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Peace lilies (Spathiphyllum) are evergreen herbaceous perennial plants with large leaves 12–65 cm long and 3–25 cm broad. Although it is called a "lily", the peace lily is not a true lily from the family Liliaceae. True lilies are highly toxic (poisonous) to cats and dogs, but the peace lily, spathiphyllum is only mildly toxic to humans and other animals when ingested. Sources: Wikipedia for narrative, Google for identification.
An antique style light bulb with spiral filament as seen at King’s Road Brewery in Medford, NJ. Highly recommend this brewery for craft beer and next door is a great BBQ joint. Cheers!
Color my world daily - Sunday: black and white
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A filament (which at one point had an eerie similarity to a snake) broke away from the sun and out into space (Nov. 1, 2014). The video covers just over three hours of activity. This kind of eruptive event is called a Hyder flare. These are filaments (elongated clouds of gases above the sun's surface) that erupt and cause a brightening at the sun's surface, although no active regions are in that area. It did thrust out a cloud of particles but not towards Earth. The images were taken in the 304 Angstrom wavelength of extreme UV light.
Credit: NASA/Solar Dynamics Observatory
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Taken for SSC 20/04/2019 - Back Lighting .
Liked the idea of this challenge and a number of possibilities - subjects and lighting . I ended up with a couple of shots , one in a high key type presentation and this one a light in the dark and from behind the subject . I did not see the filaments of web in the shot until I put the picture on the computer . The shot has had a crop , a couple of very minor adjustments and that is what you see above .
In the first comment box is another shot that was a contender for the challenge .
for sight and sound
how about something called " Light Of Creation "
Over the long pandemic I developed an ability to capture close ups of blooms around my yard. The camera mounted on a tripod and the blooms protected from breezes allows sharper focus on the flame acanthus, Anisacanthus quadrifidus, and not worry much about the depth of field. My camera sensor with its macro lens is only about 25 centimeters from this flower so my depth of field I know will be small. I put the far-left anther in sharp focus in hopes that the others will be acceptable focus. The petals from the acanthus flower are mostly in focus. I dehazed the photo to accentuate the contrast. I toned down the brightness of the anthers on the left flower. The contrast between the red-orange and the mottled out of focus greens of the background pushes the flowers forward. The sunlight lightens the throat just enough to where the filaments can be seen emerging from it.
Thanks to Alan for the flashgun loan.
It'll be difficult to do these soon, once old tungsten light bulbs get phased out, which won't be long.
Blue gelled 580EX on remote cable with soft box to the left arranged with black card baffles to control shadows and flare. Black card to rear. White card to right as reflector. Flash on manual 1/32 power.
I don't do a lot of sewing (some, but not a lot) so when the Macro Mondays theme of "Needle and Thread" was announced I was like, "What can I do that's different and makes sense to me?" Well, I'm way more into Sci-fi then stitching, and a needle does look a little like a rocket if you view it right, so why not set it on fire. Natural thought progression -- right? So, there you have it. That's why I have burning thread in my needle.
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Funky retro bulb picked up in the pound shop ages ago. A good old fashioned one with a filament that glows red hot!
Having gone for a shot of the whole bulb, I experimented with different angles and started de constructing the light-bulb at a macro level, ending up with this abstract, sci-fi view of the filament structure and support wires.
A very cliché shot, but I love the colours in this one. Other than a small crop, straight out of camera.
This is actually Adobe's default colour profile, rather than one of the Fuji film simulations - normally I always try to use a Fuji colour profile, but here it just had such a glow in the Adobe profile that the Fuji profiles lost.
Fierce flashes of light ripple through delicate tendrils of gas in this new image, from ESA’s Herschel space observatory, which shows the dramatic heart of a large and dense cosmic cloud known as Mon R2. This cloud lies some 2700 light-years away and is studded with hot, newly-formed stars.
Packed into the bright centre of this region are several hot ‘bubbles’ of ionised hydrogen, associated with newborn stars situated nearby. Here, gas heated to a temperature of 10 000 °C quickly expands outwards, inflating and enlarging over time. Herschel has explored the bubbles in Mon R2, finding them to have grown over the course of 100 000 to 350 000 years.
This process forms bubble-like cavities that lie within the larger Mon R2 cloud. These are known as HII regions and Mon R2 hosts four of them, clustered together in the central blue-white haze of bright light — one at the very centre, two stretching out like butterfly wings to the top left and bottom right, and another sitting just above the centre.
Each is associated with a different hot and luminous B-type star. These stars can be many times the mass of the Sun and usually appear with a blue hue due to their high temperature.
Astronomers have found that the hot bubbles in Mon R2 are enveloped by vast clouds of cold, dense gas, sitting within the filaments that stretch across the frame. In stark contrast to the gas in the hot bubbles, these clouds can be at temperatures as low as –260 °C, just above absolute zero.
This particular cluster of HII regions has been studied as part of the Herschel imaging survey of OB young stellar objects, or HOBYS, programme. This image combines multiple Herschel observations obtained with the PACS and SPIRE cameras and has been processed to highlight the cloud’s clumpy complex of filaments, visible here in great and dramatic detail.
Credit: ESA/Herschel/PACS/SPIRE/HOBYS Key Programme consortium