage la végétation qui recouvrent les œufs et aident ses petits à sortir de leur coquille. À la naissance, un jeune caïman à lunettes mesure entre 18 et 22 cm.
Dans la période suivant l'éclosion, les juvéniles demeurent dans des crèches toujours sous l’œil vigilant de leur mère. Une femelle peut prendre en charge pour plusieurs groupes de nouveau-nés provenant de parents différents. Pendant ce temps, une hiérarchie sociale se met en place chez les jeunes. Les petits resteront auprès de leur mère pendant environ 1 an et demi qui les protégera des agressions des prédateurs.
On ne connaît pas réellement la longévité exacte du caïman à lunettes. La durée de vie connue à l'état sauvage est estimée à environ 60 ans. Cependant, 30 à 40 pourrait être l'âge moyen. En captivité, la durée de vie moyenne est de 20 ans avec un record de 24 ans.
Bien que généralement solitaire, le caïman à lunettes peut parfois être vu en groupe. Il reste sur un même territoire et reste immobile presque toute la journée. Dans la chaleur de la mi-journée, il reste dans l'eau et se prélasse sur la terre ferme du matin jusqu'au début de l'après-midi.
Le caïman à lunettes se nourrit habituellement la nuit. Pendant la période de reproduction, il devient territorial et agressif. Dans les groupes, le rang social est déterminé par la taille des individus, les plus grands dominant les plus petits. Les animaux dont le rang social est le plus élevé a plus de chance de s'accoupler que les autres.
Le caïman à lunettes utilise le goût, le toucher, le son et les sens visuels pour la communication sociale et reproductive. La capacité à détecter des vibrations dans l'eau peut aider à la détection des proies.
A long time ago… in galaxies far far away, the first stars were born in the early universe. But when and how? That’s a mystery Webb is one step closer to solving.
Using Webb, researchers have found two early galaxies that are unusually bright, one of which could contain the most distant starlight ever seen. The galaxies are thought to have existed 350 and 450 million years after the big bang (respectively, from top to bottom). Unlike our Milky Way, these first galaxies are small and compact, with spherical or disk shapes rather than grand spirals.
Webb’s new findings suggest that the galaxies would have had to begin coming together about 100 million years after the big bang — meaning that the first stars might have started forming in such galaxies around that time, much earlier than expected.
Follow-up observations with Webb’s spectrographs will confirm the distances of these primordial galaxies and help us learn more about the earliest stars. More: www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2022/nasa-s-webb-draws-back-...
Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Tommaso Treu (UCLA)
[Image description: Graphic titled “Abell 2744 GLASS; JWST / NIRCam,” with two large square images, one on the left and one on the right, and two smaller images in between, one stacked above the other. The small images are zoom-ins that show details in the large images. The large image on the left shows galaxies of different colors, shapes, and sizes, and several bright foreground stars with Webb’s characteristic diffraction pattern. On the left side of this image is a box around a galaxy, labeled “1”, which zooms in to a red galaxy shown in the top small center pullout image. Image 1 is labeled “z ~ 10.5” to indicate that the galaxy’s redshift is about 10.5. The image on the right also shows galaxies of different colors, shapes, and sizes, but without any prominent diffraction spikes seen in the left image. It includes a box on the left side, labeled “2”, which zooms into a red galaxy, shown in the bottom center image. Pullout image 2 is labeled “z ~ 12.5” to show that the galaxy’s redshift is about 12.5.]