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Fibers of spun glass in a sea of blue resin in teh amazing fibreglass "stained glass" windows by John Piper in All Saint's Church in Clifton. A soggy afternoon in the company of Jammy Roger 75 sheltering in modernist churches.
Calliandra surinamensis is a low branching evergreen tropical shrub that's named after Suriname, a country in Northern South America. The plant usually has complexly branched multiple trunks and grows to a height of about 5 meters, although many sources suggest that it only attains a height of 3 meters. Left unpruned it grows long thin branches that eventually droop down onto the ground.
Biscayne Park, FL
A dark, solar filament above the Sun's surface became unstable and erupted, which generated a cascade of magnetic arches (Dec. 16-17, 2015). A small eruption to the upper right likely caused the filament's collapse. The action, observed in extreme ultraviolet light, covered about a 28-hour period. The magnetic arches are charged particles spinning along magnetic field lines that are reorganizing themselves after the event. Credit: Solar Dynamics Observatory, NASA.
The Sun sported a very long filament (over 30 times the size of Earth) that angled diagonally across its surface for over a week (July 31 - Aug. 6, 2014). Filaments are clouds of cooler gas suspended above the Sun's surface by magnetic forces. They are notoriously unstable and often break apart in just hours or days. So far, this one has held together as it rotated along with the Sun for over a week. The images were taken in the 193 Angstrom wavelength of extreme ultraviolet light and were tinted red instead of its usual brown hue. Credit: Solar Dynamics Observatory/NASA.
El puente de polen entre androceos.
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A bright solar prominence rose up from the Sun and twisted around in about a six-hour period (Apr. 21, 2015). While some of the material broke away into space, much of it fell back into the Sun. The images were taken in a wavelength of extreme ultraviolet light. At its greatest height, the plume extended out many times the size of Earth, allowing numerous amateur astronomers to observe this event with their solar telescopes. Credit: Solar Dynamics Observatory, NASA.
I used to collect old lamps of different kinds to use in classroom demonstrations. This is a macro of the filament from a 500 watt bi-post 'regular' incandescent lamp. It would have been used in a spotlight of some kind. As the filament is still intact, it could still work.
Incandescent lamps are infamously inefficient, roughly 90% of the energy put in is converted to heat (infrared energy) leaving only 10% for 'light' energy. The idea with any lamp design is making the emitter as compact as possible to maximize the performance of the lenses and reflectors involved. LEDs have made tremendous progress in efficiencies but color temperatures (color rendering) isn't anything like the sun, our big light source in the sky.
An Edison bulb close up reveals what I imagine the internals of a fusion reactor look like. Christmas lights way in the background add a colourful effect.
Shot for Matt Granger December GYGO. Thanks for running these Matt, it's a ton of fun finding the shot! Inspired by Gavin Hoey Bokeh activity.
Context of shot for fun: www.flickr.com/photos/ogradyt/23451420524/
Click image to see this one up close... it's hairy filaments and glowing edges.
Yes, this delicate pink edged flower has emerged from the fleshy succulent that's pictured below. You never know, do you?
Desert Rose is easy to bonsai. I have had one for 20 years and every year I cut it back to enjoy the contours of its fleshy root/stem. And every Spring it flowers profusely like an ancient Chinese cherry tree.
Adenium Obesum Multiflorum ( A. Multiflorum)
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Miami FL
I think Spring is well and truly here...
A little more incandescent if you click the pic to view in Lightbox...
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A closeup of a LED lamp I bought today. It closely resembles an old filament lamp, but is built from an array of warm white LED's.
The G47 filament seen by ESA’s Herschel space observatory. With a total mass of about 20 000 solar masses, this huge but slender structure of gas and dust extends over about 250 light-years in length, while its diameter is only about 10 light-years.
A winding thread of cooler gas and dust is seen in red and yellow, with temperatures as low as –256ºC. In the densest and coolest clumps, the seeds of new generations of stars are taking shape. This filament is about 14 000 light-years away.
The image is a composite of the wavelengths of 70 microns (blue), 160 microns (green) and 350 microns (red) and spans about 0.68x0.50º. The image is oriented with northeast towards the left of the image and southwest towards the right.
Credit: ESA/Herschel/PACS/SPIRE/Ke Wang et al. 2015
Dumfries, April. Zenit branded Lomo LC-A with Agfaphoto Vista Plus 200. Lab C41 processed and scanned
This is the real flower color from the raw file. (Photo taken on the outdoor). My Macro/Micro World
Data: Canon 40D, f/8, 1/45, ISO: 400, Lens: reversed 28mm Canon FD, Magnification 2:1, Mode: Manual, Support: none, Flash: built-in @ 1/4 power, Remote: no, Process: Canon Digital Photo Professional, file: 120825EOS 40D0485, Date: August 25, 2012. (Note: Exif data never show f/stops of manual focus lenses with adapters.)
Wall-e helped me check Christmas lights this afternoon while I put up the decorations.
*explore* - November 29, 2009
The light bulb was photographed in two images. The first was to expose the actual bulb, the second was to photograph the metal threads. The velvet background was just big enough to fill the frame, with a large acitate screen filling the space surrounding that. I used two Mole Richardson lights with deep blue filters to expose the blue edge lighting on the bulb. For the threads I used a silver bounce card to light the front top of the threads.
Colorado Springs, CO - Rainy days are opportunities to explore creative photography and sometimes inspiration is just hanging out in your own backyard.
ya gotta love it when you find yourself taking pictures of everything -- including a friggin' light bulb. but as soon as i saw it, i knew... it called out to me, i tell you.