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On this shot one can see the black dots on the bottom side of the bracts, that are nectar glands to attract ants. The plant needs them to distribute its seeds.
Noticed the mist outside and drove away to get som shots. I missed the sunset unfortunately, but at least I got a few shots through the mist.
This image: For more than a century, astronomers have categorized galaxies near and far, both by comparing their shapes by eye and precisely measuring their properties with data known as spectra. For example, Edwin Hubble created the Hubble Tuning Fork in 1926 to begin to sort the shapes and sizes of nearby galaxies, showing that many are spirals and ellipticals.
As telescopes’ instruments have become increasingly more sensitive, it is easier to more accurately classify their shapes. New data from the James Webb Space Telescope have added nuances to astronomers’ classifications. Since Webb observes in infrared light, many more extremely distant galaxies appear in its images. Plus, the images are finely detailed, allowing researchers to identify if there are additional areas of star formation – or confirm they aren’t present.
A team led by Viraj Pandya, a NASA Hubble Fellow at Columbia University in New York, recently analyzed hundreds of distant galaxies in Webb’s Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science (CEERS) Survey. CEERS intentionally covers much of the same area as the Hubble Space Telescope’s Extended Groth Strip, which was one of the five fields used to create the Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey (CANDELS). This allowed them to double-check Webb’s results where the telescopes’ observations overlap.
“Our analysis of Webb’s galaxies was very consistent with galaxies in the Hubble Space Telescope catalog,” Pandya confirmed. “Two sets of data allowed us to fully vet our models as we ran our analysis, and better understand and categorize galaxies that only Webb detected.” The team began their analysis by sorting the galaxies into broad classes based on similar characteristics. (They did not classify each galaxy’s individual appearance since that would require detailed information from data known as spectra.)
They found an array of odd shapes when the universe was 600 million to 6 billion years old. The galaxy shapes that dominate look flat and elongated, like pool noodles or surfboards. These two galaxy types make up approximately 50 to 80% of all the distant galaxies they studied – a surprise, since these shapes are rare closer to home.
Other galaxies Webb detected appear round but also flattened, like frisbees. The least populated category is made up of galaxies that are shaped like spheres or volleyballs.
Webb’s data also resolved a riddle that was introduced by the Hubble Space Telescope’s observations decades ago. Why do so many distant galaxies appear like long lines? Was there more to the galaxies that didn’t appear in its images? Webb answered this in short order: Hubble hasn’t missed anything.
“Webb confirmed what Hubble has long shown us, but in greater detail in infrared light,” Pandya said. “Their combined observations show that in the early universe, many more galaxies appear flat and elongated. This has profound implications, since we usually assume that galaxies like our own Milky Way started out as disks, but that may not be the case.”
Why do galaxies have such different shapes early in the history of the universe? This question remains unanswered for now, but research is underway to better understand how galaxies evolved over all of cosmic time.
Read more: www.nasa.gov/missions/webb/webb-shows-many-early-galaxies...
Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Steve Finkelstein (UT Austin), Micaela Bagley (UT Austin), Rebecca Larson (UT Austin)
Image description: In the far-left column are two galaxies that have been magnified. The top left galaxy appears circular and light pink with a slightly whiter central region, taking up less than one-sixth of the box. The bottom galaxy is elongated, stretching almost from top left to bottom right. It has a white line at the center that has a pink outline that transitions into bluish edges at far left and right. Thin lines from each magnified galaxy point to their appearances in the broader field. The top galaxy appears as a tiny dot at the upper center, and the bottom galaxy toward the left. Thousands of galaxies appear across most of this view, which is set against the black background of space. There are many overlapping objects at various distances. They include large, blue foreground stars, with Webb’s signature eight-pointed diffraction spikes, and white and pink spiral and elliptical galaxies. Numerous tiny red dots appear throughout the scene. This is a portion of a vast survey known as CEERS.
Several very old refrigerators in a field at my grandparents house. They once held cattle meds; now they are full of scary gigantic syringes and huge mad scientist-esque medicine bottles.
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Photo taken at Ibbagamuwa, Sri Lanka.
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Watercolour on watercolour paper. These are more luminous than my watercolours on tagboard. The funny thing is, this one is the verso of my Winter Pond, so I must not have thought too much about it when it was first painted. Today I kind of like it better than the pond scene.
Of all the NFL fields in United States...this is it :)
A view of Lambeau Field, home of Green Bay Packers, Wisconsin.
I could hear their cow thoughts loud and clear...hey, whatcha doin'...what's that thing in your hand...what kinda animal are you...got anything to eat?!!
Scene typical of the commercial flower fields west of the central California city of Lompoc. The landscape takes on brilliant colors from May through August. The peak time is mid June around the time of the annual flower festival.
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Steffi got a photoshoot as her birthday present from her sister kati.
(I took pictures with Kati last year in august (**). )
We drove to several locations and took hundreds of gorgeous portraits. It was the first time that I used my reflector (Kati was a fantastic assistant) and I'm thrilled about how easy it is to get a better lighting this way.
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It had long been our ambition to convert the basement of the Rotunda back to its condition in 1910. Ickworth Lives, a project funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and your donations, is doing just that. Opened on 2nd March 2012, we invite you to discover the real lives of those who lived and worked in this party house in the 1930s.
