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Do you see the seasons on this clock? If you take a closer look, you will notice that they are arranged in a clockwise direction but backwards. Yeah, right .... Winter ... Autumn ... Summer ... Spring. Why??
Do you have time for a little time travel?
The watch has a dial which gives the seasons again. Each digit stands for one month. Every quarter for a season. Since the clock runs through the seasons twice a day throughout the day, it also makes up for two years on its way. Because the seasons but are arranged backwards, the watch loses those two years and becomes both the fastest and the slowest clock simultaneously.
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This is the fastest-changing area in the Norris Geyser Basin, in the north-west of Yellowstone National Park. In turn, Norris Geyser Basin is the hottest geothermal areas in the park (up to 138˚C for some steam vents).
The milky colour of the mineral deposited here inspired the naming of Porcelain Basin. The mineral, siliceous sinter, is brought to the surface by hot water and forms a "sheet" over this flat area as the water flows across the ground and the mineral settles out. If the mineral seals off a hot spring or geyser by accumulating in its vent, the hot, pressurised water may flow underground to another weak area and blow through it.
Siliceous sinter is also called geyserite. Deposits usually accumulate very slowly, less than 2.5 cm per century, and form the geyser cones and mounds seen in most geyser basins. - From National Park Service webpages.
This image is scanned from a negative.
1974 Chevrolet Impala Series 1BL Model 1L35 Station Wagon 2-seat (Fisher body)
- "fastest hearse in the east"
This is the fastest turnaround I've had on a single photo in quite a while. I left home early this morning to capture this at Lost Lake. Recent winds mean there were a lot of trees down in that area, which made the drive up (and even the walk in) take a little longer than normal.
Pictured are the planets Jupiter, Mars, and Venus (from top to bottom, over Mt Hood). The star just below Venus (the brightest object in this photo) is Spica.
I'm nearly set to announce the dates for my fourth season of landscape astrophotography workshops. If you like what you see here and would like to learn some of my techniques, please visit my website for more information.
class : Chilopoda
Centipedes' are fast-moving, venomous, predatory, terrestrial arthropods that have long bodies and many jointed legs. Chiefly nocturnal, centipedes are found primarily in tropical climates but are also widely distributed in temperate zones.
Some species are highly venomous and often produce very painful bites.
Like the millipedes, centipedes are highly segmented (15 to 173 segments), but with only one pair of walking legs per segment. Centipedes are dorso-ventrally flattened, and are among the fastest and most agile of non-flying arthropod predators.Feeds on cockroaches, insects, house flies n other small house Pests
Fastest hand in the west.
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Thanks to Alex and Ari for the PS help.
The fastest land animal in the world needs its sleep, too. A group of Cheetahs is called a coalition.
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The fastest steam locomotive in the world (126mph) sat in all its glory in the National Railway Museum, York, UK. As I may have mentioned before this museum is a tough place to take photos because of the bright lighting and the highly polished surfaces of the railway stock on show. This is my best attempt so far to get a half decent shot of this world famous loco on display there. Here's what Wikipedia has to say about the Mallard:- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LNER_Class_A4_4468_Mallard
Peregrine Falcons are amazing flyers and the fastest of all animals. They can reach speeds of up to 200mph when they dive...impressive would be an understatement! We had a Peregrine Falcon collide with a Bald Eagle around Haystack Rock this summer, some surfers pulled the eagle from the waters and he was taken to the hospital where they pinned his wings in several places...he didn't make it. The impact from the much smaller falcon was too much.
This guy has bad wing damage and will never be released. He is just a juvenile. Male Peregrine's are smaller than the females.
fastest thing on four legs I have ever seen. it bolted when I grabbed the camera and flung itself into two feet of fresh snow. it pooped its head up once to glare at me, then was gone!
America’s fastest running land mammal was built for speed, it wasn’t, however, built for jumping. It also has some of the longest land migrations of any animal in North America but because of its inability to jump, fences have impeded this migration. Modifications of fences have helped assure safe passage for pronghorn, while still maintaining grazing herds of domestic animals. It’s a tiny compromise for a big cause. #Pronghorn #PronghornRun
Photographed in Kenya, Africa from a safari vehicle
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We were fortunate to spend some time with 5 cheetahs on our first trip to Africa in 2018. The 4 young cheetahs were almost full-grown but were still playful, as you can see from this photo.
We were able to spend a considerable time with them as they approached and moved past our vehicle.
