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There are lots of dim gas filaments at west side of the Cygnus nebula complex. I have spent this Autumn season by shooting them. Due to close proximity of brighter and more eye catching nebulae in Cygnus, this area is not very commonly imaged.
Exit le confinement, où l'absence de tout événement, nous livre aux questionnements, dont les réponses risquent d'être un retournement où le monde d'après réfléchirait à celui d'avant, où les lois du vivant primeraient celles d'argent.
Mais nous perdrions surement ces jolis filaments, qui mettent au firmament tout ce que nous avons d'inconséquent.
Here the same huge prominence, just before it started detaching. Mosaic of 3 panels with very bad seeing.
Take a look also at my astronomy video channel.
I want to get to grips with layering for an idea I have so here is a little experiment for this evening. Trying to suss out how to get the glass on top of the cat so it appears in the bulb. Any tips much appreciated!
Rocanini Coffee Roasters, Steveston, Richmond, BC. September 24, 2011. (Thanks again to Maurice for the extended play time with his new Olympus m.Zuiko Digital 45mm f/1.8!)
Here's a photo of the intimate parts of a Rhododendron Flower. Flowers, of course, are the reproductive organs of a plant and the history of their description and function is interesting and often quite humorous. Great Carolus Linnaeus even got into a lot of trouble for his doctoral comparison of plant and human sexuality (see my www.flickr.com/photos/87453322@N00/26208808473/in/photoli...).
Rhododendrons are by and large sexually self-incompatible. That is to say that a given plant cannot be fertilised by its own pollen. So the pollen developed by these ten stamens and 'offered' on their anthers cannot - if it lands on the sticky, red stigma of the style - unite with the ovarian eggs at its bottom. So there will be no viable seed in this way. That, of course, is where insects come in. Guided by 'insect markings' - in this case those brown spots - they find their way to the Attractive Sweetness in and around the ovary at the base of the style. Meanwhile our insect - already carrying pollen from another flower - will brush it inadvertently on that stigma. Thus a 'stranger''s pollen will grow its tube down the style and fertilise the ovule. Viable seed is the result. And the intimacy of our flower's male and female organs remains unconsummated.
a collaboration with ana.caldas
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ana made the photo, i made the drawing and the dyptich
Filament
For Macro Monday Flickr Group
Theme Looking Up
Jun 14, 2010
Looking up at a light fixture outside my house a very close up macro of the inside of a light bulb in the fixture. The cloudy stuff is the dirt on the bulb and how the light interacts with it.
See it large on my blog.
Wow! This just hit my highest explore position ever thanks everyone!
La nature est assez suprenante dans ses textures et ses ressemblances. Les filaments de cette asclépiade ressemblent à une mèche de cheveux.
Nature is quite surprising range in its textures and similarities. The filaments of the milkweed looks like a lock of hair.
Merci pour vos commentaires. Thank you for your comments.
This week the Sun featured a very long filament that stretched at least half way across the Sun (Oct. 20-22, 2015). Filaments are elongated clouds of plasma that are tethered above the Sun by magnetic forces. They are often unstable and usually break apart in less than a week, though they can last longer than that. Filaments are darker than most of the SunÕs surface when viewed in extreme ultraviolet light, as it is here. Credit: Solar Dynamics Observatory, NASA.
...in the garden.
Taken with Olympus OM-1 using Zuiko 50mm f/1.4 lens and 20mm extension tubes on Fuji Superia 400 then developed in Tetanal C41 Two Bath Kit.
Friday evening I went out for the sunset to a new local location I have found. Five minutes from the house stands this tree in the middle of a large feild. The tree is ontop of a small rise which makes it easy to isolate from the surrounding scenery in most directions. I think I will be returning to this location again and again through out the year.
This image is a combination of two exposures, one exposed for the foreground and one exposed for the sky. The two images where combined manually in Photoshop Elements 9 using layers and masks before boosting contrast slightly then resizing and a slight sharpening.
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