The exterior of the Earl-Bishop’s Rotunda was virtually finished when he died in 1803, but the interior was still an empty shell, and the curving corridors and wings only a few feet above ground. It was left to the Earl-Bishop’s son, the future 1st Marquess of Bristol, to make what use he could of his father’s extraordinary plan. Having no need for massive galleries, in 1821 he instructed his architect, John Field, to redesign the East Wing as family living-quarters.
Field fitted out the ground floor of the Rotunda as state rooms in an austere Regency style. The West Wing was added purely for symmetry and so was left empty. The Trust is pleased to announce the go-ahead of a package for a project to develop the West Wing to provide new facilities for visitor reception, information, education, shop, restaurant, functions, conferences and events.
As the family lived mostly in the East Wing, the rooms that visitors see in the Rotunda spent much of the year under dust sheets, coming into their own mainly for parties and other special occasions. But as a result, their superb furnishings and decoration have survived in excellent condition and little changed since the heyday of the house in the Edwardian era.
The house, with much of its collections of family portraits, Huguenot silver, Regency furniture and china, and part of the ancient deer-park, passed to the National Trust in 1956.
The East Wing has been transformed into a four star hotel by the hotel company Luxury Family Hotels who lease the East Wing. Until 1997 the East Wing was home to the late 7th Marquis of Bristol who had leased the property from the National Trust.
The hotel has 35 luxury rooms - 11 in the Dower House a separate property situated on the north-west of the estate (opened in autumn 2002) - the hotel complex has three restaurants, a 50ft indoor pool, horse riding facilities and a tennis court.
Ickworth’s 18th-century parkland and gardens include some of the most stunning countryside to be found in East Anglia.
The Park
The extensive 1,800 acres of wooded parkland, created in part by 'Capability' Brown, is a living landscape rich in plant, animal, and bird life. Some parts cultivated and grazed yet much can be explored and enjoyed. Some waymarked field margins may also be walked. Access has been made possible through funding by the Forestry Commission’s Countryside Access scheme.
The Gardens
The gardens surrounding the house were created in the first half of the 19th century by the First Marquess of Bristol. Those in the formal Italian style to the south of the house feature the Gold and Silver Gardens, a Victorian Stumpery and the Temple Rose Garden. A raised terrace walk separates the south garden from the park.
Beyond the church are the remnants of an 18th-century garden created by the First Earl. His summerhouse (circa.1703) and ornamental canal still survive. The kitchen garden, protected by high brick walls, is now a vineyard producing Ickworth wines (available in the National Trust shop).
Recently BLM hosted the Whid Isle and Inland Empire Brittany Clubs to run dogs on two different "courses" in what are called braces. The courses included Puppy, Derby, Gun Dog, and All-Age. The dogs ran on Goose Butte in the BLM’s Spokane District. This has been the site for field trials for three Brittany Clubs for more than a decade. The most recent trial included with competitors from Washington, Oregon, Montana, Idaho, California and Canada!
John Henderson, a handler and judge for different braces said this BLM location is fantastic for the trials. "
First of all, it's centrally located for a lot of the club members and it's a great place to let the dogs loose. The folks here from southern California and the west side of Washington and Oregon don't have anything like this near them. These two courses are so big and it's chukar habitat so the birds we release feel at home," said Henderson.
Henderson said more than 500 birds were released over the three trials so the Brittanys could demonstrate their ability to find birds, point staunchly and remain steady to wing and shot. Most field trial dogs are handled from horseback because these patches of BLM land are too rough and expansive to cover on foot.
More information about hunting and fishing on YOUR public lands is available online: www.blm.gov/programs/recreation/recreation-programs/recre...
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My first upload to Flickr for more than six months. I just haven't been in the mood for photography lately, but I hope that will change during the warmer months, and that there will be some new material for some of you to enjoy. In the meantime, from August 2013, here's a view from a train window, travelling on the Mangapps Railway Museum line.
Or rather the lack of it.
Candid London street shot. Not quite a portrait but the man stands out as the only object in focus in a blurred world.
I feel like that some days.
Leica M4-P / Voigtlander Ultron 28mm f2 / Fujifilm Neopan 400 Presto ( NNC ND-76 1:1 22℃ 9min EI200 )
Flower Fields in bloom, Carlsbad, California
For more to see in Carlsbad watch YouTube video www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJHm_FYy4HQ
Back to work, unfortunately stuck in the tea room this weekend. The wind picked up as I was leaving and immediately inspired me for a photo. Had to wait until after dinner before I could go out. As soon as I'd finished I grabbed my camera and tripod and half ran to the fields not far away from my house.
I originally wanted to take photos standing in the middle of the path, then decided to jump around instead. I was on the way to getting a shot I liked, ready to expand it, when I saw some teenage boys walking my way. Quickly grabbed my tripod and moved out of the way, screwing up my position to expand. Wandered a little further up and slightly off the path into one of the corn fields. In retrospect the backdrop wasn't as good as I'd thought but the light was fading so I shot quickly without realising. I like what I'm going for in this photo, but I wish I'd chosen a better backdrop.
Near Taddiport, north Devon. Originally supported a nearby leper colony; more information at great-torringtontowncouncil.gov.uk/2017/09/19/what-are-th....