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From Wikipedia: The cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) is a large cat native to Africa and Southwest Asia (today restricted to central Iran). It is the fastest land animal, capable of running at 80 to 98 km/h (50 to 61 mph), as such has evolved specialized adaptations for speed, including a light build, long thin legs and a long tail. It typically reaches 67–94 cm (26–37 in) at the shoulder, and the head-and-body length is between 1.1 and 1.5 m (3 ft 7 in and 4 ft 11 in). Adults weigh between 21 and 72 kg (46 and 159 lb). Its head is small and rounded, with a short snout and black tear-like facial streaks. The coat is typically tawny to creamy white or pale buff and is mostly covered with evenly spaced, solid black spots. Four subspecies are recognised.
The cheetah lives in three main social groups: females and their cubs, male "coalitions", and solitary males. While females lead a nomadic life searching for prey in large home ranges, males are more sedentary and instead establish much smaller territories in areas with plentiful prey and access to females. The cheetah is active during the day, with peaks during dawn and dusk. It feeds on small- to medium-sized prey, mostly weighing under 40 kg (88 lb), and prefers medium-sized ungulates such as impala, springbok and Thomson's gazelles. The cheetah typically stalks its prey within 60–100 m (200–330 ft) before charging towards it, trips it during the chase and bites its throat to suffocate it to death. It breeds throughout the year. After a gestation of nearly three months, a litter of typically three or four cubs is born. Cheetah cubs are highly vulnerable to predation by other large carnivores such as hyenas and lions. They are weaned at around four months and are independent by around 20 months of age.
The cheetah occurs in a variety of habitats such as savannahs in the Serengeti, arid mountain ranges in the Sahara and hilly desert terrain in Iran. The cheetah is threatened by several factors such as habitat loss, conflict with humans, poaching and high susceptibility to diseases. Historically ranging throughout most of Sub-Saharan Africa and extending eastward into the Middle East and to central India, the cheetah is now distributed mainly in small, fragmented populations in central Iran and southern, eastern and northwestern Africa. In 2016, the global cheetah population was estimated at 7,100 individuals in the wild; it is listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List. In September 2022, they were reintroduced to India after being extinct in the country for 70 years. In the past, cheetahs were tamed and trained for hunting ungulates. They have been widely depicted in art, literature, advertising, and animation.
Ecology and behaviour:
Cheetahs are active mainly during the day, whereas other carnivores such as leopards and lions are active mainly at night; These larger carnivores can kill cheetahs and steal their kills; hence, the diurnal tendency of cheetahs helps them avoid larger predators in areas where they are sympatric, such as the Okavango Delta. In areas where the cheetah is the major predator (such as farmlands in Botswana and Namibia), activity tends to increase at night. This may also happen in highly arid regions such as the Sahara, where daytime temperatures can reach 43 °C (109 °F). The lunar cycle can also influence the cheetah's routine—activity might increase on moonlit nights as prey can be sighted easily, though this comes with the danger of encountering larger predators. Hunting is the major activity throughout the day, with peaks during dawn and dusk. Groups rest in grassy clearings after dusk. Cheetahs often inspect their vicinity at observation points such as elevations to check for prey or larger carnivores; even while resting, they take turns at keeping a lookout.
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The fastest changing area of the Norris Geyser Basin. The porcelain color of these springs is due to siliceous sinter that is brought to the surface by hot water.
[#493 on Explore, Sunday, May 10, 2009]
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Kings Island, Ohio
King's Island's newest thrill is the largest, tallest, fastest coaster in the park's history. With extreme smoothness and the most airtime ever felt on a coaster, this ride will rank high as the best coaster of 2009.
We spotted this beautiful falcon resting in between hunts. Powerful and fast-flying, reaching over 322 km/h (200 mph) during its characteristic hunting stoop (high speed dive), making it the fastest member of the animal kingdom. The highest measured speed of a peregrine falcon is 389 km/h (242 mph). The Peregrine Falcon hunts medium-sized birds, dropping down on them from high above in a spectacular stoop. They were virtually eradicated from eastern North America by pesticide poisoning in the middle 20th century. After significant recovery efforts, Peregrine Falcons have made an incredible rebound and are now regularly seen in many large cities and coastal areas.
The cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) is an atypical member of the cat family (Felidae): that is, unique in its speed, while lacking climbing abilities. Therefore it is placed in its own genus, Acinonyx. The word "cheetah" is derived from a Sanskrit word meaning "variegated body."
It is the fastest land animal, reaching speeds of 70-75 mph in short bursts covering distances up to 460m, and has the ability to accelerate from 0 to 68 mph in three seconds, faster than most supercars.
