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A small pit had to be dug to get the tree out. I have often wondered how the crew was able to have the tree placed firmly on the ground. Now I know. Too bad I didn't think of dropping by to see how they extracted the tree from the ground. It might have made some interesting time-lapse video.
Under the hood:
Something I've been wanting to do ever since I built the Engine for The Duchess. I had to make a few tweaks and alterations to make sure the engine was integrated better and actually was able to line up the exhausts and wheel placement nicely to match with the full Duchess model.
This does also mean I now have two models of The Duchess: her fully covered version and this exposed version too.
A moody long exposure shot of the Essex coast. As the tide recedes some old timber posts are exposed. Bradwell-On-Sea
1940's sea defences along the coastline of Caister on Sea / Norfolk, recently exposed by the Beast from the East.
Light falls on a hidden village in the High Atlas mountains of Morocco, with the ever-present minaret of a mosque.
We were on our drive up to the ski resort at Oukaimeden (2750 m asl) when this scene presented itself. In the surrounding peaks and valleys, men could be heard calling to each other, their voices bouncing off the steep crags.
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A stitched panorama of Bar Beach, Newcastle, using seven portrait format frames. The images were taken at low tide, revealing lots of bedrock and large boulders that have been exposed when sand was stripped away during recent big seas.
A Winter's Walk in Norfolk
Between the Saracen's Head, Wolterton, and Itteringham, and back again for the CRU Christmas Dinner.
4 minute exposure of a battered and broken breakwater at Corton, Suffolk. Hitech 10 stopper plus Hitech 0.9 SE Grad.
Do you cry out in your sleep all my failings exposed?
And there's a taste in my mouth as desperation takes hold
Is it something so good just can't function no more?
Joy Division ♫ ♪ ♫
In 1980 the Post-Punk-/Dark-Wave-Band Joy Division used this grieving angel for their cover of the vinyl 12" Maxi-Single called "Love will tear us apart".
Until today plenty of tourists visit the Staglieno cemetery to take a picture of that unusual angel themselves....
An employee of Staglieno told me, it`s the most asked sculpture on the cemetery...and for sure, it`s only one of plenty of wonderful sculptures on that place. It`s more an outdoor museum than a burial ground. It`s one of the most impressing cemeteries I`ve seen.
By the way, 4 years after release of "Love will tear us apart" by Joy Division the song became more famous, covered by
Paul Young ♫ ♪ ♫
I bet, you know that song :-D
1980 hat die Post-Punk-/Dark-Wave-Band Joy Division diesen trauernden Engel für das Cover ihrer Maxi-Single "Love will tear us apart" benutzt. Bis heute kommen viele Touristen um ihr eigenes Foto dieses ungewöhnlichen Engels zu machen.
Ein Mitarbeiter auf Staglieno erzählte mir, daß nach dieser Skulptur am häufigsten gefragt wird. Ganz sicher, es ist nur einer von vielen wunderbaren Figuren auf diesem Friedhof.
Es ist mehr ein Freilichtmuseum als ein Gottesacker. Es ist einer der beeindruckendsten Friedhöfe die ich gesehen habe.
Nebenbei, 4 Jahre nach Erscheinen von Joy Divisions "Love will tear us apart" wurde der Titel erfolgreicher als Cover-Version von Paul Young.
Ich wette, den kennt ihr :-D
Moving through the dark woodland, this light caught my eye. I knew it would make a beautiful image. Hothfield Common, Kent, UK.
Starting a new series here. I took my nephew and his family along with my mom and sister to the Paint Mines Park on the eastern plains of Colorado. Native Americans used the hidden colors of the mines for ceremonial purposes as well as herding buffalo to make it easier to hunt. Hidden amidst the vastness of the plains, they are a wonder of color and light, which you will see in the coming days.
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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Príncipe / Pyrocephalus rubinus
/ Vermilion Flycatcher
Camera Sony SLT-A65V
Lens 75-300mm F4.5-5.6
Porto Street Park – Piracicaba – São Paulo – Brazil.
Parque da Rua do Porto – Piracicaba – São Paulo - Brasil.
The Vermilion Flycatcher is a passerine bird of the Tyrannidae family.
Habits
It lives in fields and savannas. Besides its colors, it stands out for its habit of perching on exposed branches, fences, and wires. Almost always found near water, it inhabits open environments, from fields, riverbanks with shrubs, to savannas and forest edges. It does not penetrate areas with dense vegetation. It uses environments created by human hands, being notable in gardens and urban parks. It can also be observed on the outskirts of cities. It is usually found in pairs.
Geographic Distribution
Found in southeastern Bolivia, Paraguay, and southeastern Brazil to Argentina and Uruguay.
It breeds in southern Brazil and neighboring countries (Uruguay, Argentina) and, after the breeding season, migrates north, reaching the Amazon. Significant populations of the species also winter in the Pantanal and Southeast regions, with records between April and October. There is no confirmation of reproduction of the species in the Southeast, even in the south of São Paulo.
O príncipe é uma ave passeriforme da família Tyrannidae.
Hábitos
Vive em campos e cerrados. Além das cores, destaca-se por seu hábito de pousar em galhos expostos, cercas e fios. Quase sempre encontrado próximo da água, ocupa os ambientes abertos, desde campos, praias de rio com arbustos, até cerrado e bordas de vegetação florestal. Não penetra em áreas com adensamento de vegetação. Utiliza ambientes criados pelas mãos humanas, sendo notável em jardins e parques urbanos. Ainda pode ser observado na periferia de cidades. É normalmente encontrado aos pares.
Distribuição Geográfica
Encontrado no sudeste da Bolívia, Paraguai e do sudeste do Brasil até a Argentina e Uruguai.
Reproduz-se no sul do Brasil e países vizinhos (Uruguai, Argentina) e, após o ciclo reprodutivo, migra para o norte, chegando até a Amazônia. Populações importantes da espécie invernam, também, no Pantanal e no Sudeste, com registros entre abril e outubro. Não há confirmação de reprodução da espécie no Sudeste, mesmo no sul de São Paulo.
As she carefully chipped away the old rock to expose the fossil, the paleontologist imagined what this area must have looked like millions of years ago when it was teeming with dinosaurs.
This Blythe doll is Blue Rabbit, posing for “Old Rock” in Blythe a Day on Flickr. I bought the fabulous background/wall hanging, and the toy dinosaurs a few years ago when there was a full month of dinosaur themes. I’m happy to have a reason to use them again!
Taken last year. It was partially eaten and left on the kitchen counter for some time. I thought it looked really pretty all dried-up :-)
Have been super busy this week, so I haven't had a chance to enjoy your streams. Will have to catch up in the coming week. Hope everyone has a great weekend!
Part 8 of the series on long exposures simply called Exposed
Just a series on long exposure daytime shots.
This time no water but the sky exposed.
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Technical info:
10 stops ND filter
Polarization Filter - 2 stops
f/22
ISO100
120s (2 min) exposure
Software:
Lightroom 2.0
PS CS3 - Silver Efex Pro - Orange Filter - Selenium toning
(50x70 cm, oil on cardboard) 2019
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