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Explored, July 11, #420
Purple passion flower- Butterfly World, Coconut Creek, FL. Taken 7/11/09.
If you don't already know this, the passion flowers were named by Spanish missionaries for the passion of Christ.
The "Passion" in "passion flower" refers to the passion of Jesus Christ. In the 15th and 16th centuries, Spanish Christian missionaries adopted the unique physical structures of this plant, particularly the numbers of its various flower parts, as symbols of the last days of Jesus Christ and especially the Crucifixion:
The pointed tips of the leaves were taken to represent the Holy Lance.
The tendrils represent the whips used in the Flagellation of Christ.
The ten petals and sepals represent the ten faithful apostles (less St. Peter the denier and Judas Iscariot the betrayer).
The flower's radial filaments, which can number more than a hundred and vary from flower to flower, represent the Crown of Thorns.
The chalice-shaped ovary with its receptacle represents a hammer or the Holy Grail
The 3 stigmata represent the 3 nails and the 5 anthers below them the 5 wounds (four by the nails and one by the lance).
The blue and white colors of many species' flowers represent Heaven and Purity.
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Vaig entrar a una botiga del poble, són amics. Des de fora havia vist aquest tipus de bombetes de filament. Amb van encuriosir i vaig entrar.
Demanant permís m'hi vaig apropar per poder-les captar.
Suposo que van haver desitjat haver-me dit que no, doncs, amb el meu volum i estret que era abans de poder-m'hi apropar vaig fer trencadissa.
Volia pagar allò que havia trancat, un marc i una llum, no em van deixar.
Amb mi aquella tarda van fer un negoci frustant... Ja he dit que era amics, ara no ho sé ... bé, segurament sí, però no sé si em deixerien entrar, potser amb treurien la peça a fotografiar per no seguir amb la trencadissa.
El meu resultat van estar aquestes dues imatges . És evident que m'interessava pel filament, quasi res més ... potser perqué les actuals bombetes de letz tenen més durada i gasta menys, però per mi els manca l'encant d'altres temps. Que hi puc fer sóc un romàntic però em comporto com un elefant ......
Enormous Solar Prominence captured by STEREO Spacecraft
The twin STEREO spacecraft (called “Behind” and “Ahead” denoting their relative positions in space), now almost 120 degrees apart, captured this large and dramatic prominence eruption over about a 30-hour period between Sept. 26-27, 2009. Prominences, called filaments when they are viewed against the surface of the Sun, are clouds of cooler gas suspended above the Sun’s surface by magnetic forces. This erupting prominence was large enough that both spacecraft were able to observe it for hours on end, one of the first times that has occurred.
From the Behind perspective (on left) the long filament, darker than the Sun’s surface, can be seen rising up and then breaking away, spreading out above most of the Sun’s surface. As seen from the Ahead spacecraft (right), the filament is seen in profile and is therefore called a prominence. The very large cloud lifts up, breaks away, and heads out into space. This is one of the most spectacular eruptive prominences STEREO has observed.
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Sunspots and filaments. 21st September 2014. False Colour
Lunt LS60 Ha solar scope
Skyris 618C camera, Televue Powermate 2.5x
AS!2, Registax, PS CS6
i stood on a stool in the patio of a burger shop and had a twenty-second photo shoot while waiting on one mighty tasty burger. and i actually managed to get the detail on that one bulb's filament without falling on my ass.
MacroMondays-wire
Filament-a conducting wire or thread with a high melting point, forming part of an electric bulb or thermionic valve and heated or made incandescent by an electric current.
2 weeks on the trot I've used bulbs :o) like the reflection in this one.
The light bulb again 2x shot of part of the filament. impossible to shoot without reflections so made a bit of a mess cleaning it up but enjoyed myself in a sad sort of way.
This took me nearly all day to setup and it was over in about a second. Sure am glad it turned out and I had the correct exposure.
A single long streamer of Auroral light rising from clouds lit up from below by the distant electroglow of the city of Whitehorse.
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Man vs nature? Happy Earth Day.
filament:
1. a fine thread or wire, heated to glowing, in an incandescent light bulb or a thermionic valve
2. The stalk of a stamen in a flower, supporting the anther.
A dark, solar filament hovered above the Sun's surface, extending across more than half the Sun (Feb. 7-10, 2015). If that filament were straightened out, it would be more than 533,000 miles long, longer than 67 Earths. These images were taken in a wavelength of extreme ultraviolet wavelength of light of material heated to about 60,000 degrees C. Filaments are cooler clouds of particles tethered above the Sun by powerful magnetic forces. Though this one has been fairly stable for many days, they are liable to break apart at any time. Credit: Solar Dynamics Observatory/NASA.
Strobist: Canon 430EX with blue gel on background, full power. Using canon cord so as to use high-speed mode (1/3200 shutter, f32, ISO 100).
It's been a while since I posted a photo from our monthly theme photo wall where I work. So for the month of June the theme is an easy one, "Light". I took it literally.
Each month where I work we have a picture theme. The company provides matted frames for 8x10 prints. The pictures hang on a wall in a well lit hallway past offices to the conference room. We pull a theme from a hat. We don't "judge." We don't put our names on our prints. Anyone can participate in any theme or not. We do a quick critique each month too. So far, it's lots of fun and we are all getting into it.