Sadly, cheetah cubs have a high mortality rate due to genetic factors and predation by carnivores in competition with the cheetah, such as the lion and hyena. Recent inbreeding causes cheetahs to share very similar genetic profiles. This has led to poor sperm, birth defects, cramped teeth, curled tails, and bent limbs. Some biologists now believe that they are too inbred to flourish as a species.
Cheetahs are listed as Vulnerable by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Red List of threatened species. Some 7,000 cheetahs remain in the wild in Africa and (a few) Asia.
There have been successful breeding programmes, including the use of in vitro fertilisation, in zoos around the world. This beauty was seen at Chester Zoo.
This is a reworked version of an earlier image in my stream.
The Cheetah, fastest land aninmal on earth, reaching speeds between 112 to 120km/h (70-75 mph) in short burst's. Covering distances up tp 460m (1,500 ft) and has the ability to accelerate from 0 to 110km/h (68 mph) in 3 seconds, faster that most super cars.
I was lucky to get such a fine capture of this Awesome Cheetah, as it got up to see the zoo attendant nearby with food for them to eat. Hope Y'all like it.
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It's literally indian summer for this old coal motor racing west on the St. Croix Sub heading up a stack train. I believe this was the last time I saw one of the old GEs hustling this fast down the mainline. October 19, 2000.
اهلن بالجميع
عوده مجددآ احبتي بعد الانقطاع
بلقطه ارشيفيه من بطولة حلبة الريم
علها تنال اعجابكم
nikon d300s
nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 vr
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Feel free to add the picture to your favorite, it is my pleasure :)
خذ راحتك في اضافة الصورة الي مفضلتك، وكلي شرف وامتنان
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Howto:
1) Wait for a cloudlness, moonless night. Or do it after moonset or before moonrise. The moon is really really bright and it washes out the stars.
2) Set camera to continuous shooting mode. This is the mode where if you hold down the shutter release, it will just take picture after picture after picture... Set the shutter speed as long as it will go without BULB -- This is probably 30 seconds. You can experiment with different ISO and F/numbers, but generally you're going to want low F/number and high ISO. These were F/3.5 and ISO 1600.
3) put it on a tripod.
4) Focus. I've found that racking the focus all the way toward infinity doesn't quite work -- it focuses PAST infinity. So I have to focus it all the way out and then bring it back just a smidge.
5) use something to hold the shutter release button down. I used a wire wrapped around the camera with a piece of paper wadded up over the shutter release button. That keeps the button down so the camera takes picture after picture after picture...
(I'd recommend using RAW mode if you know how to process raw images. That way, you don't have to worry about white balance, and you can stretch the images appropriately without causing too much degradation.)
6) Wait a few hours. Now you've got 200 photos where the stars are slightly offset and the foreground stays relatively stationary.
(If you've used RAW images, then you now load em into your RAW processing program, set the white balance so the sky is not red, adjust for noise, etc, etc... You can process them all simultaneously with Adobe Camera RAW, and other programs probably have that same functionality...)
7) Get www.startrails.de/html/software.html and load up those images. Now it'll do two things. First it will combine all the images to smooth out the unchanging parts, getting rid of noise. Use a large number of frames to smooth it out more. Then it will essentially do a brighten command with each frame, painting the stars over the smoothed background.
Voila!
I forget exactly how many images are combined here but I think it's a bit over 200.
Other things:
Stars move fastest around the celestial equator and slowest near the celestial poles. The North Star is at the North celestial pole. If you took 200 pictures of it, it'd hardly move at all. If the camera is pointed west or east, the stars will trail faster.
Stars circle around the celestial poles, so towards the celestial equator, the trails will be fairly straight, but near the North star, they will make more pronounced circles. This image is wide angle and looking east, so the North Star is towards the top left. The effect is quite noticable.
Higher focal lengths (more zoomed in) will make stars trail faster, but I think wide angle shots usually work better. This one is at 18mm on a 1.6x crop camera.
Those weird straight lines are airplanes. There are two in this image. You may also catch sattelites and shooting stars.
At one time the fastest car in the world, Bugatti shipped out a new standard. Also, it's frickin hard to build in Lego :P
This is based off of Ron_Dayes Bugatti, which he said he thought of as a Chiron. I thought using his base, I could make a convincing Veyron to join the collection.
I started with the front, changing out piece after piece. About half-way through, I worked on the back, giving it that iconic engine cover and round taillights. Finally, I masked out an IRL Veyron grill and put it into the .dae file.
If you like this, or cars in general, you should check out Ron's page. He spent years working on this scale, and has some really cool Mocs...
www.flickr.com/photos/rondayes/
Thanks for Looking!