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And now for something completely different (You've got to admit I have one of the most varied Photostreams out there....)
Anyway these are the allotments I passed on the way to get some light bulbs and a bottle of wine at Tesco at lunchtime today. Now, I wanted some 'candle' bulbs for the sitting room wall lights, but blow me you can't get bulbs with wire filaments anymore due to some EU law that says we must pay anything from £ 2.00 - £10.00 for some sort of energy efficient halogen or LED bulb instead...no, no that's another story, yet to come. Anyhow, having got the bulbs and a bottle of Fetzer Crimson Californian red and put back the bottles of Guinness Porter that fell into my hands, I endured the queues to pay at those stupid self dis-service checkouts where it seemed every mature person was buying something either alcoholic or something deemed dangerous and had to be verified as not being too young by a staff member who scurried non-stop from checkout to checkout as the queues got longer. So I barely had time as I drove back to work to pull up on the pavement by Altrincham Football Club and grab a shot of the allotments next door through the steel fence. It was grey, and there was no magic in the light, but I found something quaint and slightly peculiar in the tiny parcels of land. It fascinates me to think that this little bit of land ties so many individuals to share one piece of Earth. It's a scene of harmony or is it? Are there any turf wars? Are there any prize chumps among them? What really goes on on an allotment? Personally I have no idea, as I don't have an allotment. I have an estate. But looking at my picture, can you persuade yourself the land owner on the right isn't about to bury someone?
I've decided I'm going to make it a project to photograph allotments! Here's a bit of history about them: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allotment_%28gardening%29
Flowers...
They are fleeting.
They are fragile.
They require
little water.
They’ll surprise you.
They’ll remind you
that they aren’t
and they are you.
- Wendy Videlock
Parcours artistique contemporain, novateur et poétique sur un sentier de randonnée « la cascade de Razis » qui nous invitent à porter un autre regard sur un paysage pourtant familier.
A noiseless, patient spider
I mark’d, where, on a little promontory, it stood, isolated;
Mark’d how, to explore the vacant, vast surrounding,
It launch’d forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself;
Ever unreeling them—ever tirelessly speeding them.
And you, O my Soul, where you stand,
Surrounded, surrounded, in measureless oceans of space,
Ceaselessly musing, venturing, throwing,—seeking the spheres, to connect them;
Till the bridge you will need, be form’d—till the ductile anchor hold;
Till the gossamer thread you fling, catch somewhere, O my Soul.
~ Walt Whitman
I was taking Remy for a walk and of course scanning the leaves for caterpillars. I spotted a tiny bit of "debris" on a maple leaf. Of course I have to check out anything that looks out of place and sure enough it was a tiny instar of a "Nematocampa resistaria" Horned Spanworm! One of the Filament Bearers they are an amazing and beautiful caterpillar! Ellicott City, Howard County, MD
It's a common lilly flower, what amazed me is the symmetric, asymmetric, and antisymmetric interplay between the 5 petals, 6 styles & 1 stigma, besides the fact that the petals are like reflectors that converge the reflected lights on the pollen pods. I have tried to highlight this apparently hidden aspect using selective colouring technique offered by Photoshop.
This is a first experiment with my Zomei Premium Close Up Macro Filter (+10). I got it in 67mm for the EF 70-300f4-5.6 L.
The same as my previous image of the solar filament, however I've added Jupiter to this one for some scale.
Sometimes you take a shot and get it perfect first time (in your eyes of course!) This is one of those shots! In my eyes!!!
The two most noteworthy features on the sun this week were a pair of elongated filaments (Sept. 8, 2016). The central one was twisted into the shape of an elaborate arch at the center of the sun (yellow arrows). If this were straightened out, it would extend just about across the entire sun, almost a million miles (1.6 million Km). The other, smaller filament, (white arrows) if made straight, might reach about half that distance. Still, pretty impressive. Filaments are elongated strands of plasma suspended above the sun by magnetic forces. They are notoriously unstable and often break apart within a few days. The image was made by combining three images in different wavelengths of extreme ultraviolet light. Credit: Solar Dynamics Observatory, NASA.
Active Region 2420 within the chromosphere of our Sun, captured in hydrogen alpha light at 656.28nm. Each of the paired dark spots is similar in scale to our entire planet, illustrating the huge size of the dark looping filaments of plasma around them.
Micro-filament from an incandescent light-bulb.
Taken on a FEI Quanta 600F at the WPAFB AFRL Materials and Manufacturing Directorate
Dayton, Ohio
see more at: photography.designmotion.net/blog
This Hubble image of galaxy NGC 1275 reveals fine, thread-like filamentary structures in the gas surrounding the galaxy. The red filaments are composed of cool gas being suspended by a magnetic field, and are surrounded by the 100-million-degree-Fahrenheit hot gas in the center of the Perseus galaxy cluster.
The filaments are dramatic markers of the feedback process through which energy is transferred from the central massive black hole to the surrounding gas. The filaments originate when cool gas is transported from the center of the galaxy by radio-frequency-emitting bubbles of radiation that rise in the hot interstellar gas.
At a distance of 230 million light-years, NGC 1275 is one of the closest giant elliptical galaxies.
For more information, visit: hubblesite.org/image/2375/news_release/2008-28
Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration;
Acknowledgment: A. Fabian (Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, UK)
"The Silence of Gender" is a visual odyssey across the glaciers of Gethen, where the boundaries of form dissolve into threads of snow and fire. Inspired by Ursula K. Le Guin’s alien mythos, this series reimagines identity as a luminous dream—neither fixed nor finite, but woven from whispers and fractured symmetries. Here, androgynous travelers, feminine mystics, and childlike beings traverse a landscape of soft fabric and shattered mirrors, their journeys illuminated by the golden filaments of an unknown sky. Each piece is a collage of ancient ritual and futuristic calligraphy, a testament to the intimate breath of existence itself.
"Glacier Hymn"
We walk the ice with names unspoken,
our shadows cast in ink and flame.
The sky is sewn with golden tokens,
each thread a whisper, none the same.
No mirror holds us, no form confines,
we melt like snow into the fire.
The silence hums in fractured lines,
a hymn to what we dare desire.
This data was not taken by my telescope as it is a southern hemisphere only Nebula. I got this by renting a telescope setup in Australia and using the data obtained by that telescope to create this image.
NGC 3576 is a bright emission nebula in the Sagittarius arm of the galaxy a few thousand light-years away from the Eta Carinae nebula. It is also approximately 100 light years across and 9000 light-years away from Earth. A popular nickname is "The Statue of Liberty Nebula" because of the distinctive shape in the middle of the nebula. Within the nebula, episodes of star formation are thought to contribute to the complex and suggestive shapes. Powerful winds from the nebula's embedded, young, massive stars shape the looping filaments.
Close up on prominence at 3 meter of focal with a Daystar filter.
Take a look also at my astronomy video channel.